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rweir
10y ago
well then lobby to get your electoral system fixed instead of copping out. not voting for Hillary Clinton increases the chances of Trump winning, and who even knows what his actual policy on drugs are?
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rweir
12y ago
note that in practice EFTPOS is getting beaten down by still not doing contactless, while Visa Debit/Mastercard Debit contactless cards are ubiquitous in Australia, and banks pushing Visa/Mastercard Debit for the higher interchang
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rweir
12y ago
eh, totally ditched? the 5s and 5c remains available.
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rweir
12y ago
think of Bell or the oil companies of the early 20th century.
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rweir
12y ago
it was initially to stop manufacturers vertically integrating all the way from building cars to running stores.
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rweir
12y ago
> I feel like mosh is fixing problems at the wrong layer. Instead of making application protocols connectioness, we should make Mobile IP work I look forward to using regular SSH to connect to my servers hosted in the floating city of Ne
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rweir
12y ago
pretty well documented, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Halibut_(SSGN-587)#Special_...
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rweir
12y ago
it's techcrunch.
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rweir
12y ago
perhaps state that on the signup page, so people don't bother, then? there are identical sites that actually exist already, so why would anyone be interested in signing up here? edit: to be clear, I mean: there isn't value in &
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rweir
12y ago
would it be fair to say that your site currently does absolutely nothing except for take usernames, email addresses and passwords?
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rweir
12y ago
no.
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rweir
12y ago
maybe you want to reconsider lying in the description?
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rweir
12y ago
tldr summary of http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
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rweir
12y ago
that's incorrect. in practice, MasterCard cannot do any of the things you suggest, aside from "arbitrarily refuse to accept payments for a business", which they have already done. your bank could shut down your card due to
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rweir
12y ago
all of your consumer-side complaints are about banks not MasterCard.
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rweir
12y ago
is that a yes?
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rweir
12y ago
Wouldn't it have been better to not post it until you had more to offer?
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rweir
12y ago
The Bugle, an important reminder than entrepreneurship is a fancy term for "not a successful business owner yet".
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rweir
12y ago
that's not a useful answer, since it's not "free" as stated in the headline, but $5/month/user. "title would be too long" is a completely idiotic excuse for lying in a headline.
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rweir
12y ago
OT, but that's a mindnumbingly stupid name for coffee with butter in it.
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rweir
12y ago
the details in these stories would be of no use to "other governments to construct similar surveillance systems.".
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rweir
12y ago
ah, and by "free" you mean "$5/month"? perhaps you want to update the headline to be less totally false?
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rweir
12y ago
how much do you think other high-end smartphones actually cost? iphone 5s 32GB: $US749 samsung galaxy s5: ~$us800 etc
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rweir
12y ago
little reason for it to be an app, and lots of websites along these lines already exist.
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rweir
12y ago
it seems likely that it is worth 1/3rd of a coffee, yes.
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rweir
13y ago
Hm? How is free email hosting a great opportunity in 2014?
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rweir
13y ago
? they're hashes of the /commit/, which is the code + metadata including time + previous commit(s).
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rweir
13y ago
Who knows if it is true, but the article is useless given it says things like: The coordinates in the picture indicate that the photo was taken within 3 miles of what Google officially gives for Diego Garcia. It is NOT EXACTLY what comes u
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rweir
13y ago
perhaps read any of the other comments? tldr, license and it's also terrible.
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rweir
13y ago
Note that Rust was a personal project of Graydon's before it became a Mozilla thing - they picked it up a few years.
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