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by exelius 9y ago
Yeah, I feel Lain is one of those underrated classics that people really only watched if they were super into anime around 2000-2004. Any later than that and the reaction was kind of "well, duh, of course that's what happens&quo
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by exelius 9y ago
In Evangelion, power represented civilization in various stages of decline. It's post-apocalyptic, so the state of the infrastructure shows you if an area has been abandoned, reclaimed, etc. The Evas (basically giant mecha) have to be
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by exelius 9y ago
Lol... I was going to say this exactly. Evangelion and Lain were pretty popular even in the US around the year 2000, so I imagine they were near ubiquitous in Japan. Both were well-animated and the power lines a symbol that was returned
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by exelius 9y ago
I had been thinking this exact same thing -- streaming music has changed my consumption habits, and I noticed that my musical tastes started trending more and more toward the "muzak" spectrum (simple beats, repetitive melodies, mi
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by exelius 9y ago
GPU memory is so fast that it might actually have some advantages in retrieval time relative to main system memory. But this is speculation that I’m throwing out here in the hopes that someone better informed will correct my wrong answer...
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by exelius 9y ago
Assisted suicide is a different thing. In those cases, people usually have terminal illnesses anyway so death is inevitable. These people have already accepted death in most cases (I believe this is one of the criteria in places that allow
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by exelius 9y ago
The big tragedy with the widespread availability of firearms is suicide. Guns are a quick and easy way to end it all, where if you had to search out a tall building for 5 minutes the suicidal urge would subside. Anyone who has dealt with de
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by exelius 9y ago
About 4.5 years? Bought some on Coinbase when I saw them at SXSW a few years back then promptly forgot about it. Pretty sure I'm gonna be one of the few "casuals" who manages to take any money away from BTC when this is all s
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by exelius 9y ago
It only works that way if you trust Tether and the exchanges. Given how shadowy the big ones are, I'm not sure that's a good idea. It appears this kind of arbitrage is designed to push up the price of BTC -- as long as the price k
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by exelius 9y ago
I realize that, I was separating for effect. :)
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No offense, but you as an outsider are not going to see that. It's selection bias; the people willing to talk to you are going to be more open to outsiders. The people who fear the invasion of the lawless savages are holed up at home.
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by exelius 9y ago
> If this is their job then the entire institution of policing is irredeemably flawed and we ought to scrap it. Our main problem as a society is that half the country believes the above, and the other half believes that the half that isn
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by exelius 9y ago
I find a lot of it is selection bias -- because the police generally interact with criminals, they come to view the whole population as criminal. Do it long enough, you start to get jaded and ask yourself "why do I follow the law when
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by exelius 9y ago
Technically it's SAF-e -- Scaled Agile Framework for (e)nterprise.
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by exelius 9y ago
I've heard anecdotes that this is indeed the case at Uber. Lots of senior engineers / techs are burned out but can't afford to quit without abandoning their options. Many of them don't do any work at all, and Uber is fin
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by exelius 9y ago
Yes I do; and the F500 Cs I know use it for both purposes. There's somewhat of a code of honor between F500-level execs that anything said in private stays private; you need to be able to have frank backchannel conversations without wo
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by exelius 9y ago
Actually, yes. I have seen Fortune 500 C-level execs use this exact behavior. When there is a merger in the works, use of burners and anonymous e-mail accounts are commonplace. Not that it excuses Uber's behavior, but corporate execs d
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by exelius 9y ago
The evidence for BTC being primarily driven money laundering is pretty overwhelming. Look into the correlation between BTC price and tethers if you don't believe me; and just go look at what a tether does and tell me that's not ju
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by exelius 9y ago
While the reasons behind the war and its intended results can certainly be called immoral, I don’t think we can apply the same label to enlisted / conscripted soldiers. Most of those guys didn’t join up to protect slavery but rather th
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by exelius 9y ago
Ok, so who operates localbitcoins? How do we know they’re not just funneling us to a set of local agents that have really high prices? The replacement of “centralized trust” is not “trust anyone”. But I’m still not convinced any decentraliz
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by exelius 9y ago
If I get paid in cash, how do I upload my cash via my mobile phone to buy bitcoin? Or would users need a bank still? Bitcoin (used as a proxy for the block gain/cryptocoin in general) does not remove the need for banks or financial gov
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by exelius 9y ago
Money and power (and the accompanying freedom they bestow upon the holder) have always been their own reward. Even in Communist systems, money was just replaced by "party capital" -- even if you were poor on paper, your power will
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by exelius 9y ago
I was under the impression that there were legitimate, erosion-based reasons for doing this. Basically, by building a gradual, sloped shore it causes waves to break smaller and over a longer distance, reducing shoreline erosion. Sure they d
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by exelius 9y ago
I realize some of this is YMMV, but IAH is one of my least-favorite airports in the US. It was probably one of the worst-designed pre-TSA airports in the US; I know they couldn't have foreseen the uptick in security but adding security
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by exelius 9y ago
They’re the same word describing different things. Many white people are aghast at being accused of doing something racist because it implies that they themselves are racist. It shouldn’t, and it hampers the conversation to imply it does (t
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by exelius 9y ago
Agree with this. My personal way of saying this is "we all do racist things, but very few of us are racist." Very often the most pragmatic choice in a situation also happens to be racist. Just own the racist things you do, and try
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by exelius 9y ago
Honestly, the iPhone is a perfect "counterpoint" if you're looking for one. Dominant in the US, but relatively marginal worldwide.
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by exelius 9y ago
Not artificially low; the idea is to increase liquidity by tying said currencies to semi-liquid ETC/BTC (or whatever). Right now, most post-money valuations are artificially high, which has its own set of problems. These companies are
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by exelius 9y ago
Not disagreeing with you at all; simply pointing out there may be a good reason why Google is more tolerant of brilliant jerks than other places. I do have to say that most "brilliant jerks" don't end up being worth the time
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by exelius 9y ago
That's true if the system continues to work as it does today, yes. But I think the entire model of venture finance is changing towards crypto anyway, making most of these specific points moot. Crypto assets will have different regulati

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