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by redwood 16y ago
Just read your comment after posting the exact same thing above... it seems the key we both figured out is that you have a secure tool that does the work for the guard. But if this is the case then the problem isn't a problem at all: b/c wi
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by redwood 16y ago
Doesn't anyone else find the solution a bit problematic: sure great concept but unless the guards have a black box tool which is secured and can churn out Y from X, they will have to know the function to prove that Y was congruent with an X
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by redwood 16y ago
I love the concept here but wish it were a standard built into webpages: anyone care to build such a thing <a chat room that exists at the bottom of a story AND that lets you reference specific lines in a story... this way you could, sa
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by redwood 16y ago
Agreed: and I think the ultimate target market is the enterprise space (rather than the grandparents) where a company wants to get a lot of employees mobile and online quick and cheap without security risk or proprietary software costs
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by redwood 16y ago
Amazon has plenty of spare cycles most of the year (hence Mechanical Turk and all this excess datacenter capacity they can contract out). - They have this b/c they need to be able to accommodate their extrmeley peaky demand (i.e. holiday sh
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by redwood 16y ago
Interesting timing on the day Richard Stallman pointed out the dangers of the cloud and its lack of legal protections... this might be the first big legal ruling connecting your data in the cloud to you personally. Let's hope it sticks and
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by redwood 16y ago
Right: how do they calculate the <$1/day rate. Its nearly inverse relationship with the GDP per capita graph implies that deep down in the data the basis for this $1/day rate could essentially be the GDP rate divided by population, or s
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by redwood 16y ago
yup