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mike_esspe··on Text and Ride in India
It's a signal, that they are not doing manual labor.
mike_esspe··on Ask HN: 16-hour work week jobs?
But if you are working 16 hours week, you are forfeiting 50% of your income too.
mike_esspe··on Ask HN: 16-hour work week jobs?
If you can't find such job, there is a simple hack: work one year, then take a year off.
mike_esspe··on Drinking behind 1 in 10 deaths of working-age adults
Looks like confounding factors are the reason.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22152665

CONCLUSIONS: Among older adults who are moderate drinkers, the apparent unique effects of wine on longevity may be explained by confounding factors correlated with wine consumption.

mike_esspe··on For Sale: 29,656.51306529 Bitcoins
Liberty reserve was structured similar to your idea, you could get it only via exchanges, not directly. That didn't help to protect from US government.
mike_esspe··on For Sale: 29,656.51306529 Bitcoins
Such centralized system most likely will be shutdown by US government. See E-Gold, E-Bullion, Liberty Reserve:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_gold_currency#Manageme...

mike_esspe··on Open Wireless Movement
If attacker knows network pre-shared key, and intercepted handshake, they can decrypt your traffic.
mike_esspe··on Why Your Cell-Phone Bill Should Be Going Down But Isn't
Microsoft exists due to intellectual monopoly (copyright) granted by government. Copyright wouldn't exist in free market because it conflicts with property rights.
mike_esspe··on Zombies once destroyed Japan's economy, now they're infecting China's
1995 - $42000 per capita

2012 - $46000 per capita

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&m...

Compare it with a high growth rate between 1985 and 1995

mike_esspe··on What do conductors do?
Where can I listen to the same composition, by the same orchestra, but with different conductors?
mike_esspe··on NATO websites hit in cyber attack over Crimea stance
There was a well known pro-government astroturfing in Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_brigades#Nashi_involvement

But it can be real people commenting at The Guardian. Brainwashing is very strong.

mike_esspe··on Russia Blocks Access to Major Independent News Sites
The law, that created internet block list in Russia, was promoted as a measure to stop child pornography:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Restriction_Bill

mike_esspe··on Geeksphone launches the first multi OS smartphone
There are extended capacity batteries on the market, I use one from zerolemon. For most users they are too bulky.
mike_esspe··on Scientists Say Their Giant Laser Has Produced Nuclear Fusion
From "Los Alamos from Below" by Feynman:

"What was happening, of course, was that all the boys had decided to work on this and to stop their research in science. All science stopped during the war except the little bit that was done at Los Alamos. And that was not much science; it was mostly engineering."

mike_esspe··on Inception - Root any machine over FireWire, Thunderbolt, others
You should always hibernate to crypted partition, when you are away from you computer. With modern SSD it's fast.
mike_esspe··on What I Didn't Say
Blind application can be accomplished with IRC interview.
mike_esspe··on The ones who walk towards Acre
Jim Bell gave a straightforward way to bootstrap - start with ordinary prediction market and gain trust.

And that is probably why we won't get them, practically nobody will risk their profit from legal service by turning them into assasination market.

mike_esspe··on Analysis of SSD Reliability during power outages
Laptops are vulnerable to this problem, if you don't know about it.

On my notebook I've lost a partition with Crucial M4. OS hanged, I did a hard reset and after reboot discovered data loss.

mike_esspe··on Noam Chomsky – "On Anarchism" [video]
So his claim is that anarchism = absence of government + no rent and profit. It's not a common definition nowadays.

By the way anarcho-capitalism is compatible top down with other form of more strict anarchism. You can make a voluntary anarcho-communistic society inside anarcho-capitalistic society.

mike_esspe··on Former BP geologist: peak oil is here and it will 'break economies'
Global oil production in 2013 increased by 2.2%. Natural gas production increased by 1.9%.

http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/about-bp/energy-econom...

http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/about-bp/energy-econom...

mike_esspe··on Why the 9-to-5 Day Is So Tough on Creative Workers
The answer to this problem is to offer discount to your employer when you want to work 30 hours.
mike_esspe··on Noam Chomsky – "On Anarchism" [video]
If you treat the word anarchism as "stateless society", then anarcho-capitalism is anarchism.

If you treat the word anarchism as "anarcho-communism", then you are right.

Even from historical perspective, individual anarchism is almost as old, as communitarian.

mike_esspe··on You can’t get entangled without a wormhole
You are explaining "hidden variable" theory. It is currently considered not compatible with experiments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_variable_theory

mike_esspe··on Protests in Ukraine
Ukrainian government suspended the prepration for association agreement with EU. Citizens went to a permanent rally on Maidan (the central Kiev square). There was a violent crackdown on it last night. That provoked the current unrest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Ukraine_pro-European_Unio...

mike_esspe··on Bitcoins: The Second Biggest Ponzi Scheme in History
It solves 2% credit card fee. It's enough for success at the level of at least Visa & MC. (And as a bonus it solves a lot of other problems too).
mike_esspe··on Bitcoin Deflation and Economic Activity
2% less fee, than credit card. It's enough to take over the payment world. And it's only one of the advantages.
mike_esspe··on Ask HN: Do you consider people buying into Bitcoin today as 'early adopters'?
It's gold ratio fell from 16:1 in 19th century to 100:1 in 1930s.

Getting only 15% of your savings is not a good result :)

mike_esspe··on Ask HN: Do you consider people buying into Bitcoin today as 'early adopters'?
Bitcoins are arguably useful to everybody, unlike piano tuners.
mike_esspe··on Ask HN: Do you consider people buying into Bitcoin today as 'early adopters'?
There are around several hundred thousands of bitcoin users. There are more than 7 billion people. Bitcoin is in the very early phase.

For comparison: first GSM call was made in 1991. In 1994 subscribers hit 1 million, nowadays there are several billions. Would you consider someone with GSM phone in 1994 an early adopter or not?

mike_esspe··on Ask HN: Do you consider people buying into Bitcoin today as 'early adopters'?
Silver was historically verified too. But it lost it's value in the 20th century, when people stopped using it as a money.
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