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by T-hawk 14y ago
> I would be THRILLED to get an email from someone who said "I love what you do, here's three things I would like to work on with you to make it better, are you hiring?" What's your company? I'd love to send you that kind of email.
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by T-hawk 14y ago
It's not possible within Bitcoin . An insurer as you describe is certainly possible -- but relies on a level of trust or force outside the Bitcoin protocol. A Bitcoin insurer can never be compelled to pay out its promise. Insurance in f
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by T-hawk 14y ago
> But if I had some sort of insurance that I'll get my bitcoins back That's the problem. That insurance is not possible within Bitcoin. In equities markets, shorting is possible because the broker can force the borrower to cover and
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by T-hawk 14y ago
The lack of a stabilizing mechanism is a feature, not a bug. The risk-free rate of return on dollars only exists because the central authority possesses compulsive force of taxation and/or inflationary power, to pay out the return that it
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Those investments may not exist. Investments can yield a positive return only if somebody else spends money. But what if every potential customer also sits on their money to exploit the deflation instead of spending any?
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Major TI-99/4A fan here too. Parsec was the awesomest shootemup of its time by leaps and bounds. Pixel perfect movement and collision detection. I got good enough to roll over the scoreboard. http://dos486.com/misc/parsec.jpg The manua
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Excel has had that capability forever. Excel VBA code had access to XmlHttpRequest as soon as Internet Explorer did, at version 5.0. XHR is a COM object that can be invoked from just about anywhere in Microsoftland. I was doing this in E
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by T-hawk 14y ago
There's even a more dastardly procedure, where the host doesn't follow fixed rules but has free rein to outwit and trick the contestant. If Monty thinks the contestant can be induced into switching away from the car, he can try an offer, b
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by T-hawk 14y ago
> That's an incredibly outdated policy. Indeed. Hence the question is a useful filter, to identify and avoid companies who have incredibly outdated email systems and technology policies. They won't be leading-edge in anything else eit
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by T-hawk 14y ago
For me, it was the deep integration with Internet Explorer browser elements and rendering engine. For several years, TurboTax just wouldn't run on my main desktop computer, always throwing some arcane error message about MSHTML, and the on
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by T-hawk 14y ago
There's no such thing as a small scale space elevator. The difficulty in reaching orbit or elsewhere in the solar system is not altitude, but enough horizontal velocity to continually fall and miss the earth or reach escape velocity enti
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by T-hawk 14y ago
The conclusion is that you're misinterpreting that number. Small businesses are 99.7% of employers, but do not hire 99.7% of employ ee s and do not represent that fraction of business activity. "An employer" is not a meaningful unit of ec
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Good advice for simply making it to Oregon. Not deep enough to play for the best finish, starting as the farmer with little money but earning triple score. With those limited resources, you need to hunt as much as possible. And getting t
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Do you have any mathematical modeling and insight behind those numbers? Or is it intuitive guessing?
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Me too, listening to music invokes this for me. I see music. Not like musical notation on a staff. I see each component of a song progressing through space, melody as a line moving up and down, bass as the ground, percussion as punctuate
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by T-hawk 14y ago
This comes up on most Bitcoin threads, and you'd think a google search could answer that, but the results are pretty unclear. Apparently Bitcoinica used to but no longer exists. The lack of a direct answer would suggest no, unless someone
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by T-hawk 14y ago
The article doesn't even say what game he was playing. It wasn't necessarily blackjack, which as you observe doesn't confer a big advantage by knowing the enemy cards since your bet is already set and your strategy mostly is. Poker permit
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by T-hawk 14y ago
That argument is indeed the core of it. Every other antivirus needs to be in your face constantly so you think you're getting value out of the purchase. They all suffer from the "this rock keeps tigers away" problem, that their enemy show
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by T-hawk 14y ago
I can't find a cite, but I read an article somewhere that some transit fare systems work like that. Each node tracks every customer's balance and broadcasts transactions. That's how the turnstile is always able to respond instantly, becau
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Why not just buy Start8? Surely you've already spent more than $4.99 of your time trying to work around buying it?
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Until the SEO optimizers and bot nets themselves start bookmarking their own spammy noise in this cache too. Then we're back to the usual arms race of trying to identify quality content and providers pointing to other quality content and p
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by T-hawk 14y ago
That's exactly what it is, a read-it-later list. Browsers don't have a good mechanism for that. Not open tabs, which continually consume memory and CPU resources until you get around to them. And not bookmarks either, which are meant for
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Me too... Ultima III was part of my introduction to hacking, but on an entirely different platform. I had it as the NES cartridge, mostly oblivious to the franchise's history on the computer platforms. I also had the Game Genie cheating de
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Yes, they have said that, and with the best intentions. But one can never predict what will actually happen with a company in the throes of shutting down. The lawyers could kick out the programmers before they can throw the killswitch, or
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by T-hawk 14y ago
> It isn't that hard to factor the downsides into the price you are willing to pay. This. I've bought a number of $10 games on Steam because I figure I'll get that much value out of a game even if Steam disappears next month. But I wo
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Yup, that's already happening. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1584821767/civitas-plan-...
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Easily said, but the challenge is making absolutely triple damn sure that the game running on the server is bulletproof against malicious input by the client. It took years for early games like Diablo and Everquest to get it right in ignor
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by T-hawk 14y ago
That time warping has already been implemented in the project of Lagless MAME. It compensates for input and display lag by always rendering a few frames into the future. It's commonly used for games where frame-accurate timing is critical
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by T-hawk 14y ago
And here's the canonical example in XML: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs
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by T-hawk 14y ago
That's a venerable trick for call center tech support. You can't ask the customer "Is it plugged in?". They will ALWAYS say yes and get mad, "do you think I'm an idiot?" But tell them to do something else with the connection in question,

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