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Re: Using Silk Road

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Post by veb »

That was an awesome read. Always fun to read about drugs, but this seems like it was written quite a while ago... wonder if anything has changed since.

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Post by jacques_chester »

damian2000 wrote: post #2

Interesting video and article here from the point of view of Australian customs http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-05/dark-internet-linked-t...

Slightly OT:

"Computer expert" Chris McDonald is actually Professor Chris McDonald. He holds appointments at the University of Western Australia and at Dartmouth. I was lucky to have him as a lecturer for several course and as my honours supervisor.

http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~chris/

He's nominated for teaching awards with comical regularity. If you ever get a chance to take one of his courses at UWA or Dartmouth, take it.

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Post by cnp »

Everyone needs to read the rest of the site. It's one of the most interesting domains I've ever come across. Fascinating guy through and through, and his short stories are excellent.

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Post by vitno »

cnp wrote: post #5

Everyone needs to read the rest of the site. It's one of the most interesting domains I've ever come across. Fascinating guy through and through, and his short stories are excellent.

One of my favorite sites. If you aren't familiar with it already, it will probably lead you to lesswrong.com. Also worth a good amount of time input.

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Post by jacques_chester »

cnp wrote: post #5

Everyone needs to read the rest of the site. It's one of the most interesting domains I've ever come across. Fascinating guy through and through, and his short stories are excellent.

I had occasion to correspond with Gwern recently. It is always enlightening to talk to somebody who is smarter than I am.

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Post by cnp »

mrmagooey wrote: post #8

I wonder if the current little spike in the bitcoin price (from https://mtgox.com/ ) could be attributed to this article being posted on HN

The Bitcoin price has been dramatically spiking for the past two weeks. Very curious as to why.
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