Estragon

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by Estragon 12y ago
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/14/israel-s...
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Bangladesh bans Bitcoin transactions(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by Estragon 12y ago|0 comments
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by Estragon 12y ago
The BTC address they posted has already seen over 3 bitcoins pass through it. That's worth a little. https://blockchain.info/address/19pta6x1hXzV9F5hHnhMARYbRjux...
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by Estragon 12y ago
To detain you for an hour, he needs a "reasonable and articulable suspicion" that you're in some way involved in a crime, and that means more than just "He looked like a stoner." "Fuck you" is not an appro
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by Estragon 12y ago
It's not too bad as long as you're rich and white.
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by Estragon 12y ago
> they didn't believe that will have to eventually face an enemy with so many > resources (FBI/NSA). I believe that avoiding detection online can be done > if you are very strict about your policies. I think
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by Estragon 12y ago
This is a familiar argument, but you have to admit there's a lot of wishful thinking involved because Amazon is so opaque about its operations and finances. Bezos is basically saying "Trust me." I don't blame people wh
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by Estragon 12y ago
> if Bitcoin was a cheaper or more efficient transaction method, > for-profit organizations such as large payment processors would have > forked it long ago and would likely already be using it internally in > order t
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by Estragon 12y ago
I've heard that rice is mostly grown in areas of California where water is plentiful because it's basically swamp. http://www.metafilter.com/142024/California-Drought-Update#5...
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by Estragon 12y ago
If something this sexy only made it into PLoS One, either it can't be that good or the authors have some ideological commitment to PLoS One's publishing values.
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by Estragon 12y ago
Thanks.
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Appeal against the Italian seismology manslaughter case begins in October(medium.com)
6 points by Estragon 12y ago|0 comments
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by Estragon 12y ago
Who is working on implementing this technology?
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by Estragon 12y ago
Maybe not such a good suggestion for a consumer-oriented product, but I've heard that this approach works well for B2B.
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by Estragon 12y ago
The hope I've heard from cryptocurrency enthusiasts is that they stay under the radar until they're too big for any traditional organization to overpower the network. It would certainly still be feasible for the US government to o
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by Estragon 12y ago
Thanks, this is the coolest thing I've seen in weeks.
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by Estragon 12y ago
The neurons in the IBM chip are only slightly better approximations to biological behavior, nowhere near close enough to hope that it will accidentally result in brain-like intelligence. Last I heard, the behavior of biological neurons was
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by Estragon 12y ago
Yes, 1984 was much worse. I can only think of one thought crime in the US. No one is being imprisoned for keeping a diary. Still, ubiquitous surveillance may afford far more concentration of power than Orwell imagined. You couldn't
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by Estragon 12y ago
Replicating Deep Mind's deep-learning video game player.
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by Estragon 12y ago
Yes, and I've met a Haskell zealot who desperately needs this kind of advice, so it's addressing a real need.
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by Estragon 12y ago
Ah, thanks.
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by Estragon 12y ago
What's the purpose of the target purchase?
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by Estragon 12y ago
Back around 96 I went to Nagoya and ate at Denny's. My hosts wanted some Western food that day, I guess.
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by Estragon 12y ago
He had spent seven years sacrificing himself, driving himself to the point of breakdown, nearly to death, trying to help these people, and they didn’t care about him at all. What was the point? He knew that if you were su
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by Estragon 12y ago
Can you cite some parts which reflect entitlement?
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by Estragon 12y ago
> Google was rolling out a fix for this process This sounds fascinating. Off the top of my head, the only fix I can imagine is to punish people for overestimates, but that sounds harmful in other ways.
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by Estragon 12y ago
...unprecedented suppression order by the Australian Supreme Court in Melbourne, Victoria... Minor nit: It sounds like strictly speaking, this order is from the Victorian Supreme Court (state level), not the Australian Supreme Co
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by Estragon 12y ago
I can see how it could get speedboat from the shape of the hull.
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by Estragon 12y ago
How are you making that bet?
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by Estragon 12y ago
I would say the metric, at least in fields with a lot of money, is actually the amount of funding you bring in. Of course, publication record has a big influence on that, too.

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