cyphunk

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U.S. v. Ross Ulbricht: Declaration of Joshua J. Horowitz [pdf](antilop.cc)
79 points by cyphunk 12y ago|70 comments
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by cyphunk 12y ago
the internet is stateless. you're traction is going to be limited if you only represent a narrow geographically limited viewpoint.
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Empathy isn't a reliable way of doing good(theguardian.com)
2 points by cyphunk 12y ago|0 comments
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by cyphunk 12y ago
here is a better idea, develop self sufficient AI that will miss us enough when we all die out on earth that they will make sure the development of life here eventually produces new human friends a billion years later after earth heals from
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by cyphunk 12y ago
How I read this: Man argues that because we cant get away from the competitive nature of the male dominance that pushes society into its gluttony for growth ("Get that GDP up!") we have no alternate but to find new sources to expl
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by cyphunk 12y ago
If the added use case bring too much strain on the network and cannot be solved through interest and need than Tor could simply split it off or itself into an alternate network. I wish someone would integrate crypto currencies into the laye
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Bravo. I would imagine this would be as an alternate and not in the default mainline. Whomever takes this step first will probably find it being used as a catalyst for much more than just anonymity. First users whom hit copyright walls on y
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by cyphunk 12y ago
thinking that the green padlock > red padlock has been a false positive for trust since forever. Any trust other than the red padlock is just a lie. About time we learn that, and understand the entire CA setup trying to convince you of s
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by cyphunk 12y ago
the majority of comments on this thread are off with there suspicions of foul play on the "hackers" part. the details from the article mostly add up. there is information missing that could confirm this (review of skill-set showin
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Still relevant in terms of comparison between languages. Surprisingly Perl and Ruby are missing. These terms along with "Python" and "Java" are also words with other significant meanings though. But adding Golang and Has
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Notice, Cuba is top on geo scale of interest in Javascript, Php and Python. Can we attribute this to Eric Schmidts meddling in that region?
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by cyphunk 12y ago
i upvoted
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by cyphunk 12y ago
My statement is entirely irrelevant to this topic but I sacrifice Karma because I think it is important that this person not be able to get away from his statements on Snowden. He entirely ignores policy discussions that may have lead to Sn
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by cyphunk 12y ago
oh man have no idea how this comment wound up here and not the HFT thread. odd. Sorry
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by cyphunk 12y ago
The environment of the FED sounds more like the paternal architecture of the military: Just the opposite: The Fed encourages its employees to keep their heads down, to obey their managers and to appease the banks. That is, ban
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by cyphunk 12y ago
"There will come a day when..." The prefix to every fantasy.
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Reminder, Andreessen is the same person that says Snowden is a traitor. He blames Snowden for hurting the tech industry, with no thought of the stake government institutions may hold in this issue.
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by cyphunk 12y ago
can't towers be replaced by ground tethered blimps? seams cheaper and more versatile. minor to major sway could be adjusted for electronically by tracking position in relation to the next node and adjusting either orientation of blimp
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by cyphunk 12y ago
distraction is just a more desperate form of boredom. but i get what you mean
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by cyphunk 12y ago
I seem to remember somewhere on Show HN a service that lets one execute a command to populate an online pastebin. Something like: `cat | nc service.com 9199`. Now however I cannot find this service. Anyone know where?
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by cyphunk 12y ago
I live in Berlin, Germany's largest city and most liberal(?) city, which is where the PDF is largely focused. The problem is that unlike a media-hyperbolic society such as the US where meme's travel fast, Germany is a bit more civ
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by cyphunk 12y ago
there was some race to hack the touchid ( http://istouchidhackedyet.com ) and the winner made this video walk through: http://vimeo.com/75324765
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by cyphunk 12y ago
can you be more specific? the xkeyscore100 rule set leak seems to indicate hadoop map reduce use which to me indicates a vanilla build out of the NSAs own. so what could you use to show more clear involvement from Palantir
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by cyphunk 12y ago
As they say, one person's trash is another's... I'm generally turned off from job posts with long run on sentences and adjectives that make it read more like the plaquette in an art gallery than job description. In a similar
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by cyphunk 12y ago
racism toward Turkish is where it starts in Germany (even those 2nd or 3rd generation born in Germany). Where it ends is the institutionalized discriminatory education system [1]. But this mostly gets swiped under the rug as even liberals i
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by cyphunk 12y ago
showed that 27 percent of people who took part had met their current life partner during their stay abroad. Thirty-three percent of Erasmus students hooked up with people of a different nationality than their own,
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by cyphunk 12y ago
i guess this depends if the HFT lines are owned by them. i'm not versed on the legalities of this field but as an example my neighbor put their wifi network on the same channel as me, legally interfering with my network.
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by cyphunk 12y ago
what protects a HFT microwave line from a targeted (perhaps even legal) attack of drones that get between line of site? or is the wave length larger than this?
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by cyphunk 12y ago
hmm psychology is fun but... I wont trust the results of this study until they ask the same set of train-switch-murderous-multilingual users to also choose between chocolate cake or fruit salad [1]. 1: http://blogs.worldbank.org&
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by cyphunk 12y ago
for the tldr: DRM is so punk rock

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