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by nmjohn 12y ago
How are you all of you supposedly smart people (you're on hackernews - does that not mean anything anymore?) making such baseless and ignorant comments? If you don't have a degree in a related field or haven't spent any amoun
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Please don't spread fear when you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. The probability of ebola spreading to any significant portion of the united states is virtually nil.
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by nmjohn 12y ago
It's a little worse because with curl | sh - you inhernetly aren't able to check a md5 hash or a signature to verify the file is actually what you wanted. Now while even with binaries people might now actually do that often enough
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by nmjohn 12y ago
That's not 100% accurate - rather how you make it sound like it works isn't quite right. Yes, all your trades are tracked and you will pay taxes on short term gains and can offset tax liabilities with losses. But that isn't s
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Yep, I can see it now. "I see you're at home so I know you're not out doing something, why aren't you responding to me???" - From a parent, significant other, boss, etc. Society in general doesn't really &quot
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> It's like he has these thoughts actually bottled up but cannot control them It is not at all like he simply can't control them & would have the thoughts regardless. That's not really how the disease works. I'm n
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I'll paraphrase a comment I wrote on reddit about this yesterday. Alibaba has a PE ratio one tenth of amazon - and is already a profitable company. This is the exact opposite of what a bubble is. This is not at all like the kind of IPO
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by nmjohn 12y ago
You're getting upset over nothing. Really, you are. There is a LOT to get upset at TSA et al. over, but all this hurt the anti-TSA case. It's 10 vs 14. Neither is significant, neither matters. All measurements have errors, if a so
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> No, you are not buying what they are offering. They are offering a ticket on certain conditions, which include not doing this. If you do not accept those conditions then you are not allowed to buy the ticket. They can state whatever co
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I normally would take a cynical approach and agree that gaming reddit is that easy. But when my fairly conservative parents hate a company enough to desire government regulation against them... That company truly must be that horrible.
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> and people cheating like this screw with the airline's No. That is not cheating. The airlines offer something for sale and I buy it. If buying a third ticket makes my entire trip cheaper - it would be illogical for me not to buy
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I couldn't agree more, though with one small caveat. > Rather than making you scroll through full-width photos like Instagram, Tiiny lets you get a constantly-updated look at what lots of your friends are up to in a single glance. E
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by nmjohn 12y ago
This link was posted yesterday [0]. The passwords were not leaked from google, parts of it maybe were new, but other parts are suspected to be copied from older leaks. The actual dump can be found if you look for it - with full passwords. W
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by nmjohn 12y ago
The passwords didn't come from google. It was someplace you used your email with that password. It had a couple of my emails all with the same throwaway password I only use on sites that I either don't trust or have no intention o
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> Doesn't that mean there is a causative effect, or are they saying it just a correlation? Unless causality is clearly articulated, it never should be assumed. Also, it never would be stated if there was not statistically significan
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Cool idea! FYI, when I clicked the 'locate' button and denied it access, the spinner just kept going and I couldn't manually enter a location.
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by nmjohn 12y ago
It appears they are just using the github repo for the issue tracker. The issue tracker was quite active until the middle of july, at which point it just stopped. I'm not sure if they moved platforms or abandoned the project. In either
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> Yet for some reason, hardware manufacturers keep trying to inflict these yokes of oppression upon us. Statements like that are so frustrating. Manufacturers wouldn't be making thin clients if there wasn't a demand for them. I
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by nmjohn 12y ago
The full list was leaked, my email was on it but I've never used that password for an email account in my life. It's my throwaway "I don't trust this website" password. I use it for a reason!
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I saw the sourceforge vandalism right after it happened. Gregory Maxwell confirmed in irc he received multiple emails from satoshi's address. You can see that in #bitcoin-dev IRC logs online. [0] As for the rest of it... That is a whol
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Except when people want to believe something or have fear (of losing mass amounts of money) of something, they tend to act irrationally. He wouldn't be able to convince myself of his identity without one of his private keys, but there
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Stripe? A breeze. At least in comparison to other payment providers (I've worked with stripe, auth.net, and paypal.)
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I have as well in the US. It's almost disingenuous for apple to make it sound like this is such new technology... But I'm not going to complain, now that apple has nfc payments retailer adoption is going to go up so that's a
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I believe gmaxwell mentioned on #bitcoin-dev that he was emailed.
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I'm not sure if they do this or not, I don't think they do, but your post made me consider something else. When I, in the US, want to send a letter to Europe, or China, or wherever, do they print and mail it in the US or in those
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> And, of course, if you seriously mis-step in either pursuit it can cost you the farm. The trick is not to do that. Moreover (and much less commonly reported on) you can do just about everything wrong, and still get lucky. A good poker
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> There was a great article published in PLOS several years ago (ATM I don't have the link) showing mathematically that the odds were about 1 in a million that an observational study like the above would turn out to be a "true&
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by nmjohn 12y ago
In aggregate, billions. It would be impossible to calculate per-viewer. [0] The thing is, at present they are paid by every cable subscriber, not just the ones who actually watch the channel. So by switching to the model you suggest, there
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by nmjohn 12y ago
If there is an external server that is vulnerable to a brute force attack, it is trivial to exploit it anonymously. People who get caught trying to brute force servers (do people even get caught for this???) are the lowest hanging fruit and
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I completely agree with you, I would love more control over tweet priority. However, I think part of what makes twitter more unique is that you can't. With reddit and HN, I _only_ see what enough other people have upvoted to a point wh

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