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by kevinpet 14y ago
What's really awesome about this is that it doesn't appear to be an easter egg. WA simply interprets this unusual question as being a reference to something it knows about.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I'm also appalled that a gaming site would confuse "trolling" and "griefing".
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I'm sure with enough digging around I could find this out for myself, but could someone familiar with things comment on how the performance of these boxes compares to a standard ATI card miner?
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that you are someone I would not want to work with, because while I may disagree with Eich politically, I find your inability to separate the personal and professional spheres much more alarming. I'm not referring to your pe
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I remember something in David Friedman's writing to the effect of how no layman ever argued with him about anything in physics (where he has his degree) but everyone feels qualified to argue with him on economics (what he is professor of).
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I only sign in to Facebook in an incognito browser to minimize their ability to track me. The problem is that I currently use Google for real identity stuff. This seems to imply I'll need to do something like all my web browsing in Firefox,
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I've seen this many other places. They seem to intentionally choose hard-to-calculate multiples. No one ever sets them at 10 or 100 to the dollar.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I talked about shorting bitcoin to moderate the bubble, and I have some idea what I'm talking about. Don't confuse "shorting will stabilize the price" with "it's a good idea to short bitcoin". A shorting mechanism makes it possible for peop
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by kevinpet 14y ago
This is great news if it works out. The ability to short is an important part of moderating a bubble.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
HTTPS is not rigid and costly for a single connection. It's rigid and costly because it prevents simple options for caching like sharing google hosted jquery. You can still use a CDN, but then you have more complexity in managing your certi
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I flagged this article. "Off Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Lessig's geek-relevant copyright background does not magically make his every political opini
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Citation, please.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Wealthfront - full-time frontend and backend engineers Palo Alto, CA (downtown) Wealthfront is blending finance and consumer Internet to help individual investors via an online service. Check out "Wealthfront and the Rise of the Machines"
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by kevinpet 14y ago
No, taking your reasoning as correct, Google would have had a cost of 1.8M workers in 1998 without technology. The fact that this service didn't take off before the technology could support it suggests that it is actually worth less than
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by kevinpet 14y ago
The best he can come up with is "the dividend paperwork will be a hassle"? Can't we at least get people up in arms about adverse selection and lack of information?
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by kevinpet 14y ago
That's a pretty whiny feature request. I read the first few dozen comments, and I don't really know what exactly was being requested. It's clear to me that the right approach is an extension specific to your preferred RSS reader. I understa
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I'm not a patent lawyer, so maybe I'm wrong and someone can correct me, but all this "how can you patent a seed" whining is bullshit. The Monsanto patents are for the method of using a particular herbicide in combination with the modified p
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I'm somewhat surprised that the regulators are not cracking down on these incidents. This is not the first time we've heard of kids being stranded and not getting the chaperone that parents paid for. Refunding the chaperone fee is a bit lik
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I don't think that's true. Financial regulations tend to force you to pull the plug as soon as you can no longer prove that you are solvent. There's a large range between "cannot prove we do" and "can prove we do not".
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by kevinpet 14y ago
That's an overly narrow view. I start with the assumption that Costco has already found the optimum wage to pay their employees. It's a rare business that does well by mistreating their employees. I'm trying to emphasize that this has nothi
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by kevinpet 14y ago
The most utterly evil profit maximizing business would always prefer that the government mandated minimum wage is somewhere near what they pay their lowest paid employees. Sad state of journalism that a group of businesses lobbying for thei
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Poorly written article. No idea what exactly it's trying to say or what the criteria for not "remaining". It looks like it means that only 71 of the 500 in 1955 are still on the Fortune 500. Some dubious data doesn't even support the claims
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Now you're talking about rewriting patent law, not identifying the types of people who may hold patents.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
It took me a few reads to see what you meant. I had taken Beamr to be about optimizing things like which what size blocks to use, how often to put i frames, and so on, which means better perceived quality at some bitrate. If it's always usi
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by kevinpet 14y ago
You could compress something with Beamr first, see what bitrate it spit out, then compress with standard encoder at the same bitrate. This isn't perfect since it's clearly favoring Beamr, but it would be somewhat useful.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Finding the optimum settings for a given video is a valuable product, and this makes the criticism of being just x264 irrelevant, but his quality comparison still seems valid. If Beamr is recompressing something to a lower quality at a give
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I don't like use of the term "crowdfunding" to mean charity drives or group buying. Those already have perfectly good phrases to refer to them. Crowdfunding, that is, initial equity funding of a company by a large number of small shareholde
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I'm of the impression that people who contribute data to Glassdoor are the ones who are looking to change jobs or who want to bitch and moan. In other words, severe downward bias.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I'm always skeptical of arguments that assume massive implicit cartels. "the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business ... because it makes for such a purchase-happy public". Maybe, but if I can really get happier, more productive w
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Right, it's definitely not possible that he considered the arguments unconvincing. He just hasn't taken the time to understand them yet. They are utterly unassailable, and anyone who sees things differently must be willfully ignorant or is

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