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by caf 5y ago
It's important to realise that when I'm talking about transaction costs I'm not referring to the inbuilt transaction fees in the protocol - those are bitcoin-denominated and so are an internal transfer within the ecosystem (l
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by caf 5y ago
This is not a deal between equal parties, consumers are severely disadvantaged. Just force them to deliver what they promised. They'll stop promsing soon enough. No-one is being "severely disadvantaged". The unsophisticate
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by caf 5y ago
All-you-can-eat is a simple concept. Everybody understands that. No, not everybody does, which is why they have to have signs saying you can't take food home. Unlimited is a different but equally simple concept with universally acce
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by caf 5y ago
It's like they really think they can get away with offering "unlimited" storage without people taking full advantage of it. Well, yes, it's like a all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant that nonetheless isn't going to
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by caf 5y ago
I don't think /r/datahoarder is the target market at all. They're after the home user with a laptop full of documents and photos that they're vaguely aware isn't backed up, and maybe that's something they
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by caf 5y ago
Right, the copyright holder could grant an alternative license with any terms they like to any specific recipients they'd like to.
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by caf 5y ago
And? It's their website, they can criticise whoever they like on it.
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by caf 5y ago
Everything stays the same until the moment that it doesn't.
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by caf 5y ago
It's not even about how the kernel is built. The userspace-side system call declarations need to be #include-able in C89 user code, so they can't use C99 types.
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by caf 5y ago
It's not even just Linux - way back in the mid 90s there was an agreement among UNIX vendors to use the "LP64" model for 64 bit architectures, and ILP32 was already the de facto standard for 32 bit UNIX-likes, so "long c
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by caf 5y ago
It's a leaky abstraction over the underlying system call mechanism. Because the user stack lives in user space and accessing it from the kernel requires the same dance as any other access to user memory, system call arguments are inst
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by caf 5y ago
AIUI, the negative-sum game breaks down like this: consider a black box around the entire bitcoin ecosystem. This black box is consuming $20B/year worth of real resources, which (given that you can't generally buy electricity or
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by caf 5y ago
There are still holding costs for it, though - the guards at the New York Federal Reserve don't work for free - so doesn't it have a similar "value continuously leaving the system" dynamic that suggests that it's ne
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by caf 5y ago
This all sounds intuitively correct, and it seems that similar arguments can be made about gold bullion, right? It costs some amount of money every year to mine, refine, transport and store it, and none of that is accruing to the actual hol
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by caf 5y ago
This doesn't seem that different from subpoening a McDonalds for their security footage, and getting an answer back like "sorry, we've already deleted the footage from that day" .
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by caf 5y ago
This is correct. In the motivating example, it would have to scan the entire list of pointers to see whether it finds a NULL link before it overflows the size counter or not.
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by caf 5y ago
The only distinction is really that selective breeding is intentional - which is not the case here. Was it "selective breeding" when MRSA arose due to our use of antibiotics?
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by caf 5y ago
In fact they instruct you that you're not authorised to organise towing yourself, you have to use their emergency assist number if it needs a tow.
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by caf 5y ago
The patent number stays the same though.
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by caf 5y ago
It's true, but the opposite strategy - sugarcoat the truth to avoid raising uncomfortable questions about the status quo - also breeds mistrust in education and institutions. All we can really try to do is present our best view of t
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by caf 5y ago
Since some recent software update the mechanical door release now drops the windows a little just like the electrical one.
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by caf 5y ago
I don't know about the US, but in Australia at least Tesla will deliver it to your house if you live too far from a showroom.
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by caf 5y ago
We've given plenty of friends a chance to drive, it takes maybe 30 seconds to explain the drive stalk and park brake. The driving with regen is if anything similar to a dodgem car.
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by caf 5y ago
Someone found Hertz's updated Terms & Conditions. tl;dr you are expected to return the car with at least 10% charge. TESLA These Electric Vehicle Rental Terms (“Rental Terms”) are between The Hertz Corporation (“Hertz” or “us”) an
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by caf 5y ago
This is correct. You coast by feathering the accelerator.
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by caf 5y ago
And/or rename the existing "Name" field to "Named-based Index Key" and add a new field for Name.
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by caf 5y ago
Same for those with Arabic, Persian, Korean, Thai, Russian ... names
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by caf 5y ago
Arithmetic operations are never done in a type narrower than int. int8_t is necessarily narrower than int (int must be able to represent at least the range -32767..32767), so in -x the x is promoted to int, then negated.
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by caf 5y ago
Once the rockets are up Who cares where they come down? That's not my department Says Wernher Von Braun
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by caf 5y ago
There are allegations that the NSO Group doesn't provide the 0days they're using to their customers, so they are in fact performing the intrusions themselves.

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