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by codeshaman 12y ago
This was written when 'Internet' meant Internet Explorer 6, before Facebook or the iPhone or youtube. Sine then, shit has evolved. The smart phones brought 'the shit' into everyone's pockets and the social networks
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Robot testing if user is not a robot. Now that it knows how to detect humans, one day we'll all laugh when we read the news that Google can't log in to their own administration systems, because an AI security algorithm evolved the
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Official reason for blocking: the site hosts texts describing methods of suicide. Because Github uses HTTPS only, it's impossible to block only the offending pages, so the whole IP range is blocked. Github ignored their requests to rem
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True, the only difference is that cash (or any physical store of value, like gold) becomes cumbersome in large amounts. And random people having large amounts of cash or gold in their apartment is pretty rare. 1000 BTC on the other hand hav
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Update: You are right, It's not the perfect crime. That's why I write code for a living :) It's just a crime, but the rewards can be well worth the risks. You expect returns comparable to robbing a bank, but the criminal meth
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Of course, everybody should do that. But since we live in an imperfect world, not everybody will do it. As you're saying, this should be implemented in the BTC clients themselves and they should not let you make large transfers without
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Due to the pseudo anonymitiy of cryptocurrencies, a whole range of perfect crimes is possible. Say you've got a some bitcoins (as little as 3 BTC makes you attractive, but let's say you've got 100BTC ) and you order a pizza w
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Can't wait to see wives and husbands coming back home to their kids after work and instead of twitting whatsapping and facebooking at the table during family dinner, the whole merry family puts on these headsets and dissolve into VR, e
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As more and more services and apps depend on 'the cloud', I'm wondering, how many of them would survive a major cloud outage: the cloud company going bankrupt, stock market crash or economic meltdown, a malware exploiting a m
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I should have read TFA before commenting :) But that is even more puzzling. The backend space is so crowded with native, scripting and exotic languages, that I really don't see how they can attract hardcore c/c++/go/node
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Good move, but (too) late. The move is designed to attract iOS and Android Devs to .NET. But let's see: As an iOS developer, I've invested years in learning Objective-C and Cocoa, UIKit, etc. Now I'm starting with Swift. I&#x
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Interesting that while the brain is interconnected the way it's depicted in the article, people report having mystical experiences (eg see God), traveling vast distances through galaxies and strange worlds, see spirits of plants and ob
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I'd argue that Bitcoin owns it's meteoric rise to SilkRoad and drugs in general. Many people 'got into' bitcoin in order to be able to purchase stuff on SilkRoad or similar. I know I'm one of them and I'm reall
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Here is a very interesting talk about this study (and on the subject), by James Fadiman, one of the researches on the team: Scientific Problem Solving with Psychedelics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtL5fafpRKc&list=S
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This just shows that there is a link between marijuana and the feelings of pain (anecdotal evidence with sample size 1, but still). And the way you are describing it, it seems that it gives you 'ideas of pain' rather than pain it
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I haven't read the scientific study on JAMA, but I would venture to speculate that there could be several reasons for such sharp drops in mortality due to opioid overdoses: - fewer people resort to opioids for recreational purposes, du
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I would have to disagree with you on alcohol. Alcohol is a very addictive and destructive substance and can cause personality changes which lead to aggression and domination (ego enhancer) and is very harmful to health if abused. A large c
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Just back from Boom Festival in Portugal, where personal drug use is decriminalized. There was almost no police/security at the gates or inside the festival, although selling drugs was not tolerated (eg. people selling on the festival
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I've had all kinds of multiple monitors setup. My last setup was a 27" iMac plus a 30" Dell monitor. However, since I got my retina MacBook Pro I find myself more and more exclusively programming on the laptop. The screen is
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Your psychiatrist might be uninformed or maybe what he means is not to indulge in drugs as a way to escape reality (which I agree with). Psychedelics, when taken in a safe setting and with the right goals (eg. as a therapy aid, not recreati
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It might sound outrageous, but you're in a good spot in life right now. I've been there a couple of times, I've even had a suicide attempt at 17 and ended up spending 2 months in the hospital with kidney failure. But each tim
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You mean the epidemic of people dying from heart attacks or strokes at 30 or the obesity in children is something to brag about ? The advancement in medicine is remarkable - the elimination of most infectious diseases, the ER capabilities,
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"We are biological machines" I tend to disagree with this definition. The function of a body might look like a 'machine', but that machine is made of trillions of small living beings (cells), all having the same properti
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Some of the most amazing moments I've had in life were on MDMA. I'm sure this is true for hundreds of millions of other people who've taken it. This substance has revolutionised our word in many ways - music, fashion, art, a
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You mean watching movies for free is illegal ? Here are some considerations: - It is legal to watch movies for free on TV, as long as you accept to be brainwashed by advertising. - It is legal to lend your DVD to your friend and it's
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Calories and energy sources (carbs, proteins, fats) are a small part of the riddle. Besides calories our bodies need lots of micronutrients, amino-acids, enzymes,... - the quality of the food is paramount. Our modern food is high in calorie
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Cloud computing is a great theoretical idea, but extremely fragile in the face of serious crisis, like economic meltdown, wars, sanctions or even natural disasters. All the websites, always-on apps, mobile operating systems, etc will be wor