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by kbart 10y ago
Sport cars are often compared to Ferrari, but we don't say that Ferrari "owns a car space". iOS falls behind Android in pretty much every market share statistics I've seen.
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by kbart 10y ago
Doesn't hanging a carcass with open veins drain enough blood?
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by kbart 10y ago
You could've said the same about anything related to "web" in nineties and we know how it ends, sooner or later. That doesn't make something economically viable on the long run. I'm all up to self sustained, "g
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by kbart 10y ago
"The $200 million infrastructure makes the seawater greenhouse more expensive to set up than traditional greenhouses, but the cost will pay off long-term" It's really nice experiment, but I don't see how that's go
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by kbart 10y ago
We could suck Earth dry with such attitude.
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by kbart 10y ago
"The way you slaughter a pig is <...> shoot them in the forehead. This gives them a concussion and drops them, but does not kill them." I'm not a farmer (though your lifestyle is a dream of mine), but couldn't yo
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by kbart 10y ago
"But I'm curious, what use(s) does the blood have? " Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaszanka
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by kbart 10y ago
"<...> comfortable with giving Google the sort of amorphous entity my data, because no person is going to be looking at that data." How do you explain this then? http://www.theweek.co.uk/google/11581&#
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by kbart 10y ago
There are very programming languages where the total lines of code written is even comparable to C, so of course there is more of bad code too.
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by kbart 10y ago
"In other languages you won't have arbitrary code execution or privilege escalation just because the programmer is not careful" No, it's possible to make system insecure with pretty much any language if programmer is n
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by kbart 10y ago
I somewhat agree with that, but unlike in most other modern languages, type-safety is not enforced, thus you can't call it a pure type-safe language even though you can write programs in type-safe way. Same with low/high level --
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by kbart 10y ago
"The author uses C and C++ interchangeably, but these are two distinct languages" Sure they are. C/C++ are often cobbled together in a sense that they are both low level, non-memory safe and non-type safe languages, as oppo
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by kbart 10y ago
"The amount of terrible C in the real world is enormous." I'm sure you could say that about pretty much any programming language: "The amount of terrible X in the real world is enormous". There are also plenty o
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by kbart 10y ago
"It always works as you expect? Really?" Well, it works as defined in standards. It's just not every programmer knows what to expect. C is simple, yet powerful language and with powers comes responsibility. It's not
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by kbart 10y ago
"Like many enterprises, financial institutions depend upon the ability to decrypt TLS traffic to implement data loss protection, intrusion detection and prevention, malware detection, packet capture and analysis, and DDoS mitigation.
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by kbart 10y ago
Statistics is easily tweaked or faked. There are already many cases of police in Germany and Sweden miss-reporting or covering up sexual offences by immigrants. 1. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-05-03/german-co
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by kbart 10y ago
3g operates on licensed frequencies (sold for billions in some countries[1]), so you won't be able to setup a functioning network anyway. Maybe in some 3rd world country, in the middle of nowhere or a tiny femtocell.. 1. https:/&
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by kbart 10y ago
"On Monday, police in the Swedish city of Östersund advised women not to go outdoors alone following a string of public assaults and sex attacks in the past three weeks" [1]. Crime increase is huge, just google for independent ne
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by kbart 10y ago
3GPP set is easily among the worst standards I've ever read. I often thought that it was deliberately made so, in order lesser companies and individuals would not be able to make their own baseband. Not to mention references to proprie
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by kbart 10y ago
Ah, my bad then, I wasn't much into details, the titles on most media was literary "Bank X went bankrupt".
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by kbart 10y ago
During last 5 years 2 banks have went bankrupt in my country (Lithuania), so I can assure that this insurance works really well here, everything went orderly and individual depositors received their money promptly (in about a week if I reme
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by kbart 10y ago
Can you explain this picture? What do these percentages mean?
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by kbart 10y ago
"Insurance takes time to claim" It's less than 20 days by law in my country and almost everything is done without depositor's input -- money are transferred to another bank and you simply come there with your ID to tak
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by kbart 10y ago
Sure you could. But I'd like to have a backup options in case I end up in strange place that doesn't accept chip&pin or my chip is really broken while on travel. It could be opt-in, so in case I need magnet, I could call my ba
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by kbart 10y ago
It is impossible (yet) to hack chip & pin. The problem is that even chip cards have a magstripe that can be skimmed. EMV[1] enabled fallback funtionality by default, which is the biggest issue imho. Basically, if your chip is broken, a
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by kbart 10y ago
"The statistic grew from ~25% to 33%. This is noteworthy." That's the whole point! Compare to, for example: "Homeless people in America that are over 50 increased by 30%". See the difference? "A third" i
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by kbart 10y ago
If 1/3 of population is >50 years old, a random subset of this population is expected to have 1/3 of >50 years old as well. After reading this title, one could get an impression that this part is un-proportionally big, which
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by kbart 10y ago
So it implies that age is not a factor?
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by kbart 10y ago
I'm not arguing that smartphone was a huge step forward, just saying that it was only a matter of "when" and "who" not "if". Also, as for mobile web boom, I think the introduction of 3g was the key factor,
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by kbart 10y ago
"What would have actually happened if Apple didn't make the iPhone?" I bet that nothing much different, another company would have made one in 1-2 years timeframe. The idea of "hand phone-computer" was very old (d

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