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by eurleif 13y ago
I once had a different service refuse to cancel my account unless I called them. Supposedly it was "for security", but I hadn't even signed up via phone, so that made no sense. I emailed their head of media relations, and sai
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by eurleif 13y ago
>By analogy to the original problem as stated, that's like saying you don't need an intermediary to confirm that a message with particular content was delivered between two generals. No, that's not analogous. Bitcoin preve
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by eurleif 13y ago
Isn't it straight-up fraud and/or theft?
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by eurleif 13y ago
>If the BGP is about solving the problem of fraud, then Bitcoin hasn't solved it. Do you have any idea what the BGP is?
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by eurleif 13y ago
>Security implications of technology is never a valid argument against furthering technology. Never ? So you would accept an Internet-connected pacemaker without a second thought? There are clearly tradeoffs. Saying security should neve
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by eurleif 13y ago
Why is the personal relationship "fake" just because it's made with a database instead of human memory? Because the company doesn't really care about the daughter? Would it be creepy if employees at a smaller store remem
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by eurleif 13y ago
If you went to a small store regularly, would it be creepy for the employees to know that about you? Why is it creepy for a big business to know the same thing? It's normal for businesses to get to know their customers.
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by eurleif 13y ago
Maybe this was meant to be a private note? I.e., a customer service rep at some company found out about their daughter, and they wanted to make sure other customer service reps would know about it and show appropriate sensitivity, so they a
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by eurleif 13y ago
I'm seeing it too: http://imgur.com/puK8OiW
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by eurleif 13y ago
What do you mean when you say "liquidity", and why do you think Dogecoin has more of it?
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by eurleif 13y ago
>multi-threadced Web workers? >GPU accelerated WebGL? >webcam-using WebRTC?
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by eurleif 13y ago
Does anyone else find this hard to believe? 4.8m SnapChat usernames were released. You can send someone a Snap if you know their username. Why wouldn't a flood of spam follow the release?
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Snapchat says flood of spam is not a result of its recent hack(venturebeat.com)
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by eurleif 13y ago
Meh. Writing code in pencil was annoying, but I was perfectly well able to finish all the exam questions in the allotted time, despite having the world's worst handwriting, and not having actually taken the course.
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by eurleif 13y ago
You could store the BTC on an address that requires multiple signatures.
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by eurleif 13y ago
First paragraph: >It is purposefully not Turing-complete, with no loops.
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by eurleif 13y ago
IANAL, TINLA, but I think the SCA, 18 USC § 2703(e) would protect them from being sued. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2703#e
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by eurleif 13y ago
>Because all print advertisers know are the circulation numbers -- they have no idea if you're actually opening it up or not, or just sending them all straight to the recycling bin while you read them digitally. Presumably the price
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by eurleif 13y ago
Why wouldn't a JPEG compression algorithm work just as well on a different OS?
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by eurleif 13y ago
Kind of like how I can write "1 eurleif dollar, issued by the bank of eurleif" on a piece of paper to print more paper currency...
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by eurleif 13y ago
Except that IQs are explicitly made to fit a normal distribution.
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by eurleif 13y ago
Do they even need to use stolen cards for this? Wouldn't cards with random (but valid) numbers work just as well?
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by eurleif 13y ago
This is a bit pedantic, but JS implementations don't necessarily use UCS-2 as the internal encoding. The issue is that the spec requires characters to be exposed to programs as 16-bit values. See here: http://mathiasbynens.b
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by eurleif 13y ago
Ok, so the data isn't necessarily destroyed immediately after a scrub. But how does that play out at the level of VM users? Is there a normal usage scenario where the portion of the SSD containing my deleted data is made readable to so
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by eurleif 13y ago
With self-driving cars on the horizon, will people even be owning their own cars for much longer? Centralization of car ownership would change how your scenario plays out.
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by eurleif 13y ago
Taken to its logical conclusion, the "burning need to create" argument implies that creative people don't respond to economic incentives at all, and that copyright doesn't help increase creative production at all. I&#x27
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by eurleif 13y ago
>Putting Sherlock Holmes in the public domain is probably not going to have much effect on Arthur Conan-Doyle's writing output, though, so it's probably a good thing at this point. I'm playing devil's advocate a bit h
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by eurleif 13y ago
>However, since this is not a widespread practice so far, (almost) nobody has complained about it. You haven't seen people complain about Twilight, or Fifty Shades of Grey?
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by eurleif 13y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >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
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by eurleif 13y ago
Or if you really want to prove it, use your Bitcoin address to sign a message containing your Twitter ID.

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