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by flatline 11y ago
For internal usage s/mime is not really that bad. Works fine with gmail. $25 a year gets you a personal cert. All my work email is encrypted. Bitpay is small enough to be able to do this without any extra infrastructure.
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by flatline 11y ago
It could very well be an exit scam - I wouldn't want to cover it as an insurer, either. "Hey, I screwed up and sent this money to the wrong party!" without any way to show that you are not in fact still in control of the mon
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by flatline 11y ago
> The person I saw in the mirror wasn’t as likable as I’d once believed One of the many realizations I've had from doing meditation. The next hurdle is to stop beating yourself up over it...
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by flatline 11y ago
The whole concept that aiding someone to beat a lie detector is a crime is ludicrous. How many sociopaths beat it without any preparation? How many people with nothing to hide exhibit a stress response at an inopportune moment? I've
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by flatline 11y ago
Presumably, the Chinese and some random hackers now have every piece of relevant data on my life that could ever be used for at least the initial validation of my identity - up to and including my fingerprints. For repeat authentication it&
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by flatline 11y ago
It's just a hysteresis curve, which I believe is effectively the "mem" part of "memristor".
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by flatline 11y ago
I laugh when people complain about removal of /r/fatpeoplehate being censorship. The only reason that subreddit was such a problem is because of aggressive moderation and banning of users - i.e. censorship at the moderator level
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by flatline 11y ago
FTA: > We don’t sell pot, we sell software.
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by flatline 11y ago
I stand corrected - somehow I misread this line to imply the opposite, but it is clear he is (probably) making reference to his real name.
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by flatline 11y ago
According to that cypherpunks post, it is in fact a pseudonym.
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by flatline 11y ago
Ugh, just what we need, another "pro" fractal renderer. Just search around, you can find plenty of non-free 2D ones, and it's not so easy to find a decent free 2D fractal renderer that does anything interesting, at least not
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by flatline 11y ago
When you aren't doing work, stop thinking about work, stop talking about work. This may include time while you are physically at work. This is a hard lesson for many programmers. There is a time for thinking, but it's tempting to
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by flatline 11y ago
Actually there are various sub-designations for unclassified material[0]. Just because it's unclassified does not mean it's not confidential, or problematic if certain individuals have access to it. The burden of classifying all
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by flatline 12y ago
> Apply for a job and change it from within That's not at all how I read what happened. Rather, I read that the two worked back and forth until they came to this present arrangement, and he was hired specifically for the purpose of
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by flatline 12y ago
C/C++ are going to be tied to some runtime libraries but that doesn't seem like as big an externality as being tied to a particular version of an entire VM. You may prevent certain classes of of programming error with a memory-ma
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by flatline 12y ago
There's lots of newer research on trust-based systems that could be applicable here, e.g. a game-theoretic approach where entities are gauged based on ratings over repeated transactions. Think iterated prisoner's dilemma crossed
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by flatline 12y ago
This is always how it has been with Microsoft. They control the developer toolchain 100%. They have gone out of their way in years past to burn other development tools (they pretty much shut Delphi out of the market with a last-minute cha
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by flatline 12y ago
The problem is at the intersection of welfare and work. You have to be really poor and stay really poor to qualify for most of these social programs, and the programs are designed to be pretty minimal and thereby encourage people to work.
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by flatline 12y ago
Huh, thanks - I found the option, and enabled it for her iPad. At a glance, nothing much changed, there are just too many flat button-like things throughout the UI for this to help, but we will see.
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by flatline 12y ago
When my daughter was two and a half she could use the iPad pretty efficiently, because it was always pretty obvious where you should click. At nearly four she now struggles to click things or to even know what to click. It's a terrible
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by flatline 12y ago
While there are certain advantages to netflix's distribution model, such as my ability to stream directly to a tablet or AppleTV, the main advantage in my mind is that it is a legal means of acquiring content with ease. If BitTorrent a
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by flatline 12y ago
The very notion of a service like coinbase is problematic, and coinbase's implementation is especially poor for privacy. First, they are taking an inherently trustless system and demanding a very high level of trust for AML/KYC r
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by flatline 12y ago
The seller has your mailing address. Mining is probably the most anonymous way to do it, and by far the least cost-effective. There are, however, ways to launder your bitcoins if you really want them to be anonymous, regardless of how you a
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by flatline 12y ago
Was making $1.5mm, in October of last year. There are some off the cuff calculations in the reddit thread [0] that indicate the same setup would currently be netting only about a tenth of that amount now. 0 - http://www.reddit.c
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by flatline 12y ago
I'm not even sure that involved drugs or anything - they got busted on straight up AML. I can't find the drug case now, I saw it within the last six months but any Google search just returns tons of SR hits...
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by flatline 12y ago
Another thing to shoot down that fantasy: someone makes a casual mention of illegal activity, and as soon as you complete the transaction they pull out their FBI badge and arrest you on charges of money laundering, aiding a criminal, etc. P
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by flatline 12y ago
RandomCode (dead comment): yeah, me too. I just lose interest in games so easily any more, and with so many other priorities fighting for my time, game playing seems needlessly wasteful. I just can't enjoy it unless it's a social
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by flatline 12y ago
I have trouble imagining this sort of mechanical device working reliably. You can hardly compare it to Nest, which really has no moving parts. Our front door has quite a bit of wiggle room, and if the house settles after locking the door
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by flatline 12y ago
Apparently they are launching both an ETF and an exchange("Gemeni")...
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by flatline 12y ago
A conservative friend of mine was really bothered by the recent IRS targeting of conservative groups' applications for tax-exempt status. I think this is a great example of how even our modern day, relatively ethical governments can a

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