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by MattyRad 11y ago
What a great piece that describes the new type existential despair seen in the modern world. How are we so isolated in spite of connectedness? The question of burning time, for money, for... what? How does one come to serve the haves who ha
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by MattyRad 11y ago
Good point. What is the bare minimum to qualify for "good performance?" What training information is classified as critical and necessary? Some specifics could be easily omitted, I expect. There could be a tinge of satisfaction in
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by MattyRad 11y ago
Funny side note, I discovered Less Than Jake on Grooveshark many years ago.
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by MattyRad 11y ago
Personally I think the first half of the article was fantastic, then it tapered off toward the end. But ultimately, my takeaway is that we should be more considerate in all aspects of our lives about how our actions affect others, which is
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by MattyRad 11y ago
I graduated from UNR in Computer Science and had the good fortune of finding a great job in Reno. Rent is incredibly cheap, the average commute time to get anywhere is 15 minutes (I80 and US395 intersect the city), there's no income ta
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by MattyRad 12y ago
Assuming this isn't an April Fools joke, it would be interesting to discuss this idea in the context of a growing shut-in culture. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9265817
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by MattyRad 12y ago
Gerard Manley Hopkins: God’s Grandeur THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his
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by MattyRad 12y ago
I like his point here "Google and Facebook are in the same business as the U.S. government’s National Security Agency. They collect a vast amount of information about people, store it, integrate it and use it to predict individual and
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Accuse your peers and coworkers of bad code(github.com)
1 points by MattyRad 12y ago|0 comments
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by MattyRad 12y ago
The exact same legal precedent could be used to seize hotmail.com for all the spam, scams, and viruses floating through it. I am willing to bet the judge was handed a 2 foot tall stack of papers with technical gibberish which she of course,
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by MattyRad 12y ago
I live in Reno, so with Burning Man recently I saw a disproportionate number of traffic stops off the freeway. The interesting thing about Burning Man, however, is that all vehicles are marked by the tell-tale dust from the Playa. Cops can
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by MattyRad 12y ago
Reasonable answer. Everyone's job seems to overlap a little at such a small company, but for the most part no, they don't overlap.... I think I've resolved to simply wait until my coworkers ask me about working with her (shou
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Ask HN: Should I advise my coworkers against working with my family member?
8 points by MattyRad 12y ago|9 comments
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by MattyRad 12y ago
As noted by ______1, the hacker did something similar by censoring the photos and offering to uncensor for bitcoin. The difference here is that people sending bitcoin have no guarantee that the photos will actually be released once the bitc
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by MattyRad 12y ago
While I don't actually have any solid grasp of the code that would be required, I imagine it would be possible to release 1 image to show that one does indeed have a collection of "valuable" photos. Once trust has been establ
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by MattyRad 12y ago
Kind of eerie when you realize you're looking into the portrait of someone without any conscious or ethics. I have little sympathy for the employees that got laid off, and am reassured that IV is finding it harder to operate. However,
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by MattyRad 12y ago
The visual representation of calculus, speed, velocity, and acceleration taught me more in 60 seconds than would take in 4 hours worth of lectures. Fantastic! (Makes my laptop catch on fire though)
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by MattyRad 12y ago
My senior project in college was very similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axDyhF1N7hY Navdy's interface looks quite a bit nicer though, for sure.
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NoIP Update: Details on Microsoft Takeover(noip.com)
4 points by MattyRad 12y ago|0 comments
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by MattyRad 12y ago
I have been using Ubuntu as my sole desktop for the past 5 years (except when I play games on Windows), and have just landed a job that requires I use a Mac. It has been incredibly painful trying to do what is normally trivial in Linux. But
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by MattyRad 12y ago
When I was a child, I asked my dad if his work was fun. He said, "If it was fun, they wouldn't pay you." I remember that from time to time, because it's true. Something that is fun (relative though "fun" is) do
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by MattyRad 13y ago
How does a big-name-ish pornstar come across HN?
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by MattyRad 13y ago
I agree with this. It creates leverage that you wouldn't otherwise have while simultaneously making a statement that you don't appreciate being taken advantage of. Worst case scenario: you never hear from him again, which still so
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by MattyRad 13y ago
Is anyone else skeptical of the government's ability to effectively tax bitcoin? The scale of doing so both technologically and physically seems far too complicated for such a minute market.
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Ask HN: A question about ethics in Computer Science
1 points by MattyRad 13y ago|4 comments
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by MattyRad 13y ago
Cool. Thanks!
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by MattyRad 13y ago
It's refreshing that now I can spend my bitcoin on things I want! They got it working much faster than expected. Does anybody have any idea how returns would work? Do they just send the original amount of bitcoin to the payer's wa
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by MattyRad 13y ago
One of the things I happen to like about Bitcoin is that it will only be as successful as its adoption rate. I think of this as a literal interpretation of voting with you wallet. So if Bitcoin, against considerable odds, is successful (a s
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by MattyRad 13y ago
By "ban", I assume they mean "made illegal." The former of course being a euphemism for the latter. A couple questions come to my mind as such.... How will China enforce such a ban? Can China physically or technologicall
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by MattyRad 13y ago
>"It is not issued by a central monetary authority, it does not have the properties of legal currency and it is not a currency in the real meaning of the word." Certainly an amusing quote, given the extensive actions to stop

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