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Comment · 11 years ago
>There's no support to reach out to

This is my biggest fear when using anything Google-related.

They are notoriously difficult to get in touch with, and as such I probably wouldn't even considering signing up for this service.

Getting access to a real person when there is a problem with one of my domains is very valuable to me.

Comment · 12 years ago
This really hit me recently when I left the house after doing some cryptography research.

When I "locked" the wooden door with a piece of metal that has been photographed by probably countless cameras... I just had to laugh at myself and wonder why I bad been programmed to do this seemingly pointless action my entire life.

Comment · 12 years ago
This isn't news.

"The researchers also plan to develop a water splitter than runs on electricity produced by solar energy."

Unfortunately that approach would be less efficient that simply transferring the electrical energy to an electric motor.

Light > Electricity > Hydrogen > Electricity > Electric Motor

is longer than

Light > Electricity > Electric Motor

Comment · 12 years ago
Looks great!

But your "votes" section that I browsed seems to be listed rather oddly.

Items seem to be listed randomly.

They don't seem to be listed by title, date, number of votes, overall score, or anything really.

It would be nice too if you allowed the user to rank each list by whichever column they felt was most important to them.

Comment · 12 years ago
I remember clicking through those same pictures a few days back and I was under the impression that I was telling the observers what pictures I thought were more beautiful, not safer.

Did they just re-label the same data here or is this another separate program?

Comment · 12 years ago
They were in business for 40 years... and Google maps just recently started incorrectly listing their hours.

I highly doubt that the google maps error caused or even contributed to the downfall of their apparently well established business.

Comment · 12 years ago
>They have been able to compromise certain Tor users in specific situations. Historically this has been done by finding an exploit for the Tor Browser Bundle or by exploiting a user that has misconfigured Tor.

I'm not touching TOR until I figure out how they managed to capture Ross Ulbricht.

I highly doubt that he had his TOR misconfigured.

Comment · 12 years ago
>The two techniques that most help me to fall asleep when I’m under pressure are to write down what’s on my mind (to get it off my mind) and to breathe deeply if I’m still staying awake — in to a count of three, out to a count of six.

A friend of mine once told me as I was feigning sleep one evening as usual to: "just breathe like you are already asleep"

And 5 minutes later I was out like a light.

Comment · 12 years ago
Bingo. Bang on.

This is exactly what I meant.

Comment · 12 years ago
This website's UX is just amazing.

There are at least 2, sometimes 3 suggestive links enticing you to view the next section of the single homepage.

I must say, good show OCB.

They could certainly stand to lose the flash requirement but other than that it's a pretty great brand oriented website.

Comment · 12 years ago
The willy report depicts whale buy bots that were buying large amounts of Bitcoin on a drip feed styled system.

The "investigator" of the free willy report got it wrong.

Comment · 12 years ago
The willy report was quickly debunked as being FUD.

Those bots were just the dark pool bots that larger players paid Mt Gox to buy large amounts of Bitcoin on a drip feed system over time so as not to spook the markets.

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