enki

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by enki 15y ago
the exchange is a central authority, and acts like one. you can do whatever you want with your bitcoins, but currency exchange is liable to laws and regulations.
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by enki 15y ago
according to the guy running the exchange: user with 500k bitcoins was hacked (probably password bruteforce or csrf). they'll probably reverse all transactions since then
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by enki 15y ago
that's why we came up with http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0408179 in 2004 (one of the co-authors here) announcing the bases in public isn't a great idea
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by enki 15y ago
Fully agree with your sentiment. Not trying to argue Bitcoin will succeed. But it's very clear that it is interesting. It essentially solved globally consistent distributed naming and non-web-of-trust PKI on the side, and almost no one noti
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by enki 15y ago
author here: the cool part is that it's theoretically possible now. i have no idea whether it'll take off. what do you think, are there gonna be sufficient incentives in the future to decentralize certain services?
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by enki 15y ago
what's really missing is the phone numbers.
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by enki 15y ago
SF Definition of Taxi: "Taxi" shall mean a vehicle operated pursuant to a Taxi or Ramp Taxi Medallion that is legally authorized to pick up passengers within the City with or without prearrangement, of a distinctive color or colors and wh
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by enki 15y ago
there aren't enough cabs in SF - people aren't using cabs because they can't get any. only way to get cabs more business is more cabs.
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by enki 15y ago
they aren't dispatching taxis here's the relevant passage: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22117/tcp_and_taxicab_distinguished.... (source: http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/D5E763FD-5706-4F7D-9F95-... ) (limousines which are passenger carrie
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by enki 16y ago
hanging out here right now, discussing backbone.js and getting work done! the opzi guys rock! :)
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by enki 16y ago
you can save two minutes by typing this: javascript:foo=setTimeout; setTimeout = function(x,y){ foo(x,2); }
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by enki 16y ago
please look up the terms 'public good' and 'private good'
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by enki 16y ago
same! glad you wrote that book!
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What doing a Startup feels like(youtube.com)
9 points by enki 16y ago|2 comments
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by enki 16y ago
http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=X+is+l...
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by enki 16y ago
in vienna, which usually is the worst regulation hell, i could get a cab anywhere in the city within 4 minutes, any hour of any day. and that's a city with 1.75 times the population of SF (not including all the people who commute to SF to w
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by enki 16y ago
i've given up on trying to get a cab in sf. there's only 1381 highly regulated taxi medallions and a constant shortage. most potential customers have, just like me, given up on ever getting a cab when they need one, so there's not only arti
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by enki 16y ago
there's a go club in soma. we're meeting at twitter every wednesday at 8am but have been thinking of moving a more accessible time and location and call it @somagoclub. anyone interested? (soma, san francisco)
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by enki 16y ago
horrible advice - NX is bound to suck up heaps of bandwidth even over ssh-gzip - probably more so than just using a local browser.
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by enki 16y ago
that article makes it sound like immediately distributing equity is super important. having a rough idea of the pie sizes is probably a good idea, but 1 month vesting like the site says? no way! honestly, at this point i wouldn't start anyt
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by enki 16y ago
only do it if you think you can do significantly better, and in a way that is noticeable to your audience. if you can differentiate yourself no market is ever saturated.
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Berkeley Bionics presents first Consumer Exoskeleton(wired.com)
2 points by enki 16y ago|0 comments
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by enki 16y ago
i just use the same fabfile on the server. and doesn't require tornado on linux (if epoll is available)
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by enki 16y ago
ah - so what you are doing speeds up deploys to multiple servers, while what i'm doing is meant to speed up an individual deploy. i mostly just got tired of waiting for an individual deploy to my staging server. btw thanks for emailing me!
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by enki 16y ago
i think they've been planning to for a while: http://code.fabfile.org/issues/show/19 i haven't really followed their progress too closely, but they seem to be close to releasing something for 1.0. I think they do client-side threading whi
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Speed up your Fabric deployments with Parex(paulbohm.com)
19 points by enki 16y ago|8 comments
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by enki 16y ago
quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur
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by enki 16y ago
definitely have coffee with them and get a feel for their personalities and where they are. if they are really good and you are confident in your abilities too, it might be to mutual benefit to join forces. That isn't unheard of - e.g. payp
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by enki 16y ago
http://payscale.com/ and http://glassdoor.com/ suggest that the median is lower, not higher. But that's not even the point. With $110k you'll live more than great here, and if you're good you can always find new opportunities or a raise
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by enki 16y ago
i saw a demo-day interview where pg said he doesn't use twitter because he couldn't find a suitable username (based on his real name). i thought "if i was twitter, i'd find him one". guess that really happened :) welcome!

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