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by zeroxfe 9y ago
This would never fly at my bank. They really should've used the observer pattern for the divisibility tests.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> Yes, that's why the Soviet Union's lead on space in the early 60s translated into abundant production of consumer goods. Ladas all over the place. The Soviet Union's failing at national productivity was not because they
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Pretty much any new high-end vehicle is unserviceable outside of their service centers due to requiring custom diagnostic and programming equipment. However, body and other simpler mechanical work can be done outside service centers (for Te
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> That's a bit naive. Google is not a charity and provides that service by making a profit out of user data. So what if they make profit -- they provide a fantastic service that actually works well, and it allows homebrew (and many
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Or less cynically: WhatsApp: cheap plentiful messaging Airbnb: cheap plentiful vacation rentals Uber: cheap plentiful taxis Amazon: cheap plentiful stuff Facebook: ... umm i'm sure there's something here ... Google: cheap plentifu
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> It's super easy to focus on a single metric (user growth) when you have a seemingly unlimited amount of capital Where are you getting this from? Whatsapp was a very lean shop _because_ they had very little capital to work with. E
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Verifiable audit trails.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> the energy cost of bitcoin is ongoing and depends on the volume of transactions Wait, what? That's not correct at all. The energy cost is based on the "difficulty", which is derived from the moving average of the hashpo
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Also Standard tier is 24 - 33% cheaper than premium.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
The modern editors take "mod-ability" to the next level because of tighter integration with the graphical chroming. (E.g., it would probably not be very straightforward to have a minimap 30 years ago.)
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Just FYI, the most recent version of vscode supports huge files. (I agree in general about Sublime performance vs Electron -- Sublime is way more responsive.)
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
In many countries $70 is a lot of money. Especially when there are superb free options (like vscode, neovim, etc.)
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Frequent high-quality updates, lots of communication, great plugin ecosystem, open source.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
That's how research works.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
I think you just strengthened GPs argument.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> 10 new "bitcoins" could fork every day. Are we really going to expect coinbase to support them all? That's absurd. Of course it's absurd, and nobody expects them to support 10 forks a day. If that was actually happe
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Traditional distributed databases require all nodes to be trusted to achieve consensus (e.g., with Paxos, Raft, etc.) Proof-of-work allows for consensus to occur even if there are malicious nodes -- for up to half the hashrate, which means
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Federated blockchains allow multiple parties in an industry (for example) to maintain a shared trusted database, with no single owner, or single point of failure. (Also, changing immutable data or posting fraudulent transactions requires co
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
- Evernote is awesome, and I use it for all kinds of things (desktop, web, and mobile.) It's kinda the building block of my life. (I make sure to export the database regularly and back it up to Google Drive, just incase.) - Google Cale
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
It is extremely expensive to setup and maintain infrastructure to process big data, especially when you get into the petabytes.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Not the social aspects, which was the very first (and probably most important) thing listed.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
I've been using ASUS routers with the Asus Merlin[1] firmware for a very long time -- they're just fantastic if you want customizability. Current router: ASUS AC3100 [1] https://asuswrt.lostrealm.ca/
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Yes, I agree, and I see that these cases are clearly outliers -- nevertheless, it doesn't seem reasonable to blame Uber for this.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
What I don't understand is why the free market doesn't correct for this. If Uber drivers make less than what they need, they'd stop driving for Uber, causing some kind of price correction, no? (BTW, I'm no fan of Uber, b
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Paxos requires trust between peers. The Blockchain is designed to tolerate byzantine failures. These are very different problem spaces. (/me worked on Paxos for about a decade.)
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> The blockchain to me is fundamentally flawed way to look at distributed computation. It really isn't distributed computing because there is a shared agreed and singular "truth". This is an odd definition of distributed c
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
The vast majority of people don't care about TCP/IP either, but still use Facebook. (Blockchains are similarly low-level infrastructure, that enable all kinds of higher-level user applications.)
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Why not both? (which is actually what happened here)
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
That's why you have the additional security deposits.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> Many companies get away with doing far worse. Yes, but that doesn't mean that Uber should get away with it. > Uber more than redeemed themself. Umm... how?

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