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by esrauch 6y ago
I think they meant "many in these parts think he was just running a website which enabled drugs to be sold" vs the accusation that he hired hitmen or was running a drug cartel.
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by esrauch 6y ago
I don't think anyone is suggesting that he was unaware that silk road was being used for drug sales. I think the dispute is whether a person who ran such a website can still have interesting ideas to share.
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by esrauch 6y ago
All three lines would be "insane" if the variables weren't mutated. As in a variable named "three" is insane if it solely contains either of the values 1 or 3. When it contains other values it is still subpar variab
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by esrauch 6y ago
There's a pure-VM mode for development and an AOT compiled mode for production.
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by esrauch 6y ago
I don't think it's safe to generalize "x is slow and electron, y is fast and native" to mean "native is fast". Electron lowering barrier to entry also means it's used by projects who aren't going to c
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by esrauch 6y ago
I think theres a spectrum of techniques and no bright line. If you are temporarily in NY but live in LA, is it location based advertising to show the user an ad targeted to LA? What if you're at a regional airport and the only flights
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by esrauch 6y ago
I don't think that's relevant here: the new prompts aren't about collecting gps data but correlating your identity across contexts. If you manually chose a city in Facebook, I think the ad in the other random app which used f
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by esrauch 6y ago
The demo in the article would still run full speed on several year old integrated graphics. Probably chrome blacklisted his gpu driver and it's doing pure cpu rendering (or else his driver itself is bugged in a way that is killing the
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by esrauch 6y ago
I was actually in Zurich not Germany. People were genuinely confused if I asked them why they didn't pronounce it Über ("That's clearly just not how it's spelled"). As a native English speaker it's just hard to
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by esrauch 6y ago
I actually found it fascinating that in German speaking countries they actually pronounce it as "u" not a "ü" (more like "you-ber"), when as an American it seems clear to me that it's intended to be Über a
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by esrauch 6y ago
Can you explain more? I genuinely don't see any plausible threat model that a user running an Math.random() based custom algorithm password generator would be susceptible to, but the same algorithm using SecureRandom one is not. Both c
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by esrauch 6y ago
Even that seems unlikely to be problematic for anything short of literally constant seeds AND a generator becoming extremely popular. The vast majority of people reuse low-entropy passwords, figuring out what password generator someone used
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by esrauch 6y ago
> Can you imagine being an iOS developer working on Gmail right now, having shipped literally nothing this year? Having worked at Google, it's very common that your work takes more than 6 weeks to reach users even when you're o
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by esrauch 6y ago
"Frequent updates" would still only be 1-2 releases by now for each app. The graph of updates stopping above overlays all the different apps which have offset releases
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by esrauch 6y ago
I mean, it's possible that Assimov imagined it but decided that "automatic radio stations" wasn't a compelling enough basis for a story.
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by esrauch 6y ago
Current copyright extends to 70 years after death of the author, so the letter written today will still be copyrighted in 2121 if the author is alive for 30 more years from now.
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by esrauch 6y ago
iphoneX looks like it has a css px width of 812px. They may also be trying to capture tablets, which are pushing above 1024 css px.
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by esrauch 6y ago
The event was within guidelines. And even if you they are assholes that doesn't change the point that you can't say "people who aren't sick don't need to wear masks", since people are unable to self determine i
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by esrauch 6y ago
Many people are contagious without realizing it. Some of my own family spread it between each other on Christmas and the spreader wasn't symptomatic until after they had infected others.
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by esrauch 6y ago
There are realistic scenarios here where the liquidity of a stock can't cover the short though, as in there being not enough shares listed for sale at any ask price. I understand shorts are said to be unbounded risk, but surely there&#
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by esrauch 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying. It seems like this should be a problem for cases where not just one person owns all the stock but for any fairly illiquid stock: if someone holds 40% of outstanding shares, the brokerage loans it and then it's so
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by esrauch 6y ago
But as the original stock holder what happens when if the loanee defaults? The broker just calls you up and says "you had the share in your account but we lost it, here's some money for your troubles?" It seems like the holde
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by esrauch 6y ago
I don't understand how this can work. The broker loans the share to person B. Person B sells the share to person C (as B wants to short the stock). How can the Broker recall the share: they have no relationship with the current owner o
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by esrauch 6y ago
Surely you can still resell and loan the physical CD/DVD though, which is what's being discussed here as universally legal? I think ripping DVDs would be seen as equivalent to photocopying a book.
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by esrauch 6y ago
I was completely unaware this was a thing: that means there can be a "run on the bank" if all of the customers wanted to sell on a short time period, and they don't actually have the shares to cover the sales?
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by esrauch 6y ago
Can you explain how it's possible that 99% of shares were held by owners that were willing to loan their share? Surely at least 2% of GME was owned by "regular people" whose shares just sit in their brokerage accounts?
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by esrauch 6y ago
For voting stocks I can see it making sense that the big players who want some threshold of influence would determine the value. And, if a company could be bought out then your shares can get paid out that way. But Google has nonvoting no-d
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by esrauch 6y ago
I don't think this is a fair critique: they have a pragmatic goal of running a business while being as unrestrictive as possible. With their Apache choice a pragmatic balance was met where developers could use/modify it as they pl
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by esrauch 6y ago
The users didn't choose internet explorer though: the comparison may hold for Android Chrome but not really for Chrome on Windows.
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by esrauch 6y ago
That seems to just be majority of users based on that stats listed above, and that backspace is the only one that is trivial to hit when trying to do something else.

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