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721.
by bduerst 7y ago
How exactly do they triangulate the Bluetooth signal to an individual car? Yes you can see the Bluetooth radio signal nearby but unless it's the only car in 40 meters you're not going to be able to tell which vehicle it's in.
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by bduerst 7y ago
You can't read encrypted packages being sent by the app. The message telemetry could be bundled by the app with other telemetry and you wouldn't know despite your technical skill.
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by bduerst 7y ago
The Facebook app can read the messages just as you do when the app decrypts the messages locally.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Even dropping $0.1 trillion into the $25 trillion SP500 fund would affect the price and cause inflation. Index funds do not have the capacity to absorb that much wealth, so large funds like the one in Norway seek out other investments just
725.
by bduerst 7y ago
Regardless of motive, the whole asset-sharing startup bubble is a pretty effective wealth redistribution scheme. It took billionaires' money and used it to subsidize taxi rides, shared work spaces, and dog walking. At the least, maybe
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by bduerst 7y ago
That's precisely the same as an uncashed check - an IOU. Just because you can cash it at any time does not make it different from an IOU. Until settled, it's just a "hey I will pay you some Bitcoin in the future". It
727.
by bduerst 7y ago
A commitment to pay Bitcoin , that is signed or unsigned, cashable at any time, is an IOU. It's the same as a signed check, except lightning is passing itself as a network to spend the equivalent of third party checks. Businesses and
728.
by bduerst 7y ago
> If I pay someone using lightning then that payment is as good as good. Lightning is an I.O.U. that is not good until you settle on Bitcoin. If you are not using Bitcoin to settle transactions, then you there is zero guarantee of gett
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by bduerst 7y ago
>The landlord does not need to cash the check to spend the money I have payed him. He could spend it anywhere as a third party check . This is the crux of your misunderstanding. Ask your landlord why they won't spend third party
730.
by bduerst 7y ago
This is why I precisely used the example of paying monthly rent, because: 1) Paying rent is an example of a repeat payment between two users where you theoretically could have an open Lightning channel, but... 2) Landlords are still going
731.
by bduerst 7y ago
Precisely. It turns out that despite some of it's flaws, having your currency managed by a central organization that is incentivized for stability tends to work better than a handful of data miners stealing electricity in China.
732.
by bduerst 7y ago
It's napkin math based on the Bitcoin network's hard limitations of 4-7 transactions/second, so assuming 5 tx/s, then there's 432K transactions/day limit. Since lightning requires Bitcoin to settle transactions
733.
by bduerst 7y ago
>... Lightning only scales with the number of transactions, not users. Is the rest of the sentence that you quoted out of context. Did you not see the example?
734.
by bduerst 7y ago
Bitcoin attracts three different niche markets: - Crypto enthusiasts who are infatuated with the technology or the math involved - Anti-Fed Libertarian types who want to use something that isn't controlled by a government - HFTs and sp
735.
by bduerst 7y ago
Lightning network comes up just about every discussion involving bitcoin transactions, but because it requires the bitcoin network to make confirmations, Lightning only scales with the number of transactions, not users. This is still a pro
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by bduerst 7y ago
It's more complex than that. It's the miners, not the devs, on the Bitcoin network refuse to come to a consensus on what Bitcoin should be. It's like a weird 21st-century internet tragedy of the commons.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Bravo. So is the Fast (megabit) Ethernet speed bottleneck with the USB ports? Do you think you could get gigabit Ethernet speeds?
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by bduerst 7y ago
This is true, though they aren't doing a very good job of it. There's a ton of trending content under political # that get popular and left alone.
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by bduerst 7y ago
TikTok has said that their TikTok China and TikTok elsewhere apps keep their app and user data completely separate (in both data centers and policy). Kind of like how Apple complies with iCloud China and Apple iCloud everywhere else
740.
by bduerst 7y ago
This was using incognito w/ disconnect. Your results are tailored to you.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Top search results for "buy smartphone" is Best Buy's smartphone page (organic) and Verizon's product page (paid).
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by bduerst 7y ago
One of my profs in business school said that 1/3 of the time you hire consultants is because you know what you want to do but you need a fall guy in case it goes south. You're paying a premium to offload the liability. Wash, rins
743.
by bduerst 7y ago
Ford isn't a platform for selling cars. If Ford was a company that made it's revenue sold Chevy, Dodge, Volkswagen, Bentley, etc. and it's own cars, then they would be analogous to Amazon.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Google shopping results are search ads with pictures. Every single listing is paid to be there. They're literally set up in the same place that the rest of Google ads are. EU wasn't able to distinguish this so they slapped them
745.
by bduerst 7y ago
Yes, I have. Have you? Also: https://www.google.com/search?q=China+is+the+largest+green+e...
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by bduerst 7y ago
The AMP standard doesn't need use URL hijacking anymore: https://www.cloudflare.com/website-optimization/amp-real-url...
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by bduerst 7y ago
Comcast wouldn't do that because Comcast already flat out charges publishers like Netflix to not be deprioritized on their network. It would be analogous to Google charging publishers for top organic search positions.
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by bduerst 7y ago
And has been. Look at how well that worked for mobile web.
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by bduerst 7y ago
According to that link, Protonmail would observe and respond to a warrant from local government the same way Google does.
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by bduerst 7y ago
China is the largest green energy producer in the world, doubling the output of the U.S.

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