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by wdewind 13y ago
What's the solution? We hate regulation as an industry, but if I was outside the industry, seeing these data breaches over and over again would seem to imply a need for regulation. Looking at PCI and HIPPA, as two examples, it doesn&
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by wdewind 13y ago
I think OP means that the developer is no longer in the organization on github (which currently has 0 members).
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by wdewind 13y ago
Not only that, for many engineers they are actually going to be "changing the world" at a larger company with huge resources and scale to give them. It's just a different mindset, not better or worse. I wish we weren't
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by wdewind 13y ago
Why not biking?
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by wdewind 13y ago
So you're going to leave the wave feature on then?
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by wdewind 13y ago
Question for you: is there anyway for you to continue using them and keep this feature on? Or does it only work if you have it connected, and if you have it connected Nest can push updates to it?
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by wdewind 13y ago
> Is it a requirement to explain what you believe? You can't just state it? I mean, there's no rational reason to oppose gay marriage, so attempting to rationalize it just comes off sounding stupid. Should we force a person to
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by wdewind 13y ago
Except he didn't stand his ground at all. He never once explained his beliefs. If he had done that I think people would've been a lot more tolerant of him. I don't think it had to end this way.
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by wdewind 13y ago
Can you explain the scheme in which a user would be authenticated and authorized under a credit-card-like-account that would not be open to the kind of fraud we see on credit cards currently? And you're right, what implies that fraud i
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by wdewind 13y ago
> That's not true everywhere. I'm not sure if it's US-only behaviour, but in other countries, the majority don't use credit cards for debt - just as a convenient payment mechanism. Sorry to pull an HN special on you,
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by wdewind 13y ago
False dichotomy.
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by wdewind 13y ago
How do you figure?
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by wdewind 13y ago
> Definitely a good point, particularly that bitcoin will have credit mechanisms built on top of it. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the point of bitcoin is that any credit mechanism built on top of it wouldn't have the same
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by wdewind 13y ago
Huh? One way transactions cut down charge backs, they don't cut down fraud. It just moves the fraud risk to the consumer (and the wallets), instead of the merchants. Great for merchants, not great for consumers. Again, as merchants
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by wdewind 13y ago
On the other hand... The 2 to 3% drag needs to be corrected for increased liquidity, which is difficult to do. People don't use credit cards because they are convenient, people use credit cards because they do not have the extra money
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by wdewind 13y ago
In comparison to refactoring into functions, adding comments offers: -similar level of abstraction -much worse readability -much worse modularity
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by wdewind 13y ago
Return an array or hash?
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by wdewind 13y ago
Here's a better solution: function main() do_blah_blah(); do_something_else(); end function do_blah_blah() obvious_thing; obvious_thing; obvious_thing; obvious_thing; end etc..
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by wdewind 13y ago
> In fact, registration arguably provides no protection other than the fact that it makes it easier to search for your mark in the USPTO registry. Isn't the trademark legally yours if you register and no one challenges for some peri
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by wdewind 13y ago
No, I think this is more "don't show up at NFL games expecting the coach to throw you on the field because you play in a weekend league."
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by wdewind 13y ago
Thanks, that's interesting. > If exchanges allowed this and profited by it by erecting artificial delays it would be extraordinarily immoral, but because it's a natural delay it is still illegal. This sounds a lot like "if
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by wdewind 13y ago
Literally how do you compare the debatable liquidity value to the debatable cost to those who didn't pay the toll? Why are those who didn't pay the toll more deserving and necessarily more benefitting to the economy? If there is
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by wdewind 13y ago
What causes you to conclude that there is no benefit to the economy?
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by wdewind 13y ago
I guess specifically I didn't like the way he phrased it, as if they are stealing data somehow. In fact they bought the access. Other than a clock rate (or 60km limiting box, as shown in the video) I'm not sure how you would cre
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by wdewind 13y ago
Ok, but this shouldn't really affect anyone but other HFTs, right? Maybe you get a very slightly different price but that shouldn't matter if you are holding investments long enough. If you are trying to outtrade HFTs and losing
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by wdewind 13y ago
How would the file get to the truecrypt volume? Wouldn't it be significantly more expensive to run the app on encrypted hdd?
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by wdewind 13y ago
Didn't bitcoin fork in it's early days and recover? What makes this unrecoverable?
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by wdewind 13y ago
> But I will choose the beneficial and sometimes altruistic creativity of the anti-psychopath over the self-advancing vice, social competitiveness, and superficial reliability of the psychopath every time, and be right most of the time I
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by wdewind 13y ago
> Such people, when faced with the slow pace and meaninglessness of most corporate work, often just elect to do something more useful, or try to solve the deeper and more important problem. It's hard to blame them. Again, massive im
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by wdewind 13y ago
If you work with a group of people you can't separate "reordering priorities" from the ethical issue of breaking a commitment. You keep on implying that as a software developer you know better than the people asking you to do

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