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by jbackus 12y ago
He taught statistics at Stanford for a few years. He also taught startup engineering (CS184) before doing the MOOC.
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by jbackus 12y ago
> too many brains and dollars have been shoveled into resolving what I call ‘anti-problems’ – interests usually centered about food or fashion or ‘social’or gaming A few things come to mind when I hear people say things like this: 1. Thi
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by jbackus 12y ago
How close is this fork to the original source? The folks behind the Open Crypto Audit Project[1] have done a fantastic job auditing the security of Truecrypt and they're now doing the cryptanalysis. While an actively maintained fork i
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by jbackus 12y ago
Dynamic finders in Rails 3.1's ActiveRecord: http://git.io/hdb0QA
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by jbackus 12y ago
This is great. Thank you.
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by jbackus 12y ago
Can we get the source for this extension? It gets access to all website data so there really should be some verifiable source included.
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by jbackus 12y ago
Yes, I'm glad he isn't dismissing them. I'm just saying that it isn't as simple as returning profits to the producer.
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by jbackus 12y ago
> Don’t concert ticket re-sale sites like StubHub encourage and take a cut from scalping? Yes, and I’m not a big fan of them for that reason. If the demand for a band’s ticket is high, they’re the ones that should be making the mark-up,
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by jbackus 13y ago
How funny you find it is mostly a function of how much hair you've pulled out working with systems.
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by jbackus 13y ago
It depends on the drugs. There are a lot of cases of producers selling on these market places. Look at a lot of the marijuana vendors, the vetted LSD vendors, the mushroom vendors, etc. Beyond that, there is violence involved in later st
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by jbackus 13y ago
Yeah didn't really think that through before writing, majority is the wrong word. I didn't mean attacking the border, I just meant that a lot of the violence occurs near the border as most cartels set up shop in locations most ap
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by jbackus 13y ago
Alright. Let's assume the massive difference in quantity of violence is substantial. We're talking 10s of thousands dead via cartel trade vs. 2 alleged attempted hits on the silk road. Even then that was the operator of the marke
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by jbackus 13y ago
Yes, but that is where most of the enforcement is and therefore most of the violence.
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by jbackus 13y ago
You can use digital black markets like the silk road as an analogue for legalization though. Forget how the vendors obtain the drugs for a second and just analyze the differences in distribution and consumption between offline and online d
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by jbackus 13y ago
Do you think it should be illegal to listen to the radio while driving or illegal to manipulate the radio?
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by jbackus 13y ago
>[Coca-Cola does] not solve any real problems huh? Providing value in a market has nothing to do having some direct and profound impact on society. They make drinks people like and are willing to pay for.
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by jbackus 13y ago
They say it every year. They very explicitly state that its to combat impostor syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
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by jbackus 13y ago
Actually there is a proof of work concept. You have to compute a partial hash collision that is proportional to the size of the message you want to send. The reason Bitcoin clients hold the full blockchain is to acheive distribution and so
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by jbackus 13y ago
My co-founder and I ran into a lot of logistical issues when building out a Bitcoin remittance platform. One of the biggest blocking issues was dealing with regulatory compliance and preventing people from committing fraud on the service.
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by jbackus 13y ago
> So, that culture stuff you're speaking of? It's bullshit. Ultimately it's a method of getting you to do the bidding of others. It's not about you at all. No one is looking out for you, and while you may feel like yo
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by jbackus 13y ago
Parsley.js is absolutely fantastic. I've been able to cover 95% of my usual form validation for various websites by just including a few attributes on my form inputs. That is about as elegant as form validation can get in my opinion.
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by jbackus 13y ago
You should make these compatible with Parsley.js: http://parsleyjs.org/documentation.html
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by jbackus 13y ago
http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1053-vpn-toggle/
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by jbackus 13y ago
I use https://hide.io/ and have 0 complaints. I'm always a keystroke away from being in 1 of 10 different countries: http://i.imgur.com/ijUu3y3.png I've also heard great things about http:/
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by jbackus 13y ago
I want to love socrates.io but the fact that it doesn't support Markdown tables is an issue: Socrates.IO Table: http://socrates.io/#YtM088D Working Example: http://bit.ly/JbtMarkdownTable
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by jbackus 13y ago
This should work: #!/bin/bash cmd="$(cut -d ' ' -f 1 <<< "$@" )"; args="$(cut -d ' ' -f 2- <<< "$@" )"; url="http://exp
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by jbackus 13y ago
I initially included a calculation more specific to my life, but with most of my money coming in during the summer and the rest of the year spent in college I had a weird result that I thought might be unhelpful for the average reader. I c
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Cost Analysis: Trubrain Proprietary Nootropic Blend vs. Generic Equivalent(johnback.us)
20 points by jbackus 13y ago|13 comments
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by jbackus 13y ago
Seriously. This article reads like a forced book report.
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by jbackus 13y ago
Over-hauling higher ed is a long term goal that may pitch well in board rooms but is too slow for VC money in the long run. Seeing as they are fairly restricted by VC influence now I think Blackboard is a soft target they could K.O. Fairly

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