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by hoggle 12y ago
I urge people to check out Sweden once in their lives, it's such an open and fair place in comparison to most countries in the world. Even though I'm reading a lot of anarcho-capitalist theory recently (yes, because I like Bitcoin
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by hoggle 12y ago
I always felt like there unfortunately was no proper alternative to libopenssl (might be unfair but it seemed like a somewhat smelly library) but thanks to this event I've now been made aware of all the alternatives. How much more fun&
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by hoggle 13y ago
YEAH to staying forever young and being white, male and without kids! No, honestly we don't have enough context. Maybe there simply wasn't anybody around willing to do the job before and if somebody would need it like in your exam
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by hoggle 13y ago
Another interesting article on that topic: "Enter The Blockchain: How Bitcoin Can Turn The Cloud Inside Out" http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/22/enter-the-blockchain-how-bi... What I'm interested
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by hoggle 13y ago
That's a difficult but worthwhile topic to discuss as we need to be mindful of those kinds of disconnects as privileged tech workers. Would it still be un-ethical if there'd be no one willing to do it? Can we ever know?
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by hoggle 13y ago
Maybe if there was some kind of token connected with paying the services the originator would be able to stash a lot of them very cheaply at the very beginning of the network's lifecycle - think Bitcoin/Namecoin again.
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Can Namecoin obsolete ICANN (and more)?(theumlaut.com)
141 points by hoggle 13y ago|86 comments
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by hoggle 13y ago
Namecoin, Ethereum and Open Transactions come to mind. Maybe the future is much more evenly distributed and we all make a living by offering energy and computing power to those services? Why did PGP never take off? I would love to set up my
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by hoggle 13y ago
A great way to push policies and technologies towards a more regulated Internet. I might have my tinfoil hat on here but without any doubt we need to make away with all the centralization because that's what is the problem, really. Agg
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by hoggle 13y ago
That's the real elephant in the room, it's about minority vs majority - Captain James T. Kirk would vigorously defend Dorian Nakamoto's rights for privacy. Look at the man and how distressing all of this must be: http:/
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by hoggle 13y ago
The trick is to love yourself.
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How to Love Yourself(wikihow.com)
2 points by hoggle 13y ago|0 comments
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by hoggle 13y ago
"If you get rich, you have an apartment with an extra bedroom - and then you die." "I've accumulated no money but I accumulate a lot of happiness." -Arunachalam Muruganantham
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by hoggle 13y ago
I would think the decentralised approach would always be able to compete when we factor in transportation costs which usually make up a pretty significant percentage of the actual sales price with centralised mass production. Much more of t
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by hoggle 13y ago
I hope Sergey Brin's artificial meat project will take off soon, there is this constantly increasing demand for cheap meat which has been one of the main reasons behind the increase of factory farms over the years: http://ww
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by hoggle 13y ago
Also for node programmers there is https://github.com/mranney/node_pcap I remember doing some pcap C programming some years ago but node with its streaming nature and powerful js derived abstractions is just so much mo
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by hoggle 13y ago
I guess it boils down to respect - for both sides, young and old. Thanks for the compiler error ;)
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by hoggle 13y ago
The one thing I like so much about Brennan's writing is the focus on win-win and quality, professional attributes I was very fond of already but "Double Your Freelancing Rate" helped me tremendously to actually implement the
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by hoggle 13y ago
Yes, Redcar is pretty cool! This is an inspiring talk on how to hack on it - even though I'm still mostly using vim/sublime it was pretty eye opening to me, rubies all the way down: Crafting iOS Dev Tools in Redcar - Delisa Mason
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by hoggle 13y ago
I'm a loyal unix guy but as a millenial without much actual hands-on experience with VMS I always love to hear anecdotes like that :) The first time I read about it was in Clifford Stoll's Cuckoo's Egg where it seemed as if t
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by hoggle 13y ago
Wow, this really made my evening :) I just donated two hours worth of my consulting time for two fellow human beings in need somewhere else in the world and it will have serious impact. I'm in total bliss <3 nothing feels like helpi
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by hoggle 13y ago
Listening to Andreas, it sounds more like a feature than a bug and that's also why it hasn't been "fixed" since 2011 - organizations introducing blockchain technology into their stacks should know about that and develop
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by hoggle 13y ago
Unfortunately things usually don't change on their own, it's actually good that this happened. The client-side key-management solutions that Andreas mentioned in the last paragraph of his statement are a testament to that. Evoluti
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Lord British on Bitcoin: Virtual Worlds, Real Money(letstalkbitcoin.com)
1 points by hoggle 13y ago|0 comments
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by hoggle 13y ago
Would be especially cool if it supported input type=file as well :)
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by hoggle 13y ago
I wonder if they could offer a less accurate version of this test over the internet (touch displays, graphic tablets).
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Zello push-to-talk service plays critical part in Venezuela uprising(defenseone.com)
3 points by hoggle 13y ago|0 comments
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by hoggle 13y ago
Did they just break the internet?
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Bugs Considered Harmful with Douglas Crockford(hanselminutes.com)
2 points by hoggle 13y ago|0 comments
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by hoggle 13y ago
Cool, I didn't know about that documentary! Perfect Saturday evening cinema, thanks!

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