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by webXL 15y ago
What? Nobody has mentioned a worm hole yet? Screw mirrors to cut the distance needed in half (although requiring the same amount of time). How about this: Step 1) open up a worm hole at a point along the path of light emanating from Florida
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by webXL 15y ago
All of it gone. Forever. Boy, he sure does like that phrase! You're right. These attacks can only be destructive if there are relatively few points of failure. I think our financial institutions can learn a lot from distributed systems li
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by webXL 15y ago
Just because a cartel exists somewhere in the supply chain doesn't mean I have to participate in the transaction or my perceived value of it is artificially inflated. The two caret ring was just hypothetical, but there are plenty men who va
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by webXL 15y ago
I love it when the economically illiterate attack others for "price gouging" as if the third party doesn't have a choice in the matter or they aren't "unenlightened" enough to properly appraise the value of what they are buying. How do I kn
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by webXL 15y ago
Love is a little strong don't you think? I'm tired of people looking at one dataset in order to attribute sinister motives to a group of people. I bet I can find $269K worth of campaign donations to Obama's campaigns from groups opposed t
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by webXL 15y ago
And Adobe's
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by webXL 15y ago
Perhaps they have a bunch of windows servers inside, but why windows.net?
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by webXL 15y ago
You use phrases like "improve consumer choice" and "regulatory structure" as if it was possible for your interests to be aligned with those of the regulators and politicians. Nevermind those being regulated are donating many, many times mor
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by webXL 15y ago
On what rational basis are these two questions pertinent to managing the executive branch of the United States government?
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by webXL 15y ago
Why wouldn't this work for any store or currency? Or is this just a creative way to go long on bitcoin?
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by webXL 15y ago
Well, then parents might actually have to "parent", and teach their children things like "responsibility" and "moderation" so that when they're older than 18, they won't be "a drain on society".
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by webXL 15y ago
Chuck Schumer exemplifies the Nanny State: You aren't enlightened as we politicians are. Therefore, we will make the decisions regarding your health for you. Democracy should exist to create/manage public goods, not private ones. A drug o
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by webXL 15y ago
If you're in this situation, get yourself an account at an online bank (ING Direct, Everbank, etc.) with an automatic savings plan, then create a dedicated savings account for emergencies and label it Emergency Fund (important!). If there
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by webXL 15y ago
You're not an underachiever. Class is all relative. "Middle class" in America translates to "extremely wealthy" for the average human being. My wife and I were just in Newport Beach, CA over the weekend, and we felt very poor. But back here
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by webXL 15y ago
and now there's one on our phones!!!
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by webXL 15y ago
What about all the CO2 increases caused by cutting down trees in order to store value on paper, and physically mining gold?
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by webXL 15y ago
The cheat sheet has been around for a while, but the interactive Super Mario background is pretty sweet!
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by webXL 15y ago
Here's a thought: let's subsidize trade schools by not subsidizing colleges!
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by webXL 15y ago
I agree with loosening immigration controls. Another thing that would help would be for government to get out of meddling in the higher education market. It's so bad now that people think they have a right to higher education (I'm not sure
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by webXL 15y ago
Why do you need a lot of money? To get your message out there, right? Well, this guy has been getting his message out for a while and has good name recognition, so he doesn't need as much money as someone on the fringe. I'd give him money o
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by webXL 15y ago
Sorry, I should have said "channel some of that concentration into productive endeavors"
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by webXL 15y ago
It might also increase the capacity of human productivity. I've always been amazed at the amount of collective concentration that keeps everyone in their lane and not hitting one another. Just imagine if you could channel that concentration
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by webXL 15y ago
We already have cars that parallel park themselves. I just saw an SUV do it in a commercial last night. I think it was a Ford Exploder. We also have adaptive cruise control on a lot of cars. You combine those technologies, plus with somethi
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by webXL 15y ago
Hogwash. Oprah won't allow that.
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by webXL 15y ago
This is what the "Debug Console" setting should be in the Safari->Developer menu. iOS 5, maybe?
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by webXL 15y ago
Isn't the "bank" on your hard drive? E-Gold was a commercial enterprise with only 20 employees and no legal team. Very easy to take down. It will be hard for the feds to take down a P2P network, although very easy for them to police e-comme
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by webXL 15y ago
I'm sure many other arguments could be found. Like, "Bitcoin is anti-American" or "Bitcoin will be used by heroin dealers who will sell your daughters into prostitution" If bitcoin is a means to circumvent the tax system, then we'd have t
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by webXL 15y ago
Wish I bought this contract yesterday morning: http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/common/c_cd.jsp?conDetail...
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by webXL 15y ago
I'd say that this article is spot on except for weak spot #2. Mobile Me integrates very well with iOS devices (AppleTV incl.) right out of the box. And then there's that huge datacenter they're building... BTW, how is Dropbox more compellin
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by webXL 16y ago
Yeah, those anti-police surveillance laws are pretty lame. My only point about being able to spy on the government and large corporations was just an illegal counter measure to potential illegal actions by the usual suspects. I would never

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