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by kevinpet 15y ago
If they had a subscription-based business model, they likely wouldn't have been charging for the app to be begin with. Amazon pitched it to them, and pitched it to others, as benefiting sales. Their claim needs to be evaluated on that basis
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by kevinpet 15y ago
You could spin it as Republican-leaning states support smaller government out of principle even though their short-term self interest favors the status quo.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
There's no real security in the process described. If they stole a wallet with a credit card, they also have the ID. I'd categorize it as actually harmful because it gives more of an illusion of security. Couchsurfing apparently has someone
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by kevinpet 15y ago
What's the problem? Co-founder wants to meet with person who was harmed by using his company's service? Or the fact that he didn't phrase his request for a meeting appropriately? You must have a lot of trouble walking down the street if you
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I propose it because it would help to ensure that the credit card wasn't stolen (because the cardholder would spot the charge before the guest arrived). If you can ensure that the card isn't stolen, then AirBNB has a way to track down crimi
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by kevinpet 15y ago
AirBNB has a huge asymmetric trust problem. The hosts have real physical addresses and need to be able to take a payment. Hosts can easily be held accountable. The guests on the other hand could be anyone. The company's attitude seems to be
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by kevinpet 15y ago
First of all, hitting the debt ceiling doesn't mean a default. Period. The US will not default because of hitting the debt ceiling. They will be unable to pay for other programs. There is a strict hierarchy of who gets paid, and debt is a
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by kevinpet 15y ago
McVeigh was sort of Catholic. He wasn't motivated by religious extremism, but he was not an atheist. Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh#Political_views...
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Yes. If I break into your apartment and write a poem using your pen, do I own the copyright?
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by kevinpet 15y ago
None of the things you mention relate to scaling. Scaling is taking the site which is functional for at least one user and ensuring that it can be used by many users concurrently. By definition, client side performance doesn't affect scalin
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by kevinpet 15y ago
There's another clause just above that that refers to another document which covers law enforcement. BTW, DropBox is legally required to comply with a valid subpoena. The data on your computer requires a search warrant.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
The argument that it follows from name is a red herring. If I create a photo sharing service, should I require you to list a race and justify it by saying that it can be inferred from your photos anyway? To summarize: name: relevant because
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Devops as an actual movement / methodology is about dumping operations and QA as separate departments and making engineers responsible for the full end-to-end quality of the product. The automation like puppet, jenkins, selenium, etc is wha
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I believe it, because I think the demand side is actually not too different at $1 vs. $5. There's not a lot of difference between the hassle of me getting out my credit card to pay for something at $5/month vs. $1/month. Maybe I value the h
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Also: with right of first refusal, not this crazy "we can steal them back at strike price" crap.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
So Lua is able to pull it off, but there's something that consistently confuses people? Forgive me, but hose sound contradictory.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
So the same folks encrypting their grocery lists with 8192bit RSA so the NSA doesn't read them are relying on ideals to keep the currency exchange functioning? A system robust against outright criminals still works when you have decent peop
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Hmm... glad to hear that validation for a little project of mine to make this easy https://github.com/kevinpet/bender
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by kevinpet 15y ago
That's a good point. Groupon might be rough on restaurants, but then it seems everything is pretty rough on restaurants.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I find it fascinating with these kinds of datasets that the outliers are more likely than not errors. For example, I'm guessing that "Nevskiy Prospekt" is most likely in the non-Florida St. Petersburg.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Yep, it's exactly like that: ban something with perfectly legitimate uses under the pretext of something criminal.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
It takes 5 days to clear ACH because "hey we took this money, you have 5 days to let us know if that's okay" is the authentication.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Survivor bias favors the bold. Fortune, not so much.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
In this case, people are using "API" to refer to the service. The google translate service is being shut down for non-human users.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Hash collision?
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by kevinpet 15y ago
They need to make it a featured download on their homepage until the DHS answers.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I was initially on the "scammed or at least poorly served" side, but then someone with more experience in these things than me pointed out that the shares the traded hands in the IPO were a smaller fraction of the company. If you sell 10% o
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Google's problem isn't in their authentication, it's in the whole idea that having a domain name now means I should have access to the previous google apps account. They're separate entities. This is probably related to why google isn't abl
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by kevinpet 15y ago
If google really has a patent on that home page, I'd suspect it is a design patent, which is an entirely different kind of beast. It's more like trademark rights.

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