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by resf 9y ago
Wow, do nutrition labels in USA generally not show figures per 100g?
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by resf 9y ago
Literally the first sentence: Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments.
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by resf 9y ago
Consider Dubai. Built by immigrants, used by natives.
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by resf 9y ago
Your argument is that it's OK to hurt someone if there's a chance that they might be hurt regardless. If I were Chinese I'd be feeling pretty damn patronized if someone told me they were taking my iPhone away and I should b
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by resf 9y ago
This would harm Chinese people. If you lived in China, would you consider an iPhone or a Chinese phone to be more secure against intrusion?
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by resf 9y ago
Stupid question: can the glue code not be licensed under both GPL and CCDL? Clearly ZFS is not a derivative work of Linux and Linux is not a derivative work of ZFS. Only the glue code is in violation (because it derives from both).
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by resf 9y ago
That some people are too vain to adopt is not a good enough justification. It is a foundational point of ethics that medical experimentation must be voluntary.
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by resf 9y ago
Tell that to WeChat, Alipay et al.
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by resf 9y ago
If I buy a grain of sand from you for $10, have I just massively expanded the number of dollars in existence? Market capitalisations != money.
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by resf 9y ago
> As I understand it, bitcoin doesn't track coins so much as it tracks the funds associated with account numbers. It's actually the opposite. The blockchain does track coins, but not accounts or account numbers. Rather, each
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by resf 9y ago
Decaying in more than one way. The JS files on milliondollarhomepage.com start with: /* FILE ARCHIVED ON 5:47:20 Aug 6, 2015 AND RETRIEVED FROM THE INTERNET ARCHIVE ON 20:45:17 Aug 24, 2015. JAVASCRIPT
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by resf 9y ago
> Is it possible that we're fat only because we're eating the wrong kind of sugars? Nope, we are fat because there are many cheap sources of calories, particularly deep fried foods.
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by resf 9y ago
I think by "better" you mean "more properly" ;) I'm sure IELTS doesn't cover important life skills such as "use of the word innit".
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by resf 9y ago
Imagine you go to Ancient Greece and tell them: "in the future there will be a library of over 1 million books and papers containing the knowledge of the world, that any person rich or poor can access from almost anywhere in the world&
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by resf 9y ago
Although descriptive of the legal situation, I object to the term "pirate library". There is no practical difference between a pirate library and a brick and mortar library, except the larger stock of books online. My local librar
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by resf 9y ago
It seems to me that large blockchains^ are some of the most stable social structures in existence. The rules of Bitcoin have been in place for 8 years with only minor modifications, despite huge sums of money passing through the system. T
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by resf 9y ago
In a blockchain, the participants in the network have unlimited authority to modify the "law" of the blockchain, even retroactively. If there is sufficient consensus among Ethereum users for a hard fork, then it can happen.
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by resf 9y ago
Hydroelectric power, like geothermal, is only applicable if the geography permits it. It is also a potential WMD, so you'd better hope the area where you are building your dam is either not near a population center or is (geo)political
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by resf 9y ago
ITER is an almost pointless project, because its design is already outdated even before it has completed. DEMO, if it ever exists, will almost certainly have more in common with ARC than with ITER.
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by resf 9y ago
At least in the UK, merchants pay very low fees to process debit card payments, to the extent that some merchants (e.g. budget airlines) do not accept or charge a penalty for using credit cards.
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by resf 9y ago
Centralized payment networks will always be cheaper to administer than blockchains. The only reason that Visa and Mastercard have such high fees is because it's a duopoly.
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by resf 9y ago
Anybody who cares about the privacy of their communication can still use an open source stack. So yes it works as a tool for oppression and for catching extremely inept criminals, but it doesn't do much else for national security.
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by resf 9y ago
Wait so the name of the website is stored in plain text? So if I want to store my login for gaymidgetporn.com, there will be a file on my computer with that name? And anything or anybody on my computer can see all the websites for which I h
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by resf 9y ago
Article contradicts its own title. WhatsApp is not required to open end-to-end encrypted messages.
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by resf 9y ago
Since Devon is in the UK, presumably very few.
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by resf 9y ago
The opposite side of that coin is that other programming languages do already exist. Any new language is already playing catch-up to reach the state of the art. Go is 10 years old and in those 10 years has made astonishingly little progre
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by resf 9y ago
Electricity is not perfectly fungible because of infrastructure costs and transmission losses. The nature of mining as a competition for the cheapest electricity means that miners will naturally move towards areas where the electricity is
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by resf 9y ago
There is no "better" or "worse". The S&P500 is less volatile than Bitcoin, the flip side of that is that historically Bitcoin has appreciated relative to the S&P 500. Bitcoins are far more practical than an S&a
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by resf 9y ago
Nvidia have a lot of money, so the law is on their side.
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by resf 9y ago
Every source code file is a story. A story with characters, relationships between them, and how the characters behave towards one another. Humans are hardwired to understand the world (and by extension computers) in terms of stories. The wa

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