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by rms 13y ago
My credit card was once stolen and used to sign up for a VPN
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by rms 13y ago
"Plutocratisation": Great neologism.
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by rms 13y ago
10% in Bitcoin
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by rms 13y ago
witty and poignant, +1
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by rms 13y ago
It seems like it should be a reason for DHS to force Mt. Gox to share information about their customers and agree to help DHS prevent money laundering, but shutting things down seems like an overreach that will likely be temporary.
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by rms 13y ago
I stand corrected. It looks like 23andme is testing for just a few high-penetrance but uncommon mutations that are mostly only of interest to Ashkenazi Jews.
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by rms 13y ago
Sure. Of the high penetrance mutations 23andme tests for, I don't have anything really bad. I think it's worth knowing for most people, because of minor things you can do to alter your risk. For example, people with the bad version of the h
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by rms 13y ago
But those are three of the most significant of the possible BRCA mutations, no?
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by rms 13y ago
Note that the BRCA test costs $3k when purchased through a physician, but 23andme violates the patents and tests for BRCA for $99. http://23andme.com
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by rms 13y ago
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School-to-prison_pipeline
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by rms 14y ago
It's really low volume. Check out the crazy spreads on https://tradehill.com/ I think we'll stabilize around 100 over the next 48 hours but with crazy degrees of volatility.
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by rms 14y ago
So you think the price will be lower than $200 USD / BTC 3 years from now?
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by rms 14y ago
If it's not a bubble, it's the first hyper-monetization. http://konradsgraf.com/blog1/2013/4/6/hyper-monetization-que...
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Inside the Bitcoin Bubble: A Q&A With BitInstant’s Stressed-Out CEO(nymag.com)
3 points by rms 14y ago|0 comments
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by rms 14y ago
It's happening because more and more people are buying Bitcoins are fewer are selling. Supply and demand. This interview talks about the real-time increased demand. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5517634
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by rms 14y ago
Don't forget antibiotics, antivirals, and narcotic painkillers for your zombie survival kit...
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by rms 14y ago
And has a longer commute to downtown by public transit than Oakland
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by rms 14y ago
The nice-ish two bedrooms in the Lower Haight for 3600/month are where I suggest new transplants to the city move.
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by rms 14y ago
I would pay a few hundred a month (or more?) if I could hold semi-private events for 20-30 people occasionally in the evenings, but the listed hours of 9AM-5PM are uninteresting to me. Mechanics Institute still sounds neat, I'll check it ou
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by rms 14y ago
If it's in San Francisco or Berkeley/Oakland...
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by rms 14y ago
Criminal prosecution for fraud? Does that really happen with any regularity? I think by far the most common consequence of being caught lying about a felony is firing with cause.
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Recent updates to gwern.net (2012-2013)(lesswrong.com)
2 points by rms 14y ago|0 comments
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by rms 14y ago
I don't question the premise here, but I question the research and specific formulation. I'm more specifically intrigued by the formulation behind something like Chori bar. http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Chori-bar-nutritious-pu...
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by rms 14y ago
One could update the "crash conferences" advice to "volunteer at conferences". Being behind the desk giving out badges is a powerful place to be in terms of developing connections or fitting into a scene.
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by rms 14y ago
Yet the price keeps rising...
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Guitar Oscillations Captured with iPhone 4 (2011)(youtube.com)
1 points by rms 14y ago|0 comments
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by rms 14y ago
I would definitely recommend going to SXSW for the music instead of the networking, as a vacation.
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by rms 14y ago
Yup, there are all sorts of interesting problems in solving the back end problems of organizing our research.
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by rms 14y ago
It's probably worth testing, but as hackers and web users we all can't stand websites that don't list prices.
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by rms 14y ago
It was a joke that outlived its meaning, but still, here we are. :)

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