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by Sambdala 13y ago
>I want to go from "shitty regulation" to "smart regulation". I'm tempted to conclude this is something that happens so rarely you may as well count the times it happens as a rounding error. It's a bit like
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by Sambdala 13y ago
That phrase came from a case that was completely unrelated to the content of the quote, and was used to claim that writing anti-draft pamphlets was illegal speech. That verdict was later effectively overturned, and the judge who first said
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Using the console: I wrote a wrapper function around the site generator that took a callback so the next string to test would be called recursively. If a public key matched the public key I was aiming for, I dumped the response to the conso
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Brute forced the 1 BTC award. The HN user was 'petercooper'.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Sure; there's a reason I specified chargebacks and identity theft. These are two areas that are largely solved with a push payment system rather than a pull payment system. I'm looking forward to seeing how other types of fraud ar
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by Sambdala 13y ago
The current cost of fraud from chargebacks and identity theft from traditional credit cards seems like it would dwarf any eventual power consumption of Bitcoin miners.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
It's really easy to be right >90% of the time, if 100% of the time you predict a new technology will fail.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
For what it's worth, most Americans under 30 have probably read 1984 in school.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
"Don't be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign. That's probably why everyone else has been overlooking the idea. The first microcomputers were
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by Sambdala 13y ago
http://hn4hn4x.herokuapp.com
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by Sambdala 13y ago
My understanding is that's the common ex post rationalization that arose to try to come up with a plausible-sounding reason for this idiotic rule.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
The new AWS GPU EC2 instances should be perfect for that.
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How We Got 1,000+ Subscribers from a Single Blog Post in 24 Hours(groovehq.com)
30 points by Sambdala 13y ago|3 comments
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by Sambdala 13y ago
And the reason for that response is that US speed limits tend to be unreasonably low for a given road when driving a modern car.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Is/Are there resource(s) you'd point someone to if they didn't fully understand the topic but would like to become competent?
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by Sambdala 13y ago
I feel helpless each time I read an account like this. I used to get angry.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Soviet surveillance directly and/or indirectly involved the murder of millions of innocent people though.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
No, the "Internet Law" is that as an Internet discussion approaches a length of infinity, the likelihood that someone mentions the Nazis approaches 1. It doesn't necessarily mean the mention was unwarranted or inappropriate.
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Stop Designing for "Users": Design for Activities(medium.com)
3 points by Sambdala 13y ago|0 comments
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by Sambdala 13y ago
I really wish you could always use the scroll wheel on these. I've been checking out a fair number of JS Presentation libraries lately, and I really prefer the ones that allow you to scroll, even if the transitions are horizontal.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Regulatory capture and anti-competitive regulations seem like they would have a much bigger impact on wealth disparity than tax rates.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
What if you set up a Dead Man's Switch of sorts, that you were unable to disable, that would go off and notify a trusted journalist/blogger/etc if you ever tripped it? Tripping it would happen as a result of whatever rules yo
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The Database Architecture of Salesforce.com(dbms2.com)
1 points by Sambdala 13y ago|0 comments
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by Sambdala 13y ago
drivebyacct2, it looks like you've been hellbanned for ~56 days.
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High Frequency Trading is Bad for Normal Investors Researchers Say(qz.com)
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Pundits Guide to Edward Snowden Fan Fiction(theatlanticwire.com)
1 points by Sambdala 13y ago|0 comments
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Toddlers with Guns Killed More Americans Last Year than Terrorists(opposingviews.com)
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Ask HN: Is a for-profit TOR feasible?
1 points by Sambdala 13y ago|0 comments
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by Sambdala 13y ago
It's more complicated than "freedom vs. loss of life" because any "protections" necessarily have costs and unexpected consequences. So what ends up happening is even more terrifying than a direct freedom vs. lives t
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Just skimming through the linked post, it seemed like you would be writing all 16 of the books (admittedly, this could be my own reading failing), which seemed like a really ambitious goal. Are you planning on writing about the entire proce

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