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by riprowan 10y ago
You should consider by how much bitcoin or some similar crypto could strengthen the Hawala system. It's a marriage made in heaven.
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by riprowan 10y ago
I think the fact that HSBC laundered $700B and got away with a slap on the wrist, while the government wants to crack down on $600 in Bitcoin, is an extremely important and telling factoid.
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by riprowan 10y ago
> perpetually delayed, dirty and overcrowded The regional service deserves this reputation because it has been neglected for years as Trenitalia built the Frecce but I think if you return to Italy you'll be pleasantly surprised, as
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by riprowan 10y ago
I understand the points you're making. But I think you failed to address my question. Let me rephrase. We have fleets of shared vehicles today, but most people prefer personal transportation. What is it about autonomous shared cars v
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by riprowan 10y ago
My first experience with Notes was in grad school in 1992. It looked ugly and didn't make much sense to my relationally-educated brain. I bumped into it again in the mid-90s when Notes 3 was released and the lightbulb went off. I bec
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by riprowan 10y ago
I don't think you read my comment clearly. I think autonomous cars are going to be quite popular, but I don't understand how that necessarily leads to shared instead of privately owned autonomous cars.
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by riprowan 10y ago
A lot of comments here and I haven't seen one that addresses the problem of impulsivity. Many / most of the times I need a car are not schedulable events but impulses. For example when I'm working on a project around the ho
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by riprowan 10y ago
> Doesn't Amazon have unique defenses against this possibility? All they really need to do is curate their 3rd parties better. Problem solved.
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by riprowan 10y ago
> Almost all countries lack an easy option for non-billionaires to take action against big companies. Fix this, fix the world.
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by riprowan 10y ago
That's fine if you simply want to find the chain with the most proof-of-work behind it and join that herd, but what if that chain violates your conditions for validity - perhaps it has different inflation, less anonymity, or higher t
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by riprowan 10y ago
48 yo here, started coding when I was 14, so that's 34 years of building things. Here's where I'm at. I look back at my career and I can tell you about great projects that I got to be part of, awards and plaudits that I won,
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by riprowan 10y ago
I realized this way back in the mid 1990s when suddenly everyone wanted a "webmaster" with 10 years of experience, when suddenly HTML - a document markup language - became the most important "programming language" one
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by riprowan 10y ago
> what is the "correct" chain may be a highly contentious subject But this can be true in POW blockchains as well. If the user disconnects his node for some arbitrarily long period of time during which there are durable forks
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by riprowan 10y ago
This is the first I've heard of this app. What is the point? Isn't this just hangouts all over again? I can't understand why these companies keep rolling and re-rolling the same apps over and over.
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by riprowan 10y ago
The content is encrypted between you and the receiver. If you didn't hit the URL and the recipient didn't hit the URL, how did someone else hit the URL which was encrypted in the transmission?
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by riprowan 10y ago
'til your RAID array fails...
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by riprowan 10y ago
People that think that kids just want to learn how to use computers not build things with them have obviously never heard of a lego.
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by riprowan 10y ago
My old 2011 MBP and MBA do this when plugged into European 240V power
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by riprowan 10y ago
Also note that because American elections tend to hinge on a handful of swing states (and then, often only on particular counties in those states) you do not need to commit fraud on a wide scale to commandeer the election. It should be p
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by riprowan 10y ago
I agree: these machine names are Apple ][, ][+, ][e, etc and the //c.
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by riprowan 10y ago
> Vancouver real estate prices jumped 20% in 2015 > If pricing trends continue along that trajectory It will not. That is a bubble.
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by riprowan 10y ago
Wow, that ended awkwardly: > When we were exploring multitouch many, many years ago, we were trying to understand the appropriate application and opportunities for [it]. We just didn’t feel that [the Mac] was the right place for that…. I
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How Does the Electoral College Work and Is It Fair(npr.org)
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by riprowan 10y ago
I'll probably be downvoted to hell for this, but as a secure, programmable, collaborative document management system, the information technology community would do well to swallow its derision and learn from what Lotus Notes 3x/4x
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by riprowan 10y ago
This is an interesting concept because it's actually quite old. While traveling through the north of Holland playing shows we happened to play in a centuries-old historic public living room in a tiny township in the middle of nowhere.
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by riprowan 10y ago
The only questions I have are: why is it taking so long for the legal system to catch up to where we were 15 years ago and how will we ever keep Constitutional protections ahead of accelerating technology?
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by riprowan 10y ago
this also can equate to: "lock other products out, preventing future customers from adopting our ecosystem"
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by riprowan 10y ago
NeXT did fail by most standards. It didn't turn profit and went out of business after a generation or so of products that failed to penetrate the market.
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by riprowan 10y ago
You said a lot but I had a hard time getting past the first sentence: >> 1. A paid off home is a social safety net against homelessness for an entire family and many of their social circles. Even if all of them are unemployed, all of
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by riprowan 10y ago
OP here, the thing I was working on was only 64GB, so that wasn't it. The real reason was price and size. This was even smaller than an Air at less than 1/2 the price.

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