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by beaner 9y ago
Advertising will never go away. You pay for cable, yet cable still has ads. Micropayments could potentially be adopted as a short-term alternative, but if it were ever to become the status quo, publishers would just start adding advertiseme
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by beaner 9y ago
Didn't he actually design the first rocket himself? He's quite smart. I don't think "industry experience" counts for much. By the way you're using "Dunning-Kruger," it's unclear that you actually
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by beaner 9y ago
> 99% of blocks are maxed out at ~4M weight DESPITE segwit Hasn't been true since July: https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-block-size > full blocks and high fees have caused Bitcoin to lose many users to alt
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by beaner 9y ago
If you're going to host locally doesn't it matter much less that it's encrypted? You could just use github enterprise.
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by beaner 9y ago
I don't know. I feel like if people listen and be kind, they can have an influence on others. When you get defensive and militaristic about it, people just close up and get defensive themselves, and that's what causes division.
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by beaner 9y ago
It is also interesting to me to observe how quickly liberals accept that the promotion of their own ideas is divisive - as long as someone else is to blame for it.
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by beaner 9y ago
Am I crazy to think that the article should contain some evidence for this claim? It doesn't.
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by beaner 9y ago
A large plurality of the local population can afford these units; the discount is for people well below the median.
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by beaner 9y ago
I don't think there's anything pedantic about it. The term "affordable housing" implies that housing which isn't subsidized isn't affordable. But the vast majority of housing is bought, sold, and owned by regul
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by beaner 9y ago
But the advertisers don't know anything about me personally. I don't really mind if I'm just an anonymized data point in a sea of millions.
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by beaner 9y ago
That's right. "Affordable" by itself doesn't say anything about who can afford it. If we were talking about affordable for the middle class, we'd call it "Affordable for the middle class." This is why the
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by beaner 9y ago
All housing is affordable, otherwise it would never be bought or sold. "Affordable" in this context is a misnomer that just means "subsidized."
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by beaner 9y ago
Personally, I am not worried about being advertised to. I'm worried about my data being my own. As in, not accessed by other people. In this respect, Android seems no less safe.
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by beaner 9y ago
I was thinking of the iCloud celebrity hack, but you're right - Wikipedia explains that it was initially thought to be a hack, but turned out to be due to phishing. (Though it does mention an exploit that could have been taken advantag
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by beaner 9y ago
I am an Android user and I feel more safe with my data there than on an Apple device. I'm open to being wrong - why is iOS more safe?
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by beaner 9y ago
I don't think this was a particularly difficult thing to do. they're an almost $800 billion company with one of the most valuable brands in the world and the most loyal followers. They have more of an ability to stand up to these
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by beaner 9y ago
Apple doesn't care about it's users' privacy. It only ever started making a big deal about privacy when people started criticizing Google for hoarding too much personal info and using it to target ads, which people think is e
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by beaner 9y ago
Raising prices economizes scarce resources. It ensures that one family doesn't buy all the water in the store for themselves, and that there is more for others. If it's an emergency then the high price is worth it. If the price is
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by beaner 9y ago
What is SCP?
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by beaner 9y ago
Then there isn't very much incentive to stake.
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by beaner 9y ago
Proof of stake incentivizes low velocity of money - you have to stake to not have your funds diluted. This seems like the opposite of what the digital aspect of cryptocurrency should be bringing to the table.
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by beaner 9y ago
It's not the opposite, either. Not all transactions are necessarily traceable to an entity or individual.
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by beaner 9y ago
Did you read the thing? It was very clearly about statistics. The message of the memo was not "women are biologically unfit for tech," it was, as a biological tendency, women are more likely to have traits which disincline them to
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by beaner 9y ago
While I think a reasonable rebuttal to the memo could be made, the assumptions at the beginning of this article are so obviously missing the point of the memo that it's hard to see justifying reading the rest of it. Many people do make
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by beaner 9y ago
> There is absolutely no evidence that there is a biological imperative that prevents women from being as effective as men at software development. The memo doesn't make this claim.
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by beaner 9y ago
I don't think that's true. Plenty of women spoke up against Uber, and they weren't called attention whores, they were lauded (rightly). Of course, you can find instances of James being lauded and of Susan Fowler being called
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by beaner 9y ago
Not sure why you'd be downvoted. This is what some purists think and it's a popular meme. [1] [1] http://imgur.com/gE8hDnY
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by beaner 9y ago
Ah, thanks. Sometimes I see mods intervene on comments and that kind of thing, so I figured flagged posts went into a queue before removal.
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by beaner 9y ago
When posts are flagged, is there a reason that is provided and is it viewable somewhere? It seems like there's a lot of legit, even large threads that have been flagged and removed. Even ones that don't seem offensive, they'r
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by beaner 9y ago
How do we know that he expected no negative consequences?

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