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931.
by kmfrk 13y ago
Rationalizing piracy is no trivial thing, although it seems to be popular in places like Hacker News.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
So you think the guy's an idiot, but you still want to see his movies?
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by kmfrk 13y ago
<blink>But pg made it!</blink>
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by kmfrk 13y ago
Wow. I haven't seen a <font> tag in years You should check out the source code for HN more often. :)
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by kmfrk 13y ago
The irony (hypocrisy) is palpable: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/01/25 .
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by kmfrk 13y ago
It was also co-founded by Sergey Brin's former wife.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
From how I read it: Google match all images to a database of file hashes. I wonder whether they do it for redundancy purposes like Dropbox, or whether it's entirely to crack down on child pornography.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
A lot of people in bitcoin discussions online tend to bring up http://www.gyft.com , but maybe things spend their BTC on other things in private. :)
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by kmfrk 13y ago
It's weird they didn't designate him as "Spiritual Leader" instead or something that fits him better long ago. Everyone knew this, so it's weird it had to end in this drastic manner.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
Don't the FBI still belong under Treasury for counterfeiting practice? I wonder what their jurisdiction is, when it comes to bitcoins as currency. In terms of tipping off authorities, it's just a matter of finding the right bank t
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by kmfrk 13y ago
I really am not a bitcoin fan, but my hatred towards PayPal's payment monopoly may one day weigh more heavily than my reservations about cryptocurrency. :)
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by kmfrk 13y ago
Should this be regarded as capital gains from currency speculation, when it comes to taxation, or how does something like this look to a tax attorney or accountant?
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by kmfrk 13y ago
The index also isn't adjusted for inflation, I believe.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
Seems like an interesting concept. Don't know how the App.net integration works, but aside from that, it looks like an interesting idea.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
Musk is not the best person to listen to on the statistical significance of fires: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6768021 .
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by kmfrk 13y ago
Fiddler is actually a really, really popular tool for web debugging and hacking ( http://fiddler2.com/ ), and while I didn't make this, I like that it maintains the {{ lang }}(-)?fiddle nomenclature. It gives people an i
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by kmfrk 13y ago
So the post-Shelby voter repression in the U.S. is becaaause?
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by kmfrk 13y ago
If you want a fiddle-like environment for d3.js, try tributary: http://tributary.io .
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R-Fiddle(r-fiddle.org)
112 points by kmfrk 13y ago|31 comments
950.
by kmfrk 13y ago
Here's one for R: http://www.r-fiddle.org/
951.
by kmfrk 13y ago
Their auth system appears to still be hosed, though, so I don't know how much attention the project is getting.
952.
by kmfrk 13y ago
Ask the https://crate.io guys/gals to look into it. :)
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Tesla Fires Are Not Less Common Than Gasoline Fires(evanmiller.org)
7 points by kmfrk 13y ago|2 comments
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by kmfrk 13y ago
India here. Don't underestimate the long tail of user distribution.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
They were planning to change at one point, I believe, but Amazon lowered their prices - and later introduced Glacier - which may have dissuaded them.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
Bitstamp looks interesting, but Bitcoin-Central is down, ironically.
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My Thoughts on Google+ (YouTube)(youtube.com)
2 points by kmfrk 13y ago|0 comments
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by kmfrk 13y ago
Definitely, which is why I tried to just buy a few (fractions of) bitcoins just for the historical fun of it, but as intensely skeptical I am of all the bitcoin craze, I was still shocked at just how awful MtGox is. I mean, I wouldn't
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by kmfrk 13y ago
I remember trying to buy some BTC on MtGox for fun, the last time the price crashed. What an unspeakably horrible service. I thought I was in for hundreds of dollars over budget, but it turns out that not a single BTC was purchased at all.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the setting changed. It took me days, before I even managed to discover the feature.

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