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Looks like an awesome service... I need a replacement for Google Reader so I'll try this one out. Also, please consider accepting bitcoin so I can pay without revealing my private credit card information.

Update: I am trying it out right now and I've noticed it's taking quite a long time to load my Google Reader profile. My Reader profile is absolutely enormous - hundreds of blogs and thousands upon thousands of read and unread posts. It took about 10 minutes to load a single blog. This is going to take a while.

You had me until you claimed that bank regulations are different than other regulations.

At first glance, colonizing Mars sounds awesome. But upon reflection, being a debt slave on a desert planet sounds less appealing.

If you don't like Facebook surveillance then you can opt out by not using it. But you can't opt out of government surveillance. You didn't address this important fact.

I felt the same way when I discovered bitcoin last year. Here are some books that I read that helped:

* "End the Fed" by Ron Paul

* "Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt

* "The Mystery of Banking" by Murray Rothbard

* "What has government done with our money?" by Murray Rothbard

* "Debt: The First 5000 Years" by David Graeber

A solution would be that when your page 2 expires then you should be redirected to the most up-to-date page 2 rather than being told page 2 doesn't exist.

Does this violate the second law of thermodynamics?

I don't understand why this is better than just using a public/private key to represent identity. Why involve the email operator? Why can't I log in by having my browser sign a certificate, without involving a third party at all?

What's a "real" name? The one on record with the government? What if no on calls me by that name?

I experience this argument all the time for being both an atheist and a libertarian, except replace "archetype" with "stereotype". People assume all atheists fit into some stereotype they saw on TV, and therefore I must be exactly like that. Likewise, they assume all libertarians are like the stereotype they saw on TV, and I must be exactly like that. Since I'm not like the stereotypes, it's frustrating.

Only part of a truecrypt volume changes when you make a change to the data within. Since Dropbox intelligently syncs files in parts, only part of a truecrypt volume has to be re-uploaded when something changes -- not the entire multi-GB file. I know because I do exactly this with a 1GB file. It takes about 2 minutes to sync when I unmount the file. Dropbox is not re-uploading all 1GB.

However, like the other commenter, I still recommend encfs for most uses.

Reminds me of the time I used hair spray and a lighter as a blow torch and nearly burned down the woods in my backyard. Thanks for the nostalgia.

Right. If you think you're dealing with 100 people, but it's actually 1 person with 100 addresses, then they can determine which output address is yours because it is the only one that isn't theirs.

I've realized there's a flaw in my method which is that it's not anonymous. If someone inputs X bitcoins, and no one else outputs X bitcoins, then whoever receives X bitcoins is the same as the person who submitted X bitcoins. It's necessary that all people send the same number of bitcoins so that the mixing creates anonymity.

I may not understand this method correctly, but there seems to me to be an obvious way to generalize this method to work where the parties involved are not sending the same number of bitcoins. In their method, each person i with accounts A[i] to send bitcoins to the accounts B[i]. By using the sorted order of the public keys, the transaction from A[i] to B[i] is unique, guaranteeing that each person gets back the same number of bitcoins they sent. They also make use of a bitcoin transaction script to only let the transaction become valid if everyone involved signs the transactions they were supposed to. But why not just send any number of bitcoins, and distribute the bitcoins across the accounts in the appropriately sorted order? All that would be required is that each person announces not just their public keys, but also how many bitcoins they intend to send. Again, the bitcoins are sent using the sorted order of the public keys, except any time you are sending too many bitcoins to one address, you let the overflow go into the next address. Everyone would get back the same number of bitcoins, and it wouldn't be necessary for everyone to be sending the same number.

Suppose one company offered you an extra $7500 vacation, and one just offered you an extra $7500. Which company would you work for?

I guess I'll stop writing my own kernel. There are other things I want to do in the next 73,000 years.

What happens when computers are able to do their own symbol manipulation?

I satisfy the following three conditions:

* I dropped out of college.

* I got kicked out of college.

* I graduated college.

Why stop at dropping out when you can have it all?

Yes I have the book at hand, but it's on Kindle, and it's somewhat painful to look up the references on a Kindle. Thanks for giving me these articles. I will read them.

> Perhaps biased, my wife’s pursuit of her undergrad and master’s degrees, coupled with her unbridled passion for learning what we need to do to give our daughter the best education and upbringing possible is surely close to that number. It shows; my daughter has an insatiable curiosity that, according to Gladwell, is a direct result of how we’re raising her.

Having recently devoured a bunch of the works of Steven Pinker, I question this. If their daughter is naturally curious, it could be inherited rather than learned. In "The Blank Slate" Steven Pinker has an entire chapter on children. There he says that all studies that try to figure out what styles of parenting lead to what results, none of them control for heritability. They simply assume that the child's behavior due to styles of parenting. But what if curious parents lead to curious children because of their genes, and not their style of parenting? Pinker goes on to argue that what the evidence shows is that the style of parenting has absolutely no long-term effect on a person's behavior. Instead, what matters is genes, culture (in particular the child's peers), and chance events.

Android names their 3.1 release: Windows.

This is fantastic. This is exactly how I foresee the future documents and editing. Dropbox, or something like that, provides the service of saving the files. Then web apps are granted access to them and can edit them. Local storage becomes a cache, and Dropbox is where the files are "really" stored.

The advantage of this, of course, is that all your stuff becomes device-independent. Log in from any device that has web access, and you'll have access to all your apps and all your files.

This is much better than having each web app manage files on their own. For instance, you might have documents saved in Google Docs, notes saved in Evernote and Catch.com, and emails saved somewhere else, etc. It sure would be nice to have a single service provide the file storage so that you always have all your stuff and don't have to worry about some web app going obsolete and losing your data along with it.

Now what I would really like for backwards-compatibility is a web-based Linux environment to access my files. Someone recently created a web app using the HTML 5 canvas element (I think) to run an X GUI. (Anyone remember what this was called and where it is located?) Attach a Linux system and that GUI technology to your Dropbox, and then you have an entire computer that can be accessed from any device. Either the browser itself would load all the files and run them by emulation, or a server could run them natively and just print the results to your browser. Either way, once that becomes possible, I would be able to convert to an all-web environment.

Same here. Searching for books I already own on Kindle returns completely different books unrelated to the book I am searching for. Searching for author and title does not help. For instance, searching for "probability theory sivia" returns books on biology, the JFK assassination, fish oil, "standards and expectations", theatre, etc., and one book on "Le raisonnemet bayesien" which may have something to do with probability theory. But it does not return the book on probability theory by Sivia.

Edit: See for yourself: http://books.google.com/ebooks?as_brr=5&q=probability+th...

I had trouble understanding exactly what SAP did, so I found an article on the story: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/15/oracle-v-sap-a-silico...

> Furthermore, if you blow it up (which I'm guessing plenty of people are inclined to do), it actually looks worse

Sure, if you naively blow it up it looks worse. But what if you convert the subpixels into real pixels?

According to the article, "this mismanaged machine used the less embarrassing imaging technique."

Might be right, you, I think.

Physics is a technical topic, but people are treating it more like philosophy. Imagine if Stack Overflow were filled with questions like "Can a computer think?" That's what's happening in Physics.

Thanks for the information, that's very interesting.