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by jxf 5y ago
A nearly perfect description. (That is, barring the few cases where it _is_ legally possible to beat the house, e.g. card-counting in blackjack.)
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by jxf 5y ago
I'm assuming that you don't know many farmers, then. It's not universal, but it's very common that farmers are self-incorporated businesses and that those businesses own the tractors. (In fact, this is usually a wise mov
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by jxf 5y ago
A farmer owning a $250,000 tractor is a very different thing than a pilot owning a $250,000,000 aircraft. I would say that there is a much greater expectation that a farmer should be able to repair their own tractor, for example.
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by jxf 5y ago
In a number of high-value cases, no one spent any money at all, just transaction fees; they traded to themselves to give the appearance of a higher price.
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by jxf 5y ago
Souls are the original NFT.
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by jxf 5y ago
Even a few weeks of "brain fog" would be pretty devastating to my mental health, ability to earn a living, and ability to be an effective parent.
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by jxf 5y ago
What I mean to say is that there's no fundamental reason a similar approach couldn't be employed.
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by jxf 5y ago
Batteries are already standardized. AA, AAA, C, etc.
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by jxf 5y ago
This doesn't look misleading to me. 5,000 events per month is very reasonable for a hobbyist project and the Prototype free tier is pretty generous as things go.
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by jxf 5y ago
I mean, _every_ C-level leader needs direct communication with HR to properly staff their organization. That's why it's a top-level function, not a subcategory of something else.
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by jxf 5y ago
Two remarks: * This feels way too hierarchical for the size -- there's significant distance from many employees and the CEO even at small sizes. * Could not disagree more with putting HR and Ops under the CFO (even in a 50-person compa
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by jxf 5y ago
Then I wish they'd recycled them instead of destroyed them.
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by jxf 5y ago
True enough; edited.
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by jxf 5y ago
They couldn't at least reuse them? Are mining rigs useful for purposes other than mining?
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by jxf 5y ago
I get that the terms of the contest stipulated payout limitations, but $10,000 really seems like chump change for this bug. Bypasses all protecting, executed arbitrary code. That's worth a lot in the right hands.
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by jxf 5y ago
The goal of warp drive is to produce a modified region of spacetime that makes it feasible to travel faster than light. There are an infinitude of different approaches. The authors in this paper find that if you impose specific constraints
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by jxf 5y ago
Such an object would not have meaningful mass and would not leave vortices or a wake, which some of the UFOs do.
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by jxf 5y ago
Ha, got it. Thanks for enlightening me — that helicopter flew right over my head.
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by jxf 5y ago
What is a "helicopter router" (helicopter routing?)? That's the first time I've heard that term and it sounds interesting.
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by jxf 5y ago
Not everyone lives close enough to the people they are friends with to make this a feasible response, and there's still an active pandemic going on.
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by jxf 5y ago
Haven't we all pushed test data to production once in a while?
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by jxf 5y ago
How would you characterize the opposite of (or alternative to) "systematic" thinking?
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by jxf 5y ago
What's an example of an error that's undetectable? I'm a little confused about what that means. If an error produces no observable effect, it doesn't seem like it matters very much, unless I'm missing something.
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by jxf 5y ago
No doubt YC will be furious about this out-of-control cancel culture!
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by jxf 5y ago
The bogus file header was causing them to be interpreted as a different kind of file when opened by the viewer-editor (what we might consider an IDE today). The code wasn't encrypted at all and nothing prevented the author from reading
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by jxf 5y ago
Severe lung obstruction, cases where intubation and tracheotomy are contraindicated, et cetera. It's not super common in the grand scheme of things, but then, neither are tracheotomies.
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by jxf 5y ago
This is worded confusingly. What this means is that you _won't_ contribute any bandwidth, but your (say) Echo is still otherwise an Echo.
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by jxf 5y ago
If you want to disable Sidewalk, here's a quick Tweet I wrote back in November: https://twitter.com/jxxf/status/1332684843331825665?s=19
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by jxf 5y ago
Interestingly, "hello world" _isn't_ the first program or program fragment that gets introduced!
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by jxf 5y ago
I'm not familiar with the Windows version of ProcMon, but judging by the Linux version, that looks like it's primarily replicating the function of `strace` in a CLI GUI. Worth reading Joe Damato's excellent article on strace:

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