reedlaw

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   by reedlaw 13y ago

   I'm having trouble understanding the motivation or use case. The documentation gives examples of logging in, creating filesystem-like structures, and uploading files. How is this an improvement upon a regular filesystem and scp/sftp? I do l
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   by reedlaw 13y ago

   What if you have a stock Android, like a Nexus or a rooted phone?
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   by reedlaw 13y ago

   What about being made into listening devices? That would require turning on the microphone and transmitting the signal without the user noticing. Is that possible?
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   by reedlaw 13y ago

   I refuse to have a cell phone because they are tracking and surveillance devices. They all enable the phone system to record where the user goes, and many (perhaps all) can be remotely converted into listening devices. I find
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   by reedlaw 13y ago

   How does this compare to http://owncloud.org/ ? I tried that out and was pretty impressed by what came out of the box and its integration with Gnome 3.
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   by reedlaw 13y ago

   What should happen: A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software. This bug is still far from fixed by this measure. There seem to be only a tiny handful of PCs that only include free software.[1][2] Only a sin
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   by reedlaw 13y ago

   Ah yes, a dual license. But to dual license the project has to own all the rights to every part of the system, correct? That is, it can't incorporate other libraries that are incompatible with the proprietary license.
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   by reedlaw 13y ago

   So proprietary software can have open source code, even living on github? What kind of license is that? I know that GPL and other open source licenses are OK with charging money for distribution of binaries, but usually with the source code
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   by reedlaw 13y ago

   I do work on web applications for a living. So I get to use lots of great free software. But all too often, the fruit of my labor is heavily restricted by copyright and licensing or, worse, neither used nor allowed to be re-used because the
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    by reedlaw 13y ago

    I don't subscribe to the entire GNU/GPL philosophy. But it does serve as a useful standard or benchmark of software freedom. GPL, Public domain, Creative Commons, MIT, and BSD-style licenses all serve their purpose and are all preferable to
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    Ask HN: I want to live in a free, open-source world. What should I do?

    19 points by reedlaw 13y ago|17 comments
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    by reedlaw 13y ago

    Bitcoin transaction fees are a tiny fraction of the amount of fees PayPal charges. Confirmation takes about an hour and there is no possibility of chargebacks. As far as fraud protection, if you purchase groceries with cash what kind of pro
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    by reedlaw 13y ago

    Is it out of a concern with security?
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    by reedlaw 13y ago

    I appreciate your thorough responses and patient explanations about the weaknesses of bitcoin. I agree with you that bitcoin is not perfect, nor is Linux, but I enjoy using both. By your standard, we may have to wait a very long time to enj
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    by reedlaw 13y ago

    Regarding credit card security (or lack thereof)--protection lies mainly in the massive fraud prevention efforts of the credit card companies (hence the large fees). It gives more protection to consumers than merchants (it's easy to request
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    by reedlaw 13y ago

    A pretty harsh appraisal of a system that is already trusted with accounting for over a billion dollars worth of digital assets. Can you give some examples of other cryptographic systems of comparable complexity being used at scale for year
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    by reedlaw 13y ago

    Looks great! Any plans for a mobile layout?
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    by reedlaw 13y ago

    How so? Isn't a double spend only possible if the attacker's blockchain fork endures for the customary 6 blocks it takes to confirm a transaction? A single block fork would be ignored by the majority chain and thus the attacker's chain tran
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    by reedlaw 13y ago

    It seems the "51% attack" can be mitigated simply by waiting for 6 or more confirmations before sending off merchandise or in the case of an exchange, allowing withdrawal of funds. Those who can't wait that long can rely on 3rd parties who
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    by reedlaw 13y ago

    For a start, you could remove the 6 or so 3rd party scripts from the homepage that record IP address and other personally identifiable information. The social media scripts may be useful for spreading word of mouth but unfavorable to true a
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    by reedlaw 14y ago

    That's not how FinCEN treated it. In the guidance[1] they released there's almost a tacit approval, as long as exchanges are properly registered, keep proper records, and report. 1. http://www.fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-201
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    by reedlaw 14y ago

    What about the risk of osteoarthritis? See this discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/s2kzg/my_doctor_tol...
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    by reedlaw 14y ago

    So Keynesian economics forces everyone to invest in order to avoid the inflation tax while Austrian economics encourages saving allowing savers to reap the benefits of deflation. Both serve as proxies for the economy, so tell me again the d
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    by reedlaw 14y ago

    Could you elaborate? I'd love to try that.
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    by reedlaw 14y ago

    Do you mean until they start charging for it? They've been saying for a number of years that "next year" it will no longer be free. But I have not heard they plan to sunset the service altogether.
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    by reedlaw 14y ago

    I just patched a project by updating the Gemfile with the latest Rails version and "bundle update rails" updated the json gem along with it.
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    by reedlaw 14y ago

    In practice, we've been using DCI (with object.extend) in a production Rails app and have seen no worse performance degradation than in other apps with comparable complexity (at least subjectively--of course it's very difficult to measure o
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    by reedlaw 14y ago

    I first came across most of this information from these two posts: http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/ewrr0/writeup_on_th... http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/exgiu/a_guide_to_fi... I have been doing many of the exercises f
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    by reedlaw 14y ago

    If not over the TOS then why did they leave? The timing seems too close to be purely coincidental.
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    by reedlaw 14y ago

    I was wondering about that. Why would the author want to mask the name of the service in question?