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by uiri 12y ago
One thing which government-issued fiat currencies have going for them which cryptographically secured fiat currencies do not is taxes. Someone who lives in Windsor and commutes to Detroit every day will have to pay taxes in US dollars for t
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by uiri 13y ago
I just want to raise the point that your Apple example doesn't take inflation into account. The $4300 in 1975 is roughly $18.5k (to within $500) in today's dollars. This is inline with YC's previous seed funding of $17k. I ha
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by uiri 13y ago
I think that given the speed at which bitcoin mining hardware is obsoleted, it is perfectly reasonable that most ASICs would have an expected useful life of under a year.
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by uiri 13y ago
Linus wrote Linux initially as an exercise to learn about writing kernels for i386. That it was just a hobby and not intended to be professional was even in the initial release announcement. It is also possible to view Stallman as having wr
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by uiri 13y ago
They're not showing up for me in Firefox 27 on Mac OS X. If I remove the amazon part of the URL (leaving the domain as cdn.eventjoy.com) and use http instead of https, the image loads. On HTTPS, an Amazon certificate shows up and Amazo
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by uiri 13y ago
Anyone else notice that "Peter Griffin" is on this list? https://ofac.data-list-search.com/Entities/ByName/peter-grif...
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by uiri 13y ago
Should be $0 since http://www.google.com/patents/US2987607 ought to be expired by now.
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by uiri 13y ago
If you actually look at the history of Standard Oil (including the exposé by Ida Tarbell which arguably depicts the strongest case for the existence of a monopoly), you will notice that Standard Oil's market share was already on the de
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by uiri 13y ago
It really isn't difficult to write such a robot, it just involves a port scan before actually probing. Using bash, something like: nmap $host | grep -i open | cut -d '/' -f 1 | xargs -I {} ./sshscan.sh $host {}
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by uiri 13y ago
Well, it is fairly easy to stumble across Eric S Raymond's How To Be A Hacker if one has any interest in writing software (or just FOSS in general). At the end of that piece, he links to a couple of Paul Graham's essays, which in
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by uiri 13y ago
You can request to have the account deleted. More info here: https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674
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by uiri 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - remote welcome I'm a Canadian based in Toronto. I do mostly python and javascript stuff including django, flask, nodejs, etc. I tend to use either postgres, mysql or couchdb for database stuff. I know ruby and php too. I can
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by uiri 13y ago
The full talk which goes with these slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaYdCdwiWU
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by uiri 13y ago
Almost as funny as https://twitter.com/gitlost [NSFW: language] which uses GitHub's timeline feed to find git commit messages with profanity in them. I wrote it in the same spirit as Commit Logs From Last Night although CLFLN seems to use
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by uiri 13y ago
https://gist.github.com/tyre/5522214 seems to still work.
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by uiri 14y ago
It could be that the journalist made a typo and intended to write 18 to 24 year olds.
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by uiri 14y ago
Once people are reluctant to spend then, the economy will stay depressed because, people expect deflation AND deflation will continue because the economy remains depressed. Please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the value of the total
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by uiri 14y ago
You can't prevent double spending without being able to track where individual coins go. So we can know that X BTC went from wallet A to wallet B. Bitcoin is anonymous in the sense of linking owners to wallets. Even if someone asks to send
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by uiri 14y ago
They tried it before with the Latin Monetary Union. It collapsed for a few reasons, mostly due to the fact that it was a gold and silver standard. I suppose the people who created the Euro thought that the problems with the LMU would be avo
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by uiri 14y ago
I see no reason why banks couldn't in principle do the same thing with purchasing data that carriers do with location data. There ought to be a distinction between private as in confidential and private as in "confined to multiple parties e
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by uiri 14y ago
I don't see why anyone would treat places that they go carrying a smartphone as private data. The phone has the data and cell phone networks (in the US, at least) do collect the data (or used to)[1]. Giving Facebook the data basically just
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by uiri 14y ago
That's what SSHFP records are for. You store the fingerprint of the SSH server in DNS and then turn on a setting in your ~/.ssh/config and it will check for you if it matches with DNS when you try to connect. Even without DNSSEC it creates
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by uiri 14y ago
The problem with that explanation is that half of those patents were filed in the 1970s or 1980s and should be expired by now. So go through the expired ones and so long as you don't infringe on the newer patents then it is ok to use it roy
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by uiri 14y ago
I do the same thing but with 6 months instead of 12. I think the absolute limit is somewhere between 6 months and 3 months. Most stuff which is at least 3 months old is stuff whose only value is for reminiscing about later. On the other han
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by uiri 14y ago
I think it may have everything to do with how we're measuring productivity. The world in 1975 is obviously not the world today. The biggest difference being the personal computer and by extension the internet. How much of productivity gains
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by uiri 14y ago
Maybe this is a Canadian thing, but blackberries are still cool among teenagers. It is probably BBM although I've never used it so I don't know what advantages it confers. This is probably why RIM's death will be more characteristic of a lo
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by uiri 14y ago
>(Gawker also changed its story, but proof of the original headline is still in the URL) You can put anything in the URL you like, as long as the number matches and it passes whatever regular expression gawker runs on those URLs, it wil
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by uiri 14y ago
The photos which Google (or much more likely, Facebook and Twitter) have often contain embedded geolocation data which gives the police a better idea of where to start looking for the person. Of course, this is a lot more work than posting
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by uiri 14y ago
When you say that happiness does not seem to be correlated to wealth do you mean that having a larger salary does not seem to be correlated to wealth or that having a more savings/less debt (to some extent this is two scales, to some extent
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by uiri 14y ago
I think for git diff, this "no wrapping" is a feature not a bug. Git is made for code in general and Linux (as in, the kernel codebase) in particular. If your lines are long enough or your terminal is narrow enough that you need lines to be

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