rainmaking

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   by rainmaking 13y ago

   Oh goodie goo, another mandatory standard by the people who brought us the EBICS bank standard, which is a freakishly complex reinvention of SFTP. With EBICS, you transmit a bank command file by encrypting, encoding and wrapping it as CDATA
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   by rainmaking 13y ago

   Pretty cool! Are you in Harlem? Please start posting HTTPS-everywhere and TOR tutorials on your facebook page.
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   by rainmaking 13y ago

   Central bankers screaming is a tune to dance to.
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   by rainmaking 13y ago

   Watched, chuckled, now savoring the masochism...
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   by rainmaking 13y ago

   ... or here. http://bitcoinity.org/markets/mtgox/USD http://bitcoinity.org/markets/mtgox/EUR
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   by rainmaking 13y ago

   And, at the time of commenting, this link can be found right below the link to "How Software Companies Die".
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   Ven Currency(en.wikipedia.org)

   1 points by rainmaking 13y ago|0 comments
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   by rainmaking 13y ago

   Okay so ripple achieves consensus through network effects: biggest room wins. So far so good. Now Mallory deploys ripple clients, which behave like ordinary ripple clients, but are under her control. After a while, 51% of the biggest consen
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   by rainmaking 13y ago

   Given the transfer of ownership could just as well have occurred by transferring the private key of the address, these requirements are going to get pretty hard to enforce.
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    by rainmaking 13y ago

    I have found that when dealing with people who don't care at all about you, it helps to include 8 or more progressively harsh credible threats in an email.
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    by rainmaking 13y ago

    Segway failed. Segway was new. Bitcoin is new. Therefore, bitcoin will fail. Because PG.
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    by rainmaking 13y ago

    Crazed dictators exist, so robots make them more dangerous, not less. And robot builders are likely to get targeted by everybody. So no bloodless machine fights.
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    by rainmaking 13y ago

    >bureaucratic loophole allowing them to make their standards into de facto-law while avoiding that those standards then become part of the public domain I get this kind of doublespeak a lot in Germany. For example, if a police officer su
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    by rainmaking 13y ago

    > Standards bodies found a bureaucratic loophole allowing them to make their standards into de facto-law while avoiding that those standards then become part of the public domain I encounter this kind of wiggling a lot in Germany. What s
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    Damage Driven Development(git-annex.branchable.com)

    1 points by rainmaking 13y ago|0 comments
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    by rainmaking 13y ago

    Super fast and fluid on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, 8GB RAM, Core i7 QM, GT630 2GB. (yeah beefyish box but it does work great)
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    by rainmaking 13y ago

    I suppose an autonomous robot with good AI that requires an operator to log in over SSH and punch Y before every shot would qualify as non-autonomous. Of course, monitoring each shot is very tedious, hence: UNITS="wastelayer mercil
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    by rainmaking 13y ago

    Well, I suppose one side could publicly advertise their machines are programmed to first kill the enemy machines, and then the enemy humans, just to tactically raise the stakes a little bit when negotiating surrender conditions.
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    by rainmaking 13y ago

    Because those who have nukes conveniently forbid their further proliferation.
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    by rainmaking 13y ago

    The population could make it costly by exploiting the weakness of state-of-the art armies of the time, hence partisans. Today the population can make it costly by exploiting today's army's weaknesses, hence IEDs. Future population
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    by rainmaking 13y ago

    Modern army control systems are already a lot like starcraft, even up to the progress bars that get shorter and change color as tank crew members get killed.
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    by rainmaking 13y ago

    It kind of goes hand in hand with having a G+ account.
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    by rainmaking 13y ago

    Bran in drag!
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    by rainmaking 13y ago

    I never understood what Mongo brings to the table that ext4 doesn't.
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    by rainmaking 13y ago

    I took a startup course at our University once. The professor, an academic startup expert, shuffled up to the blackboard, slouched, pulled his shoulders together, looked at his toes and said with a whiny voice: "Our research says, to f
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    by rainmaking 13y ago

    I'm a tech employee bootstrapping something on the side. Once I worked with a co-worker who had an absolutely brilliant mind. He was a perfectionist, and came up with stunning solutions to write fast code in PHP (imagine that!). Unfort