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mcgin

1,060 karmajoined 17 tahun yang lalu
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/mcgin; my proof: https://keybase.io/mcgin/sigs/gcBpsA-NgdNM1p8HiEzfJPjgZe36t6vRtFvOzKABUM8 ]

Submissions

The lost joy of music piracy

pigeonsandplanes.com
316 points·by mcgin·5 jam yang lalu·165 comments

Will AI lengthen lifespans or shorten them?

ft.com
4 points·by mcgin·9 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

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1 points·by mcgin·tahun lalu·0 comments

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

nature.com
4 points·by mcgin·3 tahun yang lalu·0 comments

Sophisticated, Highly-Targeted Attacks Continue to Plague NPM

blog.phylum.io
5 points·by mcgin·3 tahun yang lalu·0 comments

It's the Energy Stupid

edconway.substack.com
2 points·by mcgin·3 tahun yang lalu·0 comments

Facebook launches digital currency wallet Novi

ft.com
1 points·by mcgin·5 tahun yang lalu·0 comments

Lockdown Effectiveness: much more than you wanted to know

astralcodexten.substack.com
9 points·by mcgin·5 tahun yang lalu·0 comments

Berners-Lee to auction original code as NFT

ft.com
8 points·by mcgin·5 tahun yang lalu·3 comments

Tether’s commercial paper disclosure places it among global giants

ft.com
6 points·by mcgin·5 tahun yang lalu·0 comments

Inflation with Covid Consumption Baskets

hbs.edu
1 points·by mcgin·5 tahun yang lalu·0 comments

How I Became the Honest Broker

tedgioia.substack.com
1 points·by mcgin·5 tahun yang lalu·0 comments

comments

mcgin
·2 tahun yang lalu·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 tahun yang lalu·discuss
You are protected against credential stuffing attacks
mcgin
·4 tahun yang lalu·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 tahun yang lalu·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 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Is there a viable alternative to Audible out there?
mcgin
·4 tahun yang lalu·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 tahun yang lalu·discuss
JP Morgan purchased Nutmeg last year [0]

[0] https://media.chase.com/news/jpmorgan-chase-enters-agreement...
mcgin
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
https://www.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/rkrjwv/londo...
mcgin
·5 tahun yang lalu·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 tahun yang lalu·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.