nym

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by nym 10y ago
I was under the impression that Google gave bulk access to the NSA, and the NSA wiretapped them regardless. I don't have a source to substantiate that claim though.
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by nym 10y ago
While that was an overstatement, laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States have been fixed (Jim Crow).
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by nym 10y ago
Buy one and give it to someone else.
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by nym 10y ago
The issue is around compelling people to sell land they don't want to, that has a tradition of belonging to that family.
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by nym 10y ago
You could err on the side of the living ancestor(s). In absence of saying "that fraction is approaching zero", you could assume the intent of the original buyer that they wanted anyone from their family living there.
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by nym 10y ago
They may not have the passwords to these wallets.
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by nym 10y ago
From what I understand they had front door access, but the NSA wiretapped between datacenters. Google engineers issue 'fuck you' to NSA over surveillance scandal http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/6/507
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by nym 10y ago
Archive.org accepts all kinds of donations. https://archive.org/donate/ Credit Card, PayPal, Bitcoin. Brewster is an amazing Steward of the Internet Archive. Video Tour: https://vimeo.com/59207751
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by nym 10y ago
Dropbox's #1 Competitor
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by nym 10y ago
What does this have to do with 1999 exactly? RSS 2.0?
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by nym 13y ago
I was with you up until wishing another human dead.
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by nym 13y ago
I'm guessing your brother is little, not big ;-)
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by nym 13y ago
You missed the point.
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by nym 13y ago
...But not Karl Rove http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair#Karl_Rove
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by nym 13y ago
I would use this chrome/ff extension!
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by nym 13y ago
The fact that you are acknowledging that "people don't always read everything" makes it very hard to believe this is anything other than an intentionally deceptive pattern. A responsible and ethical UX designer would show the email and allo
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by nym 13y ago
This is generally called "Deceptive UX" or http://darkpatterns.org/ “It’s difficult for me [or the other customers] to tell if they do this deliberatively to try to sell… or if they’re just careless with the way they’re designing things,
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by nym 13y ago
Yes, he opted in to "vouch for" those people. A ethical UX designer would have shown a modal showing the full message with the list of people it would go to BEFORE sending it on the user's behalf.
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by nym 13y ago
He opted in for one action, and was signed up for two actions. How is the second action considered opt-in? He clearly did not give his full consent because the UI was designed to bury the thing that he would have explicitly opted-out of.
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by nym 13y ago
This is exactly the problem- they choose to ignore / attempt to discredit the people giving them an early warning that this is "Not cool" / deceptive.
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by nym 13y ago
Yes.
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by nym 13y ago
You can't mock HTTP responses, the responses mock you. http://www.flickr.com/photos/girliemac/6508102407/in/set-721...
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by nym 13y ago
How is Dwolla better than bitcoin? It seems like it has the same drawbacks of credit cards (chargebacks), without very much benefit. Maybe I'm missing a killer feature, but Dwolla doesn't seem all that interesting, just another paypal compe
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by nym 13y ago
+1 for typescript instead of coffee.
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by nym 13y ago
Cups and Cakes Bakery uses BitPay.com- check out our video of it in action. Payments are verified in about 30s-1m http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCYE4V6C8a8 Also, Kai Ryssdal did a segment on us! marketplace.org/topics/business/cupcakes-m
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by nym 13y ago
For what it's worth, I probably wouldn't have paid with a credit card (too much hassle!) but since I could pay with bitcoin you converted me into a customer. :D Thanks for accepting bitcoin!
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by nym 13y ago
Buy bitcoin while everyone else is selling ;-)
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by nym 14y ago
Brian is very level headed- glad he wrote this up. As a merchant, I'm not very concerned (my email is already public).
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by nym 14y ago
The bitcoin community spends a ton of time trying to educate people on cold-storage wallets and two-factor authentication for online wallets. MtGox has even given away free YubiKeys in the past to help keep people's accounts secure. Does Ch
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by nym 14y ago
Growing pains.

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