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Is this for unix domain sockets or network sockets ? - the description of "unix sockets" makes me think the first but the reference to "SSH -L" makes me think it's the second.
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It just feels like throwing the baby out with the bath water; I can understand where you're coming from but I think the focus should be on penalising fluff and incivility (maybe some kind of sinbin to encourage positive behaviour ?). O
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13y ago
Driving content off the front page may well make the discussion worse. It takes time and effort to write a thought-out comment on contentious issues and if I invest that time only to find that the post has been flagged off the front-page th
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13y ago
Fundamentally as a leader of an organisation your personal public activity is related to your job. When the CEO of GoDaddy shot an elephant for fun or when the Chairman of the Co-Op was caught buying meth, these were personal activities but
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The problem with your calculation it assumes that people who are likely to get converted by the first image wait around for the second image and get "unconverted". A good intuitive way to think about it is this: if you're onl
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The maths looks wrong; the distribution of clicks is only relevant if the total number of clicks stays the same. Essentially a carousel gives you a "second-bite" at your customer, i.e. the second image is a chance to convert those
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I would almost always put expensive purchases (holidays, events, furniture, etc.) on credit card because if the vendor gets into financial trouble, etc. you basically have no protection under standard sales legislation (you have to get into
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13y ago
It's a direct quote from the Reuters article; but my point is that saying "no comment" isn't a good approach in the circumstances.
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Sure, he might be innocent, but he really needs to put out a statement clarifying what his involvement was and what he knew. Mozilla should probably hire an independent auditor to review all of his code changes. It might be unnecessary but
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13y ago
A far bigger issue is "The NSA played a significant role in the origins of Extended Random. The authors of the 2008 paper on the protocol were Margaret Salter, technical director of the NSA's defensive Information Assurance Direct
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13y ago
The big problem that equity crowd-funding faces is that the seed rounds of most top-tier companies are already over-subscribed; that means the only startups who'll end up raising on equity crowd-funding sites are those who can't r
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What are you looking for ?
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Flagged. Pirating content from behind a pay-wall isn't ok. If you don't want to pay for the content then don't read/upvote it. (You can of-course write up your own article based upon what you learnt from the underlying a
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13y ago
Not really sure why this is getting up-votes. Maybe I'm missing something but this article feels fairly incoherent and the analysis looks like something I'd expect your average marketing or product manager to be able to do rather
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13y ago
It may make sense for you to look at the Disney/techstars accelerator as it might be more closely aligned to the kind of connections you'll need.
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Factual and MapBox are two companies making money from open data.
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Criminals by and large just want money, governments want power. That makes them a far more serious threat. A government is far more likely to oppress you, deny you rights, blackmail you for political reasons, etc. because it has the resourc
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One way to introspect your own view-point is separating it from the current gay marriage debate and considering the alternate (but parallel) question "how would you feel if the CEO donated to a campaign for banning interracial marriage
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13y ago
See http://indexventures.com/news-room/blog/a-letter-to-german-e... - it's about the German market but the numbers are in the right ballpark for most major markets.
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Don't trust Tor to provide anonymity against government adversaries. It's likely not secure given Snowden disclosure of anti-Tor tools.
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"Basically, we were in a race to develop new anti-fraud techniques and they were in a race to develop new ways to steal money. The by-product of it was all our competitors got wiped out because as the Russian mobsters got better and be
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The big problem with the research around financial transaction tax is that most of the academics working on it are completely clueless - they have no real idea how a lot of the financial world works operationally in practice. For example on
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DigitalGlobe are running a crowdsearching project to search their imagery: http://www.tomnod.com/nod/
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The important thing is making sure your employees get looked after. Make sure they get paid before any other expenses and do whatever you can to help them transition. One option is to look for an acquihire of the business, speak to your inv
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The Cuckoo's Calling was identified as being Rowling's work due to the fact her lawyer leaked it, the fact this analyst is claiming credit for it (but is carefully worded to allow for multiple readings) doesn't give me a lot
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This just speculation with close to zero evidence. It could be coincidence, it could be real-time retargeting based on web traffic, etc. Dominos buys lots of online advertising so the chances of someone seeing a dominos ad straight after
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The mainstream don't care about telco markets and it's not major news in telco terms. A 10bn acquisition is a third tier telco M&A deal. Think about it this way in 2012 "mobile networks revenues were larger than all reven
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While the two stolen passports are suspicious, it's important to realize that there's plenty of flights with people with stolen passports. The most common reason is illegal immigration rather than anything more untoward.
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The pre-existing concern wasn't that the government wanted to backdoor the crypto (as they have done with BSAFE, etc.) rather that Bitcoin might have been invented by a government for their own reasons. Obviously you can argue how like
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As I pointed out in the now dead earlier thread that while there's obviously privacy issues and Newsweek should have written the article without so many personal details there is clearly a public interest angle here. If the article is
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