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721.
by ig1 13y ago
Not to take away from his achievements but like Sal Khan (who has done similarly with Khan Academy) he'd already made his money in investment banking before entering the tech world. It makes a huge difference when choosing to go the no
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by ig1 13y ago
Your best bet is probably to speak to VC funded startups in your city, both because they can advise you better and also because they can make the introductions you need. Some of the processes might be different in Canada due to legal and ta
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by ig1 13y ago
http://www.economist.com/node/21552271
724.
by ig1 13y ago
Everything you said could be applied to pay upfront games as well. i.e: "I don't believe this kind of "pay before you play" style games will last much longer. It's the kind of thing someone new to games will pay for
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by ig1 13y ago
The LHC grid (as of 2010) had storage capacity of 150 petabytes. So yes it is feasible. Efficient compression could probably increase that capacity 5-10x if you're storing primarily textual data.
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by ig1 13y ago
Also there are automated credit card update services, so if you get a card reissued then vendors can get their card on record updated.
727.
by ig1 13y ago
The problem with community startups is that the community drives the direction of the startup as much as the company. Companies can either choose to let the community go in whichever direction they want or they can step in and shepherd the
728.
by ig1 13y ago
Two other options are the OpenStreetMap Geocoder (it's called Nominatim) and the FourSquare API.
729.
by ig1 13y ago
You don't have to give bogus info, the person who makes the payment needs to enter their real details for the payment to go through, but when you submit a sample I believe that as long as you confirm on the agreement that you have cons
730.
by ig1 13y ago
You don't have to give the real identity of the person whose sample you're supplying, you're entirely free to give someone else cash to make the purchase on your behalf.
731.
by ig1 13y ago
Maybe some kind of NFC device that you could wear so that the computer would lock/unlock when you were near it ?
732.
by ig1 13y ago
The difference between the two salaries is less than the currency variance between EUR and USD in the last 18 months.
733.
by ig1 13y ago
You seriously need to get a lawyer, just because you're using bitcoin doesn't mean you don't fall under any jurisdiction. You are governed by your state and national laws. Financial laws don't just apply to money, they a
734.
by ig1 13y ago
Both Twitter and Apple (Steve Jobs era) refused to participate.
735.
by ig1 13y ago
Doesn't look serious. First pass: * Doesn't list a regulator, probably unlicensed money lender * Company about page is empty, no registered company address or identity * No legal jurisdiction given. * No evidence on who
736.
by ig1 13y ago
Integers form a closed group (in the group theory sense) under multiplication and addition, so if you were concerned about specific calculations being compromised you could verify the answer via alternative calculations and testing for cons
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by ig1 13y ago
Yes, but active attacks where a third-party can switch on-and-off features on your CPU are obviously vastly different from a passive attack such as a compromised random number source. The RNG attack suggested can pass verifiability while at
738.
by ig1 13y ago
It's about verifiability, you can verify if a CPU is multiplying incorrectly, there's no way of verifying if the random source is generating randomness correctly.
739.
by ig1 13y ago
I think the bigger concern is the nature of the patch Intel supplied. The kernel developers at Intel are smart people, even if they're not putting in malicious code they know there's a risk that there might be something wrong with
740.
by ig1 13y ago
I'm no expert in PFS in TLS, but there are various key-agreement protocols that allows parties to establish a secure key over an insecure channel. I believe the way PFS works is that it uses RSA to verify identity and then Diffie-Hellm
741.
by ig1 13y ago
My understanding is that if they're using Perfect Forward Security it doesn't matter, because unless you're modifying the traffic in flow (which is much harder to do secretly) then it doesn't matter if someone-else has t
742.
by ig1 13y ago
You're mistaken, there's virtually no money in the online adult entertainment business. The entire market size is only a few billion in annual revenue and it's primarily long tail, the majority of the larger players (ala Play
743.
by ig1 13y ago
Have you seen PDFjs ? (Javascript PDF reader from Moz)
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by ig1 13y ago
There's three underlying issues here that drive these decisions: 1) Legal and financial risk, the adult industry sees a vast amount of fraudulent transactions. That's the primary reason that most financial institutions won't
745.
by ig1 13y ago
The wrong person doesn't just produce less value than the right person, they can actively create negative value. They can do shoddy work that negatively impacts the ability of other employees to do work, they can cause reputational dam
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by ig1 13y ago
Depending on viral growth is a death sentence. There's a tiny tiny fraction of startups who have a viral coefficient > 1 which means that they can rely on it. And of those who could, most of them use it alongside other forms of mark
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by ig1 13y ago
Key line: "When we upgrade or update products we aren't absolved from the need to comply with existing or future lawful demands." That sounds a lot like "we will introduce backdoors in MS updates".
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by ig1 13y ago
Providing integration to make access easier is part of a voluntary NSA program (Twitter has said they refused to participate).
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by ig1 13y ago
Something not unsimilar has been tried in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Pneumatic_Despatch_Comp... In the 1860s there were a series of pneumatic tubes built under London, they were primarily built for
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by ig1 13y ago
You should definitely be A/B testing big changes on things like landing pages.

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