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by seabee 13y ago
Only if the incentives of the third party align this way, which is very unlikely as many merchants burned by PayPal/eBay can attest to.
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by seabee 13y ago
Almost certain of it, some places even tack on a fee for using a credit card instead of a debit card. However, consumer protections for a debit card are nowhere near as good. e.g. in the UK at least, if you experience fraud you have to wait
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by seabee 13y ago
> Yeah, I like having more money, but at some point? half the money for half the time starts looking pretty good, especially with marginal tax rates being what they are. Not only that there's nothing to stop you spending that newly-
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by seabee 13y ago
Nobody is comparing working conditions between Greece and the US, so why knock down that particular strawman? Unless you believe the economic policies of the European countries that do get talked about e.g. France, Germany, the Nordics, (
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by seabee 13y ago
Is there a reason for 3 shorts? Why not use a 64-bit integer, etc. There is always some level of arbitrariness when you represent data structures this way for performance reasons. It's all about what maximum values you think are good e
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by seabee 13y ago
Even if you ignore the problem of getting a critical mass, this is an issue! Imagine operating the network as a public good and agreeing to minimise the resources spent on it. That still doesn't prevent one of the players from secretly
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by seabee 13y ago
I hate mining too but you need a decentralized method to keep people from subverting the decision-making process and give them an incentive to participate. I would love a more environmentally friendly method than proof-of-work but I fear yo
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by seabee 13y ago
In a world where users will willingly enter malicious code into their computers if they believe it will do something they want[1], can there really be a better way? [1] https://www.facebook.com/selfxss
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by seabee 13y ago
The Android version is free for one year only.
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by seabee 13y ago
> I don't know about you, but my institutions aren't failing. They just require regular maintenance. There's the rub: do they get the regular maintenance they require, and who foots the bill when it breaks? What are the in
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by seabee 13y ago
Ah yes, the use of goto conjures up the 800-year-old essay in the room. The way they use it is widely understood and accepted in C error handling. It's also not the only way you can screw up, either, which is a good reason why you shou
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by seabee 13y ago
That a bug in one implementation does not imply a bug in the protocol.
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by seabee 13y ago
> Imagine a forum [...] but you have to log into it with a password and passwords cost $50 to acquire and for sufficiently bad behaviour they can be revoked You don't have to imagine it, take a look at the Something Awful forums. Pe
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by seabee 13y ago
Just to be clear we're not trivializing the condition, you're right that some sufferers of depression don't really need a qualified person (particularly if they have a good support network and sufficient strength of mind) but
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by seabee 13y ago
Even worse, there's a whole bunch of malware Youtube downloader programs/browser plugins. It's pretty crazy but using TPB is at least easier and safer.
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by seabee 13y ago
Sometimes you put less weight on an aspect that deserves more because the candidate showed other skills, 'cultural fit' etc. Sometimes you realise that was a mistake :)
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by seabee 13y ago
In some countries you can get prepaid credit cards to cover #1 and #3, though the additional fees probably make it costlier than by using Bitcoin.
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by seabee 13y ago
USD fluctuates a lot less than silver/gold, in case you are implying the opposite.
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by seabee 13y ago
I know you are kidding but the pod/cup 'coffee' makers support tea too, now that is certainly convenient :)
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by seabee 13y ago
Don't forget they have 110v but the same current limits on their plugs, so at best their kettles will use 1.5kW. The speed advantage isn't there. If you have a hot water-based appliance the coffee maker offers far greater convenie
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by seabee 13y ago
Lua has a much smaller codebase and is simpler than PHP, so I'm not sure the comparison is apt.
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by seabee 13y ago
The built-in commands are aliased, which is probably the most infuriating part; clearly they thought it necessary to name the listing functionality 'Get-ChildItem' and refer to it by that in all the documentation so as not to blow
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by seabee 13y ago
You have to be really bearish on Bitcoin to think that a practically-identical joke currency will do better than something attracting venture capital. Nobody would trust a lolcat with their money much less a shibe. Of course, if I'm wr
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by seabee 13y ago
It should only require a small shift in the thinking of armchair economists that companies compete on value , of which price is one aspect of varying importance. The continued existence of branded/premium commodity items and luxury go
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by seabee 13y ago
> Am I allowed to go to businesses and try to pick the locks, look inside, and then report to the business owner that their lock was pickable? Well... yes, but I'd probably be reported to police. Sometimes these discoveries aren&#x2
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by seabee 13y ago
It's the equivalent of smacking a malfunctioning (mechanical) appliance to try and make it work again. Maybe you just want something to last long enough until you can get a better-designed, more reliable appliance.
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by seabee 13y ago
I think it is less cargo-cult and more nobody wants to be sued over something they don't really understand so they choose the (dumbest) option with the least risk that still lets them do what they want.
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by seabee 13y ago
Right, and the problem is two-fold: 1) they execute their business model without ethical restraint 2) it is difficult to avoid being affected by said business model because they can legally collect the data that other entities produce about
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by seabee 13y ago
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use a physical model." Now they have two problems. (The new problem is dealing with fluid dynamics.) Water-based computation has already been done of course: h
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by seabee 13y ago
What more do you think can be said that the last episode of Black Mirror (fictional character as MP) didn't say?

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