MichaelBurge

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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
> Every few months, I'll screw something up and prevent the server from booting or joining the network, effectively locking me out of the machine. To get things running again, I have to disconnect everything, drag the server over to
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
Pyramid[1] was based on the last chapter of SICP, was executable after a couple weeks, and I had never written any lisp before(outside of a couple hours playing with Scheme once). Most of that time was the code generator. An interpreter is
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
If the answer is "Yes, there's a protein on the cell membrane or a hormone that acts as the signal", then we already know the answer. Can you explain where the uncertainty is coming from?
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
> you cannot have a bank run anymore. It's not possible. As such fractional reserve isn't a meaningful risk to depositors. It's not possible for the "average person" to lose bank deposits. But if a cryptocurrency
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
Is this the same mechanism that the eye and testes use to prevent being attacked by the immune system? I recall the eye has its own "immune system"(tears) since the usual one is deactivated in that region. Would it be possible to
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
I usually pay people online with Paypal. Isn't that p2p given that you send money using only their email address? What do Venmo/Zelle give over that?
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
I think the concern is: It's currently a getter/setter but might change later. Maybe for debugging you want to log a callstack every time the field gets accessed, for example. Or when you set the field, you should invalidate some
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
It's not a theoretical problem, but there's a practical one: Banks themselves loan out the money, so a run on a stablecoin can cause a run on actual banks. And FDIC isn't enough to cover the full amount. This can be mitigated
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
With #1, you count money in a checking account as cash right? Even though it's technically a line of credit that happens to have an insurance policy attached? Or do you mean strictly physical cash under the mattress(or in a safe)?
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
Facebook has tens of thousands of employees and everyone there is issued a Mac and iPhone. The Amazon employees I know were issued Macs as well. Looking back to see if you were ever right, I see a 2013 article[1] claiming Google expla
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
The main use is exploiting smart contracts. Not just in the "bug" sense, but if e.g. there's a decentralized exchange and many people unwisely set a resting stop order to sell to "reduce risk", you can clear out the
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
The OP comment that you are attempting to disagree with says "Participation might have increased but I wonder if completion rates decreased." and you are citing participation using the exact same quote he did as if it was new info
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
You might as well just promise 100% uptime. If you don't meet it, most SLAs you're only liable for a couple bucks in service credits anyways.
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
"Trust the AI" could mean uploading a resume to a website and getting a "candidate score" from somebody else's model. Because I'll tell you, there's millions of landlords and they blindly trust FICO when s
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
There's people that argue they shouldn't have to pay income tax because wages from labor is an exchange of life duration for money, so it should be a sale of assets and not pure income. So just think of the fine as a forced liquid
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
That's actually how it works though. See "Parallel Construction". Except instead of saying "Access Denied" which immediately makes you suspicious and comment on the internet, they construct an alternative evidence c
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
"home lab" wouldn't be a name - it would be a description. Changing it to a name only requires removing the space.
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
That seems like it would very quickly turn into tribute to the local warlord.
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
In that sense, you don't own your body either: At any time, the government could send goons to shoot you or jail you or harvest your kidneys. Even if you leave the country, they could put a bounty on your head or send assassins. Sure,
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
That sounds like internet drama and not a serious threat. I think they're powerless to do anything.
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
So any Linux kernel contributor in the last 30 years can pull their license and force an immediate "emergency rewrite" of everything they've contributed? Since other Linux developers would no longer have a license to use it?
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
"Something untoward" is a bit vague. You have to specify who's being threatened at the very least. * For project maintainers: The SF Conservancy can't prevent developers from working on their own project, because it is G
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
> we should measure them in terms of tons of CO2, or perhaps its equivalent acres-of-the-Amazon-rainforest-lit-on-fire. The marginal cost of a transaction is zero. For example, if half the block was used, and half was completely empty, i
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
Error Message Realms are documented in this pull request, but not in the actual documentation yet: https://github.com/racket/racket/pull/4104 "Racket CS runs on platforms where native-code generati
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
Why would he care about "daenz on Hacker News"? It's a bit self-important to think that people should optimize their writing to appeal to specifically you.
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
"They consume medical care" sounds a lot like the broken window fallacy: If you smash a bunch of windows, you're increasing GDP and creating jobs when they get repaired. To a ruthless cold-blooded optimizer, deleting the elde
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
I've heard CL is famous for having advanced libraries and language features decades before other languages get them. What are some interesting libraries or language features developed since 2005 that haven't yet made their way to
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
How does he know his wife isn't a corporate or Russian spy sent to exfiltrate his passwords and company data? And now that he has a son, maybe a mortgage, a wife, a reputation - all of these things are liabilities that could be used ag
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
If you don't opt out, you lose your right to sue Venmo in court. Or at least, you have to pay a lawyer $500/hour to first argue for your right to sue in court, before you can even begin your lawsuit.
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
The plot to me always read "People estimate themselves at 60-70% percentile - above average, but not the best". And then given this broad prior, people do place themselves accurately(because the plot is increasing). So it seems pe

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