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by drvdevd 10y ago
Perhaps if your API is already built on top of AWS, this counts? [edit] meaning youre already using their billing APIs in there somewhere
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I can see how this market has a BS feel to it (and have noticed this too lately), but at least the general concept of "API" leaves a lot of room for interpretation... perhaps much more functionality can be exposed via an API on su
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Good point. Coinbase by nature has to walk a line between two communities very much at odds with each other. There is an onus on the bitcoin community to get more people to accept bitcoin directly as payment. Companies like coinbase could h
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Agreed. But from what I recall having worked in restaurants, etc, the IRS does take steps to encourage reporting of any cash wages by pressuring employers to notify their employees of that obligation. So it must be considered a signifcant
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Right, but the IRS has already classified bitcoin and provided guidance as to reporting requirements [1]. This situation isn't much different to cash wages. You can in theory not report any of it, but then you're breaking essentia
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I was thinking more along the line of the many smaller transactions, e.g.: unreported cash tips, that the IRS loses money on each year.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Also, is there any idea about how much money the IRS could possibly recover through bitcoin? Is bitcoin even a significant source of loss for the IRS as compared to say, cash ?
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Of course this sounds like the right engineering approach, but perhaps fitting that into the browser use case was not possible in a manner suitable for the Tor project? After all, the primary interface to the Tor network for most users is t
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Sure, that sounds correct. And yet apparently the states have continued to ignore that ruling in a sense. So the onus is on the feds to enforce that law and the states can choose to fight such actions (or not to) in whichever way they ple
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Clearly it's not actually a question then of what the supreme court decided in 1996, because marijuana is legal multiple US states now? Thus it is a classical state VS federal issue now.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
The real question to ask, in the US at least, is does this work economically , in a way that makes the Cannabis industry powerful enough to challenge policy? It would appear so. Note that US state systems are almost the opposite of the Dut
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by drvdevd 10y ago
This is true, except the battle hasn't heated up enough yet to see whether this is actually true, with respect to Marijuana specifically, and then perhaps states' rights generally. The state of California might just, by itself,
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I find this so incredibly ironic: - The Netherlands chooses to (kinda) allow softdrug use and thus gains tourist income throughout the 90s and 00s (and maybe earlier?) - The US pressures them to avoid full legalization and supply chain deve
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I predict that this will be a major issue in the US, very soon. We too, have a quasi-legal system, if very different from the Dutch policies. Our incoming administration will have to contend with an industry that has grown large reasonably
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Yes, that's actually the way I remember it around that time. People were just generally excited about hacking on Linux and the community as a whole had a sense of popularity about it that began in the 90s. OTOH, I'm willing to acc
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by drvdevd 10y ago
This has actually always been one of the major benefits of FreeBSD (and other BSDs too). I consider it an accident of history that Linux won out. We (devs, sysadmins, users) chose this fragmentation for some reason I still don't unde
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Well also, the reason these debugging interfaces are shipped enabled is probably due to a risk/convenience/benefit calculation made by Intel et al, with a view toward making repair or diagnoses cheaper or satisfying OEM factory
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Nice! Thanks. Built-in status and that Linux bypass trick are beautiful.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Aren't they all already tracked on the public ledger? If governments move in, it's my understanding that it would be at the points of currency exchange.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Yeah comparing this to toy safety is quite a leap. Actual internet connected toys? Sure. But what I see is a network gateway device in a slew of such devices in a still nascent industry which really hasn't figured out how to even cre
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by drvdevd 10y ago
> I see you. > No you don't. Lol
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Very inspiring.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I also think as a parent, it might be relatively easy to monitor a (younger) child's use of the device through Chrome itself.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Hopefully like some other chromebooks have been, they will be relatively hackable (e.g.: they will make it easy to install your own OS on too if you want). edit: relatively easy -- I'm typing this on a Toshiba Chromebook on which I f
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Interesting. I wonder to what extent one could trap vectorization instructions in e.g. KVM. Presumably they are unprivileged instructions on x86?
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Perhaps you are but you shouldn't be. When I was still using a Mac, this was exactly what I did. The #1 benefit IMO, is being able to create a filesystem and OS isolation/independence layer that let's you easily switch host O
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Very good point. I've actually considered trying to get an EV .onion TLS cert, but this is probably overkill, and then forces me to rely on the CA system, and is of course probably a PITA.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I'm not Windows' biggest fan, but I'd consider it + Linux/BSD in hyper-v to be a nice start (say on a Surface Pro) -- if you need something that Just Works. The bash subsystem is interesting, but I'd go with the vir
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Thanks! Also I will add that I don't want to burn too much CPU on eschalot [1] if it's pointless :) [1] https://github.com/ReclaimYourPrivacy/eschalot

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