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I believe it’s a sort of satellite-mounted weapon, and not extricable in any way from full surveillance a la smartphone location or - even worse, multiple exploited access points t…

Note: the code to extract this data has not been released to the public alongside the paper.

Yeah, I actually would like to see a modern HN / Craigslist blend. One thing both sites do well is having a simple quick-loading site which works without JavaScript.

Network effect, reliability, free, anonymous, ability to run without JavaScript. If Craigslist decided to modernize today, they could potentially disrupt the state of things on the…

Labor rights were an important fight... In the 19th century. The era of digital technology and communication ought to have a new approach to Labor laws. I think it's important to r…

When somebody quits, their non-city troops should be abandoned. Otherwise there is too much volatility in the game: say I am about to capture somebody's king and they quit instead:…

Such a genius move, surprising nobody saw it coming. Just think: he will already have access to a large base of customer's roofs (which SolarCity effectively owns) --- 1 million by…

Monero, even with the addition of RingCT, is vulnerable to transaction graph analysis (intersection attacks) that can de-anonymize users. Your comment is highly misleading. RingCT …

Agda is a programming language where "each program in it must terminate and all possible patterns must be matched. Without this feature, the logic behind the language becomes incon…

For example, a typical C program to compute the sum of a list of numbers includes three kinds of parentheses and three kinds of assignment operators in five lines of code Let me ta…

Ethereum could quickly outdate itself by defining a fixed language. How will the language adapt? Very slowly by consensus if Ethereum hopes to become a large market player. Bitcoin…

What are the chances that somebody would do LAX to Santa Barbara ?

Tesla is most certainly valued correctly, with a P/E ratios similar to that of Amazon, and a valuation just slightly above the likes of Snapchat, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Seems to be…

The Basic Income ship has not sailed. Social networks of the future will divulge a percentage of their profits back to active users. I know because I am building one as we speak. N…

Could you please elaborate? I came here to mention that the Soviets built the earliest "balanced Ternary" computers, which is like binary but with a negative digit, which can be mu…

>Giving cars more uninterrupted travel leads to higher speeds and more collisions Not necessarily. In a well-timed system, cars that travel the posted speed limit are indirectly re…

This is similar to an idea that I've been kicking around. It is basically a arbitrary precision beta-reducer for untyped lambda calculus. I think I theoretically would need a machi…