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jerfelix
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Comment #9894137
I'm curious about their statement that they automatically append a slash as soon as you type the month. The instructions say "MM/YY", but do not indicate whether the month is requi…
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Comment #9093369
> (IIRC you have to be convicted to be pardoned, anyway) Nixon was pardoned without conviction.
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Comment #6484317
So, Agent-1, based on your training and experience, can you conclude, Agent-1, that simply because someone uses a pseudonymous username to conceal their identity, Agent-1, that the…
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Comment #6484246
http://blockchain.info/en/tx/4a0a5b6036c0da84c3eb9c2a884b6ad...
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Comment #6181424
bitmessage may be our only hope.
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Comment #6181406
There should be a bitcoin address for donations. There's no reason to trust me, but if you send me bitcoins, I'll convert to dollars and send to the fund. You preserve your anonymi…
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Comment #5635744
with coinbase, I transferred maybe $600 to Bitcoin. With Dwolla, I transferred maybe $60,000. That should be an indication of the potential. The reason is that with Dwolla / Mt Gox…
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Comment #5209464
Where did you get that, out of that PDF? The number 25% sounds extremely high. I have read this PDF before, a while ago, and I don't remember that stat. A quick glance tells me tha…
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Comment #5175521
Correct me if I am wrong, but the prevailing thought when that article was written (1992) was that digital currency would resemble more of a transferred digital coin, with signatur…
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Comment #5145922
Right now they subdivide to 8 decimal places. .00000001 With minimal change to the protocol they could subdivide to much smaller units. I think "bitcoin" is a confusing name, becau…
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Comment #5004306
Just thought it was interesting to see the term Django take off (with the new movie out). So much for using Google Trends to see what's more popular.
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Comment #4370802
Good catch! You diagnosed my eroblem eerfectly.
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Comment #4370282
Looks cool, but I couldn't make it work. I went to http://patriciopalladino.com/files/hieroglyphy/ and put in a script "alert(1);". This provided me with a script of about 8300 cha…
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Comment #4370241
I use the Roomba technique to eat my corn. Random walks.
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Comment #3625992
Oh, and on your point #3... Right now, I intentionally do not allow you to initiate a text conversation to a phone number. There are a few issues and challenges with that (particul…
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Comment #3625926
Thanks. I wrote the Terms and Conditions at 4AM when wired on coffee. It's hard to keep them brief and yet explain a little bit of the "why". Yeah, I'm not sure about http://txt.gs…
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Comment #3625857
This was one of those "it's a 3-day weekend... I wonder if I can build something and learn something." I decided to cobble something together that permits anonymous texting. It's c…
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Comment #3599397
You may want to see a doctor. It's quite possible you have STCTD Disorder. (Sensitivity to calling things disorders)
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Comment #3598589
A common strategy is to pre-announce when you know a competitor is ready to release a product but yours is in the pipeline. I'm not claiming that this is the case, but if some othe…
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Comment #3594156
Funny that Bagcheck is listed as a "good" example. I was just commenting to someone as to how confusing that site is. There's a box next to the "JOIN" / "SIGN IN" words in the uppe…
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Comment #3591391
With all this power and smarts built into this alarm clock, couldn't they just put in an automatic adjustment for Daylight Savings Time? I would love to have one less clock that I …
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Comment #3578915
I'm glad that the webkit-specific features were prefixed. I just wish they would have chosen a prefix that was a wake-up call to anyone relying on them. Perhaps a prefix like "this…
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Comment #3571082
Here's a frequency chart of the first 3 images: (23, 'comma') (10, 'capital-i') (8, 'slash-slash') (7, 'divided-by') (7, 'capital-l') (6, 'ex') (5, 'slash-slash-backslash-backslash…