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by chwahoo 15y ago
> there is no reason to not own your own collection There are reasons. The-all-you-can-eat model certainly makes much more music available, which is better for discovering new music. Also, if you regularly listen to a lot of new/diff
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by chwahoo 15y ago
Exactly. I really liked Yudkowski's framing of the rationale behind his political beliefs and agreed with his progression of ideas until he reached his conclusion. In particular, I liked his stating the issues in terms of pragmatism rathe
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by chwahoo 15y ago
Interesting that he claims that it's difficult to change a regular expression to cope with new requirements but easy to change a hand-coded loop. In my experience, the opposite is true (up to the point when your grammar becomes non-regular)
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by chwahoo 15y ago
Probably also on sites linked from HN.
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by chwahoo 15y ago
I doubt many people are using G+ circles for the value judgments your post seems to imply. Labeling people as "family", "sorority sisters", or "coworkers" is not such a tough decision and I think few would say its a "bad thing to do". On t
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by chwahoo 15y ago
I don't see why a hacker would do this. They've already broken the law so this just increases their chances of being caught. If they wanted to be "nice", they could just have stolen fewer of the bitcoins.
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by chwahoo 15y ago
I bet this is the explanation. It's certainly one of the few reasons I can imagine why they'd give and then revoke an offer.
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by chwahoo 15y ago
I believe the new network could choose to accept the old coins so you wouldn't have to start from scratch.
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by chwahoo 15y ago
Bitcoin is designed to undergo change. It just requires convincing enough operators to use the updated version.
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by chwahoo 15y ago
I think this article nails the description of a problem that Russ Roberts also alluded to on EconTalk -- that bitcoin can change and those changes are made somewhat democratically.( http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/04/andresen_on_bit.h
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by chwahoo 15y ago
Thanks, this sounds promising. I'll take a look. I never cease to be impressed by Amazon's collection of services.
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Ask HN: What's the best service for sending money to your users?
2 points by chwahoo 16y ago|3 comments
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I wonder if there is some kind of official annotation that can be added to a person's record indicating that they should be inconvenienced and harassed? If so, are officials "officially trained" to perform this function? Or else, is this a
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Let me first say that Haskell is extremely cool and every developer should experiment with it. Laziness supports beautiful/declarative expression of programs, and there are some useful ways of structuring programs (e.g., operating over laz
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Thanks for your take. I quite like OCaml---it's syntax is a bit quirky, but I guess I've used it enough that I've mostly stopped seeing the quirks. I've wanted to use Haskell for a larger project for a while now, but the right project has
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I'm a happy Google user, but it's nice to have some choices. Nonetheless, I agree that Google will probably dominate until something game-changing comes along.
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by chwahoo 16y ago
It's about design, which relates to both.
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Thanks for the pointer. My first thought is that I didn't see anything overwhelmingly compelling there, although I can see the benefits of having a "standard" language with many implementations vs. an implementation defined language. As fa
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by chwahoo 16y ago
The members of the research group I work in are pretty heavy users of OCaml and I'm a big proponent of languages of the ML style. I generally have the impression that OCaml has become the de facto ML implementation. Can anyone make a ca
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I was expecting (or hoping) that the pictorial versions would somehow illuminate why these various identities hold. But they seem to be just an alternative set of symbols. I wonder why numerals are used to represent 2 and 3 in some places,
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by chwahoo 16y ago
The link below suggests that you're right---the price of gold was remarkably steady for at least the second half of the 1800s. http://www.nma.org/pdf/gold/his_gold_prices.pdf Why would the price have been so steady? Was the supply of gol
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by chwahoo 16y ago
> yet no deflationary spiral has set in (afaik) Gold isn't currently the currency (in most places), so I'm not sure what you mean here. If you listen to the podcast, the right-leaning (but generally fair) host makes a convincing explan
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I'm aware that people hold your views. I was more curious whether I am right that bitcoin is mostly incompatible with mine.
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by chwahoo 16y ago
> Regarding the question of totality on slide 40, a naïve analysis would say that the deconstruction "let (y : ys) =" could fail (if the list returned from reverse were empty), and thus the function would not be total. Of course this is
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Technically, I think BitCoin is extremely cool. However, I can't help but be skeptical of many of its apparent consequences: During the financial crisis, many on the left expressed concern about a deflationary spiral. I don't claim any ec
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by chwahoo 16y ago
This is a cool effort. Since agda : haskell :: coq : ocaml, I'm curious why agda wasn't used. Does it not not support extraction in the same way? I would liked to have seen the talk itself since there are a few places in the slides where
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by chwahoo 16y ago
OCaml: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Y_combinator#OCaml
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I think the parent was referring to what you might listen to on those headphones.
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Well I don't think Google has any choice about releasing their Kernel modifications, Android will still meet this openness criteria. Or is that what you were saying? If so, that's kind of a silly definition of openness--If you care about
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by chwahoo 16y ago
While he could have stated his point more succinctly, what made the article notable was how he used his personal experiences to make the point. You can google and pull up dozens of takes on the first amendment that come to a similar conclu

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