adbachman

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by adbachman 9y ago
When a platform regularly allows individuals to receive thousands of personalized death threats, notifications and all, it’s fair for me to be "concerned about abuse" even though it doesn’t affect me. That’s not a fake news or par
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by adbachman 9y ago
If they can build a captcha that keeps out robots based on mouse movements, I'm pretty sure they can build a facial recognition system that can keep out prosthetics based on facial gestures.
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by adbachman 9y ago
Because the first dozen ICOs that turn out to be scams can break consumer confidence across the whole market. When people stop trusting, the system collapses. This isn't hardship, just put your money somewhere else.
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by adbachman 9y ago
For sure. 1200 per month to cover my family at the same level I had when I was a W2 employee.
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by adbachman 9y ago
It's the Paradox of Tolerance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance Refusing to tolerate the intolerant, when their intolerance _may_ be an imminent threat to society (e.g. neo-nazis in the US being
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by adbachman 9y ago
No, but if you bias your selection of science to support your opinions and never return to scrutinize your conclusions, that's not right.
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by adbachman 9y ago
The math and physics communities aren't dominating business in the US. Four of the top five companies by market cap (Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon) are exclusively software or employ an oversized number of software developers comp
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by adbachman 9y ago
In this case, it's not about "should factual discourse be allowed or not," that's a false dichotomy. It's whether the author of the memo knowingly took an approach to interpretation of the "facts" he selec
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by adbachman 9y ago
Yeah, thank goodness Gmail blocks the hell out of content. Email was a wasteland before good spam filters existed.
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by adbachman 9y ago
> Calling it imaginary money isn't helpful here. "Imaginary" in the sense that it's unrealized in the currency in which it's described, exchangeable only if there are enough people willing to pay the market rate
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by adbachman 9y ago
Sell it when it goes up, but make sure you decide to sell before everyone else decides to sell.
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by adbachman 9y ago
Because unless they've sold their ethereum, they don't have $14mil or equivalent CHF, they've got ehthereum worth that much. It's imaginary money, still, or I'm sure they would cash out.
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by adbachman 9y ago
There are lots of small mistakes you can make while climbing that don't result in a fall. Poor route selection, bad hand placement, sketchy foot holds, etc. The sport is choices leading to choices. Small bad choices can be corrected, f
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by adbachman 9y ago
Redirecting the truck seems unlikely, but dropping a couple traffic cones in front of one in the middle of nowhere and calmly unloading it with no driver to hassle you will be a lot easier.
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by adbachman 10y ago
The counterargument to "this is not the best of all possible worlds" from the perspectives of the people experiencing it (the world) would be to show that every single person experiencing suffering believes it to be "best.&qu
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by adbachman 10y ago
Listen, I'm no track day enthusiast, but that is pretty uncharitable. At worst, "handling" is the difference between a car that's fun to drive and one that bores me. At best, it's the difference between smashing int
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by adbachman 10y ago
You just summed up "the largest, most active open source community that has ever existed" with "they" and suggested that "they" are all thinking the same thing with one mind. That seems like a bit of a reach.
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by adbachman 11y ago
Not universally, but laws vary widely by state so there may be somewhere that that's true. In our case we have a once a year peer review session to go over what we did but we choose all the material ourselves and aren't given any
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by adbachman 11y ago
I use the 'atom --wait' command line option to do this and it's worked fine as an EDITOR so far, though I don't use atom much otherwise, so I never have a lot of tabs open.
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by adbachman 11y ago
For me, it's because I can. When I find a job I do often, I add it to the config, when I find a tool that makes a job easier I pick it up. Bare, freshly installed vim is quite useable, but is missing the affordances of my personally cu
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by adbachman 13y ago
The analogy is pointing out that homosexuality is not a taboo because it's been exploited, it's being exploited because it's a taboo. Your original statement seemed to suggest that it is still a taboo because those who wish t
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David and Goliath(figure53.com)
46 points by adbachman 13y ago|2 comments
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A Few Thoughts on Startups from a Company That Isn't One(figure53.com)
3 points by adbachman 13y ago|1 comments
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by adbachman 13y ago
How about strong passionate acceptance or tolerance? A resolute desire to give strangers the same consideration you hope to receive from people who don't know you.
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by adbachman 13y ago
Preface: I work at Figure 53, nearing three years. We're an LLC (so he's owner, not CEO), not a startup, not funded, profitable for five years, and we only have five full time employees. I think the set of principles we've be
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Actually Invented Here(github.com)
1 points by adbachman 14y ago|0 comments
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by adbachman 14y ago
Hashing on the client-side wouldn't make a difference if a MITM already has control of the SSL connection. They could just spoof the login form, swap out HackerRank's hashing code, and take your password anyway. If you don't trust the conne
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by adbachman 15y ago
If they have access to the packages, they have access to the checksums. The checksums only verify that the file isn't corrupt, what you should receive is what you actually received.
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by adbachman 15y ago
Oh yeah? I'll see your ruby campfire chatbot and raise you another http-aware coffeescript heroku chatbot: https://github.com/abachman/pat-the-campfire-bot Ours can even receive web hooks. For example, it tell us when someone makes a comm
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by adbachman 16y ago
The BoogieBoard is based on one of these: http://www.kentdisplays.com/products/lcdwritingtablets.html It's output only; think dragging your nail across a laptop screen. You might be able to send signal to it, but there's no way to get inf

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