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The financial system at larger scales is not terribly different -- you electronically transfer money and in the blink of an eye it is gone, and is only recoverable with the cooperation of the counter-party. Of course most banks have identit
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Can someone explain to me Intel's continued fascination with being a consumer company? I suspect that Intel is buying companies and products like this for the same reason that Microsoft bought Nokia -- they see some markets moving aw
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You seem to be arguing that the article wasn't an entirely different article. As __david__ rightly mentioned, he doesn't say "this is what the average person encounters". Indeed, I think the situation is even more profou
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I believe both Tassimo and the "Nespresso" already have DRM, although they pitch it under the premise that it's a coded system for the perfect brew. So in many ways the Keurig is late to the party.
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EDIT: For the user whom penalized my comment score, why? Probably because you claimed that the example was contrived when it is actually very real, and is something many visitors to HN have specifically faced, and is a particularly ironic
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The author has credentials, but there is absolutely no expertise demonstrated in cryptocurrencies, much less regarding the specific issues of MtGox. It was all speculation, and it is inconsistent in its inputs -- on the one hand it disbelie
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I assume you mean http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/03/01/what-did-not-happen... , however I would hardly attribute that to "an expert". It is raw speculation, and states absolutes where there are n
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I know a family member who had an iPad and used it all the time. For his next tablet he got an Android tablet and he doesn't use it at all. In my household we have two Nexus 7s and an iPad. The iPad is absolutely loaded with apps. My
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Far too sarcastic for something that is almost entirely raw, unsupported speculation. Further, it is conflicted -- it disbelieves some statements by Gox, while fully believing others (e.g. "they were in cold storage"). The one ele
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"but c# advocates in microsoft have been quite parasitic in their behavior of pushing the language(inside of microsoft)" How could you possibly have decided that "parasitic" was the best word? Is C# hanging off the back
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Supposedly this looting went on for years, death by a thousand transfers. It will have dissolved into the sea by now.
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by corresation 13y ago
To reply to a recurring line of thought, Bitcoins are not atomic entities with serial numbers like dollar bills. You can't say "Bitcoin #AE472b was stolen" and then trace it through its life, or blacklist it. Instead Bitcoin
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This is hardly a seer-like prediction. Instead it is an obvious consideration that recurs constantly. http://www.cnet.com.au/microsoft-eyes-making-desktop-apps-fr... That's from 2005.
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Do we need to differentiate from mechanical scraping versus manual scraping, though? Because realistically a hefty percentage of StackOverflow content are users manually scraping other sites, all in hopes of earning some imaginary internet
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If a job board exists in a forest, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? This woman apparently has influence and persuasion because of her membership. By trying to connect, this young woman was saying "you are important
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by corresation 13y ago
If she had stopped at "Your invite to connect is inappropriate, beneficial only to you, and tacky" we wouldn't have even known about it. Do you actually use LinkedIn? You seem to be assigning a connection with some sort of
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While I believe that it was just a screw-up that wasn't caught because of gaps of process (the code essentially repeats blocks with minor changes, so I can envision someone doing some refactoring -- removing the passing of the context
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It's actually MTGox's own claims. Their actual issues in this space were because they reissued payments without conflicting the original payment Where did they claim this? They did claim that they were suspending withdrawals due
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Bitstamp and MTGox's issues were unrelated In both cases there was an issue with the service having transaction issues due to the malleability issue. Bitstamp suspended operations to fix the issue. How can you possibly say they are u
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bitstamp are professional while mtgox were amateur cowboys with no support. This is all so clear now, it seems. Further, Bitstamp was bitten by exactly the same bug (the malleability bug which was apparently what demonstrated Gox's p
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If you recall, they had a huge problem streaming to them. http://blog.netflix.com/2010/11/netflix-on-android.html Netflix delayed their offering, and then restricted it to a few devices for quite some time, and no
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Are there even thieves? I mean, the whole story makes zero sense. Supposedly the root of this was multiple withdrawals over the period of months. How is it remotely possible that Gox didn't have a real-time, if not at worst case dail
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They can patent the specifics of the exchange, similar to how ActiveSync (the web services API that Exchange uses) is patented.
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If you trust every network hop, are sure that you are never impacted by aberrant if not even malicious routes, never touched by DNS spoofing....SSL becomes irrelevant, doesn't it?
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Many with a vested interest in bitcoin are desperately performing damage control, evident in every thread about this issue. Mt. Gox was a, har de har har, Magic card trading site (and ebay is for pez dispensers), and everyone knew that it w
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Thank you this is illuminating.
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3) Hidden in plain sight I'm baffled that this wasn't caught long, long ago. Most of us have worked with internal systems where certs, for whatever reason, don't match the site, and it's surprising many people haven&#x
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WhatsApp had revenues of $20 million last year -- clearly much lower than their userbase -- and from reports on here most people were unaware any $1 per year thing even existed. Their site doesn't seem to even mention the $1 thing, but
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"What would be much smarter is using your own engineers to build that next disruption" Could they, though? Facebook's DNA is information accumulation. As is Google's. WhatsApp is the antithesis of this, and the likely ou
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It makes $20 million in revenue . I've read that they're profitable, but never the number.

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