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by eriksank 13y ago
Who exactly will have the ability to enforce laws against a swarm of decentralized systems? In all practical terms, it does not look like "laws" can take out crypto-currencies at all. Jim Bell shows that the opposite is not true.
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by eriksank 13y ago
At least 50% of my gigs come from London but I don't live in London. I have to give a discount for the fact that I will not be visiting any time soon. But then again, if someone who does live in London feels like partnering up, I am de
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Bitcoin reputation capital marketplaces(github.com)
1 points by eriksank 13y ago|0 comments
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by eriksank 13y ago
I work remotely from Cambodia for companies mostly based in the UK (but also in the US and elsewhere). Lots of startups do not want to hire remotely. I have heard "no" more than once from companies in the Bay Area. However, it has
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by eriksank 13y ago
I live and work from Phnom Penh. Cambodia is much more welcoming than Thailand. I wonder why anybody would actually even consider Thailand? Thai ruk Thai. Thailand for the Thai people. I totally agree. Anybody who isn't Thai should nev
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by eriksank 13y ago
The public-relations fallout concerning their labour practices has become a serious problem for Foxconn. I think that they should voluntarily appoint international-standard labour auditors to vet all their labour practices and to phrase rec
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by eriksank 13y ago
With anonymous crypto-currencies thrown into the fray, the next version of AirBnB -- that is undoubtedly already somewhere in the making -- may be entirely off-limits to this kind local government requests. Anybody can see today already tha
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by eriksank 13y ago
University is not a way to give people jobs. It is a way to prevent people from getting jobs. These universities have a problem now. They were not capable of preventing the poster from getting a job in computing, game platforms and other su
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by eriksank 13y ago
>> Getting a decent "education" is the easiest way to get a job The traditional education system WAS the easiest way to get a job. Nowadays, it is the easiest way NOT to get a job. Step 1: Download the 10 books x 4 (years) =
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by eriksank 13y ago
Well, it is hard but not "incredibly" hard. Not all clients there are bottom feeders, even though the majority probably are. Even then, it still definitely beats being an employee on a fixed salary in most "developed" co
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by eriksank 13y ago
You must be confusing morality with complying with regulations. The one has got nothing to do with the other. It is actually quite the opposite: "And then spoke the creator, the god who freed us out of slavery in Egypt. One. First Law.
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by eriksank 13y ago
Every successful, real-life application required solving at least one really hard problem. This hard problem may only look like 1% of the application, but if it does not get solved, the application would have failed. That 1% requires you to
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by eriksank 13y ago
Computer Science has a solid axiomatic foundation in the lambda calculus. Specific areas have their own foundational framework. For example, the relational algebra is an algebraic structure solidly vested in the Zermelo-Fraenckel set theory
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by eriksank 13y ago
That would be the same like saying that PhD's should not be applying for jobs that require typing, or touching a keyboard in any way. It would be like a fluid mechanics expert applying for a job as a secretary.
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by eriksank 13y ago
What a derogatory term: "code monkey"! Writing, maintaining and managing source code requires quite a bit of talent. It is not a trivial job. It is often also a very difficult job that most outsiders would be incapable of doing, n
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by eriksank 13y ago
Life itself may not go according to plan. Not everybody is a civil servant safely working for an otherwise over-indebted local city council. Other people could get fired from their jobs, the company could have packed their bags and moved to
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by eriksank 13y ago
The check cashers don't offer deposit accounts because ... they are not allowed to.
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by eriksank 13y ago
I wouldn't mind the banks so much if they did not lobby the government all the time to stamp out alternatives to their abysmal service ...
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by eriksank 13y ago
I'd rather pay a well-known, well-understood charge for using the ATM than get charged secretly deeply hidden inside some kind of other fee. The people running these ATM's don't do that for free. How would it be possible that
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by eriksank 13y ago
I think it is actually a good thing that lots of people do not want to use bank accounts. It keeps the alternatives afloat for when I ever need them. Furthermore, I welcome alternatives like bitcoin with open arms. We don't want the ba
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by eriksank 13y ago
Is it even his kid? It could also be the "works" of the new boyfriend ;-)
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by eriksank 13y ago
What if other citizens are prevented from running such business too? Mt Gox almost got shut down because they are competing with the God-given monopoly rights of the banking cartel. The banks do not like to serve the poor but they are also
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Moving a large number of joomla sites to a new server(github.com)
1 points by eriksank 13y ago|0 comments
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by eriksank 13y ago
Home schooling is only a fall-back position. As a parent, I don't mind hiring teachers for particular purposes. But let it be clear that I am the "school". I am the employer. It is my money and these are my kids.
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by eriksank 13y ago
Unfortunately, the mastery of a language has not particularly much to do with using grammatically-correct language constructs, or even a correct accent. In that respect, language is a bit like music, and mastery is much more the ability to
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by eriksank 13y ago
ha :-) It is really a grammatically-correct gotcha ;-) The language construct "who're" looks too much like "whore" and too little like "who are" ;-)
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by eriksank 13y ago
I guess you are right on that point. The apostrophe in "who're" is not enough to steer thoughts away from "professional sexual service provider" ;-)
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by eriksank 13y ago
Node.js is too opinionated about how to do things that it could ever replace anything on the server-side of things, be it PHP, Python, Ruby, Lua, whatever. Their "event-driven, non-blocking I/O" experiment should be entirely optional, and f
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Myscriptbox: chaining the scripting balkans(github.com)
1 points by eriksank 13y ago|0 comments
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by eriksank 14y ago
If you generalize this system, it creates a relatively small class of people allowed to own businesses, unwilling or incapable of hiring all the other ones as staff. If business owners plus their employees plus the regulators themselves con

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