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Freezing the account is not, in and of itself, what makes this incredibly unethical. It's trying to sell a loan after freezing the account.

That creates an enormous conflict of interest for the people at PayPal who decide when to freeze/unfreeze an account.
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So if I understand correctly, OpenBazaar will be shifting costs from a central verification and fulfillment agency (Amazon, Visa, etc.) onto the buyers, sellers, and moderators of the market?

Buyers will have to spend more time researching vendors and moderators, then agreeing with a vendor on a moderator which will be difficult as no moderator can be 100% impartial and the largest 5-6 (that will develop due to natural economies of scale) will develop their own brands and reputations for being easy on buyers, easy on sellers, random coin toss, etc. Where is this cost made up for the buyers - will they see lower prices? Wouldn't it be more expensive as moderators need to be compensated for their services?

Also, from the pitch deck linked in the article [1] slides 48-51:

What about moderator reputation? Difficult problem to solve as there will always be on party that is happy with the result, and one that is unhappy. Transparency is the best approach...Negative or positive consensus on the quality of dispute resolution will inform Vendors and Buyers

How can there be a consensus on a moderator if one party is always happy and one is always unhappy? Won't the consensus always be 50/50?

Also, how do you plan to scale up transparency? Is that mostly a UX/UI challenge, or is there some clever mechanism to solve this through cryptographic/social hacking?

Last question: How will the leadership/dev of OpenBazaar be structured in the future? Will you guys develop something similar to the Linux Foundation under a non-profit charter? Will the foundation enact a transaction fee to fund itself?

Sorry for the barrage - just extremely interested as someone who has studied Bitcoin/blockchain tech in the past.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/drwasho/openbazaar-ratings-reviews...
I bought tickets to the New Year's Game, and I couldn't list it for sale on stubhub the day of. I had to use their Last Minute Services, but the office was closed.
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Why does google give irrelevant local results as top results for search queries like "trip planner" and relevant results like TripHobo.com or Tripomatic.com do not figure in top results?
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Although if GVT-d gives the GPU fully over to the VM, which GPU will OS X itself be using? In the high-end 15" MBP, I suppose OS X could switch to the discrete GPU and let the VM use Iris Pro, but it's not a great solution and would only work on (the fairly small number of) dual-GPU Macs.
There is a really strong bias among people in the west to overemphasize their role in complex international events.

The US absolutely played both sides in the Iran-Iraq War. However, let's not strip the very real agency that Iraq and Iran exercised in the conduct of it.

What the US did was tilt the scales in Iraq's favor when things were looking exceptionally grim for them. This probably prolonged the war or at least prevented it from reaching an early decisive end. However, this shouldn't be surprising given the events of '79 and what that did to the US's prior Middle Eastern strategy.
The problem with gravity pull is you first need to mach orbits which takes a long time or a lot of delta V. From an energy and complexity perspective your best bet is to impact with a large low mass object like foam or lots of tiny objects like a cloud of sand. The advantage being just about any orbit that gets you there works and high relative velocity's are good. The problem is it's easy to miss.

A solar sail is a solid candidate as you get a large low mass object and 'free' delta V at the same time.

PS: Due to risk of malfunction you likely want to send several ships anyway, while the miss chance is an issue, the cheaper direct approach lets you take more chances.
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http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/brin-intro.html If like me you were looking for what BRIN index is all about.
good points. let's see...

- Chinese companies are the only ones that can serve Chinese customers: Yum brands (KFC, McDonald) 7000 restaurants. Starbucks 1600 stores in China. 7-eleven 2000 stores in China. H&M. BMW. Mercedez. Apple. Microsoft. etc. All top brands, and command a higher price point/margin than local competitors if any. Meanwhile, none of the Chinese brands can even get a foothold outside China.

- Clean energy in 20 years: in 20 years, most of the Chinese rich will have already left

- large migration from rural to urban: there's no jobs waiting for these rural farmers. Therefore they cannot generate value; they're merely drags on the system. In year 2016, with manual jobs being automated, a body is no longer an asset but a liability. The person would need to have the knowledge/skills to compete for global job scarcity. And Chinese citizens aren't trained in English to compete for global knowledge worker jobs.
The "top programming language" award is, confusingly, not the highest-ranked or most popular language. It's the language that has the greatest delta in popularity.

It just so happens that this year, Java is #1 in both popularity increase and popularity overall.

Final note: take all language rankings with a grain of salt. The methodology is never perfect, nor universally agreed-upon.
In particular: The unit of GDP is in fact dollars/year (even if people rarely bother reporting the precise unit), whereas market cap is just dollars. They're as incomparable as velocity and position.
> please no downvote

Was that ironic? It sure seems like defensive writing.
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StubHub could easily look at the historic pricing data and the normal cancellation rates for tickets. If the cancellation rate is normally low, except for instances where the ticket price suddenly jumped, then any cancellations in that time frame would likely have a high probability of being fraudulent, especially if the same tickets were later relisted through the same sellers account.
That is a better page to link to. His site isn't really optimized for people to link to, so I just linked to the start of the entrapment sections.
I'd be careful with this. Mint is often out of date or broken for me. Don't accept it as the authoritative source on your balances.
Neat. I knew a superior drive could copy everything, I didn't know this had become common.
In modern usage, Mir means world, not kingdom, and Mordor is not spelled Mirdor. Besides, that's not how Google's translation system works.
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I'd switch to square, but since I don't have a debit card I can't use it. I can still use paypal (and annoy my friends in the process.)

EDIT:

To answer your question, paypal still exists for the same reasons banks exist when people hate them, and for similar reasons to why you'd hire a tour company or local guide when visiting a different country. They are embedded -- they offer increased access via established agreements with more financial entities. They have more mastery of the regulatory landscape than their competitors (especially startups).

Finance is in many ways very traditional business, and paypal has invested in traditional parts of business. I'd bet they employ more lawyers than any other payment startup out there, for example.
For Lakers games and season ticket holders, TicketMaster doesn't 'e-print' the ticket until 96 hours before tip off, to try to minimize ticket resale (which it doesn't, or only marginally, because they're counting on people not being able to keep track of that - which StubHub helpfully does).
The usage data disagrees (see his open and click-through rates).
The funny thing in photorealism is that the amount of sharp detail isn't particular high. We easily consider 80's television broadcast photorealistic: none of the films and series aren't criticized because they looked to unrealistic and artificial. Yet a measly low-resolution broadcast with even more inaccurate and distorted chrominance channel can produce video that is for all practical purposes realistic. For still images, photorealism is even simpler. Even a painter can produce photorealistic paintings you couldn't easily distinguish from photographs.
I do think so:
Search for "Cortana & Search settings" then turn off "Search online and include web results".
Generally good advice when considering PayPal is to recite to yourself "PayPal is not a bank, PayPal is not a bank, ..."

But they do like money, and they like to move it around creatively and create ways to use other people's money to make money for them.

One of the reasons they aren't a bank is they don't do (and are not allowed to do AFAICT) fractional reserve lending. In that sort of scenario this story makes a lot of sense, you freeze(or seize) assets from your customers, and then loan them out to other customers who pay you interest on repaying that loan, and if they default you presumably keep the other customer's money to cover that "loss". Sort of 100% reserve banking.
This is totally fair. We knew this was something we might have to deal with given the nature of the business.

Still, things change when they then turn around and offer you a business loan. It's hard to argue that they need to freeze your funds for collateral when they then deem you credible enough to lend you money.

It's not so much that our accounts got frozen that makes this interesting. It's the fact that they froze our accounts and then offered us a loan.
Everything in the long run unsustainable. You're not going to magically undo centuries worth of socialization on millions of people. So, I think it's best to work on what you can change (which it seems you did with your diet).

Also, I'm sorry if I snapped at you. I intend no malice.
I wonder if that's true. The people are used to high growth and a steadily increasing standard of living. If the CCP decides to go back to Mao's playbook they'll likely have a revolution on their hands.
I'd say it's arrived - TODDYHANCER Staw Wars Battlefront v1 just rolled out a few weeks ago -=>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGuizdaLR8k
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Ironically the demo is on desktop Linux... actually it's on a MIPS Loongson board which is interesting. I haven't been able to find one at a sane price.
I call that BSD culture
Don't get me wrong, I'm a frequent R user, and it is definitely useful for analysing at simulation results. My point was just that there is a lot of things outside of R's capabilities. Even for analysis there are areas where R is of no use, e.g. when plotting data from 3D turbulence simulations, like Q-criterion isosurfaces:

https://www.nas.nasa.gov/SC12/assets/images/content/Chaderji...
I agree, to a point, because most of the unjustified police shootings I'm aware of, that we have video for, did not show any direct threat to the officer or any bystanders. In almost all those cases the victim did not even have an object that could be mistaken as a weapon. I personally don't see those as police shootings but as murder, manslaughter at best.

But I still have problems with your wording. In your examples above you feel 2 is more important than 3 and you disagree with people that reverse it. I agree with you. The difference is I see the possibility that the police may think the unarmed suspect is armed and is a direct threat to the officer or bystanders. By your wording you seem to suggest that scenario is not possible, and just in case the officer should wait until fired upon to determine whether the suspect is armed or not. That's a bad rule of engagement.
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This post reminded me of the upcoming book by Matt Ruff ("Sewer, Gas & Electric", "Set This House in Order", "Fool on the Hill") titled "Lovecraft Country".

From the description on the author's website:

"Chicago, 1954. When his father goes missing, twenty-two-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his uncle George—publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide—and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Samuel Braithwhite—heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’s ancestors—they encounter both the mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours."

http://www.bymattruff.com/my-novels/lovecraft-country/
Is it possible that you aren't getting real people as new users? I don't know how you do your metrics, but it's possible they are bots/clickfarmers/etc.
One approach to resolving this would be to not make statements that are literally not true and to correct statements that are literally not true to not be literally not true.
> Also, how do you plan to scale up transparency?

I suggest using a web of trust akin to PGP signing mechanisms
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"The Big Sort" by Bill Bishop is a well researched book that explains the political fracturing of America.

The topic is explains is expressed visually in these two maps, which shows county election results from 1976 to 2004.
http://www.thebigsort.com/maps.php

One of the point is that due to economy, mobility and choice, Americans decide to settle where people are like them the most, and that this results in deeper political boundaries, especially in the context of our electoral system.

One takeaway is that individually we are not all different, and a single Democrat and Republican in a room would likely come up with compromises on differing issues. However when on Democrat/Republican is in a group of many like themselves, they tend to take the most extreme view, on average.

The other is that there used to be more friendly relationships between senior senators on both sides of the aisle. They would gather regularly to have a few cocktails even if they have strongly differing views. These bonds made it possible for them to work as a bi-partisan team to get legislation passed. These relationships no longer exist the way they used to, and many politicians are much more transient in the time they spend in DC.
This is an incredible product, which I of course just now heard about. I have shared it with my family. But I was wondering if there's a way to get a family rate.
What kinds of transactions are you doing? Friendly ones between people you know, selling stuff on CL, eCommerce? I'm curious.
Agreed, but the "grail" is you invent some technology where the GPU can RT a scene in real time with all of the illumination identified just prior to the frame it is used in, and now you save a ton on artists and modellers who are spending their time making lightmaps etc. Just point the magic gizmo at your geometry and "poof" perfectly lit scene.
Huh. I haven't ever run into that, and I've been using uber twice a week for more than a year. Maybe it just comes down to which city you're in?
This is bizzare for me since I was messing around with the XKCD-substitutions plugin a few weeks ago, and replacing "Russia" with "Mordor" was one of the changes that I made.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xkcd-substitutions...
I believe he's stating that BUSINESSES would want features that he/other users wouldn't care about.

Not that he doesn't care about his users.
Doesn’t sound like the CEO thinks so. “It’s just terrible” isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement.
> today we have all become defensive writers because there is now an expectation that someone will use nitpicks about inconsequential points to discredit the entire piece.

Even such inconsequential things as, for example, pointing out the parent's incorrect choice of "adverse" instead of "averse," which has no bearing on the argument.

There's almost always a mistake, overgeneralization, or convenient shortcut in anything a person says. Holding people to an impossible standard just adds stress all around.
I use PP for my business. It has been 100% foolproof (survivor bias caveat applies). I have not found another service that does not require me to write code beyond basic html, or to maintain a website.

I am aware of horror stories, and remain interested in alternatives.
LBYL or EAFP for JavaScript?
Python is EAFP, and Swift is LBYL. What is the best choice for Javascript?

For those who don't know:

EAFP: Easier to Ask Forgiveness than Permission (try/catch)
LBYL: Look Before You Leap (if condition: do thing)
It's happened to me. The issue is, you aren't allowed to withdraw your money. Like you, when I get paid in Paypal, I want it out of Paypal as soon as possible. I've request the transfer to my bank account the same day and as per usual but then found that the funds were frozen.

In my case, I guess I looked sketchy because I had surges of sales (no sales most months, 5k one month).

I did eventually get my money.
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I guess I'm in the opposite boat: I'd rather use one app that does many things moderately well, rather than ten different apps that specialize in those things.
Right...but a real problem is, or course, moral hazard, ie "if they did it before (bailed us out), they will almost surely do it again, so what incentives do we have to alter our risky behaviors that are currently making all of us rich?"

All I was trying to point out is that the idea that the US market is devoid of any government manipulation and shenanigans is fiction at best.
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the story of how they got the craft indoors is pretty neat too.
Oh yeah, Galois is another one of the greats in the field. They just keep cranking out one practical thing after another. At a higher pace than most it seems. Here are a few good things on their end.

Scrolling their blog is endless insights
https://galois.com/blog/

CRYPTOL's open source page
http://www.cryptol.net/

SMACCMPilot has things like Ivory language
http://smaccmpilot.org/

GitHub site with 8 pages worth of their stuff
https://github.com/galoisinc
Good insight into the world of tv app development, especially with the remote control. I did a tv app for Windows Media Center [1] a few years ago and remember the trials and tribulations of transitioning to the "10 foot interface" where the user is not in front of your app like on a desktop or phone. Large text and buttons are a must for tv apps!

[1] https://www.amarkota.com/portfolio/espn3
Then why did Google threaten to banish Acer from the OHA if they dared release even a single device running a fork, partnered with a competing search engine?

Google has made it very clear they are opposed to so-called 'incompatible' forks of Android, and that they consider pretty much anything not running Google's proprietary services to be 'incompatible'.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/sep/19/android-ch...
Did you see any video or press from the actual Segway event? The "robot" here is actually a rideable mini-segway. You fold its head sideways and awkwardly put your crotch over it as you step on its wheeled "legs."

Its a strange concept. Am I buying a mini segway or a robot? Do I really want to ride my robot around? I imagine for the price this thing is going to sell for, the answer will probably be, "Hell yeah, for this kind of money it better carry me around."

I think a proper home robot wouldn't have these capabilities and a third wheel or four wheel platform would be more likely. The problem is that Segway can't make a robot that isn't, well, a segway.
> Just look at this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address

> By contrast, I can't link you to the "Wikipedia page on IPv4 addresses", because it doesn't rate its own page. It just gets rolled into a single section on the IPv4 page in general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4#Addressing

The above neatly encapsulates my problem with IPv6. I feel IPv6 would have much more widely adopted by now if people like myself—who have spent nominal time setting up small computer networks such as their home network—could more readily grok the deltas between v4 and v6. With the reality of v6 being so dramatically different, I have on about three separate occasions sat down to try to understand what I need to do in order to have v6 on my home network and each time I just give up after a few hours of reading.

It's just so much more complicated for the amateur network operators out there.

Additionally, it instills fear that if I turn on v6, I will inevitably have my home network in some tragically vulnerable state.
It's a minor improvement at best. As far as I'm concerned, the winner of the PHC was scrypt, in that the PHC demonstrated that nobody could do significantly better than scrypt.
Interesting. Considering they stop people selling stock last time. Ha. Lets keep an eye.
Have you looked into Amazon Payments? Also have you taken into account business that you might be losing specifically because you only use PayPal? Again, just asking out of curiosity- I want to know the reasons why PayPal is still being used (both from businesses and from consumers).
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They have none in my eyes. I used to email them pointing out simple factual errors in their articles (i.e., stuff that a quick Google or Wiki search would find). Never once received a response back. Almost always, there would be silent updates to their articles correcting the errors...

I refuse to succumb to Gell-Mann Amnesia: if Vox's quality control is crap on issues that are the small set I am informed on, then I am forced to conclude it's crap in other areas too. Aside from the QC failures, failing to clearly disclose the corrections strikes me as difficult to defend journalistically.
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So, to avoid having to do marketing themselves, or to hire a firm, the event planner goes with a possibly corrupt system that by all appearances the fans of the event despise?

I'm more of the mind that these things are so entrenched that neither fans or event planners have a choice.
> Sorry for going behind your back. I didn't realize you were going to find out

So really "Sorry you found out I went behind your back".
I recently watched Slavoj Zizek speak about how political correctness is a more complete totalitarianism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tndXr-oQxxA

I am optimistic the video has some relevance to this discussion.
What does Yahoo still do? How do they even make enough money to operate? Honestly, Yahoo slashing their workforce should be no surprise; I'm more surprised that they haven't declared bankruptcy yet.
"The Codebreakers" cited above, is a massive history of cryptography. The same author, David Kahn, has written a book focusing on the Enigma called "Seizing the Enigma".

http://www.amazon.com/Seizing-Enigma-German-U-Boats-1939-194...
Yeah, I expected to find it in the beta section given all the difficulties it presents as opposed to say, Spanish. I have a ways to go learning Kanji before I'll be able to properly use it but I'll definitely be in touch with feedback when I do.
As an analyst, I perfected the art of defensive writing. We had to. Everyone has a vested interest in everything you say. Every way that situations were described, every opinion of what approaches or technologies will/won't work, every product rating, every everything. If not a financial vested interest, then an affinity interest. In the editorial process, we often talked about "hardening" or "bulletproofing" the writing so it could withstand the slings and arrows of relentless criticism.