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Anyone else notice the company name - CYNK. Cynic?
Re:Tap Into Y Combinator's Contrarian Thinking on Thursday May 23, 2013 @11:28PM (#5761124)
This may go against the popular opinion around these traps, but does anyone else feel like the premise of success arising from the pursuit of "not X" a little flawed in that for every AirBnb story that makes frontpage, a hundred other "not X" ventures never see the light of day?

Ask HN: Does versioning an encrypted file in a git repo make it less secure?

Hi HN. This has been bugging me a very long time, hopefully the brilliant minds of HN can enlighten me.I use KeePassX as a password manager, and I store the kdb file in Sparkleshare folder as a way for backing up and syncing with multiple devices.The kdb file in itself is encrypted, but if someone stole the git repo, they technically have many versions of the same file with minor variations....

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Re:Why I'm learning Emacs on Saturday November 19, 2011 @05:42PM (#3256528)
Was this submission flagged down? If so, why? Because it kinda disappeared off the front page for me.

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