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turboroot
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About turboroot
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Comment #6506101
It's interesting to note from page 30 of the criminal complaint, StackOverflow was able to record "Ulbricht [changing] his registration email [...] to 'frosty@frosty.com'". Why do …
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Comment #6305772
Because they can. Most FX brokers do not "exchange money", that is in the sense that you can withdraw the quote currency. Because of this, they don't have to deal with money launde…
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Comment #6149872
Vagrant supports VMWare, but not Parallels yet.
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Comment #6024439
Oops, I didn't see what I had typed in. Thanks for correcting me. :)
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Comment #6023920
Before CoinLab shifted gears and got sued by MtGox, what this guy got fired for was exactly CoinLab's startup: monetizing games through Bitcoin mining. Needless to say, with Bitcoi…
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Comment #5847463
I use Private Internet Access. You can create an account anonymously and pay in Bitcoin, and not leave a paper trail. That's exactly what I did. Their policies state that they do n…
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Comment #5811342
The answer is not black and white, although there are certain indicators that make an email very likely to be malicious. In this case, record the ultimate destination of the link i…
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Comment #5629997
This was on for a while when I was on Chrome's dev release channel. It annoyed me, so I switched to beta.
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Are negative-karma users unable to upvote posts?
I had posted a comment somewhere which seemed like blatant advertising, which I had not intended it to be. I gained some negative karma points. :) I'm trying to up vote my own post…
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Comment #5598589
Welcome to 2013, where footers and headers make up 90% of the content. :)
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Comment #5598495
Why? Is it not appropriate? I assumed I could offer hosting alternatives since my post's parent author was asking for "thoughts". I don't work for Joyent, and I just signed up for …
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Comment #5593556
I signed up for Joyent yesterday, and was quite impressed with the performance. It's probably on par with Linode. The price is reasonable: $21/month for a 512 MB instance, and free…