alexasmyths

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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"Eye for an eye" - so she can 'touch his thigh' back? All of this requires a lot of context.
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Yes, but those are 'war words'. For example - some people view borders as an institutional immorality. Nancy Pelosi has said that America goes from the 'Rocky Mountains down the Andes' and Hillary Clinton as openly calle
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Uber employee letter says competitor networks illegally wiretapped(businessinsider.com)
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Yes, but it can take a bunch of paint points away. If you think about it- why on earth did companies start having massive servers in the first place? That was an anomoly.
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Yes, and there are some English gypsy types who specialized in horsemanship or managing horses. I feel however that these kinds of jobs are going to be far and few between as everything becomes professionalized.
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
As long as the terms are not too severe it might work. YC might reserve the right up to 20% of any given round, at the price the lead investors pick. This is not too onerous. If you're doing A,B,C and pass through due dilligence, well,
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"and if you're megacorp scale you can afford ops and bare metal you can depreciate over several years." Don't assume this. I worked at a 'big tech company' that made a very popular device. Our IT was a disaster
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"I don’t have any useful suggestions other than the observation that when Roma immigrate to countries like the USA or Australia they completely changed their culture and have been absorbed into the general population." You cannot
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Ahh. A very interesting one. I was once robbed by Gypsies/Roma in a rather spectacular way. The whole family was involved. Given the fact that these folks roam around the continent willy nilly, it's rather difficult for them to be
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"If you're a startup who wants to minimize capex and quickly spin up a reliable, secure infra to host your app on to get it out of the door ASAP, you would go with cloud." I agree, but I don't think that's the marke
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
A lot of people know a lot about block-chains - but they know absolutely nothing about currency, finance or economics. I would say these people are scarier than IT managers who don't quite grasp crypto yet - because companies are not a
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"I don't really see the need for a central authority and you'd have to make a really good case to convince me." A central bank can ultimately control the value of a currency by either grabbing assets on the free market a
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"China has a billion people and a lot of really smart ones." So does India. So does Africa. 1) "But functioning prototypes do exist and have fired missiles." I agree, but what do those prototypes actually do? Is the real
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
a) I'm not saying one way or the other, I'm saying we don't really have lot of info on what it actually is and does. b) China is not among the world's most advanced in the series of technical bits necessary for this: ste
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"Are we sure it even flies?" 'It' refers to some great J-series jet with crazy specs. Not an empty prototype airframe.
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
a) Just because you show a video of an airframe in the air, does not remotely mean that the Jet specified, with all it's gear, is flying and operable. b) No - stealth for jets is a very, very specific thing with lots of nuance that has
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
A) Are we sure it even flies? B) Do they have the very nuanced tech to handle the complexities of stealth? C) Most important: it's a team, not a pilot. What makes US Air Power so effective is the coordination, and multi-role availabili
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
You gotta understand - in tech - a company's brand value is important for early adopters and legitimacy. Part of that brand has to be 'benevolence'. In tech, it's important to be seen as 'the good guys'. '
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"Comparing production hell to a 75% increase in stock" It highlights the degree of misinformation and hype among analysts etc.
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
I thought this was going to be an "sRGB vs P3, and fixing images for colour gamuts" article because that's also a goddam metaphysical rabbit hole can't seem to be solved ...
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"spending more to attract more students is simply rational behavior" Only in a market of irrational actors :)
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"That's false. When writing a game, you interact with APIs in your implementation language (e.g. SDL)." Ultimately - information must not only be passed through an ugly memory-reference API, but anything that happens on the s
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Points #1 and #2 are contradictory. A speculative instrument is the opposite of a store of value . A 'store of value' is like real estate - low-risk, probably low-return, but you can park your money there and in X years, it&#x2
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"Also, what justifies Bitcoin's value at ~17k ?" Nothing - it's a meme, a fad - a rampantly speculative one that involves money. So many press articles touting 'BTC breaks $X' price point - it's clickbait
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"That isn't quite fair to the creators either." It's fair if it's clear and applied reasonably consistently. Google makes completely arbitrary moral judgements about 'advertising guns' - which I might supp
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"I don't see why PSA should be being 'monetized'. That's irrelevant to the argument." It's relevant because we are discussing which videos can and cannot be monetized - some are not intended to be moneti
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
" it should be demonetized?" I don't see why PSA should be being 'monetized'. I don't see why Coca Cola should be forced to pay for ads during this program. This is not 'banning or censoring videos' -
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Seems very pragmatic to me. Actually "If people feel uncomfortable watching it in public" is vague but reasonably good guideline. It has to be nary impossible to draw the line in so many cases, but the guidelines seem reasonable a
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
That's a great little anecdote, and crazy insight into the creative process, especially how it merges with corporate needs. We love to hate Studio Execs - but think how hard their job is ... they have to justify a $300M budget and make
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"lash and Unity Player, you can write games for the web using WASM without having to deal with JavaScript." No, you have to go through a seriously crazy api wherein data is passed into a single managed array in wasm, and pulled of

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