throwaway12351

8 лет назадdiscuss

Like blibble says, this is an absurd tradeoff given that 7zip's primary use case is unarchiving files downloaded from the public internet. Between that, the willful ignorance and dismissiveness of security measures displayed https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/feature-requests/1270/, and the apparent need for you to keep pressuring him to enable each countermeasure one-by-one, I question the prudence of using 7zip at all. He is clearly a great developer, and I have no reason to suspect ulterior motives, but his actions don't engender trust.

throwaway12351

9 лет назадdiscuss

It's a pretty hollow defense, because users are clearly not reading changelogs, and a reasonable person would obviously understand that a consumer's response to a poorly performing phone is conclude that it's time to buy a new one.

And my understanding is that there is no explicit mention in the changelog, just an opaque mention of new power management feature. But again, no one reads changelogs and the folks at Apple know that.

throwaway12351

9 лет назадdiscuss

Everyone defending Apple's behavior is missing the point completely. Yes, it's a reasonable way to manage degrading battery life and related electronic issues.

What's NOT reasonable is Apple CONCEALING this behavior. This led people to believe that they needed a new $1000 phone, instead of a $79 battery replacement.

throwaway12351

9 лет назадdiscuss

They could be doing it to make up shortfalls in their own BTC holdings relative holdings promised to customers, either in actual quantity, or in price actually acquired vs. price paid by the customer.

throwaway12351

9 лет назадdiscuss

Does anyone else find it highly suspicious that Coinbase goes down whenever there is any major movement in prices?

You can explain this as just the natural result of too much traffic, but that's not convincing. This is a business valued at over 1 billion dollars that has been operating for years. If this is still a problem, it's either unbelievable incompetence, or because they see no reason to fix it.

And here is a worst-case theory, by way of speculation not accusation. Being down whenever there is a lot of movement lets them beat all of their customers. When there is a crash, they can sell before their customers can. When there is a boom, they can buy before before their customers can. And because such a big portion of the market trades through them, this is more than trivial gains.

I have no way of knowing if this is what's happening, but it seems to be worthy of discussion, given how many people are placing trust in them. They don't really have an adequate explanation for the constant downtime, and I think they owe one to their customers.

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