CamTin

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by CamTin 8y ago
In the US, we have the understanding bartender or wise taxi driver stereotype. This seems like largely the same thing: somebody with some perspective on your situation because they aren't too bogged down with the minutiae of actually k
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by CamTin 8y ago
Laws are a reasonable (thought still incredibly difficult) solution in the parts of the planet that have the rule of law. Large parts don't, and we need different solutions in those places because this is a global problem. As an exampl
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by CamTin 8y ago
Yeah, I guess we're talking less about "help" (F1 in Windows, or at least it used to be) than about the user-interface guidelines that mandate the "File" dialog and so. As for doing a "systemic exploration&quot
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by CamTin 8y ago
The other bit that people seem to neglect with BTC is that it is not immune to ordinary network analysis. Yes, it's a very clever system that creates a trustless layer of distributed storage, but it still works via IP. If you want to s
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by CamTin 8y ago
No, that's absurd.
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by CamTin 8y ago
"In GUI mode, though inefficient, you know exactly where to access help" I wonder how useful "help" is to the average user. I've personally never been aided in a strange GUI by visiting the help. Usually there is a
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by CamTin 8y ago
Indeed, all us US taxpayers and, more importantly, citizens are complicity with the myriad heinous crimes of our government. They do them in our name, with our money, and in most cases with our vote.
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by CamTin 8y ago
The easy answer is that somebody can photograph you putting the cash in the machine. Cameras are pretty small these days and facial recognition is cheap. Besides that, though, the entire mechanism of Bitcoin is one where all transactions ar
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by CamTin 8y ago
Optimizing for anything more (or less) than three dimensions is premature.
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by CamTin 8y ago
I wonder if the USPS would or has considered running an FBA competitor (ship your items in bulk to a USPS facility, pay for the space, and then to have them packed and shipped via an API). Even operating at a loss, it might make sense from
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by CamTin 8y ago
It's pretty well documented that a lot of the lavish philanthropy of gilded age barons like Carnegie and Rockefeller was motivated by their guilt and concern about not being able to thread a camel through a needle. I don't know ab
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by CamTin 8y ago
Stalin could "buy" vastly more than a 1.8 million person-years. There were approximate 10x that many Soviet citizens during his lifetime, and he was in pretty much total control of all of them, for as long as he wanted, not just a
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by CamTin 8y ago
The fiduciary thing to do if you're in this spot is simply to issue equity like it's going out of style: If the market wants to pay you way more than you're worth, take them up on it and stockpile cash for the lean years that
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by CamTin 8y ago
With Penney's in particular, you can pretty much just always assume a sale is going on. I go about twice a year, and in the past ~6 years, there's only been one day where the stuff I was buying (dress shirts and slacks, mainly) we
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by CamTin 8y ago
Why not simply avoid making billions so you don't have to give it all away to assuage your guilt and come out close to neutral?
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by CamTin 8y ago
But a Monopoly on "stuff" and "moving stuff around" is a much more valuable Monopoly (pretty much by definition) than one in "eyeballs to advertise stuff to". Ultimately, the majority of Google's and Faceb
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by CamTin 8y ago
The problem is that the 2018 World Cup is not a repeatable event. Neither are most open-market trades (presumably the point of this whole PR stunt being to show that their quants are good at making smart bets in the markets) but they'r
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by CamTin 8y ago
I guess the ultimate solution assumes that all the turntables are long enough to deal with at least two-car consists? Seems strange that the company would cheap out on a little bit of porcelain in each car and then overprovision its turntab
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by CamTin 8y ago
Pre-breakup AT&T is a tangible example for people old enough to remember. AT&T shareholders certainly did well with their monopoly position, and the early days of the Bell System were certainly not public-spirited (the company direc
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by CamTin 8y ago
In practice, management can get minority shareholders to approve almost anything, the most obvious being by treating unreturned proxy ballots as implicit votes for management. They can entertain floor resolutions (never put before sharehold
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by CamTin 8y ago
If they're not actually recording the audio (just a boolean of whether or not the cashier said "did you find everything you needed?"), they might not need anyone's consent.
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by CamTin 8y ago
How are the two things (drug convictions and unfair labor contracts) related?
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This seems like it's begging for a test case to strike this down on humanitarian grounds. I can't imagine any western judge of any serious level (possibly some county judge in West Texas or something) would take seriously the clai
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by CamTin 8y ago
What if you just don't show up for work? They fire you, right? Do you have to pay some big cash penalty? Or is the hesitance just that you can't get a reference for your next gig?
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by CamTin 8y ago
Right, the bread and circuses are the bit that keep us distracted from the important bit, which is our disenfranchisement as citizens. Now it takes the place of shareholders/bankers/pension fund managers seizing all the power in s
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by CamTin 8y ago
Surely they can't make you work, right? That's called slavery.
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Sure, that's one possible reason. Whatever their actual motivations, one thing that we know for sure is that the don't want this data out there. Therefore it should be no surprise that they dull the accuracy on achievements as soo
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by CamTin 8y ago
This is an interesting framing, because presumably the first space-living people will actually have a much greater than a 1d100 chance of dying in some horrible space-related way. We then basically have a collective action problem: in order
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by CamTin 8y ago
They must have reasons for not wanting this figure to be public. If they didn't, they would just expose it directly via the API or in the UI instead of making people solve a fun math puzzle to tease it out of other figures.
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by CamTin 8y ago
The stock exchange is literally the only party which even has the order flow data, whereas sporting events happen in arenas where thousands of people witness them. I wouldn't think a stock exchange could sue me for publishing order flo

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