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721.
by giaour 5y ago
...those exceptions already exist? It sounds like you're describing court orders and civil forfeiture, both of which let the government take your cash, durable goods, deposit account contents, stocks, bonds, cryptocurrencies, etc.
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by giaour 5y ago
It's all hypothetical at the moment, but that scenario would seem to be supported by the section on devices: https://ecashact.us/#devices . You would need a separate device capable of transferring funds between bearer d
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by giaour 5y ago
> This probably can't go wrong, and certainly wouldn't motivate groundbreaking research into breaking TPMs Is the e-cash proposal qualitatively different from Apple Pay (or other phone wallets designed to hold credit cards) in
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by giaour 5y ago
I've only used this feature with HTTP requests going to a function app, but my understanding was that there is a reverse proxy involved. I have an app with two slots, and both slot domains (<app name>.azurewebsites.net and <ap
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by giaour 5y ago
> Note how their docs don't give any technicals as to _how_ this tech works[1]. From the linked page: > Update routing: If all instances on the source slot are warmed up successfully, the two slots complete the swap by switching
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by giaour 5y ago
What do you do with your receipts? If they weren't meant to be edible, you wouldn't get a complimentary one with every restaurant meal.
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by giaour 5y ago
I believe GP was referring to access to capital markets, not permission to use cryptocurrency. "Access" to an empty cryptocurrency wallet is worthless no matter where you live.
728.
by giaour 5y ago
I know that controlled substance e-commerce was a key market for bitcoin ~10 years ago, but given crypto's current volatility, transaction fees, settlement times, and vulnerability to forensic accounting, is bitcoin still a viable way
729.
by giaour 5y ago
Doesn't the lack of a central authority increase the odds that coins, once seized, will be extremely difficult to recover? On par with trying to recover physical cash seized under civil asset forfeiture statutes, at least. I don't
730.
by giaour 5y ago
Wrong! "Written in COBOL" is the true clickbait.
731.
by giaour 5y ago
Can't you request a reset without any special access? Many (but not all) applications have a publicly accessible log in page with a "Forgot your password?" link that takes an email as input.
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by giaour 5y ago
It's been a minute since I was an admin in an Okta directory, but don't all resets use a self-service flow? In order to log in to someone's account, I think you need to compromise their email, too.
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by giaour 5y ago
http://whichjdk.net seems to be a site that tells me not to use the Oracle JDK without a license? There's a listing of which releases were the first to include certain language features, but it seems to mainly be giving adv
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by giaour 5y ago
Java values backwards compatibility very highly, so if something runs today, it's likely to keep running without modification on future JVMs. (Though the 8->9 transition was pretty rough for some.) Compiled Java artifacts are usuall
735.
by giaour 5y ago
It certainly would have avoided creating some ambiguity, but that has not been Facebook’s position at any point as far as I know.
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by giaour 5y ago
"Flak" (meaning an anti-aircraft gun or shrapnel therefrom) can also be spelled "flack." The phrase "taking flack" is either a literal or metaphorical use of this meaning. A flack (never spelled without a c)
737.
by giaour 5y ago
It's the parenthetical "but not against any other group" assertion you made that is factually incorrect. Facebook repeatedly allowed statements celebrating military defeats of Isis and urging the local population to resist. T
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by giaour 5y ago
You're trying to unfairly paint Facebook as having crossed a Rubicon with this decision. If the rules banned any exhortation to or glorification of violence, recruiting ads for the armed forces would have never been permitted. If Faceb
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by giaour 5y ago
I still don't understand how this reduces emissions, though. Flare gas is always burned, hence the name. That would make the whole setup neutral, not negative. Once you include the emissions used to produce the equipment, you're b
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by giaour 5y ago
You don't have to capture the energy. Unless you believe bitcoin is the future of money, burning the gas to look at the pretty lights is just as productive. Where we're disagreeing is that I think bitcoin mining is a waste of ener
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by giaour 5y ago
You're not wrong! Ideally there would be other ways to monetize flare gas capture, but it's hard to find something economically productive that requires minimal data in or out and just requires raw compute.
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by giaour 5y ago
> It lowers the energy cost for bitcoin miners well enough, it doesn't lower the exploration price for flaring sites enough, just reduces their emissions Another commenter pointed this out, but whether the flare gas gets burned or n
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by giaour 5y ago
While flare is a waste product that was previously just vented, its production still scales relative to the price of oil: if it's not economically feasible to drill a certain oil reservoir, then no flare gas will be produced. If mining
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A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good(wired.com)
2 points by giaour 5y ago|1 comments
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Digital health system for veterans plagued by patient safety risks(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by giaour 5y ago|0 comments
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by giaour 5y ago
Sure, but then why would you use Javascript in the first place? The situation deno is trying to address is that JS developers need to memorize two standard libraries, one for browsers and one for node. You should be able to work with one st
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by giaour 5y ago
window.location could be repurposed as a way to get or change the current working directory? Though the idiom of "window.location = <other path>" as a navigation mechanism would not really be portable. That said, there are o
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by giaour 5y ago
There's another comment to this effect, but I do wonder if this is fair to customers with non-traditional schedules. Plenty of people work nights and early mornings, and they have not been well-served by brick-and-mortar banks and othe
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by giaour 5y ago
Houston is much easier to navigate with a car, but you can find a few transit-centric areas (mostly downtown and in the areas around Rice). You would be SOL if you wanted to get to a different part of town without a car though.
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by giaour 5y ago
> Uber was popular even when just the black car service Where was this true? This doesn't match my recollection at all, though I did live in a market with dense preexisting taxi and black car services (NYC and SF).

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