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by Element_ 13y ago
The US government took down egold when it reached ~2 billion in annual transactions. I suspect they will take action against bitcoin before it reaches a trillion dollar monetary base, but only time will tell ;)
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by Element_ 13y ago
Bittorrent/TPB ticked off a small number of industries (media,software, etc...) their persecution was largely a function of how well those industries could lobby the government. If bitcoin ever got large enough to be perceived as a thr
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General Fusion: A miniature sun rises in the west(canadianbusiness.com)
2 points by Element_ 13y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft’s Windows Azure deemed secure by the Feds(venturebeat.com)
1 points by Element_ 13y ago|0 comments
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by Element_ 13y ago
I am (coming from Waterloo)
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by Element_ 13y ago
Canada may be a big winner from climate change but it won't be because of permafrost. Melted permafrost is essentially swamp land, development is generally much easier when it is in the frozen state. Oil companies go so far as to insta
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by Element_ 13y ago
If the NSA is doing this "legally" via secret courts etc... Then you have to assume every company subject to US law can't be trusted.
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by Element_ 13y ago
I was also curious about this, I assumed the competition between UPS and Fedex was fierce enough to keep them both fairly innovative, but it sounds like Amazon is finding room for improvement...
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by Element_ 13y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Frontend Designer - remote okay Looking for a designer/frontend person to design a logo, color scheme, "coming soon page", and a simple 1 page product website for a new startup. It would be ideal if you c
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by Element_ 13y ago
direct link to youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R_D-zX3yP8
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PIN-Punching Robot Can Crack Your Phone's Security Code In Less Than 24 Hours(forbes.com)
1 points by Element_ 13y ago|1 comments
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by Element_ 13y ago
"Specifically, we saw a 50% performance benefit addressing disks directly rather than going through the G3 hardware RAID." Wow 50%! Is this because raid controller performance hasn't kept up with the evolution from spinning d
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by Element_ 13y ago
Not only do you make more as a software developer in the USA, the living costs are much less (I believe the average price of a home in Canada is currently close to double that in the USA [1]) I think a person is more likely to pursue a star
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by Element_ 13y ago
It was an excellent documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ_a21fPkYM
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Kremlin turns back to typewriters to avoid leaks(google.com)
4 points by Element_ 13y ago|0 comments
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Detriots Emergency Dispatch Radio System fails(wxyz.com)
6 points by Element_ 13y ago|1 comments
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by Element_ 13y ago
omega tau did an interesting podcast on radio telescopes which included a discussion about the specialized hardware radio telescopes use to process the signal data. I think it was on: http://omegataupodcast.net/2009/08&
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by Element_ 13y ago
I believe the US air force did extensive studies on this back in the 60's and found that tire ware from spinup only accounted for ~<10% of overall wear on the tires. They found most of the stress comes from the act of braking and tu
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Verizon Allegedly Built A Fiber Optic Cable for NSA(businessinsider.com)
8 points by Element_ 13y ago|0 comments
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Atomic Bombs Help Solve Brain Mystery(news.sciencemag.org)
1 points by Element_ 13y ago|0 comments
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5-Pound UAV Flies For 50 Minutes, Streams HD From Over 3 Miles(skyranger.com)
1 points by Element_ 13y ago|0 comments
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by Element_ 14y ago
I found this article very useful for evaluating startup ideas, the author lays out a 12 question strategy. http://www.businessinsider.com/essential-startup-questions-2... His key point is identifying potential customers and a way to attr
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by Element_ 14y ago
Suporterwall seems like a great tool. How many paying customers out of the 150 active accounts? How many of those are repeat customers?
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by Element_ 14y ago
Just out of curiosity what were you hosting there? How have you found the azure experience overall aside from this latest issue?
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by Element_ 14y ago
"Passive undersea fiber monitoring is well within the means of more than a few intelligence operations" What kind of equipment/engineering would be required for that? Has there been any documented cases of a government doing that in the pas
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by Element_ 14y ago
There are portable hydraulic car lifts on the market that would easily fit in the back of a cubevan/small truck. e.g: http://www.asedeals.com/images/MSC6K-portable-post-lift-5.jp...
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by Element_ 14y ago
The podcast interviews Thomas Peterffy, he tells a few stories about starting his company and hacking together the first automated trading system, etc...
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Stories about the "Father of high-speed trading"(npr.org)
1 points by Element_ 14y ago|1 comments
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by Element_ 14y ago
That is a pretty crazy way to make a living. Here is a vid showing how they setup the ladders on the side of the chimney. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04dGK1_wYA
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by Element_ 14y ago
Last year Dr. Davide Maltoni published a paper (Pattern Recognition by Hierarchical Temporal Memory)[1] comparing the algorithms laid out in Dileep Georges original PHD thesis. The results were pretty impressive. There have been many improv

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