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by gr3yh47 9y ago
>This may change in the future, but the current reality is no better than a 1-to-1 transformation of fossil fuel into biofuel. I was with you until this. a brief thought experiement makes it seem impossible that it would be 1 to 1, but r
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
early on bitcoin was, for a long time, regularly crashing to ~50% then rising to ~200% 2 - 10 - 5 - 20 - 10 - 40 - 25 - 100 - 50 when it crashed to 50 from 100 in 2013? 2012? i really wanted to buy 10 of them as i had observed the pattern f
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
there's a parachute
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
no doubt the Takahashi brothers are mourning this one
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
>Simple, they have hit a price range that the average person feels they can spend and not feel to bad about wasting money later if it sits on the shelf. I would add... 'and the vast majority of americans dont understand why they sho
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
i disagree with the author's logic here - yes any individual result is disconnected, yes the gambler's fallacy is wrong, but if we simply expand it to say, a 100 sided die landing on 1, 92 times in a row, then we can see the flaw
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
It's not impossible to stop most though. and Hacks like sony, equifax, linkedin and many others are the result of what should be criminal negligence. I.e. not encrypting sensitive personally-identifiable information. instead of inves
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
Digital security is long dead so just dont use smart- anything if you aren't ok with it being pwned
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
I'd argue that the exonomic value is in the opposite direction. is the salary of a graduate higher than those of someone without a degree who has been in their career 4-5 years already? plus the huge cost of uni weighed against the 4-5
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
I'd be happy to elaborate. Only speaking from my experience in the US but many CS or IS graduates do not have the real world knowledge to excel in a job squarely in their field. They learn 90% of what they actually need on the job. My
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
ahh i see the lack of clarity - i was referring to cases where the person whose rights were violated was someone clearly guilty of or at least very likely did commit the crime with which they are charged
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
with all the info available about rampant blanket NSA spying/access, and the content of most privacy policies, the basic operating procedure anymore should be to assume that all devices are pwned. if you're cool sprinkling always-
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
It's unfortunate that so often the constitution is defended in cases where there's clear wrongdoing, but I sure hope the fourth is upheld, and law enforcement learns to - and is forced to by court rulings - knock it off with massi
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
>But for most moderately smart people college is the best choice. I just don't think this is true anymore, given the financial burden of modern academic education and the fact that they teach so little useful skills programming is i
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
>Just pay the toll especially when the cost of doing the right thing is higher. i mean look at HSBC - laundered trillions of dollars of mega-organized-crime money. for a decade. 400m dollar fine probably isnt even .01% of what they made
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
Dont confuse 'Hustle' i.e. to run or work energetically with 'Hustler' i.e. slang term for one who swindles (oversimplified, but this is the definition used in the article) with regards to [0] You're using definitio
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
>Plus, we know there is some water on Mars already do we know that? what i'm reading with regards to this article and comments is that now we're back to not having any concrete evidence of this
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
to take your statement a step further than just retail, I'll say that the entire economy is effectively largely dependent on people spending money. Which is why trickle-down economics has been not working at all for at least a few deca
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
it looks like 'the periodic table of US retail jobs growth'
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
all of the news about how the 3-letter agencies operate from the last decade
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
FTA: >It also doesn’t use any kind of network connection, so it’s not broadcasting the stuff it captures anywhere. You can connect to your phone to check what you’ve got. I'd add: and, once connected, undoubtedly upload everything c
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
VR is pretty legit right now. lots of fiddling for the current best experience but totally can blow you away. you can't imagine what it's like - you have to experience it to understand. also... tesla/spacex... and tons of oth
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
> Microsoft want me to buy subscriptions to their cloud services and ideally devices running their OS. Microsoft pretty clearly wants 100% telemetry about everything you do on your computer - to the point where they will explicitly overr
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
because then google can't quietly change the design of future versions to monitor you with more than they can get out of the touch sensor
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
>If someone is sexually assaulted and reports it to Uber and not the police, >that person is a liar. non sequitur
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
theres an irc with 2000 python devs ready for instant feedback. it's like a live chat stackoverflow for python or better. given the python community imo there's no reasons for beginners to shy from libraries. ESPECIALLY python lib
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
Didnt verizon already lose a court case saying they couldnt do throttling and still call it unlimited?
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
this is cool but i had to leave part way through the main video. it gives me anxiety thinking about getting all those parts back together without loosing a screw or messing something up.
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
do you know the name of the movie?
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by gr3yh47 9y ago
its the aggregation and easily searchable format for 2/3 of citizens that makes this REALLY dangerous for identity theft. they were still grossly irresponsible. no consequences will happen though.

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