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by clarkm 13y ago
Yep. But I also use Ghostery and ABP, so I figured it was just me.
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by clarkm 13y ago
I've always heard that sans-serif fonts are easier to read on a screen and serif ones are easier to read on paper, but I wonder if there's a similar rule for laser vs. inkjet printing. Fonts with ink traps for small point inkjet p
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by clarkm 13y ago
The reference client doesn't even provide a way to choose specific bitcoins to use when sending a payment. And even if it did, do they really expect users to keep track of every single address in their wallet and the date of acquisitio
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by clarkm 13y ago
What's wrong with that? Would you rather Texas leave the ban in place and not employ anyone at all?
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by clarkm 13y ago
Right now you can only do: keybase prove {twitter,github} but more types are in the works. Though proving your identity on more than just your personal website has its advantages. For one, I don't know anything about your hostin
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by clarkm 13y ago
Yep, lawyers figured this out a while ago.
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by clarkm 13y ago
How exactly did these charts lead you to that conclusion?
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by clarkm 13y ago
Yep, intelligent people tend to measure higher on openness to experience, one of the Big Five personality traits.
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by clarkm 13y ago
So I take it you abstain from attending any presentations, talks, or conferences? Or do you just turn your chair around and face the back?
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by clarkm 13y ago
He mentions in the part about Casa Bonita that he's from Tulsa (which is also where I grew up).
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by clarkm 13y ago
Yeah, but getting everything to place nicely while inside tmux is a bit of a challenge, especially if you want to have proper clipboard support.
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by clarkm 13y ago
Nick: "It’s a small thing, but symbolically important. Our parents’ generation was never interested in keeping up standards, they wanted to be happy. But of course, the last way to be happy is to make it your objective in life."
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by clarkm 13y ago
It has a lot more in common with "I was an early employee in a successful startup" than "I participated in a Ponzi scheme early". I like to think of the Bitcoin protocol as a transaction service and the coins as shares o
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by clarkm 13y ago
I'm not quite getting your analogy. Was it supposed to have any depth, or was it just a way of signaling your hatred for your ideological opponents?
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We Are All Bitcoin(bitcoinfoundation.org)
24 points by clarkm 13y ago|8 comments
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by clarkm 13y ago
Where are you getting this information? I've taught hundreds of kids SAT prep and I can tell you that it is definitely not "very easy" to go from 400-500s to 600-700s.
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The myth of the fall(esr.ibiblio.org)
129 points by clarkm 13y ago|20 comments
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So that’s how H-1B visa fraud is done(cringely.com)
2 points by clarkm 13y ago|0 comments
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Cryptographic obfuscation and 'unhackable' software(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
66 points by clarkm 13y ago|25 comments
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The Engineer Crunch(blog.samaltman.com)
452 points by clarkm 13y ago|426 comments
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by clarkm 13y ago
For serious arbitrageurs the divergence happened a while ago -- dollars and GoxBucks are not the same.
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by clarkm 13y ago
> The concept of class was invented by Karl Marx, a person belongs to some class based on his/her relation to the means of production. Please. Class and caste have been around since the dawn of civilization.
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by clarkm 13y ago
The fluidity of a term like "middle class" really does muddle conversations. That's why SWPL is one of my favorite neologisms. The fact there is a definitive list of SWPL characteristics makes it so much more descriptive than
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by clarkm 13y ago
If something is controversial and doesn't have very many upvotes, its rank takes a nosedive once it reaches 40 comments.
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by clarkm 13y ago
> A kid's upbringing and environment at home also play very large factors. I think you vastly overestimate the importance of those things. Decades of twin studies show the impact of shared environment on life outcome to be pretty sm
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Mempo Project – Hardened Privacy(rawgithub.com)
1 points by clarkm 13y ago|0 comments
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Stupid R Tricks: Random Scope(andrewgelman.com)
1 points by clarkm 13y ago|0 comments
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by clarkm 13y ago
The real winners in these schemes are the exchanges. Since they profit from every trade that's made, anything that increases volume and volatility is good for their books.
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by clarkm 13y ago
Why does this make them crooks? This whole thing is just a very convoluted form of gambling -- it's a game. If you bluff when playing poker, does that make you a crook?
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by clarkm 13y ago
Yes it's outrageous, but why compare this to Europe? Hidalgo County is right on the border, and if this would've happened just a few miles south (in Mexico) it wouldn't be too far out of the ordinary. Some parts of the US see

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