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by kylebrown 12y ago
Bell invented this too?! Was this before or after the telephone?
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by kylebrown 12y ago
But most pages in Chinese won't be showing all 10k+ glyphs on the same page. Small pages won't have very many characters at all, a few paragraphs would only be a few hundred different characters, so a minimal font file would be on
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by kylebrown 12y ago
I think by "single division of labor" he means that there's one global labor supply which gets stratisfied across countries, "trans-national" labor supply. So some countries have most of their workers performing so-
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by kylebrown 12y ago
It was some time ago, but I really enjoyed Immanuel Wallerstein's books on this, "The Modern World-System" volumes 1-3. He's also maintained, for years, an extensive series of commentaries on current events: http:/
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by kylebrown 12y ago
A search for "paypal mexico" yielded this result on the first page: > I opened a bank account easily with Banco Azteca and they gave a me a debit card. It has been impossible to verify. Paypal says I need the bank to authorize
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by kylebrown 12y ago
> Plus you have to go into the bank fill out a form. Why can't I do this online? Because then it'd be super easy for thieves to empty out your account into some bank in Eastern Europe.
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by kylebrown 12y ago
> And whilst I can work out that that 20 line block in the middle is used to decide which users we need to send emails to if you give me an afternoon and some strong coffee, I would humbly suggest that you stick it inside a def users_to
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by kylebrown 12y ago
> Oh, your markdown-editor looks really shiny... have you since given up working with ometa? That's not me, its somebody else's blog. I only discovered ometa a couple months ago. I'm looking forward to trying it for a proj
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Right, using a mutable structure is the easy way. But is there a way that would maintain the advantages of immutability? (eg memory-efficient and easy undo)
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by kylebrown 12y ago
> Immediately, I discovered that tree structures are more complicated in languages like Clojure that have immutable state. This is because changing a node requires rebuilding large parts of the tree. This must have implications for imp
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Thanks. It looks to me like Egison is focused on pattern matching of data. While OMeta is focused on pattern matching of syntax (so is used to create and extend new languages/DSLs). Is that a fair comparison? How does the Egison online
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by kylebrown 12y ago
This looks super interesting, thanks for including so many demos and docs. I'm pretty new to PL theory, but was recently reading about OMeta - another "language for pattern matching". For example, here's a png parser in
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by kylebrown 12y ago
All "real markets" need suckers, just like a wholesale market needs retailers. Institutions are chasing the consumers, not the other way around.
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Whenever I tried to learn TDD, it only seemed relevant for back-end testing (eg REST APIs). But is there anyone left who is strictly a back-end guy? Most programmers now bill themselves as full-stack app developers, and probably spend at le
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Legal costs would be very high, in any case. Look at Toyota's gas-pedal settlement.
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by kylebrown 12y ago
The problem here is that "trusted" is not intrinsic to the character of some third-party. I might trust someone with $100, but does that mean I would trust them with $1,000,000? The better solution is to not to rely on trust or se
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Some of the bets are not just single games, but the outcome of a whole tournament. And ongoing revenue is only 1%, which relative to the other 99%, won't be so enticing after customer growth has peaked. Eventually, the reward from a &q
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by kylebrown 12y ago
> Moreover, since the funds are held in escrow by the network and not by a specific person or group, your funds can't be stolen or seized by anyone. But who adjudicates the event outcomes? In other words, who is the administrator
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Ah yup, there it is in the basic tutorial, "Intercomponent communication". It is strange that I don't remember noticing that when I skimmed it. I must've been too distracted counting parentheses and trying to wrap my hea
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by kylebrown 12y ago
I'm real curious about the potential interplay between core.async and om/react. Bruce Hauman has a great tutorial on using core.async channels (as opposed to event callbacks) to process user input and gestures.[1] David Nolen (cre
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Of course it was an arguing tactic, it was an attempt to respond to yummyfajitas' race-baiting. If you want to be morally outraged, try reading the comment section of his marginalrevolution link.
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by kylebrown 12y ago
So blacks and whites are genetically inferior to asians? Is that what the data shows from your point of view?
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Yes, its a hypothetical future. Yourkarma.com is a real-world company (centralized, not p2p) of today that is sort of on the same path.
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by kylebrown 12y ago
I read the TorCoin/TorPath paper yesterday, and looked at some of the references including CoinShuffle[1] (a bitcoin mixing protocol) and Dissent[2] (implementation of a DC-net or Dining Cryptographer's net, 2nd great invention by
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by kylebrown 12y ago
I think you are underestimating the size of the market. Seems like there's demand for every flavor of alt-coin: gimmickyCoin, mediocreCoin, memeCoin, yetAnotherCoin, every single one gets 15 minutes or more. Try looking at it from the
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Low-skilled work is a poverty trap that drains people of energy they might otherwise be using to learn more valuable skills. In fact, it's an anecdote not uncommon that more high school graduates are going to college because filling ou
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by kylebrown 12y ago
> "Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abdominal word 'Frisco,' which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor." I suppose he meant abominable?
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by kylebrown 12y ago
> Just look at the recent hike - no news There was a Federal Election Commission (FEC) decision to allow BTC donations to Political Action Committees (PAC's). Also circle.com showed started taking e-mails and showed a demo video.
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by kylebrown 12y ago
You protect yourself by not clicking on executables you don't trust (or running them in a VM). Its not magic, and its better than a false sense of security from anti-virus which is easily bypassed / poisoned (for example, even a c
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Okay, last one. Most concise counter-argument: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack#Theoretical_... Derived from the Landauer limit.

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