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by DINKDINK 12y ago
On what time scale?
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Seems safe: https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/c9c5514fd72fa2824a60ea0a67... What firewall are you using?
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Good counter point. I assumed all KSTs were US citizens. As far as I'm aware, that probability isn't divulged.
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Some ludicrous statistics: "In a recent court filing, the government disclosed that there were 468,749 KST nominations in 2013" The government is saying that there are ~1,500 known or suspected terrorists per million population. O
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Are you familiar with NameCoin? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Further more, to quote Greg Brockman: "Second, this model [the Bitcoin ecosystem] unbundles the existing financial system into layers run by independent companies. To see the value of this, contrast with the US mobile carriers, who use
817.
by DINKDINK 12y ago
These regulations aren't about consumer protections (if they were, companies would be audited and scored on how well they comply, ala health food scores in restaurants). If regulators solely marked businesses with the metaphorical se
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Indentured servitude is a system in which someone who has no present capital writes a contract with someone to exchange future labor for present capital (in an historical context, passage on ships if I recall correctly). If you're iss
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
>H1-Bs are the very antithesis of freedom Laws restrict freedom, that's their entire point. Whether a society, political ideology etc deems those limitations in freedom necessary is a different story. Visas put a wedge in the law
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
He's saying, for students, there's zero marginal cost to access it
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Parametric advertising doesn't create a class-based system of access to information or business opportunities.
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
If you want to be a stickler on significant figures, it's actually 2,000 qps.
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
I would love to see the data with comparison to baseline too. and it is an example of a nanny state (the FDA is literally saying, we have to protect you from this) rather than acting as a licensed-milk-producer-seal issuer. It's the s
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
>Is it possible that LJ used to host tails ISO images or tor bundles under linuxjournal.com/content/linux ? Are you implying that if LJ did, that the NSA listing them as an "Extremist" website is then valid? How is p
825.
by DINKDINK 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin Distributed DNS is the only solution
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
>The fact that interest rates on Treasury bonds remain so low, despite our debt levels and despite certain political figures repeatedly attempting to force the US Government to default on that debt, is prima facie refutation of the idea
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Additionally none of this is population normalized. https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=a7jenngfc4um7_&... Additionally, the first GDP chart conflicts with what it's reporting: Title "United Stat
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
The problem with entitlements/social safety net programs (how ever you want to spin it) is that they're policies that are predicated on the old generation being funded by a larger younger generation. That's policy that isn&#
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
True, I'm thinking in a paradigm where humans in cars are replaced with driverless cars. The externalities that you point are valid but I still think that the efficiencies gained by having diverless cars would outpace any externalitie
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
This website gives a simplistic visualization of what I'm talking about http://www.traffic-simulation.de/ Decreasing the time gap and space gap decreased the amount of traffic
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Traffic results when car densities pass a certain threshold and the speed the cars are traveling at prevents humans from being able to react in time or appropriately. You might have even seen this phenomenon in real life: Driving on a highw
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Driverless cars have the vast vast potential to fix traffic congestion problems. Traffic mainly results from humans' inability to gauge the spacial and speed based tolerances required to prevent braking and as a result sending a backw
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Apple to Cease Development of Aperture, Transition Users to Photos for OS X
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
This is a very poorly written article (I'm amazed this is written by a physics professor). Static and kinetic friction is only a resistive force to a train if there is slippage between the wheels and the track. -Assuming a no slip con