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by bmelton 9y ago
FWIW, outside of the bay area, it's not nearly so easy to get access to capital anyway. Not trying to throw shade on anyone, but it seems far less likely that "ideas" that have no product, no users, etc. would be funded in t
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by bmelton 9y ago
Because without strong fraud prevention, stuff like this happens: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the...
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by bmelton 9y ago
Boring Co is Elon Musk.
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by bmelton 9y ago
Not that I'm suggesting you do or don't do this, or that it's right or fair, which usually has some form of 'eligibility' for awarding contracts to business, the usual workaround is to hire a figurehead CEO who is a
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by bmelton 9y ago
100% correct. Edited.
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by bmelton 9y ago
> a lot of restaurants are changing out their taps of beers that are universally liked for craft beers. I've noticed this too at a few of the bars I frequent, and there seem to be two commonly cited reasons for it: [1] People are bo
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by bmelton 9y ago
What vote? There hasn't been a vote on Net Neutrality. If there had, it seems that at least Tester would have voted in favor, considering he's demanded that it be continued repeatedly to the FCC. Did you imagine that a vote had
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by bmelton 9y ago
Pardon? > Oh and Montana will vote Republican again next election as you well know Montana's current governor, Steve Bullock[1], is a Democrat. He was the incumbent in the last election, but initially won his seat from the outgoing
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by bmelton 9y ago
> However I'm under the impression that there are ledgers that are meticulously kept which track all balances, debt, and cash issuance which need to balance out at every level (from the Gov/Fed to small banks); otherwise the in
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by bmelton 9y ago
Every time there's an article about unionization (here, yes, but anywhere else too), there's someone in that article extolling the virtues of all unions, followed up by others denigrating the state of unions. As a younger man, I&#
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by bmelton 9y ago
What's the BTU of a dolar-sized piece of paper? What's the burn duration? At what inflation point is it more practical to burn bolivars for heat than it is to buy oil/fuel/wood with bolivars?
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by bmelton 9y ago
Except that there are cryptocurrencies gaining traction that have far more utility in that regard. Monero, for example, uses ring signatures to enable a greater degree of anonymity by having x% of block transactions be complete gobbledygook
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by bmelton 9y ago
Agreed. I'd move the environment screen to the end. Start an alert -> What kind of alert -> What message to send -> What environment to send to (test / production). In the event of a production message, you should have a
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by bmelton 9y ago
Which, IIRC, they decided to do of their own accord, after having won suits around discrimination (e.g., _Dale_) Whether the point is mooted or not is up for discussion, but whether they have the right to discriminate is settled, according
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by bmelton 9y ago
IANAL, but: > Gender is a protected class Which means that businesses doing public accommodation are restricted from discriminating, but 'private clubs' (such as the Boy Scouts), who have a narrowly tailored interest that is b
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by bmelton 9y ago
There's probably room for semantic interpretation here. > an article or substance that is manufactured or refined for sale The Spotify service is a product that is manufactured, and its purpose is to distribute music. Depending on
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by bmelton 9y ago
A fair criticism. I did not intend to imply that musicians were in any way less valuable than instrument makers, recording studios, distributors, et al. My statement would better have been expressed as "guitarists wouldn't make
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by bmelton 9y ago
It seems this sort of debate goes on continuously with ideologues. Statements like > Spotify doesn't make anything and > Your product is music are flat wrong. Spotify, the company, makes Spotify, the music distribution servi
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by bmelton 9y ago
Not my representative, bu Justin Amash, an R from Michigan's 3rd District, posts the rationale for why he voted how he voted on most bills on Facebook. To my knowledge, he's the only one that does it with any degree of regularity.
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by bmelton 9y ago
A fair point, and worthwhile clarification. Thank you.
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by bmelton 9y ago
> Imagine if every time that I went to a store and paid a dollar for a pack of gum I also had to pay a fee associated. I agree that Bitcoin is unlikely to find utility as a usable currency, but this point rings extremely hollow, since bu
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by bmelton 9y ago
So, what is your preferred solution?
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by bmelton 9y ago
Damore links to studies in his paper, but ignoring that for a second -- I could post a paper, and you could post a rebuttal, and blah blah blah -- but the point isn't that he's right or wrong, at least to me, the point is that if
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by bmelton 9y ago
If the points are fungible (and they absolutely are) then what is the difference between giving extra points to <people not like x> and giving fewer points to <people like x>. How are they not functionally identical?
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by bmelton 9y ago
> The point is whether those biological differences significantly affect your ability to be a professional engineer. So, to me this reads as bias. When I read his claim, I don't see it as implying that women are in any way less cap
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by bmelton 9y ago
Does that include diversity training that focuses on implicit and explicit consciousness bias differences between men and woman?
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by bmelton 9y ago
Do you really mean to suggest that someone holding contrary views cannot express them on any forum?
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by bmelton 9y ago
Coincidentally, in looking for Christmas movies for the holidays, I stumbled across "Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale[1]". I won't go into spoilers, but a) it was an unexpectedly smart horror film , and b) seemed to be rooted i
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by bmelton 9y ago
Worth noting that there's a ~20% differential between the dollar and the Euro though.
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by bmelton 9y ago
I don't see it mentioned in the README, but is this something I can package into a distributable package?

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