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Re:An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email on Sunday April 10, 2022 @05:55PM (#30982108)
> you probably don’t want to use a random address for critical services such as online banking.

Why not?

Would love to know more details about this!

- How did the "necklace" connect to a phone? (Since you were talking over the phone)

- Was it bidirectional communication? How did friend communicate with you?

Re:Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:14PM (#26161337)
> These defi protocols are generating huge cash flows. This is real people using decentralized technologies built on blockchains like Ethereum.

I'm fairly new to Crypto so I don't understand this: it's looking like all cool new things are built on Ethereum (which, itself has grown quite a lot) so why is Bitcoin rising? How are Bitcoin & advances in Ethereum-based techonologies correlated?

Re:Continuations: Programming Without Programmers? Aka Software on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @08:14PM (#12356148)
Is having "Continuations" in the title the HN way of making the post more click-baity?

(Only teasing, I was personally disappointed when I saw the post had nothing to do with continuations.)

Re:Monads Explained Quickly on Friday April 08, 2016 @11:09PM (#11459690)
"Monads Explained Quickly, But Mostly Incorrectly" would be a better name.

Isn't what's defined here mostly just a functor?

Re:Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @12:28AM (#5937533)
Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that someone's complaining about UI of the source when the stuff under discussion already cleans up things for you and makes it readable?