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721.
by flatline 9y ago
Time clocks and drug tests aren't exactly SV inventions. While there are many possible distopian outcomes to a lot of tech, suppression of the working class is hardly a new problem or the fault of SV.
722.
by flatline 9y ago
Think tanks are a little different. It's closer to a professor getting fired for pursuing research that casts a bad light on a corporate donor to the school. What's the most troubling to me is not that this individual was fired, b
723.
by flatline 9y ago
> I spent my career at Microsoft trying to imagine what technology could do, and still I wasn’t prepared for smartphones and social media There is a certain irony in her opening statement regarding Microsoft's lack of vision in thes
724.
by flatline 9y ago
People take the invested money and do things with it. They make products and provide services. Public market speculation provides some secondary benefits such as liquidity - the stock market does not function very well if it generally takes
725.
by flatline 9y ago
I saw people (try to) use it a decade ago. Same result.
726.
by flatline 9y ago
Something in the real world still has to trigger the divorce condition in the contract. By the time all the legal documents of the divorce are finalized I don't see why a written prenup would be inadequate. Besides nobody is going to s
727.
by flatline 9y ago
At some point you have enough money that it doesn't really matter. If you had $20k in Bitcoin you may be tempted just to keep holding. If you had $3mm, who really cares? Sell half or two thirds to diversify if you still believe it has
728.
by flatline 9y ago
I don't think anonymity counts for much in this case. Anyone running this big of an operation has a huge exposure on more fronts than the cryptocurrency end of things.
729.
by flatline 9y ago
It's a perfectly good OS with a bunch of junk installed, whether by Microsoft, a OEM, or both. Working around the crap has been the norm for as long as I can remember.
730.
by flatline 9y ago
Most 11yos don't have access to hard drugs. This significantly lowers the barriers to access for a tech savvy child or teenager, who is not equipped to properly evaluate the various risks in either the transaction or the drug itself. M
731.
by flatline 9y ago
That's certainly one way to do it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnuetbfDLpE&t=1m14s
732.
by flatline 9y ago
Like with all the sciences, the role of the individual has been diminished. Interesting technology may be seeded by some individual genius but it takes a huge number of people coordinating to build something like a self-driving car, a break
733.
by flatline 9y ago
Remember this is for in-table storage, so it makes a certain amount of sense - this saves a byte over UTF-16 with support beyond the BMP. You have a hard limit on the byte size of the table - how do you determine a priori how much storage a
734.
by flatline 9y ago
You can specify encodings on a per-column basis, at least with ISAM tables, so you can have a UTF-8 database with Latin-1 key values. MySQL 5.7 has some functions to aid string wrangling of guids, so you can store and index them as bin(8) a
735.
by flatline 9y ago
Another alternative to avoid guessing is to use randomized 64-bit integer keys. You still risk collisions over sharding/replication, but only if you truly have a lot of data. You potentially lose some index performance but it shouldn&#
736.
by flatline 9y ago
Do you really think le Pen is different in this regard? I mean, look at her dad. It boggled my mind during the US election that people thought the Republicans were not up to all the same dirty tricks just because their emails were not leake
737.
by flatline 9y ago
Yes, that is the problem. It's also what allows you to drag that 20 year old mess forward into the 21st century. It compiles to virtually any platform with a number of compilers. Trade offs...
738.
by flatline 9y ago
There's nothing wrong with modern C++, I think it can give any other language a run for its money in this space. If you are talking about a complete re-write, I don't think you can fairly overlook it. RAII + smart pointers elimina
739.
by flatline 10y ago
The pages are so lacking in info right now that at first glance they appear worse than useless: something that anyone can point to and make any sort of rhetorical conclusion about and have supposed data to back it up. It not only needs the
740.
by flatline 10y ago
I lived there some 20 years ago and it really seemed like a golden time. The conflict in Chiapas was more or less over, and as a foreigner I felt comfortable traveling anywhere in the country with only a US driver's license and a birth
741.
by flatline 10y ago
I understood that the benefit of this to ISPs was to offer targeted, individual marketing. So I doubt they are selling by bloc/demographic, I suspect it's something more like Adwords. User data may be anonymized by name but it doe
742.
by flatline 10y ago
So, on the one hand we can have effective legislation right now over reasonably well-defined privacy concerns. On the other hand, we can work for a decade to introduce regulation over the hard-to-define concept of an ISP monopoly, and then
743.
by flatline 10y ago
I believe it is a crime, both in spirit and on paper. In spirit, you took something that was not yours and not meant for you, and by selling the coins you decreased the value of everyone else's. On paper, let's say that the devel
744.
by flatline 10y ago
As someone who knows a number of programming languages more or less fluently, I found that book to be invaluable when I started working in C++ professionally. It's not a book to teach you programming or any of the General concepts of O
745.
by flatline 10y ago
I think this is an excellent description of where philosophy has gone wrong for me personally. I took a class in high school and found the study of what amounts to history to be rather tedious and fruitless. A close friend was a philosophy
746.
by flatline 10y ago
If you just want to do some sort of programming for a living, you probably don't need a degree to make the switch. It will help you get your foot in the door, but it's going to be an expensive way to go about it. If you have a par
747.
Special English(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by flatline 10y ago|0 comments
748.
by flatline 10y ago
You could argue there is no event per se: it's all just ripples.
749.
by flatline 10y ago
When I was in my late 20s and early 30s I worked all the time - I loved it! At some point though I became disillusioned with work. There was always more of it, and it was primarily for someone else's benefit. If you're working for
750.
by flatline 10y ago
When I studied anthropology in the 90s, it was a widely held belief that genetics could potentially influence personality, intelligence, etc., but there was no conclusive evidence that it actually did so, and quite a few studies suggestin

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