CompelTechnic

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by CompelTechnic 13y ago
The way the author constructs strawmen of other political stances is pretty funny. In another article he wrote( http://www.forbes.com/sites/harrybinswanger/2013/07/07/capit... ), it reads: >Despit
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by CompelTechnic 13y ago
What I would like to see would be a comprehensive list of confirmed NSA practices that have been revealed since the start of the Snowden leaks. One of the problems that I have (and I feel that the majority of people have) is "crisis f
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by CompelTechnic 13y ago
A distinct lack of response by pg on this issue would not have sent an effective message. I think that the audience that reads these misunderstandings is large enough, and of a wide enough spread of interest/knowledge in the issue, th
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by CompelTechnic 13y ago
I would say you could fit right in, especially if you started in a company that works on iOS apps directly- you could prove your capabilities by showing your completed projects.
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by CompelTechnic 13y ago
Panic.
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by CompelTechnic 13y ago
As it was spoken: Javascript shall conquer all- Atwood's Law: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/07/the-principle-of-le...
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by CompelTechnic 13y ago
It may be the case that he does have (/had) a physical addiction to alcohol, but it looks like his drinking behavior isn't (/wasn't) harmful.
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by CompelTechnic 13y ago
> I never needed indoor lighting during daylight hours The way I figure, people in need of one of these lights probably won't have windows to let light into their homes, so it makes a bit more sense for their application. Just my .0
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by CompelTechnic 13y ago
If tablets are ever going to come into their own as productivity tools, we need some input device innovation. As it stands now, touchscreens and styli don't afford as much utility to the user as the mouse/ keyboard combo for the
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by CompelTechnic 13y ago
So much synergy. So much.
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by CompelTechnic 13y ago
Atwood's law keeps on showing itself to be more and more prescient.
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by CompelTechnic 13y ago
confirmation bias in its most unadulterated form. excellent.
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I love Beaty's stuff. I've tracked his amasci.com for a couple years now- although his updates are few and far between, they are often gems. He's a damn good modern day mad scientist.
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by CompelTechnic 13y ago
Just to show how insidious the IRS is in situations similar to this, it has a 'bartering tax center' to deal with taxing economic activity in which no dollars were exchanged. I'm not completely familiar with how it functions,
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Idea: Using Bitcoin-style Publicly Auditable Ledger for Electronic Voting(reddit.com)
6 points by CompelTechnic 13y ago|2 comments
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The inability to send large files is pretty frustrating. The alternative services that can serve as a workaround to this problem (dropbox, etc.) are still relatively clunky as well.
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by CompelTechnic 13y ago
>Most of the time, capitalism works as a zero-sum game - profits can be extracted more easily from moving resources than from creating them and therefore moving will be prefered to making. This isn't true. At the heart of capitalism is
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by CompelTechnic 13y ago
>Compassion or no, it's fundamentally hypocritical to espouse productivity as a virtue and then do an about-face in your own personal choices. It need not be hypocritical to perform actions that disregard one of your claimed virtues, as
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by CompelTechnic 14y ago
I think it's silly to start efforts towards this ban when none of the politicians making said efforts have even worn google glass, or, likely, seen it in person. They're not operating within their area of expertise here, and aren't even fam
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by CompelTechnic 14y ago
I don't believe there is anything "missing" to prevent it from starting up. It simply takes work, time, and money to get it off the ground. I can see this tech being widely used in place of current capacitor technology in a shortish timefr
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by CompelTechnic 14y ago
The smaller exchanges lag behind due to a combination of low volume/liquidity and non-negligible transfer fees that prevent arbitration.
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by CompelTechnic 14y ago
The debate between power and simplicity in software continues on. Should you make features that are scary, and only useful to a handful of your users? My $.02: Let Firefox continue to be feature-packed. Why? The other (popular) browsers
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by CompelTechnic 14y ago
please answer this, ryanong. I'm gonna take a year or two off of work soon to do this- I'm sure other people would like to know as well.
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by CompelTechnic 14y ago
It was down to $36.50 for a couple seconds/minutes- looks like that got bought back up though. Weird.
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by CompelTechnic 14y ago
Guys, it looks like prices are dropping pretty quick now on mtgox. This will be another... interesting couple of weeks for bitcoin.