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by zwtaylor 13y ago
In his statement, Morell said he knows how that sounds but, "when I say that it is time for my family, nothing could be more real than that." It's difficult not to be immediately skeptical at this retirement considering the
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CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell Retires(npr.org)
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by zwtaylor 13y ago
Thus far it seems like Mr. Snowden has taken the utmost precaution in maintaining OPSEC while releasing these documents. I wouldn't be surprised if he was long gone from Hong Kong days ago or never there to begin with.
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by zwtaylor 13y ago
Quite the read. One part in particular struck me as highly significant to our current situation with PRISM. "With this tech in place, the government doesn't have to put you in jail. They can do something more sinister. They can j
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by zwtaylor 13y ago
This is neat, it reminds me of the app 'Bloom' that Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers created a few years ago. It would be nice to have some sort of interface where the user could modify characteristics of the audio as I noticed that o
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by zwtaylor 13y ago
Additionally, there are still areas in Philadelphia where "youse" is more than acceptable.
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by zwtaylor 13y ago
That this news is being released the Sunday prior to Memorial Day is certainly no coincidence.
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by zwtaylor 14y ago
New Mt. Gox users are reporting the verification queue to be at least 14,000. http://www.thebitcointrader.com/2013/04/the-mtgox-verificati...
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by zwtaylor 14y ago
Fellow Philadelphian here. I agree entirely, these are terribly designed and I hardly ever see anyone use these. The fact that much of Philadelphia is covered with trash is a testament to the fact that these have done very little to allevia
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by zwtaylor 14y ago
This recent spike may have a lot of do with this just-issued repot from the Treasury department. http://www.fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G...
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by zwtaylor 14y ago
If everyone took your second piece of advice and only used it for discrete transactions, then Bitcoin would be worth exponentially more than it is now, which would invalidate your first piece of advice. The number of bitcoin users is still
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by zwtaylor 14y ago
If you delete the entirety of the URL past the ".html" on a blocked NYT article you can bypass the paywall.