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by iwr 16y ago
The first chapter is good enough to carry you to the end: http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov6/01.html
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by iwr 16y ago
There is no (Paul) Graham's Lemma, but there is Graham's Number.
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by iwr 16y ago
The link is fine, just their server overloaded at the moment.
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by iwr 16y ago
A web of trust would not need to be too deep to start working. After all, it takes just a couple of acquaintance hops to connect 90% of the people on Earth. Not sure about the 6-degrees-of-separation thing, but it's probably on the order of
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by iwr 16y ago
South Africa doesn't receive that much aid in relative terms.
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by iwr 16y ago
It's incorrect to blame the Africans. Aid failed not because people there are somewhat less civilized (hypersexual bullshit), but because foreign aid money is feeding the dictators that maintain the system. The big cash doesn't come from
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by iwr 16y ago
When all else fails, just use a merchant account.
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by iwr 16y ago
Also, no international support. A real paypal alternative must be broadly international.
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by iwr 16y ago
tl;dr version: "There are things you can do in one state or online that will get you in the fucking klink for years in another state. That Jury wanted 25 years of a man’s life because he sold CD-ROMs they didn’t like. They wanted tens of th
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by iwr 16y ago
Is this dongle a future-proof way to keep up with firmware upgrades? Scenario: new upgrade comes, x3 dongle guys distribute a patch automatically after a few days/weeks
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by iwr 16y ago
The comparison is wrong. Informations that could lead to the downfall of a corporation would not be plain industrial secrets (irrelevant politically). Companies would have nothing to fear if they did nothing objectionable from an ethical or
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by iwr 16y ago
Can PayPal really afford to say no? The government has many ways it can make life miserable for the company.
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Have you abandoned your desktop computer?
4 points by iwr 16y ago|6 comments
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by iwr 16y ago
It won't be bad if they start getting fan clubs, groupies and sponsorship deals.
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by iwr 16y ago
Remember the last Declaration of independence triggered a war. Don't expect the political to consider any accessible space off-limits.
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by iwr 16y ago
While PayPal deserves the negative rep for screwing their customers, it doesn't deserve it for being a US corporation, vulnerable to the US government. The bad guy here is not PayPal.
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by iwr 16y ago
This is the original link: http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/mo...
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by iwr 16y ago
Steve Jobs was saying that netbooks are merely cheap laptops: bad as ultramobile devices and bad as laptops. How is the 11" Air compared to a regular netbook?
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by iwr 16y ago
i(j) squared is -1 if we're talking about complex numbers and 1 for split-complex numbers. Each is an interesting class of numbers.
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by iwr 16y ago
If the contraptions are cheap enough, or the footage valuable enough, there'd be no need to recover it.
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by iwr 16y ago
If those things have enough range, you can just stay indoors, safe from police interference. It would be very difficult to trace unless the cops ran around in triangulation squads. Other ways to do it could be by wireless internet.
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by iwr 16y ago
Aleph-null?
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by iwr 16y ago
I'd like to see a site that used the proposed karma system. It feels a little complex, though.
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by iwr 16y ago
RC planes (drones): soon the staple of any serious paparazzi.
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by iwr 16y ago
You must mean pretentiousness, surely.
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How Lieberman Got Amazon To Drop Wikileaks(tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com)
4 points by iwr 16y ago|0 comments
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by iwr 16y ago
A meta-patent? Would still be vulnerable to meta-meta patenting tactics.
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by iwr 16y ago
Did anyone here use one of those contraptions? Any thoughts?
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Submarine Data Cable Map: 2010(telegeography.com)
2 points by iwr 16y ago|0 comments
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by iwr 16y ago
Also, Telecom Greenland has a nice fiber cable running through Newfoundland-Greenland-Iceland-Scotland.

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