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by epicgiga 7y ago
Has anybody here ever actually met a human being who has used cryptocurrency in a way other than: (a) speculating (including trying to hype and pump "blockchain technology" on every discussion corner of the internet), or (b) buyin
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Place in the world doesn't affect margin (%) -- if you work in London you'll make more than in Lahore, but your landlord is making the same "more" in turn. The goal isn't to live comfortably, it's to live minim
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by epicgiga 7y ago
I have a similar story from an old acquaintance. He used to work in finance, quit his job in his late 20s, and went to work moving stuff around a warehouse in the outback during the mining boom. He did this for two years. He said he absolut
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by epicgiga 7y ago
I kind of want to shop at Costco now. Yet another example of how just being a good company gets you free advertising. I basically just consumed a 10 minute ad, and enjoyed it, and now want to go buy a pallet of something from people who I
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by epicgiga 7y ago
I like dead simple solutions like this; in general when people reach for new tools or abstractions they swing further away from greatest productivity, not closer. But sometimes it's weak. I once had a junior dev who logged his time in
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by epicgiga 7y ago
That's not a benefit. "Entering the legal system" is just as often someone suing you (including BS reasons like in the OP) as it is suing someone else, and if you can't "enter the legal system" because you kno
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by epicgiga 7y ago
This. This and this alone.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Awesome comment feed. Specific to CSS, Chris Coyier's stuff is good https://css-tricks.com/author/chriscoyier/ Fairly sure he's solo enough and blogger enough to count.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
The root cause of this is the "American rule" of costs. It's no where near as viable to troll when you have to pay their costs when you lose (especially given that frequently the plaintiffs are lawyers themselves, so aren&#x2
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Alright, but at the same time, HN is letting through fundamentally political articles, such as the "How ‘big law’ makes big money" one, which isn't even tangentially related to tech. When HN does so, and concurrently says tha
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by epicgiga 7y ago
This is caused simply and merely by the absurd infringement of freedom of association that prevails nowadays. The fact is, you're never ever ever going to stop racists and sexists from not hiring people outside their race and sex becau
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by epicgiga 7y ago
First, what is that pilot gym paying you, and what does the competition charge? If this is a freemium play, research the percentage of apps that make money. It's currently basically none. In the heyday, a lot of people made money in ap
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Quite impressive, I didn't know I was reading a Marxist gripe until half way through. Started out interesting before its agenda was revealed.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
I'd go further, and say that at this point, college is a self serving regime that needs to be overthrown. I've no problem with dedicated medical schools and law schools etc, but there's something about the university system t
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Would be nice if all those news sites with "you've read n articles, subscribe to read more" popups could return 402. Then I could have my browser automatically disable js for them and reload.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
This is a great intermediate step.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
In the context of docs/"runbooks", my point is you're not saving anything by doing that instead of scripting. You're going to pay for it in the long run when the docs quickly drift out of date and then people stop t
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Runbooks are more of an anti-pattern than anything. A list of commands you should run to accomplish X -> that's a script. Or it should be. If accomplishing a task takes more than a single step, it means there's insufficient aut
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Where there's memes there's facts. (smoke -> fire) The Clintons were "never bribed", for instance, they were just getting paid millions of dollars in "speaking fees". You don't need to swap briefcases a
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by epicgiga 7y ago
This isn't that unexpected. The EU has tended to this kind of thing for a long time now, overriding its opinions of how things should be "standardised" over the top of liberty. Makes sense if you think about it: given its nat
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by epicgiga 7y ago
I've more faith in the bat origin theory than the others so far. Don't know if the science is solid, but given how riddled bats are with all kinds of nasty stuff, you probably don't want to be eating that unless you're p
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Accurate, but fundamentally it is a type of laziness. Changing your worldview takes a serious amount of effort. Most people don't use their new years resolution one year gym memberships after the second week of January -- and rewiring
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by epicgiga 7y ago
You will go far, sir.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Nope, once you have revenue you can maneuver into fresh territory. One step at a time.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
I did both. You just have to finish reading before you start typing. See, did both again!
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Let's remove them from one 3d engine first, and see how it goes.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
That company not "playing ball" (doing its own thing) is the whole reason the industry exists. The Little Red Hen obviously isn't taught enough over there. Parasites and busybodies.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Nope, none of that is important. That list should have one item: relevance. Most teachers are busyworkers. They teach X or Y for arbitrary reasons, under the false ideology of "all education is good". They stunt the lives of their
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Standardizing (controlling) by fiat tech they didn't make, with no real need or justification. Just for the sake of the flex, being busybodies, and pretending they're important and "the boss of you". Sooner that rabble g
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by epicgiga 7y ago
It's worth noting quite how vigorously you have to apply this concept. My first business attempt _did_ factor in market demand, but didn't consider the depth or capacity to pay ("nice to have" vs "take my money&quot

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