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Well an easy answer is to take a lot of that money people are earning in technology (I'm talking personal income or gifts from companies) and put it towards programs that either work towards ending poverty in those cases (through economic development, direct cash grants, etc) or improving health conditions, which often helps.

Some possibilities (although there are many others): http://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities

If you have a novel approach using technology, you should pursue it, but don't let a lack of a technological solution prevent you from doing anything right now.

Hey, just to provide a counterexample: I wear Glass a lot and don't experience headaches. I also wear glasses all the time. I really enjoy the technology, and I just wanted to say it might be a person-specific factor that makes Glass cause headaches, if it does.

Laws may help some, but I worry that as devices get smaller and computers are integrated into everything, they won't be able to protect us for long. Ubiquitous computing may (in the next decade or two) actually obsolete any expectation of privacy. We need to start acting as if every digital device nearby is reporting information about us, because most of those devices will soon have that capability.

In that case, I hope (1) is the outcome.

We read Hacker News and Reddit too. I just wish we had something better to offer than a 404 page.

Correct. A cold storage scheme might be private keys printed on paper and stored in a safety deposit box, for example. Then, if their network is compromised, they won't lose everything.

Not sure how much exchanges normally keep in their "hot wallets", but I've heard numbers from 10%-30%. If an exchange is hacked and decides to close and go under, they can also use cold storage to send some percentage of user's balances back to them.

I'd love access as a student, but I'd only pay around $30-$40 for all of them. More than that, and I'd probably just wait until they were public.

I would be careful before trying this. I don't know much about crypto, but you might be able to do some interesting statistical attacks if you are encrypting the same plaintext with multiple keys.

This is exactly what I am looking for! I run a tech conference and am interested in seeing what percentage of our attendees are male or female. I only have names for historical data, so this should help give a somewhat close approximation of sex!