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by a8000 12y ago
Fast international money transfer is something that is already handled very well for those that truly need it. I know for a fact that the european central bank handles large volume transactions in a matter of seconds if not less. There is r
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by a8000 12y ago
They actually have to at least in some countries, you can't just only accept a made up currency and not legal tender.
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by a8000 12y ago
In the case of fiat money, it does have value because you have to pay taxes with it and anyone has to accept it for settling debts.
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by a8000 12y ago
I remember when I first switched to kde 4.0 and everything slowed to a crawl because some background process (nepomuk) thought it was a good idea to index the whole filesystem.
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by a8000 12y ago
In my eyes it is unfortunate that the terminal standard we are stuck with is dictated by a device designed in the 70s (vt100). There have been more advanced terminals, that had support for graphics and so on.
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by a8000 12y ago
Just like Private Browsing Modes in Chrome/Firefox tell you that they won't protect from agents.
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by a8000 12y ago
"Not even wrong" is something W. Pauli said first, although Feynman might have quoted him.
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by a8000 12y ago
I think people solve universal login without any service fairly successfully. They use the same email as account name and the same password on every service. There is really no need to have some external provider that manages "universa
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by a8000 12y ago
Does stock based compensation of 640 million mean that they are buying 640 million dollars worth of their own stock each year?
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by a8000 12y ago
In principle you can add full colors, image capabilities and direct manipulation of objects to a shell, see for example IPython (the Qt-shell) or Mathematica. Ultimately any large enough GUI application will add scripting support, take auto
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by a8000 12y ago
Events in the sense of: Here are all the queer reggae parties in Birmingham tonight/the next three months displayed on a map. If you decide to attend, get a semianonymous link you can send to all your friends by whatever method you cho
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by a8000 12y ago
People not using Windows, wont see this font to begin with, unless they chose to install Comic Sans for some reason.
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by a8000 12y ago
There are efforts by Microsoft Research in this direction: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/slam/ They have developed several domain specific languages and specification tools for developing drive
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by a8000 12y ago
Of course anyone who has not installed Microsoft Fonts won't see this at all.
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by a8000 12y ago
I think a startup focussing on only events and doing them well could have some potential.
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by a8000 12y ago
England does also not have the right weather. It is much nicer to sit outside in the evening and enjoy a whine, if you are not freezing.
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by a8000 12y ago
Lots of european cities have pedestrian zones, usually in the historical center of the city, there also aren't as many malls. The traditional medieval european city layout has market, town and church squares at their core and those are
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by a8000 12y ago
"Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt..." is the beginning of the first verse of the national anthem that has now been banned, although mostly because it refers to borders that Germany now does not have anym
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by a8000 12y ago
One symmetric cryptography method are one-time pads. Essentially you generate a truly random key (for example by observing some decay process) that has the same length as the maximum length of a message you might want to send and distribute
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by a8000 12y ago
What I don't understand why most crypto libraries are then implemented in an inherently unsafe language. I feel something like the secure subset of Ada would have been much more apropriate.
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by a8000 12y ago
You only share the data model between the server and the client.
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by a8000 12y ago
That is not true at all, the first five minutes will decide most of the early/mid game strategy. But if the build orders are executed flawlessly the match is far from decided at this point.
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by a8000 12y ago
That number was an upper bound estimate obtained by visually integrating the commit history, it is entirely possible that it is significantly lower.
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by a8000 12y ago
Rewriting from scratch can be beneficial, take the V8 engine in Chrome for example.
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by a8000 12y ago
Obama went back to just killing suspected terrorists, instead of torturing them.
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by a8000 12y ago
I think you have misconceptions about what American policy has been in the past. Remember all the US backed coups in South and Central America, accompied by mass slaughter of political opposition (e.g. Contras in Nicaragua) often by groups
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by a8000 12y ago
Anyone with a shred of conscience would have resigned from the Bush administration sooner than later. The war against Iraq was against international law, since it was not sanctioned by an UN resolution, regardless of the war crimes commited
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by a8000 12y ago
Remember there are lots of NP hard problems, that soak up any additional computing power you throw at them. A lot of them are very important (placement in EDA for example). Supercomputers today are already 1000000 faster than current deskto
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by a8000 12y ago
I don't understand this attitude, if something is incredibly complex and very hard to get right, this can indicate that there is a mismatch between the tools you use to implement it and what you should use. With the right language it
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by a8000 12y ago
What I don't understand is why there aren't companies around that have an interest in improving this software and pay ~1-5 people ~1 million to rewrite it in a year.

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