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by vladd 15y ago
>> Look at Windows, remember when 95/XP had 96% domination of the world's computers? That only started to come down when they got draconian with their DRM/activation/genuine windows/etc. I saw about half my friends move to Mac/Linux
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by vladd 15y ago
That's not the value of the bitcoin, it's the value of the cryptographic code which has been open sourced. Anybody can fork it and create its own "Webcoin", but there's no intrinsic value in any forked instance coin, beyond the publicity th
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by vladd 15y ago
A government collects taxes from all the businesses and people in a given country, which is huge in terms of being able to provide value. Bitcoin has no such thing.
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by vladd 15y ago
Yes, because in a deflationary environment, just sitting on the money is an investment in itself. Let's say you have an amount of money which buys you today 1 house. If within 1 month, with the same amount of money, you'll be able to buy 1.
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by vladd 15y ago
Bitcoin is a marketing-based currency in the sense that it has no real value besides the fact that it was the first currency with cryptographic properties that gained widespread adoption: if someone would take the code and fork it into an a
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by vladd 15y ago
In economic terms what you're describing is called deflation. During deflation prices keep falling, which causes consumers to post-pone their purchases (tomorrow they'll be able to get that TV at a lower price so there's no point in buying
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by vladd 15y ago
Any system of checks and balances will have its price. Look at what we do with gold: we dig it from a hole in Africa, we transport it in other countries, we dug holes or build vaults and throw it there. Like Warren Buffett said, it has no u
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by vladd 15y ago
I'm also highly sceptical of tracking reduced age expectancy due to atmospheric coal pollution.
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by vladd 15y ago
Nuclear is the safest form of energy that we currently have. More people die from installing solar panels than deaths occurred in nuclear accidents: http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-ener... .
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Fedora 15 just launched(docs.fedoraproject.org)
1 points by vladd 15y ago|0 comments
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Playboy bypasses Apple's App Store, makes a web app instead(businessweek.com)
89 points by vladd 15y ago|59 comments
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by vladd 15y ago
The factors you've mentioned should have been already priced by Morgan in the opening price proposal (low share supply, low interest rates etc). They are reasons which justify why the shares traded so high, which in turn proves that it was
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by vladd 15y ago
Joel Spolsky said: >> We have discovered the primary axiom of online communities: small software implementation details result in big differences in the way the community develops, behaves, and feels. Q. Could you make a feature whe
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by vladd 15y ago
This isn't practical since any Apps admin account has by definition access to modify/reset all regular accounts belonging to that company/domain, so if you don't use things like wipeouts upon whois creation date modifications, the potential
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by vladd 15y ago
That won't work for existing customers since requiring a phone number must be done when initially signing up. In addition, expired domains purchased by someone else won't be usable with Google Apps.
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by vladd 15y ago
When a domain is being reclaimed by someone signed into a different Google Account than the previous admins, check if the domain's whois creation date has changed, and if so, make it mandatory to wipe out the data previously associated with
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Zero G available commercially for $5000(zerogexperience.com)
1 points by vladd 15y ago|0 comments
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by vladd 15y ago
I found it sneaky that it's not mentioned in the frontpage pitch, I had to look down in the FAQs to find it: "Unfortunately, to sell subscriptions on PintPay, you will need to be within the United States."
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by vladd 15y ago
Already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2536186
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Why Google Does Not Own Skype(edition.cnn.com)
151 points by vladd 15y ago|91 comments
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by vladd 15y ago
It's like saying: give me your house and don't worry, despite the property transfer, I'll allow you to continue to stay there for free; evictions will be done on a case-by-case basis.
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by vladd 15y ago
The ISP company only benefits if their pipe is saturated 100% at that moment. If they had spare capacity at that point in time, it's of no use to them and they can't carry it over.
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by vladd 15y ago
Don't let interns establish quotes, they're not sales people. The CEO should own the revenue stream, make him approve any quote (or at least anything spanning more than 1 days worth of work).
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by vladd 15y ago
Introducing a "third state" for the SSL indicator, usability-wise, is very difficult. A lot of browser users don't understand SSL, and those that do have a binary understanding of the protocol: it can be used to either confirm or refute the
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by vladd 15y ago
Put the text into bullet point lists, they are easier to read visually, they separate ideas clearly and it's easy to jump to the next item on the list. Consider an iframe or a sample of http://tagmask.com/posts if you don't want to actual
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by vladd 16y ago
The picture seems to be the one used in http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090601/the-start-up-guru-y-com... .
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by vladd 16y ago
Comparing Rhino with NodeJS is not exactly fair since NodeJS is a server-side JavaScript engine while Rhino is just a JS engine. You should compare V8 with Rhino, or NodeJS with RingoJS (one example for the later: http://www.erbix.com/docu
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by vladd 16y ago
Full headers at https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java/msg/88fa10845...
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by vladd 16y ago
The analogy you mention is not very good because the hole discovered in their security model is related to duplicate content identified via the same hash value. If you have unique content that's different than anything else, even by 1 bit,
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by vladd 16y ago
That's their legacy, however the trend suggests they're losing half of their visitors every 10 months.

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