Marazan

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901.
by Marazan 9y ago
Reportage: Apple secretly slows down your phone. Reality: Apple secretly slowed down people's phones.
902.
by Marazan 9y ago
Robin
903.
by Marazan 9y ago
I don't see how classifying Uber as a minicab firm amounts to banning it?
904.
by Marazan 9y ago
It wasn't the open web people, it was the other companies like Microsoft who killed ECMA 4 as they saw the massive lead Adobe had in corporate Rich Internet Applications and needed to block them.
905.
by Marazan 9y ago
The Flash runtime was not an intrinsic battery hog. The shit swfs people wrote was the problem. The same people are now writing shit HTML5 that drains just as much, if not more, battery
906.
by Marazan 9y ago
It seems insanely obvious to me that only people who have purchased the item through Amazon should get to review the product.
907.
by Marazan 9y ago
Xmlrpc is simple and it works. Xmlrpc is soap without the bullshit. I built lots of personal apps that were flash/flex front ends that talked to python backends over xmlrpc to quickly whip up his for my python aps
908.
by Marazan 9y ago
Ah yes, a derivative of Mornington Crescent more suitable for computers to play.
909.
by Marazan 9y ago
Woah, woah. He was a co-defendant at the trial. He was more that just a dude who bought some ad space.
910.
by Marazan 9y ago
Does it talk much about the financier Carl Lundström's role in TPB? He never gets mentioned much for some reason* * Because of his far right connections
911.
by Marazan 9y ago
Self play reinforcement learning has been a thing for decades it really isn't new. That's how I wrote my Lines of Acton and Dominion AIs years ago. (Disclaimer: I had a sign flip bug in the Reinforcement Learning step of the Lin
912.
by Marazan 9y ago
The kind of games I get on my DS are barely even similar to the kind of games I get on my mobile phone.
913.
by Marazan 9y ago
But you are not paying the European merchant with USD.
914.
by Marazan 9y ago
Well, then there's the issue that Singapore's approach doesn't actually stop drug abuse in Singapore.
915.
by Marazan 9y ago
One involves killing people and the other doesn't?
916.
by Marazan 9y ago
There is no cost for a driver to use multiple apps. There is no cost for a user to use multiple apps.
917.
by Marazan 9y ago
Rating people is great but it is not a unique value proposition.
918.
by Marazan 9y ago
Reinvesting for growth is a terrible euphemism for subsiding taxi fares. When they flip the switch they become more expensive that a regular mini-cab. Customers will leave in droves, drivers will leave in droves. There s no loyalty to a mi
919.
by Marazan 9y ago
Clash Royale is, much to my surprise, a game that heavily, heavily rewards skill over money bombs. I've played against clear whale players - several levels higher than me, troops massively over leveled for the match making strata we we
920.
by Marazan 9y ago
The average employee would be in a terrible position. Ref: Enron.
921.
by Marazan 9y ago
You home equity is only realised when you sell. There is no loss. There is only the money you get net after the sale.
922.
by Marazan 9y ago
The XML isn't ink.
923.
by Marazan 9y ago
Proof of work is intrinsically dumb. To store wealth in Bitcoin you are committing to the constant burn of energy in perpetuity.
924.
by Marazan 9y ago
The power expended on mining directly correlates to the value of bitcoins. If the amount of power expended on mining decreases to far then it becomes cost effective to attack the network. Power expended on mining must remain constant or ev
925.
by Marazan 9y ago
If this was 15 years ago I'd be saying "Nuclear, hell yeah". But in the last 15 years solar prices have come way the heck down. And are going to go down even further in the coming 15 years. Everyone will get solar panels, t
926.
by Marazan 9y ago
And then a bit later http://i43.tinypic.com/2wbrjx3.png http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/chart.png?width=940&m=mtgoxU...
927.
by Marazan 9y ago
Google trends compresses badly over longer time periods. If you look at, say, the 2010 to 2013, the first two big bubbles then you get something that looks like http://i.imgur.com/JHLmkq6.png
928.
by Marazan 9y ago
It's actually more complicated. With previous bubble spikes bitcoin price starts rising first then search term follows but search term then peaks before the price peaks.
929.
by Marazan 9y ago
Bitcoin price matches the Google trends search graph for Bitcoin.
930.
by Marazan 9y ago
The tax rules were simple. Multi-nationals create mass webs of offshore companies to move money round outside of their primary tax jurisdiction and then bring it back sans-taxiation if they had just done the simple straight forward thing. M

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