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by aeternus 8y ago
Those examples ignore the other side: If I'm a merchant and someone uses a stolen or cloned credit card, or simply performs a charge-back, they get my goods for free and I have basically zero recourse. If I'm a merchant and someon
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It might be beneficial, but it is way too high-friction for most people. The group-based messaging apps like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Kakao, Discord have basically achieved this same concept of pre-defined audiences using a much more
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by aeternus 8y ago
The Bitcoin script language allows you to create escrow systems without any trust in a third party intermediary. A working example of this is the lightning protocol which is implemented on top of Bitcoin script. It uses time-based escrow w
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by aeternus 8y ago
>If you want to argue about a flaw, ASIC's were the mistake. CPU hashing would have eliminated the centralization risks, GPU's could have been expected and ultimately ASIC's after that. There's really no way to preven
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by aeternus 8y ago
It does make sense if you look at how change addresses work with Bitcoin. Best-practice is to generate a new address for the 'change' from each transaction. Suppose an exchange has a hot wallet with 10btc. Each time a user reque
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by aeternus 8y ago
Not quite that extreme, but the difference is quite disparate. Coinbase Pro (legit) has a 24h volume of 53,234,129 whereas Coineal is reporting 740,643,873. A quick google / google trends search shows that Coineal is basically unknow
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by aeternus 8y ago
You're right, few of the mentioned exchanges are actually well-known. They seem to be using coinmarketcap.com as their source for the 'top exchanges' which is basically going off of reported volume with no validation. Of cou
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by aeternus 8y ago
Is the manifesto also considered propaganda media? What about analysis of that manifesto, or discussions about how to prevent attacks like this based on the contents of the manifesto, especially if they contain excerpts? Should we ban secu
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by aeternus 8y ago
>14 years in jail for sharing it. That seems quite scary actually, all it takes to get someone thrown in jail for 14 years is to grab their phone/laptop when they're not looking or guess their password and share a video?
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by aeternus 8y ago
There are many sites and apps that support live-streaming. It is very difficult if not impossible to stop the spread of information, especially with the internet. Other platforms that could have been used: youtube, twitch, periscope, vimeo
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by aeternus 8y ago
TOR hidden services can still get around this. It's hard to enforce regulation when you can't locate the server or the operator. It would also break a huge number of businesses. Something like GitHub could be used to link/h
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by aeternus 8y ago
The Facebook amplification was relatively minor here. They 'amplified' it to 4000 people and acted quickly to limit the amplification. The real amplification was caused by people, not by platforms. The amazing stat here is that
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by aeternus 8y ago
I'm not sure about that. Regression to the mean and confirmation bias explain some of the placebo effect, but how do you explain pharmacological conditioning? There have also been numerous studies that control for biases like regressi
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The new final step of company interview processes for Android devs: Submit a demo app to the Google Play store using your developer account, your offer will be contingent upon app approval.
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by aeternus 8y ago
If I were designing it, I'd have the experimenters determine support / refute. In order to be included, they would have to have a clear write-up of the experimental setup, detailed results, etc. All theories could be included, th
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by aeternus 8y ago
I would like to see a tool that lists all modern scientific hypotheses and theories along with the published experiments that support or refute the theory/hypothesis. The theories should be linked to show what builds upon what. Wikip
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by aeternus 8y ago
Yes, but the scientific community has in-part brought this upon themselves. The actual research is inaccessible to the public, hidden behind paywalls in subscription-only journals, and written in a form that is very difficult if not impossi
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I'm not completely convinced. High-end purchasers often fund newer more efficient development, especially with cars and jets. Old jets and old cars are much less efficient than their modern equivalents, and airlines need sufficient ca
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by aeternus 8y ago
The problem is that the issue may cause the plane to be unflyable even by a pilot aware of the issue. The earliest reports said that pilots could avoid this runaway trim issue by knowing to disable the electric trim. Now it sounds like doi
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by aeternus 8y ago
I think the issue is that most people have a misconception about autopilot in a plane due to movies. Real autopilots don't work like that, they are typically extremely simple and in many cases, mechanical PID loops. 99% of all autopil
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by aeternus 8y ago
It's not necessarily hypocritical. You need to look at net carbon output. Perhaps that first-class passenger is buying carbon credits, maybe they own clean-energy companies and are travelling to expand their market.
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If he flies that often, he is likely getting upgraded most of the time. Upgrade to business is usually free, then you can use points to further upgrade to first.
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It does look somewhat awkward but the upper torso angle isn't much different from a sports bike. It isn't the most comfortable, but doesn't need to be given the flight times. The fact that the rider's pocket is directly
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by aeternus 8y ago
There will definitely be toy appeal. You can already fly helicopters low along a river which I highly recommend. Doing that on something like this would be amazing.
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by aeternus 8y ago
The proposal/ask and the end of the article (allowing the homeless to build their own housing) is interesting. Is there any evidence that this works or doesn't work?
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There is also clearly a peak and decline, even with exercise. The article does seem to cover this given the wide error bars for some of the cognitive tasks.
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by aeternus 8y ago
It looks like sales and marketing only includes driver incentive's due to driver referrals. Referrals are likely a low number compared to the 'guaranteed minimum' incentives used in new markets. Looks like the other driver i
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by aeternus 8y ago
>I would never make an everyday purchase with Bitcoin. I used to think the same, but there is a coffee / snack shop nearby that accepts bitcoin/bcash/ethereum, and offers $1 off if you pay with it. A surprising number of
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by aeternus 8y ago
When starting out in a city, these companies often have a chicken & egg problem around getting to critical mass. To solve this, they must offer guaranteed minimums to drivers to maintain an available network even with low ridership. Wi
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by aeternus 8y ago
Amazon should be able to make this work. They just need to make this false advertising cost-prohibitive. I've never had a problem returning an item to Amazon, especially if something in the listing isn't right or the item is def

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