thinkloop

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   by thinkloop 9y ago

   I guess this advice is for non-coinbase customers since the ruling removes the ability to choose.
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   by thinkloop 9y ago

   > using the same one for pretty much the last 6 months Those are some high quality bags!
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   by thinkloop 9y ago

   More on this in case anyone was interested: https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/resources/ethics/the-ethics... > prisoners be given the option of donating organs upon their death > another suggests that condemn
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   by thinkloop 9y ago

   It's a special kind of spam that doesn't affect users. The victims are server bandwidth and server disk space. Users only benefit. They can safely reduce this operating expense by requiring login because everyone already has a git
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   by thinkloop 9y ago

   I was also curious about this (and thanks for the article, very informative!) Are you saying that at one point the servers would crash relatively often, which would leave sockets clients hanging, unless some complicated client-side code was
6. 666.▲
   by thinkloop 9y ago

   Extremely easy to have provided proof, none provided, useless fud.
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   by thinkloop 9y ago

   #2 is 90% of my requirements
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   by thinkloop 9y ago

   Even if the exposure were for a year, if the amount of light being emitted is less than the hardware can perceive, it wouldn't register - hence the need for electron-microscopes and such. There's a story here about the size of the
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   by thinkloop 9y ago

   I still don't get it, 10,000 times more light than its size?
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    It's a happy fact for me that the EU protects us where we fail. I am more aligned with their privacy rules and anti-trust policies than America's - grateful for it.
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    A thought I was having recently: any communication medium (Messengers, social networks, email services, contact apps, etc) that does not use end-to-end encryption and has access to the data, may be in violation of privacy/data laws or
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    I don't actually remember why ICQ died, it was the best then there was MSN Messenger for some reason...?
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    the answer is... Google > In June 2012, Google acquired Meebo to merge the company's staff with the Google+ developers team.
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    > Music ability was measured using the Swedish Musical Discrimination Test (SMDT) > The SMDT consists of three subtests — pitch, melody, and rhythm discrimination The test is of fundamental primitives - not about the ability to play
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    > and it unlocks performance improvements I thought https added performance overhead, where does it improve it?
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    From my reading it is only meant as a training tool.
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    The problem is even content is becoming functional with interactive charts, infographics and figures, videos, media, filtering, sorting - then the site will eventually need comments, ads, subscribing, favoriting, upvoting, login, lazy load
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    I haven't built a site in the last 5 years without flexbox and not a single time was I able to interact with it without referring to docs, then still randomly iterating through property values in the inspector until it looked right. Th
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    You're right, not so obvious. I wonder if the guarantee of a hostile takeover is the issue. When companies IPO, they don't expect immediate and systematic attempts of hostile takeover funded by your own money (tax dollars) through
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    > scrpt scr=paymentproviderscript.bla? They can't do this because then the untrusted merchant has access to everything again. It needs to be sandboxed in a separate page so that the customer is talking directly with the processor, w
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    My karma got wrecked, but the responses were very informative - worth.
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    How did you measure the productivity drop?
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    Serious question, what is paypal? Why don't people just use credit cards directly? Isn't paypal service hard to reach compared? Stripe/square take care of pos, venmo/bitcoin handle peer-to-peer, what is paypal's fut
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    "The structure, which Kamprad established in the 1980s, assures that the Almhult, Sweden-based company stays outside the family’s direct control." "His wealth will now be dissipated " "Kamprad was not interested in
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    Ikea founder leaves fortune to no one, structures it to ensure it lasts forever(bloomberg.com)

    422 points by thinkloop 9y ago|357 comments
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    EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Processor Adyen(bloomberg.com)

    49 points by thinkloop 9y ago|54 comments
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    This is challenging too, most cities would much prefer Amazon to a new coal processing facility, for example.
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    > city's are only important due to it's residents That's the problem, how do you spark the network effect? People don't setup in SF for ironic atari t-shirts, they're there for the talent pool and infrastructure
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    How slow are we talking? Hours, days? Or seconds, minutes?
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    by thinkloop 9y ago

    Doesn't this is a sense show the system is partially working? Austin, who barely cares to get the HQ and has other attractive properties for tech companies, is offering no incentives, while underdog cities who really want the HQ but ha