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by doktrin 9y ago
Primer?
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Yes, most notably to work on a microfinance platform. I believed in the social mission and the model's viability. As for the inverse, I've avoided many large tech companies because I felt they broadly lacked a mission. I don'
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by doktrin 9y ago
> But those unable to separate HTTP from Pets.com are the real suckers. Ok. That's a bit contrived but is easy enough to agree with. > I think you do. Are we aggressively agreeing?
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> "The internet will never work because Pets.com is stupid" - would be a perfectly valid position to hold after the dot com bust. No it wouldn't > I guess that's why some people get rich and others sit on their han
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by doktrin 9y ago
> Which said unnamed executive should have known was patently unreasonable to expect to be received and read in time. As others have mentioned, this is Defcon - it's very common for folks (myself included) to go dark while on premis
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by doktrin 9y ago
"Crypto" isn't binary. There's a gold nugget in there somewhere buried under a literal mountain of (occasionally willful) disinformation, flimsy whitepapers and opportunistic ICOs that can best be described as Ponzi sche
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The emperor has no clothes, or at very best is parading around the street in a loincloth made up of cryptocurrency whitepapers.
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From what I understand, that's mostly true. However, describing it as a simple 'tax return' is probably understating the complexity. Like someone else pointed out further down in the thread, a small business owner "is in
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>> The document, which was widely condemned as misogynistic and scientifically inaccurate > Citation needed? Have The Guardian actually read the memo? Maybe I'm being pedantic, but the document was widely condemned as being
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For starters, easy access to one of the largest (and in many cases highest paying) job markets in the world. Secondarily, a high quality fallback in the event of significant geopolitical or environmental changes in ones new host country. In
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by doktrin 9y ago
US worldwide taxation is incredibly obnoxious, but the benefits of keeping a US passport still outweigh the drawbacks for many. That's not guaranteed to last forever, though.
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> An Ethereum based on OCaml has an interesting potential. I see this kind of stuff a lot in the "cryptocurrency" space. When I was reading about Waves, for instance, one proponent unironically proclaimed that "It's b
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Nice to see Sublime performing so well relative to Code and Atom
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I agree. Out of control population growth can of course be spun as an economic opportunity, but it first and foremost feels like a humanitarian disaster waiting to happen. Not only for Africa, but for the world at large. On the bright side,
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by doktrin 9y ago
> Frankly, I have a hard time seeing how anyone over 30 could find this piece compelling. It's founded in a childish self-centered view of the world, a self-indulgent bubble that finally popped for the author, but not until age 30?
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by doktrin 9y ago
This book is at times both brilliant and hilarious. I definitely recommend that anyone curious at least pick it up and read the first few chapters. As a bonus for those with a soft spot for 90's pop punk, it was also the inspiration fo
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by doktrin 9y ago
> In addition, even now, at $3200, the market cap of bitcoin is still only ~50 billion. If you believe it has a good shot of being a superior global reserve currency, then it is still cheap and you should be glad that you can buy it for
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by doktrin 9y ago
Fair. A liquidation race is certainly plausible.
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Why would the market correct itself? What could possibly cause a crash, short of some kind of catastrophic security vulnerability being discovered, or hostile regulation in one of the core markets?
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That's sound advice, but as you said it's easier said than done. Every time I read about BTC, I get sick to my stomach thinking of what could have been. It's very tempting to view money as a possible solution to all of life&#
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by doktrin 9y ago
I worked at another FFRDC, and had a similar experience. MTS-A (the equivalent of 'Principal' at JPL, I assume) was basically reserved for lifers. Likewise, the promotion requirements for engineers was the same for that of researc
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by doktrin 9y ago
There are some things you can only sell to certain customers. All of those things could, in theory, be used for "educational" purposes. I can't legally manufacture & sell anthrax to my neighbor even if he swears on a bibl
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by doktrin 9y ago
> only the U.S Government wasn't a customer Are we going to start pretending the identity of the customer or employer doesn't matter? It's accepted practice for the government to have a monopoly on certain goods & serv
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How are these parallels?
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I went from 15' MBP (2008) to 15' rMBP (2012) to the current gen 15' MBP. I've used the new keyboard for about 3 months, and can unequivocally say it's the worst I've ever used. I now carry an external keyboard
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by doktrin 9y ago
I was issued a new gen MBP at work and have been supremely disappointed. The touch bar is (to me) a useless anti-feature, and am also completely dissatisfied with the new keyboard (reduced tactility across the board, varying tactility from
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by doktrin 9y ago
Probably true for Blackhat, but I think you're way off the mark on Defcon. It's the highest quality conference I've ever attended, bar none.
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Agreed. The middle east tends to get all the press, but IMO we have more blood on our hands in South America. I'm typically of the opinion that the US as global hegemon has been a net-positive for the world, but our history of incompet
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by doktrin 9y ago
> Show HN : my weekend project, a single layer convolutional neural perceptron implementation in Haskell
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by doktrin 9y ago
> Dev Bootcamp was always in that awkward position where it was trying to be one of the "premiere" bootcamps, but never actually made it to tier 1 status. It's always lived in the shadow of Hack Reactor, Fullstack Academy,

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