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by jraines 7y ago
In the medium to long term, yes. At least compared to climate change. However, a financial crisis -- let's say of the scale of 2008 but which is unresponsive to government intervention (or said intervention is handcuffed due to geopol
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“The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!” Arthur Jensen, NETWORK (1976)
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I agree with both this & the parent comment. I think the tone & aesthetic of those have been more dominant -- at lot from those in particular setting the tone -- in that span. There are some more uplifting things like The Martian (
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by jraines 7y ago
I’d say bleak and dystopian futures are overrepresented in sci-fi, even when they’re “clean” looking as opposed to grungy cyberpunk. I’m commenting on visual, narrative, sci-fi despite that being slightly off the author’s topic, because I d
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by jraines 7y ago
David Foster Wallace said something about how when elite athletes try to say how they got there, it ends up sounding mostly like clichés, but that it's probably because most clichés became such because they hold some truth[1]. And yeah
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by jraines 7y ago
Not available to the public, so not really in the same category, right?
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by jraines 7y ago
Stylitics | Senior UX Engineer | New York, NY | REMOTE | https://www.stylitics.com Want to join a small, tight, remote team and write ClojureScript, Clojure, and (a bit of) modern JS to build simple & beautiful experiences f
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by jraines 7y ago
Trust that it's accurate and immutable. Which is backed in turn by economic incentives for miners (more accurately -- economic disincentives to trying to cheat). The former is denominated in bitcoin, and so represents the paradox of b
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my response is admittedly whataboutism, but it's worth comparing to say, the dollar. The cheeky answer to "what backs the dollar?" is "guns, missiles, and aircraft carriers" but in reality it's "growth&qu
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by jraines 7y ago
I'm very happy with the liberty/access aspect of it, but it's much more relevant for small transfers. People moving this amount of money already have access, unless they're a drug lord or from a sanctioned country (and
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by jraines 7y ago
I'm probably more favorably inclined to cryptocurrency & bitcoin than 98% of commenters here but this is becoming a rather stale boast. Quoting @jgreco on Twitter: "Why are crypto people so impressed by this? 1) Do they think
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https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?i...
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replace the plug with a lightning port and sell dongles
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It’s a game theory situation in the context of not being acquainted with your neighbors. If you go to them directly and they aren’t receptive, you lose goodwill (or stay at par, at best). If you then call the cops, you lose at lot more good
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by jraines 7y ago
> Florida type of landscape So flat as a pancake and hotter than Hades? :) The Gulf cloudscapes, though, are something to behold.
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by jraines 8y ago
Idle NY tax thought -- it's wild that you have to file a NY return just because the company you work for is based there -- seems weird that other states put up with that (not that it takes revenues away, but seems like it forces an add
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by jraines 8y ago
Definitely - most the incidents I'm referring to were on 10 around Houston (all sorts of vehicles but especially trucks & SUVs) or on 20 heading west away from DFW (big rigs)
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by jraines 8y ago
> I thought tailgating was pretty much a western thing I've driven across country a few times and most of my genuine fear moments on the road came in Texas. In LA you get the sense that some asshole is late for a meeting or took to
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by jraines 8y ago
It has a lot to do with the discussion when the average lifespan of a U.S. male is 79 and people generally vote for Presidents, not VPs. It also has a lot to do with it when the current 72 year old President shows -- at the very least, argu
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by jraines 8y ago
[edit: original parent said "no idea what you mean" - just noting b/c my response only makes sense to that, not b/c offended by it or anything] spoofing identities (or, I guess, making sockpuppet ones) to @-everyone and
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by jraines 8y ago
re: community I hope we move on from Slack as a community hub. It's not about searchability -- it's totally unsuitable for public/open communities. If you've been in there recently you probably know what I mean -- it&#x
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by jraines 8y ago
it's worse in the sense of: imagine you are primarily evaluated on adherence to an unintuitive and complex style guide plus some dumb metric like "lines of code added", and your pay can be withheld temporarily or permanently
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by jraines 8y ago
I can't / won't argue the point in detail for every profession, but would wager from personal observation that what doctors have experienced with EMR systems is immensely worse. There might be some good systems out there but
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True Detective breaks almost all of these, some for the worse, most for the better.
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The architects would likely chafe at this complaint and grumble something about interior designers, client budgets, and clients' mistaking a trend for good design
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by jraines 8y ago
My wife is an architect and the one that resonated most with me -- both on behalf of her (especially given architects' pay), and for me as a founding engineer of a software startup 7 years in: 80. The reasons for their tenacity. Ref
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by jraines 8y ago
Just because it's more likely than not part of their due diligence, and they have the connections to do it. "Hey, before we sign off, call your ex-manager Bob at the SEC and ask Bill from the CFTC at your dinner party tonight if
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by jraines 8y ago
Nowhere in the article does it say never coming back . Meanwhile their portfolio company Circle bought Poloniex, a deal that almost certainly wouldn't have happened without some assurances from friends in high places. This isn't
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by jraines 8y ago
Pretty much. The liquidation "insurance" fund was only 10 btc. On BitMEX (the other big high leverage bucket shop) it's 10k btc. My favorite part of the story is that they reached out to the trader and asked him to reduce h
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by jraines 8y ago
I'll have to defer since you live there, but I'm from South GA and my sisters live on SSI and I'd think September would be hotter than that & October would be nicer (my favorite month in GA overall). Also, if you happen t

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