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6y ago
Those are definitely different things. Owning a GameStop stock gives you a small ownership and right to their profits (in form of dividends) in real money. Owning a cryptocurrency means nothing if you can't actually use it as a currenc
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6y ago
If that can't happen, companies are better off forking Signal's code and making their own variant.
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zakember
6y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you use to communicate with friends / distant family members when you have to? Most of my WhatsApp use has been to stay in touch with friends / families. Planning trips is almost impossible without WhatsA
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6y ago
Totally missed opportunity for RCS IMHO. If RCS was available worldwide (I believe it is mostly still US only) along with encryption, it would have been the obvious choice for most people by now since it would allow users to use their favor
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6y ago
> India might experience one or two major terrorist attacks. I am very curious to know what made you predict this
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6y ago
Any resources you can suggest to point interested engineers in the right direction?
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6y ago
Nope. That part is outsourced to humans.
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6y ago
The reason why (I think) this was less likely to work was because of haste. The hackers knew their tweets would be pulled down in a few minutes or so, so they had to put out tweets saying "in the next 30 mins" for people to send m
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6y ago
> Perhaps Target could should spend some of their data collection techniques on this instead of trying to figure out if your daughter is pregnant so they can send you maternity coupons. Why though? One makes them money and the other... a
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6y ago
"I will personally pay $100 to anyone who can make this without a bug and passes every case out there. But if they take up the offer and fail, they have to pay me $1000"
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7y ago
Just add '-site:quora.com' to your search query to avoid Quora altogether
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zakember
7y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but where you are from (assuming Finland), what do people use to pay for big amounts? Like buying a house or a car?
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7y ago
Everyone keeps talking about how Apple is only being sued for €25M which is a small amount for them, but no one is talking about the fact that France cannot have different fine amounts for different companies based on the company's pro
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7y ago
I would assume that while they don't tie your search with your username (when you turn it off), they would still store it anonymously to your location, IP address, browser, etc. to 'improve their results using Machine Learning
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7y ago
I think companies would fall back to OTPs to fix this situation
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7y ago
So unit testing instead of end-user testing at a system level
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7y ago
Unrelated but I'm really glad to see someone use duckduckgo in the wild
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8y ago
https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/tree/master/experi...
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9y ago
Can you please explain why this behavior is happening in this jsfiddle, or point me to a link that can help me understand this better?
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DEC64: Decimal Floating Point
(dec64.com)
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16y ago
Try getting paid for ur app using ads instead. Making it free this way for the users would be a win-win situation for all. I don't know if this is possible on iPhone and iPad apps or not, but thats how some jar games on my Nokia phone work,