Consider Dubai. Built by immigrants, used by natives.
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…
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?
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…
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.
Tell that to WeChat, Alipay et al.
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.
> 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,…
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".
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
Article contradicts its own title. WhatsApp is not required to open end-to-end encrypted messages.
Since Devon is in the UK, presumably very few.
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…
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…
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&P500 ETF.…
Nvidia have a lot of money, so the law is on their side.
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…
Uber shareholders may find pennies on the dollar to be preferable to bankruptcy.
What's inappropriate is for a third party to decide when and when not two adults can have a private relationship.
> > Who would be in the charge of enforcing this? The network? > The exchanges. Any exchange stupid enough to enact such a policy would go out of business immediately. Their competitors would eat them alive.
Consider Dubai. Built by immigrants, used by natives.
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…
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?
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…
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.
Tell that to WeChat, Alipay et al.
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.
> 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,…
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".
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
Article contradicts its own title. WhatsApp is not required to open end-to-end encrypted messages.
Since Devon is in the UK, presumably very few.
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…
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…
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&P500 ETF.…
Nvidia have a lot of money, so the law is on their side.
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…
Uber shareholders may find pennies on the dollar to be preferable to bankruptcy.
What's inappropriate is for a third party to decide when and when not two adults can have a private relationship.
> > Who would be in the charge of enforcing this? The network? > The exchanges. Any exchange stupid enough to enact such a policy would go out of business immediately. Their competitors would eat them alive.