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by jmcqk6 8y ago
>nobody cares for your search for authenticity, you're expected to show up and work. You are equating being authentic with being irresponsible, and those are not the same things at all.
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>What's defending rational actors from doing the rational thing and squeezing their networks for all the guaranteed real returns of real money they supposedly protect with such brittle defenses? I guess by "Rational Actors&quot
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
>First off you stated Google News, which algorithmically selected these headlines/articles No, I didn't. The OP did. I was just checking out what they asserted without evidence.
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
For the record, here are the current dozen ten Google News headlines: >Missing youth soccer team found alive in Thai cave >Michael Cohen Hints at Cooperating With Federal Investigators. Or Does He? >Suspect accused of stabbing 9 ki
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
You're trying to argue technicalities that most people not only don't understand, but don't care about. The key question is: Did facebook give information about you to other people without your control? You're basically
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
>A lot of the stuff covered can be found in any intro to compilers course. So really, you're surprised that not many people have taken an intro to compilers course?
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
I don't think Buffett was comparing bitcoin to gold. He doesn't like gold investments for the same reason - it's not productive. He's talked about that a lot in the past.
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
Here is how you can state it without ambiguity: Learn how magnesium may relax and improve your sleep
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by jmcqk6 9y ago
There are multiple people who did things wrong here. Sure, you can call out the media companies, but there is no reason to not also criticize fraudsters. There is enough blame to spread around.
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by jmcqk6 9y ago
> It’s a trust machine: it creates trust where there is none. Can you describe to me a situation where blockchain actually does this. Please be as detailed and specific as possible. I keep hearing this claim, but everytime I look into c
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by jmcqk6 9y ago
Especially if you consider the possibility of someone loading state secrets onto the chain. It wouldn't take a state actor to initiate that action, but that state actor could render the chain worthless.
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>> I love this thing > That thing is shit Now everyone feels better!
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by jmcqk6 9y ago
Yes, because there is NO WAY that your personal investments might present a conflict of interest for your work in a company. /s
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It's shocking it doesn't happen more often then.
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Not the person you're replying to. >At least, that's the only way I can imagine someone thinking to themselves "oh, this kid is being beaten up, his stuff is being destroyed or taken from him. The best strategy is clearly
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by jmcqk6 9y ago
>In a word -- decentralization... That is the difference, but what is the value in that? You're making things much more complicated and for what - especially for an in-app currency.
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>This guts any remaining trust I had in npm. Even if I wanted to trust them, they're not even admitting the problem exists; how am I meant to believe they're finally going to fix it? They've stopped even promising to fix t
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by jmcqk6 9y ago
> "Without any feedbacks, a doubling of CO2 (which amounts to a forcing of 3.7 W/m2) would result in 1 °C global warming, which is easy to calculate and is undisputed. We're going to get warmer, to find out how much warmer
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by jmcqk6 9y ago
I think in order to make the claim that climate change isn't happening, you need to be able to explain how a massive change in CO2 and other greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere will not result in warming. There is fundamental data that
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>The value for managers really should not be understated here. Can you expand on that? I've never seen a manager use it well. They use it to generate numbers for their reports for the people they report to, and it doesn't ten
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by jmcqk6 9y ago
>If you think that all these tools and sophistication is bullshit, then that's a different conversation -- but a non-negligible number of smart people think that these integrations worth a lot. If you can point me towards someplace
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>a workflow management system I think this is some kind of natural law: any sufficiently old enterprise system tends towards becoming an ad-hoc, bug-ridden, poorly specified workflow engine.
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by jmcqk6 9y ago
Growth is great, but I've never met a single dev that is excited to use their tools. Management loves their app because they can spit out numbers, and don't care how good or meaningful those number are. Jira is a painful to use,
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by jmcqk6 9y ago
>I'm not saying intelligence is bad, it's obviously valuable, but in certain communities (ahem) there seems to be a blind spot around the relative importance of intelligence in relation to other factors of being human, particul
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by jmcqk6 9y ago
The key value proposition of facebook to me is that it makes those types of connections easier to scale up. Do I really need to call 200 people a month to see what they're up to and how they're doing? It's much better to ha
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by jmcqk6 9y ago
That's an incredibly simplistic view and betrays own biases. For example, point 1 could better be described as "per capita state spending" and that completely annihilates your point. In the same way, for point 2, you would h
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yes
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>Intellectual laziness. They just repeat what they see on reddit or sound-bytes they've heard from others who have no idea what they're talking about. Wow that's incredibly judgemental from someone claiming to be a christi
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>How can someone reject Christianity when they haven't done the due diligence of looking at __primary sources__ for the Christian position? I find it incredibly unsurprising that a christian like yourself would assume you know every
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by jmcqk6 9y ago
Thanks, but I'll pass on that. It's not a topic I find interesting any more. I was just trying to point out that you can continue throwing in more details and complexity, albeit it in a snarky manner. A single comment on hacker n

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