marcandre

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by marcandre 8y ago
For me blind tasting is key. The vast majority of things aren't appreciated in a blind test setting (even professional wine critics don't!), so extremely subject to other notions in particular fame and price. With a group of frien
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by marcandre 8y ago
Dan Ariely's research for example shows that duration has little effect on our memory of an event. Check his TED talks.
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by marcandre 8y ago
It would be fine if all energy used everywhere on the planet was green. Until then, wasting clean energy still creates more demand for that clean energy, which affects its price and thus its competitiveness vs other energy sources. Even in
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by marcandre 9y ago
No, the processing capacity is about 7 transactions per second. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem
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by marcandre 9y ago
Interesting theory. If they indeed hold the USD, they could still run away with it. The 2.3B$ worth of Tether represents more than 75 years worth of gross profit of Bitfinex (see https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets&
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by marcandre 9y ago
I'm wondering how many people are shorting USDT on Kraken? The potential downside is having to pay interest. The upside is 100% win. With enough short position, Tether will run out of funds and the price will have to crash. Disclosure:
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by marcandre 9y ago
IIC, Amazon pays for skills with sufficient engagement: https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/rewards
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by marcandre 9y ago
Apparently most males with this condition are sterile http://www.digitaljournal.com/life/health/rare-medical-condi...
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by marcandre 10y ago
0.64% MER is much higher than what you can get with Vanguard. Mutual funds are about 4x less expensive, some ETFs are 10x less expensive.
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by marcandre 10y ago
Even with arrow functions, it's pretty frequent to have to write things like `...on('event', evt => this.onEvent(evt))` where `on('event', ::onEvent)` would be quite nice.
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by marcandre 10y ago
`git checkout my_branch` does something else that is quite different: it changes the current branch! Also, `git checkout my_branch` is very different from `git checkout my_branch -- .` I strongly dislike the double duty of `checkout`. It&#x
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by marcandre 10y ago
It's way superior to use git aliases instead of shell aliases. In this way autocompletion and autocorrection will work.
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by marcandre 12y ago
[citation needed]. It is a myth that one need or even should "let go" of their negative emotions. Instead, that reinforces the propensity to feel that emotion more strongly the next time. Rad "Emotional intelligence" (1s
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by marcandre 12y ago
> There are many ways to do things Hopefully you realize that most Rubyists will strongly disagree and think that's not a "problem".
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by marcandre 12y ago
A block is not an anonymous function. Try using `return`, `next`, etc... in an anonymous functions. Ruby has anonymous functions, they are called lambdas. I'd say that blocks might be easier to grasp for a true beginner that hasn'
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by marcandre 13y ago
The problem is a bad metric of evaluation (if not doing interviews actually looks bad at promotion time). I'd suggest that the fact that some people can look at themselves in the mirror in the morning with statisfaction while screwing over