Aqueous

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by Aqueous 12y ago
> 1. It's a not a real-world scenario. Kidding? Many many many immigrants who come to the US come in order to find a job so that they can send money back home and help support their relatives who live in the developing world. It is
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PayPal’s Braintree Embraces Bitcoin, One-Touch Payments(techcrunch.com)
122 points by Aqueous 12y ago|128 comments
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Identity. Are gay men sexist because they are not attracted to women?
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I'm not sure I buy the premise that a brain even understands a literal sentence completely by simulating it, in all cases. I think that is a component of understanding, and can help understand, depending on both the sentence and our
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Great job by Brazilian authorities. However, I wonder if they could come up with a more intimidating name for their crackdown than "Operation Chestnut Tree."
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I don't think anyone's saying Swift is a rip-off (or anyone that I know). If anything it compliments both Swift and Scala that the two are so alike.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
XMPP is one of those things that billions of people use without knowing it. Facebook Chat and GChat for a long time (and maybe still now) were actually just branded XMPP solutions - Facebook (annoyingly) shut off federation, keeping in the
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Unfortunately, the "nobody owns" feature of EMail is something Slack lacks and probably always will. Email is a federated, decentralized protocol of distributed mail servers that anybody can set up. Any email server can participat
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by Aqueous 12y ago
'Even though it was termed an acquisition, it was really an acqui-hire.' What the hell is the difference? Someone was interested enough in your company to buy it. This is a very superficial distinction and irrelevant. All of these
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by Aqueous 12y ago
"“What they really didn’t want to do was kill Dr. Khan with their attempt at therapy,” said Dr. Armand Sprecher, a public health specialist at Doctors Without Borders. “If word got out that M.S.F. killed Dr. Khan, that would have impli
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Combustion engines (and cells) are for the most part less efficient than our least efficient power generation plants combined with the grid.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
And yet WikiLeaks remains a fairly well-funded organization with a huge following that continues to get leaks - and a major source of stories for that very same news media you say dragged it through the mud.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I don't think leaker has mild negative connotations, and if it once did, it doesn't anymore because of the popularity of organizations like WikiLeaks. Leaking is in the name, after all.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
He shouldn't be giving up any of his shares. At all. He should be demanding more options. In all likelihood - he's the reason the business exists. They would have nothing without him.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Ok - think of $49 as the cost of not having to figure out what Stellar is and where the opportunity to sell them at a higher price exists.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
At least Zuckerberg knew how to code.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Or Stellar flops and the guy just spent 24 hours of his life and $50 or so dollars to accumulate a bunch of useless not-even-paper. It could go either way. The mechanical turk workers implicitly made the bet that stellars will not be worth
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I guess you've settled on a name, pretty completely, but tox evokes all sorts of bad feelings like "Toxin", "Detox" - generally feelings associated with the idea of poison or of poisoning yourself. From a marketing
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by Aqueous 12y ago
The existence of daily savings time - and time zones - is a huge pet peeve for me.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Yes, alterations elsewhere could most certainly have an impact on personality and intellect - but certainly a person with severe frontal lobe damage suffers more profound personality changes and working memory deficits than someone who expe
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by Aqueous 12y ago
It seems like the reason his intellectual capacity stayed the same may be because the beam did not touch his frontal lobes, but passed through his midbrain all the way to the back of his head, and appears to have exited near the occipital l
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Almost all of the time the project we are doing for the client is so valuable that they eventually become quite pleased when we deliver what they wanted. But the mere imposition of a hard deadline on a feature that the deal-maker imagined b
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I don't think it's a requirement in business but that doesn't change the fact that businesspeople, and sales people and executives especially, lie and lie often. They shouldn't. It would be better if nobody lied in a w
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Yes. Absolutely. I work for a company where deadlines are continually mismanaged for features because it really isn't predictable when a feature gets done or not. And the problem is at the top - but the top doesn't ever blame them
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Do we? Human beings tell half-truths and lies pretty frequently. I bet if you examine the history of your own utterances for the past several years. you'd find that you do, too. There are obviously different scales of truth-telling and
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I was joking and not trying to be obnoxious, but I suppose it came off that way. I was more commenting on the impressive gravitational pull of something that has a good chunk of the world's population using it. To a very non-trivial
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Wow. They really knocked it out of the park. 829 million DAU - I almost feel shitty for having deactivated my account.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Yep - they could have just easily acted like team players instead of egoistic contrarians and joined efforts with the OpenSSL team to help improve OpenSSL along with the original developers. If they did that you'd probably see a lot le
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by Aqueous 12y ago
And Takei doesn't like Shatner.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Ok - so in a web application I need routing/binding of controller functions to URLs/HTTP methods, the ability to interact with an RDBMS and parse a result-set into an intermediate abstraction, the ability to take in the results o

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