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by tjaerv 13y ago
Obligatory link to Jared Diamond's classic essay "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race": http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html
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by tjaerv 13y ago
The license. (GPL vs BSD.)
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Thanks for that, I had no idea.
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Surprised they didn't mention the all-time fiasco of the FBI's disastrous $170M Virtual Case File project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Case_File
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Anyone have a reference for the mentioned "you once called open source 'brutal'"? Googling it now is polluted with reposts of the current article.
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Indeed. And particularly so when the agency making the allegations has an established track record of lying in order to secure convictions. Witness: > The history of the FBI Lab hasn't been without controversy. Dr. Frederic Whitehur
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Archive of all Silk Road forum posts attributed to Dread Pirate Roberts(rossulbricht.org)
45 points by tjaerv 13y ago|52 comments
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Gene transcript patterns visualized for the first time in thousands of cells(phys.org)
1 points by tjaerv 13y ago|0 comments
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Another perspective: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/income-tax-centu...
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Introducing the Ross Ulbricht Legal Defense Fund(rossulbricht.org)
7 points by tjaerv 13y ago|6 comments
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by tjaerv 13y ago
The article has been edited since it was originally posted. The paragraph in question now reads: > “This is supposed to be some invisible black market bazaar. We made it visible,” says an FBI spokesperson, who asked not to be named. “Whe
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FBI Says It's Busted The Web's Biggest Anonymous Drug Black Market(forbes.com)
43 points by tjaerv 13y ago|47 comments
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First physical evidence of why you're an owl or a lark(newscientist.com)
81 points by tjaerv 13y ago|59 comments
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A train ride recorded with a handheld 3-D scanner(popsci.com)
1 points by tjaerv 13y ago|0 comments
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An inside peek of Amazon's giant 'chaotic storage' warehouses(imgur.com)
9 points by tjaerv 13y ago|0 comments
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C++11's atomic and volatile, under the hood on x86(brooker.co.za)
1 points by tjaerv 13y ago|0 comments
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Chinese teen arrested for getting more than 500 retweets(dailydot.com)
3 points by tjaerv 13y ago|0 comments
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The benefits of having data: HDD failures and temperature [2012](brooker.co.za)
1 points by tjaerv 13y ago|0 comments
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At What Point Will the Next Generation Kill the Copyright Monopoly Altogether?(torrentfreak.com)
12 points by tjaerv 13y ago|2 comments
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Rare photo of Richard Stallman before the neckbeard, dancing with Lisp Machine(twitter.com)
6 points by tjaerv 13y ago|1 comments
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by tjaerv 13y ago
This recent presentation from the 2013 European LLVM Conference outlines the optimization issues LLVM still suffers from, making the produced binaries up to ~10% slower than with GCC for some use cases: http://llvm.org/devmt
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by tjaerv 13y ago
I, too, would be interested in watching this presentation. Would you happen to have a link to it?
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by tjaerv 13y ago
"One of the bylaws of the International Association of Time Travelers states that you can't kill Hitler. The problem is, everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. This leaves more experienced time travelers the onerous task of u
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Upstream source: http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2013-Septembe...
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Is this satire? It reads like satire. "I must do something. In the last year he has become more and more enchanted by antiestablishment ways of thinking and has even said that there is an inherent risk that every government is corrupt
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Why not simply use virtualization? Whether QEMU, Bochs, or VirtualBox?
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Released into the public domain, very cool!
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Can Germany Really Tax Bitcoin? An Interview with Crypto-Economist Joerg Platzer(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by tjaerv 13y ago|0 comments
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by tjaerv 13y ago
"The Five Eyes Alliance" is a good moniker for that: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/is-the-f...
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Links to the actual upstream posts by Doctorow: http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-p... http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html http:/&#x2F

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