Aqueous

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by Aqueous 12y ago
"Inherently harmful" is a bit vitriolic. If not a majority then a huge percentage of the world's systems are based around OOP and for the most part they function just fine. When people say these things I wonder what bubble th
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I wonder if they'll accept drugs?
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by Aqueous 12y ago
100% seconded. Tom was truly one of a kind - the infectiousness of their personalities reminded me, in an odd way, of Robin Williams. Tom, Ray, and Robin - they a made the world a better place by being reliably themselves, institutions of m
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Yes, that's true - and I guess my point is that you can dial it back without necessarily planning to leave, but it comes at a cost. And, better yet, the cost may not be permanent - you could regain your former status by dialling the ho
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I've done this. It mostly worked - but I had to give up some of my management responsibilities because of my health problems. I'm still gainfully employed but my superiors don't look at me as being the number one player on my
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Ok - they didn't lie. They made an egregious error. I know this seems like a distinction without a difference, but ethically speaking, there is actually a pretty big difference.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Heroic civil disobedience, in my view, requires violating the law and accepting the consequences in protest. Both laureates Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela flouted the law and accepted the consequences. Were those two individuals
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by Aqueous 12y ago
That Snowden didn't face his charges in the states and instead fled to continue his days under the protection of (much more repressive) Vladimir Putin, who himself is a warmonger, and gave the dictator several public relations victorie
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I think the 'gold' would be the hash collisions that the mining process discovers - this is like gold in the sense that these hash collisions are mathematically scarce and of finite supply, and very difficult to discover/ext
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I've been using Sublime as my Scala "IDE" for a while now - what it loses in certain 'critical' IDE features like code completion and variable extraction it gains in speed, ease of use and lack of bloat. I agree tha
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Some people already aren't paid in fiat. I'm not one of those people - because I realize BitCoin still has a ways to go before I start to put more than the money I can afford to lose into it.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
That's not true at all. The need to convert to dollars is present only most assets are denominated in dollars, taxes are paid in dollars, and our basic needs are paid for in dollars. What happens when vendor adoption expands to the p
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Heroku Two-factor Authentication Now Generally Available(blog.heroku.com)
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by Aqueous 12y ago
'The proper thing to do is let the financial system self-regulate' - What are you kidding me? Just six years ago, a lack of enforced rules - in other words, lax regulation - and a complete lack of regulation of derivatives led to
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by Aqueous 12y ago
If the tapes only contain content describing a general culture of discouragement of rigorous oversight, it's not totally surprising or any more jaw-droppingly incriminating than previous knowledge concerning the Fed's relationship
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I kind of hate articles that start off by implicitly buying into the whole winners vs losers ethos. 'The DNA of a winner' - as if it was both an obvious fact that 'winners' and 'winning' are inherently superior
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by Aqueous 12y ago
'What is the value proposition for consumers apart from sending money to friends? That's valuable, but it's not multi-billions of dollars worth of valuable' It isn't? Western Union makes $5 billion in revenue every
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by Aqueous 12y ago
The problem, of course, is not in the fact that clearing Carbon CO2 emissions from the air. It's the fact that it might be worth more - in dollars - to cut those trees down and sell them. Perhaps not in this case, but certainly in othe
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Well, the US is sending 3,000 containment troops to West Africa [1]. Just having access to their special equipment, trained personnel, and other resources will hopefully make a huge difference. Any solution to this will probably come from c
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Wow, that's amazing. Did you learn all of those languages when you were a young child or did you learn them as you were getting older? Also, are you from a country that is bordered by a lot of other countries with native languages but
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I think you're right that isn't out of loyalty that people use one or the other service. But it's de facto loyalty - also known as (extreme) laziness. Most people are using Lyft and Uber for the convenience. Thus if both are
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Seems pretty obvious considering words spoken to a sleeping person can be incorporated into their dream - and the only way to do that is through classification
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Nothing screams "warning sign" quite like 2 billion dollars :-)
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by Aqueous 12y ago
"assurances to please liberal or socially-conscious users, such as knowing that their opium is "fair-trade" and their cocaine "conflict-free"" - As gleeful as I am that there might be a way out of - or at least
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by Aqueous 12y ago
It's really impressive that you built that much revenue even without even notifying people who specifically told you they wanted this product. That's a very good sign that you're headed for a lot of growth.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Perhaps out of some twisted sense of honor the individual in question feels that blackmailing such a mysterious and (among hackers) revered figure would be unseemly. Although if this account is true it seems like he might be blackmailing hi
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by Aqueous 12y ago
"How exactly would that go? Work -> Get paid in USD -> Convert to BTC -> Send -> your Taiwanese family gets the bitcoins -> Convert them to local currency -> Enjoy!!!" Yes. "You can't be serious, indeed
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Strange. I've never noticed such an email in my inbox. I would have thought that a future timestamp would be flagged by their spam heuristics.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I won't post a working link to the images but I did view them and the top-most email says it was sent 12/6/22, a date that has not occurred yet. So this is either a bug in GMX that doesn't validate timestamps or he didn&
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Am I trolling you or are you reverse-trolling me?

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