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Gerry Cotten died suddenly without telling anyone the password to his cold wallet. Calculating blockchain hashes is harder (and harder core) than I thought
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I've \been following this story for a while, and it looks like, given the guy's history of shadiness, he really might have pulled a hollywood, and faked his death.
Either way, it's a laugh.
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To Exhume the body is going to bring sooo much...
Did he had a biodeadmetric password?
or do they have a necromancer at reach?
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Come on, show a little bit of faith, will you? 
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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They want to dig him up to make sure he's in the coffin -- there's a good chance that he faked his death, and absconded with the money.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: there's a good chance that he faked his death, and absconded with the money.
That would not really surprise me
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It's all theater.
If he faked his death, he can't actually spend any of the ponzi coins without proving that he's still alive (or that someone else in the company has the keys afterall); so it accomplishes nothing.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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But it's Schroedinger's wallet: until they open it, the coins are either inside it or not (unless it contains only one address, which is highly unlikely, given the personality of whom we're talking about).
He could be living it up in the Bahamas right now, spending all the money that people think is still in the wallet.
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Applying advanced analytical approaches such as machine learning is an essential arena of knowledge for any data professional In the future, database learns to SELECT you
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In the future, database learns to SELECT you
As long as it doesn't select the little booby tables...
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I wonder if they've fixed their crass mistake regarding the built-in ISDATE function...
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Earth's magnetic north pole, which has been wandering faster than expected in recent years, has now crossed the prime meridian. Someone should put a magnet over top of it to keep it in place
Does this mean Santa has to keep moving his workshop? Does that mean a delay for my toys this Christmas?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Does this mean Santa has to keep moving his workshop?
Greta would say he needs to put it on a ship due to the melting of the north pole  
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With any blanket statements like this, there are always exceptions. Though in general, I believe the use of enums is often a better choice compared to boolean, unless you really need to squeeze your data into one single physical bit. True? or False?
His example is less blankety than the title. Fortunately.
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I think that should be ArticleIsGood.True and ArticleIsGood.False
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Just use this enum[^] instead. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Love it.
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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One should cover all bases:
True or False or Maybe
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Maybe I will, maybe I won't.
As for the silly demands of the article, decide on whether (or not) to use Booleans based on performance testing... which it sounds like the chappie never does.
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How would using enums over booleans negatively affect performance?
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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You'll only find out if you perform performance tests.
If you assume that there will be no difference without performing performance tests, you're taking one more step toward the bad-developer world.
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People that can't (or shouldn't) write code are the ones writing articles about "best practice".
Sometimes, irony shows up and kicks you right in the booleans.
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Agree 100%
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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A half-decade after “the dress” divided the nation — was it white and gold or blue with black? — another illusion is capitalizing on optical color trickery. "There...are...four...lights!"
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Whether you’ve been running PowerShell Core since our first alpha releases or you’ve been clinging to Windows PowerShell for backwards compatibility, 7.0 delivers a host of improvements to make your life better. Because cmd is so last century
Although it's still easier for my brain to use 'for' and a bunch of other DOS holdovers.
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