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mcgin

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/mcgin; my proof: https://keybase.io/mcgin/sigs/gcBpsA-NgdNM1p8HiEzfJPjgZe36t6vRtFvOzKABUM8 ]

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The lost joy of music piracy

pigeonsandplanes.com
16 points·by mcgin·1 hour ago·1 comments

Will AI lengthen lifespans or shorten them?

ft.com
4 points·by mcgin·9 months ago·0 comments

[untitled]

1 points·by mcgin·last year·0 comments

ChatGPT for chemistry: AI and robots join forces to build new materials

nature.com
4 points·by mcgin·3 years ago·0 comments

Sophisticated, Highly-Targeted Attacks Continue to Plague NPM

blog.phylum.io
5 points·by mcgin·3 years ago·0 comments

It's the Energy Stupid

edconway.substack.com
2 points·by mcgin·3 years ago·0 comments

Facebook launches digital currency wallet Novi

ft.com
1 points·by mcgin·5 years ago·0 comments

comments

mcgin
·2 years ago·discuss
This is a common misconception around the definition of legal tender.

A shop is perfectly within their rights to refuse to sell you something if you are not willing to use their accepted payment methods.

Legal tender simply means they can't sue you if you offer to settle their debt using a legal tender currency. If they have refused to sell you the item, there is no debt, therefore no obligation to accept any particular instrument

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/what-is-legal-ten...
mcgin
·2 years ago·discuss
You are protected against credential stuffing attacks
mcgin
·4 years ago·discuss
Can we please do something about hacker news being used for customer support? It's getting tiresome to see these appearing on a regular basis
mcgin
·4 years ago·discuss
He even talked about it in his book Accidental Superpower nearly 10 years ago. His writings/videos have been instrumental in helping me to make some sense of what's going on in Ukraine
mcgin
·4 years ago·discuss
Is there a viable alternative to Audible out there?
mcgin
·4 years ago·discuss
I use hledger-flow [1]. It's an opinionated way of importing csvs into the hledger format. Works really well for me, just export the csvs, write a mapping and you are good to go.

It supports preprocessing the csvs if you need to clean the data or compute some new fields which is really powerful. Once you are up and running it only needs some minor updates each month to map unidentifiable transactions I can do this in under an hour these days.

[1] https://github.com/apauley/hledger-flow
mcgin
·4 years ago·discuss
JP Morgan purchased Nutmeg last year [0]

[0] https://media.chase.com/news/jpmorgan-chase-enters-agreement...
mcgin
·5 years ago·discuss
https://www.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/rkrjwv/londo...
mcgin
·5 years ago·discuss
London is right after South Africa at the vanguard of Omicron. It seems it's hospitalisation rates are only now starting to emerge.

https://i.redd.it/92wwp9jp8q681.png
mcgin
·16 years ago·discuss
Tend to agree with alot of what Matt says. It's why I don't comment often, and simply use HN as a source of news and posting anything I find myself that I think is of interest.