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by zwtaylor 9y ago
True, it seems far-fetched at first. We should keep in mind that a even few short years ago theorizing about the US Government operating a widespread domestic electronic surveillance dragnet was still the realm of delusional conspiracy theo
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by zwtaylor 9y ago
Dozens of times in the past few years I've been served relevant ads on some topic instantly after discussing it in person in proximity to a smartphone. I've encountered countless other anecdotal stories from friends. When this hap
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The Opioid Addict on the Trading Floor(bloomberg.com)
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Bootstrapping Urbit from Ethereum(urbit.org)
158 points by zwtaylor 9y ago|164 comments
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Only 802 People Told the IRS About Bitcoin According to Lawsuit(fortune.com)
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Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) [pdf](entethalliance.org)
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by zwtaylor 10y ago
Interesting to see the dramatic rise in deaths related to substance abuse from 1996 onwards, the year Purdue Pharma introduced Oxycontin. It's especially glaring in the most impoverished parts of Appalachia.
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by zwtaylor 10y ago
What did they honestly think was going to happen when they introduced internet terminals across the city? I struggle to understand the city's response to this issue, aggressive filtering could have achieved the same goal of preventing
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by zwtaylor 10y ago
Very awkward day to make this claim.
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by zwtaylor 10y ago
Computer Lab | Brooklyn, New York City | Designer, Web Developer | Onsite or Remote | Contract http://computerlab.io We're a new digital consultancy in NYC looking for a designer we can work with on a number of upcoming pro
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by zwtaylor 11y ago
It doesn't seem to me like he has an agenda. Keep in mind that the "duck boats" are pretty much universally reviled by natives in Philadelphia; they are loud, feel out of place in the neighborhoods they operate in and are ful
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by zwtaylor 11y ago
Location: New York City (NYC) Remote: No Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: Front End Developer & Designer (CSS3, HTML5, jQuery/JavaScript, MySQL, Unix, Git, Photoshop) Portfolio: http://zachtaylor.me Resume:
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by zwtaylor 11y ago
> Spiegel also said he believes there is a tech bubble that will eventually burst. My cynical reading of this is that Snapchat wants to grab as much of retail investors' money before consumer tech valuations implode.
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by zwtaylor 11y ago
I hope you're right, there _must_ be other components to their business model to warrant $116m in investment capital. At face value this all appears beyond foolish, though I'm rooting for them to make me eat my words down the road
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How to turn an Arduino-based proof of concept into a final prototype(digitaljunky.io)
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by zwtaylor 11y ago
MBTI has always struck me as something akin to Astrology for the triple-digit IQ set.
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by zwtaylor 11y ago
Sometime in the last year I started to find myself exclusively using the reviews and filtering within Google Maps to search for restaurants, bars and other businesses. I can't say I've really touched Yelp at all in months. It defi
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by zwtaylor 11y ago
I'm not at all suggesting that young people shouldn't be investing, just that the interface and experience of Robinhood makes investing seem more like a toy or game than a discipline that requires a lot more than a few swipes and
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by zwtaylor 11y ago
I agree that a mobile-only interface is just not enough when you're dealing with something as intricate as investing. They've tried to abstract away the many layers of paperwork from investing/trading, but it leads to things
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by zwtaylor 11y ago
There probably wouldn't have been a ruling at all. The court itself states that Snowden was the principle catalyst for this case to ever go to court in the first place. From the judgement: "Americans first learned about the teleph
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by zwtaylor 11y ago
Likewise, I only use "Haha" for things that are truly funny. "lol" is reserved primarially to lend a degree of self-awareness to a particularly absurd or stupid statement that I say or recieve.
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by zwtaylor 11y ago
> Also, in New York, the roads are often chaotic. In Berlin, I only saw chaos around construction sites, otherwise the roads were safe and orderly. One only needs to bike a couple minutes in New York to start encountering hazards, even i
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by zwtaylor 11y ago
I think that you could be right about this particular vision of Bitcoin as a financial platform. It's my belief that the future of Bitcoin will be analogous to something like Linux; a great deal of financial infrastructure will rely on
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by zwtaylor 11y ago
Location: NYC Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/jQuery, PHP, MySQL Resume: http://zachtaylor.me Email: zachtaylordev @ gmail.com I'm a self-taught web developer and designer who
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by zwtaylor 12y ago
Very cool, do you have any suggestions as far as finding and purchasing cheap land?
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by zwtaylor 12y ago
At the moment fine art is perhaps the most bubbly asset on the planet. The wealthy are clamoring for exotic plays to invest their cash in. A acquaintance of mine who is an art-handler tells me much of the art they move is stored in warehous
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by zwtaylor 12y ago
I don't have a deep grasp of Civil Forfeiture but it seems like this is unusual considering DPR has not been convicted of anything yet. Is this part of a plea bargin or something similar?
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by zwtaylor 12y ago
Sometimes I like to imagine what Twitter or other social networks might look like as a subsidized public utility. I'm sure it would more than likely be poorly executed in practice, but it would go a long ways in eliminating the need to
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Twitpic saved by Twitter just hours before planned shut down(theverge.com)
6 points by zwtaylor 12y ago|0 comments
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by zwtaylor 12y ago
This reminds me of something British enzymologist J.B.S. Haldane once said, "Reality is not only stranger than we suppose, it may be stranger than we can suppose." It's unprovable, but perhaps alien intelligence is already &q

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