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by Phlarp 12y ago
I remember when my parents tried to temper a particularly deep obsession with a specific video game from my youth. My father was very quick to brand it as "not real life", "anti-social" and "worthless". Needles
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by Phlarp 12y ago
For co-founder caliber talent? $100/hr or equivalent. Minimum.
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by Phlarp 12y ago
No, it's saying that this is the guy that has allegedly hacked Satoshi.
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The Satoshi Nakamoto Email Hacker Says He's Negotiating with the Bitcoin Founder(motherboard.vice.com)
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by Phlarp 12y ago
Top Skills: Breathing (2 endorsements) And they wonder why linkedin isn't taken seriously anymore.
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by Phlarp 12y ago
Perhaps I'm ignorant, but this seems like and insane corporate tax burden compared to what many (most?) large organizations are reported to be paying. Can anyone explain if my assumption is wrong or why they pay so much?
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by Phlarp 12y ago
Me too please!
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by Phlarp 12y ago
But there is a point in incentivizing a larger percentage of the total number of drivers in a given area into accepting rides during 1-2 hour surges.
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by Phlarp 12y ago
Would I be wrong to gather that they also built an in house map reduce implementation? What year is this code from? Most of the other documents have been from 2007-2009, when did Google first implement map reduce?
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by Phlarp 12y ago
If this many bitcoins were purchased in a short time frame on the exchanges the price would shoot well over 1000 almost instantly.
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by Phlarp 12y ago
This ruling was not specific to the use of stingray devices, those are still legal to use if they have the proper warrant. What's illegal with stingrays is lying about where the information came from on the warrant or in a trail. No su
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by Phlarp 12y ago
A _good_ legal defense will present these kinds of things during the negotiation. Which could very well be the difference between a plea involving time served and community service or one with a 10 year mandatory minimum.
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by Phlarp 12y ago
Perhaps just that they have engineers presenting instead of the traditional PR mannequins / executives?
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by Phlarp 12y ago
Doctors throw antibiotics at viral infections as a placebo cure _all_ the time. Neither that activity nor these Amazon resellers make a dent in antibiotic use when compared to factory farms and traditional cattle operations. Like it or not,
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If it was well known that large and highly funded subsets of foreign militaries were roaming around breaking into everyones businesses and stealing things / exploiting the lack of legal compliance then, yes, I'd be very pleased th
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by Phlarp 12y ago
Essentially every new consumer grade car made today comes with power steering and electronically controlled or assisted "mechanical linkage". To say nothing of the recent high profile cases of large auto makers having faulty engin
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by Phlarp 12y ago
Consider the possibility that others have come forward and leaked documents, which have then gone on to be published (perhaps even by Greenwald et al) with sources listed as "NSA documents obtained by $publication". Everyone would
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by Phlarp 12y ago
>Perhaps they dont want any inadvertent leaks of the data to a third party? Little late for this.
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by Phlarp 12y ago
What could you possibly need that many individual yet mostly similar languages to accomplish? Even if we grouped things like XSD, XSLT into the XML category or Groovy and JSP into the Java category it feels silly to need this many languages
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Conveniently packaging data regarding heart, liver and kidney function to be easily parsed and stored by advertisers/insurance/NSA
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by Phlarp 12y ago
Onto what? The inflatable they came in?
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by Phlarp 12y ago
>They are being charged with economic hacking activities. Trade secrets were being lifted and handed to Chinese companies. An analog would be like the NSA harvesting data from Samsung and then passing it to Apple Yes, of course, the brig
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by Phlarp 12y ago
Until the courier gets served with a NSL
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The world is an exceedingly small place. Hi from a fellow Marshallite
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by Phlarp 12y ago
wouldn't an ~8GB page/swap file being continuously rewritten on a 250GB drive still consume a non-negligible number of write cycles over several days / weeks at most?
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by Phlarp 12y ago
Be aware that the Das (even with brown switches) will be significantly louder than a code keyboard with green switches (the code keyboard also comes with sound dampening O-rings. installed and they make a huge difference) I have a das profe
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by Phlarp 12y ago
I weep for the memory sectors that got re-written continuously for an entire night.
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by Phlarp 12y ago
Centralized authority in the form of the corporation that employs you. It's generally considered proper (at least here on hacker news) to disclose any potential conflicts of interest upfront, particularly when making posts discussing a
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by Phlarp 12y ago
>the network's security has no correlation to the amount of hashing power involved. (There's no 51% attack on Ripple) I think you are misunderstanding what the majority of users consider "security". Typically it invol
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by Phlarp 12y ago
No. It is illegal to jam frequencies or spectrums whose use is otherwise governed by the FCC

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