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by jxf 6y ago
I think you misunderstood the author's point: time periods aren't explicitly represented as (Date: start, Date: end). Instead they're a set of dates. The time periods are then implied by the set, making "end date before
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by jxf 6y ago
Blockchain contracts definitely do not somehow preclude "evil", for almost any reasonable definition of evil. They preclude forgery and very specific categories of fraud — but beyond that the sky is the limit.
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by jxf 6y ago
> If I have 1 chance in 1,000 to get 10 billion, that is an expected value of 10 million (10b/1000). 50 millions is way better return than the expected value of 10 million. That sort of logic is true if you're starting from sc
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by jxf 6y ago
Courts have ruled that robbery is not necessarily violent. If you walk into a bank and say "Excuse me, could I trouble you for a moment of your time? Please hand me all the money in the safe", that's not violent: no threat is
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by jxf 6y ago
> To put this in context: for imagine the largest, and one of the last remaining independent news site in a country where most of the media is centrally controlled. Criticism of the government in that media is unknown. This site is read
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by jxf 6y ago
Is there a non-paywalled link?
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by jxf 6y ago
I hope you're right, but this is an extremely optimistic view that does not have much historical precedent.
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by jxf 6y ago
> An artist can make an image with a collage of bits of other artists' works, in much the same way that a generative network can make an image out of image elements derived from other artists' works. That's not a good ana
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by jxf 6y ago
> toothpaste burned my tongue What does this mean? Like, you covered your tongue in toothpaste? I'm very curious about what led you to try this — a moment of desperation?
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by jxf 7y ago
In the US you would pay roughly 35% to 40% in taxes. However (in general), expenses incurred in the course of your business would not be taxable. For example, if you earned $150,000 as a contractor, but you incurred $30,000 in expenses then
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by jxf 7y ago
That isn't speculation; it's just a factual statement about how capitalism and a free market works. Prices rise to the level people will bear.
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by jxf 7y ago
You want to build a widget in a factory. The factory consumes 1 MW of power to operate and emits 5 kg per hour of pollutants into the air as a byproduct of widget production. If the work the factory does is outsourced to China, the widgets
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by jxf 7y ago
Cargo is Rust's build tool. You need cargo because you're building it from source.
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by jxf 7y ago
They are similar but they answer different questions. By default, iftop will tell you "this network interface on your machine is talking a lot to ycombinator.com". But you don't necessarily know which processes are doing the
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The Collapse of FairWin's $125M Ponzi Scheme(medium.com)
2 points by jxf 7y ago|0 comments
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by jxf 7y ago
Doesn't that seem like an extremely temporary solution, at best? You can't outrun Nature — our best shot is to slow down fossil fuel emissions, contain the damage we've already done, and reverse what we can.
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by jxf 8y ago
How does one get a tour of Dynamicland? Is it open to visitors and/or is there some way to get invited?
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by jxf 8y ago
Doctors have very little influence on the overall cost of care, especially where drugs are concerned. Do you think that when Mylan raises the price of EpiPens from $50 to $500 that it's a market-based decision, for example? No; that&#x
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by jxf 8y ago
You say that doctors are overpaid. What do you think is a reasonable salary for, say, a cardiac surgeon?
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by jxf 9y ago
It's similar in intention, but "serverless is just `cgi-bin`" misses a lot of nuance. Zerg and cgi-bin are solving different problems and with different implementations. It's extremely difficult, if not impossible in som
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by jxf 9y ago
The minimum payout is subject to various conditions — for example, not being a duplicate. The author did not meet those conditions, and resorted to personal attacks instead of keeping things professional. Uber has many, many problems as a c
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Ask HN: Guide for securing home network with smart devices?
4 points by jxf 9y ago|1 comments
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by jxf 9y ago
> If not ICO, why would I pay the Ethereum network to deploy my contract, develop an app, promote it, and then convince my users that they should pay the network to use my app, too (assuming that I hold 0.0000 of Ether and don't car
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by jxf 9y ago
> Until unions can once again demonstrate openly and conclusively that their primary concern is the welfare of the worker rather than just being another power player jockeying to get their share of the pie, scrapping them would be a ver
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by jxf 9y ago
> Unions annoy me. Working conditions 75 years ago were truly deadly, and unions served a major purpose to humanize the work force. Just because a company isn't literally trying to kill you or introduce hazardous conditions for th
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by jxf 10y ago
They may not be able to. Many cities are subject to state laws about what can and cannot be taxed.
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by jxf 10y ago
That line of thinking seems to miss a lot of the negative externalities [0] of a hypothetical world in which Uber is dominant. Just to take one example, Uber doesn't pay the same taxes as taxi companies. Localities will be losing out c
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by jxf 10y ago
> How do you reconcile the fact that gay sex was a criminal offense with the claim that it wasn't considered abnormal? Just because something is illegal doesn't mean people consider it abnormal. (I agree with you that it feels
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by jxf 10y ago
> How easy is to get a burner phone in US without raising red flags? Trivial. I see them all the time at grocery stores, pharmacies, et cetera.
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by jxf 10y ago
I think this is a neat way of encoding things. But this also has a lot of shortcomings that existing mailing addresses don't have; it's really only useful for identifying a physical spot, which is what a lat/long and geocodin

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