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by bumholio 8y ago
This is a good question. What stops companies from asking $100 per meal, and charge it on an employee account then reimburse the same amount every month to clear any tab? The free meals are taxable income anyway. The ban on "company ca
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Tesla's magic is wearing off as Model 3 excitement dwindles(money.cnn.com)
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No, not a reasonable person, but a person inclined to fall for diet fads, i.e 90% of the general population. Counting calories is hard, and it's OK to come up with methods to make the effect of calorie restriction easier obtain by the
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by bumholio 8y ago
It's quite unfair to compare misinformation campaigns orchestrated by the whole US government and it's intelligence agencies, as was the case with Iraq's WMDs, to online propaganda organized by private individuals to the bene
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CICO perfectly explains human obesity and has not been scientifically disproved yet - the body is surprisingly efficient at breaking down various types of macronutrients and storing them as fat, regardless of them being "bad" or &
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> even if they were allowed to price health insurance based on genetic risk factors it wouldn't necessarily allow them to earn higher profits. Cue adverse selection. They might not be allowed to collect genetic data, but nothing st
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by bumholio 8y ago
This is not an assassination market, it's a prediction market, but it can well work as an assassination market. If an universally reviled person has an 1:2 bet against him, this would not incentivize killers to take the huge risks of a
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by bumholio 8y ago
As I have said, I'm sure it's not a new concept. You provided some links to hardware accelerators for somewhat related systems, and they imply software solutions are unworkable performance wise. But it seems to me that is not the
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by bumholio 8y ago
The idea of redefining pointers from an {address} to an {offset,allocation_id} tuple seems to me a very powerful solution to the problems discussed recently in "C's biggest mistake: conflating pointers with arrays" [1] Inst
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by bumholio 8y ago
Indeed, there's been widespread electoral abuses. But there is still a multiparty political system, there is still some opposition. Democratic principles can still work, for example public pressure can cut off political support of the
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That's a surprisingly bad idea, confirming the worst retoric of a dictator and pushing a country in full on civil war allegedly for saving it's people. Lest we forget, Venezuela degraded to this pitiful situation after the democra
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by bumholio 8y ago
A phishing attack can often involve local compromise, making the user install malware etc. In that case, it's a simple attack variant to spoof the USB communication and get valid credentials whenever the user uses the key.
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I think the implication was "cryptocurrency cannot be subpoenaed by tax authorities when you are engaged in fiscal evasion". This is certainly true, with an off-shore debit card linked to a crypto wallet one can evade most local t
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by bumholio 8y ago
> "Why can't the world be simple?" is "Because the world is complex." "Because the world is political, and any change will be bitterly fought by those who are impacted to the point of inventing whole nationa
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by bumholio 8y ago
Indeed - but markets are rarely perfectly competitive, to negate any advantage price discrimination can bring. For example, it's often the case a route/date combo is offered by a single airline. I also agree that information can b
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by bumholio 8y ago
The value of my data is not that it can train a statistical model about preferences of developers in their 30s - that's absolutely marginal. My personal data is useful in itself as a proxy for my own life, my preferences, my buying hab
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by bumholio 8y ago
Of those listed, only the air-conditioner is a significant battery drain. However, many vehicles are such configured that in order to have any amount of power available, you need to also power up the daylight running lights, fuel pump, inte
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by bumholio 8y ago
Actually, it seems like a huge wasted opportunity. If a company is so invested in your software that it's willing to develop a custom patchset and an internal team to maintain it, then it would make a lot more sense to buy the service
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by bumholio 8y ago
I don't understand, why is there such a hard dichotomy between "commercial - binary blob" and open source? Why can't most commercial software ship with sources, with a sane license that allows a license holder to study,
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> a country can be invaded and occupied by their neighbor and the world does nothing about it. Western Sahara was never a sovereign, recognized state. Spain relinquished it's colonial claim over it and Morocco and Mauritania rushed
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by bumholio 8y ago
It's incredible how much effort and money has gone down this drain, chasing the fundamentally flawed idea of DRM. All to satisfy some inflated management egos and sell snake oil to the content industry - the enginners implementing thes
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> The payment mechanism is to a very large extent bonus-based. So the contracts usually have a minimum pay segment in it, which is more or less established by tradition. And then the interesting part in this contract is how much is left
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> It's like a Rosetta Stone for a whole family of naive political ideas. From ancap and the more extreme forms of libertarian thinking on the right, thru "flat organization" in the startup world, to explicitly leaderless l
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by bumholio 8y ago
He couldn't imagine the vast technical improvements that solved all immediate, practical challenges he faced: sending money online, comfortable, ubiquitous devices with unlimited connectivity, etc. He clearly saw the wider limits of te
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> there are circumstances where you need to be close to the metal and carefully resort to more complicated variations of such things. That's what C is fairly uniquely appropriate for. You can still do that in a C dialect with fat po
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Usain Bolt is a good example. He had good genes from a young age (1.96m at 15), then made the national junior team where he had the opportunity to train professionally and be singled out by the government as the most promising rising star,
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by bumholio 8y ago
Aside for car fetishists, owning a car is an expensive and draining choice for most people. It stands to reason that, if the fantastic self driving promises materialize, people would chose not to own a personal car, just like they choose no
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by bumholio 8y ago
There are no 'great' anything. Short of royalty and inherited wealth, there is just hustle, hard work and plain luck. Every great was just a regular guy or girl who persevered and got better at his craft, until chance or connectio
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by bumholio 8y ago
A great article, but maybe too much emphasis on "the impending catastrophe". Short of epidemics, fire and the like, the city is in permanent stasis: the conditions devolve to the point where there is an equilibrium with the arriva
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by bumholio 8y ago
> the industry wants to sell more cars by loading them with self-driving features Strangely as it may sound, the plan is exactly the opposite, to make personal cars a rarity. > "I don't see how coronary heart disease is rele

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