dopamean

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by dopamean 9y ago
I have a friend who just quit his job on Friday to join a company that just laid off 2/3 of their staff to do a blockchain project. The company currently does nothing related to the blockchain and they do not have an idea for a product
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by dopamean 9y ago
It takes a weapon to kill someone from 30+ feet away.
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by dopamean 9y ago
I will never, ever be able to accept that it is ok for the police to shoot a person who they do not see carrying a weapon. There is no circumstance in which you can say you feared for your life if you did not see a weapon. And if you legiti
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by dopamean 9y ago
You're totally right, however, things get really difficult when the police are barking difficult to follow orders at you. Just watch the Daniel Shaver video. The guy tried his best to comply and then was murdered for no reason.
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by dopamean 9y ago
You're absolutely right. The difference is that we are a more violent society. Violence is something we value here. Just look at entertainment for children. You're way more likely to find parents more amenable to letting their chi
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by dopamean 9y ago
How do companies like Ticketmaster handle this? They sell tons of tickets but their revenue comes from the service charges right?
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by dopamean 9y ago
Money did speak... 90 years ago when interested (and wealthy) parties saw to it that weed be made illegal. It has been banned ever since and so there hasn't been almost any opportunity for the money in the marijuana business to do any
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by dopamean 9y ago
And are hardly solely responsible for the opioid crisis as StreamBright suggests. Of course government could have done something to avoid this, however, they'd likely be criticized for putting forth regulations that stifle innovation
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by dopamean 9y ago
Are there any assistants that aren't connected to the web? Or at least aren't by default. Here are some things I'd love to be able to do that don't need the web. Set a timer Set a reminder for something in X mi
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by dopamean 9y ago
My one off comment doesn't really do justice to how I actually feel about the issue. I'll explain. No one should feel obliged to work for less than what they're worth. This is something my wife and I talk about lot actually.
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by dopamean 9y ago
I love this idea that asking people to not become filthy rich off of needed services is somehow equivalent to enslavement.
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by dopamean 9y ago
I'm aware of that. I prefer the *ect methods only because they've always seemed to be more popular amongst Rubyists.
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by dopamean 9y ago
If I'm writing ruby I'd prefer Array#select for this task.
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by dopamean 9y ago
> "Investigating - All buys and sells have been temporarily disabled. We are working on a fix and apologize for any inconvenience," Coinbase said on its status website at 11:11 a.m., ET. What exactly is broken that needs to be
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by dopamean 9y ago
I think a combination of it being pre 9/11, me being 15, and expensive lawyers helped things along. I was arrested in February of 2001 and it was done by my birthday in September.
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by dopamean 9y ago
I received an offer from the FBI in 2003 for something I did in 2001. I was similarly distrustful even though I had already been caught and punished. It was the most surreal and frankly unnerving experience.
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by dopamean 9y ago
I supposed I was thinking of trade associations (like the NFL) when I said not all non-profits are charities. Now that I say that though I wonder if there is a legal difference between the terms "non-profit" and "not for prof
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by dopamean 9y ago
More importantly it also doesn't mean "charity" which I often see it equated to.
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by dopamean 9y ago
> "if kids have fewer toys, their individual sessions with each toy will be longer" I must be missing something. Isn't this obvious? One hour of play time / 16 toys is less time per toy then one hour of play time &#x2
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by dopamean 9y ago
This sounds impossible. And I don't mean "really hard and will take a long time" impossible but "actually this literally cannot be done" impossible.
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by dopamean 9y ago
Move to Jamaica to be closer to my family. Write code for small businesses there who need it badly but cant afford it.
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by dopamean 9y ago
Surely whatever strategy you discover (assuming there is even one to be discovered) would stop working as soon as lots of people started using it.
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by dopamean 9y ago
Is there a name for this type of "guilty by association" algorithm?
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by dopamean 9y ago
Not in this context. We're talking about the IRS. An American agency.
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by dopamean 9y ago
Other commenters speculate that there is a technical reason why YouTube doesn't allow content producers to choose their monetization categories but I bet it's more likely to be a business reason. I'm sure it would be technica
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by dopamean 9y ago
I'm 32 and recently married. I also have two large dogs. SF is completely out of the question for me. If I was younger and unmarried or had a working spouse I'd be more interested in trying it out purely for the experience of bein
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by dopamean 9y ago
I live in Austin. I think my career will be fine here.
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by dopamean 9y ago
These numbers reinforce what I think anytime someone suggests I move to California to "further my career." Fuck that.
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by dopamean 9y ago
This was a great read. Thanks for sharing it. Levine is a super talented writer.
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by dopamean 9y ago
What is the justification for saying that new shares are worth more than existing ones?

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