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by bmh_ca 10y ago
> I wouldn't discount this possibility entirely. As recently as the late 90's Russia defaulted on their own debt. The Russians defaulted on debt handed to them during the break-up of the USSR. This is an important distinction
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I was going to post her name. Jane Jacobs wrote, among other books: - Cities and the Wealth of Nations - The Death and Life of Great American Cities - The Economy of Cities Her last book, in 2004, was ominously titled "Dark Age Ahead&q
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
This is the company that used PBKDF2 with a single iteration: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/5985 Security is not exactly their forte.
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There was outright fraud by some Iceland bankers, who indicated they had assets and relationships that did not exist. Issues include: - Indicating to the ECB and others that they had relationships with strong German banks (when the Iceland
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
Bulma is JS-agnostic. http://bulma.io
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
If you pay attention to where AppEngine is getting love these days, it's moving towards Google-accessing libraries on VMs, and becoming relatively language-agnostic. The just released Node.js libs, and other languages are coming.
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
I wrote out some thoughts on the problem of HPKP: https://brianmhunt.github.io/picking-our-roots-between-hsts-...
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
MRSA is an arms race. It will just evolve a resistance to this new technique. The only solution I've heard anything about that "beats" MRSA is the Norway solution: http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA400
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Let's Encrypt ACME and AppEngine Simplified(brianmhunt.github.io)
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
We've had good luck with appear.in. The command `/appear` is even built-in to slack. That makes me curious about what their relationship is.
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
> What does Uber have to do with the story, other than to demonize the company? There's a monetary incentive to put Uber in the headline. Online media runs on advertising, advertising on hits. Uber is a curiosity right now, and a h
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
> Legally, "permission to be where you are" is a right reserved for the capital class. That's a brilliant statement, on many levels. One might chose to refine it by changing "legally" to some other word, such as
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
Great feedback, thank you. On (1) Great suggestion, looks good. On (2) I'm probably biased by having spent a lot of time with Python and Javascript and bound to some preconceived notions of how one should deal with exceptions, so perha
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
I noted the `vendor` path support in 1.6 (and experimentally in 1.5): https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Vendor_Directories
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
Go has a lot going for it. That said, there were a few points I noted, based on a recent go I gave it (pardon the pun), at least in relation to my style of development for this project: 1. It's hard to tinker, mostly because it's
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
Slashdot – headlines, anyway.
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
It's my pleasure, I am glad you are interested in spending more time on the topic. Here's an reasonable read on the US history and positions: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/affirmative-action/ I hope
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
As a matter of interest, the school of thought you are describing is the Deontologists. In "Capitalism and Freedom" Milton Friedman captured this as: > [Antidiscrimination] legislation involves the acceptance of a principle th
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
> I can't. Totally cannot. 100% can't deal with your argument. I find it telling that you think it is my argument. What I wrote is neither mine nor an argument. It is a description of a theory. > Discrimination is discrimi
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
> Either you believe it is okay to discriminate against someone on the basis of their skin color or you don't. In most anti-discrimination policy discussions, the question being asked is not what colour ones skin is. It is whether
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
Here is a paper by my friend and colleague, Philip Wood at Allen & Overy LLP, which he just finished: http://www.allenovery.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/A_fresh_vi... Philip is widely considered a father of modern i
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
Many thanks for commenting, Andrew, and for the direction. The underlying feeling remains – I feel DO ought to offer the terms of the YC deal to startups attached to other qualified incubators. Whether that is practical or possible is a non
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
Geoff's comment nails the intent.
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
As a non-YC startup, I feel it quite unfair to be subsidizing other startups with our fees to DO. Which is a shame because I really appreciate and enjoy what the DO engineers have done. Nonetheless, I feel slighted, and while I had been oth
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
>> 1. Iceland let the banks fail. > Not really. It was a restructuring. In the restructure a holding company handed all the assets over to a new corporate entity. All debts and obligations were honored. Iceland refused to bail out
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If this topic interests you, I recommend you read the book by Gudrun Johnson called "Bringing Down the Banking System: Lessons from Iceland". It is a translation and summary of the Report of the Investigation Commission of Althin
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
Spoilers; be warned. It strikes me as relevant, but it is rarely mentioned that Steven Avery's civil case for his first wrongful prosecution against the police and town was denied coverage by the insurance companies. This means the ind
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
The name for the concern about infringement upon sovereignty by arresting a citizen, in this case, in another state is "extraterritoriality". There is a presumption against extraterritoriality. In other words, it is presumed that
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
While interesting, and looks to be a needed services, the page leaves many questions, such as: What's the privacy model? While the PDFs are deleted, what happens to the searchable content? Is it also deleted? What's the revenue
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
There's a lot about those statements that seems imprecise. Private partnerships do not generally have equity, per se. Perhaps they meant private-corporation. A corporation can have several issuances of shares. These may be equity (ow

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