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by RickHull 14y ago
Funny, I just bought this on Kindle a week ago. While not exactly a page turner, it is indeed supremely readable. I'm about halfway through and remain fascinated.
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by RickHull 14y ago
How can you tell?
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by RickHull 14y ago
> What is so hard about not posting an opinion on subjects that you don't have knowledge of or any proof to back up your claims? If you haven't studied psychology, have even a vague idea of what it's about, or what its past or present s
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by RickHull 14y ago
> yes I know, that's the point of my question ;) It's a facile point. > everyone is all positive about "open source" until they have to dive into a few millions lines of complicated system-level C code and then... Does anyone doubt
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by RickHull 15y ago
Blank page on FF with NoScript on. I enabled the primary domain and it's still loading 5 minutes later. Just a grey background so far...
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by RickHull 15y ago
HFT would still serve a role with subpenny increments. Nonetheless, the subpenny rule is a very important mechanic in the construction of HFT.
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by RickHull 15y ago
Cash is decentralized in that there are no necessary 3rd parties to a transaction.
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by RickHull 15y ago
> Distinction without difference. I would say there is a real difference, here. The point is, SOPA did not recognize this difference, and its promoters should be held to an even higher standard than that which they promote.
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The title is one way to recognize the rightful owner. If the title is destroyed or missing, those who believe in natural rights would still recognize ownership. Those who believe in state-given rights might not. Also, you mentioned earlie
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by RickHull 15y ago
Just remember: buy the rumor, sell the news
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by RickHull 15y ago
One thing I haven't been able to with tcpdump is just dump the data stream (payload) without any protocol bits. I presume it's possible with the right command line option incantation. Instead, for this purpose, I have used tcpflow. This i
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by RickHull 15y ago
> she's considered a libertarian Ayn Rand was quite vocal about her contempt for libertarianism, though the actual distinctions she made are not entirely clear to me.
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by RickHull 15y ago
Ah, makes sense. I would still tell this story in terms of a first-mover advantage, as well as one of innovation. The point is, in a market economy, it is nearly impossible to maintain a monopoly (or oligarchy) over time. Your margins wi
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by RickHull 15y ago
This particular anecdote relies upon incompetent competition: > Other buff sellers kept selling them at the going rate … so I did the rounds of the cities each night and bought up any HQ buffs which were under my price and added them to
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by RickHull 15y ago
Interesting, I thought of http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
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by RickHull 15y ago
Hm, I'm still not sure how to be happy anywhere. At least, not in the sense that I would understand how to install a doorknob after reading a corresponding article.
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by RickHull 15y ago
Steve left out some context regarding what hypermedia API entails. I believe the essence of a hypermedia API is that the client does not construct URLs but instead follows links . Only the server constructs URLs, and the only URL
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by RickHull 15y ago
> The problem is that it will never be enough. Eh, it will never be enough for 100% of the users, sure -- there will always be some percentage of pure leeches. But this guy seems pretty reasonable. Enough for him seems like a good t
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by RickHull 15y ago
> in which case why have a federal government at all? To coordinate action between the states. For example, interstate highways and national defense. The Constitution pretty much spells it out.
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He has a personal opinion, but this does not drive the policy he advocates. Likewise, he may not want people to drink alcohol on Sundays, but he would not outlaw such behavior.
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by RickHull 15y ago
Yep, GTA3 (even) arguably meets all of the listed criteria:
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by RickHull 15y ago
> Or if they do exist, they are strictly unconscious. Everyone sees himself as a good guy or a victim. Generally, I agree with your thrust, but not so strongly as you have phrased it. Self-acknowledged "bad guys" do exist.
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by RickHull 15y ago
> When Congress updated copyright laws and passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in 1998, it ushered an era of investment, innovation and job creation. In the decade since, companies like Google, YouTube and Twitter have e
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by RickHull 15y ago
> RMS is and always has been ... more than willing to engage in personal attacks in service to the causes that interest him. Can you cite something? Your above quotations are not personal attacks. He is explaining (poorly) that the ch
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by RickHull 15y ago
Implementation choices have costs and benefits. One cost of the original MRI (Matz Ruby Interpreter) is that it used "green threads" that could only be scheduled within the process (running on a single CPU) and not across CPUs. Another is
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by RickHull 15y ago
Yes, upon reading the obvious-flamebait title I asked myself, "What does it mean for a language to be accurate?", and "How could something randomly generated possibly be more accurate than something designed?". I did not expect my questi
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by RickHull 15y ago
> how much of its edifice is built upon the dubious notion of a "rational actor" This is not a tenet for the Austrian school of thought. In Human Action , Ludwig von Mises establishes that humans reveal their preferences through actio
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by RickHull 15y ago
MMT has resurged recently in large part due to the evangelizing efforts of Warren Mosler. One of his intros to MMT for the layperson is "7 Deadly Innocent Frauds". For a counterpoint, here is a comprehensive refutation of 7DIF: http://co
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by RickHull 15y ago
> OP adds confusion by calling data immutable. Data has a well accepted common usage of being updatable. I find this point to be generally contentious. Certainly in the realm of programming languages, data is often held immutable. I t
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by RickHull 15y ago
Keep in mind that the journalist here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Penenberg , famous for uncovering the Stephen Glass journalistic fraud, has a certain flair for the dramatic.

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