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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…

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 experienc…

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 an…

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 …

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 ha…

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…

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…

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 …

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 ar…

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 y…

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 chang…

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 enoug…

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 looke…

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 transa…