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Intel NUCs are pretty neat

The first 2 lines of the article are these: "The fundamental theories on which the modern science of political economy is based are these: That under primitive conditions men lived…

I share your contempt towards Jobs and everything his work and Apple represent, but man your arguments are weird lol.

This is the typical comment where preconceptions are so strong that they ignore, and even go literally against, the evidence at hand. In this case, the news is precisely about the …

Bitcoin miner's dilemma: Should I mine where it's hot for the free solar energy or should I mine where it's cold for the extra refrigeration?

Who said I am American?

Legally? Going by whose laws? The legitimate owners of all that wealth are the indigenous inhabitants of the territory it was extracted from by invaders. According to indigenous la…

Me too. It would be cleaner, unpolluted, less bloody, and the native cultures would probably be blossoming and making interesting stuff by combining their knowledge with outside in…

Empire which was revoked due to being an illegitimate and genocidal regime. Your argument suggests they should be allowed to re-steal now what they would have stolen back then.

There's tons of better sources, but this can give you an idea: "NSA 'engaged in industrial espionage' - Snowden" http://www.bbc.com/news/25907502

Looking forward to see who sanctions who.

Everyone should remember that the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos while reading this article. Even the title is propagandistic in style "...can fly safely over U.S. skies"

I wholeheartedly agree with you.

The tone is admittedly aggressive, but his feet are way more in the ground than those of the authors of the article. What those guys are doing is essentially illegal.

The righteous West is -has always been- corrupt and unworthy of trust.

Indonesia

How is that distinction relevant? I want my data not to be with NSA as much as I want it not to be with hackers or marketers. In some ways, even moreso.

That's just being consistent with the reality of the Bitcoin market. BTC-e, whatever its structure, is one of the main Bitcoin exchanges, and as such it is necessary that it is rep…

This is clearly not the place to ask this question about mining. This is a thread about a software development on a whole different side of Bitcoin. If you are genuinely curious ab…

Every single Bitcoin news thread here at Hacker News is hijacked by some for of another of negativity. Every single one, top comment is always negative. The day Paypal announced it…

What really blows my mind is that Australia is still highly regarded as a low-corruption country. Same goes for the UK, after they were caught fixing the Libor rates, essentially f…

They are more familiar with the current system, but after you have done it for the first time, you realise that electrum is actually way easier than banks. People just think its ha…

I have owned for a long time. This is not a good time to spend, that is all. The price seems to be artificially depressed right now, especially considering all the big companies st…

So, you start by assuming the answer to your own question: "This means either merchants aren't seeing too many bitcoin sales OR a lot of these sales are happening offchain through …

It is way easier to "be your own bank", using free software like electrum or the reference Bitcoin client, than trying to "be you own email" by setting up your own email service an…