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by finnh 9y ago
Well, the original comment that I excerpted from was discussing the flaw in the very idea of smart contracts superseding human-readable agreements (ie, "the code is the law, and anything we say about the code is just so much noise&qu
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by finnh 9y ago
I've posted this before [0], but it's still apropos regarding the foolishness that is Ethereum. [Ethereum] only makes sense if all of the following obtain: (a) the code is 100% bug-free (b/c accidents cannot be rewound) (b) a
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by finnh 9y ago
"both involved in a startup" ... nope. she was applying for a job . If you read only what he said and nothing else, that would still be obvious. ("i don't know whether to hire you or hit on you"). So perhaps you
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by finnh 9y ago
Our star is going to do that in 5 billion years - transform into a red giant & engulf Mercury, Venus, and probably Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#After_core_hydrogen_exhaus...
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by finnh 9y ago
How do you expect the government to know about people who have lots of suspicous cash? That's what the reporting laws are intended to help detect...
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by finnh 9y ago
Yeah, this part was pretty funny too: > By the time this decade rolled around, Node.js and Go had arrived on the scene, highlighting the need for concurrency as a first class concept. Again, no mention of Java? Seems like an odd blind s
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by finnh 9y ago
Wow, I don't agree with that "law" at all. A couple times in my career I've worked for 5+ years in a codebase that I started, and it's always easier to read my old code than to read someone else's. Like, waay
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by finnh 9y ago
re: blockchain differences: I hear that Ethereum is planning to move to proof-of-stake, rather that proof-of-work, but I don't have an opinion on that. There may be other salient differences I'm unaware of. It's the 'sm
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by finnh 9y ago
> Would you pay $5 for 5 minutes and a set of recommendations? You'd probably need more than 5 minutes for the first set of recommendations, right? If they can give you 5 recs in the first 5 minutes of talking to you, then those re
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by finnh 9y ago
Great to see your reply. I only came across your paper a few weeks ago, through fortuitous circumstances: A very smart but non-engineering friend of mine was asking about cryptocurrencies, and - in trying to explain why i think ethereum&#x
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by finnh 9y ago
I doubt many people would pay someone $50/hour to optimize their next $9.99 kindle purchase. The one-on-one approach does not scale. We already have the many-to-many form of this (goodreads, for example).
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by finnh 9y ago
This satiric white paper is really, really worth the read: https://ponzico.win Written by a former cryptocurrency dev who later joined Lyft. Some choice quotes: "Context—and wide margins—are the bedrock of every white paper
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by finnh 9y ago
We can exercise our critical faculties without moralizing.
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by finnh 9y ago
Fujis are also delicious, and very widely available.
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by finnh 9y ago
Good analogy w/r/t scratches in glass ... but if that's a solvable problem for what you want to show (the additive layer), it seems like it should also be a solvable problem for the subtractive layer (?)
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by finnh 9y ago
People say this all time, but I'm unconvinced. Your AR glasses can have two layers: * a transparent-or-black layer, whose only point is to block out the real world when necessary * the actual additive display layer, which either opera
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by finnh 9y ago
We were just talking about this! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14277274
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by finnh 9y ago
By "the shrinking tunnel" do you mean the section where fewer & fewer words appear on each page (and the rest of page is blank)? If so, that's funny - that's one of my favorite parts of the book, and something I refe
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by finnh 9y ago
You are on a discusssion forum. Not a "welp, everyone does what they do for the reasons that they do 'em, let's move on" forum =)
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by finnh 9y ago
That's it! We had been told it was used to nab the Soviet sub, but when I tried to verify that story when writing the above post I only saw pics of the Glomar Explorer, and figured we had been told a tall tale. Glad to see some deeper
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by finnh 9y ago
Stanford Crew rows out of a facility right next to[0] some of these salt ponds. When I rowed there - 20 years ago - there were also huge piles of salt right next door; I think it was/is a staging area for Cargill. These piles were bi
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by finnh 9y ago
No, because even if this account is real, most rich people do not agree with this person. This is one possibly-real person being a bad person. No need to spin that into a theory about class hatred.
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by finnh 9y ago
fetchmail or getmail? I once used a very-slightly customized version of getmail (the Charles Cazabon program) in production to sync customers' GMail accounts into Salesforce.com, and it worked great (continues to work great, AFAIK).
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by finnh 10y ago
The calculated rotational speed of Saturn as a whole, I presume. Per wikipedia, we don't have an exact figure for that: "Astronomers use three different systems for specifying the rotation rate of Saturn. System I has a period of
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by finnh 10y ago
It does - thanks!
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by finnh 10y ago
Not quite what you are asking, but: what colo facilities have max bandwidth to you, and what is my likely MB/s at the top-performing location? S3 can deliver 500 MB/s to a single EC2 node pretty consistently (same region, multiple
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by finnh 10y ago
Interesting. I find composing operators on streams to require holding less in my head than the equivalent non-point-free (ie, iterative / loop-based) code. When reading (eg) nested for loops with conditions, I have to push a ton of
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by finnh 10y ago
Holy crap. Back in the day at Stanford we programmed our real world bots with ... wait for it ... Lisp.
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by finnh 10y ago
Thanks for the reply. I know for some people homeschooling is non-negotiable, so was curious to know your approach. My aunt in Alaska homeschooled her kids, but mostly "because the local school wasn't very good."
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by finnh 10y ago
If she wanted to work, would you stay home to homeschool, or would you stop homeschooling?

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