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  1. Re: So much for crypto on The New York Stock Exchange Teases Plan To Launch Cryptocurrency Trading (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    That's how money is handled too. If human beings didn't discount long term rewards, we would have likely gone extinct. Immediate benefits have the distinction of being fulfilled without risk. Future benefits can always evaporate overnight if you die.

  2. Re: Don't we already have crypto currency... on The New York Stock Exchange Teases Plan To Launch Cryptocurrency Trading (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 0

    That system is based on trust between parties. This leads to large inefficiencies, long clearing times, and expensive transfers. Crypto solves many of the problems of banking and remittance in a better way than the existing system.

  3. Re: When will they learn on Microsoft Hopes Money Will Entice More Developers (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Apples and oranges. The stores are the primary (or only in many cases) channel for software on mobile platforms. MS's store is for Windows, and it's competing with all the other software channels available (and traditional) on Windows. It's closer to the Mac app store, but even then Windows has a vastly larger and more diverse software ecosystem.

  4. I'm not sure that's true. Our data resolution becomes worse the farther back you go. We're more likely to miss large, temporary shifts. It stands to reason that might also lead to trouble detecting how sharp a shift is the farther back you go.

    Just because Mr. Science Man says we have never seen this type of shift in the record, does not mean he is saying the record shows there has never been such a shift.

  5. Re: Why would an American site need to block GDPR? on New Service Blocks EU Users So Companies Can Save Thousands on GDPR Compliance (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Not necessarily. Treaties and a general good relationship with the EU means they could have US courts enforce judgment. Currently, the US is not under treaty to enforce the GDPR, but that could easily change.

  6. Re: Tech journos spouting nonsense on Telegram's Billion-Dollar ICO Has Become a Mess (amazon.com) · · Score: 1

    Broken promises that lead to bigger gains for early whale investors is the whole problem crypto was invented to address. Funny how almost every new altcoin project seems to rediscover all the problems of traditional financial industry, without providing anything not already offerered by existing tokens.

  7. Re: What's an Eddy cue? on Apple's Eddy Cue To Be Deposed In Qualcomm Patent Battle (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there any evidence Qualcomm made such a promise? Sounds more like a butt-hurt Apple trying to get out of paying prices the market bears. Apple isn't being forced to buy from Qualcomm. They decided many years ago to go down the path of being dependent on Qualcomm and it has earned them billions of dollars saving time and development. Now they don't want to pay their fair share.

  8. Re: Meet minimum standards of human behavior on One Of LLVM's Top Contributors Quits Development Over Code of Conduct, Outreach Program (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    "Nazism is just a method of social order. It is amoral, neither good nor evil."

    Yup, that's how your dumb-ass sounds.

  9. FP on Ask Slashdot: What Should I Study? · · Score: 1

    If you haven't delved into it, try learning more about functional programming. In my experience, most devs haven't really built anything using FP, and it can be illuminating. react.js is a pretty good example of a system that works well with FP.

  10. Re: Why is this a story? on YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This probably seems reasonable to someone with no experience delivering video over the Internet. The real world is way more complicated.

  11. Re: It's the cost of doing business on Pristine Lakes Are Filled With Toxins (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're looking for a pre-industrial baseline for plastics, no research is necessary. The baseline is zero.

  12. So, you're saying you accept pronouns from the 16th century, but those from the 19th century are beneath you?

  13. Re: US in Syria illegally on Russia Is Attacking US Forces With Electronic Weapons In Syria, General Says (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    That depends on which government you recognize. The entire point of the civil war is there are large swaths of Syria that do not recognize Assad's government.

  14. We're there to fight ISIL? ISIL is pretty much where we want them: out of Iraq and focused on Assad. Sunni extremists attacking our Shia allie in Iraq? Terrorists. Sunni extremists attacking Alawites in Syria? Freedom fighters.

  15. If you can afford it... on Cord Cutting Caused By 74 Percent TV Price Hikes Since 2000, Says Report (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    I've dropped my wired Internet with the local AT&T monopoly and switched entirely to mobile Internet. It's expensive as fuck, but at least my dollars are no longer propping up the monopolistic cable/DSL/fiber regimes. And it keeps getting cheaper. By the time 5g hits, we'll all be able to do the same thing and we can finally bury the corpses of Comcast et al.

  16. Re: Old News on You Could Be Flirting On Dating Apps With Paid Impersonators (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Professional matchmakers have always existed for the wealthy. To me, the news is that these services are moving downmarket. Dating apps make it easy to automate much of the time that used to go into building (real life) social networks, keeping in touch with a stable of clients or opportunities from both sides, etc. Now it's just one dude with mad texting skills taking on ten clients in an hour. The price point has dramatically changed.

  17. Re: Bachelor's degree a waste of time for coders on High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Too many people like to write code. The code left unwritten is often the best code, and you won't know that you're writing good code if you never stop coding to take a look, or - at the very least - you're ripping out stuff as you go.

    There's something to be said for working code, but the long term viability of well structured, documented, broken code beats thrown together working code any day.

  18. Re: Bachelor's degree a waste of time for coders on High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Most "senior" developers understand how to develop class hierarchies using design patterns, if you're lucky. Algorithms are something one downloads or reads about, not something one develops.

  19. You're a moron if you think home ownership is always financially responsible. In many of the most expensive places in the country, your money is much better spent investing in stocks or even bonds than it is paying the ownership premium.

  20. Let's all thank China for introducing this dystopian idea to the world, thus teaching everyone how dystopic this idea is.

    If Apple had come up with this idea, we'd be fucked.

  21. Re: Quietly? on Senate Confirms Trump's Pick for NSA, Cyber Command (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    In this context, I believe "quietly" means: "we're just hearing about this because our news organization is too focused on sensational headlines to follow what actually goes on in the world."

  22. Re: Should be a response? on Atlanta Projected To Spend At Least $2.6 Million on Ransomware Recovery (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Generally speaking, security inside a corporate office is handled privately. The police don't guard buildings. Similar roles apply here. Unless Atlanta is handling DOD information or some such thing, it's not really the feds role to secure that. It's like the FBI looking into a robbery. Doesn't happen unless there's a federal angle.

  23. Commendable and irresponsible on Atlanta Projected To Spend At Least $2.6 Million on Ransomware Recovery (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If I payed taxes to Atlanta, I'd probaly be miffed. But since I don't, I commend them for telling the hackers to fuck off.

  24. Re: Mis-use of development resources on Microsoft Developers Hid a Secret Puzzle in Windows Backgrounds as They Knew Images Would Leak (betanews.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yeah, because the team designing wallpapers is definitely the people who should be fixing the bugs the engineers haven't gotten to.

  25. Re: Facebook/Google or...MS? on Who Has More of Your Personal Data Than Facebook? Try Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook's business model is selling your data. MS's business model is figuring out new ways to charge for Office.