Beldin

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by Beldin 6y ago
To whom? Users want their non-malicious apps / non-fake tickets. Sellers want to sell their apps / tickets. The service doesn't seem that complex. Executing the service well may very well be complex, but the service itself i
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by Beldin 6y ago
We have de facto micro payments: ads. There is very little overhead for users. There are a lot of downsides to ads, but it is the most successful micro payment mechanism we have. It is also the most successful online business model we hav
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by Beldin 6y ago
With JavaScript turned off, the link goes to an empty page. There's some template stuff, but no content. Which could be taken as a rather funny take on "here's what happened" ;)
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by Beldin 6y ago
Kurzgesagt has a video on small black holes. If memory serves, it's slightly worse than you suggest. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8nHBGFKLHZQ
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by Beldin 6y ago
Then we really should stop doing it. And work towards reverting the reduction of ice and snow in glaciers and on the poles.
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by Beldin 6y ago
Yes. You should cover your legal ass. Make sure you're not responsible for illegal stuff users might try to do with your service (to the extent possible by law).
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by Beldin 6y ago
My bad, I stand corrected.
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by Beldin 6y ago
Missed that. I stand corrected.
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by Beldin 6y ago
> Gates wasn't splitting hairs there, though. "Concerned about" could mean... That's why I think he should have taken his own interpersonal and forced that through. Which browser was he concerned about? Internet Ex
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by Beldin 6y ago
Frankly, he should have immediately replied "Internet Explorer". Because that's the browser his company makes, so, amongst browsers, that should have been his main concern. No need for wordplay, no looking at competition. Ju
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by Beldin 6y ago
I've done the reverse (connecting to bluetooth speaker) out of the box on Ubuntu. So I'm surprised you'd need to install an extra PulseAudio module. Perhaps the BT module was already installed? Or do you only need the BT modu
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by Beldin 6y ago
Perhaps one of the 6 principles of persuasion? From a google search: Theses 6 principles are reciprocity, consistency, social proof, liking, authority, and scarcity.
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by Beldin 6y ago
While I've seen its real name now, for me this will always be the Under Water Screen.
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by Beldin 6y ago
I meant to argue you were right for calling this out.
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by Beldin 6y ago
But it ended up in the hands of someone who didn't. That really makes it a much bigger problem. "This is OK if used by persons in the know" is not helping: Rachel wasn't/isn't in the know. So clearly, people wi
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by Beldin 6y ago
Rachel happened upon this cable, was curious enough to look into the details behind it and found this out. Not everybody would look into details. Quite possibly, most wouldn't. I wouldn't, probably. If i happened upon this type o
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by Beldin 6y ago
This is not specific to government. Hardly ever is an employee held personally accountable for e.g. a data breach impacting customers.
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by Beldin 6y ago
On the PC, you got QBasic out of the box. That actually lets you push things already a bit. The main things really missing were soundcard sound and mouse input. But if you got to that stage, you had enough of a clue to go shopping about for
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by Beldin 6y ago
Not compared to northwestern europe. France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Germany are similar (not the same - similar). Scandinavia probably as well, but i don't have experience there.
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by Beldin 6y ago
There was a video on social media of a former student with 80 k$ in debt. After 10 years of payments, amounting to ... (forgot exact number, but way over 10 k$, vaguely recall it being over 50k), she still owed 76 k$. Probably so "low&
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by Beldin 6y ago
The "completely deniable" part is not necessary for steganography. Otherwise, you dismiss just about any examples of steganography prior to steganography on computers. Which is fine, but as far as i know, not the commonly accept
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by Beldin 6y ago
That images taken by hubble aren't used commercially without paying a license fee to NASA? I imagine the tax payer is okay with getting some money back.
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by Beldin 6y ago
I don't consider Ocean's 11 to be a terrorist plot, but it fits your description well.
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by Beldin 6y ago
I'm missing "terror" in your outline. Not the word itself per se, but the effect on the general population. I'm still struggling to see how something is terrorism if it isn't intended to instill widespread fear. Not
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by Beldin 6y ago
There is actually a standard way for new people to get into crypto. However, it is emphatically not to write your own crypto and let others evaluate it. Everyone can make a crypto system they themselves cannot break. That says very little a
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by Beldin 6y ago
I don't understand why this is called a terror attack. From the article it seems managers got spooked, sure. But it doesn't read as if the general population was. Granted, it's possible the attack failed to achieve its goal
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by Beldin 6y ago
But once you've found the bug, you'd like to add a test case that prevents regression - a test case that doesn't require a supercomputer. That might not always be possible - but if it is, the test would be based on implement
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by Beldin 6y ago
One of my colleagues helped find the Timsort bug and recently another such bug (might be the Java binary search, don't remember). The edge case to show a straightforward version of that recent bug basically required a supercomputer. T
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by Beldin 6y ago
> So maybe the difference is that in your country the magnitude of corruption is lower than in India, I don't know about corruption levels in India. I am under the impression that the level of corruption in my country is rather t
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by Beldin 6y ago
I'm not from the UK. The idea of someone becoming an actual PhD in 3 years is rather quaint to me. Perhaps it's just a different approach, or perhaps the PhD system I'm used to produces a level of results that UK PhDs typical

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