altern8tif

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by altern8tif 1y ago
Seems a possibility for the medium term. I've also seen speculation that it's an engineering experiment to see if they can squeeze all the essential components of a high-powered computer into a space the size of the camera plateau
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by altern8tif 1y ago
The blockchain isn't the problem. It's supposedly the solution.
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by altern8tif 7y ago
That takes courage.
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by altern8tif 8y ago
I don't think that's the point. Sure you can vote with your wallet, but it is still pretty annoying to have an insurance salesperson or a telemarketer make an irrelevant sales pitch to you every few minutes. While targetted ads s
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Stephen Hawking Is Still Underrated(theatlantic.com)
3 points by altern8tif 9y ago|0 comments
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Agreed. Similar reason why Starbucks has a Venti size and no longer lists their Short size on the menu – so that it makes it more reasonable (from a consumer standpoint) to purchase the medium-range option (Grande), thus pushing up the ave
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Same here. BEM is not "technology". It's a philosophy or an organisational pattern.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
I wish more people would work on ideas that would impact the poorer half of the human race.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
@yegg, is DuckDuckHack coming back? That was one of my first forays into open source and was hoping that there is more that I (and the community) can do to help improve DDG further.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
I've got a team exploring the idea of executing a smart contract that transfers assets (be it crypto-asset or real world assets) upon a specific real-world trigger event (via oracles). But you're right, the legal issues are a dime
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by altern8tif 9y ago
What is Wavecrest's business model as a card issuer then? [Genuine question]
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by altern8tif 9y ago
The dollar is only "backed by oil" if you can take your dollar bill to the US Treasury and get it exchanged a dollop of crude of an equivalent value. The last time the dollar was backed by any asset was when it was under the gold
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by altern8tif 9y ago
I think he's referring to cryptocurrencies as opposed to listed securities.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
> But Satoshi also recognized that having more computing power on the network made the network stronger as long as the people with the power, like Laszlo, wanted to see Bitcoin succeed. Not sure if I entirely agree with/understand t
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A treatise on the future of fiat money(scribd.com)
1 points by altern8tif 9y ago|0 comments
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Depending on whether you used their internal wallet (which they heavily incentivised), sellers might have lost their earnings in BTC from selling their hashpower.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
I'll be damned if Uber isn't a required case study for business school students in the (near) future. They are fast becoming the Enron of this generation.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
May not be exactly what you're looking for, but under the Customize menu, you can toggle the Title Bar. This adds a macOS-style title bar and flushes the tabs to the left of the window.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
That's really surprising considering that we've seen beta releases of iOS for quite a number of years now. Isn't the point of a beta release to make sure that the OS is battle-tested with users who would use it like they do i
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Don't mean to be a downer, but it feels like we'll get to self-driving cars before we can automate/autopilot drones. Having to consider additional degrees of freedom (z-axis, correction for wind/weather conditions) makes
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Genuine question here: Are there defamation or slander laws in the US? How does that reconcile with the First Amendment?
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by altern8tif 9y ago
How does Bitcoin make the transition from a gold-like store-of-value to a medium-of-exchange then? If the general consensus is that Bitcoin's value will continue to appreciate, it makes more sense for one to hoard it rather than to use
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by altern8tif 9y ago
If everyone kept all their cash under their mattresses, what makes you think your employer would be able to pay your salary? Where would your employer get the cash to pay you? A healthy economy requires money to flow through it at a health
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Wouldn't it be obvious if you constantly switch your account back and forth between public and private?
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Am I missing something here? Isn't the notch already taken up by FaceID sensors/front-facing camera? It isn't really "extra screen real estate". I do like the idea of a separate indicator for system-wide security
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by altern8tif 9y ago
More accurately, it's raining or not raining.
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Shut Up and Take My Money?(datajoy.us)
1 points by altern8tif 9y ago|0 comments
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by altern8tif 9y ago
I wonder if this happens for Square + Twitter as well.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
The extensibility of Alfred makes it a whole order of magnitude better than Spotlight. Check out the Alfred ecosystem over at packal.org. The Spotify and Github workflows are my most used shortcuts. What Spotlight makes up for by being th
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Not entirely relevant to the original story, but Facebook does use machine learning to identify faces as well (similar technology to how Google or Apple uses in their Photo apps). So even if you've never been tagged in a photo or check

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