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by deftnerd 13y ago
This is a bad description of what the project is about. I've been working with the Mastercoin people and have met the Maidsafe people at a Hackathon and they're doing some really neat research. Basically they're creating a se
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by deftnerd 13y ago
I was looking through ICANN notices [1] earlier today in the context of research on setting up my own domain registrar. The ICANN rules are pretty strict. If someone reports that a WHOIS entry has false information to ICANN, ICANN requires
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by deftnerd 13y ago
The 3 people who work on Qubes [0] are very good security researchers and I have more faith in their work than most. It should be noted that the OS's VM'ing is based on the Xen bar-metal VM kernel which is pretty well researched,
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by deftnerd 13y ago
Anyone here run a SSL certificate provider? Just make a new line of certs that cost 3 times as much but donates the overage to OpenSSL. Lots of corporate IT people can get away paying $300 for a cert and know $200 of that is going to a good
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by deftnerd 13y ago
Yes, but only with the transaction forwarding feature. They offer a free service where you can give their API a destination address and a webhook and they'll give you back a individual deposit address. You can then give that deposit ad
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by deftnerd 13y ago
You forgot another reason. I've been trying to run several businesses on the BlockChain.info API and it's just plain unreliable. Funds forwarding and notifications of transactions can take hours and that's just not acceptable
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by deftnerd 13y ago
I've been bothered that Bittorrent Sync isn't opensource. Alternatives are always welcome. What bothers me is that the fundraising site they use charges 10%. That's a lot. Are there not fundraising sites out there with less p
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by deftnerd 13y ago
BackBlaze is pretty popular with the HN crowd and their pricing is still $5 a month for unlimited backup space.
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by deftnerd 13y ago
I was confusing the two, my apologies.
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by deftnerd 13y ago
Doesn't this remove HN from being protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act if every comment is now screened by a human? There could be serious liability issues to think about.
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by deftnerd 13y ago
I'm actually scared to comment on here. If my comment is "too reddit" or if I am incorrect in what I write I could be shadow banned. I try to save my comments for when it's something really important. It feels like I&#x
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by deftnerd 13y ago
Karpeles said last winter that they were going to make their keys more secure by breaking them into pieces using a Shamir's secret sharing algorithm. This would allow a key to be more secure because it would take several pieces, but no
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by deftnerd 13y ago
namesilo.com is the best domain registrar I've used. No upsells, dirt cheap, great API, and 2fa.
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by deftnerd 13y ago
I just got a 250k BitAngels grant for a project I'm working on. I'm in Austin, but I've also been considering a move to a less expensive place as long as it had good broadband and an active developer community. Chattanooga is
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by deftnerd 13y ago
We in the West have no idea what problems they have and what technologies would be applicable. I would rather see an exchange program. trade groups of founders for 6 months at a time. A successful African developer might have some ideas on
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by deftnerd 13y ago
It says a lot about the nature of a company when they admit the breech even though it occurred in November of 2011 and they just found out about it. Other companies might just try to pretend that it didn't happen. It also says a lot th
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by deftnerd 13y ago
I was planning on unsubscribing. I don't use Prime for video and my family and I don't order enough to take advantage of the cheaper/faster shipping.
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by deftnerd 13y ago
This problem doesn't have to be solves with warehouses. Drones are a solution to the last mile problem. Simply make delivery trucks into mobile drone launching platforms and then Amazon or UPS can drive into a neighborhood and drones w
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by deftnerd 13y ago
I respect your opinion, but as some other commentators have pointed out, there is nothing wrong with people knowing their own weaknesses. In fact, my core strength isn't development. I'm good at it, but I'm not great. The 100
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by deftnerd 13y ago
My family hired a lawyer for me. Unfortunately, it was a "good ol boy" lawyer who was more concerned with her relationship with the prosecutors office. They told her to accept the plea bargain, and she told me to take it since it&
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by deftnerd 13y ago
Yep. Williamson County. Come on vacation, leave on probation!
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by deftnerd 13y ago
This is very useful information, thank you. One concern though is that, from what I've read recently, a lot of the data brokers refuse to let citizens view their own records so I would be unable to know what they say about me.
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by deftnerd 13y ago
Excellent question. Yes, it did set me apart. Everyone laughed about how I "talked faggy". Other than being made fun of, which my skin was thick enough to not care, most of the other inmates just thought they were taking advantage
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by deftnerd 13y ago
I appreciate your insight, but I have a family now and it wouldn't be fair of them for me to put 150% effort into my work life just to try to earn just as much as someone else who works 100%. I would rather work for less money as long
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by deftnerd 13y ago
The kind of facility I was in was more of a place to warehouse prisoners. They housed 50 people in bunk beds in each warehouse room with no air conditioning. When we moved from the dorm to (for instance) the cafeteria, there were some requi
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by deftnerd 13y ago
One of the most depressing moments was when I got a high-paid and very desirable job at Dell. I was even upfront about my history with my interviewer (I've never hidden or lied about it before) who assured me that it wasn't an iss
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by deftnerd 13y ago
I have come to the same conclusion with my own research. My best hope for being in the EU is if my wife gets a work visa and I just travel there as a spouse on a residents visa and don't have official employment there. This might be an
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by deftnerd 13y ago
I'm not a shy person about personal details. They were threatening to give me 99 years in prison for Aggravated Robbery, which is a Class 1 felony, merely because of my inadvertent involvement in the crime. That's on the same leve
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by deftnerd 13y ago
My email is in my profile - adam@deftnerd.com
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by deftnerd 13y ago
It was a plea bargain. At the time, after 6 months of dealing with an overpowering sense of being crushed by the legal system, I just took the first plea bargain they offered me. It was the exact same deal they gave the person who actually

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