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811.
by ric2b 6y ago
Encryption is also hard but there are many open source solutions available. I agree that UX for secure encryption is more of an open problem.
812.
by ric2b 6y ago
> The right to free speech Compared to the US? I don't see it except for a few EU countries, mostly the ex-USSR ones. > and to defend yourself + your property Are you talking about the "right" to kill someone that tries
813.
by ric2b 6y ago
> If you weaken encryption, you can catch more terrorists. Can you? Where's the evidence? Why would they obey laws like this when software for strong encryption is widely available? Same thing for all other examples of criminal acti
814.
by ric2b 6y ago
overall comp is heavily biased towards stock performance. Given AMD's exceptional performance in recent years it's natural to expect her overall comp to also be quite good.
815.
by ric2b 6y ago
I'm confused, how is that a good outcome, being limited to re-skinning Safari?
816.
by ric2b 6y ago
Those charts are awesome, props for the creativity.
817.
by ric2b 6y ago
Tesla was already selling cars when it went public. Nikola doesn't even have a functional prototype as far as I'm aware, the best they have is a truck that can drive at what looks like 20mph while towing nothing, and I'm givi
818.
by ric2b 6y ago
That doesn't scale for public companies like Nikola, you can't have thousands of investors visiting the headquarters and asking questions.
819.
by ric2b 6y ago
No, Theranos didn't just make promises, they said "we're doing this right now in our labs and with our partner, Walgreen".
820.
by ric2b 6y ago
The difference is that's a demo and companies don't say "this prototype I have right here is fully functional", that's just a bold faced lie.
821.
by ric2b 6y ago
Privacy is the reason they're growing at all, it's their competitive advantage. I think even investors are smart enough to not kill the chicken that lays golden eggs.
822.
by ric2b 6y ago
Sure, but the seller is not guaranteed to get sales. So there must be an agreement between the seller and the buyer on what the item is worth, and "worth" includes what alternatives both of them have available as well.
823.
by ric2b 6y ago
So when I click a tile you have some code on the onclick handler to go update the counter at the top? Sounds messy if there are multiple things you need to update when some data changes.
824.
by ric2b 6y ago
It also goes ahead and downloads some extra RAM for you.
825.
by ric2b 6y ago
Not necessarily held liable, but they'd probably have to return the money if it was earned from illegal activity.
826.
by ric2b 6y ago
> so I'm not sure what he's doing. Maybe securing the vertical bars after the entire thing slides horizontally into the tube? I'm assuming the tube has some rails they use to slide the racks in but then they have to be pr
827.
by ric2b 6y ago
Hard to get to the long-term if they fire you.
828.
by ric2b 6y ago
> The market for Nvidia is basically just Nvidia It's over 80% of GPU the market. > Their cards are not significantly more powerful than what AMD offers AMD can't compete with Nvidia's high end. Especially with the new
829.
by ric2b 6y ago
The US has secret courts, secret laws and blacksites where torture and murder is allowed with no consequences. I don't think it's a given that Assange would never be transported to one of them.
830.
by ric2b 6y ago
It's easy to list the benefits of free markets, I don't think it's easy to do the same for sub-second regulated markets vs 1 second regulated markets.
831.
by ric2b 6y ago
> I'm still not sure what problem removing my ability to cross the spread whenever I like is meant to be solving. What problem does it solve? Why should we have so many expert programmers and mathematicians spending their time compe
832.
by ric2b 6y ago
> I think you may appreciate this situation when others talk about your work. Yes, I'm very much a layman on this topic. > placing limit orders at a price where you don't believe it will execute immediately. Isn't that
833.
by ric2b 6y ago
> You don’t need to understand the banking system to use a bank account. Same for Bitcoin, you install a wallet app and use it. It's actually much easier than opening a bank account. > Meanwhile normal people without a serious ne
834.
by ric2b 6y ago
There isn't a lot of competition on GPU's, which happen to be one of the most expensive components. That market is basically just Nvidia (80%+ market share and still dominating in performance/features).
835.
by ric2b 6y ago
The main time waster when trying to organize an event is choosing the date/time, I don't see how this helps. You'll set up an event, most people will say they can't make it and now you're back to chatting about whic
836.
by ric2b 6y ago
Increased productivity is not just useful for consumerism. It might allow us to retire earlier or have shorter work weeks, for example.
837.
by ric2b 6y ago
> per device solid. Why is this always added as if it's relevant? If I'm selling an app on both stores I care about how much money I can make in total, how many Android phones have been sold globally is just trivia.
838.
by ric2b 6y ago
It's cross-platform and e2e encrypted so yeah, it's better.
839.
by ric2b 6y ago
Anyone in any society will try to defend themselves from murder by any means available to them. So if that's all the defense Anarchism has from murderers, it will definitely have more murderers than any society that adds any extra coun
840.
by ric2b 6y ago
But I can just pull the plug on any USB 3.0/HDMI/DP cable without any warning to the devices and nothing breaks, why can't a rudimentary switch do the same?

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