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by nikcub 13y ago
Stars and Tilt are both native to Windows and OS X and both can run on Linux with Wine.
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by nikcub 13y ago
The difference is that users opt-in to a trade with the tech companies: my data for a service. When that deal is no longer opt-in, such as when Google stored third-party cookies in Safari despite settings, or when Facebook tracked non-users
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by nikcub 13y ago
Exhibit A of why having a scope for bug bounties is a terrible idea. What is the point of testing your app for esoteric bugs when your entire source code and passwords can be Google dorked?
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by nikcub 13y ago
Adrian Newey (most successful F1 designer in the history of the sport) designed the Red Bull X2010 for the game Gran Turismo based on the concept of building the fastest car possible in an 'anything goes' scenario: http:/&#x
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by nikcub 13y ago
Picked apart and debunked within hours of being published. A good summary thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1reuwq/vigorous_deb... The real story here is how Adi Shamir can get caught up i
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by nikcub 13y ago
demos: http://files.nikcub.com/finalengine/ some work, some don't. i'm fixing them as I go.
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by nikcub 13y ago
Bitcoin price is heavily influenced by public interest, which will show up in Google Trends and some other places I used Trends, MtGox order data and a few other variables plugged into a spreadsheet that I updated every hour to successfully
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by nikcub 13y ago
Are you saying you think he did know about Stratfor and likely would have hacked it anyway? There is an IRC log somewhere of lulzsec talking about Stratfor, only one person knew who it was. It has to be characterized in very simple terms fo
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by nikcub 13y ago
Hence "the crime he is being prosecuted for", he was only charged for Stratfor, and being disingenuous isn't a federal crime.
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by nikcub 13y ago
If you could go to jail for threatening people on IRC then the internet would be vacated
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by nikcub 13y ago
A lot of people would argue that it shouldnt happen in the case of the gambinos either and that RICO is an overreach
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by nikcub 13y ago
You should work for the feds, as you seem very good at inventing new charges
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by nikcub 13y ago
> It is wrong to act as if you somehow should be looked at differently by the law because you had a "legitimate political cause That isnt what he is arguing. His argument is that the crime he is being prosecuted for would never have
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by nikcub 13y ago
The regulation in medicine (patents) incentivize investment. The reason for no cancer cure is not for lack of trying or investment.
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by nikcub 13y ago
> governments will become incapable of keeping anything a secret. That isn't the goal, not for privacy advocates nor for Wikileaks or Julian Assange, who said: "The goal is justice, the method is transparency. It's impor
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by nikcub 13y ago
The content isn't interesting[1] because bilateral free trade agreements are public[0], and having the USA force partners into accepting patent enforcement, copyright laws like the DMCA etc. are well known What is a little interesting
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by nikcub 13y ago
The story has absolutely nothing to do with 4chan and doesn't even understand what "4chan party van" means: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/4chan-party-van
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by nikcub 13y ago
the USD was so much more preferred for such a long time, especially as the ruble was losing 10% of its value each month at one point, that the Russians have made settling cash transactions in non-ruble's illegal. They also introduced a
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by nikcub 13y ago
PayPass is used by high volume merchants where the cost is low and absorbed. The retailers who have minimums on EFTPOS are using expensive PSTN units that cost up to a dollar per transaction.
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by nikcub 13y ago
> The Unity lens is fundamentally fucked up. Even if you are ok with it being opt-out, I think you would have to acknowledge that it isn't a very good business model. Linux users tend to be very conscious of their privacy rights. Fu
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by nikcub 13y ago
Football and politics are inseparable . It might be true in the USA that sports pacify the population, but in the rest of the world you have football fans starting wars (real wars), overthrowing governments, politicians and dictators ownin
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by nikcub 13y ago
The article in The Verge and Andrew's post[0] do a good job of explaining that With the amount of money they had raised, the expectation from investors was that their flywheel would already be setup and working and new funding would ac
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by nikcub 13y ago
There is a very good reason why investors and a lot of entrepreneurs in the consumer space tend to support free or freemium products and that is because building a paid for consumer service is extremely difficult. Reaching users is incredib
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by nikcub 13y ago
> I can replace the value they provide just by pointing my browser to another provider. I actually can't think of an example of an established e-commerce tech company with a two-sided marketplace that this has actually happen to. eB
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by nikcub 13y ago
> This valuation (along with the recent surge in Facebook stock) will send a rising tide of valuations rippling down through the ecosystem until “my friend and I have a pitch deck and an idea for a web app” is worth $10 million. The oppo
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by nikcub 13y ago
Google's auction didn't work, they marginalized wall st. and the banks ended up rigging the bidding. While it only popped 20% on opening day, the stock was up 4x in a matter of months.
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by nikcub 13y ago
I've been buying up in the last week (previously I was in at 5, 10, 12$ and sold at the last peak at $240) because I think PayPal will jump in soonish.
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by nikcub 13y ago
I'm curious as to what is next, now that Kepler is dead what do we do to substantiate this data further? My impression is that there is not much more we can do to confirm outside of the statistical models giving us probabilities, it wo
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by nikcub 13y ago
> If it is a honeypot, it's very convincing and elaborate. There is no other way to run a honeypot. Reminder that the feds ran the two largest carding forums on the web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DarkMarket
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by nikcub 13y ago
We incubated a few projects (Crunchbase, Crunchpad, Crunchies, Techcrunch40) and even acquired some (Inviteshare) - they were all developed with less or no emphasis on revenue or commercialization but to offer products/services to the

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