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titfn··on Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web
this PDF: http://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf ? http://ipfs.io appears to be under heavy load...
titfn··on Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web
instead of calculating multiple hashes every time, might as well use a better hash?
titfn··on Philippines to Roll Out Nationwide Free Wi-Fi Service by 2016
the US government should do that too... to make it easier to do mass surveillance without having to go through hoops ...
titfn··on John McAfee announces he's running for President
he might even legalize drugs and end cartels (and end mass spying, of course)
titfn··on Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit
one example that come to mind is Trayvon Martin's case [1] ... since he died, he could not say that the shooter was not acting in self defense... no jail time for the shooter.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin

titfn··on Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit
it's the same in many states in the US... for example, if you are going to shoot someone, make sure that you kill them, if you don't want to go to jail...
titfn··on Really Random Number Generator
the video output of a moving camera mounted on a quadcopter pointing at a crowd might also be a pretty good source for a random number generator
titfn··on AirConsole – Your browser is the game console, your smartphone is the gamepad
at the very least, you should double your latency... which is not good for 3dshooter games
titfn··on AirConsole – Your browser is the game console, your smartphone is the gamepad
I've seen Google do this a year or 2 ago... don't have the link handy though
titfn··on The lottery is a tax, an inefficient, regressive, and exploitative tax
completely agree
titfn··on Why Elephants Don’t Explode: How Nature Solves Bigness
the scrolling works fine for me in Firefox 40.0.3 ... might be the extensions that I use that fixed it... NoScript, Adblock Plus or Privacy Badger
titfn··on The lottery is a tax, an inefficient, regressive, and exploitative tax
I agree that lottery is bad for society but the only reason that the government is doing it, I think, is because it was worst when organized crime had control over it.

But I do think that the government should reinvest all profits in education (not necessarily gambling related), gambling therapy, etc...

titfn··on Google PDF Search: “not for public release”
probably because ext is easier to use and Google will therefore probably discontinue it shortly...
titfn··on Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads
How many years did it take for Google to react to this?
titfn··on Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social Network
if you plan to use this system instead of democracy, I think that it is very relevant...
titfn··on Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social Network
Liquid democracy doesn't appear to protect against the "Tyranny of the majority" [1], just like direct democracy.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority

titfn··on Government officials in Amherst, VA can now require employers to fire ex-cons
If you look at it from that perspective, this idea appears to have been sponsored by for-profit prisons.
titfn··on The Grid: Certainly Misguided, Probably a Scam
Send me $10 and I promise that I'll send you back $20 shortly... I might change my mind and only send you back $5 but it's definitely not a scam because I sent something back
titfn··on Things mimicking other things
it's almost as if it's a skill game that rewards you with information...