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15181.
by api 13y ago
Nobody has time to do that. Ultimately you have to trust someone, thus this is more a political problem than a technical one.
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by api 13y ago
Another problem: I've never seen a meshnet protocol that isn't vulnerable to a variety of flooding, cache pollution, DDOS, and other attacks that could basically make the network unusable. This is a problem for the idea that mesh
15183.
by api 13y ago
This mirrors almost exactly the collapse in the buying power of real American wages and the growth of consumer debt. How can people be entrepreneurial if they are perpetual revolving debt slaves in a national "company store" model
15184.
by api 13y ago
It's cool. The rites of passage for a Real Startup Warrior are (in any order): - Your own failed startup - Surviving involvement with a fast talking jackass - Getting fired from a hot startup
15185.
by api 13y ago
Hydrogen rockets sound like a classic case of narrow over-optimization for one or a few dimensions of performance at the expense of the overall picture. The methane direction SpaceX is taking going forward strikes me as almost a no-brainer.
15186.
by api 13y ago
Tangential thought: It really seems to me that only companies with the "California tech startup mentality" (whether they're in Cali or not) can actually do anything today. I'm starting to refer to the rest of the econo
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by api 13y ago
I also wonder about the use of hydrogen and how this impacted reusability. From what I've read hydrogen causes things like metal embrittlement, which is why SpaceX is completely avoiding it despite the higher specific impulse it yields
15188.
by api 13y ago
This isn't just about the NSA, PRISM, etc. It's about surveillance as a business model and as the core purpose of the service. Mass surveillance by advertisers and potentially much creepier private sector entities (astroturf PR fi
15189.
by api 13y ago
Smells like a trumped up controversy publicity stunt by the filmmakers.
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by api 13y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwWMrDbvpzE&feature=share
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by api 13y ago
The PC will die when phones can do everything PCs can do. This will require both the ability to hook up larger screens and/or other larger form factor interfaces (e.g. Oculus-type things) and serious evolution in the abilities and open
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by api 13y ago
It's a vicious cycle. Americans believe that governments are incapable of improving anything because the U.S. government (both Federal and state levels) is notoriously corrupt and incompetent. This in turn causes Americans to be apathe
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JS0N – A lightweight C JSON parser(github.com)
2 points by api 13y ago|2 comments
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The Muen Separation Kernel (formally verified correct microkernel)(muen.sk)
2 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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by api 13y ago
There are very, very few people who are capable of arguing against an idea on its merit if that idea clashes strongly with their worldview. Usually the cognitive dissonance of a differing worldview eclipses understanding to the point that a
15196.
by api 13y ago
Tor needs a mechanism for P2P, like ephemeral .onion addresses. Then it could just run over Tor which is already a proven anonymity technology.
15197.
by api 13y ago
"The argument from nature is completely ghastly from a moral perspective. I have never seen a solid argument that uses it. It's usually the domain of pseudo-intellectuals who are grasping at Internet points instead of actually thi
15198.
by api 13y ago
Very good, clear thinking here. The point about being design-led is very important -- usability and user experience is paramount and is the main area where OSS has failed. Still, I think you're going to need businesses around this. Man
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The Indie Tech Manifesto(indietech.org)
2 points by api 13y ago|1 comments
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by api 13y ago
"This kind of bullying is inhuman." Unfortunately it's very human. It's common human behavior, and common behavior among other social mammals as well. Nature deals you and everyone else a more or less random hand of gene
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by api 13y ago
> In exchange for a geographic monopoly on laying infrastructure, it would be reasonable to demand reasonable-and-non-discriminatory access to the network. Unfortunately state and local regulatory capture is often far more egregious than
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Dr. Aubrey de Grey discusses the science of immortality (SENS)(soundcloud.com)
2 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
15203.
by api 13y ago
Putin is a KGB project, so he would know. :)
15204.
by api 13y ago
On the contrary, there's a certain thread of the skeptic movement that attacks anything that isn't "scientific" enough. It's basically a kind of fundamentalism. Fundie positivism?
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by api 13y ago
Is he factoring in energy storage costs? That's the real problem. Gathering solar energy is easy, storing gigawatt-hours of it at night is not.
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by api 13y ago
This is one of my principal reasons for being a singularity-skeptic. While runaway technological innovation might be possible, I think it's likely that economics and politics will stop it. Physics won't stop Moore's law. Indu
15207.
by api 13y ago
Computer operating systems are increasingly closed to "uncertified" apps, so how long before "uncertified" internet sites are also closed?
15208.
by api 13y ago
I did some consulting once for a government lab. FIPS is idiotic. It's primarily protectionism for commercial software vendors from OSS competition, and it does not improve security. If anything it hurts-- it mandates closed-source opt
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by api 13y ago
Chris Adami of MSU makes similar claims about life: that it is a phase of matter. AMA with him here (this question among others is asked): http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/236ap1/science_ama_...
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Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack(github.com)
371 points by api 13y ago|145 comments

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