CamTin

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by CamTin 8y ago
...or by owning the means that other people use to provide value.
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by CamTin 8y ago
The OP was asking about the ideal process. This should be a starting point and any other demands that practicality and regulation cause an employer to want should be compensated. Can't hire me right away? OK, then just pay me my eventu
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by CamTin 8y ago
Describe what the job entails, ask me if I believe I can do it, and then hire me if I agree. Fire me later if I was wrong.
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by CamTin 8y ago
With a "real" warrant, I will eventually find out that it's been issued, either because I'll be served with it, or because the evidence will show up in court and the prosecutor will have to explain how they got it. It&#x
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by CamTin 8y ago
It doesn't go anywhere except by radiation, which sucks as a way to cool things compared to conduction.
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by CamTin 8y ago
Why did courtiers at Versailles spend their hordes of gold on the latest finery?
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by CamTin 8y ago
Right, this is why its totally unworkable as a solution to the problem of transnational corporations wielding too much power, and a totally crypto-ized global economy would probably just make that worse. It solves other problems fairly well
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by CamTin 8y ago
Regardless of how strong the government's case is, we have a right to face our accuser. The existence of the FISA court, and all its decisions, are, if not illegal, morally bankrupt. I don't care how strong the government's c
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by CamTin 8y ago
I totally agree with you in practical terms, but what you're really saying is that you prefer the governance offered by Paypal and the credit card networks to the governance provided by the government: IOW, it wouldn't even occur
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by CamTin 8y ago
Are you implying that FISA warrants somehow constitute "due process"? You mean the secret court, with secret rulings, where only the government's case is heard, and 99.9% of requests are granted?
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by CamTin 8y ago
Nothing happens in big business in China without a stamp of approval from Beijing. The reverse is true in the US, where Washington politicians need their report card signed by business interests, but it amounts to the same thing: there is n
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by CamTin 8y ago
Why? Your boss tells you to do something. You either do it, or she fires you. If you expect anything different, you are deluded.
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by CamTin 8y ago
From context I'd guess he means 45% male, 45% female, 10% non-binary.
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by CamTin 8y ago
It also marks the centennial of Poland's return to the map after 123 years of partition and foreign rule.
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by CamTin 8y ago
Awful seems to have come a long way since I last looked at it: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/awful . Anybody used it in production?
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by CamTin 8y ago
Rather than just any old divisions, politics is increasingly steered toward divisions over things that elites don't actually care about: gun rights, abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, manufactured "religious freedom" debates, &qu
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by CamTin 8y ago
That's probably the case for valley-style startups where the whole team can fit in a room and they all hack on the same handful of repos, but most "enterprise" customers will have hundreds of repos with not necessarily anybod
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by CamTin 8y ago
As one potential example, it would be useful for implementing something similar to Racket's 'dispatch-rules' ( https://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/dispatch.html#%28for... ) in JavaScript. Specifically,
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by CamTin 8y ago
"No one would support a policy that required them to buy this time back from the state in the form of a tax." America's puritan relationship with work, and it's toxic interaction with free-market economics has reached it
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by CamTin 8y ago
Not only that, but you can situationally decide which kind of binding you want, which is sometimes pretty useful.
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by CamTin 8y ago
That's the case pretty much everywhere, including in the US. I thought that the post implied some structural reason why Airdrop can't be used in Europe by people with iPhones.
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by CamTin 8y ago
Why can't Europeans use Airdrop?
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by CamTin 8y ago
I've been doing some coding against the "distributed places" API in Racket, and it's been really nice to work with: https://docs.racket-lang.org/distributed-places/index.html
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by CamTin 8y ago
I did. Unfortunately the editing window is closed. Thank you.
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by CamTin 8y ago
If you have a competition where everyone flips coins, and you are eliminated as soon as you flip a tail, and you win, it's likely that you will also win the next time. This is not because the events are not independent, but because you
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by CamTin 8y ago
Like most business talk on HN, this is about YC-style startups that are expected to lose a lot of money up front in exchange for a ticket in a lottery where the winner is the next Facebook.
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by CamTin 8y ago
It's not sexy, but college towns in the midwest can usually be pretty affordable as long as you're not trying to live exactly next to campus: Madison, Ann Arbor, East Lansing, South Bend, Ames, etc. If you hear people talk about
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by CamTin 8y ago
Racket is an interesting system for pedagogy. Up until now, it's been focused on undergrads, but the principles should be similar. If you aren't familiar, Racket lets you create new languages that (among many other things) can hid
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by CamTin 8y ago
Why is that?
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by CamTin 8y ago
It's not strange at all that there's no good answer, because if it were commonly available knowledge that something is overvalued, it wouldn't be overvalued. All investment is gambling, even housing. If you don't have a

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