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by abc123xyz 12y ago
We the end buyers should come together and make ourselves heard: 1. Cheaper ebooks (many reasons vs pbooks) 2. No fracking DRM This whole hachette vs amazon thing is bullshit with the consumers and authors being left on the side while these
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
Apologies for being skeptical, your whitepaper does seem to be more indepth unlike the Storj scam which will probably unravel soon If this filecoin does take off and does what is being promised I will personally add hundreds of terrabytes o
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
whats to stop the node replying with the hash of the file saying "yes the file is here" when in reality no file is there
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
Both smell like a scam, "coincidentally" today storj started fundraising by getting people to send them bitcoins for useless storjcoins they created, the worst part is people falling for such a scam, then again there's a fool
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
Is this Ripple in disguise? Who are the people behind this project??
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
While at 143 million people Russia has the largest population, this is rapidly shrinking, Russian internet (runet as they call it) was already mostly balkanised mainly due to language. I find it amusing that they are doing this in "the
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
In Star Trek the replicators were never able to make Latinum, hence probably why its so valuable to Ferengi
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
I read before somewhere that US estate agents managed to get an exemption from various KYC and money laundering requirements...
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
I really hope this DOESNOT take off at EU level The level of tracking and privacy violations online is already disturbing and downright creepy This would take it to a whole new level. There are other bad things possible, for example, I can
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
We made close to €20,000 EUR last month via bitpay The cost .... $30 USD! Then our bank charged about €24 to receive those 25 or so transactions, Bitpay pay the next business day to the bank account, its really really nice!! Fraud rate? 0%
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
It would take a few hours of coding to throw together a url shortening service just for your needs, and since no one else be using it the amount of coding is trivial!
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
Amazon themselves have actively recommended this reship.com when I asked about delivery before for certain product.
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
This is only in US, I went to expedia, no bitcoin option, well that was a let down.
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
About $10,000 per server, equipment (very heavy) was shipped from US so there were import duties but it worked out a little bit cheaper than buying in EU in end, and had other reasons to shop in US. Anyway its a once off cost, that accounta
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
cost! Cost!! COST!!! I collocate 5x 4u servers with 24 and 36 drive bays, 128GB ram, SSD drives squished in for OS, for a total (multiple raid 5 volumes for each 6 disks) usable space for my project of 375 TB Power and 2-3gbit of bandwidth
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
Am I the only who actually enjoys driving (good cars)?
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
The other thread of this was deleted, Google must have put pressure on Hacker News its interesting to see censorship at work here
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
Did you actually follow the DMCA procedure and send them a letter to their registered agent, as is the law? Anyways the worlds largest pirate ebook site LIBGEN.ORG is being run out of Moscow apartment, so pot, kettle, black
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
rapidbleed! search rapidshare for "enc" http://api.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/rsapi.cgi?sub=getaccountde... . accountid=46048788 firstname=mandeep lastname=sihag servertime=1397038309 addtime=1359871506 username=h
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
http://api.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/rsapi.cgi?sub=getaccountde... accountid=46048788 firstname=mandeep lastname=sihag servertime=1397038309 addtime=1359871506 username=heavenlybeast directstart=1 country=IN mailflags=n l
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
Still works... http://i.imgur.com/RLXeySY.png
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by abc123xyz 12y ago
Rapidshare is still vulnerable, search for "enc" session cookie, can login as any user then by editing this cookie :D it also works via their api fun fun fun
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by abc123xyz 13y ago
There is a site out there on the underweb, which I will not name, that sells 1 million ebooks for $0.01 and another million at 1/20th the list prices (so a $100 text book for $5). The pirates as always are well ahead.
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by abc123xyz 13y ago
Its funny that people referred to bitcoin as a ponzy scheme Now we know that the protocol itself is actually quite good (despite mtgox trying to blame it) And the problem lies at the interface between bitcoin and the traditional payment sys
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by abc123xyz 13y ago
Well you do have to wonder as to who pays their bills
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by abc123xyz 13y ago
Cheaper prices would be one. As a merchant when a customer chooses to pay with bitcoin I pass on the savings (that would instead go to middlemen like paypal and credit card companies) onto the customers, and they love it judging by feedback
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by abc123xyz 13y ago
Erm near zero transaction costs and irreversibility are a HUGE appeal, anyone who sells online and had to deal with Paypal and Credit cards would tell you plenty of nightmares about frozen accounts, chargebacks and chargeback fees and rampa
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by abc123xyz 13y ago
Trusting a mobile app with my passwords? Sure I may as well email all the passwords to the NSA instead
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by abc123xyz 13y ago
More reasons to use http://ebookoid.com