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This is What Most Likely Happened to Mt. Gox(chrispacia.wordpress.com)
3 points by thecoffman 13y ago|1 comments
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by thecoffman 13y ago
I saw that as well, but opt-out is a crappy default. It should be opt-in.
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by thecoffman 13y ago
Apparently it collects usage information? https://github.com/atom/welcome/pull/7 Thanks, but no thanks. I don't need my editor sending usage information anywhere.
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by thecoffman 13y ago
Saying "generally" doesn't make it not ignorant or not a stereotype - in fact I'm pretty sure its just the opposite. "Generally, people in the midwest are beer swilling, liberal bashing layabouts" is pretty muc
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by thecoffman 13y ago
As a coder living in St. Louis, I can say that this hasn't been my experience at all. There is an exceptionally high demand for coders around here. Barely a week goes by without someone trying to poach good programmers. Its not necessa
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by thecoffman 13y ago
Wow, not only is this an entirely ignorant and untrue stereotype; it implies that putting in all-nighters for your job is a good thing which I think its fairly universally regarded as untrue.
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by thecoffman 13y ago
East St. Louis is a different city, across the Mississippi river and in a different state than St. Louis. St. Louis has taken its share of knocks over the years like many Midwestern cities, but those crime statistics are not indicative of t
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by thecoffman 13y ago
A site peddling a product that is supposedly about user control and privacy that won't even load without javascript... The irony is almost too much.
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by thecoffman 13y ago
It seems a more appropriate title for this would be "In Government We Trust." Apparently large powerful entities aren't to be trusted, except for when they're called "government."
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by thecoffman 13y ago
Of course. As bitcoin isn't a viable currency and no one is really conducting btc->btc transactions, paying salaries in btc or anything else, the only method of utilizing them is going through the traditional, already existing banki
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by thecoffman 13y ago
I feel that we're arguing semantics here. You've already said that any regulation requires state coercion, it seems we're just not seeing eye-to-eye on the "full force" portion of the statement. When men with guns s
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by thecoffman 13y ago
I never claimed that Coinbase, the company you seem to be referring to, was anti-authoritarian: only that the idea of Bitcoin itself was. Coinbase is, as you said, very much a product of the existing framework. Bitcoin's creator satosh
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by thecoffman 13y ago
In this context, (the techno-crypto-libertarians he so readily dismisses) any state regulation is inherently coercive. There's no such thing as non-coercive intervention by government. It doesn't have anything to do with military
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by thecoffman 13y ago
Freedom is a terrifying thing to people who have a naturally authoritarian mindset. I don't personally believe that Bitcoin is the road to some techno-utopia. Frankly, I expect that ultimately it will just be a blip on the radar; but t
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by thecoffman 13y ago
Sigh... the same old political arguments rehashed for the nth time, but with links to Krugman blog posts and some class warfare for taste this time around! > I’ve enjoyed the thought experiment of Bitcoin as much as the next nerd, but it
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by thecoffman 13y ago
While Miyazaki's contributions to animation are important and numerous, you're quite mistaken that he "defined" animated films. I would look very closely at early Disney films (Fantasia is a personal favorite). Most of t
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by thecoffman 13y ago
Depending on how much time you're willing to put in, "The Story of Film: An Odyssey" [1] Is available on Netflix and fantastic. Its also 15 hours long. The narrator, Mark Cousins, who is also the author, is frankly pretty poo
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60 Minutes Brings the Cyberterror in NSA Puff Piece(wired.com)
3 points by thecoffman 13y ago|0 comments
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by thecoffman 13y ago
For one, you don't need to sign in with Twitter or Facebook... that's a huge advantage right away! Its also open source, which is a giant win.
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by thecoffman 13y ago
IIRC they released two versions simultaneously - one was edited for "maximum impact" and the other was the complete, uncut footage. I think the former is good in a TL;DR sort of way as long as the full material is made available f
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by thecoffman 13y ago
And how long after I take the time to import all of my loyalty cards into this system before Google decides to go a different direction and shuts this down? Sigh...
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by thecoffman 13y ago
Straight from Drew himeself: data's stored on s3, and encrypted before storage -- there'll be another option to enter in an additional passphrase (or private key) when installing in order to encrypt your data before i
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by thecoffman 13y ago
This looks good! Jekyll theming is an area that I wish would take off a little more. I've looked for custom themes on several occasions and it really seems like there are about a dozen total, and that's it.
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by thecoffman 13y ago
I don't think you would do that at all. Places like SF and NY are more expensive because there is more demand to live there and a limited supply of places to live. Presumably if you're on a basic income, you won't be able to
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by thecoffman 13y ago
Ironically, I'm assuming I'm the one who inherited ben1040's ticket mentioned in the other comment thread. I just wanted to say thanks to puredanger to putting this thing on each year. The quality of the talks exceedingly hig
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by thecoffman 13y ago
This is: a.) pretty good evidence that DO did their due diligence and b.) way more thorough investigation than I would have expected from a "value" vps provider.
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by thecoffman 13y ago
Interesting - I found the lambda syntax of LINQ to be quite "Ruby like" someList.FindAll(i => i < 2) .Select(i => i * 2) .GroupBy(i => (i % 2) == 0 ? "even" : "odd") Is about as close
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by thecoffman 13y ago
I have a very similar background/opinion. Almost all of my professional work has been on the *nix stack and I generally like Ruby. During a brief stint in Microsoft-land I found myself super impressed with C#. First class functions, ty
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by thecoffman 13y ago
I rather liked the Buckyball article personally, but I wanted to note that Ken, while probably the best author on Popehat, isn't the only one and the Buckyball article wasn't him; it was Clark. Clark's articles are often the
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NSA Codebreaking: I Am The Other(popehat.com)
450 points by thecoffman 13y ago|114 comments

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