midas007

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by midas007 13y ago
http://ycombinator.com/ycvc.html
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by midas007 13y ago
Wealth doesn't make automatically turn someone into an asshole (plenty of counterexamples). It does wreak havoc with one's social life and bring people out of the woodwork.
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by midas007 13y ago
Also: http://www.surfrider.org/jims-blog/entry/vinod-khosla-beache...
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by midas007 13y ago
See the shoreline access issue below. To me, that whole matter signals someone impossible to work with. If he were of decent moral fiber and wisdom, he would have found a workable arrangement that preserves public and personal interests.
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by midas007 13y ago
No, this wouldn't work in the slightest. The "hypothetical" account would soon have the pains and limitations of an institutional investor... it would move markets so much that this wouldn't be possible to make trades
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by midas007 13y ago
On large deployments, every bastion (internet-facing host that handles traffic) should gets its own caching resolver and a copy of the internet-facing zones, pushed by puppet/chef. Helps a bunch w/ DDoS if the shop is too custom
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by midas007 13y ago
I seem to remember a PWC connection. Did PWC own @stake (what was l0pht) before it disappeared into Symantec? Or did their army of pen testers diffuse elsewhere?
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by midas007 13y ago
Yeah, it wouldn't be a highest and best use of his talents... eg hard-core crypto research. The opinion pieces seem like a highly-visible side hobby.
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by midas007 13y ago
Are they still in "stealth mode" (eg havent figured out a brand identity)?
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by midas007 13y ago
It's common sense: the human pilot is always responsible and therefore MUST ALWAYS have the final say. Period. There can be plenty of warnings, but automating too much machine behavior (Airbus methodology) has unintended consequences
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by midas007 13y ago
Perhaps a 3D graph would be interesting. - Batch year - Valuation - Years to reach valuation* * First dinner to m&a, discounting prior traction/validation. That way, gross valuation / year can be more easily eluc
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by midas007 13y ago
The good point is that other hacked together quasi-compatible implementations now have an "official" reference implementation to browse. It could be a lot worse... I've waded through uncommented OCaml to discover how a certa
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by midas007 13y ago
Fortuna supersedes Yarrow FAIAP. Fortuna has the advantage of making it harder to game entropy pools. [1] [1] http://th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/people/lucks/papers/Fer...
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by midas007 13y ago
1. Encrypt all of your backups. 2. Test your backups, or they are not backups (99% of people never test their backups.)
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by midas007 13y ago
Yeap. Burner phones all the way. Ship yourself your regular digital devices via reputable non-postal delivery. This would be far less prone to being opened and then being imaged and/or hardware modified.
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by midas007 13y ago
How many commercial wardriving services are there? Skyhook was an early one, but lost Apple. Also: If 2.4 and 5.8 GHz satellite-based SIGINT were technically possible, at extreme difficulty and cost, it maybe within the realm of possibilit
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by midas007 13y ago
Yup. It's a red-herring, fear-driven issue compared to availability of actual weapons.
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by midas007 13y ago
Yeah, yeah don't talk politics: The 4th amendment was created during a time that had a recent memory of forced quartering of British soldiers. A rifle was seen as part of a citizen's duty and contribution to the national defense
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by midas007 13y ago
Yup. The only part banned from sale or purchase of an AK is the receiver. If you can make one, then it's all good. You can even source all of the other parts except the receiver, if you wish.
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by midas007 13y ago
Zip guns NYC 1950's ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_firearm
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by midas007 13y ago
There are many, many levels of "rich." In essence, a small amount of wealth reveals how poor someone was and how poor they still are by comparison. Note: comparisons lead to insecurity and unhappiness, by definition. It's a
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by midas007 13y ago
Yup. There's balance sheet affluence and then there's income sheet affluence... two often orthogonal properties in most cases. On one extreme, is the cliché stock broker: always broke despite high income... high marginal pro
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by midas007 13y ago
Such dogma on Apple's part, taken to extreme, devoid of common-sense: the strangling innovation is a great way to push apps and their developer entourage to other platforms. There's curation and then there's disproportionate
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by midas007 13y ago
In a word: insurance.
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What’s Really Standing in the Way of Amazon Drones(medium.com)
1 points by midas007 13y ago|1 comments
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by midas007 13y ago
How hard was it for Moxie and friends to get clear of their watchlist status?
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by midas007 13y ago
Nope. The claim calls out that the author complained without also offering a constructive, alternative solution.
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by midas007 13y ago
Oh shit. So do I. Only a slight problem as I can't use a CPAP or VPAP because I tear the mask right off while asleep. I have some spare weight + Marfan's ENT issue that I found in a research paper. Also don't bother with
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by midas007 13y ago
Get SNPs via https://www.23andme.com/you/download/ and then process with http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease
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by midas007 13y ago
You can already do that today with downloaded SNPs [1] with Promethease [2]. 1. https://www.23andme.com/you/download/ 2. http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease (non-pro version)

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