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by askmike 8y ago
Software development is completely unrelated: of course Apple needs to provide software so developers can build apps so consumers have a reason to buy an iPhone in the first place. That has little to do with a marketplace. They can charge 3
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by askmike 8y ago
Fair point.
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by askmike 8y ago
In 2018 (edit: 2017) they made roughly $11.5 billion[1] with their 30% cut. 1% instead would be $383 million a year. You think that wouldn't be sufficient to run a digital store (including the things mentioned)? Pretty sure you can do
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by askmike 8y ago
It's not fair to compare a digital marketplace with retail channels.. I'm quite sure technically (at the size of the Apple Store) a digital marketplace could charge 1% and still make a profit after the operational costs.
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by askmike 8y ago
The Apple Store has 100% market share on all iPhones, iPads and iWatches. I really don't see this being that much different from the famous United States v. Microsoft Corp. case[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by askmike 8y ago
It seems to be that the crash situations are way too complex to blame a single party. Since a chain of events (automatic systems, pilot actions) seems the be responsible for the crashes. I imagine that besides what is being done to make sur
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by askmike 8y ago
It's very easy for a Bulgarian to go and live in France, that's the point. Claiming French citizenship is a different things entirely.
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by askmike 8y ago
Why does that matter? There are huge differences culturally and socioeconomically between different states (and even areas). States have very different laws with a "federal government" managing it all. I don't see how it&#x27
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by askmike 8y ago
As much as we all like him, I don't think he is at the top of the bitcoin food chain. Though I don't agree that there is no "normal person". Look at everyone at Blockstream (including Adam Back), people behind Ethereum,
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by askmike 8y ago
The most successful fund for the last decade(s) fits more one the magic formulas side (the Medallion Fund from Renaissance Technologies). EDIT: Oops, I misread your comment.
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by askmike 8y ago
At the end of the day arbitrage is zero sum, there is a fixed amount of money to be made from this market inefficiency (based on your margin, your costs and the amount you can buy and sell). Regardless if you are the only one doing it or no
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by askmike 8y ago
The difference is that Enigmail is maintained by an open source community, Thunderbird by Mozilla. Also the protocol your mail client uses to talk with your email server (POP or IMAP) don't really support the flexibility to send the ke
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by askmike 8y ago
> As I understand it, ProtonMail basically uses PGP. It just does it in Javascript or whatever. This means that maybe now the private keys are on your device, at any point in time they can update their frontend javascript code to get you
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by askmike 8y ago
> Using Thunderbird plus Enigmail for GnuPG, I can use any email provider, and be ~certain that they can't read my stuff. Yes but no one can either :( In the last 5 years I received 2 encrypted emails, and thousands of non encrypted
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by askmike 8y ago
I think his point is that if you are in a Starbucks and you figure out what's on the server, all the other people with hoodies in the Starbucks now know as well.
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by askmike 8y ago
Thanks for your answers. I've subscribed for more news.
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by askmike 8y ago
Cool stuff, I have a few questions: - Is DCN a smart contract where centralized exchanges push settlement groups to (say once every x minutes)? This would indeed allow for fast offchain matching while settling onchain. However the CEX needs
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by askmike 8y ago
I agree very much. I have worked on quorum based blockchain systems for bank consortiums in the past.
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by askmike 8y ago
While I run into this too from time to time, it's not something everyone uses. Also it takes me 5 seconds to workaround by debug logging incoming ws messages. Most web devs I talk to can do everything with FF devtools more than fine.
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by askmike 8y ago
As someone from a small European country with huge social safety nets, this is quite insane to read. But still, are people talking about mercy killing all of them? I might have to reclassify the meaning of dystopian, the books I read are on
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by askmike 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if regenerating it a few times is more expensive than simply storing it once.
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by askmike 8y ago
Most quorum implementations I have seen don't use mining for consensus. Out of the box you can choose between these consensus algorithms: https://github.com/jpmorganchase/quorum/wiki/Quorum-Consensu...
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by askmike 8y ago
I'm not sure you can deduce that it's pointless. It's not like UBI doesn't have any other consequences (such as the feelings of the people who don't like UBI). Note that I think UBI is a great idea.
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by askmike 8y ago
> If you're poor, sick or have no job than there is even people who'd argue for mercy killing you as not being strong enough for our good society. Where do you meet people who argue for that? I Have never heard that outside of
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by askmike 8y ago
You are very right: the problem is that our brains are wired so that we prefer content that confirms our beliefs, we stay longer on the platform and are happier (which means advertisers make more money). Platforms have figured this out and
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by askmike 8y ago
Most people don't share OP opinion, after a long day of work they want to look at cat pictures. Clickbait farms earn more than traditional newspapers, for the simple fact that more people read them. As for "best content recommenda
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by askmike 8y ago
> it's unclear that this is yet possible to execute satisfactorily for internet use What do you mean? ZCash uses zksnarks. Or did you mean browser instead of internet use?
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by askmike 8y ago
Zero-knowledge proofs are a (new) form of cryptography that allows you to proof certain things without disclosing any information (pretty sure someone can explain it better). This link is a demo page that has some zero-knowledge proofs (zkS
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by askmike 8y ago
This is as user unfriendly as it gets. People want to look for hours of cat pictures and netflix videos (or facebook, instagram, or snapchat). Once phones start throwing this kind of crap in people's faces there will be (understandable
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by askmike 8y ago
It might incentivize the companies to change, but it might not. Especially if you end up selling it to an entity who uses Meanwhile you are doing real damage. Why not publish the leak online to force the company to fix it asap?

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