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by dlubarov 6y ago
For the sake of argument, let's go with your framing: the device starts out at "120%" performance, then degrades to "100%". The argument others have raised still applies. If Apple had informed users about the transi
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by dlubarov 6y ago
Tim Sweeney is Epic's majority shareholder, so if you believe his actions were harmful to shareholders, doesn't that contract your stance that he was motivated by greed?
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by dlubarov 6y ago
It seems like Sen. Feinstein got a bit mixed up -- she asked this question twice: https://youtu.be/OT3OgojnhFM?t=4221 https://youtu.be/OT3OgojnhFM?t=4340
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by dlubarov 6y ago
Well, it says that Kommersant (Russian newspaper) claims he stayed there. Ben Wizner (advisor to Snowden) denied it -- > Every news organization in the world has been trying to confirm that story. They haven't been able to, because
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by dlubarov 6y ago
There's also this more recent post: https://electriccoin.co/blog/turnstile-enforcement-against-c... It sounds like that plan has been codified in recent clients, so they should automatically reject transactions th
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by dlubarov 6y ago
Not the parent, but I think he was referring to https://electriccoin.co/blog/zcash-counterfeiting-vulnerabil...
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by dlubarov 6y ago
On the other hand, at least in the US, we don't have much protection when banks themselves take money from our accounts. E.g. back in 2009, banks made $37 billion from overdraft fees [1], thanks to shady practices like reordering trans
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by dlubarov 6y ago
> Of course, in reality Google's decision was probably a little of both, right? I wouldn't think that Google's development costs were part of the decision. There aren't that many Java APIs -- as the article says, it&#
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by dlubarov 6y ago
While they don't explicitly claim USB-C compatibility, creating a USB-C shaped port seems like a pretty clear representation that the dock is USB-C compatible.
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by dlubarov 6y ago
> The government can not compel two companies to engage in a contract. It seems like there ought to be exceptions to prevent certain gatekeeping behavior. As a very extreme example, suppose a company bought up a set of private roads in s
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by dlubarov 6y ago
Not much of their budget is going toward hosting though -- in FY 18-19 it was ~$2.3M of their ~$91.4M expenses [1]. If we look back to 2005, Wikipedia was already one of the most popular websites on the internet, but their expenses were onl
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by dlubarov 6y ago
This seems like a natural solution to me, since it's not all that different from merit-based scholarships. At my school for example, the full tuition price was ~$40k, but a portion of admitted students were offered a $10k merit scholar
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by dlubarov 6y ago
Besides the learning difficulty, I'd there are some real ergonomic issues related to ownership, such as the difficulty of cloning into a closure [1], or nested &mut receiver calls being rejected despite being sound [2]. [1] https:
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by dlubarov 6y ago
Did you type nothingofvalue.com in the URL bar? If so, your ISP (assuming you use their DNS) might have sold that data to a squatter. You could be right that it's Google, but I doubt they would risk a scandal to make a few bucks like t
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by dlubarov 6y ago
Not sure if you're aware already, but you can disable religious victory in the advanced setup settings.
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by dlubarov 6y ago
I'm not sure what the quality is like, but Target sells some "take and bake" breads (at least in my area): https://www.target.com/s?searchTerm=take+and+bake Trader Joe's also used to sell "half bake
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by dlubarov 6y ago
Hm okay, but then wouldn't Google get the same fingerprinting data (IP, headers, TLS params) in either scenario, whether they're serving a bundle or just a script?
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by dlubarov 6y ago
Assuming that the third party in this scenario is distinct from the party serving the bundle, they wouldn't be involved in the TLS/QUIC connection, right? So it seems like a third party wouldn't even know that their resource
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by dlubarov 6y ago
To add to the other replies, Vitalik had some ideas for spam deterrence based on proof of stake: https://ethresear.ch/t/conditional-proof-of-stake-hashcash/1...
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by dlubarov 6y ago
> Google now gets the access logs It doesn't seem like this would materially change the information Google receives. The status quo is that Google knows (via redirect links) what search results I click and when. It doesn't tech
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by dlubarov 6y ago
It seems kind of strange to me to draw the lines based on anthropology. If there was alternate universe in which a philospher with no mathematical training invented Turing machines and so forth, would you consider CS a subfield of math in o
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by dlubarov 6y ago
Is baseball also a subfield of math? The problem of swinging the bat can be reduced to physiology, which can be reduced to physics, and then to math. (Sorry for the snarkiness -- reductio ad absurdum just seems like the easiest way to argue
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by dlubarov 6y ago
That Algorand paper suggests a way of scaling consensus to large numbers of nodes, i.e. by running a consensus algorithm on a random sample of nodes. It doesn't address scalability with respect to transaction volume, which is what peop
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by dlubarov 6y ago
Note that even a single viron can cause disease, as per [1]. Maybe a trickle of tiny doses could help trigger an immune response, but there's always a risk of getting sick before then. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p
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by dlubarov 6y ago
AES has been a major target of cryptanalysis, and it has held up pretty well. Publicly known key recovery attacks are only slightly faster than brute force, like [1]. There are some efficient related-key attacks, which might be a concern in
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by dlubarov 6y ago
That's a fair point, but Apple always has the option of changing their fee structure to a fixed amount plus a percentage, to reflect their actual costs plus some reasonable markup. If they charged a fee like $.50 + 5%, credit card fees
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by dlubarov 6y ago
I think this is the more pertinent bit of that email: > You will also lose access to the following programs, technologies, and capabilities: > All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools If Apple had carried out that threat (w
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by dlubarov 6y ago
No one said retail was easy! Thin margins are just the natural result of competition. Retailers have thin margins too. Walmart's net profit margin was 4.7% in Q2, and that was a major outlier. The playing field might not be completely
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by dlubarov 6y ago
But in the brick & mortar scenario, the negotiation happens on more of a level playing field. Both parties have a reasonable alternative if an agreement isn't reached -- the manufacturer can find another retailer, and the retailer
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by dlubarov 6y ago
I'm not really involved, just a fan of their work :) I think Mir and Zcash have some similar long-term goals, like using SNARKs to scale without affecting security. We just felt that starting over with a new blockchain seemed like the

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