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by icambron 13y ago
It's for the same reason that movie distributors don't bypass theaters by selling directly to the public. Originally, it was hard to distribute cars, and car manufacturers didn't want to make the investment to open little ret
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by icambron 13y ago
I agree there's no excuse not to use (and force) HTTPS, but the parent did say: > hash your secret key together along with other data unique to your HTTP request, in particular the headers and the datetime So that isn't a strai
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by icambron 13y ago
Well, all kids are raised by machines, just usually machines called Mom and Dad. The question is whether the machines we could make to replace us as parents are better or worse. It's hard for us now to imagine artificial machines being
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by icambron 13y ago
The first question here is why there's a maximum speed you would like to be going. If you keep accelerating, you'll get there even faster! It's also not inherently unsustainable to make ever increasing amounts of money, becau
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by icambron 13y ago
Later in that sense isn't usually very useful, since if the promise isn't resolved, there's no new information about the state of the system. Where I think promises help is that they allow to express the concept of "do s
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by icambron 13y ago
Focus on selling what, and to whom? Remember, they were selling one-time licenses, not subscriptions, so 95% market share means 95% of users had their product, not that they sold something to 95% of them that year. One of the biggest challe
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by icambron 13y ago
Yup. I actually adore promises, but I don't buy the decoupling argument at all. And the thing I keep seeing about how promises let you decide what to do with the data after you make the call as opposed to before seems...totally silly,
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by icambron 13y ago
> Changing the boolean evaluation in this case is actually making the mess even worse. I don't see how that's possible. Assuming that using "if x:" is wrong (for some value of wrong) here, this issue only affects peop
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by icambron 13y ago
> I didn't read the whole thing May I suggest you read the whole thing next time? You can certainly disagree with the author's assertion that companies and governments abuse "for your security" to do awful things (or
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by icambron 13y ago
The only thing I don't like here is the way the last name is printed. I'm all for emphasizing first names, but there's something about the way it's printed that make me read it as a title. Like Ahmed is a Balkan at Micro
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by icambron 13y ago
The internet seems so much less sinister when you block ads.
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by icambron 13y ago
I don't really understand. There are plenty of examples of work that discuss films without spoilers. Professional reviewers, especially, excel at this because they are explicitly aware of what parts of the movie will be fascinating to
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by icambron 13y ago
I disagree. Even without plot twists, a movie is often a process of discovery. You explore the character, narration, allusions, themes, and language in the order they're shown in the film. And Moon in particular is such a carefully pac
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by icambron 13y ago
s/bitbucket/bitkeeper
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by icambron 13y ago
> Why not turn over the source code? Other than a reflexive, blind compliance with capricious government demands, why would they? If you want it to be open sourced, it's of course fine to ask for that, but using the government'
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by icambron 13y ago
Er, so we should make transportation worse so that it will be better?
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by icambron 13y ago
Trying to get people not to use the obvious plural is silly, but the insistance on all caps bothers me even more. It's right up there with Yahoo's exclamation mark. The convention is that everyone will call you, usually, by the na
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by icambron 13y ago
I think this is a good change because GOAWAY is simpler, more obvious, and has a tone matching the actual operation. Plus, the har-har pretense that GTFO means "General termination of future operations" is childish. With that out
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by icambron 13y ago
Indeed. There are actually two things to consider here: * The amount of power imbalance. A husband or wife can always get divorced, a staffer can quit (though we shouldn't trivialize this and it's exactly why sexual harassment law
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by icambron 13y ago
That generated more response than I expected. I actually do agree that, on balance, it's somewhat more likely that it's just a benign glitch; I should have said that. What I was really taking issue with is the dismissiveness wit
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by icambron 13y ago
Oh, I like this game. Let's play again: WHICH IS MORE LIKELY?! * The world's largest online retailer that does $54M in sales per day has a bug in its procurement system that randomly transposes tracking codes. ORRRRRRRR! * The i
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by icambron 13y ago
You're right that the legislature can pass any law they want; I was just talking about the executive branch's authority to veto deals directly. I didn't think that--at least in the US--there were instances in which Congress h
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by icambron 13y ago
Very interesting; I hadn't known that. After looking it up, I stand corrected. Thanks!
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by icambron 13y ago
He was also breaking the law.
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by icambron 13y ago
I'm guessing there are some national security rules too (and possibly some other specific rules), but the point is that they can't just say, "we don't like China so they can't buy our companies". The government
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by icambron 13y ago
The US government can't reject them for "we don't like that country" reasons, because that's outside of the scope of its regulatory powers. Regulatory approval of acquisitions is based on competition considerations,
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by icambron 13y ago
Is there an index fund I can buy that tracks (probably just non-BTC) crypto currencies by market share? In other words, I'd like to own a basket of crypto currencies that reflects the market's weighting.
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by icambron 13y ago
I don't think that's the right way to look at it. The VC money you spent is a sunk cost; it's part of the past and the only question is how to make the most of its assets. That VCs are no longer interested in the business mak
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by icambron 13y ago
You're right. That should say "because professors are incapable of handling its consequences". I think the point stands, though.
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by icambron 13y ago
Freedom of expression and freedom of speech are synonymous, but I think the former is a clearer phrase. Freedom of expression is generally never absolute (e.g. the US has libel and incitement laws ruled consistent with the Constitution), bu

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