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by shazow 13y ago
http://www.scribd.com/doc/172773407/Ulbricht-Criminal-Compla...
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by shazow 13y ago
I'm not sure one way or the other, and while it's clear that Ulbright was fairly sloppy, there are a few instances of serendipity: 1. The agent randomly (?) stumbling on a LinkedIn profile which matched the timeline/descripti
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by shazow 13y ago
Found this in one of the recent HN submissions: http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Ulbric... / Mirror: http://www.scribd.com/doc/172773407/Ulbricht-Crimi
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by shazow 13y ago
I can read it but it's a struggle. Much like reading Ruby, for someone who comes from Python. The syntax doesn't quite make sense to me and its usage varies between authors—a bunch of things are optional and used unpredictably (pa
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by shazow 13y ago
When I scored my first job out of school, I moved out into a tiny apartment in downtown Toronto—walking distance from the office. I managed to save about half of my after-tax income for a year and a half which came out to $26k. No car, no
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by shazow 13y ago
Speaking of domain search tools, I built one for finding domains collaboratively with your cofounder/partner/friend/whatever. http://wedomainsearch.com/ It's using Domainr's API and Firebase, though
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by shazow 13y ago
> while it lasted. What happened to it? Why did it die? I've had a similar forum many years ago but haven't been able to replicate the experience since.
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by shazow 13y ago
Definitely stick with promostudio.com. Sounds like a word-of-mouth kind of business, unlike tumblr/flickr/reddit which spread virally by link sharing so verbal spelling is less important. I tried to find some more domains, but I w
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by shazow 13y ago
Indeed. They have a captive audience right now which donates on average more than $4,000/mo for the work of Tarn and Zach. Take the +12 month release cycles, there will surely be more active open source forks than what the Adams'
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by shazow 13y ago
Once upon a time, Tarn Adams did an AMA on Reddit. I asked him [0]: Have you considered open sourcing more pieces of Dwarf Fortress so that the community can try to help with the nitty gritty engine bits while you can continue havin
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Show HN: Collaborative domain search(wedomainsearch.com)
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by shazow 13y ago
It's true, and of all the clones, I've found Dota 2 to have the friendliest community by far and it's is constantly getting better. It's night and day from what I remember it being six months ago. Valve's commitment
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by shazow 13y ago
It definitely existed when I was there a few months ago. Many people use the opportunity to explore possibilities of working with new teams in the future.
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by shazow 13y ago
This worries me. I've met all too many designers and engineers who started out exactly like this, and years later come to realize that they've been underpaid by more than 50% below market rate for half a decade, and have little mo
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by shazow 13y ago
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=national%20security%... This does better at discriminating against bus companies and such. The steady decline until recently is interesting.
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by shazow 13y ago
I don't see a pricing page anywhere, how come? (Sounds like you removed it; why?) > The way I look at it is that any feedback with a free plan is better than zero feedback with a subscription. I wouldn't be so sure. My experience has be
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by shazow 13y ago
Incrementing our planetary bus factor, if you will.
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by shazow 13y ago
A very legitimate point and question. Needless to say, it seems Google is not trying to serve the same demographic and use-cases as say... http://www.whispersystems.org/ Though I agree it would be nice if someday we could enable temporary
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by shazow 13y ago
The simplest explanation is that it would be hard to persist messages across devices/apps without storing them somewhere.
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by shazow 13y ago
https://www.google.com/settings/account Click on "Close account and delete all services and information associated with it."
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by shazow 13y ago
I probably haven't been keeping up with the bitcointalk forums as much as yourself, but I haven't gotten the impression that the main bitcoin developers treat alternative implementations as threatening. There are already several moderately-
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by shazow 13y ago
Do you have a link with more about that? I recall reading a discussion on the forums about doubling the value of MAX_BLOCK_SIZE in the near-term. I didn't realize that old clients would outright reject larger blocks. Either way, sounds like
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by shazow 13y ago
Many reasons are outlined in the link of the grandparent's post. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability (Check out the rest of the wiki, it's quite informative.) To summarize: It helps reduce some DoS attack vectors and helps encourage th
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by shazow 13y ago
I don't work for Coinbase, but I'll try to answer (someone correct me if I'm wrong): > - The network imposes a limit of 7 transactions per second ( https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability ); and the information I've seen suggests that it
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by shazow 13y ago
> Uploading something just means making a copy, and if that becomes possible the AI potential would be millions of generations smarter than a carbon copy of a human brain. I see where you're going with this, but I would like to compare
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by shazow 14y ago
I am really excited about this. Here's some feedback from my first impressions: 1. Offline support: I'd love to work on this offline, write unit tests, use vim, all those nice things. You mentioned elsewhere that you're running the server-s
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by shazow 14y ago
I know some people use https://btcjam.com/
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by shazow 14y ago
There seems to be some confusion about this project, so I'll try to explain: PaperCoin creates paper Bitcoin gift cards. You put money on the address, then you give the private key to whoever, and now they own the wallet. (Correct me if I'm
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by shazow 14y ago
Dwarf Fortress is not in the same league as NetHack. Dwarf Fortress is possibly an order of magnitude of leagues above NetHack in complexity, depth, and replayability. While I've probably spent a comparable amount of time playing both games
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by shazow 14y ago
I much rather get one or two corporations sponsoring my project than have each of my users pay $5, for the various reasons outlined in sibling threads. Or better yet, I wish there were government-level grants for this kind of work. I've bee

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