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shortly··on Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard drives, US government says
it's almost as though congressmen undergo some kind of selection process which attempts to find responsible, non-criminal members of society
shortly··on Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web
yes. https://ipfs.io/ has more info, in particular, the linked pdf.
shortly··on Embarrassing code I wrote under stress at a job interview
that he did not take this approach makes me think the candidate is inexperienced, and probably coming to clojure from an imperative mindset.
shortly··on I've made an open source flappy bird clone
success should be correlated with hard work? why?
shortly··on How I hacked Github again
yes. donate to someone who makes $400/hour.
shortly··on Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower
conspiracy nuts have been screaming all sorts of stuff from the rooftops for years.

if i say 'twenty' every time, eventually i'll correctly predict the outcome of a d20. this doesn't make me good at doing so, nor does it mean that you should have listened.

shortly··on Algae to crude oil: Million-year natural process takes minutes in the lab
> Doesnt this take away from the real issue of fossil fuels? Pollution, increased CO2 and climate changes.

No. Any CO2 released when these fuels are burned has to come from the algae. The algae gets it from the air. So CO2 is cycled, but not added to the atmosphere.

shortly··on Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool
the solution is probably a moving-knife procedure[1]:

have a list of rewardable issues. grow the reward for each issue with time. once the reward makes the time spent on the project worthwhile, people will be incentivized to commit. they won't let the reward grow too high, for fear that someone else will take it.

you could let coders freeze the reward for some amount of time, and get exclusive rights to claim that reward, until the time expires.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving-knife_procedure

shortly··on Burner Phone
it's, um, not illegal to buy a phone?