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by user24 13y ago
Not only that but also, as SSIDs are often unique, it's possible to completely passively track all the locations your device has been. More info in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03iEaKPRb9A
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by user24 13y ago
A mention of JS debuggers like theseus might be good. Would be cool to automatically change the URL to the anchor as I scroll.
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by user24 13y ago
No-one's going to say "Yeah I was going to apply to YC but HN keeps going down so I don't think I will after all".
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by user24 13y ago
tried gotoMeeting?
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by user24 13y ago
I think wikis and group chats help to recreate the water cooler feel. I also want to chime in about sqwiggle: It was switched on all day at my previous job and I absolutely hated it. Might work if you live alone but having a camera pointing
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by user24 13y ago
One I saw a while ago was that a web designer who doesn't code is like a sculptor who doesn't know anatomy.
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by user24 13y ago
I'm not sure that "make the user do a whois and then a wiki search" is a reasonable UI flow. Even now, that whois info could be false and this could be an elaborate spoof.
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by user24 13y ago
My #1 question was: Who made this, and why should I trust them?
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by user24 13y ago
I bet it stops spam though, at least for a while. I've seen captchas that literally just say "Type the word 'whistle' in the box". They work because spammers often don't target specific sites but just run gener
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by user24 13y ago
I agree. Put it this way; if Google was owned by the Chinese government, there'd be a lot more scrutiny. Why do they get let off?
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by user24 13y ago
Should have called it Strongbox.
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by user24 13y ago
I've moved over to cash for 95% of things that aren't bills, it's quite liberating.
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by user24 13y ago
That's very brave of you, and I respect that, and only hope that you never live to regret it. I perhaps have slightly more fringe interests than you, and in the past have been somewhat indiscreet, albeit on obscure forums.
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by user24 13y ago
You don't fear that one day you might be denied entry to the UK for this tweet? https://twitter.com/bovermyer/status/398163555742396416
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by user24 13y ago
> what i never understand is why anyone wants to do this unless they want to do something wrong The definition of "wrong" is subject to change when the next political party come to power.
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by user24 13y ago
It's impossible not to over-simplify without writing a 10,000 word essay on the topic. I'm not advocating disappearing altogether. There's nothing wrong with keeping in touch with my friends on facebook, sharing the odd pictu
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by user24 13y ago
I've become increasingly concerned with this topic. Looking back I feel incredibly stupid. When I was 16, I was 'paranoid' about computer security. I used gpg, would never dream of giving my real name to any website. I distru
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by user24 13y ago
> I'll show you a man who can solve any problem presented to him if said problem prevents him from seeing boobs. And if the person is a 14 year old boy who can't opt out because he's not the account holder, what'll h
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by user24 13y ago
> like everything else! Is the same true for currency conversions? If I convert my Krone to Dollars and then back again when the exchange rate is more favourable, will I have to pay taxes? Genuine question, I don't know how forex tr
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by user24 13y ago
I seriously recommend you read on on the Gutenberg bible. It's arguable that without it we wouldn't have printed books, or wouldn't have had them until much much later. It was the "killer app" of the printed word. T
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by user24 13y ago
I'd have one row of prices and a dropdown that is set to "local" by default.
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by user24 13y ago
Read the economist a lot while I was studying for my undergrad. Never felt more informed, and have never found a more balanced presentation of things, imho. Nowadays I read the guardian website and watch RT sometimes. But I think I'll
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by user24 13y ago
but it's still an interesting metric that you can roughly infer network security from (eg 51% attack difficulty)
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by user24 13y ago
> the most important metric for adoption - the number of computers on the internet running the bitcoin software. Mmm, not really - a lot of people are using webwallets or thin clients. This is because the full client requires a bit fat d
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by user24 13y ago
Yeah, so I can compare on the same terms and also so it means more to me.
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by user24 13y ago
Very nice dashboard. Would like GBP. But great job. This is actually useful.
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by user24 13y ago
It doesn't say "logo". Literally interpreted, it means that there is a giant octopus on the satellite. That provokes one to click the link to find out more.
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by user24 13y ago
ha, do you more often call them potted plants in the US? In England pot plants is common usage!
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by user24 13y ago
Be nice to merge it with a 2gram corpus sorted by frequency, so that word pairs that simply don't occur in English (like "autonomous frown", "voice glockenspiel", "harp speedboat") are less likely to be sh
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by user24 13y ago
Um, guys, the emperor's new clothes are lovely and all, but I am left wondering whether the advantages of this system outweigh, you know, pot plants?

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