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by gyom 12y ago
I've never considered this, but the history of Wikipedia over the next 100 years might be an insanely valuable source of insight about culture.
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by gyom 12y ago
So if something is providing a service to society by using resources that would otherwise be unused, but government can't tax the service, then it's "bad for the economy" ...
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by gyom 12y ago
> Who knows what other legal obligations he faces - the moment he opens the account, someone else may have immediate notification & right to seize the funds (tax delinquency, child support, etc). Yes, and I would have liked to read a
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by gyom 12y ago
I have not, but that doesn't seem to be the point of the article, unfortunately. The article says that this might be complicated because you might need an address, but then it goes on about how it is some kind of mental state of discon
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by gyom 12y ago
> Would you want to return to that non-homeless life that you failed? You're eating burgers from restaurants from "that life", you're sleeping on a park bench from "that life", you're wearing used tshir
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by gyom 12y ago
It seems to me that having a bank account is barely "joining the system". We're not talking about having a house, paying taxes or working a regular job. We're just talking about having a bank card that can get money at t
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by gyom 12y ago
This article should have made better points about why this is a "dark" side of airbnb. It's vaguely attempting to motivate existing laws and pointing how airbnb does not respect those laws. Since when are we supposed to be au
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by gyom 12y ago
During the transition period between the old media and the new, they'll have the opportunity to transfer everything. We had VHS tapes for our family videos. Now we have them as video compressed with h264. If that format is getting phas
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by gyom 13y ago
I think you've put your finger on something important, but I don't think that it's just a bad thing that leads to an "embarrassing situation for everybody". Opportunities to act differently for one day of the year a
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by gyom 13y ago
It also sounds like a canned response from Stretch who probably uses that to justify why he himself works there.
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by gyom 13y ago
I never imagined that I would one day feel like I'm "downing in my own filth of useless powers of 2".
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by gyom 13y ago
If you play that game with any kind of prior belief about the values that you're about to see, then the theoretical solution is not longer valid. What you're describing with the rock star vs incompetent people scenario is about br
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by gyom 13y ago
I assumed that he meant that the kind of homeworks that you can realistically give students in C++ is going to be restricted to very elementary things that are not very representative of the "real" software that people encounter i
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by gyom 13y ago
I prefer the narrative in which sales on Steam are the popular response to high pricing (and DRM), and where Free To Play is something that bad guys do to exploit people's psychology (tapping into the same mecanics as casino do). You a
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by gyom 13y ago
That summary of the Asimov story is very interesting. Do you have the name of the story if I want to read it ?
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by gyom 13y ago
> So this is a valid contribution to economics in the form of an inadequate dynamic model. With that line of reasoning, don't you feel that anything is a "valid contribution to economics" ?
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by gyom 13y ago
Don't even watch the THRIVE stuff either unless you're fond of Egyptians communicating with extra-terrestrials and that kind of nonsense.
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by gyom 13y ago
Except that, if it was what they wanted, then it's hard to explain the walking character at 3:30 that gets his legs almost trapped in the soft heavy melting snow. There's just no way that you'd get that kind of effect with th
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by gyom 13y ago
The idea is cool. I wish there was a middle ground between 1 snitch for free, and unlimited snitches for $20/month. How many snitches should I get for $1/month, say ?
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by gyom 13y ago
Page 46 reads : "It was not until the last World War that poisonous gases were demonstrated to be an important factor in modern military science." It feels strange to be reading something like that in 2013.
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by gyom 13y ago
I didn't expect this to be illegal, but now that I think about it, it should be illegal-ish. Do you know what's the general principle called, or have a reference ? Something like "hiring without intention of providing work&qu
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by gyom 13y ago
So, in that sense, the accurate claim should be something like "passwords are getting a little bit better, but crackers are improving by waaaaaay more, and that shifts the balance".
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by gyom 13y ago
I read a comment from Richard Garfield in the days of "Revised edition" and he said that one of the flaws of Black Lotus was that there was no deck that could not be made better with the addition of Black Lotus. It's an auto-
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by gyom 13y ago
I thought the article was mostly about "most used" instead of "most powerful", but I admit not having taken the time to understand it well enough. If it's just about "most used", then it's probably be
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by gyom 13y ago
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that they can retrieve dual lands. (disclaimer : I'm not an expert) You could, for example, run a two-color deck with 4 dual lands and 12 fetchlands. You retrieve the dual lands first (if you
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by gyom 13y ago
I don't think he meant about the particular details. To give a minimalist example, you could say that people who enjoy using old cameras (even though they're not as good as modern ones) share something in common with people who en
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by gyom 13y ago
If you can do it virtually through the bank's API, then you might have a better shot than by exchanging pennies manually. Here's a reference. No idea if some particular bank is vulnerable to it, but it's a fun read. http:&#x
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by gyom 13y ago
Would you mind expanding what you wrote in that third paragraph ? All the better if there was a nice youtube video interview with said economist explaining him/herself.
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by gyom 13y ago
I agree that playing to win isn't the right approach to have fun at bowling with new friends. I still find that's it's hard to care about the game (to enjoy your own good moves), and then at the same time not care about who&#
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by gyom 13y ago
The bowling example reminded me of how all the problems about bowling as a group activity. It's rather easy to imagine why these people are on their phones instead of chatting together or cheering for the other players. 1) You are ofte

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