And LEGO is the largest wheel manufacturer.

I would have expected lego to focus on small wheels

> you probably don’t want to use a random address for critical services such as online banking.

Why not?

Because it’s a potential pain.

I just used Hide my email for a non-critical but real-life situation. I had to learn my new email address and I’ll have to remember it forever. I’ll probably change it back to my regular address at some point.

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?

These are pretty easy to find online: https://www.ebay.com/itm/254882338954

Id rather fail an exam than put a tiny magnet into my ear in the hopes to get it back out...

> 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?

Bitcoin was the first and is still the most famous cryptocurrency. So good news for any cryptocurrency is good news for bitcoin. Most people at this point know that btc exist, they probably don't know what eth is.

Bitcoin as collateral. Given many people got extremely rich off of bitcoin, they can use bitcoin as collateral for altcoins.

Wrapped bitcoin. Bitcoin can be wrapped in a ERC-20 ETH token backed be an actual bitcoin, similar to stablecoins (USDT, USDC, etc.) and traded using smart contracts

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.)

"Monads Explained Quickly, But Mostly Incorrectly" would be a better name.

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

Half of a functor and half a (co)monad; it's very misleading and will just increase the general confusion around monads for beginners.

Even when you think you figured it out, it's just one part of the puzzle too. I'd stay away from anything self-described as "quickly" or "the hard way".

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?

Almost nobody uses feed readers, which is why Google shut down Reader in the first place. You guys are a small but INCREDIBLY vocal minority.

"Almost nobody uses feed readers" - prove it. I'll read that as "I stopped using it, therefore how could anyone else possibly want to?"

"which is why Google shut down Reader in the first place" - nope, Google wants to stuff us all into their walled Google+ crap and feed us ads. Notice the lack of RSS feeds for updates.

"You guys are a small but INCREDIBLY vocal minority" - this is a discussion that involves Google's cack handed behaviour with Reader, what do you expect. If you don't use RSS then why the hell do you care, stay out of the discussion.

> You guys are a small but INCREDIBLY vocal minority.

24-36m people is a vocal minority?

what kind of geek doesn't have EZRSS and a few other torrent feeds fed into Sickbeard or FlexGet for automatic television/movie/game downloading?

Me.

I have never watched much TV, skip most movies, and am unable to play any first shooter from Doom onwards without getting motion sick. Plus I think that I should respect copyrights.

Let me turn it around. What true nerd would consider consumption of mass market media a defining characteristic of nerdom? As opposed to, say, burying your nose in a math text for fun?

> [...] am unable to play any first shooter from Doom onwards without getting motion sick.

Wow, I thought this was just me! This prevents me from playing even the good stuff like Portal, which is a terrible pity.

Try increasing the FOV.

I tried to watch a video of Portal. I failed.

It was clear to me that increasing the field of view would not help.

Thank you for calling me on the No True Scotsman fallacy, then perpetuating the same in your reply. :)

Shame about your respect for copyright in the digital age; I'm in full agreement with you otherwise.

I didn't say I don't use RSS; I just don't use it for news (or any kind of reading). I plumb it into automation quite often, though.

and you use google reader for your plumbing? does that not seem a little robust for such an activity?

I'd say that is a fairly mainstream geek kind of thing, I associate it with the kind of video game playing, reddit frequenting geek. (Yes overly broad stereotypes).

I would never participate in automatic torrenting; I am pretty discerning about what I watch.

Additionally, RSS feeds just seem pointless to me; I visit web sites when I want to consume information from them. I dislike the idea of turning my computer into a television.

You can still be discerning in your automatic torrenting. For instance, Flexget has an option to download S01E01's of television, and the ability to check Metacritic ratings for Games/Movies before downloading (I have a threshold of 75% or above). While I tend to find a bunch of tripe television (the wife enjoys it, and I built her media center out of love), I happily delete the awful stuff, and don't add it to the list of "automatically download this title" shows I've curated.