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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>miners control bitcoin Incorrect, I can sign or construct any type of cryptographic payment I wish. Miners trade their Proof of work to prevent double spends in exchange for coinbase (currency issuance) that the market values. If miners
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
AV-Comparatives[1] puts out a pretty comprehensive, quantified real world benchmark of antivirus comparisons that they update every month for Windows (a more dynamic threat environment) and once a year for Mac[2]. [1] https://www
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>In 2017, is it recommended to use some kind of antivirus on a Mac?I've always been told it's unnecessary AV-Comparatives[1] puts out a pretty comprehensive, quantifiedm real world benchmark of antivirus comparisons that they u
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
iPhone support for a NFC 2FA key would be powerful.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>As someone who has been on the publication side of digital media: Never ascribe to propaganda what you can explain by greed. A great documentary on the interplay between investigative journalism, government lies, and infotainment (greed
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Asset prices move because bids /and/ asks change not because the number of people who hold the asset increase.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>Bitcoin used to be at $1, now it's at $1,xxx. What happened in between was a massive influx of newcomers. That argument does not follow. An equivalent argument is: "A house in San Francisco used to cost at $100k, now it costs
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
I'm not advocating for Uber to do what I said but given what's been written about their ethical practices, it's what I would expect from them. The problem is, how do you differentiate between equity whose grant is meant to ma
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Uber: Hey, we're really sorry that things didn't work out but "here's some equity for the time that you worked here" oh and by the way here's the estimated value of that equity if we win the lawsuit or don&#x27
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>Google's suit is against Uber, not Levendowski, who could now spill beans on all sorts of unsuspected malfeasance. At this point what has he got to lose? If he decides to cooperate with google things could get very interesting. Goo
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Maybe in 1916, the ultrarich were writing articles that said, "Try being a millionaire in 1816" to mollify the masses.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Why aren't you mad about all the gigawatt hours that are wasted powering banks, bank servers, armored trucks silly moving fancy paper from business to banks, printing presses, the distruction of various ecological areas to take the mi
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
The Mac/PC pricing phenomenon is being misrepresented. The price of a specific hotel was completely independent of the OS you booked from. What was dependent on what OS you booked at was the price percentile of the market that was sh
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>Cycling will save you more money because you [...] don't have to pay [...] accidents... You certainly still can get hit while riding your bike. The cost to repair your body (hospital bills) is often much high than to repair a car
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>we haven't seen [frictionless micropayments from the lighting network] yet. You post should be corected: Frictionless micropayments are already running on the lighting network, are already operational: https://www.youtu
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>It seems that using commercial fingerprint software and captive systems 'similar to the one used by Apple TouchID' is very different from actually testing your theories against, you know, Apple TouchID. In theory, there's
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>> "Dr. Memon said their findings indicated that if you could somehow create a magic glove with a MasterPrint on each finger, you could get into 40 to 50 percent of iPhones within the five tries allowed before the phone demands t
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Slightly off topic but this may be the only time that it's semi relevant to get this onto HN: Edwin Van Santen - Airwolf (Mix) Commodore 64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15oujjzU1lM
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Good luck with on-time buses in London traffic.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Put simply, the cure is worse than the disease.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Yes, which is $50k more
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>No Bitcoin is not a democracy; it’s called a 51% attack for a reason This quote is quite reductive of all the game theory involved with Bitcoin and I'd argue against Bram on his statement. In fact, Bitcoin is a democratic protocol
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>the previous plastic headphones case was changed to be made of disposable, thin paper As a consumer, changing from a plastic headphone-delivery container to a paper one was a positive. Such a large amount of plastic that was never used
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
For $50K USD more, you get substantially more bang for your buck with this Minim House: http://minimhomes.com/
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
He's probably in Berlin
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
You cannot back up cash You cannot securely send cash across the globe without depositing it into a trusted third party You cannot program physical cash
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Most Airbnbs I've stayed at do not offer meals. In my local jurisdiction, all hotels must provide meals like your definition lays out. By that fact an Airbnb would /not/ qualify as a hotel legally
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Is the web service you build accessible by blind and deaf people? Or is the web service you're selling only for "certain kinds of people"
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
It seems this should be a standard product offering for GitHub
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
I call the lifestyle you describe, "Meat Reducers"

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