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by dsjoerg 11y ago
This quote makes me question the rest of the article: "Historically, currencies were always priced against US dollars." Foreign exchange precedes the _existence_ of the US Dollar, so wtf.
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
Holy crikes that is cool!
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
"Oh, that's fine, nobody cares about your name here anyway; we just need your barcode – that's all."
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
You want to read an article for free, they want you to see their article with ads. It's a negotiation, and you are free to say no and just not read the article. I thought it was tastefully done. They even mentioned they were running
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
Disney still not calming the F down
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
Good point! Some reasons: 1) large and international community of players meeting and playing all the time, both in person and online 2) its a game you can play at every age, so your investment in the game pays off over your lifetime 3) al
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
what does python or go have to do with this web page? what does go have to do with making web apps faster?
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
Just installed it... really beautiful and well done. Looking forward to bumping into people unexpectedly!
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
How _much_ better do you expect it would perform with the current-best algos?
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
thanks! sounds nefarious.
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
Have you ever met a five year old?
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
Correct.
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
Same here. Who is this Thomas Baekdal to tell me what I mean what I favorite a tweet?! Maybe that's why he does it, but how does he know about me? I favorite a tweet to tell the tweeter that I liked what they said. I know they'
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
Survivorship bias means that the only objects available for comparison are ones that bias the comparison. For example, the brick buildings from 2,000 years ago were built way better, because look at this brick building still standing that
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
Good points comparing colonizing Mars to colonizing places on Earth such as Antarctica, the Sahara, or the bottom of the oceans.
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
i assume they are thinking that they'd like to expand into new areas, and this was the best way they could think of to do it. do you have a better idea?
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
You haven't quite laid out your argument so I have to guess what it is. When you say "That is not how HTTP works" it suggests that your claim is that anything that HTTP allows is ethically OK to do. However that is clearly a
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
At a high enough frequency, scraping is indistinguishable from a DDoS attack. Do you believe DDoS attacks are OK? How do you draw the line?
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
or by getting a job!
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
TFA addresses that: "The average number of Uber cars in Manhattan’s central business district between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on weekdays is 2,000, Mohrer said in a telephone interview."
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
Are you so confident that this is true for others because you have lots of evidence, or are you just talking about your personal experience?
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
You would probably like Common Good then: http://www.commongood.org/
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AWS is the new IBM
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
While plenty of their articles are useless clickbait, they have earned my respect by also writing a high % of the articles that I find useful and interesting. Searched my gmail to find the last article of theirs I sent around: http:/
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
Agreed, that is interesting. Here's a puff-piece interview, she says the right things and says them well: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201411/lindsay-blakely/how-jessi...
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
"strictly" changes the meaning of the sentence. it suggests that there are "strict" and "not so strict" interpretations of the chess rules, and that if you're not so strict, the move is OK. but promoting
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
"no longer strictly within the bounds of the rules of the game" I take exception to _strictly_... it's just flat out illegal now, no "strictly" about it. I would have been less ticked off if the article had simpl
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
Yes you can blame them for being incorrect. If they don't have a correct and relatively up-to-date figure, they should be clear about that. "Microsoft declined to comment on how many lines of code Windows has now" or &quot
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by dsjoerg 11y ago
EFF claims that "In mid August 2015 the Boston office of the US Department of Homeland Security contacted the Portsmouth and Lebanon Police Departments to warn them, falsely, that Tor's primary use is to aid and abet criminal act
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In case you were wondering, like I was: http://google.com/search?q=what+is+an+isa

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