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by byset 8y ago
Never thought I’d come across a long Chesterton passage on HN. Hooray!
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by byset 8y ago
It's like when someone says something funny, then another person follows up with a witticism that basically repeats the same joke... Like someone makes an inspired pun and some dude immediately exclaims "LITERALLY!"
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A RISC-V leader responds to ARM's online critique(eetimes.com)
5 points by byset 8y ago|0 comments
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by byset 8y ago
Well, they're reporting on the recent release of a notable paper written by an academic who has a reputation for "uncovering fraud in financial markets," at least that's what the article says. Presumably that paper was r
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by byset 9y ago
The Vegetarian Myth https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003PJ7JXY/
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An algorithm can increase refugees' employment rate by 70%(npr.org)
1 points by byset 9y ago|0 comments
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by byset 9y ago
Ah, then sorry for the flip reply. I look in on Reddit's r/bitcoin from time to time but there can be a low signal to noise ratio. I guess I follow the journalists Kyle Torpey (who has an email newsletter), Aaron van Wirdum of Bit
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by byset 9y ago
From places that don't promote silly theories, apparently.
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by byset 9y ago
No, it resolves uncertainty and lets the community move forward in a unified way. It also shows Bitcoin's resilience in the face of committed minorities who would try to take over its governance. In short, Bitcoin survived a coup d&#x2
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by byset 9y ago
I guess people say all kinds of things, but I don't recall anyone arguing that Bitcoin was going up because of the impending fork. It certainly wasn't the conventional wisdom.
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by byset 9y ago
I didn't get that impression. Paragraph two says they have "the most advanced self-driving software ever demonstrated," which has been in use driving cars around in real city traffic on their prototypes or whatever (according
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by byset 10y ago
I guess I'm nitpicking, and the guy probably just needs an editor, but the whole tone of this post seemed tiresomely self-congratulatory to me. "Look at how frank and empathetic and open I am! Look at me ruthlessly dissect my own
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by byset 11y ago
I think the worst thing about this is that once you hit the button, you wouldn't get any more replies from that thread. Is this really how it worked — that Gmail essentially shut you out of subsequent replies to the conversation in a n
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by byset 11y ago
What is the basis for this comment? I'm sure that a lot of people who are "happy at this guy being indicted" are not economic libertarians. Also, who defends economic libertarianism "for the sole reason that it allows th
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by byset 11y ago
I didn't think they could make it look any more as if it were aimed at 5-year-olds, but they've done it. Seriously, though, it's probably a better logo. It's simpler and has a more weight while the old one was kind of ov
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by byset 11y ago
The T&C did not say or imply that ~100% of the womens' accounts were fake. Plus you can't rely on fine print in the T&C to absolve you of engaging in a fraudulent business relationship, that's not how contracts are en
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by byset 11y ago
The highest paid tier, for $249, includes an "Affair Guarantee." You could still claim that even so, men are just paying for a fantasy, but at those prices, and with the supposed "guarantee," they seem to venturing into
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by byset 11y ago
Still fraud, methinks. Having some accounts for "entertainment purposes" accounts is one thing, taking money from men -- with an "affair guarantee" at the top tier -- to let them message "women" nearly 100% of
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by byset 11y ago
Well, I mean, there were consequences--as the article said, there's now malware out there that uses the exploit this guy publicized.
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by byset 11y ago
On average, I'd say that the ratio of financial payoff to "effort" in music or photography is much, much smaller than in, say, software engineering.
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by byset 12y ago
I feel victim to this a while back and documented it here: http://marknugent.tumblr.com/post/98203319356/linkedins-evil...
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by byset 13y ago
That seems a bit unfair. Are open-source participation and spec work really analogous? How often are programmers asked by a client to complete a project, so the client can decide afterwards whether to pay?