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by brendanw 9y ago
Links?
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by brendanw 9y ago
Right, but when you lose the case, you lose that money again, or vice versa as the business. To many Americans and world citizens with less disposable income, you might seem kind of nutty to not worry about losing 3% on your under $15 purch
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by brendanw 9y ago
You are not guaranteed to win a credit card dispute. Depending on the card, it takes a great deal of your time to file the dispute and continue to submit supporting evidence down the line. You are paying 1-3% on all of your transactions for
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by brendanw 9y ago
The comparison to credit card theft is inappropriate; you are not exposing your private information in the same way you are with a credit card. When you pay for something online, you are transmitting your credit card number over the wire. W
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by brendanw 9y ago
Have you heard this? I have not. I have heard people make the case that there are very minor biological differences between men and women, and seen them get tainted with the brush of holding a far different view.
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by brendanw 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act They may be fraudulent; they may be not. Regardless, they have a lot to lose by revealing their banking partners to the world. The United States probably used the Bank Sec
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by brendanw 9y ago
BTC Trading volume over the last 24hrs is $6,795,970,000 ( https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets ) Tether trading volume over the last 24hrs is $803,868,000 ( https://coinmarketcap.com&#x2F
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by brendanw 9y ago
I am not sure I follow you on people being worried about a BTC drop from their own selling of BTC. We are in a bull market; one person selling BTC for USD on an exchange is not going to have a significant impact. "so they move into tet
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by brendanw 9y ago
+1 Butterknife doesn't reduce lines of code, introduces new syntax to learn, and carries additional risk (eg it has introduced unexpected issues). I believe some of the framework+library bloat is intellectual signaling.
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by brendanw 9y ago
Losing a lot of money if you post your own bail is another big incentive to show up for court, but unlike most counties in the country, San Francisco does not allow an individual or their friends, family, or attorney to pay the bail. While
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by brendanw 9y ago
The police can sell property for funding. A convoluted process for recovering property increases demand for law services, so even though defense attorneys might be against the process ethically, they still stand to gain from the process fin
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by brendanw 9y ago
Some employers offer such a thing as group legal insurance, but that protects a privileged few and is more like a band-aid. I think most people are against this sort of corruption when the learn of it. Reform should be a realistic goal. I s
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by brendanw 9y ago
Somewhat orthogonal: In SF, the jail will only accept bail from registered bail bondsmen. They will not accept bail money from the arrestee, friends of the arrestee, or family. The average rate for a bail bondsman is 10%. A common practice
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by brendanw 9y ago
The human body can sustain a surprising amount of damage and still carry on. Three different wingsuit pilots have survived unintentionally crashing into trees with no parachute out now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp3YLd
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by brendanw 10y ago
Android engineer at VSCO here. If you have any questions about what it is like to work here -- feel free to shoot me an email brendanw@vsco.co
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by brendanw 10y ago
It would be great to see a sample project implementing the architecture described here. I agree with the criticisms of MVC and how it scales. I believe you can make the same critiques of MVP. Speaking as an android developer, it would be gr
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by brendanw 10y ago
On android, MVC is dead. Talk about overly-circuitous code that is not straight forward to step through. MVP is great, when not over-done by folks as well (eg making a model-view-presenter unit recursively for every element on screen rather
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by brendanw 10y ago
"Where did the memory leaks come from? In order to implement VectorDrawable inflation, the support library authors needed to update the way Context.getDrawable is implemented. But that function is final, so they had to make every View
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Peregrine Falcon Chasing Human Wingsuit Pilot – Proximity Flying(youtube.com)
2 points by brendanw 10y ago|0 comments
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by brendanw 11y ago
Someone mentioned it on another post recently, but I have seen recruiter spam drop off steeply in the last few months.
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Base Jumping Off a Giant Spider Net(vimeo.com)
2 points by brendanw 11y ago|0 comments
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DSCO is a new GIF app from the makers of VSCO Cam(blogs.wsj.com)
11 points by brendanw 11y ago|0 comments
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by brendanw 11y ago
The suits can fly flat and up fairly easily when in a dive, so the risk factor of hitting something is not super high. The biggest risk factor is the exit. If you slip or have the wrong initial angle of attack, you will start flying at a lo
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So Pitted – Wingsuit Terrain Flying – Brendan Weinstein(youtube.com)
3 points by brendanw 11y ago|2 comments
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Raw, Unedited Wingsuit Terrain Flying in Bussalp, Switzerland(youtube.com)
1 points by brendanw 11y ago|0 comments
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Android Particle Self Portrait(brendanweinstein.me)
3 points by brendanw 11y ago|0 comments