nikolak

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by nikolak 13y ago
> But check out the exact wording of the SMS/MMS Permission, and that of the Contacts one. It's impossible to word it in any different way, no matter what you want to do with messages - even if your code is written to read me
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by nikolak 13y ago
There are tools that show you when permission was last used by an app. I've had the official facebook application installed for months and they never read the SMS messages.
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by nikolak 13y ago
Sorry, delusional about which part? In my experience, people are more likely to hire US/UK based workers for higher paying jobs than for example Indians or people from countries. Does that happen always ? No, of course not. I've
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by nikolak 13y ago
I compete with people who are willing to work for $1/hr, on freelance sites like oDesk - occasionally someone picks me so I earn few bucks to get by. If I try to charge more people usually accept workers who charge the same amount as m
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by nikolak 13y ago
This is not streaming, this is just torrenting and it includes uploading. The only difference between this and other torrent clients is that it downloads torrent files sequentially by default and opens the file as soon as you have enough da
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by nikolak 13y ago
Couldn't the same be said for open source torrent clients/libs which are fairly popular? I don't see anyone going after those, even though they also don't have money for legal teams.
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by nikolak 13y ago
>I feel like some sort of manual component to two-factor authentication is the whole point It's not really. The point is to verify that the device used for 2FA is still with you, whether you entered the code manually or it got enter
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by nikolak 13y ago
They're not accessing your messages unless you use it as default SMS application.
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by nikolak 13y ago
I'm not sure what you're saying exactly. Why facebook doesn't disable it? Because people use it. Why don't users disable/deny it? Because you can't select which permissions you want to grant to application upon
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by nikolak 13y ago
1. This has been a thing for quite a while now, there have been numerous articles about this. This is nothing new, although it may have not rolled out to all users. 2. Facebook gives explanation of all the permissions they need, including r
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by nikolak 13y ago
By that logic, would you agree that police should use any force necessary(beatings, etc) to cut through peaceful demonstrators and arrest those who are not peaceful, throwing Molotov's and such, because after all these peaceful protest
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by nikolak 13y ago
Yeah, that definitely justifies setting someone on fire. The protesters are just this peaceful bunch of people who would never do something like that, hurt other people who are just standing there... /s http://www.liveleak.c
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by nikolak 13y ago
> * It doesn't appear that the wiki even references their use against individuals so much as against vehicles.* No need for wiki citations when you can see it clearly being used against police forces here: http://www.yout
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by nikolak 13y ago
True, I didn't mean to imply that there have been deadly casualties, but that's the goal of throwing Molotov cocktail on someone. Saying that the protesters aren't using violence is wrong. None have been killed because they h
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by nikolak 13y ago
They also use Molotov cocktails to burn/kill police officers and some of them are using those air(?) guns.
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by nikolak 13y ago
You can go and work in any EU country and you're trapped!!?? Jesus Christ. > I tried to look away, apply for a job/internship in the U.S. but the reason is always the same: visas are hell. I would do anything to get my way out
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by nikolak 13y ago
The money spent mining bitcoin for electricity and hardware could have been used to buy stocks. It's not really different, for both mining bitcoins and investing in stocks you need to spend some money. You aren't issuing anything
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by nikolak 13y ago
Not OP. But someone who's also in a country where an average salary would be around 3 USD per hour. If you work and charge local rates you're pretty much restricted to either saving longer time for new average, not high end, lapto
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by nikolak 13y ago
From a US based dev's perspective, I'd agree with you. But it really depends on your definition of "horrible" and "well paid". $5/hr in US is horrible. $5/hr in a developing country is awesome and wel
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by nikolak 13y ago
Or serious flaw will be discovered and it will go from $? to being worthless. Or it will be declared illegal (unlikely IMO) so the businesses won't be able to accept it and it will be only used in markets dealing with illegal stuff, li
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by nikolak 13y ago
Because it doesn't have chargebacks. A lot of services that allowed its users to purchase bitcoins without having to verify their identity and buy bitcoin using PP or CCs were abused by people using stolen PP and CC info. So they lost
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by nikolak 13y ago
>I have more hassle with credit cards than you might, specifically they are always getting flagged for fraud because I'm not where they expect. Yes, this isn't an issue if you live in the states at a permanent address. I have l
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by nikolak 13y ago
>Much, much better than having to pull out my credit card, type in 16 numbers, make sure I use the right zip, then remember what crazy authorized by mastercard password I used. Especially for digital goods, not having to do all the addre
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by nikolak 13y ago
Technically you're correct, but realistically there is a very very small chance of that happening. And the chance of bitcoin changing it's value in the next year significantly, compared to fiat currency, is much higher.
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by nikolak 13y ago
My experience is completely different. I run 2 subreddits, one with ~15k subscribers and one with ~2k, and I don't remember last time I even saw spam being submitted - and when it got submitted 95% of the time spam filter caught it. If
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by nikolak 13y ago
>You actually can pay employees in BTC, if they prefer that. Most don't. >Thousands of people work for BTC already. Hundreds of millions don't. >Utility companies will start accepting bitcoins soon enough, as it becomes m
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by nikolak 13y ago
>It's obvious to me that many of the Bitcoin critics in this thread have never actually used it. I've used it, not much though - maybe $100 worth of bitcoins. >Purchases aren't tracked List of transactions from your wal
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by nikolak 13y ago
So technically, I could buy items cheaply on ebay or similar sites, ship them to amazon warehouse and sell it there for profit and also have them handle pretty much everything from selling to customer support? Or am I missing something and
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by nikolak 13y ago
As far as I remember they said that Germany can't consider asylum request from Snowden if he isn't on German soil, according to the law, and if he gets there and files an asylum request they'll consider it. I don't remem
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by nikolak 13y ago
You could ask the user via email to send some small, but "unique", amount of bitcoin from that same address again and then refund it after you've verified that the person emailing you is indeed owner of that bitcoin address.

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