exelius

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by exelius 13y ago
Likes for the sake of likes are meaningless. The value of the whole Like system is that it gives you some notion of brand reach and adoption. You undermine that with programs specifically designed to drive Likes. Facebook encourages program
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by exelius 13y ago
"Lean in" in my mind is about playing the bullshit political games. Your twenty-something male co-workers? They have the same insecurities and reservations as you do. But the system works better for them because the people at the
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by exelius 13y ago
I love how it's not a problem with Bitcoin, it's a problem with the rest of the world not adapting to use Bitcoin fast enough! So basically, to be able to use Bitcoin, we need to develop a utopian society where the regulators are
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by exelius 13y ago
Yes; but that's largely irrelevant as most people don't have $250k in their bank accounts (and if they do, it's probably in stocks/bonds as opposed to a bank account with a low interest rate). It was just an example, any
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by exelius 13y ago
I agree with all of his points; I've been making them myself for the past few months. Bitcoin is bad specifically because it is unregulated. Regulation of financial markets exists for a reason: the optimal strategy of individuals and i
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by exelius 13y ago
I don't disagree with the author's premise; but Cleveland? If you look at the major technology startup hubs around the US (San Francisco, Austin, Boston, NYC, Pittsburgh) the one common factor is that they have major, world-class
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by exelius 13y ago
I never implied that currencies should be gold-backed (quite the opposite, in fact!) My point in this area is that one of the big features of a modern fiat currency is the ability of the central authority to react to market changes. This le
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by exelius 13y ago
Currency doesn't produce anything. Currency represents production without actually consuming an equal amount of resources to create. In a system like the US, you want your monetary supply to grow at roughly the same rate as economic
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by exelius 13y ago
I'm speaking in pure economic terms. The production inputs to mining Bitcoin have real market value and thus there is an opportunity cost to mining Bitcoin. I'm not arguing that Bitcoin has no value (because obviously it does if p
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by exelius 13y ago
I don't understand how Bitcoin is considered a currency in the slightest. Currencies are generally a mere representation of production, not the output of production itself. Let me explain: If a worker on an assembly line in South Carol
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by exelius 13y ago
A big part of the issue with Bitcoin is that our global economic system is, and for the foreseeable future will continue to be based on fiat currencies issued and controlled by central banks. I see Bitcoin's role in all this as a way t
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by exelius 13y ago
Yeah, but you have to think of the precedent: if 23andme doesn't have to provide proof that their results are accurate, there's nothing stopping me from starting a company that reads the lines on your palm and tells you if you wil
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by exelius 13y ago
I read this entire article, and I'm still not sure what it really said. IMO the author falls into the same trap as most of the media, casting people as "leftist" or "conservative" when most take a liberal position o
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by exelius 13y ago
The "casual gaming" market of today is a lot healthier than the console market of the early 80s. In 1983, the world was enchanted by the potential of video games but the technology just wasn't ready yet. If anything, the grea
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by exelius 13y ago
They won't be. Smartphones will be disrupted by something else. People aren't using PDAs anymore either; they use smartphones. Eventually, something will come along that will make people stop using smartphones. His point is that y
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by exelius 13y ago
There is a use case, but internet hype has gotten everyone wanting to use Mongo when there's no real reason to. Postgres scales nearly as well as Mongo while being a lot more flexible. That said, Mongo has some real benefits for non-re
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by exelius 13y ago
+1 on all the linkbait comments. MongoDB was not a good fit for this project; but there are a great many projects where MongoDB is a great fit. If you were dumb enough to just start using MongoDB (or mySQL, or whatever) without matching it
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by exelius 13y ago
Yeah, this is a cute trick, but flat only works when you design the entire UI around it. I also am not a fan of overriding CSS that isn't expecting to be overridden.