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by lenazegher 13y ago
>It's rent seeking in the same way that smuggling illegal immigrants is rent seeking. Smuggling illegal immigrants is not rent seeking. If an illegal-immigrant-smuggling company lobbied the government to tighten immigration controls, th
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by lenazegher 13y ago
I don't really understand your point. In my understanding, for silk road to be rent-seeking it would have be actively working to keep drugs illegal, thus maintaining their profits. I have seen no evidence this is the case. I'm also unsure w
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by lenazegher 13y ago
Given the ultimate traceability of bitcoins, would anyone care to speculate how tDPR converts SR's transaction fees into fiat currency without being tracked down by law enforcement?
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by lenazegher 13y ago
Shouldn't it be 'Wish I were here'?
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by lenazegher 13y ago
I don't know how easy it is to train a spam filter on, but nested spintax quickly scales to millions of unique output texts. It can be spun at the paragraph, sentence and word level. It's really nasty stuff.
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by lenazegher 13y ago
This kind of thing really depresses me. Akismet tells me my blog [1] has had 1,364 spam comments. It's had 22 real comments. [1] http://supplementsos.com/blog/
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by lenazegher 13y ago
How about CURT - condensed unfussy reply tolerable
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by lenazegher 13y ago
These are some of the features I'd like to see in an RSS reader (I've actually considered trying to learn to program just to build a reader that has these features): * Import a list of feeds from a simple text file. I find it strange reader
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by lenazegher 13y ago
>In what way could broadening your target audience be a poor choice? Presumably, because there exists a population of people who will log in via FB if that's the only option, but will log in using another option instead if it's availabl
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Omega-3 availability has increased 44% since 1909. For omega-6 it's 3580%(supplementsos.com)
3 points by lenazegher 13y ago|0 comments
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The most consumed foods in America (open data)(supplementsos.com)
2 points by lenazegher 14y ago|0 comments
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by lenazegher 14y ago
>I guess what I am confused by is that the transaction processing is much easier than mining (ie it's not going to get more and more difficult to do do over time) Are you sure this is true? My understanding is that the proof-of-work req
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by lenazegher 14y ago
Thanks for the reply.
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by lenazegher 14y ago
I've not heard of the problem of a user with id #1 before, can you explain please? What's the issue with a user id #1 when the username is not admin?
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by lenazegher 14y ago
>but unless this type of smash-and-grab situation can be traced/avoided/insured (whatever the right mechanism is) it is going to be extremely hard to make ordinary businesses and people use it The solution is probably some kind of secur
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by lenazegher 14y ago
Late last year you mentioned RSS-to-email was on your roadmap. [1] Do you know when it will be implemented? I've been looking for a dead-simple RSS-to-email subscription service for one of the sites I work for. The only offering I've found
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by lenazegher 14y ago
It is still relevant, but in absolute terms it's a small portion of how pages are ranked. The PR of the HN homepage is probably pretty irrelevant as I doubt it gets much traffic from organic search for anything other than "hacker news". The
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by lenazegher 14y ago
>As Paul Krugman indicates, Bitcoin is actually a pretty bad currency. It's difficult to convert to, few places accept it as currency I'm not sure this is a fair criticism because literally every non-governmental currency would suffer f
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Healthy food is cheaper than junk food, except by the only metric that matters(supplementsos.com)
1 points by lenazegher 14y ago|0 comments
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by lenazegher 14y ago
>and mark as "dirty" every other address where the funds will be transferred from this address One problem is that bitcoin launderers could intentionally send a portion of stolen coins to legitimate wallets. That would make a blacklist
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Whole grains are a lousy source of fiber. Here's why.(supplementsos.com)
1 points by lenazegher 14y ago|0 comments
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by lenazegher 14y ago
The corny music along with the establishing shots of SF really, really reminded me of the opening of cult so-bad-it's-good hit The Room [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_(film)
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by lenazegher 14y ago
>So someone comes along and can pay you 5% interest rate. Sounds better, right? However it's for a business. So you don't know if their business will survive, it might go backrupt. Let's pretend it's an early start up, so there's a 50/5
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by lenazegher 14y ago
>If I tried to find a gas station that would sell me a gallon of gas for $2USD today I'd be out of luck, but 2-3 years ago I'd be able to go anywhere in America and get that deal. That illustrates that the price of oil fluctuates. The U
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by lenazegher 14y ago
With an inflationary currency, you can pay your workers nominally slightly more each year while paying them the same amount or even slightly less in real terms. With a deflationary currency, you can pay your workers nominally slightly less
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by lenazegher 14y ago
Alternate discussion (with more votes currently): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5473128
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by lenazegher 14y ago
A really interesting idea. Google's Ingress has really opened my eyes to the power of games to motivate people.
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by lenazegher 14y ago
I honestly had no idea such things were possible. Aside from the sheer amazing delight, are there advantages to flapping-wing modes of flight?
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Why you (almost certainly) shouldn’t take an omega-6 supplement(supplementsos.com)
3 points by lenazegher 14y ago|1 comments
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by lenazegher 14y ago
This is pure fluff.

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