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Isn't this basically Redfin? It might not be a flat fee, but it is a reduced fee. Also intermediaries are still needed for guidance and walkthroughs, its not like viewing homes online is all there is to it.

I can't tell if this is serious or not (admittedly without reading the white-paper). A reference to 'tokenized quantum signatures' (what the hell is that?), and a new cryptocurrency without the crypto part and without the decentralized part. Basically its just contracts as a service with some token setup thrown in?

There are so many buzzwords in this, I can't make sense of it.

Forex markets are basically as liquid as you can get -- of course some exceptions, but I think the idea still holds.

While an existing fiat currency might derive its confidence from different sources than that of a digital currency (taxes, military, etc. vs. blockchain, mining, contracts, etc.), it does not make them that different. People still declare the coins value on that confidence/demand.

The same thing that makes one fiat currency more valuable than another -- the demand/supply/confidence for that currency.

Cool, but I can't see the footer when infinite scroll is enabled to check the pricing when viewing an icon.

I just read through that as someone who had been semi-following .NET Core up-to the project.json mini-crisis and I am completely lost. How is anyone supposed to just pick up (.NET Core|.NET Standard|.NET Framework) and understand what framework they need to for their app/library to work. I think at one point .NET Standard Apps were even renamed to .NET Core Apps. Are we supposed to open up the Venn diagram until we remember it?

Things about the React ecosystem pretty much anyone will tell you -- outside of complaining about why you use className. Yea all the libraries and tools get confusing. But, you don't need redux, mobx or react-router for most applications; hell, if you don't like them use some other flux library or router. That's what people like, React is not an all encompassing framework it's just the view piece.

Would he not have a case of gross negligence against Zecco if he were a customer? Is there something preventing a lawsuit, outside of the possibly non-binding NDA?

I understand, but I don't think we can put the blame on the consumer alone. When all pretty-much compete on price alone, we can only compare on price alone.

I'll be sure to select the non-violent checkbox on Google Flights, despite the need to save the $4.50 round-trip.

Well, differentiating airlines is hard. To me, a for the most part non-traveler, they all offer pretty much the same product, quality-wise. Unless I was to up my ticket to some other class, every coach ticket is pretty much the same. So what am I supposed to differentiate on other than price?

I assumed that the placeholder values were not placeholders but example values at first -- so nothing ever happened. Might be what you did as well?

Admittedly I have not done much work with Angular, but this seems to be more of, "Is Your Home-Grown Per-Entity Data-Fetching Solution a House of Cards?".

The relay idea is nice but it makes a little more sense in a GraphQL-based world, where multiple entities can be fetched in a single call. And I believe the Apollo client does have batching options that will re-compose your queries to limit API calls.

Going off this, requesting an email receipt is something that should probably be handled by Apple Pay/NFC payments and not an additional barcode. One touch, approved and receipt emailed (the pesky chips take too long to verify).

...MapServer?f=json does have JSON! It's just even when it errors it returns a successful response with the error page that's not JSON.

I don't think people set-out to not think, it's just we're by default lazy thinkers. Cognitive dissonance pushes us to find our own contained, biased circles within the internet, where we can 'think' without the requirement of resolving conflicting thoughts. Because, no matter what weird views we might have, there is bound to be a few hundred people out there that share them. The internet just made it easier to find them.

Being down for an hour as a payment processor is crazy. Going off some old figures [0], and assuming 0 offline transactions (and a bunch of other assumptions too), I think it is around ~$3,500,000 in unprocessed transactions?

Must be stressful trying to bring it back online.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/13/putting-squares-5b-valuati...

Going off that. It would be pretty cool if there was an app that showed your average death-date but also connected to multiple platforms to show extensions in your death date. Hey you got your resting heart rate down X, ran Y miles last month and had cholesterol drop Z, you extended your life an estimated ~1.5 years!

Is it possible that the people at the CIA are abusing their privileges, of course; however, there still needs to made a distinction between what is possible and what was presented in this document drop. Within the drop itself there was no evidence that it was used domestically (even more so systematically), in which case everything within it, is so far, not outside the scope of the CIA.

That is what I and I believe the parent is getting at. Regardless of our moral standings on if the CIA should be doing this, realistically the CIA can be doing it.

The actual temperature you choose is really dependent on taste, but some, specifically meats, that shine are salmon, short ribs, steak and smokerless smoked meats like brisket and pork shoulder (hey we can't all have a smoker in our apartment). But getting the taste and texture you like takes some trials. If I had to pick one in particular, it would be short ribs at 185F for 24 hours.

Most cooks, outside of seafood, that I enjoy tend to take >12 hours. I barely use it for something like chicken thighs or pork chops.

I mean the mentioned attempt was not as general as it was made out to be. Obama placed an exception for “a clear national security or law enforcement need”. Pretty much what my expectations were set at. Again I am reluctant to take anything that Wikileaks says as absolute truth, they love to spin.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/us/politics/obama-lets-ns...

ChefSteps has a ton of helpful sous-vide recipes that really help build out a skill-set. They also have a yogurt one! (https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/easy-delicious-sous-vid...)

I think that is a separate issue entirely though. As defined, the role of the CIA domestically is pretty much nil. Personally I believe that if they stretch that role, it should be something that is dealt with separately from a document release. And is probably something better fitted for a different discussion.

I think it makes an unwarranted (ha!) connection between the current released documents that do not indicate they were used against US citizens, and a previous probed and documented illegal act by the CIA. Not a justification for their previous behavior, more of drawing solid lines between two ideas, where maybe a dash is better fitted.

Again, I think there is a difference between the desired and realistic roles of an intelligence agency in disclosing exploits. Sure, I would hope they disclose them. But at the same time if they are actively using an exploit, I have pretty much no expectation of them disclosing it.

I think this has way more to do with our reference-point than anything else. My expectations were never quite as high!

This is a past revelation that was already investigated, no? Without any direct connection to the current release it muddies the waters.

They provided an overview which I read through, but I find it a bit silly to expect any single person to read through the entire report and fact-check it as well. That is what journalists are for.

That has less to do with how I feel and more to do with how the CIA is setup. Their role in domestic affairs is severely restricted, that is primarily the job of the FBI which has more requirements to conduct "searches". For them to be operating to the fullest extent of their perceived role, I can't find myself to be upset.

They have secret unit testing tips too! https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_11629048.html

> The asset has the ability to plug in a personal thumbdrive to the network.

Sounds like it just patches a local copy of VLC by running an installer. I don't know if I would consider that compromised.