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You can't just buy 'Murica with money!


I would very much prefer an easy way to go 'off the grid' - one button to disable all the shit that is draining your battery. 3G, data, location services, Wi-Fi.

Jailbreak used to help on iPhone and they did introduce the swipe bar to disable Wi-Fi, but put so many more obstacles to disable the rest.

Disabling location services will now prompt you whether you are sure you want to disable AFTER A FUCKING DELAY.

I would like very much that Google Maps wouldn't point me in a middle of ocean when my location services are disabled and I just want to peek at a map, not to find out where is some badly SEO'd shop.

But most of all, I would like apps to keep the data I opened 5 minutes ago. I just hate when you are in the tube, had your route planned and suddenly all the info is gone. Or the comment you wrote on HN and switched a tab is gone after refresh. Apple, PUT SOME FUCKING RAM ON YOUR IOS DEVICES.


This may be predictable, but all those things are a lot less of an issue on Android.


Agree with you, but that's like putting on your trousers over your head.

3 crappy UXs daily vs. hundreds? No thanks.


A mysql dump of abe database can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.netinch.com/temp/bitcoin-abe/abe.sql.gz (updated 2014-02-27) it's 14GB file that expands to 37GB dump, which took 84GB when imported to mysql.

Found the link at https://github.com/bitcoin-abe/bitcoin-abe/issues/15


Compatibility with the rest? Like, the users?

Everyone, but the US is paying mobile. US are still using magnetic strip credit cards. It wasn't that painful in Europe.


Why would I want to have to pay mobile when I can carry a much more durable and less valuable piece of plastic that performs just as well and never runs out of battery?


Ignore pay mobile - why stick with magnetic stripe and unchecked signatures when you could have chip and pin?


Because the cost of upgrading the infrastructure to do chip and pin has always been more than the cost of fraud associated with magnetic stripes.


Well, and also that the people who get stuck with the bill for fraud are not the same people who pay for the infrastructure.


Is that actually the case? Who do you see making up each of those groups?


Then why was the transition done in Europe? Was there more fraud there?


Last time I checked Germany wasn't part of the US and we use magnetic strip cards all the time here.


The magnetic strip can't even be used anymore: http://www.n24.de/n24/Wissen/Finanzen/d/1798604/der-magnetst...

It was barely used anymore before


I think the magnetic strip isn't used by terminals; the chip is.


This guy was onto something. The plane was last seen by military at Mallaca Strait, opposite direction of search area.

Malaysian Military official tells Reuters plane flew for more than an hour after vanishing from air traffic control screens

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/11/malaysia-airlines-...



If you keep your folder structure sane, I find email quite brilliant for it.

What I find waste of time is reentering emails into task app or CRM and then hopping back to email, to find the context.


Same for me. If a request comes in via email, it stays there - takes more time to copy the request to somewhere else and then find the email again to reply to it.

My (work) inbox consists only of emails that either require me to do something or reply to them. As soon as I reply, it's moved to a different folder.


Yes! Personally, I use a tickle folder system within my email and it keeps me very organized. I would love to automate a large chunk of this but haven't found a good way to do this.


Meet Dorian Nakamoto. He is just a regular scientist who likes model trains. But the world thinks he is creator of Bitcoin and mafia is chasing him for his $400m fortunes.

What does he do? He cooks meth.


dox the doxing doxer

Seriously, the story is best of psyops.


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