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by ef4 12y ago
It does addresses, broken down by StreetAddress, City, State, PostalCode, and Country. But it sounds like what you want isn't fake identities, you want real ones.
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by ef4 12y ago
I left Dropbox when I decided I just can't trust my long-term important data to closed source software. Since then I've been on a little odyssey exploring the open source contenders. I ran owncloud briefly. File syncing performanc
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by ef4 12y ago
On the topic of bringing better security to normal users, the project I'm most hopeful about is the FIDO alliance's U2F and UAF standards.[0] There's a new YubiKey that implements U2F, which is supposed to ship soon.[1] I&#x2
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Minecraft is the gateway drug for a generation of hackers and makers. And that creative activity is still best done on a real computer, not a gaming console or phone. If Microsoft actually provided a free, first-class development environmen
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by ef4 12y ago
Net neutrality would give regulators significantly more power over how ISPs operate their networks. Due to regulatory capture[0], we can expect those regulators to advance the interests of entrenched players over potential newcomers. So the
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by ef4 12y ago
Your proposal sounds like a wish-fulfillment fantasy for founders who want to skip the hard part. I'm skeptical that you could generalize the process. But even if you could, it wouldn't make any sense to offer it as a service to s
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by ef4 12y ago
If there was a legal framework for assisted suicide, you could state your wishes unequivocally today -- while you're still competent -- and have help carrying them out later when you're vulnerable and no longer competent.
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That's beside the point. Even Stallman isn't saying that MIT doesn't have the power or authority to do it. He's arguing it's a bad idea to do it.
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by ef4 12y ago
I didn't mean to imply there was more than one. Just on or off.
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My elementary school had several TRS-80s and very little clue what to do with them. The only lesson I can remember involved creating a picture on graph paper and then typing PSET over and over again to color each pixel to match your paper.
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If I recall, the local municipality shot down the idea. Those cities are all notoriously anti-building, which is why housing is so expensive in the first place.
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> Of course, for being a left wing economist, it isn't difficult to see a possible reason why he favours monetary policy: it devalues currency, taking more from those who hold large cash balances. This is one of those memes that jus
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by ef4 12y ago
Scotland was ground zero for the industrial revolution and has had relative peace within its borders for centuries. Those other three countries all experienced coups in living memory, and didn't seriously start industrializing until at
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by ef4 12y ago
I get it, I really do. But I'm a programmer. Spreadsheets are the dominant end-user-programmable tool in existence. Much of what people user them for is horrifying to programmers who know better. But if spreadsheets actually did the &q
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One of the most successful adaptive strategies on earth right now is to be delicious and/or addictive to humans. It guarantees you'll get planted and tended at large scale. :-)
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> And any of us are susceptible to behaving this way if we become poor. Any of us would behave the same way if we were born and raised poor . But becoming poor is different. It doesn't strip away all the culture and education you
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by ef4 12y ago
For anybody not familiar with git-annex, this is not a new blog post and the metadata view support has been usable for a while now. I like git-annex and Joey Hess has done an admirable job continually improving it. But I'm still only p
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by ef4 12y ago
> Who's to say that the choice to survive in the distant future is desirable? Each individual for themselves, obviously. > Everyone you know and love will have been long dead This obviously contradicts the original assumption tha
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by ef4 12y ago
I'm pretty sure their answer is: we can automatically proxy through the meteor server to twitter or anywhere else.
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by ef4 12y ago
We're actually undergoing massive and dramatic improvements in the tooling, speed, and capabilities of web apps. Even the gap between now and two years ago is startling. If you haven't given any of the newest tools a spin, you may
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by ef4 12y ago
A small nitpick to your comment: the most elite schools in the US are not more expensive. Schools like Harvard and Princeton are effectively free for families at median income. Only very wealthy families pay the "sticker price". W
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by ef4 12y ago
I can sum up the whole article in four words: Google is too big. They have obviously become what they would have despised at the outset: a lumbering bureaucracy. But I have no interest in being one fifty-thousandth of Google, and to anyone
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by ef4 12y ago
Working with brilliant/accomplished people is an important consideration. It changes the whole tenor of the job and helps you rise to their level of skill. That said, at Google's scale I agree with you. They can't help but di
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by ef4 12y ago
In July, SpaceX successfully soft-landed a Falcon 9 first stage in the Atlantic. Now that they've proved they can do it, they're going to try over land next. So they're already very close to the dream of a liquid booster that
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by ef4 12y ago
See the [GNU Privacy Handbook]( https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html ).
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by ef4 12y ago
Yes, usability is the problem. But none of these proposed solutions manage to actually solve the usability problem without throwing out the security. We really do need to let users manage trust, because trust is a rich concept. And humans
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by ef4 12y ago
You're reinforcing my point. You're assuming imperative semantics. Wherever "destiny" would be appropriate, you necessarily have a referentially transparent function. Wherever you have a referentially transparent functio
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by ef4 12y ago
No, because every function you call could be depending on hidden state that's not in your scope.
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Nothing I said implies either push or pull. Sufficiently smart runtimes can do both based directly on function definitions. Even Excel knows how to bind a displayed value directly to functional dependencies and only recalculate when necessa
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by ef4 12y ago
The "destiny" operator is just function definition. It might seem different if you're only used to languages where function calls and variable accesses are syntactically distinct.

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