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by aedron 10y ago
That is a wonderfully written article.
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by aedron 10y ago
Whenever I work more than 10-11 hours, I usually come back to the code the next day and wonder WTF I was thinking. Problems with straightforward solutions solved with large amounts of garbage code, wonky designs, lots of stuff that just get
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by aedron 10y ago
"If you eat lunch, you are lunch" was a favorite saying in the dot-com days.
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by aedron 10y ago
Agreed - this new pricing structure hits hard for freelancers that do smaller jobs for many different clients, whereas for freelancers that bill larger amounts and have a longer client relationships, this will save them money (5% vs. 10%
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by aedron 10y ago
The massive issuance of U.S. Dollar debt to Saudi Arabia, as a result of the deal mentioned in the OP, coincided perfectly with the abolition of the gold standard (the dollar being linked to physical gold reserves) [1]. So right from the st
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The most surprising thing is the backdoor arrangements the Treasury and Federal Reserve handily created to keep Saudi bonds purchases off the books - through forty years! I'm sure most people would not believe something like this could
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by aedron 10y ago
Yelp reviews, since the article didn't link them: http://www.yelp.com/biz/capitol-hill-books-washington LOL, choice quote: "When I spoke to the owner (an elderly cantankerous man) about trading some books wit
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by aedron 10y ago
The car should react to something closing up rapidly in front of it, which is not the case in that situation. Seems like just a poor implementation.
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by aedron 10y ago
> their community just seems to have so much unconstructive hatred towards anyone who ever says anything negative about bitcoin As the parent stated, they have intense hatred for anyone with a different opinion, even the very people who
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by aedron 10y ago
You and me both. Luckily my Kindle DX still has some fight left in it, but I will miss it when it finally kicks.
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by aedron 10y ago
That sounds like something a lawsuit away from being shut down.
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by aedron 10y ago
Same thing here, only they are using Microsoft's cloud stuff for MS Office. These cloud suites are just too convenient not to use, and as long as there is no open and free alternative, it seems schools are stuck choosing between one of
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by aedron 10y ago
You left out the Arabic influence, which is considerable for a huge amount of words in the sciences, math, chemistry, astrology, geology, botany and so on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Arabi...
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by aedron 10y ago
It is one of the common plural forms. (In Arabic writing the words look even more similar, since it is only the three consonants, with diacritical marks above and below to represent the vowels.)
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Hyperloop firm shows off the magnetic tech that will help it move at 760 mph(cnbc.com)
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by aedron 10y ago
Marketing potentially harmful products to children should simply not be allowed. It is well-accepted that children lack the experience and power of judgement to properly evaluate marketing claims. A product sold as breakfast, that consists
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by aedron 10y ago
Bitcoin's been entertainment gold for the entire ride thus far.
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Even when I was 12 I found the show unbearably low-brow and condescending.
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by aedron 10y ago
If you sell in another country you are subject to their laws, an obvious example is consumer protection laws. This is a fact. Whether or not you are going to follow any rulings made against you is another matter, in that case all the countr
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by aedron 10y ago
That is false, at least in the example of online retail. If you sell stuff to someone in another country, online or not, you are bound by the consumer protection laws of that country. So someone in Scandinavia has two years of warranty on a
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by aedron 10y ago
It doesn't matter. I can pay with bitcoin on Steam. It makes bitcoin more fungible and thus viable as a currency. And for what it's worth, I find the bitcoin payment process immensely superior to credit cards: Just pull out the ph
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by aedron 10y ago
Yep. Same on the electric BMW i3 btw.
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by aedron 11y ago
> why the ecosystem looks like this It is a symptom that the platform is woefully broken, hence the multitude of solutions to try to make it workable. Neither of which work particularly well, so there is always room for one more to &#x27
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by aedron 11y ago
> Coffeescript was the first major player, created by Jeremy Ashkenas in 2009. ... Google’s Inbox was built with GWT (Google Web Toolkit) GWT came way before CoffeeScript, in 2006.
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by aedron 11y ago
Why should there be One True Bitcoin implementation? What should be worked on is creating an official protocol specification, which would allow competing implementations, that miners could freely choose from. Let a thousand flowers bloom.
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by aedron 11y ago
Ah, that is cool, I would love to work at a place like that. And I am 100% sure you unleash a lot of creativity and ideas this way.
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by aedron 11y ago
I agree that we shouldn't always be so quick to judge, but my sibling posters have a point. How about the company throws this "hackathon" during company time? That would demonstrate commitment towards whatever the event is
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by aedron 11y ago
Not IMF, World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/projects/P131256?lang=en
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by aedron 11y ago
Seems more like another of the typical schemes to put development world countries into debt. The book Confessions of an Economic Hitman by a former World Bank contractor gives a lot of details of how these deals work. (An on the surface b
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by aedron 11y ago
Absolutely, that's part of the point. The standup is supposed to be short, standing up emphasizes this.

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