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Re:I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi on Saturday January 12, 2019 @12:32AM (#18889863)
Google Fi's international data service used to be great. Now it's completely dysfunctional in countries such as Croatia, China, etc, and very spotty in Austria, Iceland, Philippines, Ecuador, northern Japan etc. I can no longer rely on Fi when I travel abroad.
Re:Quantifying Decentralization on Saturday October 14, 2017 @03:43AM (#15471204)
According to the author's definition, both Bitcoin and Ethereum have a Nakamoto coefficient of 1 and a Geni value of ~0.92, meaning that they are equally centralized and brittle.

How is the proposed metric any useful in measuring and comparing decentralization of blockchains?

Re:Update for customers with Bitcoin stored on Coinbase on Thursday July 27, 2017 @11:18PM (#14871683)
Yes, you should withdraw your BTC from Coinbase ASAP. Otherwise, you won't get any BCC in case a blockchain split happens on August 1st.
Feature request: generate city-construction videos to visualize the evolution of source code.
Re:Accelerated Mobile Pages Project on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @02:08PM (#10347770)
According to the spec, AMP developers are prohibited from adding their own JS, yet they are mandated to include a <script src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js" async></script> tag as the last element in the <head>. I find it amusing that the JavaScript library itself is 137KB big (38KB gzipped).
Nice job! Where do you get the posters printed?
Why did you ditch libgdx?
Re:Practicing Programming (2005) on Friday January 09, 2015 @04:56PM (#8864769)
(2005)
Why not AngularJS?
Re:Against Productivity on Sunday November 09, 2014 @08:37PM (#8581627)
The author, danah boyd, is female.
Re:Show HN: Distance Calculator (weekend experiment) on Monday August 04, 2014 @01:30AM (#8130485)
Doesn't Google Maps already have this feature?
Have you considered AdSense?
Re:Ask HN: Why are FB and 4sq breaking up their apps? on Thursday July 10, 2014 @01:15AM (#8013739)
To control more pixels on user's home screen.
Re:My startup failed, and I don't know why on Thursday July 10, 2014 @01:09AM (#8013716)
How much time did you invest in this?

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