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by em_te 2y ago
I think windows were flat on Windows 3.1 too and only adopted the 3D raised borders starting with Windows 95.
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Uncloaking Fake Search Ads that display a legitimate URL on the search engine(netcraft.com)
3 points by em_te 3y ago|0 comments
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by em_te 3y ago
Moreover, Google said they did a study when they first released their minimalist homepage design and when people saw lots of white space below the search bar, they assumed the page wasn't finished loading yet and more content was to co
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by em_te 4y ago
And Uber which eventually led to massive loses.
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by em_te 4y ago
If movies have taught us anything, they need to remain on the call for at least 30 seconds for it to be traced.
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by em_te 4y ago
But then when is any button in the UI not considered an Ad? Chrome's new Side Panel button is an ad for the side panel feature.
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by em_te 4y ago
Like all web apps it depends on how much you want to do on the client side vs. the server side. With blockchain apps it is now client side vs. server side vs. blockchain side. At one extreme, apps like UniSwap are mostly blockchain side and
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by em_te 4y ago
> the cryptobros realize that the reason for interest rates isn’t the transaction cost or the paperwork but the enforcement arm to get people to complete the whole transaction through to the end. It's interesting you brought that up
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by em_te 4y ago
Transaction time was arbitrarily set to allow time for a majority of parties on the Internet to verify transactions. It is a trade off of speed versus security. It was picked as a common denominator so that people on the opposite side of th
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by em_te 4y ago
Forking requires consensus among the decentralized miners. If the majority of the minors didn't agree to fork, they wouldn't have been able to fork the chain.
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by em_te 4y ago
The ENS domain system is similar, but they added a few rules to benefit the domain holder: 1) When the domain expires, it still remains active and still linked to the previous owner. People can still use it as normal. 2) When it expires, th
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by em_te 4y ago
It's hard for it to die when countries like Venezuela tried to create their own crypto to get around US sanctions on the Venezuelan dollar. And when that failed, Venezuelans switched to Bitcoin because the Bolívar currency was inflatin
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by em_te 4y ago
0.6% for business transactions 0% for peer to peer transactions 0% to transfer from your bank account to WeChat 0.001% to transfer from your WeChat to bank account
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by em_te 4y ago
But fraud-wise Zelle doesn't seem as protective as regular banks: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/business/payments-fraud-z... > “It’s like the banks have colluded with the sleazebags on the s
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by em_te 4y ago
You know, the very website you are viewing uses encryption.
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by em_te 4y ago
Yes and this is a case where the best technology doesn't win, but the first technology to come to market or the first technology with the first killer app. But this bug can be viewed as a feature. Give a person a hammer and everything
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by em_te 4y ago
Amazon uses outsourced drivers do it would be surveillance of their partners.
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by em_te 4y ago
> You have a lot of faith in these brands. Bombas was founded in 2019 by an MBA grad and a marketing graduate. They have no reputation. These aren't like hand crafted sock makers doing this for decades in Italy. They're adverti
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by em_te 4y ago
https://www.parity.io/blog/un-world-food-programme-uses-pari... The UN saved more than 40,000 USD per month in bank transfer costs by using blockchain.
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by em_te 4y ago
As a consumer, I don't mind if they are less efficient. Just as long as they are the cheapest option.
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by em_te 4y ago
>> So does crypto [...] > I'd wager that this is a lie. Please name one. Alibaba ran a Foreign Exchange service on top of crypto. I don't know if it is still running or not. It functioned like Western Union. Customers sen
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by em_te 5y ago
I remember when Java applets could prompt the user to accept "all or nothing" permissions and fine grained permissions wasn't supported.
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PhartShield (Firefox addon) offers real-time protection against pharting attacks(addons.mozilla.org)
1 points by em_te 7y ago|0 comments
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by em_te 9y ago
Yeah but having to switch to createElement, appendChild, insertBefore, createTextNode just because innerHTML was not allowed was a pain in the butt.
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How to Create a QR Code Reader for Your Mobile Website(sitepoint.com)
1 points by em_te 9y ago|0 comments
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by em_te 9y ago
You'll also need to average out the speed of your website accessed from different geographical locations.
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by em_te 10y ago
I don't know the stats but 3 out of 10 people I know use Wubi for input instead of Pinyin. Wubi needs to be learned from the ground up but is faster to type by a half.
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by em_te 10y ago
Compare "xi an" with "xian". One is 2 words and one is 1 word. But for some reason Chinese people don't like to put spaces in between words so "xi an shi" is often written as "xi'anshi" whic
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by em_te 10y ago
Or Fitbit was too expensive for what they were offering. The only thing Fitbit had going was brand recognition.
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by em_te 10y ago
That's why we write in C# or Java instead of C and machine code. We accept abstractions at the cost of more computations in exchange for maintainability and reduced complexity. React is similar to how innerHTML became more popular than

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