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by bencoder 14y ago
Mostly you're correct, but not entirely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain
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by bencoder 14y ago
Not the OP, but in the UK(well, London at least) it's very common to have furnished apartments and not to lug your furniture every time you move. Access to many apartments and houses in London is very restricted. You'd have to take your fur
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by bencoder 14y ago
Hard drive and network cost per gigabyte is always falling, and much faster than the blockchain is increasing, so it's not expected this will be a huge problem. But what you say is true that it will "centralise" more in a sense - but the ba
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by bencoder 14y ago
I was about to bid on the same project as you and refreshed before submitting and saw yours and then decided against bidding due to this. My message included my intended approach to the work and past projects and also a link to my cv. I did
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by bencoder 14y ago
Yes it is slightly less secure. But you can't really "lose" money so much. What can happen is the server can report that you have money that you don't actually have, so if you were expecting to receive some coins, and the attacker had cont
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by bencoder 14y ago
If you look at similar platforms based on "real" money (as you put it), you will see these are actually relatively high budgets for these projects. Take a look through the projects over on odesk and weep: https://www.odesk.com Given that
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by bencoder 14y ago
Also consider using the electrum client. It uses remote servers for the blockchain, so you don't need to download and sync with the network, while you keep the private keys for your wallet, so you don't need to trust a remote service: htt
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by bencoder 14y ago
Agreed, I hate the trend to have tutorials as videos nowadays. Not to mention that it also excludes deaf people unless manually transcribed, or if the speaker is clear enough that automatic transcription is possible, but I doubt that is pos
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by bencoder 14y ago
I'm planning to move back to London in January after a year abroad. I've been watching this since it was posted here a couple months ago and I'm really looking forward to using it to find my next rental. Just wanted to say thanks, it looks
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by bencoder 14y ago
e-cigs are already a big disrupter to the cigarette market. Until recently, these were completely detached from the tobacco companies. I think only in April of this year a tobacco company bought one of the manufacturers. They are a massive
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by bencoder 14y ago
Somewhat off topic but I'd like to ask about this: > We’ve grown from three people to 54, and $0 revenue to $3.4m+, all in just two years. I'm completely naive about these things and I'm not involved in business, but isn't this very ris
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by bencoder 14y ago
This was leaked quite some time ago and determined to be genuine. Wired's original article: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/fbi-fears-bitcoin/
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by bencoder 14y ago
Docking wasn't THAT hard, and was one of the most fun parts of the game for me. Not much has matched the fear and excitement of docking after a dangerous run through pirate infested outer space while holding valuable cargo. That moment as y
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by bencoder 14y ago
He's talking about the new Google Nexus 10 tablet.
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by bencoder 14y ago
Same here, I remember when I was learning, before I knew what arrays were I had a bunch of variables like that: $x1, $x2 and I was trying to find a way to convert a number like $n into the variable name so I could do $x$n to reference $x1,
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by bencoder 14y ago
> for some strange reason i unconsciously select text on the screen as i read it. I have the same condition, selectitis. Drives the people around me mad when I'm clicking loads and I don't even notice. And websites that do things on sel
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by bencoder 14y ago
Reminds me of this resignation letter.. apparently it's fictional, I remembered it being genuine, but the point it raises is valid I believe: http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-hereby-resign
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by bencoder 14y ago
When I order from amazon.co.uk to Finland, often items get delivered from their German warehouse, so it seems that something like this does happen, at least in Europe. But I agree it would be nice when I'm linked to amazon.com to easily be
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by bencoder 14y ago
The blockchain concept is used kind of as a distributed timestamp system. Say you send out the same coins to two different people at once, in a centralised system, that would be detected at the centralised server and the second transaction
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by bencoder 14y ago
$69 is the Ad supported one (which is US only). $89 is the ad free one I believe
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by bencoder 14y ago
Enjoying it combined with ATC feeds from http://www.liveatc.net
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by bencoder 14y ago
Had a friend who cancelled an old mobile phone contract. He kept the old phone and sim in a drawer somewhere. House got broken into and the old phone was stolen but my friend didn't notice the missing phone since it wasn't used anymore. Thi
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by bencoder 14y ago
I use a flash based p2p file transfer service for this now: http://www.filesovermiles.com/ Can't really see how this could be more convenient to me.
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by bencoder 14y ago
Compared to some European countries, the UK is far behind. Many of the smaller retailers and pubs/bars still don't accept card or require minimum spends (£5 or £10) to be able to use cards. In Finland it seems that absolutely everywhere acc
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by bencoder 14y ago
I discovered this a couple of years ago and emailed and got an unsatisfactory response: http://pastebin.com/C745weQ2 Hopefully this new attention will have them change the policy.
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The London Olympics 2012 Total Perspective Vortex(ethicsgirls.com)
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by bencoder 14y ago
This can be done but I believe it is a bit more expensive than via banks, since you have exchange fees and the spread as liquidity isn't quite high enough (assuming you want to transfer ASAP. If you are willing to wait on both sides you can
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by bencoder 14y ago
Software engineer/programmer wages in most of Europe are much lower than what you'd probably expect, if you're in the US. Now I don't know how much bonus he was earning, but he says he was earning 85-95% of the entire bonus share, and that
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by bencoder 14y ago
For whatever reason, pale skin is highly coveted by many Asian cultures and some will avoid the sun almost entirely to avoid darkening their skin. As well as using (potentially dangerous) skin lightening products which is a huge market in A
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by bencoder 14y ago
You really should develop your apps so that they are path agnostic. And the mod_rewrite rules can be fixed with a simple RewriteBase declaration (RewriteBase /subdirectory). I've never found this a major problem that requires a DNS server t

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