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by beager 9y ago
On the contrary, it's a great resource to teach people that blockchain won't save you from fraud, and that blockchain applications that store and transact value are just as prone to that fraud as any other medium.
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by beager 9y ago
Love CoderPad and I think Vincent does the SaaS thing very well. It’s a product with a strong value proposition, a reasonable pricing model with free tier to get you hooked, and puts enough features and attention to UX in to stay valuable a
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by beager 9y ago
For most people yes, but I surmise that it’s easy to manipulate up and down and therefore predict as well for maximum gain.
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by beager 9y ago
As it does for adtech which I was referring to. I’m sure it’s part of Uber and related services as well, but it should be applied across services to create maximal competition.
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by beager 9y ago
I’m not so sure. With no evidence, I buy into the conspiracy theory that Wall St. is deep into crypto. It’s a new breed of fish, and these are people who live and breathe intricate, counterintuitive financial systems. I’d be shocked if they
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by beager 9y ago
They won’t want to though, so long as the value continues to skyrocket.
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by beager 9y ago
Real-time bidding for ride sharing would be pretty cool, across any number of services and independents. A regulatory mess for sure, but as we're seeing, the extant players already constitute a regulatory mess.
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by beager 9y ago
I think wedge issues are perverted to be the centerpieces of modern conservatism to create an easier path to adhere out of fear. Reasoning about the issues you mentioned is much more difficult than bite-sized strawmen ("sharia law is c
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by beager 9y ago
This is interesting, but doesn't feel like anything new, at least in retrospect. Fear is a well-worn tool in the conservative political playbook. Where this is interesting to me is in the possibility that fear generally drives a swing
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by beager 9y ago
I bet the statutes define fines the same for any party with some maximum. States could charge a percentage of revenue, cash on hand, valuation, but those are easily fudged to minimize liability.
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by beager 9y ago
See also: partisans complaining that they're "sick of politics" when presented with opposing opinions.
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by beager 9y ago
Both/and in my opinion. I've had to work to reduce a lot of stressors in my own life, but I also had to learn to handle necessary levels and sources of stress. Humans need stress, just in the right quantity, and with the right act
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by beager 9y ago
> [A]ssuming that religious practices are bunk is a pretty damn effective heuristic. Maybe, but if I take your statement seriously, I would surmise that it's only an effective heuristic because being excessively distrusting/cyn
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by beager 9y ago
Pretty sure Apple would just point to iCloud Keychain as a solution here, and any deficiency in the security model a facet of the UX
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by beager 9y ago
> For example, you cannot say anything positive about Trump on /r/politics. Nothing. Not true. There was positive commentary about Trump's speech in South Korea. I think you just misestimate how often the thing he does is
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by beager 9y ago
Your assessment of this as naked politics is purely subjective, and while you're free to voice your opinion on submission quality beyond just hiding it, realize that by policing it with your comment, you're exerting your own polit
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by beager 9y ago
> IPO is good for Uber - not for society though, who will be the ones to capture the losses. I agree with the sentiment, and it baffles me that public markets would consent to shouldering these losses, presumably by overpaying for Uber a
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by beager 9y ago
I think you'd be shocked to find that on any results-oriented resume, it's nearly impossible to objectively prove essential and sole causation of positive results. A sales rep bringing in $10mm/year in deals is a great achiev
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by beager 9y ago
> Maybe I'm at a disadvantage You would only be at a disadvantage for that if the recruiters looking at your resume were just looking for keywords. And in many cases they are, and that's where i've seen it useful to put yo
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by beager 9y ago
You're absolutely right, and sorry for glossing it over there. Being able to hire is a competency, but deploying those hires for the success of the business and quantifying it is good performance. I will say, however, that in highly co
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by beager 9y ago
The impact of Jenkins could be: - Reduced the average time from pull request to deploy from 6 days to 1.5 days (efficiency gains) - Increased the number of deploys from 1x/week to 4x/day (output gains) - Reduced the number of prod
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by beager 9y ago
Then your immutable log is actually mutable, and you spent all this time not building what you actually set out to build.
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by beager 9y ago
One other way to look at this problem is to see that in most other disciplines, impactful resumes are results-oriented rather than methodology-oriented. A sales resume says how much revenue they brought on. An operations resume might state
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by beager 9y ago
In this thread there are a lot of valid concerns about client-side fingerprinting and how this would allow sophisticated algorithms to be broken. Putting something like PhotoDNA on clients is probably not good. However, I think a simpler ap
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by beager 9y ago
I don’t know. I think a whitepaper might just be a drier way to lie about what they’re really doing.
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by beager 9y ago
If “scale” is the reason they insist that explicit images be uploaded directly to them instead of hashed beforehand, then they really don’t care about this program enough to do it right. They can easily scale this by allowing hash uploads,
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by beager 9y ago
What sort of black markets currently exist to evade taxation for consumer goods currently, that threaten the existence of that legalized and taxed industry? The only thing I can think of is cigarettes, and even then, the taxation is extreme
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by beager 9y ago
I wonder if the five boroughs would (or could) move before the state. My sense is that the state is holding out because of strong police and corrections lobbies, and Cuomo is trying to not rock the boat. But NYC may have different motivatio
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by beager 9y ago
Sure, but just because you got sent to the hospital doesn't make you a doctor.
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by beager 9y ago
> Today, the Senate Commerce Committee questioned former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Verizon chief privacy officer Karen Zacharia and both the current and former CEOs of Equifax on how to protect consumers against major data breaches. So, a

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