genwin

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by genwin 13y ago
I'm not touching bitcoins because I don't want to destroy anyone's retirement.
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by genwin 13y ago
You probably agree that the end justifies the means, but not seeing that because you haven't explored the situations in which it would for you.
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by genwin 13y ago
Their pensions were contracts, which like any contract are subject to change by a bankruptcy court. So it's legal for the gov't to go back on the promise of pension payments. It's not ideal but the money to pay them simply is
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by genwin 13y ago
> Believing that the ends justifies the means (as Mandela did) is very dangerous. Yes, yet disbelieving that is often worse.
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by genwin 13y ago
Likely it means scheduled.
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by genwin 13y ago
The 4th Amendment implies that conversations about anything including the bits to Game of Thrones should be free from snooping, if only when those conversations are encrypted. Law enforcement can get a warrant when they have sufficient evid
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by genwin 13y ago
It's the musical chairs game.
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by genwin 13y ago
The value investor should be mentally prepared to endure further big drops while holding, though.
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by genwin 13y ago
You'll go far, kid! Glad you found someone here who can help you with the back-end.
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by genwin 13y ago
The people in my life who live payday to payday overspend, but don't see it that way. They need an iPhone!
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by genwin 13y ago
$6 an hour using CompuServe, IIRC. Dang I'm old.
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by genwin 13y ago
They'd be apt to hold on to the bitcoins if the CryptoLocker infection is exponential.
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by genwin 13y ago
Does Soylent not contribute to those same problems?
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by genwin 13y ago
Plus, at least one of those products is available a block away from me at the supermarket.
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by genwin 13y ago
Yep. My mom got all her nutrition from Ensure for a couple months after stomach surgery. She lived.
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by genwin 13y ago
The population can be reduced via attrition, allowing everyone currently alive to be deserving of a great life.
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by genwin 13y ago
We're risking mass die-offs and mass migrations on that tech bet, hundreds of millions of people. Why not lessen the risk by focusing on a low-tech approach to reduce the population via birth control?
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by genwin 13y ago
> More people is a good thing A sustainable population is better. There are many indications that the current world population is unsustainable. With the oceans being quickly depleted of fish, for one small example, I doubt that even 2 b
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by genwin 13y ago
Ostracization is warranted only when you are behaving very badly. Being a member of the communist party doesn't by itself imply bad behavior.
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by genwin 13y ago
What's legal is not always constitutional. That's why gov't workers take an oath to bear true allegiance to the Constitution.
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by genwin 13y ago
During South Africa's Apartheid its leadership did lots of things to combat the sanctions other countries placed against the country. Eventually it wasn't worth the effort.
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by genwin 13y ago
Yes it could be difficult to keep your job or maybe even your career. Snowden faced that same decision point.
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by genwin 13y ago
You sever ties with the ones who are close enough to the problem. You don't assign guilt by mere association. What would you do against legal but obviously wrong behavior?
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by genwin 13y ago
Excellent. Ostracizing complicit people is the key to reducing bad behavior. Imagine if you did some real bad but legal thing and then no one would talk to you, not even your family, or even serve you in a restaurant. Others would think twi
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by genwin 13y ago
If the function has less chance of erroring than a hardware failure, why check? I have a function that calls functions that call functions and so on. At the top level function I check if Go has panic()ked; if so I recover() and report the n
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by genwin 13y ago
Less is often more! I prefer the Go Playground over a REPL, especially since I can easily see others' code snippets running using the Playground's Share feature. My 2nd favorite thing about Go (after its runtime speed) is its comp
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by genwin 13y ago
I'm thinking Go has got to eventually eclipse Python in popularity, since the former can do the same work using a fraction of the servers, for about the same coding difficulty.
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by genwin 13y ago
> if that job pays 200k a year with 1m+ option vesting over 3 years... Assuming they can't fire you and leave you with nothing, not even the technology you created.
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by genwin 13y ago
Far from perfect, okay. Blatant misuse of funds, not okay.
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by genwin 13y ago
You were in the right place at the wrong time.

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