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OT: One thing I don't yet understand is why security-critical software is usually written in C instead of a language like SML.

What are the dyno unidling times nowadays?

I clicked thinking it was related to the fatfreecrm project.

How would you get people to invest in ZitCoins? Isn't that problem a major barrier to entry?

I can't answer your question, but I immediately thought of Perlis's preface to SICP: "Algol 60, never to be an active language again, lives on in the genes of Scheme and Pascal." D…

I think it's marking the positions of the word 'Wolfram' on the document.

Happy New Year from Portugal.

I haven't done any of those things. Yet I'd wage it would be better to live on a shelter than on the streets, unless one has some serious psychological demons, in which case an hos…

Why indeed. Where I live we have vacant free shelters where one can get a bed, a shower and a meal, and yet there are those who absolutely insist in pan handling for their next bot…

HN everyday. FB about once a semester. I already spend too much time on more worthy information to even remember it exists. Its emails are automatically moved to a maildir folder t…

I tried running, but it didn't help at all. the only thing that has worked, so far, has been a strict meal/sleep schedule and melatonin.

I'd really like to get an honest try at the motion to see how far it goes.

> WikiLeaks’ motivation is that of a court jester Can anyone elaborate on that?

if the sources were deemed extremely reliable one would imagine that it would be enough confirmation.

Do you have reasons to suspect that wikileaks has withheld leaked non-US documents?

And the realization of this really undermines the assumption that these leaks threaten the US national security. These could have been leaked privately to an enemy just as easily -…

His books should be worth reading...

The comment doesn't justify any sort of spying. It's not a threat, but a seemingly true observation. Schneier has said essentially the same.

I don't know much about US law and I'm wondering what could have happened if he didn't hand them over the damn device without some sort of proof of ownership or a formal request.

There's a video on youtube of someone typing on a Kinesis Advantage, where one can see a lot of wrist adduction to reach the tab key. The Maltron keyboard might be a better option …

I'd say "Everything just works as expected"

Yeah. I wish heroku offered more than 5MB on its' freebie plan.