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by clarkm 13y ago
Which is why they awarded him $1.6 million and this is written up in the NYT.
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by clarkm 13y ago
I was going to ask the same about googling "gmail", clicking the second link, and actually sending a blank email. But apparently the answer is "thousands of people" a day. I learn something new about users every day.
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by clarkm 13y ago
Well, Google is working on integrating Bitcoin into Google Wallet. Do you consider them a "has-been" too?
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Bitcoin's bootstraps(jpkoning.blogspot.com)
3 points by clarkm 13y ago|0 comments
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Yak Shaving Defined - I'll get that done, as soon as I shave this yak.(hanselman.com)
1 points by clarkm 13y ago|0 comments
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by clarkm 13y ago
Well, I hope you're subscribed to the announce mailing list then. Because breaking changes that require manual intervention do occur, and if you don't deal with them in a timely manner you'll be SOL. Waiting until the last
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Inequality and the Masters of Money(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by clarkm 13y ago|0 comments
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by clarkm 13y ago
It's strange the he uses the phrase "Average is Over" without mentioning Tyler Cowen, the economist (and occasional NYT contributor) who published a book with that title just a couple months ago.
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Tech Regs Are Coming(overcomingbias.com)
2 points by clarkm 13y ago|0 comments
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by clarkm 13y ago
Or Bitcoin, to remove them completely! I'm kidding, mostly, but "no chargebacks, ever!" is often touted as an advantage.
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by clarkm 13y ago
What's the birthplace? I always heard that about the town I grew up in, but I figured every place along the route just said that.
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by clarkm 13y ago
Yes, just like a bank. Is that a bad thing? Having a Bitcoin bank as a middleman is probably the best model for the majority of payments. But Bitcoin's appeal lies in its flexibility. Bitcoin is just a protocol: payments can go through
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"It’s Complicated" with Paul Graham(medium.com)
2 points by clarkm 13y ago|0 comments
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How and why Bitcoin will plummet in price(marginalrevolution.com)
16 points by clarkm 13y ago|10 comments
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by clarkm 13y ago
Thanks for that link. After looking through Appendix Table 2 (page 25), it's pretty obvious that the only big outlier is the gap in Israeli high-school students. Here's a link to the (gated) paper with the data: http://
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by clarkm 13y ago
It wasn't too long ago that calling someone a "corporate shill" meant you were parodying tinfoil hatters. It's funny how quickly things change.
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by clarkm 13y ago
Another example of wildly different standards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet AKA Black Pete. Yes, people in Belgium and The Netherlands still dress up in blackface during the Christmas season.
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by clarkm 13y ago
Just because there is an organization with that in the name doesn't mean it can't be offensive. You know what NAACP stands for, right?
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by clarkm 13y ago
I just finished watching BBS: The Documentary and noticed the same thing. It seemed like everyone they interviewed had an entire room full of old computer equipment. They had boxes of software, walls of hardware manuals, stacks of monitor
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Can hackers decrypt Target's PIN data?(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
3 points by clarkm 13y ago|0 comments
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To Be Born on a Christmas Morn(nytimes.com)
1 points by clarkm 13y ago|0 comments
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by clarkm 13y ago
> gun violence in Australia was indeed reduced when they made gun ownership a lot harder there. Yes, but due to substitution effects the overall violent crime rate didn't change much.
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Political polarization of the U.S. Senate: Is the data fooling us?(randalolson.com)
2 points by clarkm 13y ago|0 comments
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by clarkm 13y ago
I think the best example of this shift can be found in the Supreme Court: not a single justice is a WASP, but they all have degrees from Harvard or Yale.
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by clarkm 13y ago
"The San Francisco group was organized by a loose coalition of housing activists, including representatives from Eviction Free SF, Our Mission No Eviction, and Just Cause." Do these organizations seriously campaign for no evicti
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An update on Truecrypt(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
202 points by clarkm 13y ago|44 comments
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The Silicon Valley-ization of San Francisco(slate.com)
83 points by clarkm 13y ago|86 comments
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Cards Stolen in Target Breach Flood Underground Markets(krebsonsecurity.com)
95 points by clarkm 13y ago|83 comments
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by clarkm 13y ago
They are -- I know a couple people that have had them installed.
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by clarkm 13y ago
I was thinking the same thing. And I'm pretty sure it was also in the NYT.

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