Estragon

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by Estragon 14y ago
Don't you just keep hitting "change identity" in the tor browser bundle until that doesn't happen anymore?
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by Estragon 14y ago
"Don't worry about it. It's not important to the objective of getting you to understand X."
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by Estragon 14y ago
Frankly, I still don't understand why everyone's so excited about dropbox.
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by Estragon 14y ago
Driverless trucks with no passengers will totally be targets for vandalism and theft.
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by Estragon 14y ago
Good start. What's the timeline for the elisp interpreter? :-)
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by Estragon 14y ago
They're already used for spam. For a while there I was getting two spam calls a day inviting me to lower my credit card bill or something.
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by Estragon 14y ago
> Most people stay way too close to the car in front, though. Yes, and people who don't care about this risk are very annoying drivers for the people who do.
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by Estragon 14y ago
s/basis for the boy's identity/led to the boy's enlightenment/. True as written, just a bit redundant, and not what I meant. :)
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by Estragon 14y ago
Thanks.
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by Estragon 14y ago
Anyone got a link to a more detailed explanation of the vulnerability and how it would be exploited?
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by Estragon 14y ago
Violent koans aren't particularly common, they just stand out. However, they do reflect a fundamentally destructive aspect of spiritual practice, namely, that it undermines the conditioning behind cherished identities. The point of the st
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by Estragon 14y ago
> it's quite obvious that the author is _nowhere_ close to average I agree with you in general, but he meant he's at best an average academic , because he didn't find a way to frame his work so that an academic community would
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by Estragon 14y ago
If you have that set up, does Heroku give you any extra value?
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by Estragon 14y ago
Er, s/one of the/one of the best/ :)
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by Estragon 14y ago
I have a PhD in Applied Math from one of the Math departments in the country, and now do biomedical research. Believe me, the cynicism is well placed. I wanted to get a PhD because I believed as you do. The fact is, though biomedical rese
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by Estragon 14y ago
It doesn't matter. The point of that story is, the weak link is going to be exploited. Bitcoinica is a good example. Zhoutong said at the start he understands application security, and in fact the big attacks didn't result from exploits
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by Estragon 14y ago
At least for the MtGox and Bitcoinica thefts, this would only have slowed the attack down. All it would take is adding a password logger. Still might be a worthwhile extra line of defense, though.
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by Estragon 14y ago
I hear AWS is certified for credit card processing. Is that not the case?
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by Estragon 14y ago
noduerme, it appears you have been hell banned.
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by Estragon 14y ago
The simple vs easy concept is broader than data sharing. One example is perl, which is quite easy to pick up but complects many things, like strings representing numbers being silently coerced into numeric values. Another example, where I
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by Estragon 14y ago
Sounds like they got a software engineer for super cheap, too. I bet his boss's boss was laughing so hard because the kid doesn't realize how much money he could have been making.
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by Estragon 14y ago
In the screenshot, what the heck do those pie and bar graphs represent? Also, seems strange that he's coy about the name in the text, but seems to show it on the screenshot.
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by Estragon 14y ago
Actually, there may be a technical approach: do something like padmapper as a TOR service, and take payment in bitcoins. :-)
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by Estragon 14y ago
Found a replacement for HN yet? I promise not to degrade its discourse with stupid stuff. :-)
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by Estragon 14y ago
Is it open source at this stage? (Found the source in the jar file, wondering about publishing modifications.)
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by Estragon 14y ago
Why are our personal reproductive choices so rarely informed by these Malthusian dynamics, let alone by the enormous personal burden involved in raising children? Because a nation/ethnicity/clan/family whose culture is comfortable with hon
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by Estragon 14y ago
No, the argument is that he could comfortably experiment with starting his own business because his financial obligations are minimal. If I had bought a property I would have had to service the gap between the rent and the interest re
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by Estragon 14y ago
OT, but all this language comparison got me wondering: has anyone implemented C# on the JVM? :-)
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by Estragon 14y ago
That hadn't occurred to me until I read your comment, but I came over here to ask a related question: What is the business model? Who is paying for the bandwidth boxopus is using by downloading all these torrents for people?
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by Estragon 14y ago
Heh, didn't think of that. Thanks.

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