jboggan

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by jboggan 11y ago
It's almost as if we need some sort of . . . vanguard . . . for the proletariat.
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by jboggan 11y ago
"And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all."
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by jboggan 11y ago
I don't think it's that generic. Watch last year's "Nightcrawler" for a really great survey of the city. There aren't so many landmarks portrayed as there are distinct neighborhoods and 'feelscapes'.
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by jboggan 11y ago
I'd wager a decent fraction of their $116m is being held in Bitcoin. If Bitcoin could magically go to mass adoption that would stimulate a price in the range of $10-50k/BTC. Holding a few million $ of Bitcoin now and "doing
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by jboggan 11y ago
Agreed, sadly. And nice username for the topic at hand - mind shooting me an email? This is a topic near and dear to my heart. One time I had worked for about a year on some non-trivial enumerative calculations of pathways and flow patter
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by jboggan 11y ago
I studied graph theory heavily in undergrad, started working in a genetics lab, and spent ~7 years in a bioinformatics PhD program focusing on biological networks. Barabasi was, at one time, the brightest contemporary star in my scientific
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by jboggan 11y ago
I said nets, not grosses. She has two places rented out 10-20 days a month and the total revenue pays for all three rents plus about a grand left over. She lives in whichever apartment seems to get the least interest on AirBnB and occasio
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by jboggan 11y ago
As a Santa Monican I am glad that life and governance are not reduced to the maximization of an objective value function.
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by jboggan 11y ago
There's a lot of this going on because the incentive has been so strong, the arbitrage so great, and the penalties so rare. I think the city is striking an excellent balance with this vote.
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by jboggan 11y ago
Watch this kid's YouTube channel - you don't need anything as fancy as a 3D printer or even a lathe. Basic welding or even just sawing off pipes gets you a lot. Here's a handgun he made at home: https://www.youtu
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by jboggan 11y ago
As a Santa Monica resident, I think this is great. Santa Monica has, by some indices, the most expensive hotel rooms in the state. This has driven a huge demand for short rentals near the beach. I have no access to numbers but my personal a
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by jboggan 11y ago
Fascinating, thank you.
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by jboggan 11y ago
What is the rationale for storing monetary values in this sort of system? Not being snarky, just legitimately curious what scale of service could possibly necessitate that and what solutions didn't work beforehand.
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by jboggan 12y ago
Standing desk and a good standing mat help. Slacklining and weightlifting (squats, deadlifts, "closed-chain exercises", etc.) really help.
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by jboggan 12y ago
If anything the selection and frequency of acts seems to have dropped off since the service launched in LA. I was extremely excited at first, but there just weren't enough shows in my musical range. I think if I were more into EDM&#x
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by jboggan 12y ago
I used it from the week they rolled it out in Los Angeles and have cancelled it already. I just don't see it working. A few other friends of mine signed up as well and have all cancelled by this point. I ended up going to one show a
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by jboggan 12y ago
Atlanta native here, I want to support this view. I'm very happy to have moved to Silicon Beach (Santa Monica) because I finally know what it feels like to not want a concealed firearm on me all the time. From a statistical point of
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by jboggan 12y ago
Ethanol cannot go away fast enough for my liking. Economic issues aside, it is hell on motorcycles. Many modern bikes use lightweight polymer fuel tanks which turn out to deform and leak after long term exposure to high ethanol gas, espec
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by jboggan 12y ago
Generally speaking when you have to decide between rent and hosting costs you're past done. Luckily you have skills! Go work for "The Man" in whatever capacity that is for you; spend a year or two shoring up your finances.
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by jboggan 12y ago
John Donne. "The Anagram" is probably one of the cleverest poems ever written; I have never seen such an elaborate put-down in any form. http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?18947...
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by jboggan 12y ago
Dave Taylor, whom the article calls the "spackle coder" is a really brilliant and interesting guy. He was my roommate for awhile and I heard some fascinating stories (he did the sound engine for Quake which involved a lot of time
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List of unsolved problems in mathematics(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jboggan 12y ago
Yik Yak in any airport during Thanksgiving break is hilarious, hands down. I did delete it though because I got tired of the overzealous moderation.
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by jboggan 12y ago
I spent 2014 trying to get a Bitcoin derivatives exchange off the ground and had a lot of intimate conversations about business models with large players, I am not speculating here. Consider that Bitcoin has return characteristics that are
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by jboggan 12y ago
I understand the perspective that more guns correlates positively with more deaths, therefore this use of 3d printing technology is a bad thing. However, consider historical contexts where a minority group has been incrementally and system
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by jboggan 12y ago
That is a very helpful clarification - I was aware of this tax exemption but didn't realize that Wilson was jumping through the hoops to obtain one. That's something that would be rather germane to the article, especially dramati
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by jboggan 12y ago
I really want more clarification on the first paragraph. From the author's awkward lingo ("safety key") I get the impression that they do not grasp the technical or legal differences between a semi-automatic AR-15 clone and
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by jboggan 12y ago
What percentage of that funding is just buying and holding Bitcoins? Many of these large rounds have that business model baked into the amount they raise. There's much more profit to be had from buying at current prices and selling a
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by jboggan 12y ago
No, that's not a very nice thing to say. Everyone can get a little obsessed over their projects or ideas from time to time. There's no karmic penalty for being wrong about a unsolved mystery nor should there be.
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by jboggan 12y ago
Quite possibly: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/there-life-ceres-dwarf-...

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