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by aback 11y ago
More elegant: leak the OS build itself, so that the specific attack vector they warned about comes to pass.
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by aback 11y ago
What is the incentive to mine the real estate blockchain? Does it pay out a free house every 10 minutes?
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by aback 11y ago
or even venus
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by aback 11y ago
"You'll see why 1984 won't be like Nineteen Eighty-Four." - Apple, 1984.
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by aback 11y ago
No true scotsman, indeed. Counterargument: "No true Christian" could ever kill an enemy - Jesus was clear in this: turn the other cheek, die on the cross if need be, forgive 70 times 7 times, etc. In my sect, Christianity is tota
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by aback 11y ago
Which "America" is the one that benefits from secrecy? America depends on an informed populace in order to guide its representative government. Feed the population lies and hide secrets, and break democracy.
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by aback 11y ago
I think he's arguing that government's power to destroy big companies is only as strong as the popular distaste for those companies. A company like Apple, which is practically an icon of "everything America still gets right,&
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by aback 11y ago
I have long agreed with this theory. There's a reason why the right is like that IMO, and it gets down to this diagram: http://33.media.tumblr.com/e1aaee07d8101970433020eee016ff9b/... It is my opinion that people
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by aback 11y ago
That's interesting. IANAL but seems like you're missing something. Apple can simply let Employee B take Employee A's place after A quits. When the authorities come for B, B can quit, and Apple can re-hire A. Apple never has
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by aback 11y ago
> I hope Apple finds a compromise where they can help get this specific data without risking leaking a compromised OS. I want pharmaceuticals without side effects, and real doughnuts that don't make you fat. Seriously, you are askin
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by aback 11y ago
> would only load and execute on the SUBJECT DEVICE You're wrong because any image that can be installed on the SUBJECT DEVICE can be modified to be installed on OTHER DEVICES.
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by aback 11y ago
Fighting will probably impact the bottom line. As in, improve it. Tim Cook is probably more popular than Obama (and surely is WRT this issue.) Apple is about a thousand times more popular than the NSA and blessed with almost infinitely dee
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by aback 11y ago
Yes, the Founding Fathers of the USA probably were considered terrorists, and they talked an awful lot about freedom.
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by aback 11y ago
I know it requires Tim Cook to be willing to martyr himself, but do we really see Obama whisking the CEO of Apple Computer off to Guantanamo or some supermax prison? I'd maybe call the bluff, and take my political stand.
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by aback 11y ago
That's actually a good idea if you don't need too much extra horsepower. You get a good keyboard, an acceptable display, and a lightweight machine for a don't-care-if-you-drop-it price.
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by aback 11y ago
All third-generation programming languages (and higher) are leaky abstractions. Why is C++ worse than others?
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by aback 11y ago
> Unless your intent is to quite literally put 100% of Bitcoin full nodes in datacenters It is a fallacy to think that unless people can run nodes on dial-up in basements, the Bitcoin network has failed in its mission. Thousands of nodes
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by aback 11y ago
Those who have to account for their productivity (like devs) are probably in short supply. Those who do not have to account for their productivity (like managers, accountants, and marketers) are probably in excess.
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by aback 11y ago
when people argue that "digital distribution is essentially free," then ask why Soundcloud is losing money, since distributing music is literally their only real cost of doing business. we will continue to endure substantial cultu
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by aback 11y ago
Also: Imagine you're a bank calculating the interest rate to offer on a loan. Do you think that rate will be lower or higher if you believe there are circumstances wherein the government would unilaterally forgive your bad debts if y
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by aback 11y ago
First off, the numbers I cited were not theoretical, they were the observed network run rate at the time I posted. Secondly, Bitcoin doesn't have to scale up to Visa levels, at least not in 2016. In 2016, it just has to scale up. And
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by aback 11y ago
Also craigslist.org. That site looks like 1995 called and wants its web page back. It's a triumph of non-engineering. But that network effect. Man oh man.
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by aback 11y ago
Hmm. When technology basically took away musicians's ability to sell digital music files, the world pretty much said, "figure out a new way to sell music." So, "figure out a new way to advertise." Welcome to disru
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by aback 11y ago
> There is no level of hash calculations that is acceptable. Well that's just unreasonable. Do you have any earthly idea how much CO2 the current banking system expends?
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by aback 11y ago
The problem with basing a money on something that has value, is that changes in perception of the value of the thing, result in changes in prices across the economy. Say gold is the currency base. Now we discover Alzheimer's can be cu
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by aback 11y ago
The cost to secure the system is orthogonal to the cost of processing transactions and rises and lowers proportional to coin price, providing a level of security commensurate with the market value of the thing secured. The cost per transact
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by aback 11y ago
> There's not much room for "casual observer C development." For the rest of the world, that's why we have Erlang. lmaoed at that one
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by aback 11y ago
Of course proof of work has always been used to decide consensus parameters. It's just tuat no controversial changes / failures to change have ever been put to the vote. As long as the changes are non controversial then miners and
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by aback 11y ago
It is my reading of the code and understanding of the emergent crypto-economy that leads me to these self-evident conclusions. Are you refuting my points or agreeing with them? If you have an actual rebuttal to any of them, I'm interes
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by aback 11y ago
"If" And if they are not?

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