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ZirconCode
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About ZirconCode
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Comment #17493002
What if we make a currency where each ICO is one coin?
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Comment #15261638
I haven't seen much discussion in defending against timing attacks, is it really that difficult? If we introduced long delays and artificial data sizes shouldn't it be possible? A …
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Comment #15243212
I don't have any experience in the field, but reading the paper, it seems impossibly weak and almost useless. This should only work for a very limited type of game, in which case i…
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Comment #15206489
I also thought that it was ironic. He does mention a valid flaw in the one-to-one voting system. I wonder if quadratic voting, in practice, encourages extremism. It also offers mor…
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Comment #15022076
Gates doesn't simply give his money to charity. I would argue that in terms of doing good, investing money in concrete and well founded technology causes a larger impact. We can al…
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Comment #14646696
Dirty water in the pump is bad.
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Comment #14122448
Or he didn't loose it and isn't motivated by money. Which seems also likely since he had the skills and decided not to cash in on the fame either.
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Comment #12281027
An interesting phenomenon in spatial thinking is that scalemakes a big difference. We can think about little objects in our hands, orwe can think of bigger human-sized structures t…
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Comment #10088464
drop the 'shut'; downly, downjoy, and eventually migrate to down.io and down.com, they would certainly have succeeded
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Comment #10084786
Both possibilities mentioned to be native to America seem to have coumarin. Since this is what repels the mosquitoes perhaps it was irrelevant.
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Comment #9963505
Looks like this guy tried, although there really isn't much interesting detail there: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-seal-wearable-swim-mo...
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Comment #9231533
Also interested, I've tried similar things with watir webdriver and a xvfb/headless mode but the only real 'solutions' I've come across are time-outs. Needless to say it could've b…
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Comment #8728563
I just read through your article, I loved it, Thanks for sharing. Here's the script he used if anyone else is curious: https://github.com/runn1ng/runn1ng.github.io/blob/master/pir.…
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Comment #8677137
There has been a lot of strong anti-immigrant/foreigner sentiment floating around recently in the media. This one was actually predicted to be closer to a 50/50 vote. Frankly the p…
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Comment #8526743
Wardriving is also the first thing I thought off (Wigle also being my app of choice). Massive co-ordinated wardriving. I can't help but feel that this is a bad idea.
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Comment #8441176
"Well... next time will be macaroni and cheese"
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Comment #8372874
I find it quite funny that people cannot tell whether this is a joke or not, just says something about the state of things...
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Comment #8135894
The best part of this game is the leaderboard: 7e+177 - maplesyrupguy 1e+73 - Game itself was harder than to hack it 1.3999999999999998e+26 - I learned at least one thing... 1.5555…
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Comment #7994497
you beat me to it by a minute ;)
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Comment #7994494
Many mailing lists only accept plaintext. It's a common standard in older communities (ex. linux).
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Comment #7897092
Where do you shop? My prices have gone up by about 5%. Groceries have mainly remained the same for me. The consumption tax has also been raised, do not forget. I believe Uniqlo pla…
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Comment #7897081
> there are women who are aspiring for a career and this may be a problem for them Steven Pinker wrote about this in his book 'The Blank Slate'. The problem is that women here do n…
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Comment #7888200
I was a bit confuse by the title 'Sass architecture'. Here's the full list of articles: http://design.canonical.com/2014/03/making-ubuntu-com-respon... Still doesn't make much sens…