Sambdala

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by Sambdala 12y ago
There's a pretty fundamental difference between house-banked games where no player has a long term positive expecation and peer to peer skill games where better players will be able to gain an advantage by outplaying their opponents. R
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by Sambdala 12y ago
> In the event of snowfall you are legally bound to clear the snow from the vicinity of your residence prior to 0700. If you don't and a pedestrian slips on the sidewalk you are liable for the damages. You could always tell the Brit
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by Sambdala 12y ago
That's likely the print (as in physical print) date.
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by Sambdala 12y ago
The developer was also very secretive about how it worked as he was scared someone would copy it and release a clone. It was impossible for the longest time (when the price was actually much higher than it is now) to find out how the thing
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by Sambdala 12y ago
"Stop being so paranoid. Nobody's interested in reading your emails. Besides, they're only collecting metadata ."
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Features Are Complicated(css-tricks.com)
2 points by Sambdala 12y ago|0 comments
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How FPGAs Work and Why You'll Buy One(embeddedrelated.com)
4 points by Sambdala 12y ago|0 comments
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by Sambdala 13y ago
A friend of his has claimed privately that he takes advantage of specific lossback deals that certain casinos give certain high rollers, and this gives him a positive expectation at craps at least some of the time. However, it's hard t
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The Man Who Destroyed America's Ego(medium.com)
1 points by Sambdala 13y ago|0 comments
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by Sambdala 13y ago
I'm currently working in Europe as a US citizen, and my impression is that, yes, labor is going to be cheaper if you're hiring native workers in Europe for white collar jobs. However, there is a ton of friction in the hiring and f
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by Sambdala 13y ago
I remember a Netflix engineer posting somewhere that Netflix needed to implement this for legal reasons. If they don't require you to keep clicking a button to "request content", it doesn't count as an on-demand service.
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Creepy Floating Black Ball Follows People and Replays Ambient Noise(io9.com)
2 points by Sambdala 13y ago|0 comments
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by Sambdala 13y ago
You're terribly right. I've never seen immature behavior come from anyone involved in any "grown up" sector of the economy.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
To be fair, a lot of the "We're too cheap to fly >Mach 1" comes down to the fact that door-to-door travel time doesn't really come down commensurate with the increased costs of faster-than-sound travel. When the airpo
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Prove It! - https://github.com/ConceptPending/proveit Given the recent spat of insolvent Bitcoin sites, I whipped together a project that will allow any site that holds customer Crypto Currency funds to verify to all c
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Well the newsweek article also included a back and forth with a police officer that likely never happened, and they also just published an article that "proves" heaven exists because a former scientist went into a coma and saw som
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by Sambdala 13y ago
I'd like to make the point that PokerStars paid for these payments and offered to pay the players directly and immediately. However, this offer was rejected, and instead PokerStars paid the amount of the balances (I'm not sure abo
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by Sambdala 13y ago
I'm an expat with a relatively large number of stamps on my passport, and I have loads of trouble anytime I try to open a new bank account or do anything remotely 'weird' with international banking.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
The basic implementation is now complete. I'll flesh it out a bit better tomorrow.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
If anyone is interesting in helping, I'm going to spend my evening trying to implement this here: https://github.com/ConceptPending/proveit My email is in my profile, and I'm happy to Skype chat with anyone w
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by Sambdala 13y ago
> There may very well be reasons why programming increases your chances on depression, but the fact that its hard to explain, hard to appreciate by outsiders, and doesn't get you laid, really aren't the root causes. If that we
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by Sambdala 13y ago
If the answer to the question "Is there already an easy way to do this desirable action?" starts with: If you can use a ssh client: Then someone will probably make a billion dollar company understanding why that's an out of
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Files are stored in multiple places and Storage Nodes will be asked to send files on a regular basis, for example, to ensure there is sufficient redundancy for a given file or if the end user wants to sync the files to a new computer. The s
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by Sambdala 13y ago
A distributed, encrypted file backup system. https://github.com/ConceptPending/fincrypt Backups are verified at regular intervals to reduce the amount of trust needed in the system, and every file is stored multiple ti
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by Sambdala 13y ago
-<p> If you are a registered user, you can access and delete most information associated with your Account +<p> If you are a registered user, you can access most information associated with your Account
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by Sambdala 13y ago
For most purposes, the risk of a double spend is negligible, and it's perfectly safe to accept an unconfirmed transaction. However, there are still those purposes for which that's not a good idea...
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by Sambdala 13y ago
> An open source (so the crypto can actually be vetted) version of BTSync[1] would be great for this. I'm most of the way through the non-Bitcoin / "Disk Space Marketplace" portion of a project that would work reall
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by Sambdala 13y ago
“some of the things he did were beyond his technical capabilities. Raises more questions. How he arranged travel before he left. How he was ready to go—he had a ‘go bag,’ if you will.” A "go bag"? You mean a packed suitcase?
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by Sambdala 13y ago
“He has more information than he did then. And he trusts himself to use these powers more than he did the Bush administration,” said the former Obama aide Okay, so given the trend of these powers is to increase, and he's not going to
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by Sambdala 13y ago
"Yeah, it's completely fucked. Finland's system is similar in the waiting sense, at least." Finland has UHC don't they? My point is basically that the funding mechanism doesn't (at this moment) seem to have any

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