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I am so confused about this all the time. My solution is to go see what Go is using: https://golang.org/src/crypto/rand/rand.go Trusting them to do the Right Thing.

Is there a good reason why /dev/random AND /dev/urandom exist?

I'm going to print that on a tile: "The freelancer gives me less work, not more."

I'm surprised too. The Lemur (14") just got a CPU upgrade and looks enticing, from a hardware perspective. It's serviceable and can sport 32GB RAM and two disks. Unfortunately it's not a looker. But I'm getting fed up with my Dell XPS 13. HiDPI support is still ... not good in Linux, especially when attaching/detaching screens.

Perhaps that was a feature added after the article was written. It dates from January.

The roadmap seems to suggest at least some of your questions are answered: https://infinit.sh/documentation/roadmap

The linked movie up there.

The image accompanying the story doesn't seem to be the bond in question. The date on the bond states the year 1944, and the payments also start around that date. The last payment was done in 2003. Odd.

It's interesting to note that the highest ESI so far has been Kepler-62e with a score of 0.83 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Similarity_Index). So a score of 0.98 would seem significant.

There are many opportunities where you can make money here. Think about an arbitrage service in case of a dispute. Or an escrow service. Or a reputation service maybe?

I think that the can be only One marketplace since it relies heavily on the network effect. For OB to be first and biggest is a big deal.

I'm wondering if you could use a Pi effectively since I gathered that penetration testing is quite CPU intensive.

Yup: https://major.io/2015/02/03/linux-support-dell-xps-13-9343-2...

iFixit gave the laptop quite a good score too: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Dell+XPS+13+Teardown/36157

How does it compare with Open Transactions (http://opentransactions.org)?

If you want to build the extension and your aliases don't work add "shopt -s expand_aliases" to the compile.sh file.

Textsecure != Telegram. Textsecure is a replacement for SMS/text messages and Telegram for Whatsapp type messages. Totally different things.

I fully agree. Everybody can surely agree this is vastly better that WhatsApp despite it's shortcomings.

Leaving your email address won't preorder the phone but lets them notify you when preordering starts. A bit unclear to me too.

It's a press release from 2008. I don't quite see why it appears here now.

I think it goes a bit far to call a couple of nutjobs 'jihadists'. And the fact that someone traveled through one of our airports doesn't mean we have a structural problem.

Storing voice (audio) data is not what the article says. I'd imagine you transcribe the audio to text and search in that. Storing text is incredibly easy. Besides you can throw away 99.9% of the data almost immediately.

I'm actually curious how much text data this would be per day; number of call minutes * average number of words per minute. I'd be surprised if that wouldn't fit in a reasonable cluster.

How does it differ from Postman (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-rest-clien...)?

Seems that both solve the same problem.

I think you will. Perhaps not so much when using oh-my-zsh but when you want to tweak your prompt I find fish's syntax far more sane.

Couldn't you just switch shell in the (presumably) rare case when you want to run a bash shell script?

It has 4GB of it. https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pix... scoll down, click 'full specs'

Why?

What if the guy had an open Wifi router? And the neighbors downloaded a movie? This goes to show law enforcement does not know what they are doing.

I run a node as well and noticed other (far less severe) downsides of doing so. Registering on certain forums won't work and purchasing games on Steam doesn't work. These parties just blacklist the entire list of IPs published running exit nodes.

I found the whole Tuur Demeester (a disciple of Ludwig von Mises https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises) analysis rather inflammatory and left leaning.

Still a good read if only for a perspective change.

I'm not sure about the balance part, but I do know that they basically have the block chain on their server(s) and verified it's integrity. Still, now I have to trust some third party.

I couldn't agree more. The user experience is downright terrible. And when you eventually catch up but don't run the client for a couple of days your stuck in purgatory again.

I do believe marketing has something to do with it. I don't believe a random Google employee is allowed to disclose stuff about their infra permission is granted. This is not a bad thing mind you. Google is merely trying to win minds in the most friendly way possible.

Neither did I said that this was a 'major' differentiator between Go and D. Just 'a' differentiator and not a major one at that.

I have become slightly myopic with regard to the little announcements. I'm confusing it with announcements like Bitly's: http://word.bitly.com/post/29550171827/go-go-gadget or Cloudflare's: http://blog.cloudflare.com/cacheing-the-uncacheable-cloudfla.... But the point still stands, I see more of these posts related to Go than posts related to D (or Clojure/Scala/Rust/...).

I've been following Go rather closely lately and I noticed that these little announcements come regularly. This is clever marketing (mind share!) and one of the reasons why Go is going to win out over D et al. When was the last time you read something about D? (Perhaps I frequent the wrong watering holes.)