fexl

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451.
by fexl 16y ago
I've heard this argument before: It's OK as long as someone with nothing to offer except a jail cell gets a piece of the action.
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by fexl 16y ago
I'm in the same boat as you, though not in California. I'm at the point where earning more money is not worth the extra time. I prefer to invest that time on enhancing efficiency. That lets me earn the same money with less effort, and th
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by fexl 17y ago
Any decent common law contract should include termination conditions, allowing the participants to escape eternal liability.
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by fexl 17y ago
Yep -- old and true.
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by fexl 17y ago
On the subject of "write anything you like on my server," here is a fun little "Tragedy of the Commons" area for people to play with: https://loom.cc/?function=edit&loc=ba35327dc62909d8383ca... That location is stocked up with a limit
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by fexl 17y ago
This concept of gorging the beast reminds me of something I read in a book called "Being Sovereign": "Individuals tolerate limitations and control, obey mindless bureaucratic nonsense, make a sincere effort to "follow the rules," until they
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by fexl 17y ago
A friend of mine named Robert Hettinga has long championed the concept of "recursive auctions." The first copy of a piece of information is the most valuable. Subsequent copies are less valuable. Eventually the copies lose all novelty an
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by fexl 17y ago
I oppose "public funding" because it means putting people in prison for not paying. This is lazy and unimaginative. I recommend that you account for free riders as a cost of doing business. If you can't find a way to reduce or overcome t
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by fexl 17y ago
I'm rather fond of closed systems, invitation-only, where even basic usage is not free (example https://loom.cc ). These are private goods, quietly laboring in happy obscurity.
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by fexl 17y ago
Although I'm comfortably ensconced in the USA working in my own business, I've done my share of physical work, starting at the age of 14. It could be tiring and nasty but I went home with pride and money. I'm not doing that kind of work n
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by fexl 17y ago
A love the "A" notation, and the definition of "O" in terms of "A". But I'm sorry to say that I don't follow the definition of "o" (little-Oh). Can anyone help me here?
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by fexl 17y ago
Vladimir Putin will lead the investigation: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/10/2869413.htm?se...
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by fexl 17y ago
I suggest you become part of the solution and start hiring people.
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by fexl 17y ago
When I was 14 years old I worked in a grocery store with a deli and butcher shop. How would you deal with that?
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by fexl 17y ago
Correct. Though I would expect that working under exceedingly dangerous conditions would command a very high price.
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by fexl 17y ago
No, people with money can afford to purchase technical and vocational training which poor people cannot. Money is valuable. If money did not confer advantages to its owner, it would not be valuable. Therefore a "level playing field" betwe
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by fexl 17y ago
Problem is there's no middle ground between $0.00 per hour and $7.15 per hour. If you outlaw $0.00 then those opportunities would simply cease to exist for everyone, including poor people working at McDonald's who could swing an internship
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by fexl 17y ago
In our town someone made a business of that, starting a technical and vocational training school many years ago. They're doing quite well trading knowledge and experience for money.
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by fexl 17y ago
Beautiful. I suppose the function signatures would be: peek : int * int^3 -> int pos : int * int^3 -> 3*int^2 poke : int * 3*int^2 -> int^3 The functions would behave like this: peek 2 (98,76,54) = 76 pos
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by fexl 17y ago
Ah, I remember Altair ads in Byte magazine, right next to code listings for "Hunt the Wumpus." <pang>
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by fexl 17y ago
Amazing that I just now learned Ctrl-R after so many years of bash use.
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by fexl 17y ago
On second thought if you use symlinks I'm pretty sure this is atomic: ln -Tfs $dir $symlink Where $dir is the name of a directory and $symlink is the name of a symlink.
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by fexl 17y ago
Right, I'm talking about vim. On Ubuntu, by default, my "vi" is vim. I'm surprised it didn't work for you using vim explicitly. It works for me using versions 7.1.138 and 7.2.245, from fresh installs, by default, with no fancy configurati
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by fexl 17y ago
Vim has this nice feature where you can edit directories as well as files. Just say: vi dir Now you're looking at a directory listing, and you can move down to an entry and press Enter to go there. When you're inside a file, you can
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by fexl 17y ago
Precisely. He did that on purpose, and I remember him saying so at the time. I trusted CACert a long time ago so I forgot all about it. Otherwise I would have posted the http link to avoid the fuss.
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Why the browsers must change their old SSL security (?) model(financialcryptography.com)
13 points by fexl 17y ago|8 comments
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by fexl 17y ago
Right ... "reasonably atomic" I say. Come to think of it, I'm not sure what I'd use in a script for this.
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by fexl 17y ago
I use this technique a lot: mv thing thing.old && mv thing.new thing It works whether the thing is a file or a directory; I have an automatic backup called thing.old; I suppose it's reasonably atomic; and I can do it in ssh w
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by fexl 17y ago
Ah ... that reminds me of my first car, a red 1972 Toyota Celica. That was a great car.
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by fexl 17y ago
Aha, I did this: find ~/.mozilla -name "*duck*" Then I edited duck-duck-go.xml, changing http to https, and restarted Firefox.

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