Benferhat

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by Benferhat 14y ago
Valid points, all affected by the fact that GAE is open source. [0] [1] [0] https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/source/browse/#svn... [1] https://code.google.com/p/appengine-go/source/browse/
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by Benferhat 14y ago
My last ASUS laptop fell apart on me. The Zenbook Prime is sexy, though.
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by Benferhat 14y ago
Bazinga! But below the belt, given the circumstances. I'd like to encourage engineers like Zafir to make themselves available to us (outside of google groups) more often.
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by Benferhat 14y ago
"Interpretation against the party that supplied the term Where, after the interpretation of a contract term that has been supplied by one party, doubts remain as to the meaning of that term, an interpretation against that party is to be pre
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by Benferhat 14y ago
That's why Google increased the price of GAE [0], so it would be profitable [1], which allows them to provide an SLA[2] that I can live with. Even deprecated GAE features work for at least a year before they're terminated [3]. [0] https://
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by Benferhat 14y ago
How much does Microsoft actually pay in corporate taxes to the US? [0] https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=microsoft+tax+avoidanc...
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by Benferhat 14y ago
The article fails to explain why the base MacBook Air s are (shockingly) fairly-priced.
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by Benferhat 14y ago
Is this Reddit?
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by Benferhat 14y ago
+1, give up on analytics.js and pick a brand name for the script. It's a good idea, seems well implemented and supported -- we will use it! You're obviously interested in marketing, and using the name analytics.js over segmentio.js se
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by Benferhat 14y ago
The Federal government has no right to criminalize intrastate medical marijuana operations. Their constitutional argument is that it falls under their power to 'regulate interstate commerce'. Even if the flowers never leave California. Weak
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by Benferhat 14y ago
I don't understand the relevance of the link.
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by Benferhat 14y ago
The prosecutor's job is to charge you with the violation of every statute that the evidence indicates you violated, and use that breadth of charges as leverage in a plea negotiation. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
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by Benferhat 14y ago
Who was Alan Watts? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts His TV show also did an episode on Death [27:09]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGUpYD_Ze_E
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Alan Watts lecture on Death and the Afterlife [5:04](youtube.com)
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by Benferhat 14y ago
> There is a good reason for leap seconds though Isn't that the only reason for them?
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by Benferhat 14y ago
Yes thanks, someone linked me to the relevant Meteor docs page below. I'd expect most users to enable multiple OAuth providers, too.
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by Benferhat 14y ago
> potential evidence That's the most forceful language you can really use in this situation.
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by Benferhat 14y ago
Yes, fuck transaction costs! I understand why we have them, though.
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by Benferhat 14y ago
> If such incidents become common enough, nobody will be willing to buy bitcoins No, that would only be true if people were forced to store their bitcoins on vulnerable bitcoin exchanges, which they're not.
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by Benferhat 14y ago
What made you stop caring?
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by Benferhat 14y ago
They probably had a decent chunk in cold storage, which is why they can afford to 'cover the losses': "Before the wild speculations beginn, the service will be recovered and we pay the losses out of our own pockets." [0] [0] https://bitcoi
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by Benferhat 14y ago
Ah, I see, Meteor supports Twitter OAuth natively. Well it looks like Twitter is the least invasive OAuth provider they could have chosen because "Twitter, Weibo: requestPermissions currently not supported".
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by Benferhat 14y ago
Looks good, very snappy thanks to Meteor, no doubt. How come you went with Twitter OAuth instead of something less invasive, like BrowserID?
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by Benferhat 14y ago
What's the point of owning the company if you can't fire the guy who cuckolded you? Come on! If you were into it, it'd be another story.
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by Benferhat 14y ago
So how do you differentiate your service from Least Authority [0]? [0] https://leastauthority.com/
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by Benferhat 14y ago
+1, does UVA do any kind of OpenCourseWare[0]? [0] http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
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by Benferhat 14y ago
That's why its being open source is relevant. Paranoid folks like us set up a private network locally or on any number of our own physically secure servers. It's also an interesting question: How comfortable do we feel relying upon the "pri
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by Benferhat 14y ago
If you absolutely need server stuff , Tahoe-LAFS [0] looks good. The mailing list is great[1-2]. An interesting service uses it, Least Authority[3] offers Tahoe-LAFS-on-S3 [4]. It runs for free on Dropbox, too[5]. "Tahoe-LAFS is a Free an
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by Benferhat 14y ago
The people in Chelsea Houses [0] might appreciate it. [0] http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/html/developments/manchelseael...
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by Benferhat 14y ago
See also: [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4995060 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5011974

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