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by codex 13y ago
The potential of Bitcoin is that volume can grow to be so high that the spreads are negligible. Meanwhile, bank interchange fees remain stubbornly high.
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by codex 13y ago
San Francisco is over-hyped, possibly because of the high concentration of bloggers who live in and around the city. I prefer New York, Chicago, Boston, and Seattle.
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NSA Was Able to Capture Live Data From Compromised iPhones in 2008(macrumors.com)
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by codex 13y ago
I think there are two variables here: A: the number of people radicalized into anti-American terrorists B: the opportunity that As have to cause damage I suspect A went up in the late nineties and continues to be high-ish today. B went up
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by codex 13y ago
I believe it's a lot easier to down a plane than to kill 180 people in a shopping mall. The latter would require much more explosive given the wide open spaces. You can bring down a plane much more easily. Mainly, though, people feel
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by codex 13y ago
It depends, I think. Human willpower and resources are a finite resource. If a terrorist could bring down a plane by clicking a button on a website, we would see hundreds of planes downed every day. If it takes a day of preparation, we&#x2
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by codex 13y ago
That's the idea. There were more people waiting for trains inside the station than waiting in line at the metal detector. Russian officials claim that the barricades reduced casualties.
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by codex 13y ago
I think it's pretty weak, both to politicians and to common sense, to use the fact that these bombers failed as an argument to reduce security. They were able to bring bombs on planes . Given enough opportunity, eventually an attemp
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by codex 13y ago
Since 9/11 there have been no highjacking attempts, true, but there have been multiple bombing attempts on aircraft by would be suicide bombers, and these bombers were able to evade the limited screening employed at the time. As bomb
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by codex 13y ago
Russian train stations employ metal detectors and barricades. Just as the TSA has been ridiculed in the United States, these were similarly derided in Russia. And yet this combination was effective in limiting the number of casualties in t
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by codex 13y ago
In a far off land, bounceyball was the national sport. A funny cross between basketball and volleyball, it was hugely popular, and to be a professional player was considered the most prestigious occupation. A minor scandal erupted when was
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by codex 13y ago
To any given government, Bitcoin looks like just another foreign currency. In many foreign countries, you can get dollar denominated bank accounts. How is Bitcoin any different than this status quo?
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by codex 13y ago
Bitcoin does solve an economic problem: it sidesteps the usurious interchange fees of Visa and MasterCard, allowing low friction micro payments to become a reality on the web. One doesn't even need to hold any Bitcoins to make use of
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by codex 13y ago
It is reassuring to see that the US is not falling behind in the spy vs spy arms race. Technology is making it easier and easier to conceal conspiracies or national security initiatives. If applied judiciously, this is a valuable asset.
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by codex 13y ago
You'll want Burke's Connections: http://www.amazon.com/Connections-James-Burke/dp/0743299558
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by codex 13y ago
This post could be perfect satire in the style of Flowers for Algernon. Unfortunately I think the author is serious.
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by codex 13y ago
It does have the advantage of being extremely quiet. If you find yourself looking at it in disgust, you could probably put it inside the hollowed shell of an old Mac Pro. Or just put it behind your monitor or under your desk.
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How did Elon Musk build and organize Tesla Motors from the ground up?(quora.com)
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by codex 13y ago
No, Groklaw is a freak show which used a flimsy excuse to shut down for reasons unknown.
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by codex 13y ago
Not really: the stipulations in the agreement you make with the cloud provider explicitly cover data rights. Rights to subpoena data is completely different.
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by codex 13y ago
Does this mean I should buy a gun? You sound just like the NRA.
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by codex 13y ago
He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it.
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by codex 13y ago
In what way have my liberties been reduced? On the ground, nothing has changed. Now five organizations have my metadata instead of four.
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by codex 13y ago
It's a bit laughable to presume that the NSA would be interested in a random company's laundry, or would divulge it to anyone else. Snowden's leaks do not contain any evidence of this, and yet it is well known that the Chine
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by codex 13y ago
In the United States, any student with money can find a college which will accept them.
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by codex 13y ago
I use The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/ .
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by codex 13y ago
The world, especially the intelligence world, is more than black and white. A myriad hues exist, some of them dark and dirty, some grey. Here is a portrait of a man who is color blind. Experiencing the world only through a computer, he l
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by codex 13y ago
Wouldn't that make it a proof and not an opinion?
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by codex 13y ago
Doesn't Ray own a business that sells supplements?
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by codex 13y ago
“The status quo is just not going to work,” said draper. “The existing breadth of industry and various interests in California is untenable.” Are there specific examples of problems that splitting CA would fix? It seems that a split would

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