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by crystaln 13y ago
As far as I'm concerned, any good is full undermined by a mission statement like "Each is expected to aspire fervently to the Great Work; to dare, with courage undaunted, to perfect that Work;" It is doctrinaire philosophy, a
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Just looked briefly at Thelema. This appears to be yet another cult around a perfect, mystic founding document, like the Bible or Quran. Regardless of what that document contains, how can you justify originating your epistemology from a tex
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by crystaln 13y ago
By removing vibrant people and bizarre stories from scientific history you are doing science a disservice by deterring the smartest, creative people, many of whole are quirky, from the sterile, close-minded politicized world of science. The
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by crystaln 13y ago
While going through YC for no money and 7% would probably be worthwhile for many startups, simply for the exposure and advice, I know for a fact the ostensibly terrible terms have deterred many good applicants. I tried for years to apply to
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Yes, it is "almost always in the company's best interest for employees to be well rested and not burned out." However it is not almost always in the company's interest for employees to take 2 week recreational holidays w
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by crystaln 13y ago
"Generally people act in the company's best interests" This is exactly the reason this policy is bad. People need to act in their own interest and take vacation they need, which may not be in the company's best interest.
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Uber adds $1 per ride "Safe Rides Fee"(imgur.com)
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Yes they can. However it is far more profitable to increase the executive's pay so that it dwarfs their own obscene compensation. That is extremely common in public companies.
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They are both probably pretty similar if you count processor instructions. Point being, having the code be in the library where it is stable, tested, documented, standard, etc is the whole point.
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Why was this down voted?
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Says the guy with a three letter handle... We should just name out children random hash strings.
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If true, you should publish the details. That would be completely unacceptable, generate a shitstorm, and likely get someone fired.
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That's a good thing. Unconfirmed transactions are.... get this... unconfirmed. :) If people treat them that way, the network will be stronger.
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If it were true, that would mean Augustus messed up our calendar in addition to his biggest sin - sending us into the dark ages by making Christianity a viable religion. We are still in the shadows.
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Sure, he could be on everyone's side and trying to clarify the issue. If so, he's doing a rather poor job. However, it seemed rather obvious that he had an intention to take some sort of stance on an issue, something he also faile
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by crystaln 13y ago
I read this twice, and I still have no idea what you are trying to say, which side of any issue you are on, or what makes you any different from over-reacting haters on either side.
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So, he emailed source code to himself (yes that was illegal and violated his employment contract,) deleted the bash history (there are plenty of other ways to prevent your password from showing up in history,) waived his right to a lawyer,
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It's quite simple. Rice and Eich are not directly useful and their dismissal would have no effect on the protestors, so there is almost zero sacrifice. There is no sacrifice necessary on behalf of the protestors. Dropping AWS on the ot
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by crystaln 13y ago
Hackneyed does not make sense here. I'm not sure it means what you think it does. What is your critism of the algorithm?
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Startups that pay employees well are not scams for employees. Startups that give >0.1% are not scams. Anyone getting 0.0002% expecting to get rich is not being scammed, they are being stupid.
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Did you read or think about the comment you are responding to? It's a battery technology company. This is their first product.
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There are so many things you've overlooked... This will be an interesting experiment, however I don't think it's a good approach and this decision will likely be reversed. What would help HN is a system for qualitative feedba
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I'd add: 4. Criminalization of drug use and possession. 5. Private funding of politics.
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by crystaln 13y ago
Maybe replacing the moderator hell/slowban system with a feedback system to improve commenter behavior instead of infuriating commenters and scaring away controversial people. I've been banned a few times simply for strongly expre
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by crystaln 13y ago
You're ashamed it took this long for google, but not ashamed you didn't notice you were accessing with ssl?
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Anything that makes a system unusable is downtime... "Technically our site was up, just the database was down..."
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This is like accusing craigslist of causing murder through its dating forum. Any time you rent a place out you face this risk.
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> if you have any clue whatsoever about information theory I think that describes about 0.1% of the population, maybe 10% of whom are interested in using a brain wallet. Brain wallets will appeal far more to the other 99.9% of people, wh
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P(key theft) is rather hard to calculate, given the entire universe is up against you and you have no visibility. There are plenty of ways of avoiding losing a key, or generating pneumonics from secure keys.
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Deterministically generating wallets is just dumb. It's the exact opposite of randomly generating wallets. We spend all this time on making things cryptographically secure and then mess it up by using a tiny subset of the keyspace. Why

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