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by salient 13y ago
iTunes has a much larger userbase, though. Spotify actually generated half a billion last year alone.
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by salient 13y ago
What's not open about HSA? If Intel and Nvidia haven't joined it (yet) doesn't mean it's not open. Nvidia treats OpenCL as 2nd class citizen compared to CUDA anyway, and I don't think Intel is that interested in Ope
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by salient 13y ago
It's more like 1.5x difference now according to Distimo: > Apple still has the most lucrative app store, with Distimo estimating that on a typical day in November 2013, global revenues for the 200 top grossing iOS apps were more tha
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by salient 13y ago
That GPU is 3x faster than the one in Xbox One. Also, if you cared so much about performance/price, you should've gotten a PS4, which has a performance to price ratio of 1.8:1 compared to the Xbox One (1.8 Gflops/$400 vs 1.2
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by salient 13y ago
Android already existed before Google bought it, and at the time it was built mainly as a competitor to Blackberry (before Google bought them). So Google continued on the same path, as they were less interested in "changing the paradi
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by salient 13y ago
Wait for them to sell this as some sort of "collateral damage that we just have to accept", like the US gov is selling drone strikes, and NSA is trying to sell their "errors" when collecting data on Americans.
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by salient 13y ago
Does the Rust team take into account what AMD and ARM are trying to do with HSA? What about the changes in OpenCL 2.0? I think they should keep them in mind now before their Rust design spec is finalized, and if possible, try to optimize fo
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by salient 13y ago
> This is marked change of course coming from white house Is it really? The White House has already disagreed with one of the major changes proposed by this panel (which overall, I still think they are pretty limited, and don't go f
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by salient 13y ago
Is this the panel led by former CIA, and being pre-approved by Clapper?
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by salient 13y ago
So just get rid of the internal combustion engine...Surely that energy could be used in a more efficient way - such as filling up batteries for electric cars, and then power 10x more electric cars than oil-based cars.
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by salient 13y ago
When it's 30+ percent of the world's transactions? Its market cap needs to be worth trillions before a highly stable price is established. When Bitcoin is truly mainstream and your grandma and grandpa will be having Bitcoin, and d
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by salient 13y ago
If you buy it right this minute - yes, it should grow a little more, and you can make a nice profit on it. But is $600+ the price it will stay at from now on? I'm not so sure. I think it will drop to $350 soon, because there's sti
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by salient 13y ago
Too bad this didn't happen before the elections happened. Not that I wanted Romney to win, but at the very least it would've forced the Democratic party to offer some candidates, too, and with any luck, actual changes to NSA spyi
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by salient 13y ago
> The Germans have received assurances that the chancellor's phone was not being monitored and that the US spy agency is not conducting industrial espionage. Seriously? After admitting they spied on Petrobas and EU telecoms, "f
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by salient 13y ago
Do we really need another Java-like language? I would think since web development is often an "entry level" for many beginning programmers, we need languages with prettier syntax and easier to grasp, something like Python.
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by salient 13y ago
So is it time to end the oil company subsidies, now, or is it still not the right time?
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by salient 13y ago
With any luck, this will be the last major step that will cause Facebook's fading into irrelevance.
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by salient 13y ago
I agree. As long as big companies become so good at tracking and making money through surveillance themselves, it's just too irresistible for spy agencies not to try and get that data one way or another. That's why companies need
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by salient 13y ago
> Not long ago they united under the PRISM project to spy on their users. What a quick change of heart. Yes, but then they did it for your safety, and because they care about you. Now they're doing it because...well, they're st
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by salient 13y ago
That's no excuse. Democracies should stand up to democracy and human rights, not defend its "allies" at all costs - especially when said "allies" are backstabbing them by spying on every one of their citizens. Tha
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by salient 13y ago
So disappointed no EU government is willing to stand up against mass surveillance by actually giving him asylum. They're all a bunch of cowards and hypocrites. Brazil sounds like a pretty good place for him to be, though, and he'd
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by salient 13y ago
So like an Wikipedia for news? You may be on to something there!
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by salient 13y ago
Prediction: Qualcomm wasn't actually ready to release an ARMv8 chip even at the end of 2014. They may try to do it now , but I don't think they were planning for it. From recent news it seems they were more interested in jumping
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by salient 13y ago
I was just thinking today - we're about to start using "smart light-bulbs" in a few years. Lightbulbs with Internet connections, that can potentially record everything we say anywhere, even in real world (unless they are doin
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by salient 13y ago
Ok, how about the law that makes it a felony to lie to Congress. Let's start with that one!
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by salient 13y ago
Moxie are you communicating with the DarkMail guys at all? I'm sure they would appreciate your input.
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by salient 13y ago
If the government wasn't paying for tuitions like they are now, these prices formed by "supply and demand" would be much lower.
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by salient 13y ago
They are making a lot of bogus claims using marketing speak, and they are very low on details, while saying the app will be opensourced "eventually". For a "security" app, hell yeah you should be skeptical. Right now I t
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by salient 13y ago
Look into this: https://whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting/
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by salient 13y ago
With great power comes great responsibility. I'm glad Snowden saw it that way, too. Same goes for William Binney who was a higher-up in NSA, and also in charge of creating some of its most important/dangerous surveillance software

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