Aqueous

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by Aqueous 13y ago
The debit card shouldn't require any trust. The card itself should be able to sign a transaction, transmit it to the card scanner, and have the scanner propagate it to the network. Obviously, involving a third party exchange is the onl
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by Aqueous 13y ago
'It never crossed my mind that he had been FIRED.' Yes, by the end of most modern firings, which are conducted with an astonishing degree of cowardice, the goal is to make the employee somehow leave feeling like they've volun
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Pretty easy : they are selling drugs.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
No.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
'Most notably, they are portable, need to stand alone without other helper devices, function as complete computers, and are upgraded approximately every 1-2 years by most users. TVs possess none of these attributes.' Each of these
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by Aqueous 13y ago
1:1X dyno on Heroku is free, with a postgres server, and a free redis instance. So even at $5/hr I can't justify doing this work myself at this point, since I can get the infrastructure for my minimum viable product going for free
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by Aqueous 13y ago
It seems more like systems architecture - is there a difference? In any case it is not CS. CS is about algorithms and data structures - it's a theoretical discipline like math.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Ok, I followed a shortened link and it drops me into a fairly cool terminal simulator with a space MUD-style game in it. But it's kind of creepy to have the prompt print out as <my actual first name>@io I know Google knows I&#x27
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Your time is priceless to a startup - it can't afford to pay you your value and yet entirely depends on your output. The startup literally can't exist without you.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Two, three years ago you'd be right. Rightly or wrongly more and more people are thinking differently about that. The CIA for instance.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Right - and I guess the point is that the person who is working on features ends up also being that one person who does the automatic provisioning and testing pipeline administration work, as well. This is honestly why I've gone with P
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I think it's more about the possibility of guarantees. OpenBSD has un-typed IO. Typed IO gives you guarantees that un-typed IO can never give you. For starters, a number that doesn't validate properly as an Int, for instance, will
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by Aqueous 13y ago
An assortment of IPs? Seems like a botnet.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
This seems highly pedantic and nitpicky. It seems like you're looking for things to criticize. Use of Heroku as an example of communications leadership is misplaced. I have had support request sit around unanswered for days in Heroku.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Well, the 1000 eyes approach has worked with other open source, mission critical software, like Linux, which also doesn't have an official testing suite. If you have enough people invested in making sure something works, there's a
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by Aqueous 13y ago
"The only way to get that level of assurance would be to build an automated verification suite, or similar." Wait.....what? OpenSSL doesn't have an automated verification suite? What the? Well there you go. That's step #
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Yes, before he went to prison Mandela was engaged in armed revolution.. But after he got out of prison he did everything he could do to avoid bloodshed and war, even if it meant negotiating with those who had imprisoned him for 27 years.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Truth and Reconciliation was about truth, and not punishment. It did not demand that former supporters renounce their heresy or be punished, just that a historical accounting was made, the facts were laid down. Brendan Eich said the followi
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by Aqueous 13y ago
So many on the left (including myself) revere the style of politics of Nelson Mandela and yet when it comes time to actually behave like Mandela would in a given situation they completely fail, and conduct the same style of embittered, veng
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by Aqueous 13y ago
It's not too late as long as they're still in business. Market share changes happen so rapidly in these industries. You can lose a huge chunk of market share in two or three years, but you can gain it back just as quickly. For a l
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by Aqueous 13y ago
"these "embed the title" schemes are just abusing URLs as storage for content that simply should not be in the URL." I don't look at it this way. I think readable URLs are part of the way the web was designed - this
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by Aqueous 13y ago
The Turing Award is a fairly significant award, as awards go. It's kind of like the Fields Medal or the Nobel. So it means enough to make Lamport getting it a big deal.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
What if his belief was something that you agreed with, and he got fired for it? Would have you the same opinion then? Would there be any discussion?
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by Aqueous 13y ago
The link between any particular issue and what Eich's day-to-day responsibility would have been can be made as tenuously as we want. I could argue six-degrees-of-separation-style that every belief he held is relevant to his position
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Right - but neither of us have the final authority on what's wrong and what's right. In this situation both sides believe they are right, and then it becomes a matter of who has the power to inflict censure on someone else for the
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by Aqueous 13y ago
It most certainly is a political belief in the sense that it deals with a question of public policy that is currently being litigated in the public sphere.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Let's take the opposite case. Let's say you were working for a bunch of people who believed wholeheartedly what Eich believes- that same-sex individuals don't have a right to marry - but you expressed that you think they do h
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by Aqueous 13y ago
This is ridiculous. Eich did something many of us - including myself - disagree with wholeheartedly. But he has a right to his opinion. He shouldn't have been fired. OKCupid's response to this was extreme - "We wish him nothi
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by Aqueous 13y ago
i think nakamoto/szabo is ambivalent on this point. i think he cared enough to cover his tracks enough so that no conclusive evidence of his identity can be found. but he did not care enough to clear certain circumstantial evidence fro
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by Aqueous 13y ago
This would make sense because Szabo's initial post about Bit Gold does mention RPOW, so any search for RPOW would immediately lead back to Szabo. Szabo also appears to have forward-dated his posts talking about implementing Bit Gold so

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