bushido

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by bushido 13y ago
With the possibility of getting down voted into oblivion. The BTC lost/stolen are all available within blockchain/public ledger. Depending on who stole them, it would probably be distributed within multiple very smaller transactio
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by bushido 13y ago
They don't actually link to the wikipedia URL. They mask a link that leads to another Google page "/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&...." which in turn responds with a 200 OK page that redirects to Wikipedia. Sure it passe
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by bushido 13y ago
Recovery in this case will most likely be in the underlying asset i.e. BTC. Having knowledge of a ton of these situations what will actually reduce the payout/recovery substantially are: a. The time it will take to recover => 2-5 ye
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by bushido 13y ago
>has had half a dozen 50% retraces into 1000% explosions already. Something shared by almost every hyped and now defunct securities out there. Upside potential should not be the only factor for selecting an investment. Risk management
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by bushido 13y ago
When you are a financial company. edit: financial companies, or any company when dealing with a financial or privacy breach usually needs to prove their innocence when they are attributed to allegedly causing financial loss (to varied exten
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by bushido 13y ago
What's interesting is in the original "i got hacked" post[0]. The email from the hacker says that he called paypal and posed as an employee. That may not be tough to do, i.e. if you call a call center, select the wrong depart
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by bushido 13y ago
To my knowledge they don't know who the thief is. The thief allegedly got the last 4 digits of the CC by posing as an employee.[0] If true, it would mean paypal gave out financial information to an unknown third-party, which would be a
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by bushido 13y ago
I am trying to understand what you are saying. I understand that you have not said that the situation the OP faced is deserved, but you don't feel too bad about it. Unfortunately your defense does make it seem that you are not complete
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by bushido 13y ago
> A better analogy would be an owner of a valuable piece of property who wasn't putting it to good use. So if you were not putting your backyard to good use you would not feel too bad if your neighbors decided to encroach on it?
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E-gold(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by bushido 13y ago|0 comments
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by bushido 13y ago
How do you define meaningful? For a single novice user this would be the cost of hardware (substantial), opportunity cost from delays in delivery of hardware, decaying returns with exponential increase in difficulty, cost of electricity and
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by bushido 13y ago
disclaimer: I haven't used minuum yet, so I do not know if this is already possible. I speak a few languages and often use words from other languages with SMSs etc. I'd estimate 90-95% of being english with other words thrown in b
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by bushido 13y ago
1. > Yes their record iPhone 5S sales and what will surely be record iPad sales reflect that is a large scale thing that is actually happening. Record sales is a deceptive(and a lagging) indicator of customer/potential customer s
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by bushido 13y ago
That is true. AND even more infuriating. I wonder if I could apply for a patent for sidebar designs and widgets (for increasing interactivity, customization, conversions etc.). Oh wait those have already been applied for and approved, for e
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by bushido 13y ago
This is not helping Apple's image one bit. In recent months I have been meeting a lot of old-fans of Apple devices who are switching to other mobile manufacturers just so that they do not contribute to the closed litigious innovation k
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by bushido 13y ago
This is disgusting. I have had auto-complete on my mobile devices for years. Easily as far back as 2003. Its baffling that this patent was awarded. Even more so that technology innovators are being so anti-competitive and stifling innovatio
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by bushido 13y ago
The problem seems to be how "PSD to HTML" is defined. The old definition of PSD to HTML frankly may have died about the time we stopped using tables to create designs in HTML. In the yesteryears "graphic" designers des
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by bushido 13y ago
Quoting these statements are a little absurd. More so, when you consider that all of these statements are in the [their respective] present tense, and not making a declaration or prophecy of any kind. Let me rephrase some of these for you t
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Petition to make Toronto Mayor Rob Ford a U.S. citizen(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by bushido 13y ago|0 comments
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by bushido 13y ago
Maybe we need to take the shawshank redemption approach "Still, I'd like to try, with your permission. I'll send a letter a week. They can't ignore me forever." Let's build automated tools allowing people to se
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by bushido 13y ago
> As long as people are willing to pretend that the problem is only the US and not the entire West colluding then the easier it is for these governments to continue. This may be true to some extent. But let me provide an anti-thesis to
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by bushido 13y ago
After rewriting my response 3 times I decided to lay out some basics. basics ----------- a. The most common fallacy in investing is that higher risk equates to higher returns. b. Any half decent investment strategy should have a solid risk
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by bushido 13y ago
I have been curious about this too. Unfortunately though, my guess is that it is very very tough to estimate due to the sheer variety of hardware that is being used. I am sure that a large number of people are still mining with GPUs which c
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by bushido 13y ago
I know. Was just stating the problem that plagued them in 1976 is still persistent today. Though on re-reading my previous comment I can see that I was not clear on that.
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by bushido 13y ago
From the letter: *> Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share." I'll have to dig around but I recall reading a few ar
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Tribe faces extinction as poaching and tourism threaten their survival(aljazeera.com)
1 points by bushido 13y ago|0 comments
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by bushido 13y ago
Favor[0] == Help Or quite literally if I go by a dictionary: an act of kindness beyond what is due or usual. Example: "I've come to ask you a favor". Synonyms: service, good turn, good deed, kindness, act of kindness, courtes
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by bushido 13y ago
> At the point where you start suggesting that Matt Cutts was bribed When did I do that? I have not and am not suggesting that Matt Cutts or anyone at Google took a bribe of any kind whatsoever. I have on the other hand said that there
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by bushido 13y ago
> How are rules against paid linking scams or procedure generated content farms considered arbitrary? It's clearly trying to game the system, and the rules are explicitly laid out to tell you NOT to do it. The whole case with the
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by bushido 13y ago
> How do you know this is the case? I don't. I also don't know if this is not the case. Do you? This uncertainty IS the reason for the current loss of faith. > Matt Cutts said they've relisted them quickly because AH

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