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by exelius 10y ago
Ah; but the way that mining is incentivized makes mining pools almost required to spread out the risk sufficiently as the amount of discoverable blocks shrink over time. IMO this is the critical flaw in any cryptocurrency. Hell, it's t
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by exelius 10y ago
This is why you keep your CI networks in a private VLAN with proxy servers back to the public Internet. You don't just stick your CI servers on your corporate network -- you park them behind a jump server and proxy back anything you ne
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by exelius 10y ago
All the more reason not to trust cryptocurrencies as a store of value. The 51% flaw is a glaring, fundamental problem with all current cryptocurrencies. We once thought "oh, the risks are low and it would be obvious if anyone did it&qu
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by exelius 10y ago
They shouldn't pay their employees less - that's the point (though they often do because they can). In many cases, executives at non-profits make MORE than their for-profit counterparts simply because there aren't exactly sha
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by exelius 10y ago
Not necessarily; if you donate $40,000 to a charity you work for, and as part of the duties of your job they provide you with a $40,000 car... This situation is surprisingly common; ESPECIALLY with religious charities. John Oliver had a gre
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by exelius 10y ago
I spoke with a CEO of a rather large non-profit hospital system who said, basically, that the only difference between a for-profit company and a non-profit company is that the board of directors of a non-profit have much less oversight to e
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by exelius 10y ago
No; but the most efficient model of a company in an "APIs for everything" world is one that can build their own systems out of bulk APIs provided by various service providers. It gives companies a huge amount of leverage over thei
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by exelius 10y ago
All businesses will eventually become tech businesses once automation starts taking over. This has already happened in warehouse operations.
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by exelius 10y ago
> There are certain goals that are incompatible with accepting funding, such as: operating a lifestyle business, not reporting to anyone, freedom etc. I am not sure what's so difficult to understand about that. Nothing wrong with it
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by exelius 10y ago
Big O is basically that. Big O notation predates computers (late 19th/early 20th century) -- it's simply a notation to signify how a problem scales in complexity in relation to the size of the data set. I would argue that multi-le
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by exelius 10y ago
> This square of N notation falls apart in other cases. Not particularly; since O(n^1/2) is typically used as a catchall for all O(n^x) where 0 < x < 1. The whole idea of Big O notation is that it provides an idea of systemic
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by exelius 10y ago
So it's an ETL library? Useful, but there are dozens (if not hundreds?) of free and commercial libraries, services, etc that do the same thing. Hell, some companies (Teradata, Informatica) have built their entire business on this. Of c
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by exelius 10y ago
Exactly my point. Greed is a false construct.
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by exelius 10y ago
In a capitalist system, you actually have an obligation to get as much of the pie as you can. Fuck being seen as greedy; greed is the entire basis of capitalism. This doesn't mean resorting to illegal / unethical measures; but i
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by exelius 10y ago
> Claiming it is all about taxes and transfers is severely twisting the facts. Look up the difference between the lowest paid workers and CEOs in nordic countries compared to the US. It is a huge difference. But that's likely due to
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by exelius 10y ago
I mean, this only makes sense -- OSes are no longer a core product in the server world; they're just a part of the application stack. The hypervisor / orchestrator is the critical part, and that's Hyper-V in the Microsoft wor
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by exelius 10y ago
I work with major company C-suite guys on a regular basis, and while not everyone is the "4 hours a night" type, they're definitely overrepresented. Keep in mind I don't see this as a positive thing -- I think it'
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by exelius 10y ago
To be fair, the confusion between media and tech has existed for as long as Yahoo has. Marisa didn't bring that with her. IMO her job was just to stop the bleeding to allow Yahoo to divest Alibaba and sell off the rest of the company.
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by exelius 10y ago
In general, people aren't productive working more than 10 hours a day. Unfortunately, some people are -- and those people very often find themselves in executive positions, surrounded by other people with exceptional stamina who wonder
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by exelius 10y ago
There's a certain workaholic personality that excels at executive-level positions. I'm convinced they simply have better genetics than the rest of us -- after 10 or so hours of work, my memory is garbage and I wouldn't feel c
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by exelius 10y ago
wfh works great if your work is mostly heads-down. Remote working sucks for anything creative and almost everything collaborative -- I can't tell you how many 30 minute meetings I have every day that could have been solved with a 5 min
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by exelius 10y ago
Situational leadership :) Adapt your leadership style to the skills and confidence of those you are leading. In a situation where your subordinates are unsure of what to do and they really don't have the skills to do it alone, you have
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by exelius 10y ago
No, it's not just you. Hiring is down across the board; and it is indeed due to poor economic headwinds. Many finance heads are starting to think that all our bailouts in 2007/2008 did were create an asset bubble down the road in
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by exelius 10y ago
The SEI is located like a half-mile from the main part of the campus of the school (it's basically on the campus of University of Pittsburgh). Some of the professors in the CS department might work under SEI grants, but yeah, the SEI i
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by exelius 10y ago
The article is making the point that the proxy wars we've seen are peanuts compared to "real" war. What you're describing is a proxy war situation; which is the current status quo. The future probably looks a lot more li
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by exelius 10y ago
War is coming, but military power is also more asymmetric than ever. The US fared relatively poorly in the skirmish-like proxy wars of the last 50 years, but that's a different type of warfare than another world war would be. The goals
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by exelius 10y ago
> things like webmoney, libertyreserve, etc. Which are trivial to get into if you know what you're doing. And have very few protections for consumers, and the percentage of the population that "know what [they]'re doing&qu
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by exelius 10y ago
While true, no company would offer bitcoin transactions without tracking for fear of asset seizure. Governments still have power in the physical world. So if you want Bitcoin (or any cryptocurrency) to have wide legitimate adoption, you hav
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by exelius 10y ago
Not when "subscription = no ads" is an option. Which it will be, because a lot of consumers prefer not having ads over saving a dollar or two a month.
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by exelius 10y ago
Yeah; but that's just the deal with programmatic. Everyone knows that it's probably 50% garbage, so they just pay 50% less than they otherwise would. It's a game of moving averages and benefit per dollar. Fraudulent impressio

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