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by lectrick 13y ago
Goto considered harmful, indeed!
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by lectrick 13y ago
Elixir, aka "Ruby on Erlang" ;) http://elixir-lang.org/
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by lectrick 13y ago
> Well the accredited investor rules really are there to protect people from getting scammed. This is a line of bullshit. If the law allowed it, you could easily set up a site like LendingClub.com which distributed the risk over many man
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by lectrick 13y ago
Can you provide a link to this data, please?
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by lectrick 13y ago
I don't know if anyone from Irrational Games is watching this, but from an oldish gamer, thank you so much for your creative and entertaining efforts over the years and I wish you all the best in your next adventures.
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by lectrick 13y ago
Not working as of 8:23 AM EST on Chrome
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by lectrick 13y ago
Buy when there's blood in the streets (assuming the fundamentals are still good, which it looks like they are...) http://www.bitcoinpulse.com/
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by lectrick 13y ago
how, exactly?
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by lectrick 13y ago
I think the worry is that instead of "having" to initiate interaction with other humans for the non-boredom you're praising, everyone will just open their cellphone. The above solution at least allows 2 random people to inter
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by lectrick 13y ago
He should have released it as a torrent. The whole damn thing. There are too many motherfucking secrets.
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by lectrick 13y ago
Don't early employees of startups get incentive stock options, which are not forbidden to be derivative-traded on?
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by lectrick 13y ago
There's also lots of money to be made in pivoting/combining your career learned lessons to date and applying them to a different area. For example, you could take all that great knowledge about unit testing you learned in the Ruby
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by lectrick 13y ago
People are vulnerable. And there is a lot of... cruft, attached to sex changes. And not only that, it appears that some family members essentially cut him/her off. So, that's basically a lot of pain all tied up in with the decisio
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by lectrick 13y ago
> The currency doesn't have intrinsic value; That is the #1 criticism of Bitcoin. Which means it's a meaningless criticism.
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by lectrick 13y ago
OK, 1.48BTC/oz ;) > but countless societies have valued it highly I was not commenting on its value history. I was trying to convey that this value is almost entirely subjective, which goes against what one would think "intrins
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by lectrick 13y ago
The best lesson Bitcoin taught me is that the currencies we grew up with are just a shared illusion.
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by lectrick 13y ago
This is the best article/explanation I've found to explain how currencies, which have no value in themselves (like paper dollar bills), have a "fundamental value" based on the trade volume and the rarity (read: lack of c
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by lectrick 13y ago
If your argument is that I'd have to convert bitcoin to dollars in order to pay taxes, that's a nonargument. I am sure they would take Bitcoin directly if pressed. Just ask the FBI, who is now in possession of the largest bitcoin
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by lectrick 13y ago
Your argument is, paraphrased, "bitcoin is bad because it is new and does not fit well into current conceptions of money and current payment systems." Well, first of all, most of this friction only happens when trading bitcoin
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by lectrick 13y ago
Kids can't use credit cards online, but they can use Bitcoins. Third world folks with cellphones can't use credit cards (and likely don't have banks)... but they can use Bitcoins. The uncredited can't use credit cards...
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by lectrick 13y ago
> I thought that was plain enough. All that barrel does is stop counterfeiters and tax evaders. Neither of those things are "intrinsic value". And Bitcoin is FAR more difficult to duplicate (you can't even forge or counter
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by lectrick 13y ago
Learn functional programming, then apply those techniques to your language of choice.
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by lectrick 13y ago
> Acquaintances state appointee and wife divorced over year ago and have no reason to question moral character of either. Pertinent news articles re appointee set forth including article reporting divorce result of appointee's inter
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by lectrick 13y ago
So... where did he save his files?? Network drive?
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by lectrick 13y ago
The article is badly written. For example, > The problem with coding, he says, is that you can’t see the results of your work until after you’re done. In that sense, programming is unlike almost every other craft. “When a chef adds an in
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by lectrick 13y ago
> because if you didn't you'd be fired and likely unable to eat/have a place to sleep? Unemployment pay? Migrant workers, you say? Well, that's an entirely different problem.
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by lectrick 13y ago
All technology is amoral, and will continue to be amoral. If you don't believe so, you should just join the Amish or the Luddites, because that was their take on the world. The things you discuss were possible to do before technology,
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by lectrick 13y ago
> Just went to try to donate. Can't seem to do it at the donation page. Can't seem to enter my Australian address in any of the US and Canada links. I am certain my CC issuer will decline it. What gives? A few years from now, w
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by lectrick 13y ago
This data is completely meaningless without it being as a percent of total sales. Otherwise it's essentially the same as a popularity chart. I cannot fathom how this simple understanding was missed.
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by lectrick 13y ago
Is there any way I can order them some LED lighting gear?

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