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by yungchin 14y ago
I believe the thinking behind this is that if a nation state designates a currency as their official currency, that will guarantee a baseline demand for the currency: citizens will need to either hold or obtain the currency to pay their tax
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by yungchin 14y ago
As the article concludes: "These tools are powerful not because you can use the keyboard instead of a mouse, they are powerful because you can combine them in new ways" (for context: through tmux-prefixed commands, your scripts can talk to
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by yungchin 14y ago
I'm not sure I get that "currency is just a good". If people hoard gold, then the price of gold spikes, and it will be hard to come by gold, but you can probably still buy other things. But if people hoard a currency, to the point where the
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by yungchin 14y ago
Further down in the Crouton Readme: "Note that developer mode, in its default configuration, is completely insecure, so don't expect a password in your chroot to keep anyone from your data. crouton does support encrypting chroots, but the e
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Google Designs Its Own Chrome Embedded Controller(phoronix.com)
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Evolution of childhood: Prolonged development helped Homo sapiens succeed(slate.com)
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Researchers warn of widespread networking gear (uPnP) bugs(reuters.com)
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Understanding is a poor substitute for convexity (antifragility)(edge.org)
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by yungchin 14y ago
If you stick to a recommended partition layout, the swap partition (which will contain the hibernation image) should be contained in the LUKS partition, so yes, that's safe from this type of attack.
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by yungchin 14y ago
Right, in that case it's not a fallacious argument, but rather plain populism ;)
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by yungchin 14y ago
> What's the point of making something of lasting value if > someone else can just take it after 30 years? Is that really what scholars of behavioural economy and human psychology would tell us motivates makers to make things?
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by yungchin 14y ago
> I'd argue that any supposed "urge to share" is weaker > than the evident urge to control the products of one's > own labor. I think this is subject to the same fallacy of the parent post. Even if most people have a desire to o
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by yungchin 14y ago
While I agree with your conclusions regarding copyright, the above seems to me a fallacious appeal to democracy. If abolishing intellectual monopolies is better for society, we should be able to make a case for that regardless whether most
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by yungchin 14y ago
This seems bizarre in retrospect, but somehow none of the above had occurred to me before. Thanks for taking the time to type it and enlighten.
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by yungchin 14y ago
I think I've written this before, but: this feature would go nowhere if it was disabled by default. If you want to know whether mainstream users will or will not like it, you can't stick it in some obscure alpha (they'll never test it), and
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by yungchin 14y ago
There was a piece at AnandTech recently that summarised Intel's very successful business model as selling lots of low-margin chips to consumers to ensure reaching the right economies of scale, and then making money on high-margin enterprise
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by yungchin 14y ago
You're absolutely right, that's why I wrote "somewhat less". It's happened to me more than once that I accidentally pasted a password into the Chrome bar so that I had to go and change it, and so like you, I much prefer having an address ba
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by yungchin 14y ago
Yes, but it's somewhat less of a privacy violation, because you usually expect to send out the URL you type over the internet. That's different from trying a local search on your machine and finding it ended up on the internet.
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How OfflineIMAP works(blog.ezyang.com)
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by yungchin 14y ago
How about Google Hangouts (comes as a Firefox plugin)?
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by yungchin 14y ago
What's funny is that they put this project on their IdeaStorm website when they started it a few months ago, to get feedback from Linux devs. Almost all of the higher ranking suggestions were about the need for a higher screen resolution, a
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by yungchin 14y ago
It doesn't really matter whether they encrypt it on disk: the scenario here isn't that their disks get stolen, but that law enforcement makes them decrypt your mail. The only way to get in the way of that is to encrypt it yourself, see GPG
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by yungchin 14y ago
I would not so quickly recall 'ddg', if I didn't have 'duckduckgo' as a memory aid. But when I visit the site I always type ddg.gg - so maybe that should be where duckduckgo.com redirects instead of vice versa?
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by yungchin 14y ago
To be fair, the article doesn't relate what the "insults" (Stallman's words) were that provoked his reaction.
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by yungchin 14y ago
Ok, because no-one's made the obvious point yet, I'll bite... What's more likely? That all the research saying more screen space increases productivity is wrong, or that joeyh is simply denying himself that bonus productivity? So just imagi
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Why Advanced Lithium Ion Batteries Won't Be Recycled(altenergystocks.com)
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Recycling our Non-Toxic Battery Packs(teslamotors.com)
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by yungchin 14y ago
Yup, I was reminded of those too! Feeding the nostalgia: http://web.archive.org/web/20010623203101/http://www.hardwar...
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by yungchin 14y ago
I totally agree with the principle - smaller code base, considerably less potential for security holes - but in practice, how many eyeballs have audited spiped in its one year since release (and how many of those belonged to crypto-experts
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by yungchin 14y ago
As someone who doesn't have a very subtle understanding in English, I can't figure out if this is an endorsement, or very much not one? (serious question! I'd rather fly by your crypto-intuitions than my own...)

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