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by rfugger 13y ago
TL;DR: Bad parents shouldn't be bad.
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by rfugger 13y ago
If anyone could "negotiate from a position of power" in this situation, it would be General Alexander himself...
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by rfugger 13y ago
I'm assuming you secure the image URL with HTTPS at least to minimize the chances that an ISP could intercept it on the wire?
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by rfugger 13y ago
He may have been leaving because the briefing was over. We can't tell from the article.
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by rfugger 13y ago
He's done a heroic thing, and I think he deserves some latitude in defending himself from the unjust prosecution of those he's exposed. They brought it on themselves.
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by rfugger 13y ago
I doubt the loss of sympathy or more serious charges will make a difference in America's efforts to prosecute him. But revealing that the NSA was hacking targets in Hong Kong may make a big difference in Hong Kong's willingness t
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by rfugger 13y ago
I would say a subpoena from the Congress of the United States should be more difficult to brush off than one from a regular court case. But why should the information not be available to the courts, really? Why should people not have acce
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by rfugger 13y ago
The fact that Mozilla is a US corporation means that it will still have to give the US government the data it asks for, regardless of where the servers are hosted.
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by rfugger 13y ago
Currency trading.
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by rfugger 13y ago
Get a forex margin account and buy EUR against the Yen?
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by rfugger 13y ago
The workers, as a group, are the main consumers of their own output.
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by rfugger 13y ago
Yes, human relationships are a real drag on the economy.
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by rfugger 13y ago
You don't. You accept a certain level of free-riding as a better alternative to the suffering caused by poverty.
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by rfugger 13y ago
Ripple is run by Jed McCaleb, founder of Mt.Gox, and Chris Larsen, founder of Prosper.com.
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by rfugger 13y ago
There is no delete in the cloud.
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by rfugger 13y ago
I don't understand either of your points. Care to spell them out?
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Why Bitcoin crashed, and how Ripple might avoid the same fate(gigaom.com)
4 points by rfugger 13y ago|0 comments
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by rfugger 14y ago
The fact that Bitcoin is deflationary isn't a big deal because you don't need to use it as a unit of account in order to use it as a cheap, fast, and reliable way to transfer value globally. You just need easy ways to convert to and from B
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by rfugger 14y ago
You just tax the carbon emissions.
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Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead?(nytimes.com)
2 points by rfugger 14y ago|0 comments
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by rfugger 14y ago
When you're sick of being sick, you're beginning to get well
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by rfugger 14y ago
On the surface, this sounds like schizoid personality type: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder http://schizoids.info/ I know it's not about labels, but sometimes knowing a word for it can help you find others' s
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by rfugger 14y ago
The Supreme Court of Canada heard a similar case 9 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmei... (Spoiler alert: Monsanto won.)
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by rfugger 14y ago
Peter Norvig: Teach yourself programming in 10 years. http://norvig.com/21-days.html
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by rfugger 14y ago
Some kind of meditation practice might be helpful.
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by rfugger 14y ago
Rather than "megabad", Mega's crypto scheme actually seems pretty reasonable given their desire to do it all in-browser.
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by rfugger 14y ago
Frank Atanassow's contention is that statically-typed languages are more expressive, and therefore superior because they can perform both static and dynamic type checking (he actually only uses the word "type" for something that can be stat
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Land without Plea Bargaining: How the Germans Do It (1979)(digitalcommons.law.yale.edu)
192 points by rfugger 14y ago|45 comments
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by rfugger 14y ago
I assumed it would be called the Nexus X.
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by rfugger 14y ago
The headline made me pay attention to how long the article page took to load, and it actually seemed quite slow to me.

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