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by averagewall 10y ago
When there's a consistent imbalance, I wonder if instead of trading it themselves, they could queue up requests. People who really wanted the cheap rate would wait days or weeks or whatever it took to reach the head of the queue, while
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by averagewall 10y ago
It sounds like a culture that's not objectively bad, just different from what you respect. People use slang words and bragging everywhere. They're just different words and different ways of expressing their brags. But to be honest
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by averagewall 10y ago
Environment? It's a desert, you can hardly break it worse than it already is. Also, it's Africa. Concern for the environment is a luxury for rich countries where the people already have a good quality of life and can put more effo
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by averagewall 10y ago
The problem happens if the password can be recovered with the same phone number as used for 2FA since then anyone who steals the phone/phone account can get both the password reset and the 2FA SMS. However, using two different numbers
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by averagewall 10y ago
Not only dumb phones, but all regular Android users in China. They don't have the Play store app on their phones and can't sideload it because it's not a simple apk file. Even if they managed to hack that, it's blocked t
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by averagewall 10y ago
It's completely ridiculous for a service to offer 2FA with SMS and also password recovery via SMS to the same phone number. It sounds like that's how this guy got hacked. He was effectively using more like half-a-factor authentica
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by averagewall 10y ago
I live in a VS .Net bubble and avoid this Linux, C, native etc. stuff like the plague. No environment variables, no scripts, no dependencies except things that have a real and obvious purpose, all native interop isolated to its own small ug
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by averagewall 10y ago
If technology makes the cost of supporting a person's life is nearly zero, then the wages they'll demand can also approach zero. So a human can undercut a robot worker on cost. Currently, that doesn't happen because humans ar
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by averagewall 10y ago
Strong encryption is another thing that sci-fi authors seem to miss. For example 1998's Moonwar has people sneaking communications on laser beams instead of radio waves because spies won't be able to eavesdrop on the straight-line
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by averagewall 10y ago
There is/was nothing outrageous about antimatter except the name. They could have called them "complimentary particles" or something more tame sounding. All particles can interact with other particles and produce reaction pro
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by averagewall 10y ago
They're also created all the time by radioactive decay which happens in common building materials. So yes, they'll be flying around your room now, but not going much further than that.
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by averagewall 10y ago
One place where I think ads are incentivised to be good is the starting ads on YouTube videos which have the "Skip" button. Once that button appears, if the ad is interesting enough, I keep on watching it. That means they have to
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by averagewall 10y ago
Sunlight, electric heaters, stoves, induction stoves, flying batteries (toy helicopters), electric lightbulbs. There are all kinds of common ways of transmitting large amount of power through space. Sure, they can be harmful but we work aro
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by averagewall 10y ago
Absolutely. It's probably not going to be a replacement for cables but rather a whole new way of using a phone charger. Right now my phone's sitting on my desk. I didn't bother to check the battery level and decide if I shou
555.
by averagewall 10y ago
That graph might be more because it's not as exciting. Google searches are probably dominated by hobbyists and casually interested people. If they're not trying to achieve a specific goal, then they might prefer to work out the ba
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by averagewall 10y ago
Isn't Microsfot.VisualBasic just as much part of C# as it is VB or any other .Net language? The rest of your points all sound like bad practice anyway so hopefully people are already avoiding them.
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by averagewall 10y ago
I'm just waiting for a robust VB to C# converter or at least a way to start moving code across gradually. For now, I'm locked into VB because of a huge code base that's all one giant assembly. It'd be great if you could
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by averagewall 10y ago
Calculating these multidimensional indexes seems to be the major or even the only reason I've ever come across for having 0-based arrays. But it's a pretty big reason.
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by averagewall 10y ago
I somehow expected to see the individual objects that make them up. If you were close enough, would that be visible? Or would they be so sparse - like clouds - that they become invisible at short distances?
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by averagewall 10y ago
Yes, only Apple could get away with this and it's great that they're willing to sacrifice a few short term $ for the long term benefit. Sure, a lot of software will become useless. Same as happened with all the Mac architecture ch
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by averagewall 10y ago
It makes sense taken seriously. Almost nobody is doing things optimally. There's always room to make more money or save more money or whatever. Figuring those things out is kind of what doing business is. Not trivial at all.
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by averagewall 10y ago
For complex software, it's not always practical to list everything it does and expect customers to search for all the things they want to do with it, or even know what they want. It can be more efficient if the customer explains what t
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by averagewall 10y ago
I've experienced a lower level of this too. They want a quote even though the price is right there on the website. They ask for the "sales team" (uh, hi). After weeks of silence, they send you a purchase order, want an invoic
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by averagewall 10y ago
Do you have specific examples? Besides laws, I can't think of any. What are the consequences for not following their way of life? Isolation from their social group? Hasn't that already happened to isolated Asians and Indians in Ne
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by averagewall 10y ago
I never understood how this argument isn't pure xenophobia. House prices are set by both the buyers and the sellers. foreign buyers try to push them _down_, not up. It's the sellers (typically locals) who try to get higher prices.
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by averagewall 10y ago
> There are large pockets of Indian and Chinese people who refuse to integrate into society. Refusing to learn English and creating places with their own language and being less welcome to outsiders. As another New Zealander, I could sa