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by salient 13y ago
That's what I thought a 4k monitor would cost, and I was actually very surprised Asus priced theirs at like $3,000 earlier this year. Hopefully Dell didn't cut a lot of corners, though.
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by salient 13y ago
I could already imagine a joke about American cops sounding something like: - Friend: "Have you heard the news about the Iceland police killing a man for the first time?" - American cop, confused: "What do you mean? The first
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Broad Coalition Of Tech Companies, Nonprofit Groups Support the USA FREEDOM Act(leahy.senate.gov)
1 points by salient 13y ago|0 comments
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by salient 13y ago
NSA doesn't need to ask anti-virus companies to ignore certain malware, as long as Microsoft is handing them lists of fresh Windows vulnerabilities months before they even begin working on fixing them. http://www.bloomberg
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by salient 13y ago
Are there tools to find out about tech companies that have recently IPO'ed? I'm not talking about the most popular ones like FB, Twitter, etc, that the whole press is talking about, but lesser known ones. Or are tech IPO's so
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by salient 13y ago
Or they considered it, and didn't care, because if they get it right, they'll always be the "guy who unmasked Satoshi".
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by salient 13y ago
Right now the scariest part about self-driving cars is the corporations making them or governments having access to remotely-controlled "kill-switches" for these cars. In such a future you wouldn't need to "cut the break
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by salient 13y ago
I can't believe they actually went through with it. I thought they were just bluffing to scare them. David Cameron must believe he has absolute power to do anything he wants, including destroying any freedom the UK press may have, a
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by salient 13y ago
Yes, I realize everyone with huge datacenters are a huge threat, too, but I still don't think it's as big of a threat as the alternative. Can the NSA own more than half of the world's CPU performance? I don't think so. C
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by salient 13y ago
That sounds like a great political strategy to get people off oil. If only that were implemented in US, too.
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by salient 13y ago
We need digital currencies that can only ever be mined efficiently with a CPU, and there need to be many more blocks with lower rewards so that people don't need to join pools if they don't want to. They need to be able to earn &q
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by salient 13y ago
Technology is much faster at getting people out of poverty than giving them free money or free food. Heck, as someone from outside, the only thing about Indian industries is that "Indians are good at tech". If I were you, I'd
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by salient 13y ago
Intel has a habit of trickling down features of "business chips" to the consumer chips. If I'm not mistaken, they may even be the same chips, Intel just disables those features for lower-end chips. So it's just a matter
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by salient 13y ago
The main reason I'd prefer they didn't get bought by Facebook or even Google, is because I know those 2 would pretty much eliminate any privacy features Snapchat may have left. However, I fear they will intend to do that, too, in
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by salient 13y ago
But the Jolla phone doesn't actually use the N9 interface, does it? I personally think it's a pretty ugly and outdated interface, but each to their own. I like Ubuntu Touch more at least aesthetics wise. Android KitKat is prettier
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by salient 13y ago
I think you're making the same "Facebook will kill Google because it's social" argument all over again, just from the mathematical, rather than social, perspective. What I'm trying to say is Google incorporates many
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by salient 13y ago
If only Retroshare had a more modern and easier to use interface. If you want "mainstream users" to use services and apps that are privacy and security oriented, that's kind of a requirement. Aether is another similar attempt
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by salient 13y ago
This may actually predate capitalism. I know it was quite popular at least in some communist countries. For that reason alone I tend to oppose it outright. Communism was awful, at least for individuals and individual liberty. Capitalism may
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by salient 13y ago
I don't think that's enough. It needs to be 10x more than that before the government will start taking this issue seriously, and actually rein on NSA's power. And you can tell by the actions of their insider, Dianne Feinstein
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by salient 13y ago
This is also the reason why Apple started counting "shipped" iPhones this year, starting with that "record 9 million iPhones in first weekend", that everyone thought were sold to customers, but in fact they were just s
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The NSA's Porn-Surveillance Program: Not Safe for Democracy(theatlantic.com)
8 points by salient 13y ago|0 comments
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by salient 13y ago
Any way to buy Bitcoins through a bank in Mexico? I can't find any. I'm surprised that even though Mexico is so close to US, there's still no practical way to buy Bitcoins yet (other than person to person).
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by salient 13y ago
Don't forget "who can trust anyone with that hair ?"
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by salient 13y ago
Wouldn't be that much different than progress tax brackets, though. In that case, lowering the tax rate for you by 10 percent would basically mean receiving $10,000 more a year in "free money".
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by salient 13y ago
I'm not an expert in forex, but as far as I know, high volatility commodities can quickly wipe out forex accounts, especially with such low amounts. It does seem like a very interesting strategy though, that can probably make one even
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by salient 13y ago
What about Paypal? It seems to me they could really advantage of this by becoming the defacto way people use to buy Bitcoins (or at least one of the most popular methods). It's too bad they are so shortsighted about it, and only see Bi
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by salient 13y ago
I agree, for this to work, everyone would have to receive that amount of money. Or at least say, everyone receiving under $100,000 a year in salary. Otherwise, you might feel cheated if you replace your $12,000 free money for a $20,000 j
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by salient 13y ago
Funny. In this case they don't seem to be utilizing the "copyright math" they apply to everything else, when there are normal citizens involved, or when they talk about China stealing "trillions of dollars of IP". I
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by salient 13y ago
It seems that with everything new technologies is going to allow in the future, we'll need a whole slew of new laws meant to stop abuses from both corporations and the government.
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by salient 13y ago
Hopefully it will be worth it. I'm looking forward to see what the DarkMail protocol is about at least.

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