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I think some kind of privacy sandbox & data escape logging would suffice to allow data leaking apps, to run on a libre type OS.

The main thing an OS like this needs is the a ability for it's users to run their own "cloud" infrastructure and attach that to their own phone.

Company can offer this as a SAAS service paid, providing they to proper end to end encryption and are not able to read the data they store. Also a good way to fund future development.

The DTES is a shit hole, but it was kind of engineered to be that way.

As for the safe injection site stuff, I lived and worked in the area around the time that place was opened.

It was a shit hole before it opened and continued to be so after it opened. I never went in the site, and never cared to. Nothing special around it. People shoot up in the streets all the time and I'd still be careful where you walk to not step on a needle and don't wear sandals ;)

But supposedly this: Rates of HIV infection dropped from 8.1 cases per 100 person-years in 1997 to 0.37 cases per 100 person-years by 2011. By 2015, the 40-block area surrounding the safe injection site had a 35% decline in overdose deaths.

The DTES in Van is a pretty interesting place. It's not as bad as it looks. I personally never had any problems in the area. But it's still a shit hole.

Gold has been used as a store of value for countries which do not trust their fiat.

It's also used to speculate.

It's also used in industry.

It's actually pretty easy to turn gold into fiat and vice versa outside of north America. It's also fairly easy to do it in North America as well. The spread between buy/sell is also quite low.

Except when the smart contract with 1/2 the ether in it, does exactly what it's programmed to do, then you hard fork and pretend it didn't happen.

Because? Value?

Sorry, I really lost a lot of faith after that one.

I've been running e-commerce stores for 12+ years.

The main business I work for started to accept bitcoins for our physical goods in 2014ish. I did the integration.

I adopted Bitcoin because I'm not a huge fan of payment processors, I'm a cryptonerd and because I wanted to provide a use case for a technology I believe in, which wasn't illegal. I've also helped chime in with devs on open Bazaar and assist them with issues people who run stores have.

Over the years we've processed ~10,000 dollars worth of Bitcoin transactions.

We've ran into issues where confirmations take longer than our fulfilment center are used to, so we needed to wait to ship out orders.

We've run into issues where refunds get weird due to price fluctuations.

I've always noticed customers buying our products when the price of Bitcoin was too high and due for a crash, but since it's run up over $2000 I've noticed barely any transactions.

This is a fundamental change in how people are using it, and due to the high fees and slow confirmation times, it's no longer useful for us and it seems people would rather HODL than use.

Personally I enjoy the tech, but never cared for it as a speculative asset, which now I believe it has become (but kinda always was).

Have fun with your digital gold.

I've always been really skeptical of those language performance comparisons which refer to PHP.

As stated above PHP7 has similar performance when compared to HHVM which was made by Facebook. Additionally PHP has an amazing performance debugger by FB called xhprof.

PHP performance could always be increased hugely by making sure is cache buckets have enough memory (opcode cache, realpath_cache_size).

Secondly with any web framework your app will most likely be limited by IO (database, file lookups, networking) before it becomes limited by actual code execution performance.

If anyone's ever worked on a project where the performance problem was the language and not IO I'd be really interested in hearing about it, but in my career of making websites I've never ran into this problem yet.

Popcorn Lung is the only thing I've seen in my research

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/flavorings/

I'd be interested to hear of more.

Personally use SS316L now. Hard to find though.

Because it stops innovation.

Ni200 which is a pure nickel wire was invented for temperature control. Required a specific device and chip to use as it has almost 0 resistance. Some stupid uneducated people or vendors sold it and and used it in non temperature controlled devices and poisoined themselves (not fatally), or blew up their batteries on non-regulated devices.

I just started vaping last month, and while I bought some kanthal wire, I also bought some ni200 and Titanium wire, which is dangerous if not used correctly. I personally didn't know, but also didn't use it until I looked it up.

With that said, ni200 wire did invent temperature control, which is a method of vaping these days.

I personally think ecigs are an interesting experiment in free markets.

A bunch of like minded people who had a habbit which was the leading cause of preventable death coming together to figure out a way to kill themselves less.

Have there been things in the industry which were poisonous and could kill you over the course of it's history. Yes. Lots. Have those been slowly fased out as concerned consumers voice opinions, yes. Ni200 wire is a good example. Battery mooch is another.

The lack of regulation has certainly led to it being more dangerous for uninformed consumers, but it has also lead to lots of independent entrepreneurs innovating fast in the space.

Personally I see it as a great example of free markets vs. regulation. I also think it's only been able to exist because it's in a market which of its own is hazardous to health.

Also this entire industry as I understand it came from China.

It would be better if I quit, but wasn't planning on doing that, so I switched to vaping and haven't smoked since.

Best? No. Better? Probably.

One of the funny things with vaping is after two weeks smoking a cigarette becomes disgusting.

I'd say it's also a lot easier to quit vaping than smoking cigarettes. So that as well is a move in the correct direction.

Called Snus. Banned in EU, but supposedly one of the healthiest nicotine injestion methods. Most people would puke if they tried it :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snus

I quit smoking a while ago for 4 months using a vape, then Thailand's military junta banned them and most shops closed.

It's been a couple years now and tonnes of online shops started to sell and I'd see lots of local vapers while having coffee, so decided to give that a go.

It's been a month since I've had a cigarette now since I've started vaping. Energy is up and sense of smell is coming back. Used to smoke a pack a day.

I do run the risk of deportation, jail or heavy fines/bribes if caught with the thing, but I feel it's worth it for health reasons.

Also gov just increased tax from 130THB a pack to 150THB a pack.

"Clinical trials of NRT in patients with underlying, stable coronary disease suggest that nicotine does not increase cardiovascular risk. At worst, the risks of NRT are no more than those of cigarette smoking. The risks of NRT for smokers, even for those with underlying cardiovascular disease, are small and are substantially outweighed by the potential benefits of smoking cessation."

NRT: nicotine replacement therapy

I made a deal with an e-commerce site to take 10% of revenue added, after marketing expenses from new channels I create.

Added 300k+ of revenue a month.

Good vote spamming business will be completely automated. They'll have accounts in reserve pool, with ability to spin up thousands more in a couple minutes. Most likely they make a couple hundred accounts a day and prime them with VA's with real content & votes with the intention of burning them with fake votes once aged appropriately.

If you run a website and you're getting spammed, the worst thing you can do it also ban the accounts as this give spammers feedback that the account is no longer valid to use and they'll rotate it out. Best thing you can do is /dev/null the account. To the user it will look like account is working as expected, but on the back end anything they do doesn't actually do anything. Harder for spammer to know when that account is burned. This way they'll continue to use it, and you can use this data to find related accounts and /dev/null them as well.

Let's not bring identity politics in to this discussion.

The rates in Hong Kong with Stripe for non-hong Kong issued cards is 3.9% + 2% conversion fee if you don't charge in HKD. Additionally they're unable to deposit into a US denominated bank account.

So if you want to process USD to US clients in HK with stripe the fees are 5.9% which is fairly laughable.

With 4+ million USD yearly volume, the only discount I could get would be 1% off the conversion fee to start.

Can we get accepting payments outside of Hong Kong for less than 5.4% fees first for HK stripe businesses.

Also allow transfer to US denominated bank accounts.

That would be super.

Originally OnePlus One shipped with CyanogenOS, but the Cyanogen Inc fuct up and sold exclusive rights to CyanogenOS to a domestic carrier in India.

This blocked the sale of OnePlus One phone in India until this could get resolved. OxygenOS was the answer to this. Fork of Cyanogenmod with some rebranding and a few added things.

Personally I bought the OnePlus One because it came with Cyanogen. I wasn't happy with all the added cruft in CyanogenOS, so I reflashed to Cyanogenmod soon after a stable version was available.

I'm currently using OxygenOS on my OnePlus 3, but will flash to Cyanogenmod eventually to run more bleeding edge and get some features back that I miss.

This shouldn't effect OnePlus 3 as they terminated thier agreement with Cyanogen Inc after the India licencing problem.

Place to donate via PayPal.

Also take a page from buffer and release your expenses and revenues.

I'm willing to donate any time I get a cert from you guys and I'm sitting on all this free PayPal money to give you, but can't via indygogo

Google Project "Redirect Method" admits it tweaks search to manipulate your thoughts/behavior.

Is how i read this.

Same thing when I read Algorithms used to catch pedo's, I read "they're spying on you"

Used for "good" now, but the actual thing that it's accomplished can also be used for anything bad.

/tinfoilhat

Media server remote code execution. No way!

For those interested in an old talk about rooting phones via media server & MMS watch this great talk.

https://youtu.be/71YP65UANP0

YouTube video of start of TH 2014 coup.

Was rather brilliant to be honest.

https://youtu.be/BWoKTEPF5nk

I was in TH for latest coup, took under a couple hours to happen, less than a day to be enforced across country en mass.

And I live in the oppositions main stronghold when it happened.

Couple hours of lack of information is all you need, and is easiest way to cut all with a single switch.

If your power cut out right now, how long till you have net? Your neighbors? Your block? Weeks.

Supply and demand.

Fact is anyone can really become a yoga teacher by going to a training program, so the supply of yoga teachers is huge. The competition is fierce on getting a placement, so that keeps the price down.

cheatmode is have a local statically compiled version of tmux ready to godmode servers you can SCP files to (all of em, if you've got ssh most likely)

That's what I'd do, if a server doesn't have screen/vim and sysadmins are being a nuisance.

I keep a pretty sparse toolset. vim+screen and always use them together even on my laptop.

So when I SSH into a box, I pretty much have my "full" toolset just as I would locally. For me, this is important.

That coupled with the fact I have my vimrc memorized, I'm pretty much good on all modern servers.

Pick one and use it.

I personally use screen, because it's what I learnt years & years ago. I also like that sometimes it's there by default when I login to a new server.

...but most linux "power users" prefer tmux.

Agreed, don't take 56% as fully being attributed to smaller page loads.

In two weeks after the change with out any other changes to traffic or anything else, the improvement was 38%.

I've talked about my findings with more caution here: https://ecommerce.shopify.com/c/ecommerce-discussion/t/shopi...

My worst day after this change, was better than my best day previous to this change. Thousands of visitors.

This trend has continued for 4 months after the change. Hundreds of thousands of visitors.

I'm the only dev on this project and I know what changes day to day.

Can full 56% be attributed? No. I added opt-in monster with 10% & 20% (A/B) discount in Feb which boosted conversions. 10% actually out performs 20%. Go figure.

Can more than 0% be attributed to smaller images. Yes. So I'd say this change helped between 0% and 56%. Either way, it's statistically significant.

4MB savings on homepage going to save you from a shit tonne of bounces and help move more people towards that checkout page.