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by bcg1 11y ago
Sounds like those sites need a better architecture if those things are so strategic to their business.
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by bcg1 11y ago
I like this article and I definitely agree with Toyama's view, however my emotional reaction might be summarized as "Meh, welcome to the party... even though you're a little a late we're glad you showed up" A lot of
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by bcg1 11y ago
Thank you for the information. > "adher[ing] to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere." Incidentally, the information that Snowden shared was clearly not giving "aid and comfort&q
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by bcg1 11y ago
One's inability to solve a problem does not invalidate their ability to identify it.
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by bcg1 11y ago
That's a good one, thanks! :)
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by bcg1 11y ago
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
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by bcg1 11y ago
This is a good assessment of the situation but it requires an intense amount of research and probably first hand experience as well in order to grasp. Unfortunately even very astute individuals can easily get sucked into the "us vs. th
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by bcg1 11y ago
Exactly. And that is the answer to the question "Why should they not be?"
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by bcg1 11y ago
> why should they not be? Because some percentage of the population is made up of psychopaths lacking empathy who are willing to do things that the majority of the population cannot fathom.
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by bcg1 11y ago
Summary - Intel buys FPGA manufacturer, Microsoft is trying to use FPGAs with Intel processors to make Bing faster. Kudos to Bunnie for actually already producing a laptop that pairs a CPU and an FPGA on the same board, and making it free a
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by bcg1 11y ago
Its not that hard to predict though, and if you can't... either the idea might not be developed enough or you may need to grow slow until you get real feedback/sales IMHO comparing some of these ideas to the iPhone is a copout.
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by bcg1 11y ago
In the US, the main number that everyone is concerned with is the FICO score, and the algorithm is a secret. Most lenders do not generate their own measures of creditworthiness but rather just use FICO Also even if you don't want to b
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by bcg1 11y ago
That's a good point and you're justified in saying that it could have been better if the TCK was GPL'd too. But in reality the TCK is not part of the language, the virtual machine, or anything else that most hackers use. And
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by bcg1 11y ago
Glad to see that I'm not the only one who still likes the JVM after living through the good, the bad, and the ugly with it. Freeing Java with the GPL was an amazing move by Sun and kudos to everyone who made that happen. Without that a
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by bcg1 11y ago
Maybe what could happen though is that when booting the operating system, instead of reading whatever code normally runs as the kernel launches, some malicious code could be sent to the processor instead
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by bcg1 11y ago
Thanks for your comment, my sentiment exactly. Opting out of the entire thing is the best way to eliminate this scam. It is absolutely stupid that in the US your financial life is dictated by an opaque algorithm and an entrenched bureaucra
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by bcg1 11y ago
I agree I think that dynamic could definitely play out... I'm less sanguine about how orderly such a shift would be in practice however, and the level of complexity in financial markets today I am skeptical that destabilization would b
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by bcg1 11y ago
My use of the word "hyperinflation" was hyperbole referring to a commonly held view that unprecedented money printing by central banks could lead an inflationary nightmare, often asserted by doomer goldbugs. The polar opposite vie
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by bcg1 11y ago
Dwolla is a fantastic idea and provides a great alternative to credit card networks for payments. One of my sites uses Dwolla as the sole payment processor and also we piggyback off of their verification process to weed out bad actors. I fi
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by bcg1 11y ago
People should be worried about bond liquidity. In a normal interest rate environment, bonds are income producing instruments and if you don't need to sell and are ok with the interest rate, liquidity doesn't matter quite so much
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by bcg1 11y ago
So you say, but popularity "in every thread" (whatever that means) is a silly metric. Also I'm not sure what you mean by "then GPL would have won instead of MIT". Its not a war, even if some trendy corporate wannabe
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by bcg1 11y ago
Proprietary development tools are a trap. And this software is just a proprietary wrapper around a real community product. Doesn't matter if you rewrote the library for interacting with the database... standing on the shoulders of gian
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by bcg1 11y ago
It seems like the real problem here is the administrative process... the OP makes it sound like a unilateral decision with no recourse... and maybe less extreme measures could have been taken, such as letting them know what aspect of their
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by bcg1 11y ago
Chas Freeman is 100% spot on in this article and provides a sound rebuttal to the portions of the TPP that we've been able to see. The reason that he is able to so effectively dismantle the economic arguments is because the real intent
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by bcg1 11y ago
In the US, FDA also regulates medical devices such as pacemakers etc
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by bcg1 11y ago
I think we are actually in agreement here... it seems as if you consider "API" to mean the documentation of the function, while I am considering it to be the actual compiled Java bytecode (which is not a description of the functio
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by bcg1 11y ago
"The Congress shall have Power... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" -- Article I, Section 8
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by bcg1 11y ago
> Question: what the fuck? American here. We are aware of the problem, but due to high call volume and a totally corrupt/captured/entrenched corporate & government bureaucracy, you may experience long wait times.
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by bcg1 11y ago
I disagree. Unless "method of operation" is some godforsaken legalistic bastardization of the language, APIs are methods of operation, not a description. In Java you must use those exact symbols to use the software... the descript
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by bcg1 11y ago
FBI is part of the justice dept. http://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/going-dark-are-technology-p...

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