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by bakhy 11y ago
i want to point out just one thing - the problem is not in banks per se, the problem is merely in the expectation that interest rates have to be positive ;)
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by bakhy 11y ago
to say the least. they could have easily controlled for that, and gotten results which could serve as strong guidelines. their conclusion, stressing that "an inch" is enough to lose a war, makes it even sound suspicious. i mean, i
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by bakhy 11y ago
it's really hard to believe the statistics about ever growing IQs, when you see what imbeciles lead the world. someone actually thought it would be a good idea if one key could open all luggage, and then gave that key to thousands of l
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by bakhy 11y ago
yeah, the affluent, taking one for the team <3
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by bakhy 11y ago
is it just me, or did this link kinda suddenly disappear from the first page and land on the third?
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by bakhy 11y ago
well, a full answer to the question would also need the percentage of college graduates that land jobs in big companies in the valley... P.S. I don't think we'll get far with this... i just noticed, e.g., "median household in
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by bakhy 11y ago
coincidentally, i live and work in Germany ;) immigrated from Croatia 2 years ago. and i agree, no doubt about it, the system is really functional here and provides a good safety net (although, welfare involves a bit of humiliation everywhe
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by bakhy 11y ago
it was a while ago, but I think it was this one: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/21/linda-tirado-... (hat tip to Algolia's HN search ;) )
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by bakhy 11y ago
OK, but how many developers in the US get $100k? Throughout the first 10 years of their career? And I'm sorry, I should explain - I live and work in the EU, in Germany right now. So I can't compare. In any case, one can certainly
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by bakhy 11y ago
if you have no life outside work, sure ;)
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by bakhy 11y ago
> Friends! If you find someone trying to criticize your achievement as being "just because you are privileged"... As the Spartans said to Philip of Macedonia: "If."
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by bakhy 11y ago
true. there was an interesting text posted here once, about how one of the worse things about poverty is that it kills the will to dream big and make plans. when you're scraping by, it's much harder, and any big plan can easily fa
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by bakhy 11y ago
ergo, the condition is necessary, but not sufficient.
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by bakhy 11y ago
No, the conclusion is, people should stop just saying that anybody can do it, that all it takes is willingness to take chances, to dare to fail etc. These are important things, as the article also takes care to clarify, but if you fail to
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by bakhy 11y ago
what exactly happens to the value of the currency after the fork? the number of Bitcoins in circulation effectively doubles?
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by bakhy 11y ago
what scares me about these things is what typically happens when people are given probabilistic prognoses. your behavior is analyzed, a system makes a prediction, "60% chance of XY". whoever reads the result is primed to think XY
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by bakhy 11y ago
yes, face the consequences, like Chelsea Manning faced them, locked up for years before trial, large amounts of time in solitary confinement. of course, whether the whistle blower actually turns him or herself over to such torture has absol
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by bakhy 11y ago
i never activated google's 2factor authentication just out of fear of my phone being stolen. this ugly possibility never even occurred to me. i really cannot understand why this stupid sms-based scheme is pushed down our throats by goo
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by bakhy 11y ago
there's a lot of arguments here that delaying the patch release gives a false sense of security because we cannot prove that bad guys do not already have the exploit, or because they will develop one within hours. if to have real secur
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by bakhy 11y ago
i know, right! ;) but seriously, who would make technology choices based on that reasoning? the thing should have it's merits, preferably for non-shitty software too. so it's not that i agree with everything the author said, i jus
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by bakhy 11y ago
well, next time i plan to write a shitty API, i know what to go with. thanks ;)
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by bakhy 11y ago
it's not really that simple. the US had enormous untapped natural resources, and is still well-off in that respect. and the two world wars were not fought on its territory. of course, i do not want to say that's all, the US model
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by bakhy 11y ago
and i ignored you because this method of trolling with "rhetorical" questions is first of all very disrespectful, and somehow always used by people with predictably boring insights. if you will pay more attention to what i actuall
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by bakhy 11y ago
i hope things like this serve as a wake up call to all young talents willing to sacrifice their lives for these companies, enamored with some idealized visions of what they are and do. a company is a company. an agent for making money, firs
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by bakhy 11y ago
This reminded me of the concept of demurrage in currency [1]. The idea was brought up to solve that exact problem. The messy system of inflationary fiat currencies won, and even though it is probably better and more practical, the demurrage
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by bakhy 11y ago
Compare this with Microsoft and the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows. Certainly, the MS case sounds like a joke when compared against this. And MS lost... To me, this Apple story is clearly an abuse of dominant market position.
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by bakhy 11y ago
if ownership is measured by the ability to do what you want with something, than Apple almost owns music. does this constitute a basis for suing Apple under anti-monopoly laws?
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by bakhy 11y ago
Maybe not look at it like who was right or who was wrong, but rather who is responsible for what. Your responsibility is definitely to disclose any issues you believe may impede a project. If it's their responsibility, however, to reac
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by bakhy 11y ago
a new theorem in the making - CAS: consistency, availability, solar storm tolerance.
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by bakhy 11y ago
What does any of this mean? I really can't figure it out. I thought it was standard advice to never, NEVER log into anything which can identify you while you're using Tor (which is why the best way to do it is from Linux distribut

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