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Retailers are disabling NFC readers to shut out Apple Pay(theverge.com)
73 points by gws 12y ago|66 comments
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by gws 13y ago
You cannot convince people to stop going to casinos and play against the odds, imagine convincing them not to pick stocks. I agree 100% with the author but I'm still picking up my stocks and not ready to give up the fun
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by gws 13y ago
> I just don't understand how the scam could work. You send the money, the scammer pockets and laughs
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by gws 13y ago
As a general observation on extended warranty programs (without claiming this is the case for Apple, I have no idea), it might not be uncommon to time the program length shy of the expected breakage time of the device. To look at it from an
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A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Nassim Taleb about Optionality/Investing(25iq.com)
2 points by gws 13y ago|0 comments
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Let’s Cut Through the Bitcoin Hype: A Hacker-Entrepreneur’s Take(wired.com)
1 points by gws 13y ago|0 comments
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by gws 13y ago
That's not a trade secret. A trade secret would be for instance if the Google co-founders did not patent PageRank and kept secret the way the ranked search results in Google.
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by gws 13y ago
Indeed. The effect is the same in the end if the sales tax is paid and not avoided (e.g., no receipt). With VAT at least the taxes on the intermediate steps of production will have been paid even if the retailer and consumer are cheating at
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by gws 13y ago
US sales tax and VAT are not the same type of tax, main difference is that sales tax is paid only at the retail level (by the consumer) while VAT is paid at every stage: a company would pay VAT to acquire raw materials, retailers VAT to acq
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by gws 13y ago
I totally agree with the title, this was the number one issue I had with bash default behavior
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by gws 14y ago
I agree it is totally unrealistic; no small country could resist the international pressure that would generate
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by gws 14y ago
Very different concept: the digital currency in Cryptonomicon was centralized, to be issued by a bank or bank-like institution that owned massive gold reserves and could thus be trusted. The anonymity could be guaranteed because the bank wo
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by gws 14y ago
you are talking about web access from a public computer I suppose? if you are connecting from your computer then I suppose the decryption happens in the browser extension and you are safe from the scenario you describe, or am I missing some
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by gws 14y ago
For those in the camp of "gluten is harmful to everybody and will kill us all"... there is a massive experiment which has been running for over 100 years with tens of millions of people being administered massive daily doses of gluten (most
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On Revoking Ubuntu’s Root Privileges(blaise.ca)
1 points by gws 14y ago|0 comments
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by gws 14y ago
A question for syncontrol if you are not tired answering comments yet :) YCM does not seem to integrate with snippets like NeoComplCache does, right? Do you plan to do that in the future? Are there reasons to switch from NeoComplCache if yo
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by gws 14y ago
my forever project, of course, is to build the metaverse. I loved this article because i can reassure myself i am not crazy after all ... or at least that I am in good company :)
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by gws 14y ago
guys, what are practical use cases for spoofing your MAC address?
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by gws 14y ago
Indeed in the EU a manufacturer can impose on its distributors a maximum resell price to consumers but absolutely no minimum price. "Price maintenance" is an antitrust offence in the EU, any attempt by a large manufacturer to prevent consum
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by gws 14y ago
"Aaron Swartz is what I wish I was." I am too a cold, rational bastard and yet I've found myself fighting tears over and over these last two days. And I barely knew who Aaron was until two days ago. But I think the OP nailed it, for me and
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by gws 14y ago
A less powerful but much simpler alternative to using the registers is the Yankring plugin ( https://github.com/vim-scripts/YankRing.vim ) With that anything you have ever yanked or deleted is in the ring and when you paste something you ca
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by gws 14y ago
Producing drugs is almost as easy as growing flowers. And people are clamoring to give you billions to get them. How can you imagine to stop that? Of course it is possible to kill the current 150 000 drug soldiers but it just becomes a gian
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A Non-Responsive Approach To Building Cross-Device Webapps(html5rocks.com)
1 points by gws 14y ago|0 comments
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AnandTech 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro Review(anandtech.com)
3 points by gws 14y ago|0 comments
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by gws 14y ago
> 1. Much More for Much Less. Much More is obviously the kindle fire HD, and Much Less is the iPad Mini I guess they actually mean you can get much more benefits for much less money
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by gws 14y ago
shit, thanks!
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Ask HN: I tested an idea with AdWords, are the result good enough to work on it?
10 points by gws 14y ago|7 comments
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by gws 14y ago
I remember being a child and learning basic with a manual in a foreign language (English) I did not understand and an Italian-English dictionary. It was thirty years ago (shit, I'm old!) and admittedly my memory is foggy but I remember it t
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by gws 14y ago
This article leaves me uneasy. We need to separate the process that societies use to determine laws and customs from the outcomes themselves. I'm also against many of the outcomes described in the article but the process used to get there i
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by gws 14y ago
Olympic weightlifting Coding (i don't in my job)

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