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by bcg1 11y ago
This is great. I just thinking about messing with a STM32 chip for a project, so this guide looks good. And actually Amazon's little button thing looks awesome. Hopefully they don't freak out and try to lock it down in the futur
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by bcg1 11y ago
I agree with what you are saying but this piece is of little value. It is a poorly written appeal to emotion in the form of a vague anecdote devoid of logical arguments, and frankly is an insult to the intelligence of the readers of the pu
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by bcg1 11y ago
NYT should be ashamed for publishing such claptrap. Police and "justice" authorities should be ashamed of their tacit admission that they are too incompetent to do their jobs without trampling on peoples' civil rights and&#x2
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by bcg1 11y ago
Based on the content of his article it seems to me like he has a good grasp on the material IMHO. In any case, I generally don't equate the job title on someone's resume to the definition of what they are .
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by bcg1 11y ago
This article is bound to ruffle some feathers around here. The writing is spot on but will cause some cognitive dissonance for some as the words ring true but conflict with the structures they have set up in their minds and in their lives.
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by bcg1 11y ago
True, that's a good point.
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by bcg1 11y ago
Shorting exposes you to potentially unlimited losses and you might have to keep putting up money to stay in your position if the market turns against your short position (even if the other side of your trade is working). You'd have to
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by bcg1 11y ago
You could be right, but I don't consider investing to be the same as the lottery. Buffett and Rogers consistently beat the market, year after year, decade after decade. The Quantum Fund (started by Jim Rogers and George Soros) had a 3
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by bcg1 11y ago
I have no interest in the hubris of shorting into a raging bull market, especially when investor sentiment is fearful ( http://money.cnn.com/data/fear-and-greed/ ). Also I'm not saying that the phenomenon in my
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by bcg1 11y ago
You make a good point, I really was only considering major large cap indices. I assume this is what most people mean when they talk about "index funds". I'm not really against index funds per se, I actually think they are a
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by bcg1 11y ago
What if the efficient market hypothesis is not correct? I think that people like Warren Buffett and Jim Rogers might beg to differ with that theory.
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by bcg1 11y ago
No worries :)
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by bcg1 11y ago
A bigger problem with index funds is the inherent bias they create towards consolidation of capital at the top. A company that becomes part of the S&P 500 will automatically have bi-weekly buyers of their shares as people pump money in
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by bcg1 11y ago
"Competition is a sin." - John D. Rockefeller
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by bcg1 11y ago
Didn't say it was. Was talking about GNU Mailman. With respect to git, I said it is released using the GPL.
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by bcg1 11y ago
That money is usually budgeted for charity, and probably can only go to "legal" charities (at least in the US there are tax benefits to this) It is probably much harder to compete for a piece of that budget, and also there are a l
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by bcg1 11y ago
Let's not forget the whole "I'm going to build a business around and name my company after a GPL project, and then proceed to trash the GPL at OSCON" fiasco. We are, after all, talking about a GNU project here.
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by bcg1 11y ago
> The key benefit to making bio-ethylene would be in reducing the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by the traditional ethylene manufacturing process This ignores the political, economic, and military implications of
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by bcg1 11y ago
A convenient addition the library would be a Seq/Hash that delegates to a "regular" List or Map without copying. I haven't had the time yet to look into how default interface methods work in conjunction with dynamic pro
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by bcg1 11y ago
Peoples' frustration has nothing to do with the actions of 'rogue employees'... to the contrary, it often seems that when a 'rogue' is trotted out as the culprit for malfeasance, many people with a brain to think co
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by bcg1 11y ago
I agree with all of the points in this article. Even if you believe that PPK is 100% right about the "problem", I truly can't grok the notion that a moratorium would somehow "solve" anything. From my observation,
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by bcg1 11y ago
What does the "Internet Civil Mark" mean? Aside from the reprehensible precedent and philosophy engendered by this proposal, it seems the implementation details are something akin to insane, i.e. "Any site that allows exposur
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by bcg1 11y ago
This is wonderful. I plan to buy at least one for emergencies, and also to help make them cheaper for others.
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by bcg1 11y ago
I think this level of detail is pretty good, even though it doesn't have specific transactions necessarily: http://seethroughny.net/index.php?cID=375 AFAIK this is compiled by a non-governmental organization however.
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by bcg1 11y ago
You're missing my point. The world won't stop just because you decide to reflect on the situation and have small groups of people unilaterally decide what will someday maybe be standardized in some browsers. In the meantime the
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by bcg1 11y ago
This is the problem with what PPK is suggesting. The Firefox and Chrome developers are mostly certainly professional developers who are well qualified to create a standardized cross browser feature set that will obviate the need for the cru
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by bcg1 11y ago
They mean the petition was started in June 2013.
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by bcg1 11y ago
PPK, I'm sorry but you are midair, directly above the shark on this. Its not too late to change course though. We realize you are a mobile consultant, and standardizing many features in a cross platform is a threat to you and your cli
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by bcg1 11y ago
This is interesting because certain parts of the bandwidth for wifi routers crosses into the bandwidth for amateur radios. So in some instances these devices fall under Part 15 (consumer devices) and sometimes under Part 97 (amateur radio)
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by bcg1 11y ago
Considering that perspective, the irony of the name "Stagefright" is not lost.

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