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by seiji 13y ago
Well, I had something like $240 free on the credit card, which wasn't enough for their xbox. They called in to issue a $1,000 payment from my bank account (on file for recurring monthly payments) to the card. The phone rep allowed it
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by seiji 13y ago
Recent stolen credit card number story: Last week I got an email saying I made a $1,000 payment on my credit card. Except, I didn't. It wasn't bill pay time of the month. I brushed it off as a well formatted spam. An hour later
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by seiji 13y ago
The surprising part is — who uses it? Why is it relevant? It feels like they're dragging a fad out a little too long waiting for google to buy them (again) and then immediately close it (again).
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by seiji 13y ago
This was making the rounds recently: http://news.php.net/php.internals/70691 Basically, if you use PHP you're part of the largest computer joke in history.
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by seiji 13y ago
You can either go dark (end-to-end encrypted tunnels/proxies) or you can go noisy. There are a few programs you can download that query Google for random terms every so often (hopefully not triggering bot detection) and go on random br
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by seiji 13y ago
Fun fact: The character Alfred Bester in B5 was named after this Alfred Bester.
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by seiji 13y ago
mining all coins instantly, Ah, that's the part I was unsure about. Setting up a new block chain and instantly collecting all coin issuance sets up a lot of nice use cases. Yes, that's amazing. If bitcoin ever does become wide
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by seiji 13y ago
When you're confronted with people getting rich off of other's unfettered optimism with zero grounding in reality while you see the truth of the matter, it can drive you batty. It's like trying to explain to an 8 year old why
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by seiji 13y ago
walked across the border with a thumbdrive of bitcoins/litecoins/??coins. What about walking across the border with the account credentials of a WoW character with a lot of gold? intranet of cryptocoins for budgeting and spendi
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by seiji 13y ago
Do you think Steve Jobs went to a lot of networking events? He met his wife while mingling with the audience after he gave a talk at Stanford. Does that count as networking? There's also "networking with other current losers wh
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by seiji 13y ago
His linkedin page sends us to this awesome article too: http://sfctoday.com/news/1025-sfc-senior-already-a-financial... Edit: Oh gawd, at the end he actually says "you only live once." Edit2: "Money driv
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by seiji 13y ago
Notes from the article: they demonstrate it on a black macbook from 2008. They don't have a "modern" version of their disable-webcam-LED exploit. The victim they talked to mentioned "she never saw the light on her lap
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by seiji 13y ago
But, it's smaller, outputs less heat overall (though, the keyboard is often too hot to touch if you rest your hands on keys or—god forbid—if you accidentally touch metal between keys), and it sometimes stalls all display output for 30
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by seiji 13y ago
We're working on it: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/magazine/crazy-ants.html
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by seiji 13y ago
exaggeration of talking to some high-level eccentrics that find their way into academia Well, he does spend most of the article gushing over the magic insight of Kurzweil. It's really a "baby's first exposure to the concep
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by seiji 13y ago
That's a great reason. I did the same back in 2009 when an iMac couldn't support the displays I wanted along with CPU/RAM requirements. I find my computing drifts when I do that — I end up with a lot more flac music that do
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by seiji 13y ago
One of my favorite hard takeoff scenarios: the AI quickly figures out how to manufacture nanobots and does so at a scale to blanket the planet, thus becoming instantly omniscient with a global field of sensors, giving it a coherent view of
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by seiji 13y ago
Choice quote from the end: But it was alarming how many people I talked to who are highly placed people in AI who have retreats that are sort of ‘bug out’ houses” to which they could flee if it all hits the fan. Does HN agree or disagree
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by seiji 13y ago
Good point. The best answer there is: that's what Time Machine backups are for. Time Machine backups lag your actual storage by 10 minutes to an hour, but it's okay for most uses. If you're worried about important data, you
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by seiji 13y ago
Basic guidelines of "no using the old UI widgets (grey keyboard, old tabs, old back arrows)" and, old by now, supporting iPhone 4 and iPhone 5+ screen sizes with optimized graphics. Same goes for iPad except there's only one
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by seiji 13y ago
but will not be buying apple computers again Why not? There aren't any alternatives.
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by seiji 13y ago
No ability to have more than one hard drive (No RAID possibilities) That's why it has six external storage ports each capable of pushing 20GBps. Single power supply Workstation, not server. Compare this to the dell workstations L
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by seiji 13y ago
Thought experiment: How many famous people date busboys and cater-waiters? How many CEOs date Starbucks baristas? People in Hollywood date other famous people. Successful people tend to go after other successful people. As much as gener
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by seiji 13y ago
Let's talk about dating. The dating world is full of monkeys. Baristas, out of work actors, "office managers," bartenders, literal starving artists, set designers who make $15k/year for working 60 hours a week all year,
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by seiji 13y ago
we're just luckier about our surroundings. Quite. I've often wondered how different I would be if I was born to a higher higher (affluenza) or lower (government assistance) family. We should make a point of getting people out o
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by seiji 13y ago
This is why we have laws and not mob rule. All civilized nations have done away with capital crimes by this point in the timeline.
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by seiji 13y ago
The side without minds just going along with their tribal affiliations for the glory of their own actions. Wait, that doesn't clear anything up. Also see: UK football hooliganism, SF/LA sports riots, SF/Berkeley injustice rio
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by seiji 13y ago
My language isn't entirely confined to reality all the time. Sometimes there's crosstalk in inadvertent ways. Sorry for any hurts.
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by seiji 13y ago
police brutality Yup. Just because we're not talking about shared grandmothers in villages doesn't mean we're more sophisticated. The brutal kill-the-infidel groups can form anywhere scared people with low self esteem get
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by seiji 13y ago
The noble behavior of stoning people to death based on tribal affiliations doesn't really require dignified descriptions of the people. Urban Dictionary barely mentions the word monkey may be racist. It's 3x more likely to be s

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