How to read time estimates: Whenever anybody says something will take, say, 5-10 hours what they mean is: “My most optimistic estimate is 10 hours, but that sounds excessively long; if I add an interval people will mentally think it’s really just 5 hours yet I will technically still be truthful if I finish in […]
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Kickstarter
I backed a dumb Kickstarter project which in retrospect is an obvious scam (tech project with too short deadline, based on environmental/free energy, creators from greater Russia). It was supposed to deliver a dumb iPhone case around 1.5 years ago, and has been stringing people along with dumb excuses for delays and several “we’ll ship […]
Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet
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Spellings reforms are funny no matter where they are. Really, oignon = ognon and sur = sûr now? […]
Analyzing the Patterns of Numbers in 10 Million Passwords
I think your takeaway from this study should be that 1234 is almost 2.5 times as safe as a password as 123456. http://minimaxir.com/2015/02/password-numbers/ […]
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I just started my own crypto-currency, much like Bitcoin. I call it the BritCoin. In many respects it is much safer, more stable, and more secure than Bitcoin, Dogecoin, PonziCoin (which surprisingly turned out to be a scam!) and all the other Dunning-Krugerrands. This is mostly achieved by me being too lazy to even actually […]