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by craigyk 13y ago
As long as people need to use USD for most purchases, then yes. As long as businesses are required to keep track of and report their earnings, then yes. As long as the government could easily afford enough hardware to takeover the blockcha
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by craigyk 13y ago
I use to do this when I was a kid but with pool HCl instead of drano. I even did it once at school (very far away from anyone or anything) and I consider myself lucky to not get caught or punished. There was a teacher that knew it was pro
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by craigyk 13y ago
I used to think that, but recently I've come to think that if that were true, than software would be way better than it currently is, and hardware way worse. My impression is that it tends to be way easier to create a lot of moving parts in
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by craigyk 13y ago
if I remember correctly, the Republicans and Democrats swapped places in every way but name not too long after that.
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by craigyk 13y ago
Yahoo PR is pushing their "new and improved" paternity policies. They are better than before, but people are trying to counteract with some perspective.
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by craigyk 13y ago
They are too tired and overwhelmed to even really be that depressed. I think my wife only vaguely remembers the first three months.
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by craigyk 13y ago
I agree, US companies should have better policies, but that would rely on the government enforcing an even playing field (not very libertarian). Otherwise there is no way any single company can stray too far from the pack without seriously
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by craigyk 13y ago
I'm not sure exactly. Is the pay at 100%? In California you might be paying already into the state disability program, in which case you are automatically entitled to six weeks of leave at ~50% pay... if your employer is awesome they migh
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by craigyk 13y ago
Of course they do... I wouldn't be surprised if its close to 100% paid by the government.
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by craigyk 14y ago
Mike Pall was the first person I've ever met (via his postings and projects) that made me think, holy cow, this dude is way smarter than me. I've heard some people conjecture that it's actually a pseudonym for a group of people.... but I ac
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by craigyk 14y ago
Seriously. Had I been in the same position, which I have, I would have just silently observed the heated discussion, identified the linchpin, and approached them afterwards. On one hand she describes these guys as loud, wrong, assholes. A
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by craigyk 14y ago
Maybe she just dresses much better than the average SE. Some people might be equally confused if they walked into the room and where greeted (without introduction) by a guy who was better dressed than they expected.
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by craigyk 14y ago
Uh, but why is it so terrible to make these assumptions? Stereotypes are a major part of how the human species has gotten as far as it has, or even how, as individuals, anyone of us efficiently navigates the society of strangers. What real
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by craigyk 14y ago
Actually dressing too well probably adds to people's cognitive dissonance. If her intention is to exploit this to her advantage, then that's one way to go about it... probably better then the OP's. The OP didn't say anything about how she
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by craigyk 14y ago
No it is not possible. All the possible alternative metals are already known and traded commodities. Gold also has many properties that people find desirable in a store of value: it is stable (resistant to oxidation), relatively rare, wor
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by craigyk 14y ago
Lol, I had to get pretty far down this time to seen the first mention of 'fiat'.
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by craigyk 14y ago
HILARIOUS. Note: I think Bitcoin is a cool idea, and a cool implementation, but I've recently noticed it tends to create zealots who spew crazy whenever there is an article that questions its suitability for specific purposes (gold alternat
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by craigyk 14y ago
What do you suggest for someone that wants to be efficient and effective at home, without assistance, and without lots of equipment?
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by craigyk 14y ago
Agreed. I think I saw that async in C# has exceptions that behave as one naively expects they should. That would make JS so much more awesome, even with callbacks. The worst part of them isn't the pyramid, IMO, so much as they all the ho
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by craigyk 14y ago
I agree, I often will write promise wrappers for other people's stuff, but for the external surface of my module I have callbacks. Also, callbacks ARE sometimes nicer than promises, etc... especially if you have CoffeeScript function syntax
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by craigyk 14y ago
That twitter quote is pretty funny.
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by craigyk 14y ago
Yeah... what are you talking about? Enormous memory consumption = deduplication? Otherwise it doesn't seem enormous too me. Sure ZFS made a lot of departures from the standard toolset with all its own stuff... but that stuff is better once
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by craigyk 14y ago
Is that true? I recently listened to a story about one of the Nordic countries, it may have been Denmark?, and how employers can easily fire employees. They argued that this, along with really good unemployment benefits, actually helps th
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by craigyk 14y ago
Yeah, if you're going to have to do async to be performant than it better be pretty pervasive throughout all the libraries. Bonus points if the language supports syntax to make async easier as well. Node is beating out Python for server s
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by craigyk 14y ago
On a similar note, it's interesting how many great historical scientists were wealthy enough that they were able to pursue something like research as a leisure activity. Even non-rich guys, like Mendel, otherwise had quite a bit of time fo
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by craigyk 14y ago
I bought a used HP MDS 600 on EBay for less $2000 shipped. It doesn't have a computer built in, but unlike the Backblaze it has four power supplies, two redundant and four fans and two SAS interfaces. It also holds 70 drives. I've thought
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by craigyk 14y ago
Also, I really dislike the custom string parsing implied by things like: .select('age > 20'). This is a place where CoffeeScript or LiveScript really shine. In LiveScript it would look like: users.select (.age > 20)
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by craigyk 14y ago
I look at this and think, again, that JS really needs a way to override attribute and indexing operations, like Python's __getitem__ and __getattr__. There's not many things I miss after switching to CoffeeScript from Python, but this is on
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by craigyk 14y ago
What? My mounted volumes show up just fine on my desktop?
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by craigyk 14y ago
not if your dollar tomorrow can buy you more for less... it's all relative

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