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"MIT ChainAnchor - Bribing Miners to Regulate Bitcoin": https://petertodd.org/2016/mit-chainanchor-bribing-miners-to-regulate-bitcoin

 

And while I'm rant-linking sad facts: Germany is on place 23 on that list (unsurprisingly). http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/most-efficient-health-care-2014-countries

 

Unfortunately, the efficiency of the US health care system is abysmal. Ranked #46 out of 51 countries in 2014: http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/most-efficient-health-care-2014-countries

 
 

In 2015, the average US household paid: $3299 for the military (+ $771 for veterans), $1776 for interest on federal debt, $143 for science.

 

When they search all of your bags twice, because your plane arrived from Colombia.

 

I don't remember the last Guardian opinion piece I read, that wasn't utter stupidity, but this might take the cake: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/722957883306987520

 

That thing where you can fix typos in posts on your own site, but not for the syndicated post on Twitter. :/

 

Unelected EU bureaucrats want to establish new standards for our industries, as always based on lobbyist input: http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/04/anti-innovation-eu-excludes-open-source-from-new-tech-s...

 

Booked flights for another 5apps offsite, this time on the coast of SW France. One week of beach, vineyards and code!

 

WTF @easyJet?! https://storage.5apps.com/basti/public/shares/160419-1849-Screenshot%20from%202016-04-19%2013-48-59.... (Using FF stable on Linux, which certainly doesn't look like a scraper.)

 

"The core of Facebook’s value is its ownership of identity of every person online." https://stratechery.com/2016/what-facebook-is-and-isnt/

 

Canoa was hit hard by the Ecuador earthquake. I hope everyone I know there is safe! Let us know if we can do anything to help remotely.

 

... and the sad thing about it is that this is probably still better than having to actually read it as if it were a teenager's WhatsApp message.

 

Do you really have to plaster blog posts for big OSS projects with Apple emojis? This is what other people see: https://storage.5apps.com/basti/public/shares/160417-0203-Screenshot%20from%202016-04-16%2021-01-02....

 

Seems like anyone can make their app an "official" Twitter client now: https://gist.github.com/rhenium/3878505

 

Finally booked flights out of Colombia. Next up, in varying intervals: MEX, PDX, MUC.

 

Colombia just won my personal Convenience Food Award of Excellence™: https://www.instagram.com/p/BEOil6-qCft/?taken-by=raucao

 
 

*reads wired.com article* → *sees ad-blocker blocker blocking the site* → https://storage.5apps.com/basti/public/shares/160414-1619-fuck-all-that.gif → `yaourt -S brave-bin`

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