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You need to spend $3333 to earn back the Prime membership for 3% cashback, or $2000 for 5% cashback, not an amount I may reach every year..

Yeah America has a totally irrational credit scoring. It makes no sense whatsoever. If I never needed credit, then I don't have a history thus I have a bad score... go figure.

If the password is too short, an attacker can brute force the hash by simply trying all 6 character combinations of allowed password characters, provided that the hashes get leaked or hacked, which happens quite a lot these days. (Or if the website is stupid enough to allow an attacker to brute force try all these combinations without throttling you or stopping you at the xth wrong entry)

Not that I'm a fan of USB Micro, but there are cables for sale that have a reversible USB Micro plug, as well as a reversible USB plug on the other end, however I have no experience with their durability.

No the regulation is that all chargers use USB, the other end of the cable doesn't matter. The situation that arose out of that is that you can charge pretty much any phone with any USB charger, which was the intent.

I'd like Apple to have chosen a USB standard for the other end of the cable, however to be honest, the lightning connector and it's counterpart look a lot more robust than USB-C or micro/nano USB. USB-C is also quite a bit bigger than lightning. So perhaps some day we'll see USB adopt lightning as a standard if that is at all possible. iPad Pro lightning supports USB3 speed, so we know lightning can do USB3.

The build quality is definitely good. However I am very unpleased with the temperature sensor, it seems to only be accurate to more than 1 degree, with the software further adding a tolerance in when to turn on/off the AC/Heating I find myself constantly manually setting the temperature as I'm either freezing or getting too hot. A solution would be remote temperature sensors which people have been asking for since the beginning, but that never happened. I believe there are now thirdparty solutions that hook into Nest perhaps via IFTTT, but that turns the Nest in just a thermostate with remote on/off switch, which is basically the only feature that mostly works for me. (yeah even that isn't always robust)

Yeah I lost my preorder for PS4 over that issue, K-mart just cancelled my preorder because they thought my email address was suspicious. mind you this was at the time when you'd have to wait months for the machine to be in stock again. I spoke on the phone with their manager and there was nothing they said they could do about it. So I've never shopped there since.

Because when you start confusing pattern recognition and neural net training with "intelligence" and "learning" and "consciousness" then everybody who doesn't know enough about the technology will get wrong expectations, it's even worse as even people working on AI are having these wrong expectations, so yes a winter is coming. Besides that, the AI we have today is used all wrong, to spy on people even more and to consolidate central services and the big players.

No I am actually skeptical myself, I was hoping somebody here would explain the real cause of their findings :)

Container size influences memory usage, which is an important concern:

http://www.stackengine.com/container-memory-usage-or-size-ma...

But it's unbounded wasteful, why does nobody get that. There is no correlation with proof of work energy spent and actual value of transactions. Even worse, proof of work is almost exponentially getting worse over time.

Yeah, it's really awesome. However not complete, but I've added a lot of functionality especially the coverer, there's a pull request for it if you want to take a look.

As long as science keeps thinking this, we won't have to worry about the singularity any time soon.

Europeans tend to look at the root cause to fix the issue, not declare war on the symptoms like Americans.

Artists are double dipping? Boy I hope you don't run into an artist who knows that you just said this...

Apple wants to give it away for free, not the artists. Apple needs the artists, hence they need to pay.

Revenue rising with the new service will eat into the other revenue streams from sales. Subscription revenue has already been proven to be laughable with Spotify.

Saying that Apple gets to keep all the extra profit because they paid the artists during arbitrary terms set by Apple is incredibly short sighted, as the profit you speak of means profit to Apple, but a loss to the music industry.

In real life there are more possibilities in between 0 and 1.. Also look at how its done in other countries. Apparently americans can go to Germany to study for free in a recent article. Absurd indeed.

Yes it is wrong, paying the cost of education at cost (for a government), or paying students to pay market prices (inflated by perception of value) is a huge difference. Which do you think Bernie Sanders was implying?

Yeah and his analogy is plain wrong. Bernie Sanders is saying to make the tulips free, not to give everybody enough money to buy them..

Why does HAProxy need reloading of config change, can't it load the new config do a diff and apply only that? Or alternative ways of having a web frontend for HAProxy to make changes to the config piecemeal without restarting?

Being dutch I think that the roads that share bikes and cars in the Netherlands are actually not by design but by necessity. Especially in Amsterdam where there simply is not enough space. If you look in rural areas if there is room, they are always seperated. In the cases where there is no room, the buildings and/or streets are usually historically protected as monuments and will not be demolish-able to make more room.

130,000 pages released, yet every commenter here is talking about their own beliefs.. incredible since this is supposedly a science community.. I clicked to see if anyone had looked at any of the pages yet and dug up some stuff to save myself some time..

Reminds me of Brad Fitzpatrick's camlistore http://camlistore.org

It would be cool if bitcoins seized in one crime would be compensating bitcoins stolen in another crime: Mt.Gox ..

I agree that this is the most interesting thing to watch for, whether apps will go with ApplePay or IAP. However it seems that credit card transactions also have a fixed per transaction fee of 19 cents or higher, not sure what these are for ApplePay yet, but that could factor in when IAP are just 1 dollar amounts.

Computers are inherently imprecise? Floating point is imprecise, yeah lets generalize that to the entire computer..

The email address is @intuit.com, so I'm guessing it's related to mint.

No mention of this on the Mt.Gox website, where the last article was talking about liquidation. But thanks for the heads up, as I am also one of the creditors I should look into it.

Mt.Gox is going to liquidate all their bitcoins for the bankruptcy proceedings. So factor that in, and creditors of Mt.Gox (especially bitcoin creditors) will get even less than the value today. I'd say get ready for a big bubble burst.

At Costco, you can only pay with American Express and at their gas station and store register, the card also doubles as a membership card, so since they don't explain how their card works I doubt that it would work for Costco.