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Comment · 12 years ago
And then your teammate then takes a week to build an API that's only compatible with your hacked out code you wrote in twenty minutes. Now you've wasted both your time and her time when both need to be re-written.
Comment · 12 years ago
I really don't buy this. Attribution of anyone is incredibly difficult. It's easy for the US to officially point fingers and turn it into a geopolitical play. There is every incentive to do so: it's plausible, the media buys it, and it buys major points in the Us vs. Them narrative.
Comment · 12 years ago
Yep. Solar wind also contributes. It's possible to set the solar panels to be orthogonal to these forces which can induce maximum drag.
Comment · 12 years ago
I think the actual confusion is about a centralized distributed system vs a peer-to-peer distributed system, which is probably what (still totally wrong) PhD student meant.
Comment · 12 years ago
I agree with you in that this is an excellent and demonstrably valuable use case for Bitcoin - we saw the same thing happen in Cyprus with the protests there.

I don't think I agree about this meaning there will be a bright future for it. Venezuela and Cyprus are unstable, extremely corrupt governments. Bitcoin thrives in that environment. A bet on Bitcoin seems to be a bet that those kinds of environments will endure and are inevitable, which is vaguely reminiscent of 2nd Amendmenters and the way they want their guns because it'll help them defend against the "corrupt, evil police state".

The problem is that America isn't actually a corrupt, evil police state and neither is it truly on the verge of imploding. I would bet against Bitcoin, at least in America, for this reason.

Comment · 12 years ago
It's pretty low to disguise "more money for investors" as a half-assed argument for better employee outcomes.
Comment · 12 years ago
An open source Boundary?
Comment · 12 years ago
I prefer Papers 3 - would rather be in control of my saved papers than rely on a SaaS that could go out of business whenever.
Comment · 12 years ago
Ok, so you know that "facebook" is part of the original hash. Not following how you can also derive "mypassword" from it. If you have a good strong master password, rainbow tables won't be able to crack the hash.
Comment · 12 years ago
Compromising one of these passwords does not at all mean that all the other passwords are compromised. You can't figure out the original master password from a hashed, compromised password.
Comment · 12 years ago
As opposed to a password manager, where it's trivial to know every password within if you know the master password?
Comment · 12 years ago
Really? I find that most Berliners speak wonderful English.
Comment · 12 years ago
Is this an Impala competitor?

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