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by bcoates 8y ago
"Ads on this site don’t track or stalk you. Please disable your blocker." According to my blocker those are Google ads so...
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by bcoates 8y ago
Lots of companies with lots of value are dead or irreversibly dying (that is, saving them would cost more than the entire value of the saved company). There's nothing wrong or strange about firms specializing in extracting what can be
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by bcoates 8y ago
I don't live in SF but it looks like the planning commission is appointed by the mayor.
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by bcoates 8y ago
The labor theory of value doesn't have any explanatory value, it's just a traditional belief that kept being rediscovered because it seems reasonable and value theories were hard. There really isn't any reason to "teach
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by bcoates 8y ago
The point isn't to have a tax cut but to reform the particular anti-employment/anti-investment distorted incentives the US corporate tax system had. At some point the US finances are going to have to be stabilized by increasing ta
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by bcoates 8y ago
The idea that pay raises come from some sort of collective negotiation with a bunch of executives is just bizarre on its own. Executives do not get to decide the pay level of employees. The point of the tax law was to lower the cost of empl
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by bcoates 8y ago
I don't know if the rules are different in employment, but yes, selective advertising in newspapers with different demographics is considered evidence of "steering"/discrimination in housing. (in California)
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by bcoates 8y ago
It's internet spring cleaning! I wonder if they've acquired a Toshiba ML-2274 to find the fake users?
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by bcoates 8y ago
I'm guessing you're hinting at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? It's not well-known or well-regarded in the US.
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by bcoates 8y ago
Enforcement in practice is almost certain to be "at the edge" with things like payment processors and ad networks that have direct business operations in the EU and are easy to demand third-party compliance from. If you literally
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by bcoates 8y ago
A single AWS GPU server can hash trial passwords on the order of 100 GH/s, which puts a pretty low ceiling on "hashcat as a service" rental costs. I'm assuming 10^12 tries per second is economical for any business. there
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by bcoates 8y ago
Iconoclasm. Find something dumb people have been fighting over for a few hundred years or more, and blow it up.
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by bcoates 8y ago
Minutes to days to reverse almost the whole list, depending on budget. It's not a real obstruction except to casual snooping.
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by bcoates 8y ago
They can't ever prove it; even just class Foo(var thing: Int?) { fun doSomething() { if (thing != null) { thing++ } } } is unsafe as any class user could cons up a Foo t, and call t.doSomething() wh
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by bcoates 8y ago
It's 60 Minutes. The show that perfected the camera-in-your-face gotcha and the creative editing interview. Google knowing not to give them material for their hit piece is just a sign that Google's press management is at least sli
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by bcoates 8y ago
Yelp's relationship with lots of restaurants was already toxic from shaking them down with the whole ads-for-reviews payola. If they tried to offer a GroupOn or Opentable product they'd be fighting an uphill battle compared to a n
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by bcoates 8y ago
Optionally ignoring thread safety seems indefensible -- until you can go full COM and declare your package apartment-threaded, working in a mutable language with uncontrolled multi-threading is the deal with the devil you've made and c
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by bcoates 8y ago
I agree (that it's personal) but attributes-first and types-last in the same language is just nuts. That's why the kafkaTemplate function declaration is so ugly.
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by bcoates 8y ago
As long as they're not doing something dangerous like hair braiding or interior decoration I think we'll be ok.
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by bcoates 8y ago
That's a US-ism. Somewhere between many and most countries have a "natural rights" concept that considers certain creator/subject rights to be inalienable and neither belonging to recorders or permanently assignable to t
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by bcoates 8y ago
I swear that wasn't in the store when I looked earlier. Updated this year and everything! Cunningham's Law in action I suppose.
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by bcoates 8y ago
Still using a Windows Phone (Nokia 1020) as my main phone. It's mostly the Nokia parts that I really love, like the transit app, and the fact that it's user-serviceable with minimal tools. The app ecosystem is actually less of a p
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by bcoates 9y ago
The non-nerds are right and the nerds are being weird pedants. Going all well-actually and giving people the verbal equivalent of xkcd 1357 lets everyone know you're one of those people.
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by bcoates 9y ago
The Mormons are a great deal more practical about it than these food kits though. Mostly just encouraging canning/home cooking and keeping a rotating inventory of anything that'll keep a few years. Prepper food isn't really p
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by bcoates 9y ago
Because 'nudging' is trivially tested, has been repeatedly tried, and does not work.
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by bcoates 9y ago
Maintenance programmers already have to deal with concealed mystery types, every time you do f(g()) it's just syntax sugar for var temp = g() f(temp) Now at least programmers aren't tempted to do gratuitous func
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by bcoates 9y ago
Seems like a perfectly obvious metaphor? It's just providing GA-generated input, not doing tooled exploration like afl-fuzz or a symbolic execution analyzer. It literally-and-metaphorically can't see behind the UI to the internal
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by bcoates 9y ago
Science is about destroying labels, it's a systematic process for declaring that entities do not exist. Ignorance of things that aren't actually true is a virtue!
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by bcoates 9y ago
It's only necessary in edge cases of super-hot code, avoiding argument adaptation "because performance" is a bad idea. It's also a v8 specific weakness, it's not hard to imagine a small fix getting rid of the perfor
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by bcoates 9y ago
Both Food Stamps and WIC are USDA subsidy programs for agriculture and food manufacturers. They require you to buy the particular things subsidized to ensure that the funds are directed to the right recipients in the correct ratio, not beca

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