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by febeling 13y ago
I agree, and I think this decoupling of individual political decisions from party lines is one of the main benefits of direct democracy. You don't have to vote red or blue every four years and then live with the consequences. In Switze
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by febeling 13y ago
You can p2p lend and borrow btc here: https://www.bitbond.net/
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The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies(cryptome.org)
1 points by febeling 13y ago|0 comments
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by febeling 13y ago
Uh, thanks for pointing to this. I found an article detailing this a bit more[1]. This is a inaccuracy that is quite telling about the quality of research this author is going to offer. 1 http://www.businessweek.com/finance&
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by febeling 13y ago
Bitcoins start to be money once people have less than 0 of them.
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Ngx_mruby: script Nginx with Matz’ mruby(thechangelog.com)
1 points by febeling 13y ago|0 comments
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by febeling 13y ago
One of the most confusing things about designing for programmers and other brainy / rational-minded people is, that when you read about it by actual practitioners, you mostly look at post-rationalisations. That means you can't expect to hav
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The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation(hiphopisread.com)
1 points by febeling 14y ago|0 comments
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by febeling 14y ago
I don't find it very surprising that providers of security awareness programs don't agree with Schneier's arguments against their offering. But since they have a strong financial incentive to disagree with him I'm doubtful about their argum
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by febeling 14y ago
Which pieces by Schneier were not well-informed, or in which ones was he talking about something outside of his domain?
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by febeling 14y ago
I think ultimately it will serve the role of "specie gold" I agree with this. (I don't understand the blinded token idea.) I think it is quite easy to imagine that banking services are build on top of BTC. These would be account receivabl
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What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki?(cstheory.stackexchange.com)
2 points by febeling 14y ago|0 comments
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by febeling 14y ago
Go and fund someone, and observe how a couple of minutes later you get the notification email that the funding is complete. This is a very powerful new thing.
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Google Publishes C++, Go, Java and Scala Performance Benchmarks(readwrite.com)
4 points by febeling 14y ago|0 comments
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by febeling 14y ago
In my hometown Wuppertal, they had this since more than 100 years: https://www.google.com/search?q=schwebebahn+wuppertal Click on image search results.
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Hip But Flawed: CFPs on Github(asquera.de)
2 points by febeling 14y ago|0 comments
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by febeling 14y ago
Many people in private insurance claim that it is at least equally broken, with some saying it is worse. And some of those people I'm speaking about are MDs themselves. It is broken by German / first-worlds standards, of course, with people
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On Resilience in Automated Systems, Failures and the Human Factor(paperplanes.de)
4 points by febeling 14y ago|0 comments
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by febeling 14y ago
There is the product life-cycle which has the phases: introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. The point is that facebook needs to understand that "Move fast, and break things" is an appropriate approach in the earlier phases, but it is
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Playing with Riak and CRDTs - Counters(paperplanes.de)
1 points by febeling 14y ago|0 comments
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by febeling 14y ago
Reality is Broken. Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, by Jane McGonigal ( http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Is-Broken-Better-Change/dp/014... )
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by febeling 14y ago
The current default is that a company can own its name under all important TLDs. That is feasible because there are only so many generic ones (.com,.net,.org, maybe .info and .name) and a few of countries you want to do business with. So yo
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by febeling 14y ago
Yes, I know the full scenario was a bit more involved. My main beef with their failure handling is actually this: you need to be able to face a situation where _all_ you smart emergency systems fail. In the case of an NPP this can mean an a
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by febeling 14y ago
Another striking example is the failure of Fukushima I and II. Basically what happend was that they had a power failure (of the external line)! They thought that was somehow too unlikely to account for, which I really have trouble with unde
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by febeling 14y ago
Daisy Disk for Mac is missing from this list (or maybe they don't count their visualization as treemap, but I think it is closely related and saw it categorized as such). http://www.daisydiskapp.com/
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by febeling 14y ago
You can subscribe to the mailing list using the form on the http://getkeysapp.com page. I will send notifications about such new features (e.g. keyboard layouts) to this list.
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by febeling 14y ago
These characters are covered as well. Basically all keys that produce characters are included.
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by febeling 14y ago
I don't have a proper list, it is more in the back of my head. I did read some of these each: * Erlang VM * sqlite * Linux kernel * Clojure functional data structures That list may look very pretentious, but I don't try to fully understand
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by febeling 14y ago
I think it was antirez who said that Tcl had one of the best C codebases he had ever seen. Since then it's on my code reading list.
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by febeling 14y ago
Yes I want to do that, too.

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