chairmanwow

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by chairmanwow 9y ago
Cryptography is a necessary lesson that we need to teach in 2017. Lowest common denominator is a hard threshold to design security for.
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
But it does make for a great investment asset and or store of value.
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
Could you imagine something that equalizes the playing field more between men and women? This provides the ability for people to have a child without the woman having to gestate the fetus for 9 months? None of the terrible side effects of p
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
While this is unfair of Uber, this is a pretty insane situation. They impound your car for weeks for providing a service consensually? I think that's the real issue here.
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
You can also "buy" the movie on Chinese marketplaces for ¥10 (~$1.5) and the seller will message you a Baidu Cloud link with the movie.
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
I do not. I tried to be as up-front as possible about the sources of the information that I'm referencing because it is a) Not verifiable b) Not on the record I am myself very confused by the comments I've been hearing whilst work
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
The Chinese art of selectively enforcing their laws to the detriment of those that won't play ball with the government really makes it hard to believe Xi's press-tornado of successful anti-corruption measures. The government has b
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
Francesca Polletta's book "It Was Like a Fever" brings forward some really interesting points of discussion about storytelling as a political device. Some relevant quotes from the text: "If the fact that everyone can tel
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
I absolutely love Julia Evan's writing. I find her articles / zines to cover interesting and useful technical topics while remaining _extremely_ accessible to me (especially when I was a student)! I really admire her ability to pr
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
> Between 2005 and 2016, the most recent full year of data, the company saw an 83 percent decrease in the number of incidents that resulted in days away, work restrictions or job transfers – to an all-time low of 1.55 incidents per 100
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
Thanks for sharing! This is a viewpoint that I've never encountered before as only having entered the game in the last 3 years.
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
I 100% agree. The day that I became a lifelong Amazon customer was when I mistakenly ordered a mattress to the wrong address via Prime. I noticed the mistake some 28 hours after placing the order. I nearly said that I called them to tell t
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
I would agree with you if this conversation were taking place anywhere other than HN. This community isn't infallible, but I argue that the level of discourse here is far above the mean.
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
This seems like engineering for engineering's sake. From the author's description, this was a pretty superficial refactoring that may or may not have been for the better. It seems like a bizarre decision to spend time migrating to
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
I have watched so many hours of Dan's videos because he inspires a fervency of the acquisition of knowledge. I absolutely wish that I had his videos whenever I was first starting to program. His attitude is so endearing as it is clear
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
How so?
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
What a fascinating premise. Kudos to the author for doing such a thoughtful analysis. His technique for arriving at the cross-sectional shape is especially interesting. I would have never considered that the optimal cross-sectional shape to
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
I'm so glad that The Expanse has brought great space opera to the masses. Scifi books are several orders of magnitude better than the majority of "Scifi" Hollywood movies. The struggle of a fledgling technological species a
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
> Amazon could certainly be coerced into unlocking the door This is an extremely worrisome statement. Is there any precedent for this type of coercion from the FBI to businesses who have access to a home? My justice-sense is tingling to
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
As a sidebar, I really wish that Blendle would exit Beta so that I could buy these extremely interesting articles as a one-off micropayment. I don't intend to get a subscription with every top news organization (NY Times, New Yorker, T
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
I think I might start suggesting this to my coworkers + friends.
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
I'm actually pretty ok with these types of articles. They are generally well-researched and well-written—giving technical introductions to important concepts. As always, it is important to be wary of the reasons that an author writes a
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
I'm currently living in China, and I see things disappear from social media ALL THE TIME. It's not pleasant or proper, it's just scary to have someone else decide what you can or cannot see. Say whatever you want, I'll m
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
Which design decisions are you thinking of? Mostly that updates can only happen on explicit changes to the state. Also a React application doesn't acknowledge the possibility of a component existing which is not a React compo
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
Redux is unusable without an insane amount of boilerplate. HOWEVER, I think Redux still is an improvement over raw JS, although underpowered compared to Elm. It seems like it is essentially trying to bring functional union type case switchi
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
I would imagine it is mostly just oversight, given the loading period in the beginning.
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
I'm not sure that I buy the logic of "Winner take all" in the TNC space. The service is intrinsically localized. There were competitors in NYC that I had never heard of before after living in SF, and SF companies that New Yor
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
Lyft is US only
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
There is no such tab for me.
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by chairmanwow 9y ago
> gas stations start disappearing Already happened in Japan.

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