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by rictic 13y ago
Count me as interested. I've been trying to think of a distributed solution to squatting and fraud but I've had very little luck coming up with anything workable.
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by rictic 13y ago
A bit of a chicken and egg there though. Who's going to build services that use >20mbps in bandwidth if almost no one has that much?
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by rictic 13y ago
If it's any consolation, the stack ranking is done with the institutional knowledge that performance isn't evenly distributed between teams – i.e. some teams will have zero people who are underperforming. (in fact, this has been t
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by rictic 13y ago
People leaving Windows is potentially an existential threat for Steam if the platforms that they go to don't support Steam well. Consoles and iOS are flat out due to non-negotiable platform policies. Android is possible, but tough. Mac
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by rictic 13y ago
I believe that they are absolute values though. IIUC, a browser doubling their score on one of these benchmarks is an approximation for being twice as fast at performing the benchmarked functionality. Firefox's improvement was enormous
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by rictic 13y ago
I bought into BTC when it was $30. It fell to $1 very shortly thereafter. It can happen. I'm still long on BTC, but please have no illusions. Don't put anything in that you can't afford to lose.
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by rictic 13y ago
And we do. My coworkers both give generously to charity and volunteer for local organizations and my maligned techie employer actively encourages this (by putting up fliers around the office for local charities to volunteer for, holding vol
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by rictic 13y ago
Aren't rewards also subsidized by interest rates charged on those cardholders who carry a balance at the end of the month? My understanding was that that's a very significant income stream, and that's missing from your compar
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by rictic 13y ago
Not a bad point, especially given that the current consensus seems to be that the agricultural revolution[1] was a net negative for most individuals in society (evidence of significant wear on the body from bending all day, evidence of wors
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by rictic 13y ago
This post fills me with questions. Foremost: What makes anti-aging technology unnatural compared to other medical treatments? To take one example, the smallpox vaccine was initially considered unnatural, and an affront to God[1]. [1] http:
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by rictic 13y ago
Emotionally it does matter. Economically there's no difference between having the $2000 cash and buying 100BTC at $20 versus having 100BTC at $20 and choosing not to sell it. I would strongly recommend rereading skwirl's post and
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by rictic 13y ago
Are you familiar with the work that's gone into the linux kernel in the past few years to do just that? Some search terms for further reading: lxc; docker; lmctfy.
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by rictic 13y ago
Even before asm.js there was emscripten (the primary generator of asm.js and inspiration for much of the spec), which has been used for a number of high profile demos and likely got optimization attention for years before asm.js.
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by rictic 13y ago
They could spend a lot of money and gain the ability to double spend and stall any (or all) transactions, but they couldn't create more coins than allowed or seize assets.
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by rictic 13y ago
Am I missing something? Between mixers and single-use addresses - not to mention every mundane transaction that hasn't opted into into this tracking scheme - the odds of them being able to say much about a typical address seem practica
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by rictic 13y ago
Yeah, this makes me sad. I hope that someone takes a hard look at the bytecode and repairs the situation. Transactions as programs is kinda brilliant.
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by rictic 13y ago
This is true, but the "wtf js is such a fucked up language" meme is outsized compared to the actual problems of javascript. Having worked full time in python for a couple years I could easily show you just as many weird python sem
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by rictic 13y ago
When I go to that page I see: "Of the 1838 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 4 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2
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by rictic 13y ago
One thing that threw me off initially is the fact that typescript will complain about errors, but still do the translation of TS -> JS. For example: var s = 'hello'; s.toExponential(); Typescript tells you about th
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by rictic 13y ago
I've used typescript on a few projects now. What I've seen is that when first hacking on some code I use almost no types. Maybe some are inferred, and that's nice, but if not whatevs. As I'm playing with the code though,
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by rictic 13y ago
According to the page, fixing individual vulnerabilities won't typically be rewarded. This seems like it's for more systemic fixes, like improving privilege separation, security at the memory allocation level, etc.
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by rictic 13y ago
The iPod isn't a flop. People I know who got one (including the nontechnical) used it a ton, and it was awesome. The iPhone isn't a flop. Same story, everyone I know who got it loved it. My parents got an Apple TV, after enjoying
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by rictic 13y ago
That's one point against python, and half a point for C++ [1]. By my accounting that leaves the score still hugely in python's favor when it comes to obviousness and consistency. Python vs Ruby is another subject entirely. Largely
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by rictic 13y ago
There's work going on for better app caching systems at the browser level. This is a UI and platform issue, but there's no tricky technical aspects. The user expresses the intent of wanting to cache a web app, and it is cached loc
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by rictic 13y ago
If it's unavoidable, then acceptance is the right path. If it's avoidable, then all else being equal acceptance of death strikes me as incredibly foolish. I want to live until tomorrow, and I imagine that tomorrow I'll say th
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by rictic 13y ago
head.js and require do have significant speed penalties unless you're just using them as for tracking dependencies and for developing locally. It may be the right tradeoff of effort vs performance for some projects to leave this going
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by rictic 13y ago
In the same way that a lion is kinda like a horse. Serving private apis out over HTTP is an implementation detail for a native app. If it becomes convenient, they could switch to a different protocol for their RPCs without anyone noticing.
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by rictic 13y ago
Only for morons is way harsher than I'd put it, but fundamentally it's a difficult to inspect security system that's based on a potentially vague analog signal. In the security world, things which are novel are not to be trus
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by rictic 13y ago
The internet is not the web. Many native apps use the internet, precious few use the web. Quick litmus test: if a system does not have URLs, or the content at those URLs is not usable by multiple independently developed user agents based on
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by rictic 13y ago
This is an empirical claim: namely that tipping results in better service. The evidence I have seen does not favor this hypothesis: http://freakonomics.com/2013/06/03/should-tipping-be-banned-...

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