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by elidourado 10y ago
Yes, the Concorde actually flew with afterburners, which are notoriously fuel-inefficient. Modern engines can do Mach 2.2 without afterburners.
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Want to save encryption? End the war on drugs(readplaintext.com)
2 points by elidourado 11y ago|0 comments
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Want to save encryption? End the war on drugs(readplaintext.com)
2 points by elidourado 11y ago|0 comments
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The Innovator’s Defense Fund: What it is and why it’s needed(medium.com)
3 points by elidourado 11y ago|0 comments
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How technological innovation can massively reduce the cost of living(readplaintext.com)
7 points by elidourado 11y ago|1 comments
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by elidourado 11y ago
What about selective noscript on amp pages? Should be doable with an extension. Pages will render and no tracking.
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Show HN: Primary Guide – A quick summary of political betting markets(primary.guide)
1 points by elidourado 11y ago|0 comments
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CISA is a surveillance bill(readplaintext.com)
38 points by elidourado 11y ago|5 comments
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Sidechain Elements(elementsproject.org)
31 points by elidourado 11y ago|2 comments
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Proposing Mild Futarchy for Bitcoin(blocksizedebate.com)
5 points by elidourado 11y ago|0 comments
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Intellectual property in an age of fanfiction(medium.com)
2 points by elidourado 12y ago|0 comments
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Toward a Wikipedia model of drug discovery(medium.com)
20 points by elidourado 12y ago|4 comments
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by elidourado 12y ago
There's a new Twitter video service on the way. I'm sure they'll capture a lot of the disgruntled YouTube creators. https://video.twitter.com
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Is the MPAA even pro-Hollywood any more?(medium.com)
3 points by elidourado 12y ago|0 comments
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Police data-mining looks through social media, assigns you a ‘threat level’(blogs.reuters.com)
25 points by elidourado 12y ago|1 comments
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How Uber and Airbnb Resurrect ‘Dead Capital’(theumlaut.com)
3 points by elidourado 13y ago|0 comments
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by elidourado 13y ago
There is https://dotbit.me/ , but who knows how reputable that site is? Just as Bitcoin needed something like Coinbase, the Namecoin ecosystem needs a web wallet with reputable backing.
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by elidourado 13y ago
Article author here. Just wanted to add that if any of you work for companies that send engineers to the IETF, there is an Internet-Draft RFC that would normalize the use of several P2P pseudo-TLDs such as .gnu, .zkey, .onion, .exit, .i2p,
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by elidourado 13y ago
I'm not too sure. A lot of people in the cryptocurrency community are saying that something like Namecoin is going to be the second major blockchain-based technology after payments, so maybe it just got the right kind of press at the r
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by elidourado 13y ago
Yes, you can transfer names on the blockchain.
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by elidourado 13y ago
They have to be updated around every 36,000 blocks (about 250 days), or else you relinquish the name. It can be just a "touch" update, no need to change the information.
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by elidourado 13y ago
Most of the major Bitcoin mining pools also mine Namecoin. The current Namecoin hashrate is around 60% of the Bitcoin hashrate. http://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/hashrate-btc-nmc.html
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by elidourado 13y ago
> Blockchains are being used to implement solutions to different problems, and they could really solve some significant problems such as decentralized identity and reputation management (!). The difficulty lies in creating a significant
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The Wired Man's Burden(theumlaut.com)
1 points by elidourado 13y ago|0 comments
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by elidourado 13y ago
Defeat the paywall: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jimmy+Carter%27s+Costly+Pate...
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Deregulate the Skies: Why We Can’t Afford to Fear Drones(wired.com)
1 points by elidourado 13y ago|0 comments
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Dear Amazon: Convert My Dead-Tree Library to Kindle Books(elidourado.com)
1 points by elidourado 14y ago|1 comments
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The case for the Twitter API changes(elidourado.com)
2 points by elidourado 14y ago|1 comments
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by elidourado 14y ago
Just wanted to let everyone here know that you can access the documents directly on our site at wcitleaks.org, or follow @wcitleaks on Twitter for updates.
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by elidourado 14y ago
The US is planning to participate in WCIT. They recently appointed an ambassador. We have a US comment on the treaty revisions from 2011 on WCITLeaks.org: http://files.wcitleaks.org/public/T09-CWG.WCIT12-C-0028!!MSW...

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