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   by gcp 9y ago

   Given the speed with which this sold out, didn't they massively under-price their advertising space? At least versus the rampant speculation that happened.
2. 302.▲
   by gcp 9y ago

   Assuming you require portability, the other options are generally all Chrome-based, so if you like you application to not look like shit, I mean, look native... There's only really wxWidgets in this space, which is order of magnitude s
3. 303.▲
   by gcp 9y ago

   What's the consequence, though? Brave got $35M, unless Ethereum crashes very soon. Some parties can now set the price for advertising within Brave to whatever they want. If Brave becomes popular, they become rich. If Brave fails, they
4. 304.▲
   by gcp 9y ago

   More crucially: the tokens sold here allow advertisers to show ads to users of the Brave browser.
5. 305.▲
   by gcp 9y ago

   They sold off tokens which give access to advertising space in their browser, though the Etherium blockchain, and for a set amount of tokens per ETH. So they now own 35M worth of ETH, and a few entities have near-exclusive access to adverti
6. 306.▲
   by gcp 9y ago

   You made a typo and are off by a factor of 100.
7. 307.▲
   by gcp 9y ago

   Ultimately, the U.S. dollar is backed by the U.S. Military What does this even mean? That if the US economy crashes and dollars become worthless, the military will plunder a few countries for resources to restore it?
8. 308.▲
   by gcp 9y ago

   Any coin can be subverted if the majority of the userbase agrees so - that's a fork. Note that for fiat currencies, this is true, too. It's even worse, because usually it's 51% of the issuing national government, which might
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   by gcp 9y ago

   Storing the entire state history isn't really needed though. I'm not sure how much inflation is a concern given the volatile exchange rate of any coin. It can't arbitrarily change either, so it's not quite like fiat mone
10. 310.▲
    by gcp 9y ago

    And the algorithm used has weaknesses and undesirable properties (nothing-at-stake-problem), which is why it's not used elsewhere. Here's some introductory reading: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki&#
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    by gcp 9y ago

    I've been avoiding the altcoin zoo as much as possible, but Ethereum is worth looking at. It fixes key features of bitcoin (12 second vs 10 minute transactions) though smart handling of stale blocks, actual memory hard mining algorithm
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    by gcp 9y ago

    I don't see anything about royalties. That's for Qt for Devices. Conditions aren't public, but: "To learn about Qt for Device Creation pricing – developer licenses and embedded device distribution fees – start the conv
13. 313.▲
    by gcp 9y ago

    The match standings are 1-0 for AlphaGo, not +0.5 for AlphaGo.
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    by gcp 9y ago

    I believe Google was developed after AltaVista..
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    by gcp 9y ago

    With a set of TPUs in it, though. "Single machine" is rather vague, you can build them as big as you want :-)
16. 316.▲
    by gcp 9y ago

    Buy AAPL.
17. 317.▲
    by gcp 9y ago

    Thanks, this looks a lot better than the one in the subject.
18. 318.▲
    by gcp 9y ago

    The font used on this site renders atrociously badly on Windows, both in Firefox and in Chrome. If you care about readability, maybe stop using Web Fonts. They may look fine on your Mac, they're crap everywhere else.
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    by gcp 10y ago

    Google and Mozilla were heavy sponsors of LetsEncrypt (in money and in Mozilla's case manpower too) because they wanted to push out HTTPS more, and mandate HTTPS for some new HTML features. That would have been problematic if certifica
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    by gcp 10y ago

    I don't see the link with LetsEncrypt here. Symantec doesn't give away free certs, and LetsEncrypt doesn't do EV.
21. 321.▲
    by gcp 10y ago

    I believe it is actually a matter of political campaigning in South Korea to get rid of ancient IE ActiveX requirements for government websites.
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    by gcp 10y ago

    Could actually dodgy sites then imitate bank websites, ask the same of users and then commit a MITM attack? Technically, certificate pinning etc can prevent this, but in practice, yes, this is a possible attack vector. But it has little t
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    by gcp 10y ago

    This line of reasoning works for banks or commercial entities. But note, it does not work for governments. They can, and will, put up a red banner instructing the user to install another browser (or in case of Firefox 52, explain how to dis
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    by gcp 10y ago

    IIRC several of the mis-issued SHA1 certs.
25. 325.▲
    by gcp 10y ago

    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mozilla.dev.security...
26. 326.▲
    by gcp 10y ago

    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security... As far as I can tell, discussion about what to do with Symantec was ongoing, Google didn't think the outcome was going to be what they wanted, a
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    by gcp 10y ago

    I'm fairly sure at least some of the "policy violations" that Symantec did were done exactly as a service to their large bank-or-close-enough customers. It's not that banks want to switch to a "better" SSL serv
28. 328.▲
    by gcp 10y ago

    I don't understand how EV vs DV factors into certificate pinning here.
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    by gcp 10y ago

    users will start getting instructed by sites that they have to manually add a root certificate in order to use they site Or switch browsers. Google needs to (and will) play this so it ends up being unattractive for other browser vendors n
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    by gcp 10y ago

    FMA is used in literally everything that deals with floats and has AVX2/FMA3 support, not just audio. AVX usage in game code isn't actually all that common, though, due to the need to support lowest common denominators. And no