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by josu 13y ago
This compilation of tweets shouldn't be on the front page. Tweets don't belong outside of twitter.
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by josu 13y ago
The competition is not subpar, the apps just benefit from network economies, and the best does not always win. Just look at Whatsapp.
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by josu 13y ago
He said laypeople though, not HN readers.
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by josu 13y ago
>Once again: the only reason this bug got so much attention and press is that it's easy for laypeople to get their heads around. All you have to understand is how "goto" works. I don't agree. Most people don't ev
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by josu 13y ago
Pure gold > As of December 2013, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) shows 1.3% inflation, while a recent media report indicated Bitcoin CPI has 98% deflation. In other words, spending Bitcoin now will cost you many orders of wealth in the fu
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by josu 13y ago
I meant only, because if Bitcoin effectively becomes the leading world currency 10^100 might not be enough. However it shouldn't be hard to change that limit, or to find a way around it.
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by josu 13y ago
For now a bitcoin is just like a soda can to the eyes of the regulators. So here is a fun exercise, think of bitcoins as soda cans and rethink the whole situation.
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by josu 13y ago
I remember reading that it's only divisible by 10^100.
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by josu 13y ago
No need for backdoors, with WhatsApp's security measures sending a message is like broadcasting a tweet. EDIT: This is what I'm talking about http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/02/crypto-weaknesses
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by josu 13y ago
>If it’s a technical role, we assess your coding ability, and half the roles in the company are technical roles. Which means that the other half are not technical roles.
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by josu 13y ago
20 million in revenue last year is very profitable? Twitter makes that in a day.
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On the other hand I think that it's rare for someone to build an app that he wouldn't use.
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Mexico here, same thing.
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This is very interesting, because: >Einstein denied several times that black holes could form. In 1939 he published a paper that argues that a star collapsing would spin faster and faster, spinning at the speed of light with infinite ene
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by josu 13y ago
Can't you put it in DFU mode and reinstall the whole system?
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by josu 13y ago
You are totally right and I couldn't agree more with you. The thing is that the record companies have created an environment where almost the only way to make a living is signing "voluntarily" with them. Nowadays a musician i
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by josu 13y ago
"voluntarily"
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by josu 13y ago
And offline playlists. Apart from the US there aren't many countries that offer unlimited mobile data plans for a reasonable price. So for me, offline playing is a very big deal, since that's how I listen to most of my music when
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by josu 13y ago
>Fact is, without such freedom, banks would not exist. Ok, if you say so. But wait, this is the next sentence: >Or their functioning would be severely limited. Oh, so the fact that banks would not exist is not a fact anymore?
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by josu 13y ago
>I will assume that we agree on the following statement >To back this up If we assume that there is no need to back it up afterwards. Why would you need to prove an assumption?
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by josu 13y ago
Although your brain erases the noise after a while, it is indeed pretty annoying.
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by josu 13y ago
I hadn't heard of the second possible attack that you mention until now. Could you please point me to an article or somewhere that develops the idea. I'm intrigued about what people predict that the miners of such pool would do in
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by josu 13y ago
It is currently pretty much impossible to short large quantities of bitcoins. Besides, such an attack would probably crash the whole system which could render the potential shorts useless. Too much uncertainty for anything that big. I reall
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by josu 13y ago
Ok, I guess I was looking at it wrong.I was thinking about government-granted monopolies where the government willingly prevents competition. It is my understanding that this was how of most of the telecommunication companies around the wo
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by josu 13y ago
Assuming that natural monopolies do exist, you just described how they actually work. They don't need the protection of the government because the incumbent has so many advantages over the entrant, that (most of the times) there is no
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by josu 13y ago
I really can't understand why they didn't take into account the cultural bias tided to the different races. I would guess that Asian people are looking for different values in their partners than Caucasians. And even if I were wro
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by josu 13y ago
Somehow I doubt that that would be the most efficient way to do it. But maybe a couple or three companies could lay redundant fiber, while another two used existing infrastructures with new implementations, and maybe a couple more could off
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by josu 13y ago
Disclaimer: This is an observation, unsupported by facts, and please take it as such. I'm pretty sure that the ISP sector is not constrained in any way by a natural monopoly. Take a look at the Internet in Romania wikipedia article[0].
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Don't forget that bitcoin is also a payment system.
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by josu 13y ago
How is that different from accepting credit cards via a third party?

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