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In 1998, Bruce Sterling predicted we would have augmented reality “pokkecons”(twitter.com)
2 points by everettForth 10y ago|0 comments
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by everettForth 11y ago
The Senate is going to meet May 31st to prevent the shut down from happening. This was their most successful vote on Saturday. 57 out of 60 votes needed. http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/114/senate
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by everettForth 11y ago
All the Democrat Senators voted in favor. Why do the Democrats want NSA bulk spying? http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/114/senate/1/194
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by everettForth 11y ago
Here's a live webcast of the senate floor. http://www.senate.gov/floor/
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by everettForth 11y ago
The Senate is holding an unusual weekend vote tomorrow to extend section 215 of the Patriot Act 2 more months. If that vote fails, NSA bulk spying on U.S. citizens is illegal on June 1st. Here's how senators have voted in the past. h
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by everettForth 11y ago
This is all assuming that we don't have a space elevator. tldr; it costs a lot of money to launch mass into space. Sending 1 pound of water into space costs $50,000. This is more than the price of gold on earth. A space elevator chan
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by everettForth 12y ago
For me, this was a key part of the sides: "Goal: Automated conversion of our C code to Go. Target: our C code, not all C code."
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A reminder to be cautious merging pull requests on NYE(github.com)
7 points by everettForth 12y ago|1 comments
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by everettForth 12y ago
People are talking about how updating the date isn't legal unless something copyrightable has changed. I'm not a lawyer, but I've been in meetings where management decided the year needs to update, so that's when I start
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by everettForth 12y ago
Too bad it looks like congress dropped this amendment that passed with an overwhelming majority in a backdoor deal over the past 48 hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8703331
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NSA amendment to block backdoor spying removed from spending bill(facebook.com)
5 points by everettForth 12y ago|0 comments
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Capuchin monkeys aren't fooled by expensive brands(journal.frontiersin.org)
2 points by everettForth 12y ago|0 comments
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by everettForth 12y ago
The question reminded me of this classic: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/05/18/ruby-on-rails-...
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by everettForth 12y ago
Bitcoin has some limitations with microfinancing. 1. Transaction times are long (6 blocks to confirm) 2. Transaction Fees of 0.0001 BTC could likely incur for transactions smaller than 0.01 BTC. This is about a $0.03 USD transaction fee for
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by everettForth 12y ago
I have heard SQLite described as "alien technology". Super fun blog way of looking at it!
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by everettForth 12y ago
This sounds like some trivial code, not even fully functioning, that was written during a hackathon. Why does New Jersey care? It wouldn't even make sense as a business model anymore, because asic miners are so much more efficient tha
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by everettForth 12y ago
Thermodynamically speaking, a perfectly reversible computer which erases no bits (and creates no entropy) approaches zero watts per operation to run. Kurzweil has pointed out that one can think of the 10^15 state changes per second going on
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by everettForth 12y ago
The jacket Ryan Gosling is wearing has a front pocket. I don't think it's the Perry Ellis Bomber Jacket. His boots also don't look like Steve Madden boots. This is a great concept, but it would be a lot more meaningful to me
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by everettForth 12y ago
Assuming you perfectly use the maximum capacity, at which point, the service is probably useless because no one can upload new photos. It's super easy to do this if you're already running your website on ec2, and S3 for a few hund
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by everettForth 12y ago
This is the only person I know who is testing it empirically: http://thedanplan.com/
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by everettForth 12y ago
https://twitter.com/EverettForth/status/495725720464023552
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How I Accumulated 2M Stellar in Less Than 24 Hours(medium.com)
104 points by everettForth 12y ago|62 comments
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by everettForth 12y ago
Facebook has nothing to do with this. If everyone on Earth were given 5000 Stellars right now, how many people do you think would be willing to sell all of their Stellars for a beer? It's basic economics.
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by everettForth 12y ago
I almost didn't even want to comment on this, but it really isn't a big deal. It looks like a screenshot taken out of context of someone who sent a private message asking someone to look at my account.
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by everettForth 12y ago
Hi everyone, I'm just excited about Stellar, and buying it early on. I'm also a software engineer, so if anyone has some cool ideas for things that could be built with a large stellar wallet, please let me know. I'm especial
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by everettForth 12y ago
Does anyone want to sell their Stellar?
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by everettForth 12y ago
This looks a lot like Tomato Sherpa, a startup in Berkeley. http://tomatosherpa.com/
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by everettForth 12y ago
"A weighted random number generator just produced a new batch of numbers." "Let's use them to build narratives!" -- http://xkcd.com/904/
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by everettForth 12y ago
Rep. Thomas Massie ( https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie ) , who is partially responsible for this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/eff-statement-massie-l... is going to serve on a hear
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by everettForth 12y ago
As a general rule, I think that stock fluxuation news should stay off of HN. However, in this case, we're currently looking at a 9.88% decrease in AMZN. That's roughly a $14Billion change in the company that nearly every startup

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