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I think windows were flat on Windows 3.1 too and only adopted the 3D raised borders starting with Windows 95.

Moreover, Google said they did a study when they first released their minimalist homepage design and when people saw lots of white space below the search bar, they assumed the page…

And Uber which eventually led to massive loses.

If movies have taught us anything, they need to remain on the call for at least 30 seconds for it to be traced.

But then when is any button in the UI not considered an Ad? Chrome's new Side Panel button is an ad for the side panel feature.

Like all web apps it depends on how much you want to do on the client side vs. the server side. With blockchain apps it is now client side vs. server side vs. blockchain side. At o…

> the cryptobros realize that the reason for interest rates isn’t the transaction cost or the paperwork but the enforcement arm to get people to complete the whole transaction thro…

Transaction time was arbitrarily set to allow time for a majority of parties on the Internet to verify transactions. It is a trade off of speed versus security. It was picked as a …

Forking requires consensus among the decentralized miners. If the majority of the minors didn't agree to fork, they wouldn't have been able to fork the chain.

The ENS domain system is similar, but they added a few rules to benefit the domain holder: 1) When the domain expires, it still remains active and still linked to the previous owne…

It's hard for it to die when countries like Venezuela tried to create their own crypto to get around US sanctions on the Venezuelan dollar. And when that failed, Venezuelans switch…

0.6% for business transactions 0% for peer to peer transactions 0% to transfer from your bank account to WeChat 0.001% to transfer from your WeChat to bank account

But fraud-wise Zelle doesn't seem as protective as regular banks: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/business/payments-fraud-z... > “It’s like the banks have colluded with the slea…

You know, the very website you are viewing uses encryption.

Yes and this is a case where the best technology doesn't win, but the first technology to come to market or the first technology with the first killer app. But this bug can be view…

Amazon uses outsourced drivers do it would be surveillance of their partners.

> You have a lot of faith in these brands. Bombas was founded in 2019 by an MBA grad and a marketing graduate. They have no reputation. These aren't like hand crafted sock makers d…

https://www.parity.io/blog/un-world-food-programme-uses-pari... The UN saved more than 40,000 USD per month in bank transfer costs by using blockchain.

As a consumer, I don't mind if they are less efficient. Just as long as they are the cheapest option.

>> So does crypto [...] > I'd wager that this is a lie. Please name one. Alibaba ran a Foreign Exchange service on top of crypto. I don't know if it is still running or not. It fun…

I remember when Java applets could prompt the user to accept "all or nothing" permissions and fine grained permissions wasn't supported.