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Digital Currencies, Crypto-finance and Open Source (beyond Bitcoin)(disattention.com)
38 points by bobds 15y ago|9 comments
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Names: Decentralized, Secure, Human-Meaningful; Choose Two(zooko.com)
9 points by bobds 15y ago|0 comments
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by bobds 15y ago
Indeed, this is not what I expected. I expected something with a web GUI. Then I remembered I've already seen this: http://www.springwise.com/food_beverage/delmioorto/ You choose what to grow with a GUI, someone grows it for you, picks it
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by bobds 15y ago
Why do I have to enable websockets on Firefox 4? Perhaps using a websocket library that is compatible with older browsers might be a good idea.
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by bobds 15y ago
It's called Eagleland Osmosis. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EaglelandOsmosis
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by bobds 15y ago
It's not fake, but it's not the quantum computer you would expect. http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/loser-dwave-does... "D-Wave's system uses a chip with little loops of niobium metal containing Josephson junctions—two supercon
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by bobds 15y ago
If that's the result of a) to g) PLUS 100 hours of your own research, I'm quite disappointed because there's various misconceptions and hand-waving.
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by bobds 15y ago
I think the best way to go about something like this, is charter flights. http://www.charterflights.co.uk/faq.php?faqID=1#Q1 If you can get enough people to fill up the whole airplane, you can charter the whole flight. Then you can sell a
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by bobds 15y ago
Not if you have a dozen different email accounts with different passwords.
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by bobds 15y ago
You are right, I can't find "timely manner" there. I was reading through various comments and it was mentioned multiple times so I didn't check. See this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521911 "You may obtain a complete machi
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by bobds 15y ago
The problem is when they take 6 months to respond to such requests. What if they decide to wait a year next time? The ambiguity of "timely manner" in the license isn't helping, perhaps it's time for an improved version of the license.
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by bobds 15y ago
I think it's gonna be China eventually. And instead of WW 3, it's going to be Cold War 2.
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Appropedia: The sustainability wiki(appropedia.org)
1 points by bobds 15y ago|0 comments
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by bobds 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeroBank_Browser Xerobank has done the same thing. Firefox has a lot of options that need tweaking if you don't want to leak information. These guys also run a private "Tor" network.
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by bobds 15y ago
I'm guessing it was this comment: "I'll probably get downvoted like mad for saying this but I still think it's hilarious that a company valued at $65+ billion uses PHP as the base language for their software (granted, certain measures are t
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by bobds 15y ago
Some good soundbites there, but you don't really need 38. I would only add this: "0. Brevity is the soul of wit."
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by bobds 15y ago
I first encountered this theory here: http://deoxy.org/alephnull/jaynes.htm There's a few related pages worth reading: http://deoxy.org/alephnull/rhetd.htm
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by bobds 15y ago
There's a link above the FB login button named "what will you do with my data?": ----- * We go through all of your friends and see which one's have a defined relationship status. * For each friend we take everything they like and run it aga
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by bobds 15y ago
I've actually received an email from Humble Bundle telling me I could add the games I bought to my Steam account. Steam is an actual platform that does stuff. Humble Bundle is pretty much a website with some download links. I do like what H
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by bobds 15y ago
I've had some similar ideas myself, consider me interested. I've written some (very little) code to search projects among the big open source hosts (SF, Google, Github etc). Also have a nice domain for it.
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by bobds 15y ago
Your proposal has some interesting implications. There's a bunch of services offering web-to-snail-mail facilities. Some of them even offer an API, so this could in theory be automated.
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by bobds 15y ago
> I can't imagine doctors who don't know medicine or lawyers who don't know the law. Oh there's plenty of quacks and shysters out there. I've met some of them.
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by bobds 15y ago
That didn't sound completely right, so I checked it out. You can have a path with ~32k characters actually. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28VS.85%29.... I know that not all software supports those long file/path names,
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by bobds 15y ago
You can't control chaos.
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by bobds 16y ago
If you want something that's nothing like that, you may enjoy this: https://github.com/codeguy/Slim
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by bobds 16y ago
It's easier than you'd think.
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by bobds 16y ago
I was mostly joking, since their formatting made it look like those two were the same bullet point. My question still stands though, has anyone heard of a SEO degree, or some kind of online marketing degree (maybe with a SEO class on the cu
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by bobds 16y ago
In the "SEO Analyst" requirements: > Understanding of link building and content syndication are required > Bachelors degree in a related field Did universities start selling SEO(-related) degrees already?
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by bobds 16y ago
> If the single search box "worked", the search would provide the results the user wanted without having to use arcane search techniques. What if my definition of "works" includes the ability to use "arcane" search techniques? For examp
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by bobds 16y ago
I was going to say the same thing. I'd really like to see what objects exactly they used. I have a variation on the original question. Suppose someone blind has never touched a cube. However, he knows that a cube is an object with 6 sides o

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