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by moe 12y ago
Not having insurance is a strict liability offence It's the same in my country. But if you're late on payments then a normal dunning process begins. Before your insurance turns invalid you have to ignore at least 3 letters over
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by moe 12y ago
And they don't do as much as send you a letter first? Seems hard to believe.
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by moe 12y ago
That is firmly into ruined life territory. Sounds more like "inconvenience" territory to me, but I hope you and your car are recovering well from this life altering experience.
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by moe 12y ago
This leads to a ruined life? Talk about a first world problem Hey now, cancelled auto-payments are no joke. Just imagine you lose your Netflix subscription or (god beware) Amazon Prime over this.
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by moe 12y ago
I'm sorry but everything you wrote is wrong. the Bitcoin hash function doesn't change, can't change Of course it can be changed with a client update, like everything else about bitcoin. SHA256 is getting weaker proportiona
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by moe 12y ago
the cumulative hash-breaking power of the world would be much, much higher Why would the "cumulative hash-breaking power" grow somehow disproportionally to the general computing power? how are you powering that multi-core smart
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by moe 12y ago
I think you are unfairly generalising from your personal use-case. Efficiency can also mean "time" or "being able to do it at all". There's scenarios where TransferWise, MoneyGram, WesternUnion etc. either don'
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by moe 12y ago
It's not feasible for any individual to validate the blockchain Huh? The above numbers are well within the reach of most western individuals even today. A rented server in the $50/mo range can trivially plow through ~100Mbit&#x2
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by moe 12y ago
Only in a fictional world where everyone uses bitcoin does it work. Why "everyone"? Wouldn't it be enough if a shop that has something that you want to buy accepts it? There's a great many shops accepting Bitcoin toda
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by moe 12y ago
This seems to be overly optimistic considering that the acceptable credit card chargeback rate is 1%. 36 times per the rate of channel roll overs. That may be true. But even when multiplied with your proposed factor 36 it still looks very
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by moe 12y ago
Since this is limited to about the length of a tweet and requires to fully trust a third party (Sharelock), why not just send the message directly on Google, Facebook or Twitter? What is Sharelock adding here other than a false sense of sec
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by moe 12y ago
go generate Ugh. Sounds like Go is turning into a language that I'll want to avoid in the future. There is no excuse for code generators. Friends don't let friends generate code. I think embedding [0] is the real big composabil
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by moe 12y ago
There is countless proof about Go's composability through functions and interface I can't tell if you're serious or sarcastic yourself. The article proposes this snippet, presumably copy/pasted for every option: &#
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by moe 12y ago
What are the advantages of CitusDB over Oracle RAC? Your pricing page tells me you will charge me as much as you think I can afford, so Oracle kind of is the elephant in the room here.
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by moe 12y ago
I'm not from the UK (and may thus stand corrected) but I think this law has very little support in the general population. It seems like merely the latest fig-leaf for another increase in mass surveillance and "guided democracy&q
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by moe 12y ago
"sex scandals" That seems to be mostly an american thing. Over here in Europe hardly anyone bats an eye when the latest sex-party involving Berlusconi, François Hollande/Sarkozy etc. is revealed. People only get upset when
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by moe 12y ago
tldr; End-to-end encryption does nothing when an adversary controls one of the ends. I'd say this guy is trying a little too hard to promote his "Zimperim Mobile Security" brand here...
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by moe 12y ago
This is not news. The CA system is broken by design. It's been this way from the start. Not just on OSX but on all platforms. Your browser blindly trusts a list of a few hundred CA's, any of which can impersonate any SSL site you
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by moe 12y ago
and the Rust equivalent would be to define a newtype Which you can do in Ruby as well, as I pointed out just two comments below the one you're replying to. The real advantage of Rust here was imho best explained by sanderjd; Rust can
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by moe 12y ago
I didn't say it's pretty. Merely chose that example to point out the absurdity of challenging Ruby on the grounds of flexibility (of all things). Obviously, in a real program you'd rather write a custom sort-comparator, use a
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by moe 12y ago
in Ruby you have to fail Oh, really? ;) > [1.0,2.0,Float::NAN].sort ArgumentError: comparison of Float with Float failed > # let's make NaN sortable > Float::NAN.class.send(:define_method, '<=>') {
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by moe 12y ago
$ nc localhost 25 220 uhura.z ESMTP MAIL FROM:me 250 2.1.0 Ok RCPT TO:root 250 2.1.5 Ok DATA 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF> Look ma, no @! . 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 8DB653E0065 quit
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by moe 12y ago
Ruby has it about right (imho): > [1.0,2.0,Float::NAN].sort ArgumentError: comparison of Float with Float failed
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by moe 12y ago
Nimrod feels like a faster version of python or ruby, something a lot of people would like to have. Hell yes! Nim really looks like it might have the potential to become the "faster Ruby" (or faster Python) that many of us are w
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by moe 12y ago
Would you be willing to violate the privacy of one person to prevent an attack that would kill five thousand? Why don't we skip the suggestive "thought experiments" and look at some facts instead. A grand total of 3467 peop
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by moe 12y ago
If you insist on keeping the risk on the seller side then what's wrong with good old Charge On Delivery?
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by moe 12y ago
Yes, I have a similar problem. I often carry my Macbook on top of my head when I go around the house. It's just really awkward to reach the touchpad that way, so I hope the next Macbook will add one on the bottom as well.
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by moe 12y ago
Operations the size of Lenovo have a fairly intense vetting process before a product goes to market. I find it very hard to believe that no red flags were raised by any of the engineers, managers and especially lawyers who must have screene
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by moe 12y ago
but apparently no one did a security review It doesn't take a "security review" to spot a gaping security and privacy violation like this. Any engineer with even the slightest clue of how a browser and "the internet&qu
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by moe 12y ago
naturally oblivious to the security implications Rest assured Lenovo was perfectly aware of the security and privacy implications of this feature from the beginning. They merely try to sound oblivious because their laywers hope that wil

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