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Compared to other crashes where there seemed to be an underlying economic issue - this one feels like it will bounce back quickly at some point in my amateur opinion. Am tempted by…

> Someone's just bought a $1000 call option on a stock that's currently $400? Automated trading systems will probably raise alerts on that stock since someone must know something f…

It looks like the amount is stored as an int, which could overflow when dealing with Bitcoin if you're using Satoshi's as a subunit.

I really don't see any need or benefit in storing values as mills unless you're writing forex trading platforms. It's inviting more mistakes.

Lots of third party implementations will take a few % off your bottom line. That's the main one. There's a couple of other points here as well: - If you do enough volume, you're ab…

I'm currently rewriting our store implementation, and it's complicated. One example is that some currencies have 100 subunits (eg USD), some have 10 subunits (EG TWD/MOP) and some …

Would drilling holes deep enough theoretically allow us to harvest thermal energy on a meaningful scale?

Devastating for them I imagine. Website offline since 31st December, purposefully timed attack for maximum disruption I would imagine. Looks like they had aspiration to IPO earlier…

Our software Construct 3 ( https://editor.construct.net/ ) I think meets most of these points. It runs offline, and we never have access to the users project files. You can save/lo…

The entire editor is built in HTML5, and the exported games export to HTML5. It was the obvious choice.

That's what we're trying to do and we're making good progress! As our engine Construct 3 is written in HTML5 itself, Javascript was the natural language choice to integrate with ou…

We talked to a lot of teachers, and it's a real problem going from block based programming to syntax heavy scripting - there's a chasm there which from a teaching standpoint is som…

That's not how liability works. People within the business will be on the line if the business is acting criminally.

Not if you restrict the dataset to the undesirable domain names, it would be orders of magnitude smaller.

If I understand correctly, the full URL is hashed (or at least the first n bits of the full URL). It really isn't computationally expensive to work out undesirable URL's being visi…

> It's perfectly fine to block them. I think there were some legal rulings IIRC in the UK regarding software to auto mute/block/skip ads on TV/Radio, but for the life of my can't f…

Here in the UK I was under the impression that to claim that products are on sale, you should show the previous price and should have been selling at that price for a meaningful pe…

It says he was offered $50k USD for it, so that's how he's valuing it. They can prohibit transfer in writing, but not much they can do about it.

"The Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation is a United States class-action lawsuit filed in 2005 by merchants and trade associations against Visa,…

Thanks for reply! From our point of view, a card where we could use our USD and EUR balance to make USD/EUR payments would be one of the biggest pulls if possible. I think recurrin…

Tend to agree but I don't think a card is that big of a deal as in this case it's less Stripe owned as it's a Visa card so pretty sure you'd have some additional protection there.