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by pcr0 7y ago
No fees and better UX are the main selling points. It might shine for foreign transactions: no fee (usually 2%) + 1% cashback seems pretty good. If we're being realistic though, they'll probably have a terrible FX spread.
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by pcr0 7y ago
Correction, I didn't just mean chips made in the US but also chips that license US technology. This was the reason ARM, a British company had to suspend their relationship with HiSilicon, Huawei's chip manufacturer. [0] [0]: http
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by pcr0 7y ago
Apples and oranges. Banning Google in China meant that its product (user data) couldn't be produced in China. That's unfortunate but they still have users elsewhere in the world and on VPNs. On the other hand ad sales _to_ China h
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by pcr0 7y ago
Could VR suicide dissuade people from attempting suicide?
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by pcr0 7y ago
That's what Huawei did, which can be risky if Uncle Sam decides to take a closer look.
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by pcr0 7y ago
There are a lot of credit cards that offer cashback rates between 1-2%. I'm certain Visa is not eating that so Google (and other merchants) must be paying.
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by pcr0 7y ago
I agree with this, especially for long tail terms but I also think it is getting better with time. If it helps, you can use !g to search with Google.
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by pcr0 7y ago
As a user of both the Macbook Pro and the X1 Carbon, I have to agree. The MBP touchpad handles gestures and palm rejection really well. On the other hand I get accidental swipes every hour with the X1 Carbon that I can only bear using its k
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by pcr0 7y ago
Does this happen while typing? Do you touch-type?
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by pcr0 7y ago
As in security against stalling lead to a UX disaster that caused planes to dive into the ground? I'd argue the moral of that story was to redesign the plane, instead of piling on hacks to save costs in the short run.
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by pcr0 7y ago
In an ideal world yes, this should be implemented at the OS level. However, the vast majority of users would not see any benefit until OSX/Windows/Android/iOS/<insert Linux flavor> receives an update for DoH-by-def
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by pcr0 7y ago
A browser is just an application with some minimal services provided such as sync, extensions hosting, auto-updates. A VPN on the other hand consists of an application and usually unmetered usage of the company's bandwidth, which costs
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by pcr0 7y ago
I've owned an S8 for >2 years and I think it can safely be used underwater. I've gone swimming with it in the sea, swimming pools, washed it under tap water regularly and even dropped it in a bowl of yogurt once. YMMV of course
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by pcr0 7y ago
To be fair, Macau casinos are the preferred method for wealthy Chinese to bypass capital restrictions and move cash out of China. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-people-use-macau-to-laun...
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by pcr0 7y ago
I can't speak for Stadia but Steam have been shipping open source projects like Proton and pushing Vulkan. If anything, Stadia will increase pressure on Steam to keep improving desktop Linux compatibility.
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by pcr0 7y ago
Companies may start moving their Asia HQs to Singapore en masse.
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by pcr0 7y ago
You can get an Octopus without an ID, but most people have their primary octopus linked to their ID for one of the following reasons: student transportation discounts, residential/school building access control, linked to credit car
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by pcr0 7y ago
I don't see how end users suffer from using Rails. Server side rerponse time is a very small component of page load time for most websites. It's different from being forced to download and parse megabytes of JS, which consumes CPU
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by pcr0 7y ago
I downloaded it last week without an account. It involved one of those non-obvious skip button dark patterns.
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by pcr0 7y ago
If the chimp was taught how to publish content (as opposed to just consuming), I wonder if it would do so of its own accord.
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by pcr0 7y ago
Even without an updater service, obtaining the new expiry date isn't too difficult, as alluded by this HN comment from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2502530
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by pcr0 7y ago
It was less than the national average, 14/million vs 22/million [0]. Nonetheless, they did have a problem with illegal overtime, abusive management, a lack of breaks and discrimination [1]. A lot has changed since then due to pr
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by pcr0 7y ago
Rational companies wouldn't be paying for ads and minting multi-billionaires in the process if the results did not surpass the costs. The dominance of online advertising over print/television/physical is largely due to metric
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by pcr0 7y ago
I think the parent post was implying that their former employer pulled those shenanigans on Android, but was prevented from doing the same on iOS due to restrictions, which was a source of frustration for their business execs.
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by pcr0 8y ago
> online protest on a platform that the Chinese government doesn't control False (for Chinese residents). China used to block GitHub but stopped doing that when they realized they could politely ask GitHub to block access to certain
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by pcr0 8y ago
When I didn't have a credit card, I used PayPal for all my online payments since I could top it up from my bank account.
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by pcr0 8y ago
If you're loading them asynchronously, no.
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by pcr0 8y ago
HFT firms perform a different kind of front running. If I'm an HFT firm and I see a large buy order on the books at exchange A, I can use my low-latency links to exchanges B, C to execute my own buy orders there before the rest of the
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by pcr0 8y ago
I think Atlassian handled this okay by explaining themselves and requesting proof of identity. His name looks common enough that it is probably a case of mistaken identity. The one thing they could have done better would be to provide a gra
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by pcr0 8y ago
It's definitely bad when you have thousands of lines of YAML configuration to maintain. On the other hand, a thought out declarative language like Hashicorp's HCL is much saner thanks to IDE code completion/refactoring and st

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