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marcfawzion Building web applications on top of encrypted data using Mylar [pdf]

Search doesn't work Project looks abandoned (at least the Meteor fork) https://github.com/strikeout/mylar/issues/4

I went from Seventy Two to Sisty Four (sic) karma points all because of this stupid chapel. Get over your religious nostalgia and get back to real tech news... Thanks.

marcfawzion Sistine Chapel

That hardly obfuscates the fact that people WERE mass murdered in the name of religion.

marcfawzion Sistine Chapel

There's nothing technically novel about this. It's also kind of offensive given the mass genocide committed in the name of religion. Hacker News turning to Christian News.

marcfawzion Ask HN: Broke up with girlfriend, how to get on track with projects?

his balls are larger than your brains, combined.

marcfawzion Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (1924)

Why I never Hire Mediocre Men ™

marcfawzion Next Arab American on a stamp could be Steve Jobs

and 1% saint or devil, pick one...

marcfawzion Next Arab American on a stamp could be Steve Jobs

nature and nurture... you can't dismiss either. one is your genetic wiring (hardware) and the other is your indelible early childhood experience (firmware) ... and then there's your re-programmable self (software) ... His bio father being from that part of the world means his dad's genetic make is probably shared with 14% of Semites (Jews and Arabs of that area), 75% of south east Turks and southern Greeks, and 10% of sub-Saharan Africans. This is by no means an informed analysis of his dad's genetic heritage. Just an educated guess.

marcfawzion Face Tracker in JavaScript

It won't let me run it on localhost without a license file. That's silly because it's running inside the browser and the license check can be hacked.

marcfawzion Khosla Ventures is joining the YCVC Program

Ah. Is Khosla Ventures related to Vinod Khosla? The same guy who sealed off a popular surfing beach in a small California town and declared it as his own? I always found that to be a terrible reminder of how money, greed and selfishness go hand in hand. Never mind me.

marcfawzion Why Bitcoin is Volatile aka I Told You So

Thanks for letting me know Bryan. How have you been? Still hatin' on me after all these years? :) I always found you fascinating.

So is the mailing list p2presearch@listcultures.org?

marcfawzion World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency

When will the world run out of the "III-V semiconductor materials" ? And which nation or corporation currently controls the largest deposits?

marcfawzion GorillaScript

how about _& instead of the lengthy and typo prone "bitand"

marcfawzion GorillaScript

"bitand" for bitwise & is weird

marcfawzion The Product is the Byproduct

The only reason I went thru his slides was his starting sentence. "People in Silicon Valley are dicks." Amen to that.