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by elchupanebre 4y ago
Sundar's claim to fame is Google Toolbar for MSIE. It was a big deal at that time. It locked Google search on MSIE and ultimately enable navboost in search quality. Then he was the product lead on the Chrome team. I don't know if
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by elchupanebre 4y ago
> You aren't really engaging seriously. Do you really want to switch discussion to personalities? > and dragnet surveillance and the power to freeze or seize money from anyone's account at will You still miss the point. Cryp
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by elchupanebre 4y ago
Not true. Fiat currencies are backed by the consumer of last resort: governments. Everyone has to pay taxes using the official currency of the country. For instance, US$ is backed by approximately 25% of the GDP which the government collect
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by elchupanebre 4y ago
> Yes, they are ready to use violence to enforce their rules, no that doesn't help them read my encrypted data/messages/transactionds if I don't give them the key. You are mistaken. There is a technique called "r
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by elchupanebre 4y ago
Let me repeat: any kind of government comes down to monopoly on use of violence. It does not matter if it's Henry VIII or Kim Jong Un or Democratically Elected Government of Cyberspace or Pablo Escobar. The core of any government is a
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by elchupanebre 4y ago
There is a contradiction in your reasoning. The system we have today requires surveillance and control of governments to function. The parallel system or systems on the internet would also require some form of external, i.e. off block
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by elchupanebre 4y ago
> The over-prioritization of certain products, which has led to a lack of focus on other important issues like infrastructure It comes down to someone's judgement call. It's usually not possible to quantify if "certain p
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by elchupanebre 5y ago
The main problem with Firefox is Gecko. Technically it's a great rendering engine, fast, standards-compliant, maybe only slightly more buggy than Webkit. Unfortunately it has a different set of bugs than webkit. Web developers have jus
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by elchupanebre 5y ago
I wonder why Fastmail decided to bend the knee and proactively block Russian IPs. The only thing those &^#%$-!@ could do is just that what FM did: block Russian IPs. Why make life easier for the dictators? What does FM gain by complying
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by elchupanebre 5y ago
The reason for that is actually rational: when Amit Singhal was in charge the search rules were written by hand. Once he was fired, the Search Quality team switched to machine learning. The ML was better in many ways: it produced higher qua
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by elchupanebre 5y ago
If it's so much more efficient then why is it sold at 2-3x the price of a normal beef burger? Where does the difference go?
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by elchupanebre 6y ago
The reason for rising inequality in the States is very clear: offshoring and automation. Historically, the rest of the world had much lower wages while it was difficult to move US jobs to other countries for political and logistical reasons
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by elchupanebre 6y ago
But they are getting an unlicensed product. IMNAL, but if they are made aware of the fact and continue to use the product, wouldn't it be willful misconduct?
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Crashlytics has been partially broken for 4 days[1]
2 points by elchupanebre 6y ago|0 comments
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by elchupanebre 7y ago
EU demands common charger standard but does not require a specific type of charger, right? It does not prescribe USB-C. So, what prevents Apple from offering lightning connector as a common EU standard? :) Problem solved!
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by elchupanebre 7y ago
It doesn't have to be p2p. It just needs to be sufficiently decentralized, like email. If a company provides software but not a service then it's not liable under the new ruling. You can also run it outside of US jurisdiction. For
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by elchupanebre 7y ago
We've been using Firebase and one of the issues we had is that methods become "cold": if it's not used for a few minutes, the latency of the next call is unpredictable and could be in tens of seconds. The way Cloud Run i
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by elchupanebre 7y ago
If you want to try socialist culture go work for the government.
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by elchupanebre 7y ago
Erlang is just too different from the C-like languages that everyone is accustomed to.
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by elchupanebre 7y ago
Well, then there is even more open sourced alternative than Mattermost: https://github.com/tinode/chat
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by elchupanebre 7y ago
Here is another scam that someone tried to pull on me. I booked a place in Reno a week in advance. On the night before check-in at about 2am I got a text from the host asking me to increase the price of stay by $20. That was small and I did
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by elchupanebre 7y ago
You are still wrong though :) Gambling contracts are legal in a lot of states. They are also generally not enforceable through courts. If my argument is tautological (I think not), yours is just factually wrong :)
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by elchupanebre 7y ago
I don't doubt for a second that money laundering and tax evasion services are very lucrative. Look at Cayman Islands. Their per capita GDP (PPP) is higher than in the States! If you are in the business of offering furtive financial ser
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by elchupanebre 7y ago
Why downvotes? He is exactly right about crypto (>50% of volume?) being used to move money out of China.
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by elchupanebre 7y ago
No. Far from it. If you buy cocaine from Colombia your contract won't be enforceable in a court of law.
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by elchupanebre 7y ago
SEC requirement is a side effect of the fact that contracts are enforceable in a court of law.
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by elchupanebre 7y ago
> Liechtenstein’s law ... covers digital securities as well L's population is around 35 thousand. It's like City Council of Menlo Park CA gaining a status of a sovereign state and then making venture capitalists from Sand Hill
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by elchupanebre 7y ago
No. They already spent a good chunk of it: by Jan 31 2019 they spent $218M (that's a LOT! 200 employees burn no more than $50M a year, hosting maybe another $20M; the rest is probably just taken out by insiders). At that burn rate they
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by elchupanebre 7y ago
It's unlikely that one Ponzi scheme will invest into another.
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by elchupanebre 7y ago
They already raised $1.7B (and spent a good chunk of it, $280M by Jan 31 2019, probably $0.5B by now). Those who gave them money need a grater fool to buy the tokens from them. Otherwise the fun cannot continue. Someone will have to pay. &g

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