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by waitwhat 15y ago
I should note that Sweden has its own (floating) currency, making Estonia the only Euro-zone country running a surplus.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
The hand-wavey text in the top-left explains that "Banks and governments in these five shaky economies owe each other many billions of euros." So while it does look like "Greece owes Ireland $8.5bn" is at least partially cancelled out by "I
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by waitwhat 15y ago
this just tells the adversary that "a message could be there". Given that information, they still need to find out which bytes are information-carrying This is true as far as it goes. It should be noted, however, that in many threat model
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by waitwhat 15y ago
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/05/europes_ec... > Debt > Budget Balance Sweden and Estonia
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Don't you mean LEGO?
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Languages evolve, and words change their meaning over time.
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"Open Source" [...] just means you can view the source. No. See, for example, the Open Source Definition [1] by the Open Source Initiative [2] which opens with the statement "Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code." Wik
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Rogue employees are a fact of life. That they were caught shows that Google's internal controls are (at least reasonably) effective.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
I assume the script is called "vacuum" because it sucks in a url (and then displays it.)
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by waitwhat 15y ago
The "normal environmental temperature outside" hasn't been good enough since the first caveman started a fire in his cave for warmth.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
The platform is pretty much irrelevant, it's the content that counts. Sadly, this press release is about the platform, not the content.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Thanks for finding that. However, only 7 out of 128 pilot or active Field Partners report a default rate of more than 1%; indeed, around three-quarters of them report a default rate of 0.00%. These statistics just don't pass the smell test
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by waitwhat 15y ago
The article doesn't say that this was Josh's design decision, or that he was even involved in the project until the post-launch incident-handling.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Sometimes you'll see "pre-funded" loans where the person has approved the partner, the partner funded them and then Kiva is used to reimburse the partner. You're not entirely accurate when you write "sometimes". According to the process o
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by waitwhat 15y ago
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
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The obvious example is a wiki.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
That's not quite true is it - if that person defaults you lose your money. Actually, it's your assertion that is not quite true. It certainly used to be the case that "We give Field Partners the option to cover [...] entrepreneur defaults
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Something people should be more aware of regarding Kiva... Ignore the pictures of the people you are purportedly lending to, their projects, and even their country. That is pure marketing. If you read the small-print http://www.kiva.org/ab
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Spotify loses $41.5m despite strong customer demand(reuters.com)
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How is this different from what FocusMagic http://www.focusmagic.com/ has been offering for over a decade?
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by waitwhat 15y ago
It's an awful mess for me in Firefox as well. The letters in the body-text all seem to have a different baseline, and some horizontals are 2px while most are 1px. Frankly, attempting to read it just makes me feel tipsy.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Sure. And if you compare Spotify's turnover with that of the big dogs I mentioned earlier (Apple, Google, Amazon) with whom they are bound to eventually compete directly, they are still tiny .
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Spotify really is tiny . They make "a profit of €5m or less" -- http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/28/spotify-on-...
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Desperation? How do you figure? They have a sweet partnership with Facebook. That doesn't sound desperate to me. We don't know it's a sweet deal. My gut feeling is that it isn't, but that's by-the-by. We don't know anything. Slightly mor
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by waitwhat 15y ago
This is a sign of desperation from Spotify. Their product is far from unique, and only really interesting because it has better PR, more apps, a better library, and a slightly more legit licensing setup than the competition. None of those a
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Because Starbucks doesn't sell Mountain Dew or Red Bull?
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Yup. I clicked through, expecting to read an article with some evidence (however flimsy) that developers were intentionally introducing bugs in their software so that their partner could report the bug and claim a bounty. What I actually re
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Not sure if you skimmed the linked article and missed this or not: statistics from the Czech Republic, Sweden and the UK meet the Benford distribution particularly close and hence appear unsuspicious. All those countries have no interest i
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by waitwhat 15y ago
You certainly can find people smart enough to make sure that their fraudulent statistics will meet Benford's Law (or any other data model you wish). The article points out that Greece didn't find people this smart. Not meeting Benford's
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by waitwhat 15y ago
A few nits: The first link in the article comes to this thread, which I suspect is not what you wanted. "Oust" doesn't mean what you think it does. Who is this entrepeneur who only gets mentioned once, but was apparently helpful? Did you re

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