Cushman

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by Cushman 14y ago
> The world isn't a fair place by nature. This is completely irrelevant to whether or not the structure of our society is or should be fair. > Give the average Joe two choices: He can sit at home, make a decent $70,000 every year
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by Cushman 14y ago
You don't need to replace the plumber; if the sink can autonomously diagnose the leak, anyone can be a plumber. You don't need to replace the barber; if a machine can cut hair exactly the same way every time, one person can style a hundred
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by Cushman 14y ago
Put me in the opposite camp: I'm young and nearsighted, which means my close vision is very good. I usually read HN on my iPhone at min zoom, and I find it really frustrating when mobile sites helpfully won't let me zoom out to read more th
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by Cushman 14y ago
You aren't exactly reading it right. The string is deserialized as a string, specifically as a hash key. However, there are a number of classes in Rails (and presumably other Ruby projects of similar complexity) which can be tricked into ev
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by Cushman 14y ago
Sure, but when there's an economic incentive to having things tracked most people put up with it. I'm not saying drugs are the only thing anyone would use bitcoin for, just the most likely thing for the average person to.
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by Cushman 14y ago
One of the reasons the Silk Road operates in the relative open with such impunity is because of the absurdly low probability that a small quantity of well-packaged drugs will be detected unless they pass through customs. The USPS is especia
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by Cushman 14y ago
Yeah, I guess I shouldn't expect a huge response to this one :P
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by Cushman 14y ago
A distributor, sure. Some people are that dumb. But enough to make a dent? I doubt it. There are site rules and best practices and distributors are ranked (among other factors) on how well they keep to those. The rules say (among other th
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by Cushman 14y ago
That doesn't mean it's not true though, right? I mean, help me along with this. Bitcoin is like cash, but you need to use a computer. If I'm already using a computer, there are many reasons I might prefer to use another payment system: Trac
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by Cushman 14y ago
The challenge isn't locating or identifying average users, though, since they'll gladly send you their name and address. The challenge is finding the distributors, who are (presumably) more careful to follow the rules. It sounds like this t
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by Cushman 14y ago
Somebody help me out here: Isn't Silk Road also the number one reason Regular Joe would use bitcoin?
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by Cushman 14y ago
Does this really work in the case of the Silk Road? Communication is completely asynchronous, the people sending and receiving packages never make a direct connection. You would need to find a geographic area for the server itself, which is
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by Cushman 14y ago
Well, buy domestic. USPS only, to be precise.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Are you asking if I've heard of these things, or if I know their relative prevalences in different countries and what that's supposed to mean? Because yes, and no, although my intuition is that the road rage, shootings, and racist YouTube c
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by Cushman 14y ago
Funnily enough, I can't see air, and if you could not provide any other evidence for its existence I would be extremely skeptical.
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by Cushman 14y ago
The fact that your intuition is deceiving you is expert knowledge. The lesson, as has been reiterated by parents several times in these comments, is: Parenting decisions in the real world are hard, complex, and individual. It's treacherou
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by Cushman 14y ago
Let me take a step back here and lay this out in a more reductionist way. There is an scientific approach to parenting. We can take a testable metric like body weight, and apply rigorous analysis of contributing factors, like eating habits
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by Cushman 14y ago
I've done exactly that: I was at ~100wpm with "advanced hunt and peck", and decided to learn touch-typing in Dvorak to "do it properly". I type a little slower now, and my hands feel pretty much the same, but it makes my computer that much
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by Cushman 14y ago
Until you talk to a few parents and they say, "2+2=5? Yeah, we tried that. It worked pretty well up until 6 or 7 when we were able to have a real conversation about addition. Why do you think that's wrong?" Then you might realize that, yes,
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by Cushman 14y ago
Respect; you're a fine devil's advocate. I'll definitely agree what Aaron was doing was cheeky, and anyone could have seen how it could easily get him in trouble with MIT or JSTOR or maybe even the cops. It's just hard to point out what a
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by Cushman 14y ago
> In my experience, the people who talk about America being the most violent, the most corrupt, etc. are the ones who also like to decry 'American exceptionalism'. That's my point, yeah? "We're so stuck up" is just as ignorantly self-ce
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by Cushman 14y ago
> still it suggests bad things Well, yeah . Human beings are not equipped to operate motor vehicles safely, and there is a mountain of evidence to support that fact. It doesn't have anything to do with parenting, though.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Because I hear it from my friends, and most of my friends are American. And frankly, I imagine non-Americans don't think about us that much.
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by Cushman 14y ago
That's American exceptionalism for you. I imagine it gives us a sense of purpose to believe we live in the most corrupt, illiterate, violent country in the world.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Ah, noted. Evading rate limiting to a resource you have lawful access to still reads to me as bandwidth, not privilege, but point taken. But still— unlocked closet, unsecured network, all, we are given to understand, because of a very lenie
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by Cushman 14y ago
That you think that unsourced opinion piece constitutes "secondary corroboration" indicates that perhaps you do not, in fact, understand when citation is needed.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Where I live in America, pedestrians seem highly obedient of walk signals and drivers seem highly observant of crosswalks. You got me as far as "confirmation bias". Still looking up that citation?
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by Cushman 14y ago
Anyone who's done networking knows that ethernet and wifi are not equivalent. I'll grant you he was escalating his bandwidth ; what is this "privilege" you describe which was neither physical nor technical?
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by Cushman 14y ago
Hear, hear. The way people second-guess everyday parenting decisions is annoying, but the way people here are reacting to this one is mind boggling. This is a clear and obvious win all around: Dad's happy, the kids are happy, and all beca
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by Cushman 14y ago
What about the part where he walked into an unlocked closet and plugged into an unsecured Ethernet port, using access to the network he had already been granted? I'd like to think that if I'm walking by your house and connect to your free

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