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by Cushman 13y ago
Academic citation isn't an honor system . They're there so you can look them up. That said, your point is effectively what I was saying in that the statement "I have personal experience with this" taken in good faith is much more support
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by Cushman 13y ago
Worth it. Edit: This one too.
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by Cushman 13y ago
> I agree with the sentiment, but "properly cited" suggests a bit more than a one line comment from a username with barely a handful of posts (generally pertaining to bitcoin and intermediate level networking certifications) on an anony
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by Cushman 13y ago
> Bitcoin is like cash. Right, which is the point. No one same would argue that cash is a secure form of money storage. It's got some selling points, but security is not one of them.
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by Cushman 13y ago
> 1. Bitcoin doesn't need a highly regulated financial institution to securely store your money (but it does require highly secure technology). Only if you don't consider protection from theft an attribute of secure money storage. If s
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by Cushman 13y ago
Bullshit. There is nothing wrong with using personal experience for reference so long as it is properly cited. It beats "This guy is wrong (source: random blog post that I didn't really read)", anyway. Edit: To be clear, I don't love the Re
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by Cushman 13y ago
Literally.
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by Cushman 13y ago
I severely doubt the average American has any sort of experience with the Canadian health care system whatsoever, let alone "first-hand" or "up-close". The average American probably didn't even know Canada had universal health care before 2
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by Cushman 13y ago
It's pretty easy to see how these "criticisms" may seem less obvious (and less valid) to someone who a) is not deeply invested in American party politics and b) comes from a state with a well-functioning universal health care system. Or in
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by Cushman 13y ago
Oh man, I'd never put it together that that's Penn. Something else to love about that movie :)
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by Cushman 13y ago
Yeah, they seem to have thought what was called for was "Crank, but more so" when what they really needed to hit was "Crank, and exactly the same amount." I wasn't too disappointed though, since the original stands so well on it's own.
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by Cushman 13y ago
It gets made fun of a lot, but personally I believe Hackers had the most realistic depiction of what hacking is like to hackers of any movie. Definitely one of my favorites.
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by Cushman 13y ago
> * Crank – not very known, but wow, this is the best action movie ever. Just seconding this, in case it is not known. As action, Crank is perfect in every way. It's a shame Crank 2 went off the rails the way it did...
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by Cushman 13y ago
I think the point is that water is only technically blue; in small quantities like those simulated, its appearance is mostly the effect of refraction and scattering and all that fun stuff, which is a whole new can of worms. So they add some
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by Cushman 14y ago
It may be in poor taste to say it, but if the Native American nations had bought American Dollars rather than trading for goods with "inherent" value, history may have played out very differently.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> As a business owner, there is nothing better than being able to transact with anyone, anywhere in the world instantly. You certainly can't do that with credit cards or paypal. How about being able to transact with 99% of your customer
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by Cushman 14y ago
Gold has been stabilized through history because it has been used as currency by powerful governments. If the powerful governments of the world collapse, they will lose control of their large gold reserves at the same time they lose the abi
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by Cushman 14y ago
And who guarantees that an ounce of gold will buy me some amount of wheat? Or that a bushel of wheat will give me some amount of energy when eaten? Only a very powerful entity can make such guarantees. On that basis I would say that the wor
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by Cushman 14y ago
The very concept of debt, of exchange, is one enforced by the United States. If the United States says that I owe a million dollars or none, that is just as true whether it is measured in gold, or hens, or the capricious will of the Feder
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by Cushman 14y ago
The dollar is backed by the word of the most powerful organization in the history of civilization. If that doesn't have value, what does?
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by Cushman 14y ago
Correct, that is not what I think the story is about. That is what I think your comment is about. Am I wrong?
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by Cushman 14y ago
The idea that, since a master craftsman finds essential value in their art, it's okay on a moral level for them not to be rewarded in the form of food and shelter is rather insipid.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Things can travel faster than light. Say you sweep a spotlight across the moon. You could easily observe a spot of light traveling from one side of the moon to the other much faster than the speed of light. The spot of light is a "thing" th
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by Cushman 14y ago
> They defer to humans in anything but perfect highway conditions What do you mean by this? The Google car can negotiate stop signs properly, for example. It's limited to good conditions in a lot of ways, but it's no train.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I feel pretty comfortable putting my faith in experimental technology rather than average human beings. Nothing against human beings of course, just when it comes to operating motor vehicles it ain't much to beat.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Don't worry, the days of this sort of thing are numbered. There is exactly one way it is acceptable to operate a motor vehicle: Input a destination for the computer to drive to, and release the controls. Anything less is a tragedy that hasn
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by Cushman 14y ago
> speak properly (I will not shy away from this nomenclature) I just wish you'd reconsider this. It seems you acknowledge that if we could magically swap AAVE and ASE completely, such that news anchors talk about how Obama ain't got no
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by Cushman 14y ago
Actually, I have been noticing some false positives in Chrome on Windows in the last few weeks... I wonder if it could be related somehow. Hm, I don't seem to have online spellcheck enabled though. Perhaps not.
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by Cushman 14y ago
That is a much more eloquent version of what I was getting at, thank you :) To be clear, I don't really think closures are "bigger" conceptually either. I can't properly recall a time I understood one and not the other... It may be that und
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by Cushman 14y ago
It's always cool to see an accessible demo of the lambda calculus, but to nitpick... Isn't it cheating a bit to say this doesn't use Object when, in JavaScript, the persistent arguments object exists and is even explicitly accessible? You

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