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14221.
by api 12y ago
vs. using a real language? Webbies seriously have Stockholm syndrome with this language.
14222.
by api 12y ago
How would anyone really know? Isn't the point of Tor to make that kind of study damn near impossible? For all we know 80% of Tor traffic is hot sexy manatee action.
14223.
by api 12y ago
Everyone thinking every other kind of role is worthless is one of the things I've persistently seen ruin and even kill companies.
14224.
by api 12y ago
Online games offer some amount of social stimulation along with the classic video game Skinner Box effect... sort of a double-whammy of gratification. Online communities like Reddit and... ahem... Hacker News... that gamify the online discu
14225.
by api 12y ago
On the plus side, think of it as a type of market validation. A bunch of investors think your idea is solid. On the minus side, try to avoid focusing too much on competing and not enough on listening to the market directly and reasoning fro
14226.
by api 12y ago
Ahh, bombs and hacking, the glories of childhood. I remember when I learned about water electrolysis. I built an electrolysis cell with a high voltage rectifier diode and a two liter coke bottle and proceeded to fill giant punching bag ball
14227.
by api 12y ago
I'm guessing vulnerable cases will be where string-encoded IP addresses are accepted from the network and passed directly to these functions, such as by web apps or things that take string-serialized encodings. This would allow an atta
14228.
by api 12y ago
Here's the bibliography of the author of this piece, for context: http://www.nafeezahmed.com/p/books.html He's certainly got his own axes to grind and his own political ideology to sell, but that doesn't
14229.
by api 12y ago
Windows only.
14230.
by api 12y ago
I see Chrome, which means browser based, so that's not what I'm thinking of.
14231.
by api 12y ago
"Linked..."
14232.
by api 12y ago
Well with SpaceX I was thinking more of the WhatsApp comparison. WhatsApp sold for $19 billion.
14233.
by api 12y ago
It's too far up the stack and too coarse-grained. If I save a file on my Mac, it is encrypted, but if I transfer it to Dropbox it is decrypted and then transferred . Right now I solve this by using command line tools or encrypted .spa
14234.
by api 12y ago
That's why IMHO only governments can do those kinds of things right now. Only governments can make high-risk-high-payoff extremely broad and long-duration investments and then capture the upside through overall economy-wide growth (via
14235.
by api 12y ago
"It's not like locking your money in a safe, where you can feel the heaviness of the door and hear the clank of the lock." I think the perfect is being the enemy of the good here. Personally I would pay for a really good UI f
14236.
by api 12y ago
... not counting storage, but it's progress.
14237.
by api 12y ago
Last I checked there isn't even a good UI to perform simple file encryption on most OSes. It's awful. There are huge holes in the market. I would pay for that.
14238.
by api 12y ago
Like everything else in security, there's a clear cost/benefit curve. It's actually dubious to make a distinction -- privacy is a form of security and its absence is a lack of security. To get what I call hard privacy onlin
14239.
by api 12y ago
More precisely -- it focuses only on public sector mass surveillance. Private sector is in some ways more insidious since they are not bound by any laws, and are also in some ways even less transparent than the NSA.
14240.
by api 12y ago
"Any of those things would be worth trillions." So where's the investment capital for them then? They're all chronically underfunded. The difference, I think, is risk. Any one of those would be worth trillions if it wor
14241.
by api 12y ago
I'm not laughing. I'm just perpetually a tad depressed that stuff like this is apparently more valuable than defeating aging, fixing our economy in fundamental ways, or making life mulitplanetary. Hell, it's usually more more
14242.
by api 12y ago
From 1994... that's depressing.
14243.
by api 12y ago
You could already hack something like that up if you want to spend the time: very low power ARM or MIPS board, Linux, e-ink display.
14244.
by api 12y ago
Interstellar migration could be not unlike booting an embedded device via a slow serial link. First send the slow robotic "boot loader," then use it to download the colonists to the new star system and boot up a civilization. Matt
14245.
by api 12y ago
Probably information -- art, music, culture, scientific discoveries, technological blueprints (that could be "printed" anywhere), software, genetic material, anything informational. Information has the benefit of weighing nothing
14246.
by api 12y ago
Mmmm haterade got electrolytes.
14247.
by api 12y ago
What OS does this run? Linux or Android? I guess you could put either of those on it, maybe also Windows RT for ARM. I would perhaps consider this for a work desktop or a presentation box. Would be great for meeting rooms!
14248.
by api 12y ago
Needs to be overlaid with the theme from Requiem for a Dream.
14249.
by api 12y ago
Everything else has gotten cheaper, so if it weren't for cost of living you could probably do it on half that now. The problem is that while hardware, cloud, bandwidth, etc. has collapsed in prices since the late 90s, real estate has a
14250.
by api 12y ago
Sure, the UX nail can certainly be counter-sunk. But overall I think my estimates are pretty close. The thing that makes UX really hard compared with features and capabilities is that there's no straightforwardly "right" answ

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