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by ellius 8y ago
I see what you mean but that's sort of what I meant by doing it linearly at a topic level. Absolutely, you don't want to start with the end of World War 2 and then move backwards to its causes. But I think it's entirely feasi
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by ellius 8y ago
I think it might actually work. In teaching "history," you are always picking an essentially arbitrary starting point. I think you could easily start with something like nuclear negotations between the Soviet Union and the USA, th
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by ellius 8y ago
I think the problem is that "code" straddles this very thin line between technology and operations. The value of technology is that you can solve a problem and perform it more effectively essentially indefinitely. Operations are m
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by ellius 8y ago
This was a really funny experience for me as a self-taught guy going in the other direction. I started with Node in my spare time, and when I finally got a professional coding job my first project involved Java and Maven. I was kind of drea
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by ellius 8y ago
Speaking only for myself, I use a normal power cord. I would kill for a battery. I've forgotten the cord once or twice while traveling and after a day or two without it I feel miserable.
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by ellius 8y ago
I'm going to respond even though not OP, because I had this same mindset for a long time. A while ago I was posting on one of the "how do I learn math as an adult" threads that inevitably pop up here, and I got an absolutely
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by ellius 8y ago
They're supposed to ask both actually per AML laws. Which may be completely overbearing but are not within their control.
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by ellius 8y ago
US AML laws are already contradictory in and of themselves. The problem is that they serve two contradictory goals. From a sanctions and geopolitical perspective, Washington wants to shut bad actors out of the US banking system, which means
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by ellius 8y ago
Sure, but those aren't the only two options. You can just pass normal laws. They don't have to be amendments. That's also difficult, though, due to the extreme partisanship in our political environment, but it's theoreti
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by ellius 8y ago
You already hit this point but: the Constitution, and especially the Bill of Rights, is about defining a legal structure of government. We can all agree that privacy is a "universal right," but neither history nor legal precedent
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by ellius 8y ago
I'm sure Ajit Pai will get right on it.
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by ellius 9y ago
Clearly no one is reading the Senate reports or any of the other factual detail pertaining to Backpage's conduct. They were very obviously doing everything in their power to continue advertising children. They hired staff and trained t
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by ellius 9y ago
I am notoriously absentminded. I would constantly forget my lunch, leave the lights on, whatever. Since writing down checklists for my morning and evening routines, I don’t miss anything. The fact is that we’re human beings. As the book “Ge
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by ellius 9y ago
Is there a reason you couldn’t build that without resorting to a cryptocurrency? Couldn’t you build central clearing backed by reserves of fiat currencies? It could be built on a blockchain, but I’m not sure why a cryptocurrency needs to be
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by ellius 9y ago
It does. Another alternative is that nation states “impart” some of their fiat value because they will potentially subsidize some speculative activity if the whole thing implodes via consumer protections or whatever. The thing that is inter
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by ellius 9y ago
People from literally every social circle I have—friends, coworkers, family—are talking about crypto currency. Not one of them has made a compelling case as to its value. I tend to like the Matt Levine take: maybe cryptocurrency really IS g
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by ellius 9y ago
“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws [actions] are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it
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by ellius 9y ago
Additionally, it is governed by the structures of code. Technical tools like programs operate in very precise deterministic fashions which do not map cleanly to the world of human contracts and other agreements. So it’s sort of a tough prob
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by ellius 9y ago
I actually think you could pretty easily fill 24 hours with talk about policy if you had the funding and willpower to do so. The question is whether a market exists for that, or whether you can create one. I’d love to see any television sta
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by ellius 9y ago
I don’t disagree with you, but I think the human mind is essentially programmed to seek first causes. Part of what has made us so successful as a species is that we want to chase patterns down to their foundations, and I think it’s natural
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by ellius 9y ago
Definitely a valid objection. Social media is much easier to consume in small bites. It’s pretty much designed with that in mind. Still, you can learn to read that way, and while it may not be as valuable as reading in long sessions, you ca
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by ellius 9y ago
Anecdotally, I don’t think this is true. I was married just before Tinder became a thing, but I have several friends in their mid-to-late twenties who did and still do use it. I know three people who used it to meet their future wives, all
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by ellius 9y ago
I’m surprised there has been so much less response to this comment than so many of the others. It’s very plausible that the root causes of widespread depression and a widespread decrease in sex are related. I’m not sure you can easily pull
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by ellius 9y ago
It’s really a question of intent. One of my favorite observations was a comment made by Day9 (a pro Starcraft commentator) on the topic of strategy. He said that, when he was younger, he used to think that strategy was just “whoever had the
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by ellius 9y ago
This is actually an everyday way of expressing a scientifically observed fact. Studies of highly intelligent people suggest that they have a “rage to learn”: they greedily and even obsessively search out new information.
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by ellius 9y ago
Matt Levine has some amusing commentary about how crypto currency is going to rapidly reenact the entire history of the evolution of the modern financial system.
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by ellius 9y ago
Recognizing that people are unique does not immediately equate to solipsism. That would be like me saying that recognizing any kind of commonality immediately implies collectivism.
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by ellius 9y ago
I think ultimately we’re going to go back and forth about an unanswerable question: what fulfills people? You can’t answer it for anyone else. One artist will need the audience as a foil; another will be perfectly happy to toil away in obsc
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by ellius 9y ago
I think maybe the only way to be a good artist though is to explore the things that resonate with you. If rap-funk-metal-folk-electro-bluegrass speaks to your soul, and creating that music fulfills you, then who’s to say exploring those gen
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by ellius 9y ago
One rationale would be that a person believes they cannot time the market correctly.

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