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by cube13 15y ago
Re: Deflation >A bad thing if you're trying to replace a country's currency system with it, and excellent thing if you see them as a store of value. This is the same as people complaining that any other asset deflates over time. Currenc
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by cube13 15y ago
>Easy - I collect taxes at the point where physical goods are exchanged for bitcoins or are used to deliver products. Or just collect the taxes at the point where it's converted from BTC to a real, government-backed currency. It's simp
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by cube13 15y ago
>Most problems with the critiques of Bitcoin like those in the linked Quora post is that they are debunking a straw man - the idea that Bitcoin is intended as a universal replacement for all other currency systems. By those standards of
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by cube13 15y ago
I think that the other issue is the culture around(and design) *nix and BSD systems, where a reboot is generally only done when very bad things happen to the system, and nothing else can correct it. Often, there are a lot of other things g
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by cube13 15y ago
IIRC, there was some mention of using this mechanism as a way to make sales to consumers in the patent. I agree, it seems more like this is over the "Rate me" dialog popup boxes than the IAP, but the suits seem to have hit developers that
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by cube13 15y ago
>Usually it's got some modified permissions which allow it to run as another user (commonly root). They should be designed to be secure against an attack but nothing is bug-free. So you know what you do? You remove those permissions. Su
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by cube13 15y ago
>"Why did the idiot have access to them"? He's not presumed to be an idiot or bozo. He's trusted as an employee. Corps generally don't have the time or manpower or profitability incentive to spy on every action of their own personnel. Y
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by cube13 15y ago
This is entirely IT's fault, though. Why did they allow a rogue server on to the production farm in the first place? Why did the idiot have access to them? While the blame should still be entirely on the idiot, it's still IT's job to make
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by cube13 15y ago
>It is far less problematic to have the software available than deal with the potential fallout of problems of maintaining such a network and its access to installing software remotely. The purpose of this document is to make the system
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by cube13 15y ago
Bitcoins are a great consumer currency at this point, considering that it's possible to generate them out of thin air makes it attractive to get. It's like getting an allowance as a kid-you do some(relatively) trivial work, and get some mo
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by cube13 15y ago
Bitcoin doesn't offer that confidence, though. No currency does, fiat or otherwise. The confidence in a currency comes entirely from the economy that develops around the currency. In other words, the power of a currency comes from what i
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by cube13 15y ago
Nintendo also makes a profit on every single console sold from the moment that they are released.
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by cube13 15y ago
>Sorry if I've missed that. But last I checked they had just changed the top-revenue rankings to include IAP, and smurfberry-bearing titles shot to the top. To change that algorithm the way they did looks more like celebrating that nons
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by cube13 15y ago
Disclosure: I am a low level C API developer, so I have a lot of self interest in this. The problem that I have with a blanket indemnification like this is how large the coverage could be. Sure, you should cover cases that involve your bus
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by cube13 15y ago
The problem is that the API doesn't violate the patent. Spyro7 linked the patent( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2544889 ), and it appears that having a "rate me" or IAP button violates the patent. The usage of the API violates the
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by cube13 15y ago
There isn't a post in these, though. So they're not the secure(TS) version, just a 5-point.
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by cube13 15y ago
I think the main reason that Apple(and a lot of other manufacturers) use these is because they simplify automated assembly. Since they're using torque wrenches to screw it in, it's better to have a screw head that won't allow the bit to fa
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by cube13 15y ago
>If that linkage was born out by solid research data it would make a strong case for having the characters in science fiction creating solutions to problems posited to occur 20 - 30 years hence. So that means we're about due for a time
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by cube13 15y ago
For a group that supposedly promotes openness, Wikileaks sure wants to keep their organization a secret. Who watches the watchmen, indeed.
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by cube13 15y ago
>* Avoiding dynamic memory allocations. In languages like Python all memory allocation is dynamic. However, unloading/loading the same object over and over is something I've seen a lot of. I don't think that C really teaches you to avoi
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by cube13 15y ago
Out of curiosity, does the Android Market actually list the permissions that a given app requires? The web store doesn't seem to list them.
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by cube13 15y ago
That's pretty much the problem. Google has not released the source for Honeycomb, even though the first device is out, and several more are supposed to be launched in the next month. He's completely sidestepping the issue here. The issue
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by cube13 15y ago
It appears that there is a "make-generated-sources.sh" script that appears to kick off DerivedSources.make. That looks like it's actually the makefile for the entire thing. Unfortunately, I don't have access to my mac at the moment to actu
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by cube13 15y ago
Ah, that's it. Neither OSX or iOS release the implementation, though.
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by cube13 15y ago
Most of it(especially the javascript and webcore libraries) were present in iOS 1.0, and Apple was fairly quick on releasing the source then, so it was odd that Apple took their time releasing the source. The 4.3 releases took almost 2 mon
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by cube13 15y ago
Uh, they did release it. http://opensource.apple.com/source/WebCore/WebCore-955.66.1/... The source is here: http://opensource.apple.com/source/WebCore/WebCore-955.66.1/... EDIT: I'm probably missing something, but it appears that the w
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by cube13 15y ago
Only if it's it's statically linked. If it's dynamically linked, all they need to do is release the source. EDIT: There are also makefiles provided in the release.
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by cube13 15y ago
>What was the Gold Standard? It was a system in which one currency was tied directly to a finite resource. There was no choice in how one could pay, payments were made in a vacuum. All transactions had to be made in a currency backed
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by cube13 15y ago
To be fair, we did have that world in the late 90's. It was called Windows 98.
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by cube13 15y ago
>There was always a loser that would try it and he would forever be forsaken by the Hackers. So everything was great until the dumbass showed up and ruined everything? This makes a great argument for account privileges and security. Be

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