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by gburt 15y ago
What does this have to do with the parent post? He didn't imply a conspiracy. There's no conspiracy -- except that government officials don't like things that challenge their sources of power, which is what these two senators think Bitcoin
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by gburt 15y ago
Absolutely. Today. But what I was getting at is if we were to hypothetically do away with IP, what he was claiming was a side effect doesn't seem to be one to me. It seems that if someone pretended to be selling a Rolex, and it was accepted
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by gburt 15y ago
I would call the Rolex/iPod examples fraud, wouldn't you? "Free market capitalism" is only rarely conflated with anarchy. (don't get me wrong, I agree that Intellectual Property is the opposite of "free market")
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by gburt 15y ago
Its common knowledge that Apple doesn't understand the web?
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by gburt 15y ago
Please be aware this will not remove your files, as they exist on the filesystem (this is intentional, of course, as it allows offline working with Dropbox files). If you wanted to actually remote wipe, you would need other software... soun
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by gburt 15y ago
https://www.dropbox.com/account#manage Go there, deauth. a machine. You can't remotely wipe it though, as the files actually exist. You'd need an alternative solution for that. Edit: also, use drive-level encryption and secure your user a
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by gburt 15y ago
"...an ounce of gold would always buy a nice suit and a pair of shoes. That seems to hold true today."
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Gold is trading at the same inflation-adjusted price today as it was in 1979.(politonomist.com)
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by gburt 15y ago
Thanks for the data point re: Cape Town. That's interesting. I suppose my only point was that we like to think that things are way worse somewhere else (or perhaps someone likes us thinking that?), the State Department likes to issue warnin
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by gburt 15y ago
I think anamax's point was that there's no incentive system for police to act in anything but their own interest. Their interest is not to solve crimes, its simply to not get fired.
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by gburt 15y ago
"Most of us" live in places where crime is not a problem. Does anyone live in a place where crime is a problem as you describe it? It seems that the Westerner attitude is that "somewhere else" things are really bad. New Orleans has close to
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by gburt 15y ago
For unexpected token I think what it looks like is more valuable. Unfortunately most English PHP developers don't speak Hebrew. =\
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by gburt 15y ago
Resolving arrays like that causes parse errors in a range of contexts. Anything that is a "function" cannot also pick one array key... leaving a lot of XML-parsing code that looks like $xml = getXpathWhatever(); $xml = $xml[0]; Stranger yet
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by gburt 15y ago
This is by far my (least?) favorite: http://ca.php.net/empty ----- The following things are considered to be empty: - "" (an empty string) - [...] --> "0" (0 as a string) <-- - [...] - var $var; (a variable declared, but without a
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by gburt 15y ago
There's a remarkable amount of "dramablogging" on HN lately.
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by gburt 15y ago
Just wait till the site says "DANIELLE WANTS TO CHAT: Oh hai!"
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by gburt 15y ago
The comments are absolutely terrifying.
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by gburt 15y ago
Can you point us to anything that you would see as a good introduction to the prediction side of machine learning? The "explaining the past" (and I suppose the regression) section is covered well by most universities statistics departments,
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by gburt 15y ago
Your English is great, being self-deprecating is a bad way to make yourself feel good about yourself. There is a direct effect between saying something and believing it. If you feel the need to tell people that English is your second langua
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by gburt 15y ago
You could also 'earn' Bitcoins by selling someone something where the transaction was made in Bitcoins? Is this a semantic issue?
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by gburt 15y ago
The fiat offers, at minimum, a requirement to do transactions in that currency to some minimal degree, as you are required by law to pay taxes (notice that taxes are applied to all exchanges, in theory at least, not just those conducted in
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by gburt 15y ago
What's not to trust? It seems that the clients determine what they trust, and so long as the majority of clients agree, all is well. There are economic problems with bitcoin as a currency (its a fiat currency, effectively, except without th
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by gburt 15y ago
Bitcoin should be rewritten to be some function of something "useful" like the SETI@Home project. Consider if you could have "solving sha256 problems" be simultaneously "computing the next largest prime" (arguably useful, at least, more so
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by gburt 15y ago
In fact, what it would be doing is redefining "guilty". You'd be of guilty mind when the crime you intended to commit was sharing a URL.
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by gburt 15y ago
I don't think most people would be for a law that bans passing out a URL that solicits murders. We may not agree with the site, but sharing the URL of it should not be a crime. If you gave someone -- say a reporter -- the contact informatio
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by gburt 15y ago
Newly registered users.
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by gburt 15y ago
The Community Reinvestment Act seems to be a pretty likely stimulus for the mortgage crisis - incentivizing "anti-racist" behavior rather than good lending practices. Worse yet, the "considerable pain" you're trying to avoid gets worse over
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by gburt 15y ago
Amazon wasn't the "startup" in his example. His point was the 5 year wait time for a "giant"* to get a product out the door... * who, even worse for their case, already had the infrastructure, resources, engineers, etc. to get it done.
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by gburt 15y ago
Can someone explain why I would choose this over S3, when S3's starting rate is 0.14 / GB and goes down from there?
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by gburt 15y ago
Could you tell us more about your projects (to whatever level of detail you're comfortable)? I'm interested in exactly what scope you were able to pull off, and if any of them turned out profitable.

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