I think the answer is much simpler: at the time Windows was created, no one in their most sadistic totalitarian dream could have imagined such evil as an app store.
Windows is Microsoft own product. Anyone can run anything on it without anyone's permission.
This is extremely flawed reasoning, and I'm sad to see a comment of this low quality on HN. Tether's valuation is based on free market trade. If an insider knew they are not 100% backed, he has a billion dollars…
Cleaning fee is actually a discount on longer stays. Hotels offer such discounts too.
When it lifts something, it can apply the force gradually. When that force approaches the tipping limit, it would abandon the lift.
Most people think Bitcoin is a gambling chip, but it is first and foremost a new form of money. Let me repeat Bitcoin's benefits: - You can pay anyone and been paid by anyone without anyone's permission. Not so with…
Except there was no faked value injected anywhere, all tethers are 100% backed by USD in the bank. The reports are fake news. If it were not so, the freely traded tether/USD value would be below 1, but it isn't, it's…
Doesn't work against China and Russia ... doesn't really work even against Venezuela.
He might be right. There is a considerable work being done currently on Bitcoin to improve it's transaction throughput, speed, privacy and fees. Once it's done, in a year or two, Bitcoin will have great utility as a…
So what, out of fear to earn too little interest (0.25%), risk to lose 50% of your investment? +0.25% looks better than -50% to me. Don't see a rational logic here. Though humans have been shown to be irrational,…
But people routinely buy insurance, and it's considered a right and moral thing to do. Though the math is exactly the same as with the lottery. Statistically, odds are unfavorable. But it buys peace of mind, so people…
For example, in some cases (I won't specify for the fear of being cancelled) your chance of becoming rich by your skills is exactly zero, and you know it. Chance of winning the lottery is small, but higher than zero.
What's the big difference for a driver? It's still the same time, same gas and miles put on the car. True, the food won't throw up in his car, but he should get out of the car to pick up the order, often has to wait at…
How is that in the US there are always monopolies everywhere? Where I live, there are at least 10 different car sharing apps, and there is an app that lets you see which app offers better rates for a given destination.…
If delivery costs the same as an average Uber ride, say, $10, it makes every order under $100 unprofitable. An average food order is way below that, I think. So the math doesn't add up.
Truth is only important to us as long as it contributes positively to our well-being. This sort of mushrooms is edible and this one is poisonous - everyone would agree on that. As far as more abstract truths are…
Testing arose with the advent of PHP and JavaScript. Because compilers check nothing in these languages, testing must be written separately, otherwise it's impossible to make even a short program without errors.
But what if Alice is right and silent majority is wrong? I would say silent majority is mostly wrong in recent times.
Apartment managers see credit score below X and reject an applicant. If they were to make their own decisions, it would be a legal liability. If they reject based on credit score and other non-protected criteria, they…
Yes, it's not quite the same. One time update vs everyday bombarding with ads and popups and making it so that large percentage of WWW sites doesn't work with anything but Chrome.
I can assure you weapon developers also think they benefit society. They usually say: WWIII did not happen only because of nuclear weapons. The question here is, what would benefit society more, spending said $21B on…
That's the same argument as weapon developers use, and weapon development contributed much more to fundamental physics than particle accelerators. The majority of funds after the WWII flowed to physics thanks to the…
IE had 95% market share at some point, Chrome is nowhere close, thanks primarily to Apple with its Safari browser. But the trend is worrying, with more and more sites working only in Chrome (or another Chromium derived…
Lol, snowflakes, coffee doesn't taste the same ... try living in poverty, in war, like hundreds of millions of people live every day of their life.
I am old. Back in 1995 web sites loaded faster with 14.4k modems than some of them load today with 200mgps connection.
I think the answer is much simpler: at the time Windows was created, no one in their most sadistic totalitarian dream could have imagined such evil as an app store.
Windows is Microsoft own product. Anyone can run anything on it without anyone's permission.
This is extremely flawed reasoning, and I'm sad to see a comment of this low quality on HN. Tether's valuation is based on free market trade. If an insider knew they are not 100% backed, he has a billion dollars…
Cleaning fee is actually a discount on longer stays. Hotels offer such discounts too.
When it lifts something, it can apply the force gradually. When that force approaches the tipping limit, it would abandon the lift.
Most people think Bitcoin is a gambling chip, but it is first and foremost a new form of money. Let me repeat Bitcoin's benefits: - You can pay anyone and been paid by anyone without anyone's permission. Not so with…
Except there was no faked value injected anywhere, all tethers are 100% backed by USD in the bank. The reports are fake news. If it were not so, the freely traded tether/USD value would be below 1, but it isn't, it's…
Doesn't work against China and Russia ... doesn't really work even against Venezuela.
He might be right. There is a considerable work being done currently on Bitcoin to improve it's transaction throughput, speed, privacy and fees. Once it's done, in a year or two, Bitcoin will have great utility as a…
So what, out of fear to earn too little interest (0.25%), risk to lose 50% of your investment? +0.25% looks better than -50% to me. Don't see a rational logic here. Though humans have been shown to be irrational,…
But people routinely buy insurance, and it's considered a right and moral thing to do. Though the math is exactly the same as with the lottery. Statistically, odds are unfavorable. But it buys peace of mind, so people…
For example, in some cases (I won't specify for the fear of being cancelled) your chance of becoming rich by your skills is exactly zero, and you know it. Chance of winning the lottery is small, but higher than zero.
What's the big difference for a driver? It's still the same time, same gas and miles put on the car. True, the food won't throw up in his car, but he should get out of the car to pick up the order, often has to wait at…
How is that in the US there are always monopolies everywhere? Where I live, there are at least 10 different car sharing apps, and there is an app that lets you see which app offers better rates for a given destination.…
If delivery costs the same as an average Uber ride, say, $10, it makes every order under $100 unprofitable. An average food order is way below that, I think. So the math doesn't add up.
Truth is only important to us as long as it contributes positively to our well-being. This sort of mushrooms is edible and this one is poisonous - everyone would agree on that. As far as more abstract truths are…
Testing arose with the advent of PHP and JavaScript. Because compilers check nothing in these languages, testing must be written separately, otherwise it's impossible to make even a short program without errors.
But what if Alice is right and silent majority is wrong? I would say silent majority is mostly wrong in recent times.
Apartment managers see credit score below X and reject an applicant. If they were to make their own decisions, it would be a legal liability. If they reject based on credit score and other non-protected criteria, they…
Yes, it's not quite the same. One time update vs everyday bombarding with ads and popups and making it so that large percentage of WWW sites doesn't work with anything but Chrome.
I can assure you weapon developers also think they benefit society. They usually say: WWIII did not happen only because of nuclear weapons. The question here is, what would benefit society more, spending said $21B on…
That's the same argument as weapon developers use, and weapon development contributed much more to fundamental physics than particle accelerators. The majority of funds after the WWII flowed to physics thanks to the…
IE had 95% market share at some point, Chrome is nowhere close, thanks primarily to Apple with its Safari browser. But the trend is worrying, with more and more sites working only in Chrome (or another Chromium derived…
Lol, snowflakes, coffee doesn't taste the same ... try living in poverty, in war, like hundreds of millions of people live every day of their life.
I am old. Back in 1995 web sites loaded faster with 14.4k modems than some of them load today with 200mgps connection.