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by iwwr 13y ago
More like, they bring a great deal of expertise from the Great Firewall.
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by iwwr 13y ago
Indeed, we should not think of 2007-Obama, 2008-Obama and 2012-Obama as the same people. What one said can't be held against the other.
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by iwwr 13y ago
That can be a bad idea. Consider the case of you having revealed the contents of a truecrypt partition to the feds. You can't actually prove you showed them everything. There may be circumstantial evidence against you or the fed may be
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by iwwr 13y ago
Don't forget the fall of the Mongol empire, and then of the successor states. It was only really during the Mongol age that the land-based high-volume trade could exist along the routes of the Silk Road.
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Eve-Online player loses a $9000 digital spaceship(forbes.com)
74 points by iwwr 13y ago|76 comments
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by iwwr 13y ago
Could he take a more circuitous route, through Russian territory up to the Far East and then across the Pacific to some friendly South American country?
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Leben der Anderen (2006) a movie about STASI surveillance relevant today(imdb.com)
2 points by iwwr 13y ago|0 comments
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by iwwr 13y ago
In some ways yes, but if you mean intellectual property then no.
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Visualisation of the London Blitz (WW2)(bombsight.org)
5 points by iwwr 13y ago|0 comments
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by iwwr 13y ago
If the government is fighting to maintain a legally mandated purchasing power, that just guarantees even higher inflation. Either they are willing to suspend the guarantee, or let the currency dissolve in (yet another) hyperinflation.
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by iwwr 13y ago
How about just making a detachable LHe tank and send some replacement helium every few years? Shouldn't be too costly even given the day-to-day cost of running a space observatory.
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by iwwr 14y ago
They could have used an active refrigeration system, no?
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by iwwr 14y ago
So what is the alternative to lowering "consistently high public debt"? Monetize it? Default on it? Debt in itself is not a problem if the growth rate is the same or decreasing as a proportion of the economy. At the current rate, some oblig
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The beautiful machines that mine Bitcoin(reddit.com)
9 points by iwwr 14y ago|4 comments
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by iwwr 14y ago
It's a speculative commodity, which, if gaining enough traction and liquidity could provide a viable alternative for a currency.
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by iwwr 14y ago
How are "natural capital costs" calculated?
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by iwwr 14y ago
Either way, it's stolen goods that need to be returned to the owner. You don't tell the owner of a car "too bad, your stolen car was bought in good faith by a third party".
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by iwwr 14y ago
This is very early, preliminary research. Actual fruits of a manned or otherwise fusion rocket to Mars may be decades ahead. Even at NASA's slow pace they could get there by the 2030es (or 2020es if they listen to Zubrin). Edit: at 150 tons
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by iwwr 14y ago
There is still the danger of a continuing bank run come Tuesday. There is not enough cash to satisfy it all (and probably no willingness to let it be transferred electronically), so expect more emergency measures.
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by iwwr 14y ago
Banks are closed, money in ATMs is gone. Currency and cash controls are expected to remain in force.
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by iwwr 14y ago
It stems more from EU governments generally abhorring tax competition. Cyprus was in too weak a position to negotiate.
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by iwwr 14y ago
They're still paid in EUR, just getting some of that converted to BTC. If selling the BTC later on makes them a profit, it becomes the responsibility of the employee to report any profits. The greater problem is how the employer manages to
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by iwwr 14y ago
You can manufacture fuel in-situ on Mars, something not possible (or significantly more difficult) on the Moon. This, coupled with the atmosphere of Mars that provides delta-V savings on the way down (with little drag on the way up) makes M
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by iwwr 14y ago
Why not just use standard freons?
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by iwwr 14y ago
Note that once the asteroid has hit the atmosphere it can't be stopped. Stories about anti-aircraft batteries or missiles "shooting it down" are absolute bogus. Even if you do hit it, you do nothing to reduce its kinetic energy. A similar c
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by iwwr 14y ago
Looks like the "shovel & pickaxe trade" during any gold rush. There is some money to be made by the early adopters, little or no by the late comers and then a steady and good source for those offering services to the miners. P.S. One pr
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by iwwr 14y ago
The problem of chain-of-trust still remains. How do you transmit the public keys for verification?
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by iwwr 14y ago
It depends on where they bury it. On a scale of millions of years, the landscape can be changed radically. Continents get eroded, tectonic plates collide and get subducted. On mere thousands of years, sea levels rise and fall, rivers change
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by iwwr 14y ago
This unchecked expansion of executive power is happening all over the world. Enabled by technology, but also lack of public outrage, soft, welfarish* dictatorships are in the works. Outwardly, it looks democratic, but the democratic princip
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by iwwr 14y ago
Hyperinflation was a separate consequence of the deliberate decision by the state to print money. Yes, the economy collapsed (from that and many other decisions) and they needed more money, but capital is scarce even with infinite money.

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