agorabinary

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by agorabinary 11y ago
A golden age of after-work creative and productive output? If you don't have the passion to create something meaningful with X amount of free-time, what will X+1 do for you?
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by agorabinary 11y ago
legitimate 1. according to law, lawful So the difference between the mafia and government is the use of laws? Which are rules that governments abide by? Sounds very circular indeed.
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by agorabinary 11y ago
No, this is where your insert social system fails to eliminate deception and fraud. Because no social system can be expected to accomplish that. "Just where in the world are you going to find these angels who are going to organize so
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by agorabinary 11y ago
I thought gavin and most of the established bitcoin devs were in favor of increasing the blocksize.. so why is this "lightning" system no one has heard about suddenly the new plan for bitcoin core? Whose clout is pushing this thro
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Facebook messenger protocol implementation for Pidgin, Libpurple(github.com)
3 points by agorabinary 11y ago|0 comments
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Pidgin working on implementation of Facebook Messenger protocol(hg.pidgin.im)
103 points by agorabinary 11y ago|67 comments
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by agorabinary 11y ago
A weak bill that does little or nothing to properly stymie the torrent of civil liberties intrusions. Much stronger legislation is needed. At least Rand Paul's efforts produced a symbolic if temporary rebuke of Patriot Act powers.
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by agorabinary 11y ago
Yes, Airbnb's "thing" (dirty little secret) is that some widespread neighbor abuse as documented in an HN anecdote is polluting the social value of a $20B startup. Solution? Instead of allowing building managers/owners t
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by agorabinary 11y ago
rm -rf /reposts ?
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by agorabinary 12y ago
1. The Federal Reserve is not an acronym. Neither is it an example of a successful government program, when it is explicitly a public-private institution that only serves to guarantee government blank-check spending and easy credit kickback
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by agorabinary 12y ago
Is it possible to read the amount and currency type from the NFC terminal rather than typing it manually? I think that would be a sticking point for credit-card users who are used to just sliding and having the proper amount deducted withou
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by agorabinary 12y ago
Property owners took a risk by purchasing property, just as anyone does purchasing shares of a public company for instance. The value of your asset can go up and you find yourself in an advantageous position (a seller's market as you p
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by agorabinary 12y ago
"Political extremist" is an empty ad-hominem --- please point out specifically what views of his are so distasteful.
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by agorabinary 12y ago
Going from zero to $40 billion in a few years isn't real impact? Those silly investors. If only they'd give all those Nice Guy Inc. a chance..
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by agorabinary 12y ago
I don't see why you couldn't put trackers on the blockchain (or a sidechain?). Goodluck taking that down.
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by agorabinary 12y ago
live demo 502
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by agorabinary 12y ago
How are the alternatives "evidently superior"? Not that I doubt this Robocoin experience, but playing devil's advocate and the bitcoin economy... is a bit necessary. When Butterfly Labs was scamming people over so long a peri
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by agorabinary 12y ago
CS professors do grade for clarity and not just "does it work/compile?" but as a matter of relative weight in a grading distribution I think it gets less attention, and necessarily so for the more challenging problems. Writin
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by agorabinary 12y ago
I used to be a philosophy major at a top 10 school notorious for its rigor. Now I am a CS major at my local university after transferring (for various reasons including cost). What the author doesn't understand is that when we says, &q
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by agorabinary 12y ago
Thanks for sharing!
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by agorabinary 12y ago
There's going to be a lot of developers on here who went the traditional high school -> CS degree route and think that this alternative life anecdote offers some real insights about the Other world of "passion-seekers", bu
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by agorabinary 12y ago
This is rather apples to oranges. Blue collar manufacturing work where women run at only 25% of the workforce and men have higher than national average crime rates --- you are bound to have more problems with the men. Not to endorse the aut
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by agorabinary 12y ago
I know from personal experience that Steam works slightly better on windows than linux, so I see your point there.
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by agorabinary 12y ago
I don't mean to sound like a prick, I'm just genuinely curious as to why someone would use windows for some CLI work. Are you using some software that isn't available on more developer-friendly operating systems?
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by agorabinary 13y ago
There is no "Bitcoin", it is not a corporation. There is no body in charge of it. Mt. Gox alleged they were stolen via transaction malleability, so yes, it would seem they are "finding" coins that had been "stolen&q
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by agorabinary 13y ago
This. The author likes to fill the space between his unexplored technical points with this tasteless, dismissive tone that makes me question the value of his argument even before I scroll down to look for an appropriately brief TL;DR. Unfor
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by agorabinary 13y ago
Closing the conversation with a 9gag link. How professional.
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by agorabinary 13y ago
Like regulation and oversight prevented (insert: preserved, perpetuated, safeguarded) Madoff?
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by agorabinary 13y ago
They are both dead. See the statements.
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by agorabinary 13y ago
It's probably more likely that many employees were oblivious to the insolvency. As long as everyone's accounts were "credited" as they should, regardless of the soundness of their cold storage accounts, it would appear a

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