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tinfoilman

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    Comment #15249105

    I remeber them doing this with Galileo flown in to jupiter. Mixed sadness and pure impressiveness. However there was some talk that it might have caused a nuclear explosion on Jupi…

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    Comment #15089384

    Make up your own mind but Minergate has a rep for stealing your hash and lower hash speeds than if you do its yourself https://www.reddit.com/r/BytecoinBCN/comments/6dh2ci/minerga.…

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    Comment #14636242

    Check out Monero, Tech wise interesting from a privacy point of view. You are right the web is tracked so even if Monero itself has untraceable transactions, buying Xmr generally r…

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    Comment #14611094

    It is commonly accepted that the mxGoT willy bot was the cause of the price rise in 2013 from 200 to 1000 dollars. History Gox started as a trading platform in 2010 by McCaleb. He …

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    Comment #13616975

    If you care about Privacy in your crypto Monero really is the current fore runner. BTC is only pseudonymous and given KYC of the exchanges everything in bitcoin land can be traced.…

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    Comment #13089774

    Not out the box, To make use of Segwit wallet software must upgrade to support it, that is a lot of work for Wallets Devs that generally are not getting paid for their work. It is …

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    Comment #12725809

    The UK is not going to stop, they are just going to make it legal thanks to the UK’s Investigatory Powers Bill. There is no opposition to it in the commons, minus SNP, LibDems I th…

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    Comment #11086102

    This is one of the best series around There are 3 seasons, they might be torrent-able, I am not admitting anything :/

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    Comment #10459228

    I got me an AppleTV Gen2 and I love it. Even actively looking for more Gen2s but they are rather expensive now. The Gen2 could be rooted, and XMBC installed with Addons. It offers …

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    Comment #10458956

    I been looking at this for years just so I can finally finish the game as the copy I have has the last level bug where you cannot keep the doctors happy and they all leave. That be…

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    Comment #10458455

    Star Citizen. Really interests me. I believe it is the next version of EvE so been keeping my eye on it for ages. However I do think they are going to have massive issues bring it …

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    Comment #10458343

    I am really impressed with the Cities:Skyline dev team. They have done 2 IamA on reddit (most recent - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3ly7ib/we_are_the_tea... ) I hope we m…

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    Comment #10381052

    Interesting reaction many are having, I think its pretty clear on the world stage that Russia had involvement in this, either it was supplying the weapons or worse case is was Russ…

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    Comment #10232908

    Hey thanks for the reply I don't pretend to be an expert but I had done googling before but cannot locate the information I was looking for. Yes water levels raised ,again I think …

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    Comment #10232231

    I was of the understanding that a flood about 7k years ago did happen and that was pretty accepted. We have the Mayans, bible, and number of flood 'myths' stories. I also believe t…

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    Comment #10225305

    Not my field however I feel you have a mis-understanding. You are talking about a shared ledger system, then saying that bitcoin has no part of it. Bitcoin is the token of PoW. So …

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    Comment #10219977

    The US navy does not care. They have known about this for years; they have either finished the testing OR they have completed their purpose with regards to the weapon. My guess is …

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    Comment #10197253

    Waiting for the mermaids, always liked the idea of the aquatic ape theory.

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    Comment #10110694

    Brilliant, 2 options I see Never do updates again (which is what I will be doing this evening) and make system perm insecure Or let MS and the NSA rape me for even more data than t…

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    Comment #9817482

    Lets now play where do we think NSA GHCQ have tapped it.

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    Comment #9538866

    I never went to the bbqs being young and poor when I was in bob but damm was I jealous about not being there. Sitting in IRC as people were there was fun tho Anyway I logging out, …

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    Comment #9538735

    The T20 incident was massive but I would like to make make some points. T20 never gave bob the t2s he keep them in RKK yes RKK was in bob and one of the original 4(5) depending on …

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    Comment #9538269

    Some of the hacks on the eve client you would not believe they were very impressive and who knows what some of these alliances are running now Now EvE servers (as all MMOs should) …

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    Comment #9447114

    Valid point lets go with instead Alpha (“the upper class”) Beta (“the second upper class”) Gamma (“the middle class”) Delta (“the second lower class”) Epsilon (“the lower class”) D…

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    Comment #9446255

    Completely agree but I see it much worse. The general public will have access to change certain genes/or be required to make these changes for the 'good' of the population. These G…