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The Myth of the Barter Economy(theatlantic.com)
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by bjterry 11y ago
That's good advice to not to misunderstand other people, but it's much harder to figure out how to not have it done TO you.
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You have to provide people with background information if you have a view that is not mainstream. Since most people with views that aren't mainstream are probably wrong, it is a weak signal that their beliefs are wrong, too. But it is
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We have a similar feature at 43Layers (e.g. [1]) and went through a couple iterations. Ours was made more complex because it has to mesh with a 3D canvas, so originally it was a combination of overlapping DOM elements, an SVG element, and a
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The Missing 11th of the Month(drhagen.com)
12 points by bjterry 11y ago|0 comments
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With proper monetary policy, there is no reason to expect it would cause a recession in America. The reason people in the business press are concerned about it is because deflation is associated with recessions. But usually recessions are c
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by bjterry 11y ago
They actually aren't refuting the claim. Even in the article I noticed that they are very careful in their phrasing. They never say, "We have never sold another companies chocolate" or anything like that. All they say is that
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by bjterry 11y ago
Not the person you are replying to, but based on the name one would expect it to be related to Internet memes.
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by bjterry 11y ago
> But with many processed and mass produced food products that's simply not the case as it's quite hard to estimate what exact caloric value your body would extract from each portion with so many ingredients from various source
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> I think the Internet played a very strong hand with uniting the "unintellectuals" of our age. It seems like the Internet has the opposite effect of uniting people. By allowing people to form ever tighter communities around sp
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by bjterry 11y ago
I think it's unfortunate that he doesn't go into greater detail on the "considerable problems" posed by employees selling their options (or similar transactions). From the simple perspective of fair dealing with employee
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by bjterry 11y ago
Now I'm imagining a variant of Lojban, but where the colors have semantic meaning. It could be super dense.
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by bjterry 11y ago
It reads as an extended advertisement for you company's services, and your comment doesn't really respond to the statement of the person you replied to. He said CloudFoundry's installation instructions were bad, then you repl
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Show HN: 43Layers' New Holiday Store for Product Hunt(43layers.com)
1 points by bjterry 11y ago|0 comments
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The problem is that by not plainly stating his position, if someone challenges it he can always fall back on, "I didn't say that" which is annoying for interlocutors. He doesn't even have to be the kind of person who wou
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by bjterry 11y ago
I think the ideal strategy in gerrymandering is not immediately obvious (although it may technically be a tautology, it is not obviously tautological). If you asked people which of the two following strategies is ideal, many would give the
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by bjterry 11y ago
Google has had support for PBKDF2 in PyCrypto since around August 2012[1]. 1: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5...
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Every time I've heard the term full stack used, it referred to web developers, and I think it just implies that someone could go from nothing to having a full website without outside help. That is, they can create HTML and JavaScript f
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Perhaps the ideal language would be one where every library is statically typed, either through social or technological means, but the application language is optionally typed. This would be a pretty big departure from most normal languages
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I would rather work as a retail employee at Costco than as a warehouse employee at Amazon. But I'd probably rather work at the job I'm most qualified for at Amazon than at Costco, because it would be better for my resume and presu
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by bjterry 11y ago
Costco has a gross margin of ~13%, and is reputed to have very good working conditions.
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by bjterry 11y ago
It is a stock photo that has the title "Personality Disorder"[1] and has the tag "psychology." So the editors or whomever searched shutterstock for "psychology" and scrolled through, saw that they liked that on
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by bjterry 11y ago
The site would be dramatically more mobile friendly with the addition of 2 css rules: textarea { width: 100%; } table { width: 100%; } So it doesn't seem like the problem is completely insoluble.
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A New Kind of DIY: Design It Yourself(medium.com)
5 points by bjterry 11y ago|0 comments
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by bjterry 11y ago
It's not that naive. When considering your investments, you should consider your employment as part of your investment capital (in investment management this is your "human capital"). It's important to realize that your
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by bjterry 11y ago
This article reminds me of one of my all-time favorite articles. Quantity Always Trumps Quality by Jeff Atwood [1]. There is a bunch of commentary on it on Less Wrong [2], some of which is interesting. Also an interesting parallel to a Paul
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by bjterry 11y ago
That makes sense, as a radio play is probably heard by 3 or 4 orders of magnitude more people.
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If you are trying to find out when they start trading in the open market, this site has a calendar: http://www.iposcoop.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi...
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It's interesting you say that, given that the author lives in London, most of his examples are from the UK, and he specifically refers to the UK government's desire to expand fintech in the last paragraph, which he says has receiv
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by bjterry 11y ago
> ...Hacking Team's customers include South Korea, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon, and Mongolia. Yet, the company maintains that it does not do business with oppressive governments. I was curious if those were all oppressiv

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