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by simbolit 13y ago
w be Walt Disney, the Person d be Disney, the public company m be Mickey Mouse, the fictional character I can love w & m, but hate d. I can love w & d, but hate m. I can love d & m, but hate w. I can love d, but hate w &am
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by simbolit 13y ago
could you tell us something about your friends/family situation (geographic location, socioeconomic situation, education, etc). i know three (!) people who are not on facebook.
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by simbolit 13y ago
Google+ does not make it into the top-five mix — not because of its lack of popularity; but because Pew says it did not include it in its survey questions. BAM! :-)
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by simbolit 13y ago
i would love to hear from our libertarian friends on what they think about copyright and the public domain.
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by simbolit 13y ago
add: so thanks to bascule and michaelt i now realise that the idea is basically increasing the cost to the attacker. by serving the signature and the file from different servers, the attacker has to compromise both servers. by signing with
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by simbolit 13y ago
yeah, i forgot about the US system for a moment. i knew the 90+% plea bargain number, but it is so utterly inconceivable that i always and again forget it. simply does not compute.
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by simbolit 13y ago
sorry, this is only somewhat related. but i am really ignorant. this is a genuine question that i have for quite some time now. when i download security relevant software, the website usually gives me a hash/signature of the download f
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by simbolit 13y ago
watch http://www.thehouseilivein.org/ it is really worth your while. the best film on the war on drugs and the "prison-industrial complex" :-) i have seen so far. big thumbs up. available on itunes and amazon inst
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by simbolit 13y ago
This seems to be a paradigm case of entrapment. This should thus be easily sorted out in the courts. Am I wrong? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment
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by simbolit 13y ago
When was the last time you saw a lobbyist for the poor on Capitol Hill? And how big a bag of cash did they have with them?
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by simbolit 13y ago
Well, "nothing" is a strong word, but I know people who put in decades of classroom time in the (actually quite complex) field of philosophy, and they don't earn shit. I agree on not painting broad brushstrokes. But there are
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by simbolit 13y ago
only in europe and only with their phones (where they have to). ipads in europe also come without adaptors.
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by simbolit 13y ago
I am not american, but from the outside it doesn't look like the media (power houses) are controlled by the government. it more looks like the government and business interests are so closely aligned (and often personally contiguous) t
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by simbolit 13y ago
i don't think it to be the worst of all political worlds, but isn't libertarianism like an anti-politics ? cutting the political system down to minimum size, letting the economic system fill the vacuum?
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by simbolit 13y ago
i'd argue that there are things that make a lot of sense being standardised. think about power outlets [0] on the wall. if you have ever been to a country using different power outlets, you know what i mean. wouldn't it be awesome
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by simbolit 13y ago
any particular reason you do not use chromium, the OpenSource version of Chrome?
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by simbolit 13y ago
sorry to disappoint you, but "charger" in this context means power supply PLUS cable.
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by simbolit 13y ago
Placing a floor on the value of bitcoins is… what, exactly? Nothing but the trust of those involved. Plain and simple.
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by simbolit 13y ago
nonono. namecoin is not bitcoin. you are explaining why proof-of-work-schemes are useful. that is not the question. the article (quoting Krugman) says that there are good reasons why bitcoin might be a wonderful medium of exchange, but ther
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by simbolit 13y ago
if i get this correctly these stats are from one site (diffen.com) - why is this relevant for anything?
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by simbolit 13y ago
can you elaborate? what is your main work tool?
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by simbolit 13y ago
Policemen, public school teachers and alike will be the first ones to notice prices rising faster than their salaries. They will the first to change jobs or become largely corrupt on all levels (like it was in Russia after the fall of the
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The Daily Show December 18, 2013 - John Beale, Corrupt EPA Official(thedailyshow.com)
2 points by simbolit 13y ago|0 comments
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by simbolit 13y ago
(1) the name sucks. i have no idea how to pronounce it, and it is hard to remember. (2) the green is far too bright for business purposes. (3) i don't get what it does from the frontpage. do NOT begin with "x is not just y, but z&
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by simbolit 13y ago
In slightly related news,nobody is talking about the UN Millenium Goals [1][2]anymore, which are due next year. And it doesn't need a prophet to predict that we will miss most, if not even all eight, of them[0]. [0] http://ww
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by simbolit 13y ago
I thought in France, for instance, companies may not refuse to take gov issued money as payment for their goods, but I cannot find a reference right now. So I suppose you are right. Thanks for correcting me.
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by simbolit 13y ago
The value of bitcoin, as of any other instrument of exchange, is backed by the trust that someone else will exchange it for something else in the future. Everyday goods, like corn or crude oil, additionally have intrinsic usefulness and thu
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by simbolit 13y ago
well, if i think about real life the drama appears because of actively (though not always entirely conscious and willful) missed connections. people not telling things, forgetting to tell things, not feeling like talking right now, not feel
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by simbolit 13y ago
i press ctrl-tab several times, i press "c" and the compose window opens, i press "s" and "Self" is preselected as a recipient. i press enter, double-tab, and begin writing.
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by simbolit 13y ago
Lol

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