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by psionski 13y ago
I'm using it as a currency. Compared to PayPal it's heaven - there are no weird rules about to whom you can send money and when and what for, it's much easier to use (you don't have to spend weeks to confirm your account
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by psionski 13y ago
Well, it's not like you can't buy a valid certificate for google.com from a turkish CA that is trusted by all browsers... This has happened before, the only question is how much you're willing to pay.
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by psionski 13y ago
IMHO the replay value is way higher than many supposedly-AAA titles. I'm looking at my game time stats from Steam, so I'm not making it up :)
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by psionski 13y ago
Interesting link, thank you! But I don't see how it's relevant - this is a site about start-up news and Bitcoin is exactly where the opportunities for start-ups are. It's not like they're posting porn or something - prob
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by psionski 13y ago
Can't you just... like... not read them? On every visit to HN I click 3-4 links tops, but you don't see me complaining in the comments section of the other 26 :)
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by psionski 13y ago
The most recent spike is due to Baidu starting to accept Bitcoin and people speculating (not unreasonably) that nothing in China happens without the government's approval. Combine this with the fact that the Chinese are getting sick of
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by psionski 13y ago
Nobody is forcing you to use it OR help its development. Why do you even care?
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by psionski 13y ago
Nobody is criticizing him and the article most definitely doesn't read "like a hit piece". At least that's not what I got from it, I thought it was very compassionate actually. Sorry about your problems... I can't s
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by psionski 13y ago
When I'm reading your website I'm running AdBlock, Ghostery, NoScript and RequestPolicy. I trust you and you alone - and although I have nothing against paying for information that essentially allows me to become a better person (
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by psionski 13y ago
At first the idea of every device having a public IP address seemed like a security nightmare to me... but how easy is port-scanning the IPv6 Internet? If the addresses are sequential it obviously won't make any difference (you just ne
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by psionski 13y ago
Our political system sucks. I'm deeply affected by the US or Russian government's actions - because the Internet is mostly American and Russian, yet I don't have rights to influence decisions in either of those countries. Our
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by psionski 13y ago
What is there to understand about NoScript people? They just dislike malware, having their accounts stolen and having their personal data up for sale. Also, if you don't have an unlimited Internet plan, not having to download 5MB of tr
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by psionski 13y ago
There is no other way to do this, in this case they're maintaining information about the quantum properties of the beam (entanglement, etc.), which get destroyed if you convert it to electricity. When talking about quantum cryptogr
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by psionski 13y ago
I think this should be regulated by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Safe_Harbor_Priv... , basically US companies must certify themselves by the stricter EU laws... But I'm not sure if this is manda
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by psionski 13y ago
You have quite different intentions when you're punishing your child because he didn't do his homework vs. when you're punishing your friend because he stole your girlfriend. In one case you aim for blood, in the other - for betterment and
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by psionski 13y ago
This is not punishment, this is revenge. Punishment is a corrective action, this breaks them even more. By the way, this is extremely dangerous - to paraphrase Nietzsche: in solitude, whatever you bring with you grows. Do we really want w
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by psionski 13y ago
A hypothetical scenario - someone straps bombs to himself and detonates in the middle of a crowd. I think you'd agree that this is "clearly immoral" too? But to the other members of the terrorist cell this is either a moral thing to do or a
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by psionski 13y ago
I like the tone of your comment, but I'm not really sure about the contents... A high IQ means you're better able to make connections, so it should be easier for you to spot that there's something foul, something not quite right... Do you h
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by psionski 13y ago
After seeing some downvotes, etc., I'm starting to think you mean a hosting company... Maybe the mention of Nairobi, Kenya made me think of clouds-as-in-water-vapor :)
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by psionski 13y ago
I was JUST starting to think "Oh, God... I'm reaching the end of the comments and no one has suggested to read Nietzsche and enjoy your solitude, not a single person!" Thank you, sir, for representing the underrepresented!
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by psionski 13y ago
That's not a very big distinction at all if you hold the realatively prominent view that the masses are stupid and manipulated (their average IQ is 100, for God's sake!).
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by psionski 13y ago
How are you going to make people pay for the clouds? Is this government-sponsored? Otherwise it sounds really cool, I've seen such climate improvement projects before, but I thought they require a huge scale (entire or several countries), c
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by psionski 13y ago
Several months ago... what you say makes sense, should I expect generally less breakage than Ubuntu or more? I wouldn't like having to install Ubuntu, mostly because it's too difficult to manage and troubleshoot...
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by psionski 13y ago
That's what I used for my Debian unstable + Mint "Steam box", it works perfectly. P.S. Mint provides only Firefox.
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by psionski 13y ago
I'm using a mix between unstable and Mint for a Steam box (games, music, movies, web) and found out the label must be mistaken. It's a minimal installation, but everything from ATI drivers to multi-arch support worked perfectly out of the b
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by psionski 13y ago
Dude, don't mention bombs and bitcoins on the Internet. CISPA passed and if they kick your door down, you'll most probably have to pay for the repairs out of your own pocket.
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by psionski 13y ago
* for any successful business that doesn't care the slightest bit about security, i.e. remains the lowest hanging fruit.
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by psionski 13y ago
I'm not from America, but, as an Internet citizen, I still care deeply about the issue. Can I just call American politicians to express my dissatisfaction? Does it count if I don't have a social security number? I already donated to Fight f
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by psionski 13y ago
Take care, some European countries are very pro-American and will cooperate without even thinking about it. At least Germany and Bulgaria would most probably hand over all requested data, so West-East Europe doesn't really make a difference
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by psionski 13y ago
A brute force attack: you apply brute force to the user. A dictionary attack: see brute force attack, but with Oxford's English Dictionary.

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