BrandonM

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by BrandonM 15y ago
Why are you calculating based on number of tanks of fuel used when you can instead calculate the exact number of gallons? Obviously you have some fuel left when you get home; that doesn't count as part of the cost of travel because you'll t
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by BrandonM 15y ago
If you're driving alone from DC to Boston in a vehicle that only gets 20 mi/gal, you're doing something wrong.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
No, he's clearly arguing that the billionaire is more rational with his money. Even though the marginal value is higher for the college student, that student is not as smart might not even see the opportunity for monetary gain.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
You're exactly describing duck typing. Resolving it at compile time in a static, "safe" way is a useful feature to be sure, but that doesn't mean it's not duck typing. Replace "Go" with "Python" in your final paragraph and it's just as tr
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by BrandonM 15y ago
> Bold, delicious digression from oop - there literally is no relation between objects by identity, only by behaviour via interfaces - not your usual crappy java/c#/etc. interfaces, but rather 'true' interfaces, which are implicitly im
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by BrandonM 15y ago
That makes a lot more sense in Gnome, a world-distributed open source project, than it does on many websites, where it's quite easy to figure out the source of the majority of your traffic.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
> it's completely ridiculous that DHS is enforcing IP The Secret Service was created by Lincoln to combat an extremely high rate of counterfeiting currency[1]. When the Department of Homeland Security was created, the Secret Service b
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I'm going to be a cynic here and say that the author's real thrust seems to be to reconcile his childhood dreams of being a rock star with his current station in life. The definition of rock star precludes the vast majority from ever attain
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by BrandonM 15y ago
My thoughts exactly. And Linus's name was not misspelled like Jimi Hendrix's name was.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
That's a good analogy, but it's not one that the article mentioned at all.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I agree with most of your comment, but I think there are a few inaccuracies worth pointing out. > The thing is, being a rockstar is ... [about] using drugs to dull the loss of identity caused by never being in the same city for more th
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by BrandonM 15y ago
> When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say "wow, that was an adventure," not "wow, I sure felt safe." A great conclusion to a great article. Definitely a motto to live by.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Meh... It's really just "recent popular hn articles."
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Look for ilyAIMY, the Floorwalkers, and the Andy Shaw Band in a few years. All three have a unique and tasty music style. If you want a good example of a rock band that I quite liked which never made it big, check out Snake Like Charm. Thei
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by BrandonM 15y ago
> Being able to say "this is good" or "this is bad" is a start, but the really useful thing is to be able to go deeper and say "this is good overall; XYZ are good aspects of it; ABC could have been done better". 'Cause then you can twe
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I agree. One of the more useful things I used comment scores for was to be sure to avoid missing useful comments that were down low on the page. Having a mechanism for setting apart well-regarded comments would be useful. It would likely ha
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Trying to Try(lesswrong.com)
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Why does Reddit really need 99% availability? Is a customer unduly harmed or is the world even worse off if Reddit is down for a couple cumulative days per year? Is it worth the cost? Would you put up with more ads and/or pay for Reddit i
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Putting 209.47.206.47 fulltiltpoker.com in /etc/hosts, I was able to start up the Full Tilt Poker client and perform a software update. Thanks again! :)
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> To my knowledge the highest stakes spread online are FT NL/PLO games of 500/1k (so buyin is $100k) Aren't there deep-stacked high buy-in games now? Besides, I actually have a screen shot where I sat at a .25/.50 table ($50 buyin) long
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by BrandonM 16y ago
That is the already-seized alias IP address. Go ahead and browse to it.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I made a longer post below ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2452958 ) that explains it all a bit better, but for poker players, their balances on poker sites serve both as checking accounts (in many ways) and as their capital. That's l
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Professional poker players can only safely risk 5% or less of their bankroll at any one time (due to luck factors -- there are many ups and downs), players typically keep their bankroll as large as possible so that they can play as high-sta
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by BrandonM 16y ago
That group is probably bigger than you think. There is a very large population of professional poker players, and those people make their money from a population of everyday players that are least ten times the size of the professional play
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by BrandonM 16y ago
They process cashouts through intermediaries, essentially laundering the cashout money. This is one of the main crimes they are being charged with. In addition to the domain names, the FBI also seized all of the funds they could that were b
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by BrandonM 16y ago
This post really highlights the needs for collapsible threads. I'd be very interested in discussing more about asset forfeiture at large, but it's ridiculous to have to wade through all the Liberty Dollar bullshit in order to do that.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> The FBI press release[1] says that they've shut down all the sites' bank accounts too, so you're unlikely to be able to pull your money out. Sure, but we can at least take a screenshot of our accounts for the purposes of a class-actio
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Thank you very much. Unfortunately for me, you didn't hit fulltiltpoker in time.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Did anyone happen to cache the IP address for fulltiltpoker.com? I'd like to add it to /etc/hosts so that I can at least connect to the client and get a screenshot of my balance.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
pokerstars.net only offers a play money client; it is not a gambling site by any stretch of the imagination. .jp and .de are not under US jurisdiction.

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