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by dsrguru 13y ago
How do you have access to his profile? Could you be mistaking him for the Neal King of Sofia University or the Neal King who was a marijuana grower who recently disappeared?
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Presumably the same reason they chose a Japanese name--that at least one of them speaks Japanese. I'm not really sure where you're going with this, but if you read the analysis in the article I linked to, as well as King's re
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by dsrguru 13y ago
I'm really eager to see how conclusive the study will be. For now, I'm sold on Satoshi Nakamoto being King, Oksman, and Bry. http://www.fastcompany.com/1785445/bitcoin-crypto-currency-m...
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by dsrguru 13y ago
As with the Arabic and Chinese language families, different varieties of Romance languages are similar enough in syntax and vocabulary that speakers can kind of make themselves understood to each other if they speak slowly and choose their
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by dsrguru 13y ago
I don't know if that's the case with Polish and Ukrainian. That certainly is the case with Arabic where many speakers of Levantine or Gulf Arabic will probably understand Egyptian Arabic since they grow up watching Cairo-based m
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by dsrguru 13y ago
A Yiddish scholar once said that "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy." It's really true. One might think that mutual intelligibility (ability for speakers of one to make themselves fully understood by speakers of
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Thanks for the link. I can only access the abstract, but conflicting results "over the extent to which elevated salt consumption has adverse implications for population health" is very different from saying that "there is a w
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by dsrguru 13y ago
I apparently missed that! Hopefully my redundancy here will help prevent others from doing the same.
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by dsrguru 13y ago
WARNING: Do not read this article if you haven't watched the end of Breaking Bad. (This post is safe though) I, like the author, am very sensitive to spoilers and completely agree that people for whom spoilers ruin the enjoyment of a w
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by dsrguru 13y ago
> In fact, people do believe weird things about salt; there is a widespread and unsupported belief that moderation of sodium intake is a key public health concern, which it is not. It's not an unsupported belief. Studies have shown
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by dsrguru 13y ago
This article is both accurate and highly misleading. The author is correct that there is very little reliable evidence that links glutamic acid and/or glutamate to health problems. The backlash against MSG as a result of the "Chin
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Given that the YC partners have a ton of applications to read, and given that your second sentence ("It simple.") suggests you didn't proofread your application, it's possible they didn't continue reading it.
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Are you saying that releasing a similar system under an open source license will prove claims about the way their code worked in the past or just that we'd know if encryption is happening in the open source system?
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by dsrguru 13y ago
I know a lot of this post-PRISM fear of the US government is to be expected and is certainly popular on HN, but comments that single out the US like this really make little sense to me. The governments of Britain, Canada, Australia, and New
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NSA denies DOS attack on their website(usatoday.com)
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by dsrguru 13y ago
I don't think it's possible to have a retroactive tax on instances of patent trolling, as opposed to patents in general. In order for this to be a tax and not a fine, it seems like it would need to be a tax on the patent applicati
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by dsrguru 13y ago
A senior VP of a prominent credit card processing company in the US told me that he fields an average of 200,000 attacks originating from Chinese and Iranian IP addresses every day. Governments having backdoors everywhere would be terrifyin
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Having a "flag this title" feature is the best suggestion I've seen so far. If there aren't enough moderators to read articles before reverting titles, then having the community do it makes so much more sense than doing
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by dsrguru 13y ago
It's not that I know of the specific seller. I have never consumed LSD. I have never been on the SR and now obviously never will. However, you included so many details to demonstrate the rigor of your process, yet you didn't expla
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Thanks for responding. I'm no longer skeptical!
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> "The brain ... must choose between two different functional states - awake and aware or asleep and cleaning up" As any lucid dreamer can tell you, there's also a third option--asleep and aware.
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Given the recent tendency for similarly potent drugs like the DOx class of psychedelic amphetamines to be falsely sold as LSD, I'm highly skeptical of an experiment whose supply comes from a random dealer online and doesn't seem t
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Study says Saint Teresa was a horrible person(guardianlv.com)
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Corrective upvote for your previous post since I agree that the level of interest to most HNers is roughly the same as if the leak had occurred via a different medium (calls to mind the Chicago Tribune's famous gaff: https:/&#x2F
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by dsrguru 13y ago
And that's precisely why they should have picked that excuse--a plausible one!
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Why isn't this the main election story (or even on the first page) when you search Google News for Azerbaijan?
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"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." --
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This isn't about politics in the sense of it being a debate about policy. This is a funny example of technological misuse exposing a government for rigging an election. Technology and freedom tend to be two of HNers biggest interests,
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by dsrguru 13y ago
> Why not freeze the assets of everybody charged with a felony and appoint public defenders? Agreed, but that would either bankrupt the government or make defense attorney a much less lucrative career and, therefore, greatly decrease the
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Ooooh, I missed that part. Wikipedia (at time of writing) speaks of his identity as certain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_William_Ulbricht#Seizure_a... Edit: updated the article to reflect that Ulbricht is only al

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