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by nikcub 12y ago
> 26. Be able to sell my advice online. It's worth something and I should have some way to monetize it. It is called Google Helpouts[0], and it isn't going very well. Reason why - almost everybody overvalues what their advice i
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by nikcub 12y ago
> I somewhat doubt that Ask anybody that runs ads and they'll tell you Chrome ranks last in CTR. See also: http://chitika.com/insights/2012/web-usage-infographic/
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by nikcub 12y ago
It is the reason why we're asking for administrators of sites that were seized or those at hosting companies to come forward. Have already spoken to a number of people and got a full list of the hosts involved, but we need a secondary
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Large Number of Tor Sites Seized by the FBI were Clone or Scam Sites(nikcub.com)
99 points by nikcub 12y ago|27 comments
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by nikcub 12y ago
Twitter's valuation isn't based on users - the stock is down ~35% this year despite user growth being 22% and revenue more than doubling. The stock is being trashed because they missed earnings. The S&P report itself said Tw
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by nikcub 12y ago
A few darknet markets were exposed using this method some time ago (as well as other IP leaks, such as email headers). It is the type of leak that gets picked up by curious researchers within hours/days of a market launching - not some
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by nikcub 12y ago
I meant that Amazon are doing the same as Google. They have similar revenue, Google has twice the margin but is banking $10B+ p.a while Amazon spend all and beyond. They are both maneuvering to capture these new markets using their existing
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by nikcub 12y ago
There are a few ways of thinking about Amazon, here is one: they can invest back into new products in the same way Google do but at a larger scale since they don't have the pressure of returning profits to shareholders and Amazon'
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by nikcub 12y ago
North Korea have a network of internment camps where regime opponents are imprisoned - nobody really knows what the imprisonment rate is, but estimates[0] are 250,000-300,000 people. On a per capita rate, they would be about even with the U
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by nikcub 12y ago
tips at techcrunch.com is your best bet, everyone at the company is at the end of that email. do a short email with a story hook in it. Jason Kincaid's book is really really good: http://www.amazon.com/The-Burned-Out-Bl
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by nikcub 12y ago
It doesn't. Sun, and then Oracle sued Google and lost (on syntax, on API it is still bouncing around): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_v._Google Sun settled with Microsoft before a verdict was reached, so the
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by nikcub 12y ago
It is more to do with scale than the actual figures. In using sums like "million dollar", "10 million dollar" and then terms like "home run", "swing" etc. you're actually trying to define differe
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by nikcub 12y ago
I've heard the following advice frequently amongst non-tech entrepreneurs: aim your first exit for a million, then 10 million, then aim for the home runs. I'm not certain how valid it is as advice, it feels like something that mig
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by nikcub 12y ago
Arrington has a ton of these stories. There are a few that I know since I was there. The first was the dutch guys (who went on to start TheNextWeb) showing up at the house randomly early in the morning (we weren't morning people) after
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by nikcub 12y ago
OP posted an apology: https://twitter.com/AviZolty/status/526467881295683584 > I just wanted to take a moment to sincerely apologize to @jason publicly. Been in contact, he's a great sport, and I admire hi
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by nikcub 12y ago
You would replace a bank with coinbase, circle, someone else you trust or 2, 3, 4, 5 or even 10 other companies or individuals. Similar to a web of trust. That is just to replace the trust element of a bank, not the financial function. At t
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by nikcub 12y ago
I spent a week and tracked down the Nexus 7 2nd gen last week to replace my older Nexus 7 tablet. I knew the new devices were coming out this week, but I love the form factor of the 7" and the device itself. They are still worth buying
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by nikcub 12y ago
Not sure what gives you an impression that there is some minimum amount for a trade finance deal. Bank guarantees are a form of trade finance, and you have other simple instruments. A google search brings up 2 or 3 providers who would do an
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by nikcub 12y ago
Trade finance isn't a transparent market. The costs are higher because the way it works atm is you work with your favorite bank or call 2 or 3 others. There is no real price discovery. There are also high costs in settlement, and a bar
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by nikcub 12y ago
If you're wondering how you should do these types of transactions without putting cash up front, the field is called trade finance. Call your bank - most of them have a trade finance desk, or Google the term. A slightly cheaper way of
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by nikcub 12y ago
You have to be pragmatic with users and offer them a path of least resistance while implementing a greater level of security. I've only recently been able to get users to pay attention to why they need a password manager - the iCloud h
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FTC civil complaint against Bitcoin mining manufacturer Butterfly Labs(documentcloud.org)
1 points by nikcub 12y ago|0 comments
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by nikcub 12y ago
Browser extensions are cryptographically signed and verified, while web application javascript is not. The problem isn't with javascript, it is with delivering javascript in a web-based application (amongst other concerns). Most of the
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by nikcub 12y ago
They hired the brilliant Bould[0] design for ID and partnered with a Tier-1 Taiwanese ODM for manufacturing[1]. This takes a bit of money, connections and being able to demonstrate you will have volume. What the article doesn't mention
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by nikcub 12y ago
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanhall/2013/06/07/washingt...
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by nikcub 12y ago
I only noticed today after somebody sent me a screenshot that i'd been viewing my own website zoomed in at two levels. I updated the stylesheet and bumped the size up earlier but it might not come through without a hard refresh because
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Analyzing the FBI’s Explanation of How They Located Silk Road(nikcub.com)
319 points by nikcub 12y ago|121 comments
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by nikcub 12y ago
It looks like it is first a low layer hypervisor kernel support and then a library that provides virtualized cpu, network, graphics, IO, etc (the equivalent of this layer in Microsoft's Hyper-V is called Enlightment IO, IIRC). If you
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by nikcub 12y ago
Yes there is, I ignore it on the desktop (which isn't good)[0] and run a script to reseed, but on the server/gateway I'd completely avoid freezing. To make it worse, I never install the VM tools on any machine because i'
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by nikcub 12y ago
Docker isn't what provides the security, Docker provides the format for the container - it is LXC, VirtualBox, VMWare, Xen, etc. and Docker provides the abstraction layer - which is extremely useful. The timing is right since OS X Yose

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