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by jcfrei 8y ago
I wonder, will this large part of Facebook users that still uses the platform (and Watch) eventually migrate to Instagram as well (as most of North America and Europe appear to have done?). Or does the standard Facebook actually better cate
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Independent research shop claims 50% of Facebook users are fake(plainsite.org)
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Thought about this too a while back. If I remember correctly the "issue" (actually I consider it a feature) with most modern smartphones is that they will randomly change their MAC address in order to prevent exactly this kind of
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CREAL3D’s display is the closest thing to a real light-field(roadtovr.com)
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That's pretty much a straw man argument. Any company in the ad business will exploit collected data to the extent possible by law. Whether that data resides solely with one company or with many won't change that. The fundamental q
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I read the ethics of liberty as well and came to the conclusion that the deduction of its ethical framework is flawed (though interesting nonetheless). Here's a link for those interested in my write-up: http://jcfrei.com&#x2
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Assuming this money was actively managed then you can use a ballpark measure of 1% that asset managers collected in management fees per year (ie. ~$10 billion) . That income is now earned outside the UK.
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I found NoRoot Firewall to be a much more powerful app. It allows you to add global domain filters too. And for some reason the logging of apps which request internet access appears to be much more detailed.
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I'm pretty sure the profit margins and revenue for their potential AI applications are nowhere close to what they get from advertisements right now.
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Tech Unicorns Are Going Public at Near-Record Pace(wsj.com)
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I wonder, will we ever see (or is there already) the equivalent of a game engine on a chip? Like a ray-tracing rendering pipeline, where the polygons of a scene (and the position of the observer) are directly sent via a low-level API to the
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Opting out of tracking via first-party cookies. I mean the owner of a website could just share my page visits with an ad network regardless of third-party cookies.
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Before I can get to the opt-out page it loads a "Webchoices Browser Check" and it fails because I block third-party cookies? Is this a joke?
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> Robinhood's whole business model is making money from people who think they're getting a free lunch. You're still paying money for the trade. But instead of paying a direct fee, you're paying more money via the bid-
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by jcfrei 8y ago
> The reasoning goes that when the growth slows, the entire pyramid goes crumbling down ( debts). Since every bank in China is under the direction of the central government it's up to a committee therein to decide which companies en
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by jcfrei 8y ago
My thoughts exactly. This looks like a good deal for people who would alternatively invest in money market funds. I bet they have an account cap or tiered rates.
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Ok, I should elaborate some more: The initial demand for bitcoin was because of technical curiosity and a need to perform payments outside of traditional payment systems. This demand could be enough to create a lower bound here as well. And
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Yep, but there's no lower bound on bitcoin's price either...
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by jcfrei 8y ago
[Initially] probably only those without other means of payment. You can convert electricity + computing power into a currency (and compared to btc you don't need to join a pool to have a realistic chance at receiving the tokens).
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> There's nothing there that would make the coin stable in price versus a fiat currency; That's correct. The idea would be to make the supply stable wrt. to the hashing costs. Meaning supply would increase with increasing compu
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by jcfrei 8y ago
I've had an idea floating around to generate a stable coin for a while now and would love to get some feedback: The idea is simply that everyone can mine new "tokens" (for lack of a better word) by running a proof-of-work a
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by jcfrei 8y ago
But Juno is only available in NYC (for now?). I think my points still hold outside of densely populated urban areas.
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by jcfrei 8y ago
A ride hailing service needs to reach a critical density of available cars per km^2 to be useful. When you first install the app there needs to be someone nearby who will pick you up - if there's no car nearby most people will uninstal
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Good explanation of Robinhood's business model by Matt Levine: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-16/carl-i...
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by jcfrei 8y ago
So, is the Bitfinex BTC/USD market now a USD or USDT market? The price premium compared to other exchanges indicates it's a BTC/USDT market yet it's called BTC/USD. Has anyone sold BTC on bitfinex? Do you get USDT o
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Files, directories and paths are such a fundamental concept, yet I am surprised how few computer users are actually familiar with them. To me it seems that most computer classes at the high school level can be divided in two groups: One whi
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A look at the Android Market on its 10th Anniversary(techcrunch.com)
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DextrES: Wearable Haptic Feedback for Grasping in VR(ait.ethz.ch)
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I think what blockchain refers to in this case is a database of transactions which can't be altered without participants noticing.
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Your two ways fall a bit short. The goal of markets is to integrate any kind of information into an assets price which is relevant for its value (so called price discovery). So the ideal way to make money would be to discover some new sourc

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