palunon

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by palunon 9y ago
Squatting and premptive defense against it, maybe. Or simply curious people trying something new. I know I registered a name for fun, and there was quite a bit of curious interest in tech circles in my area (even outside of cryptoanarchists
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by palunon 9y ago
When you decrypt, you have the key in memory in either case. Assuming you don't put all the password into an untrustworthy output (terminal, clipboard, etc), what's the difference ?
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by palunon 9y ago
In many European countries (all of the EU ?), software patents are not recognized. You may still have other kinds of patents, which are very much enforceable.
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by palunon 9y ago
Commerce is irrelevant. At the end of the day, you need to pay your taxes - presumably in your national currency. Suppose you had a commerce that only accepted bitcoins. How will you pay your taxes ?
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by palunon 9y ago
You may also see LA teams, but less often. I think it is because the logo looks cool, and american stuff is "cool". It's rarely a support of the team, and some people don't even know it is a team logo...
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by palunon 9y ago
Incompetence. Or nefarious goals. If you can spy on the opposition, or popular movements, that's good for you when you are in power. Or they do know things, and we're the ones in the wrong. Or simply, security theater.
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by palunon 9y ago
Note that immigration inside the EU is way easier than with other countries. You don't need a visa, working permit, special bank account (for US citizens, since the bank must report income, etc, to the US gov), your driving license is
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by palunon 9y ago
Well, lawyers got to earn their pay...
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by palunon 9y ago
They may allow you to do that. If you are on an IP that they deem not trustable enough, like if you are on a dynamic IP or come from the wrong country, they'll refuse to create the account without some phone verification (to hinder spa
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by palunon 9y ago
If there is no viable alternative to EC for public key cryptography by then, a lot of things will break down, and Bitcoin wouldn't be my main worry. If there is, I hope Bitcoin will have transitioned.
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by palunon 9y ago
>Maybe they were going for the randomness that rule 30 provides (you can build a PRNG from it) but Game of Life doesn't? You can build a PRNG in Game of Life, since you can build a Turing Machine. http://rendell-attic.org
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by palunon 9y ago
A black hole has the same escape velocity as a star of the same mass, as long as you are well outside the swarzchild radius. Inside or near it, the effect of general relativity makes things very weird. In case of mostly anything else, Newto
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by palunon 9y ago
The point is that people realized that being a company man is only safe if the company stayed around. Which started to not be true for big companies. Thus being a company man was no longer an option.
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by palunon 9y ago
Make an external worktree. No need to re-clone the whole repo, nor stashing/commiting your work, switching branch, doing the merge, etc (which you may know how to do, but is a pain if you often need to do so) https://git-scm
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by palunon 9y ago
>Somebody's gotta do the experiencing, sift through the chaff, find the gold. And if you're good at that, you can put the gold you found together, and become a content producer too...
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by palunon 9y ago
What if you loose your smartcard ?
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by palunon 9y ago
Since you can send normal sms (to any contact on your phone) directly from Signal interface, I guess it should be obvious it has access to your contacts...
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by palunon 9y ago
California doesn't have a mainland European civil law system.
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by palunon 9y ago
The problem is that once a country is a nuclear power, taking the nukes from them is kinda hard. Even when you simply don't trust them.
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by palunon 9y ago
(Note: this isn't true in most civil law jurisdictions)
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by palunon 9y ago
Which is basically what emacs powerline does. Without using all your RAM.
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by palunon 9y ago
But then these companies wouldn't use the hardware disable, would they ?
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by palunon 9y ago
>who gets to say what's fake news and fake journals, who gets to be the gatekeeper? That's not how reputation works. There isn't a single institution who gets to say "This is good science, but this isn't", b
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by palunon 9y ago
Well, it is possible your email client is doing prefetching. I wouldn't rate it as probable, since you're unlikely to have a client with the same cookies than your web browser, but still. You could also abuse Firefox and Chrome pr
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by palunon 9y ago
You can spoof referrers, you just need some browser extension (or, if using python and requests, doing requests.get(url, headers={'referer': my_referer}) )
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by palunon 9y ago
You could use " y (and/or "+y, depending on your X clipboard setup) to yank to your clipboard. Similarly, " p paste from it.
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by palunon 9y ago
Hubble was launched in 1990, is it surprising that 22 years later, NRO telescopes are substantially better ?
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by palunon 10y ago
>So dont buy computers that restrict you from full access to the software (I dont think this has been done yet). It is done, right now, on any (recent) Intel computer. https://web.archive.org/web/20161005075537/
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by palunon 10y ago
North Koreans, outside of a select few, can't access the internet, and thus can't access Tor anyway.
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by palunon 10y ago
>I suspect the exact same for this minecraft store, unless MS actually starts whooping ass for IP theft. Seems like they are only allowing accredited (by them) companies to use it, so they should have less problems...

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