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mkmkmmmmm··on The American Police State
In uni a number of young philosophers attempted to sound intelligent by saying nothing in a cryptic manner. It worked pretty well for them.
mkmkmmmmm··on $4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL vanishes
I disagree. Anyone using bitcoin to he anonymous is doing it wrong; all their transactions are public. Bitcoin is a fine replacement for traditional banking, because there is no way to add ridiculous fees and no way to freeze your assets.
mkmkmmmmm··on Hylas-Lisp - A JIT-compiled Lisp targeting LLVM
I want C (Objective-C) with Lisp macros too. Are you looking dor contributors?
mkmkmmmmm··on Facebook Doesn’t Want You To Know Who Unfriends You. Do You?
I don't give a fuck about who unfriends me to the extent that I deleted my account. If they wish to be a walled garden I'd recommend others do the same.
mkmkmmmmm··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
Why not self-publish? There are quite a few distribution sites.
mkmkmmmmm··on My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work done
It must be getting used to it; I tried to use Word recently and ended up so frustrated that I almost switched to writing a layout script and making a pdf via Ruby. But other people use Word just fine so it must not be as shit as I think it is.
mkmkmmmmm··on My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work done
That's what I never got about Windows and especially Windows devs. How can you get anything done with all that clicking and no unix tools?
mkmkmmmmm··on Why Putting SSH On Another Port is a Good Idea
If you want to defend against port scanning just open some honeyports that ban all connectors. Maybe randomize these every X hours.
mkmkmmmmm··on How to Build Willpower for the Weak
There must be a distinction between deliberate effort and flow effort? One weird thing I note is that reading highly technical articles online is easier to make myself do than reading technical papers (even if the article is roughly as difficult). It's like the same task but the classification causes me to make different decisions.
mkmkmmmmm··on Illegal Prime Numbers
Haha, you don't need intent, you just need to joke about doing it online. Conspiracy to commit.
mkmkmmmmm··on Updating Your Utility Belt
Do fellow programmers tend to back away slowly? :)

Both words seem to be used to describe people that like specific categories of things but are unpopular or awkward. I refuse to be labeled with either regardless of any fine distinction in meaning. To me, what you are describing is like, "no I'm a douche, not an asshole." (I think you are neither, just an analogy.)

mkmkmmmmm··on Data-driven fallacy
By golly you are right! They just need a complex count of users and negative complex profit and the result is positive!
mkmkmmmmm··on Time to hand over the reins before Capistrano costs me my youth?
There's a great Japanese term, omakase, it means "fuck the community I'll do what I like".
mkmkmmmmm··on Silk Road shutdown: how can the FBI seize Bitcoins?
he can buy a lot of cigarettes
mkmkmmmmm··on Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon
no it obviously implies your mom is using an outdated bitcoind because she is a woman and knows nothing about computers; your father isn't clueless about tech. Sexist!
mkmkmmmmm··on FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
Police having military weapons and vehicles is actually a huge problem, especially when they are punished with no more than a paid vacation for misusing them.
mkmkmmmmm··on Paul Graham reviews Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2000)
That would be a valid argument if the GP was a physicist, I guess. Why should GR be a prerequisite for CS?
mkmkmmmmm··on Edward Snowden's not the story. The fate of the internet is
I think the point was questioning if he would have had the opportunity if they had known he was gay from the start. Or would he have spent his life getting "treatment"?
mkmkmmmmm··on Designers Complaining about iOS7
I like most of the new flat design but let's be fair those icons are objectively terrible.
mkmkmmmmm··on Mac Pro
Why do people think we come out of the woodwork? I want you to be free if that's important to you! If you disagree (with either being free or my analysis of the situation) you can still buy it.
mkmkmmmmm··on Mac Pro
another Mac user that thinks Lion is a useless POS? Do yourself a favor a get a liberated computer next time (and the cheapest Mac desktop if you just have to develop for iOS or OS X). That's what I'm going to do when I have to upgrade.
mkmkmmmmm··on NSA leaker is a patriot, not a traitor
You are correct. But also there is not much an election can do when they have rigged the elections with Gerrymandering and first across the fence voting. There's a district in one state that goes out to sea and back. Corrupt as fuck.
mkmkmmmmm··on Why can’t Microsoft get their products right on the first try?
Isn't the point exactly that Google and Apple are doing it with few major screwups? And in the near future we'll see Canonical and Mozilla's versions of mobile OSes, and see hoe successful they are.
mkmkmmmmm··on Poll: long-term contractors, what is your hourly rate?
Yeah, I would include late fees in a contract. But delaying 90 days is sleazy.
mkmkmmmmm··on “Printcrime” by Cory Doctorow
Your ordering is wrong because that's already a thing :(
mkmkmmmmm··on "Put down the crack pipes" doesn't go so well
Not due to their gender we don't. So you are comfortable being sexist because "perspective". Okay.
mkmkmmmmm··on Women, Tech Conferences and the Bullshit Surrounding It
There are more potential women participants than potential stutterer participants? Also being a woman isn't like having a speech impediment.
mkmkmmmmm··on "Put down the crack pipes" doesn't go so well
Regardless of whether they are wrong or not, the fact that you would use a gender-specific word to tell us why all men who disagree are incorrect is very telling.
mkmkmmmmm··on "Put down the crack pipes" doesn't go so well
If we used a word specifically invented to tell women they cannot participate in a discussion because they are women and they don't agree with us, you would be quaking with rage. You are a misandrist.
mkmkmmmmm··on Bitcoin Is an Existential Threat to the Modern Liberal State
That law would fail because there's no way to prove the transaction didn't come from someone who wants to cause trouble for the registered person but whom the person doesn't actually know. Suppose you are angry at a merchant who takes bitcoin:

1. Create new bitcoin address.

2. Receive bitcoins from someone for cash.

3. Send them to merchant's public address.

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