dacox

Hmm, interesting. Annoying that it is manual, but if it can be automated, Twitter might actually be interesting to me.

I still don't really understand Twitter. I have an account and have followed ~50 people and organizations I find interesting, and all I see is floods of re-tweets of people I have no interest in.

Does android by default lock the bootloader when encryption is enabled?

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Altcoin#Proof_Of_Stake

  Because these attacks exists, including Peercoin[3] and Blackcoin[4] proof of stake cryptocurrencies have "master" public keys that control the blockchain.

I wonder who would control that ;)

  This class of cryptocurrency is either insecure or centralized, however proof of stake (based on a PoW currency) is useful in some systems because gaining stake is costly, but it isn't workable for bootstrapping distributed consensus.

This would be an interesting though experiment. If they implemented proof of stake based on a proof of work currency, like Bitcoin, what would happen if the new currency took off and Bitcoin started to die? Now there's a threat model that requires unmotivated miners to still secure the network, both networks.

The pessimist in me says nothing, but we'll see.

It is a crime that Top Gear is no longer on the air during these times.

I took CoreNLP for a test drive last year during a content driven recommendation project. Unfortunately we didn't have an opportunity to use it on the project, but I was very impressed with what I saw. I was made aware of it's existence after Stanford's online Sentiment Analysis(http://nlp.stanford.edu/sentiment/) demo was released

Ah, this explains why last month I suddenly had to start paying Canadian sales tax on my droplets.

downvotes? Is something I said wrong?

> Unlike BitCoin or cash payments, Taler ensures that governments can easily track their citizen's income and thus collect sales, value-added or income taxes. Taler is thus a currency for the mainstream economy, and not the black market.

This simultaneously implies that both Bitcoin and cash are not suitable for the mainstream economy. I think the opinion that cash should be given up would be fairly controversial, even today. Furthermore, a law abiding citizen will still pay taxes on their Bitcoin income - the same way they would for cash. Just because Bitcoin makes it harder to prove tax evasion doesn't mean we should eschew Bitcoin and cash. The technology exists regardless, governments will have to adapt.

> When you pay with Taler, your identity does not have to be revealed to the merchant. The bank, government and mint will also never learn how you spent your electronic money. However, you can prove that you paid in court if necessary.

This feature is offering nothing not already available, although it seems to imply that one could not prove payment with Bitcoin, which is false, as it is trivial.

So GNU just released FedCoin? Interesting...

Amazon! Won't ship to lonely old Canada.

The tests are gold