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It is much more likely that it is a XSS attack than a password theft issue. You can currently access protected updates by grabbing the stream using an HTTP GET to http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.json from javascript running on any page a signed in user visits. This might have been solved, but not as far as I know.

Nice video. I'm a bit bothered by her equating fame with quality. That will be especially false as more people enter the creative class. More people making good work mean that wider popularity is harder.

The motivation for creating should be from within. Others enjoying it is also feels great.

Luckily, the result is the same. You should just work like hell at making something great. No need to get mystical though :P

Congrats on the new features and hires!

In case you can't read that last one it is:
my "oh" face

Chris Anderson mentioned this recently, and gave some (poor) reasons why it happens.

http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/10/t...

I've gone through something similar. My wife and I cofounded a new web startup that just launched -- we have an 11 month old son. This involved a move across the country and all sorts of other craziness.

The two parts that helped us actually do it:
- We got some seed funding
- We realized that the worst case scenario was equivalent to the status quo

My wife also mentions our son as a motivating force. It helps you realize that even if you lose a house, you'll still have your family. It makes you reprioritize and get the focus you need to start a business.

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Good strategy for evil companies to hurl competitors through impersonation. "Hi, we're the Stasi from Twitter."

from datetime import datetime # ironic to be called datetime
import sys
if self.beenDumped and self.dateDumped==datetime.now().date():
sys.exit(1)

For actors, New York is a fine choice. Far less likely to end up in porn too.

There was an interesting talk at last year's Singularity Summit at Stanford. I think it was Nick Bostrom's talk.
http://www.thesingularity.tv/video/61298-nick-b...

He is author of "Anthropic Bias".

The way humans treat catastrophic events that are extremely low probability is perhaps related to the "7 things" that fit in your head. We deal very poorly with such events, though they are important.

That's the problem with a 1D political spectrum. Libertarians in favor of gun rights and the right to screw any adult you want are not the same as conservatives.

Also, as far an Ninjas, there are laws about levels are martial arts that designate people as "deadly weapons". This might be a Cali only thing a 3rd degree black belt is a leathal weapon, and the state registers them.

For example, if you get pulled over driving a car registered by a deadly weapon of a person, the cop can approach you like any aggressive target, gun pulled.

But most ninjas are libertarians fearing the state, so they avoid any public record.

Yah know that Ben Franklin invented the pot-bellied stove? You could have a Franklin Franklin stove. It would be very good at distributing the money-heat throughout the room.

I know it's drastic, suggesting starting a new country in the face of facebook sucking. But rather than copy the comment to the right thread, I think I'm going to have to go ahead with the plan.

I had some comments on starting a country here.

I'd also probably try to build a space elevator. Building a team of assassins would also be convenient.

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