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by ellius 9y ago
Alcohol is a problem exactly insofar as it negatively affects your life. The problem is that, like all drugs—indeed, all vices of any kind—the thing itself is exactly what will convince you that it's not causing problems. If you live a
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by ellius 9y ago
I've read the Senate report they're referencing. It's pretty damning. That said, other commenters here have mentioned some important costs to shutting them down. Spokesmen for nonprofits that combat trafficking have lamented
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by ellius 9y ago
I read whatever interests me until it doesn't interest me any more, and I quit reading things that don't interest me. I don't say that to be flip—it's actually what I do, and it has allowed me to consume an enormous amou
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by ellius 9y ago
I could recommend this for something like bank compliance. We're stuck with Word and have a largely non-technical staff, but could dramatically improve our performance if our documents were version controlled. If I were OP I would look
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by ellius 9y ago
I used Termius app + DigitalOcean droplet with some success. It's not fun but it will get the job done if you know vim or some other command line text editor well.
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by ellius 9y ago
I think Rich Hickey's "Simple Made Easy" is a perfect example. He enumerates an intellectual toolbox and why it's useful. He admits "you may not end up here [using these tools] but there's no reason not to star
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by ellius 9y ago
I do wonder though if you could create a compelling product that would keep the customer from ever knowing they "own" a server. I've thought about a service where I effectively would run one big "load balancer" fron
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by ellius 9y ago
I contacted Kasich in an effort to add Ohio.
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by ellius 9y ago
"Debts that can't be repaid won't be repaid."
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by ellius 9y ago
Same here. I wish I had the degree, but I don't regret the ones I did get (history and economics). I get to use code in a job I enjoy and thrive in, which gives me a leg up on the competition. It has made it difficult to break into fie
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by ellius 9y ago
I hate to dump a laundry list of reading, but these all helped me tremendously: 1. Politics and the English Language (Orwell) 2. The Age of the Essay (Graham). 3. On Writing (Stephen King) 4. On Writing Well (Zinsser) 5. The Elements o
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by ellius 9y ago
The author of "On Writing Well" amusingly makes this point. He was part of a panel with one other presenter who was a sort of "life coach instant fame" type. The life coach talked about how easy it was to let the words f
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by ellius 9y ago
It's been happening more in Bloomberg and the Financial Times too (although, in the case of the latter, I think it's partially attributable to the fact they were bought). It's almost more annoying when the tripe is mixed in w
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by ellius 9y ago
I'd be curious what the HN community thinks of a text editor plugin I've been considering. This wouldn't necessarily solve the problem described, but would mitigate it to some degree I think. The idea is to write code in bloc
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by ellius 9y ago
"3. You can buy things with bitcoin. What can you buy with ETH? If you can't buy anything with a currency, it's not a currency." This is the one that really sticks out to me. What do people need any of this for? I think
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by ellius 9y ago
Thanks, I really appreciate the response. I want to settle into a stack and commit to finally building some things, and I think this is the one I'll go with. I really enjoy some of the Haskell/Idris I'm picking up, but I thin
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by ellius 9y ago
Without bankruptcy protections, what prevents companies from lending out an unlimited sum of money? Countries don't die. You can't send them to debtors' prison. A lender could effectively sell a corrupt or stupid government u
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by ellius 9y ago
Can you explain (as much as you're able) what kind of application you're building with Elixir + Vue? I've been casually picking up both of those and I think it's a stack I'd like to make a lot of use of, so I'm
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by ellius 9y ago
The primary person at NSA who investigated him has stated publicly that it's unlikely to be true, due to the actions taken on his behalf by various individuals who appeared to be making sincere efforts to get him to South America (rath
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by ellius 9y ago
Here's an idea: ongoing bonuses. Money talks. Give managers a pool of money to reward performers as they accomplish things. You can have secondary or committee review for awards, but cut out the endless string of scoring systems and ot
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by ellius 10y ago
I think he made the mistake of ignoring half the connotation of the word. "Barbaric" really implies a combination of two underlying ideas. He's right insofar as the 9-5 is backwards and unsympathetic to human beings, which I
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by ellius 10y ago
I was mulling over a service like this. Was thinking I'd set it up roughly like so: 1. Create Terraform / Ansible scripting to boot up fresh DigitalOcean droplets with OpenVPN and encrypted DNS / pi-hole to strip out ads. 2.
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by ellius 10y ago
I'm not a networking expert, but I do think it would feasible on an open router platform to program such that certain traffic & whitelisted sites do not use VPN (e.g. your gaming traffic) whereas everything else is routed to VPN. C
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by ellius 10y ago
Thank you again. I really appreciate every bit, it all helps.
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by ellius 10y ago
Those ADuni lectures are actually what I know him from. They're excellent, and I very much admire his teaching. The problem I think is either that I went too far in the lectures without attempting the problem sets, or that I simply did
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by ellius 10y ago
I can't thank you enough, this is really great. I've attempted a lot of videos etc. I really enjoy Shai Simonson's stuff, for example. And it helps me think more about things like time &/ complexity, but I've re
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by ellius 10y ago
Yeah my bad, I didn't mean to suggest that their approach makes sense for everyone. I was just trying to support his point that reducing dependence on a single processor can be a beneficial practice.
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by ellius 10y ago
I saw a talk at the MRC conference by the woman who heads up payments for Facebook. They put a bunch of development effort into a tool that allows them to switch providers at will for exactly this reason. It not only gives them security, it
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by ellius 10y ago
Thanks!
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by ellius 10y ago
Agreed. And then you realize these are the guys that handle the world's money. Not exactly a mystery why the financial industry has a culture problem. I almost had a heart attack thinking about it while watching one of my bosses try to

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