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by codex 13y ago
Wealth, by definition, is what other people want. Therefore, by making what other people want, you're making wealth. Making more wealth is what drives society forward.
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by codex 13y ago
The main selling point of Uber is the app--but eventually Yellow Cab, et al will also have slick apps. What's the long term competitive advantage, besides evading regulation? Self driving cars, most likely.
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by codex 13y ago
This kind of education is priceless. Once the kids figure out what's been happening, they'll never listen to Creationists, or any other religious dogma, in the same way again.
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by codex 13y ago
I suspect the intrigue and conspiracy is the dark money at work. Water vapor traps heat very well. CO2 does too. If enough CO2 gets into the atmosphere to heat Earth enough that more water vapor collects in the atmosphere, there's a
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by codex 13y ago
A large boulder has no agency or volition, but landslides still kill people. Cause of death need not be singleton, either.
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by codex 13y ago
Usually you already need a good pitch to have intercourse.
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by codex 13y ago
Can anyone explain how this compound differs from the NAD you can buy as a supplement, if at all?
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by codex 13y ago
I think that many comments are negative because most new things fail--especially in software and the Internet, where only the best survive. Is it doing anyone a service to pretend otherwise?
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by codex 13y ago
Could he harassment, but, on the other hand, plenty of governments would love to get their hands on the rest of the Snowden cache. This may be one such attempt. Besides the US, you have China and Russia.
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by codex 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneak_and_peek_warrant
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by codex 13y ago
It's easy enough to engage the local authorities, but if they won't cooperate, a unilateral op. in the name of national security is not unheard of.
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by codex 13y ago
Appelbaum is in possession of stolen information. He is being surveilled and surreptitiously searched like any common suspect might be. The FBI conducts secret sneak and peaks all the time, legally. Public arrests may or may not happen,
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by codex 13y ago
Snowden indiscriminately leaked a huge trove of classified information to the press. Governments desperately want to know what has been compromised and what has not. What Snowden stole, they want to steal back, or at least catalog. Is t
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by codex 13y ago
Every organization generates information of some kind; nation states especially, but even aid groups and corporations. Spying on the heads of these organizations is a very efficient way to get at the most important, post-filtered informati
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by codex 13y ago
Changes to Gmail made by a couple of engineers would so more to protect privacy than GNU ever could.
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by codex 13y ago
Some things you just don't share with anyone. That's one of the reasons we still wear clothes.
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by codex 13y ago
Supporting more memory carries significant performance penalties. Until they make jumbo DIMMs which are as fast as smaller ones, perhaps it's not a good idea to offer the option.
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Review: NSA snooping should stay in place(cnn.com)
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by codex 13y ago
The core argument that Bitcoin is deflationary is irrelevant to the fitness of Bitcoin, at least for online transactions. To me, the chief value of Bitcoin is that it enables super cheap micro (and macro) transactions online. Goodbye silly
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by codex 13y ago
How does YCVC work exactly? YC invests in startups directly already, so why bring in unnecessary partner money? Is it that the YC front runs the investment and the YCVCs are allowed to come on board slightly later at worse terms? If so,
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by codex 13y ago
I am not surprised by the lack of comments given how badly written this article is. I can only imagine the upvotes are in sympathy with the title.
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by codex 13y ago
Personally, every single bicycle commuter I have known has been involved in an accident, often multiple. The consequences are much worse than an auto accident. If I didn't wear a helmet, I might not have the courage to ride at all--e
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by codex 13y ago
It doesn't help that Snowden divulged all the classified information he could get his hands on, even that unrelated to domestic spying. It comes across as a desire for fame rather than a principled action.
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by codex 13y ago
Soylent is going to have a very, very hard time with new customer acquisition. Right now it's riding a wave of novelty, but as it solves a problem very few people have, and solves it in a way that leaves people craving the innate sati
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by codex 13y ago
SMB and NFSv4 have support for something similar in their protocols. Nice to see it generalized. The file protocol versions only chain RPCs on success. You can't operate directly on the result.
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by codex 13y ago
Interesting: to a close approximation, the odds of a positive payoff from YC (vs opportunity cost) is about the same as buying a California scratch ticket--about one in ten.
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by codex 13y ago
Not if Google also requested images from invalid addresses. But usually you'll get a failure in the SMTP transaction if the email address is not valid. Otherwise a simple typo would send your important email into a black hole.
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by codex 13y ago
This is a shame. Spotify's Ogg Vorbis streaming is the poorest quality of all streaming services. I wish they'd switch to a real codec.
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by codex 13y ago
The NSA has stated that they cannot be effective at paying internationally without picking up data on Americans every so often. The effort to reduce the number of accidental collections to zero would be astronomical. Given that, Americans
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by codex 13y ago
In my experience many homeless are mentally ill, but not to the level where they should be committed to an institution. This puts society in a bind: do you take away their freedoms because they are odd ducks (treatment is not yet possible)

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