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by smtddr 13y ago
It's not even slippery. It's a high-powered conveyor-belt. The people in power _ know _ this was always their ultimate goal. They don't care about you, or your child's, safety. It's all about amassing more power, mo
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by smtddr 13y ago
It's implied. We all know (or should know) that GDrive is provided to us with a huge & complex infrastructure. Your TB drives at home do not begin to compare.
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by smtddr 13y ago
What are some non-American & reliable cloud companies?
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>I know Dropbox will be Dropbox in 5 years. You absolutely do not know this. Dropbox could be acquired for $99999 Billion then closed in the next 6 months.
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by smtddr 13y ago
This hits home for me. It took a lot of courage for me to leave at&t when I did. It was my first job out of college, I just got saddled with a mortgage and was soon to be married to a lady who would be 100% dependent on me at first sinc
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by smtddr 13y ago
Grow at the expense of what though? So you tear down anything you can to increase SF's ability to hold all the things techies enjoy... and then one day, all this booming goes away and you're left with... http://www.soci
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>I'm not saying we shouldn't help these people, but if you are complaining about not being able to get by in the most expensive city in the country, I really don't have any sympathy for you. I have sympathy for them,
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>Throwing away $50k/day is just a stupid thing to do. I would have done the same thing if I was in his shoes; just get out of the spotlight with whatever money I already made (and still making from previous-installs) . Getting
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>but all of the Republicans/conservatives in my extended family think that all of this NSA stuff is A Big Deal(tm) and think Snowden a patriotic hero (presumably because they think that it paints the Obama administration in a b
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by smtddr 13y ago
When I do that chrome-tab-cast, the performance is terrible .
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by smtddr 13y ago
Since ffmpeg is running your computer. "realtime" = As fast as your comp can handle. I'm sure my 10+ year old Dell celeron would be horrible but a modern Intel i7 will probably be pretty good.
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by smtddr 13y ago
Huh, so if Amazon really wants to start sending out those drones they no longer have any legal hurdles? I expect to hear stories of college kids capturing them before EOY.
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by smtddr 13y ago
No amount of assertions in production code can replace assertions of unit-tests; assuming the unittests are designed to try all known common & edge cases.
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by smtddr 13y ago
Whoa there! I'm a supporter of bitcoin and I got some funds in it... but I __definitely don't want__ etrade.com to be free of regulations the way bitcoin exchanges currently are!!!! I'm prepared to lose my bitcoin funds at
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by smtddr 13y ago
Article says: >>Not because protecting consumers isn’t important — it is — it’s just that regulators should balance their goal of protecting consumers with the equally important goal of fostering a climate that welcomes entrepreneurs
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by smtddr 13y ago
If she accepted payment in bitcoin isn't it possible that she had a bunch of bitcoins in MtGox?
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by smtddr 13y ago
https://firstmetaexchange.com/ It's possible that she accepted a bunch of payment in bitcoin and those coins were in MtGox. But I'm just guessing; no proof. _____ SIDENOTE: The comment about her death is incredib
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by smtddr 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7296008 Unfortunately, I knew this was coming with the MtGox failure. :-( Last time Reddit had a suicide-watch I thought it was an over-reaction. This time though, people really need it.
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by smtddr 13y ago
That's harsh. =/ Another bit of irony... http://i.imgur.com/KurgdXp.png But seriously, sorry to those who lost coins here. Also sorry to the folks of flexcoin, the timing couldn't be worse. Can't say it
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by smtddr 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania I know people keep making the comparison between bitcoin & tulips. I still don't understand why. I do understand that there is a lot of speculation driving bitcoin pric
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by smtddr 13y ago
9. People buy at low prices when disaster strikes - https://twitter.com/SMTDDR/status/438404079438422016 10. Eventually price goes back up, as it _always_ does. 11. ???? 12. Profit
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by smtddr 13y ago
I would call that a "threat" rather than an "insult". FYI, I think a threat is worse than an insult in most cases.
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by smtddr 13y ago
smtddr@POKEMONGYM:~$ wpa_passphrase My_AP_SSID mysup3rs3cr3tp@ssw0rd network={ ssid="My_AP_SSID" #psk="mysup3rs3cr3tp@ssw0rd" psk=a6356f17ad3bb0f18385a0faa57d10c20352b977411e636c5466f933bb415fdd }
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by smtddr 13y ago
There is new information. This tells me that MtGox is truly sticking to their LIE that 750k+ of bitcoins disappeared due to "tx-malley"; nonsense. I'm trusting my gut feeling on this one; mtgox was in trouble months before
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by smtddr 13y ago
I think I'm actually wrong about that. I could have sworn I saw an "[A]" next to his name somewhere.
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by smtddr 13y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yv26o/gox_horror_s... Here are some of my "favorite"(anger inducing) comments: ▻ Poor student, all he had... http://www.reddit.com/r&#x
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>No one would be stupid enough to store their life savings in Dogecoins. Author must have missed that Reddit thread on Gox horror stories. There were some really awful decisions people made with their savings. I bet someone is goin
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by smtddr 13y ago
I've just been ignoring (well, downvoting a few) the HN-comments around these YC Female Founder. But this one, this one is just awful. You represent the absolute fringe worse-case scenario that I suspect a few of the other commenters
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by smtddr 13y ago
Back in AT&T around 2005-2006 a "change of guard" occurred and a very technical team supporting SAP systems lost about half their staff to HP within 3 months. Rumor has it that at&t upper-management had a conversation with
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by smtddr 13y ago
I can't really say anything you're saying here is false, but I still hope the lesson has been learned by most people affected. This wasn't 100% unavoidable bad luck and this kind of thing shouldn't happen to MtGox's

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