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by dheera 6y ago
https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/app-signing It seems this is only required for "Android App Bundles", whatever the hell that is, and not apps. "Android requires that all APKs be digital
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by dheera 6y ago
Mildly off topic question: If one had Bitcoin in an exchange instead of an offline wallet, does that mean that when forks occur, the exchange does not give you coins in the fork? Also, what about PoS coins? Aren't those vastly more eff
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by dheera 6y ago
I'm pretty sure it's a weird hybrid of a mostly centralized system and some on-device for the case where the user has momentary reception loss but the merchant still has a solid internet connection. I'm pretty sure you can&#x
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by dheera 6y ago
When I lived in Zurich for a few months the only trash bags that were legal to use cost around $3 PER BAG. Recycling on the other hand is free. I don't know if that is throughout Switzerland but I reckon that had something to do with i
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by dheera 6y ago
> So... print out the QR code and shove it in your phone case and forget about it? That won't work. WeChat and AliPay QR codes change every minute for security, if you are paying from an account with a QR code. You can pay to a
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by dheera 6y ago
I don't think language is the issue, but many of the machines have terrible UI design even if you select English or your native language. In SF you have to insert your Clipper card TWICE, and listen to 9600 baud modem beep-booping in-b
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by dheera 6y ago
It depends on the system. Most Asian metro systems charge a fine-grained per-distance fare, so they require scanning on exit. Boston (and NYC I think?) is per-ride except for a couple stations that charge a surcharge to exit, so exiting doe
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by dheera 6y ago
I think with actual NYC residents, yes, it makes perfect sense. The reality is the majority of people working in NYC don't live in NYC due to housing costs, so they won't need or even have access to the subway on weekends, they&#x
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by dheera 6y ago
NFC isn't common in China. QR codes rule everything and are the standard way to do contactless payments in China. There are recently some cities e.g. Guangzhou that are implementing Wechat QR code scan entry to metros as an option. The
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by dheera 6y ago
Yes this. It's much more reliable to just put the RFID card inside my phone case. I can continue to swipe into transit "with my phone" even if the battery is dead. Also I always have to disable NFC on my phone because I have
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by dheera 6y ago
There are daily/monthly plans in most US cities that you can add to your card, and if you do, it won't charge you per entry. For NYC it's $33 for 7 days or $127 for 30 days. The only people it really makes sense for are peopl
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by dheera 6y ago
Got it. But having the buttons still say "$19" sounds pretty damn dishonest and manipulative to me. The buttons should really say "5 rides ($X.YZ)", "10 rides ($X.YZ)" or whatever and compute the exact amounts
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by dheera 6y ago
This is the way almost all RFID systems I have used work, including Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Bangkok, Hangzhou, and the SF bay area. The RFID cards, however, are far more d
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by dheera 6y ago
Related: Never hit the "$19" button when getting a new MetroCard -- they are actively trying to cheat you with that, as it will leave you with just $0.05 short of a fare leftover on a card. https://www.6sqft.com/19
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by dheera 6y ago
Not only that, but I imagine in pre-industrial times, those who got currently-curable forms of cancer didn't get cured during those times, and Darwinian forces stopped them from reproducing. There isn't a necessarily good or bad h
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by dheera 6y ago
> Taking time off during term is not allowed. Taking time off to interview will be deducted from your pay unless you get prior approval, and you have to declare that you are interviewing. It seems like a systematic solution to this would
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by dheera 6y ago
I feel like everything in this article can be automated at some point in the future. I can't wait till the day that an NLP algorithm takes piles and piles of negotiation dialogs and negotiates on your behalf. This is the kind of stuff
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by dheera 6y ago
Is there a ReactCoin? #moon
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by dheera 6y ago
In many markets startups are very far from that being a limited resource. For many startups, to think that the market is a limited space (rather than an expandable balloon) is a big fallacy IMO.
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by dheera 6y ago
It somehow always irks me when VCs talk about "spaces" in reference to markets and how "spaces" are "crowded", and how that limits their thought into what's possible. To me a market isn't a space that
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by dheera 6y ago
Relax, I wasn't trying to make a moral argument. I was just saying that the suffering endured by those animals from a hyena seems much more than if they had been caught by many other similar-sized predators that tend to kill quickly. I
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by dheera 6y ago
I'm not trying to make a moral argument, I'm just saying that those that fall prey to hyenas suffer much more than if they had fallen prey to a number of other predators that tend to kill swiftly before eating (feline predators an
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by dheera 6y ago
Hyenas are super cruel. It seems from many videos they take down beasts by biting off balls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9kmX0kFq2M (CW: graphic) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2k9LFb-VtY (CW: graphi
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by dheera 6y ago
Agree, the experience of intercity buses is terrible. Sometimes no restrooms, sometimes restrooms don't have running water hand wash, cramped seats, you have to carefully plan when you board the bus if you want to be able to pick who y
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by dheera 6y ago
Yeah, I don't buy this either. China builds thousands of kilometers of new high speed rail every year.
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by dheera 6y ago
Why does it matter? Manipulation is de facto legal in crypto, because no legal jurisdiction has absolute control of it, and people getting involved need to factor that in as a rule of the game and optimize their own strategies taking that i
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by dheera 6y ago
It would carry on our legacy as intelligent life. I don't think maintaining our current iteration in evolution is a condition that should be valued. We can evolve, or invent another life form that carries our civilization forward. Yes,
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by dheera 6y ago
50 years isn't a long time. I'm sure some dude said the same thing about Tibet being too harsh to live in, and yet there are cities there now.
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by dheera 6y ago
I don't think we would collapse all plant life. While we have the theoretical capability to destroy all plant life, I think realistically we'd end up obliterating a few cities before war would cease, and a full-on nuclear winter i
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by dheera 6y ago
If we can send cameras with walky-talkies, we can invent and send (possibly silicon-based) life forms that will carry on our legacy while being a lot more resistant to the elements, require much less support along the journey, and can toler

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