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by sirsar 13y ago
You could use p2p transactions, get paid in it as a service, get it as a handout, sell something for it, or, in the case of Bitcoin, mine it.
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Sharefest – WebRTC Torrent-like Filesharing(sharefest.me)
1 points by sirsar 13y ago|0 comments
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by sirsar 13y ago
They're a parody of ads promoting abstinence from sex (probably targeted at high school aged kids). It looks like a typical US campaign. I couldn't find the original ads, so I can't answer your last question.
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by sirsar 13y ago
Money laundering is illegal, not necessarily selling BTC on the silk road.
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by sirsar 13y ago
If you have multiple smaller lights, it's quicker to turn them all on at the door than to do a lap around the room. Of course this is an after-the-fact rationalization; in reality, it's probably just easier to install one set of s
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by sirsar 13y ago
Divisible to 8 decimal places. There are thus 2 quadrillion atomic units.
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by sirsar 13y ago
Implemented in Bitmessage, with free anonymity on the side.
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by sirsar 13y ago
View page source.
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by sirsar 13y ago
The key, however, can be split an unlimited number of ways using Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme or a similar protocol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_Secret_Sharing
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by sirsar 13y ago
It bothers me that 8 is the "magic number." Did Gompertz simply round? I find it hard to believe that the real number is not 7.7 or 8.3, and those would have vastly different effects. Why should evolution mark itself by whole rota
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by sirsar 13y ago
You might like Coffitivity. http://www.coffitivity.com/
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by sirsar 13y ago
If you're on Windows, a no-hassle way to do this is with AutoHotkey. http://www.autohotkey.com/ http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Remap.htm
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by sirsar 13y ago
"terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles, and organized crime." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyps...
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by sirsar 13y ago
The Anarchist Cookbook is the title of a dead-tree book, which the article is about. The Anarchist Cookbook is also the title of an unaffiliated text file containing explosives recipes.
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by sirsar 13y ago
If you host your own server with their server software, you can verify it's running unmodified.
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by sirsar 13y ago
Most of this discussion is centered around the definition of anarchism. It seems difficult to debate undefined ideas.
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by sirsar 13y ago
I was recently (Thanksgiving) discussing this with the owner of a small tech company. Our consensus was that if Satoshi was not Szabo, Satoshi at least read Szabo's works. The article doesn't spend as much time on the similarity o
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by sirsar 13y ago
No, I mean the difference between the filetypes.
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by sirsar 13y ago
> On his impossibly beautiful blog I found the parallax background incredibly distracting. Maybe I just lack focusing skills, but I would much rather read a plain text file than have a slightly laggy background change every time I scro
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by sirsar 13y ago
We have switched the metadata files from JSON to WAT files. The JSON format did not allow specifying the multiple offsets to files necessary for the WARC upgrade and WAT files provide more detail. Where can I read more about this?
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by sirsar 13y ago
> it's an excellent, beautiful place. Because it has no government, and therefore must be, by libertarian definition. I'm not sure if you're serious. If you're not, I apologize. If you are, please show me someone clai
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by sirsar 13y ago
See also: Kiwix For one thing, it has an Android app, and it's easy to put the whole thing on your external SD card. It also provides an index for full-text search. http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page
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by sirsar 13y ago
>"If you like libertarianism so much, why not just move to Somalia?" This is a bit offtopic, but how about "because it was terrible before the collapse of their government, and still is terrible?"
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by sirsar 13y ago
An RSS reader that flows all the feeds together, but weights them based on frequency. So your once-a-month blog is above your webcomic is above your HN feed.
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by sirsar 13y ago
Or, why don't the headlights automatically turn on with the wipers? It's illegal to drive with wipers on and headlights off.
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Da Vinci's Genius Piano-Cello Played for the Very First Time(gizmodo.com)
1 points by sirsar 13y ago|0 comments
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by sirsar 13y ago
Not quite. The DNAMA would quickly lose hard-won reputation once DNM was shown to be malware. Google not being the only CA doesn't mean everyone gets to be a CA.
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by sirsar 13y ago
TLDR: Don't worry, no data was lost.
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by sirsar 13y ago
What OS and browser are you using? Firefox and Chrome do much better with JS than the rest.
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by sirsar 13y ago
>The concept of the POW is to stop spam Your other points are good, but this one is wrong. Bitmessage is currently bundled with a client because that makes adoption easier, but ultimately, Bitmessage is first and foremost a protocol. POW

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