Torgo

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   by Torgo 14y ago

   I should mention, you change one bit of a file and it will obscure the file from the "FBI test". But still, you trivially can generate the Cryptoshphere lookup for any unencrypted file you have access to, and see if anybody has it.
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   by Torgo 14y ago

   I quickly read over the description of how this works. Nodes have a crypto identity which is used to establish trust between nodes, and storing data from another node gives you bandwidth "credit" to download other stuff. Transactions are cr
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   by Torgo 14y ago

   I agree. This is an accounting hack when dealing with bigger companies. If you are a little contractor, beancounters will put you at the bottom of the heap to get paid. If you offer a discount for early payment, beancounters will put you ba
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   by Torgo 14y ago

   There are a lot of assumptions made in your posting, and I think you should subject every one of them to honest skepticism.
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   by Torgo 14y ago

   I will not hire people who use contractions.
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   by Torgo 14y ago

   I'm not getting this hammer metaphor. OK, so a hammer is good for pounding nails and not good for fixing a watch. If we're having this whole discussion because people have noticed that PHP is the frequent common factor in buggy, poor-securi
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   by Torgo 14y ago

   Is it really true that charities should be allocated first based on need? Maybe public funding, but these are voluntary donations by private individuals. A lot of charity is based on affinity to groups. You're throwing the baby out with the
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   by Torgo 14y ago

   Well, he used the same numbers that the IPCC FAR report's "Policymaker's Summary" section chose to use, which repeatedly uses the term "is predicted" (admittedly, qualified with "based on current model results" or specific scenarios.) The e
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   by Torgo 14y ago

   People keep calling this a professional setting. But it's a press expo. "Booth babes" as popularized by seemingly every video game or entertainment expo evolved out of companies hiring attractive women for their expo booth, to flirt with po
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    by Torgo 14y ago

    Asking a fundamental question is simple. It's the answers that are hard, just like in science. Go back to the pre-Socratics and you can find questions that are clear precursors to modern questions in science about things like causality, blo
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    by Torgo 14y ago

    Is "mental health detainment" in this case an involuntary psychiatric commitment? Is there law for this being used punitively to effectively put someone in jail for 30 days without regard to the criminal charges? Or is his detainment for "m