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by apeace 9y ago
It strikes me that the reason Firefox rose to prominence in the first place was because of the same thing: web sites all over put banners on the top of their pages (for IE users), saying something like "You should upgrade to a modern b
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by apeace 9y ago
That's odd. Coinbase was part of the New York Agreement[0], which are the group supporting the UAHF. Both this email and the blog post make it sound as if Coinbase support the Core side, i.e. the UASF. Can someone explain what I'm
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by apeace 9y ago
The days are counting down to the "Segwit2X" rollout, the idea supported in the "New York Agreement" (NYA)[0]. There is a contingency plan in place should the Core-supported User Activated Soft Fork become activated.[1]
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by apeace 9y ago
> There are a myriad ways to make a company fail, but only two ways to make one succeed. One of those is to make a product that fills a heretofore unmet market need, and to do it better, faster, and cheaper than the competition. That i
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by apeace 9y ago
You didn't research very hard. From the Washington Post[0]: > White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account f
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by apeace 9y ago
To your first question: yes, that is exactly what they're doing. To your second: there is a fee associated with every transaction. You can set the fee to something incredibly small (like 0.00001 cent), but miners will take the higher-f
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by apeace 9y ago
This is merely a taste of what is to come. When President Obama stated in December[0] that we will deliver a "proportional response" to Russian hacking at the "time and place of our own choosing", it seemed that most of
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by apeace 9y ago
> It “traps” users on Google. If user were to click “x” in the screenshot above, they will be taken back to Google search results. A normal redirect would have landed users on actual BBC site, maximizing their chances of staying on that
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by apeace 9y ago
Found it: https://teller.io/developer/beta It is UK only.
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by apeace 9y ago
Which countries are supported? Not seeing that info anywhere. I only saw in a comment here that Teller has relationships with "every major UK bank".
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by apeace 9y ago
IMHO the three biggest challenges have been cost, accuracy, and quality. We have a lot of options for this in NYC: PeaPod by Stop N' Shop, Instacart, Fresh Direct, and Whole Foods has its own delivery service. I've tried them all.
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by apeace 9y ago
Good catch. According to Microsoft[0], the max number of rows is 1,048,576. So I guess there must have been a couple hundred! [0] https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Excel-specification...
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by apeace 9y ago
> Spreadsheets containing this accumulated data—last updated around the January 2017 presidential inauguration—constitute a treasure trove of political data and modeled preferences used by the Trump campaign Genuinely curious: can you re
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by apeace 9y ago
Thanks so much! I imagine you're right, I must have misremembered. Though as you insinuated, this is the same thing in practice: > In most cities, a startup cannot come in and build out neighborhood-by-neighborhood based on demonstr
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by apeace 9y ago
All very good points, with great examples from where you live. At the very least when decisions are made on a local level as opposed to state/federal, there is more of a chance that 1) people will be able to wrangle control of the situ
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by apeace 9y ago
I've always felt the real problem is the monopolies. Net Neutrality doesn't fix that--it's up to local governments to fix it. In the early 2000's when my home town still had dial-up only, Comcast came into the town and o
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by apeace 9y ago
The answer is to avoid such questions with everyone :) This is a barrier I also had to cross as someone who is involved in a lot of interviewing (software engineers). I used to always break the ice with things like "Where ya from?&quot
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by apeace 9y ago
> Since 2004, Dr. Hublin and his colleagues have been working through layers of rocks on a desert hillside at Jebel Irhoud. I have so much respect for archeologists. Spending over a decade in one spot, literally on hands and knees, diggi
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by apeace 9y ago
Exactly. I think it's also informative to look at how attribution was viewed in the past. We as a tech community used to almost pride ourselves on our skepticism, as can be seen in this Bruce Schneier post[0] on Stuxnet. In the post (w
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by apeace 9y ago
The yellow dots thing was certainly a mistake on their part. But there's a much bigger issue I haven't seen anyone point out yet. One thing that the Intercept--and Glenn Greenwald in particular--have been very critical of is news
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by apeace 9y ago
As others have said, Github's postmortems are always great. But frankly, I'd rather they have better uptime. Every couple months is too much. I pay them. My work pays them. If their CEO is serious about zero downtime, how about he
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by apeace 9y ago
> Do not fall into the trap of improving both the maintainability of the code or the platform it runs on at the same time as adding new features or fixing bugs. I don't disagree at all, but I think the more valuable advice would be
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by apeace 9y ago
> I remember watching Season 1 and Season 2, and thinking, why are these guys building their own servers? It doesn’t make sense. No one in this sort of world does this. I didn't react that way. I imagined that their workload was ext
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by apeace 9y ago
I came here to say the same thing! I'm a Signal user and hugely appreciate their push to bring encryption to the masses. But when it comes to the government, I believe the ideal situation is that there is a literal live-stream of every
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by apeace 9y ago
> As part of its ecological efforts to prevent such a crisis, Apple claims, its buildings will run solely on sustainable energy, most of it from solar arrays on the roofs. Does it make economic sense to NOT build solar arrays on new buil
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by apeace 9y ago
As a software engineer, I often reflect on how much my own job prevents or cuts existing jobs for humans. At least in my case, it seems that cutting out human work creates more jobs. Let's imagine I build a feature that makes it twice
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Cloudflare's prior art search bounty(blog.cloudflare.com)
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The future we're building – and boring – Elon Musk(youtube.com)
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by apeace 9y ago
> ...the economy that produced Juicero is the same one that’s creating opioid addicts in Ohio... These phenomena might seem worlds apart, but they’re intimately connected. I don't think so. I'm from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a p
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by apeace 9y ago
It does mention buffer bloat: > Larger buffers can lead Reno into a “buffer bloat” state, where the buffer never quite drains. The residual queue occupancy time of this constant lower bound of the queue size is a delay overhead imposed o

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