mcherm

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by mcherm 9y ago
I don't think you are WRONG, exactly, but the article (poor as it was) represented the results of actual research. Do you have anything to back up this claim?
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by mcherm 9y ago
>I am TOTALLY ok with TSA reading my last text messages before I go on a flight. That's cool, and I respect that. But I am NOT OK with the TSA performing such a search of my devices. (Unless they have a warrant. Then I'm fi
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by mcherm 9y ago
I think the fear is that the TSA will deny having searched the phone and the complaintant will have not way of proving that they did.
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by mcherm 9y ago
Sorry, are you equating a private citizen having their phone out of their sight for 10 minutes with over a year of delays in permitting an organization to accept tax-exempt donations from thousands of citizens? Frankly, BOTH are unreasonabl
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by mcherm 9y ago
It is incredibly surprising. You aren't surprised because you have experienced this. But any economist would look at this and say something like this: > You claim that there are people where an investment of $400 would > quickly
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by mcherm 9y ago
But of course, since ice IX is fictional, we don't know what it's IR spectrum or X-ray crystallography pattern is...
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by mcherm 9y ago
Sounds like they haven't actually broken open the diamond, so can we really be sure?
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by mcherm 9y ago
There is one simple technique that would allow nearly any forensic analysis technique to be assessed. It would detect the difference between good science (DNA) and junk science (forensic hair matches). It would work down to the level of the
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by mcherm 9y ago
There most certainly IS a product! The only way I can imagine that you came to believe there wasn't is that you were confused by the fact that they give their product away. Does Encyclopedia Britannica's website "britannica.c
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by mcherm 9y ago
Because automating homes is not their goal; profiting when others automate their homes is their goal. They appear t believe that they will make significantly more profit by selling home automation tools and the things that attach to them th
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by mcherm 9y ago
> It peeves me a lot to see virtual currencies described as being "worth" something in a USD or some other real currency equivalent. By the same token, why isn't open source code described as being worth a certain amount o
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by mcherm 9y ago
Marvelous story. Of course, any reader of his works knows not to believe in the literal truth of every tale Samuel Clemens recounts.
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by mcherm 9y ago
Suppose I wanted to create a "game" running on Etherium's global computer; perhaps one that allowed people to own and breed virtual cats. I might want a random component in my "breed" behavior. Imagine I want to cre
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by mcherm 9y ago
It seems like it is roughly equivalent to a company releasing their software as open source when they go out of business -- it acknowledges that the profit was simply not there to sustain the company, but makes it possible (not necessaril
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by mcherm 9y ago
"Ramping up" explains many days of delays. It does not explain many MONTHS of delays.
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by mcherm 9y ago
Okay, I really like that concept and having a name for it makes it easier to discuss and advocate for. Thank you!
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by mcherm 9y ago
Why? I see the move from independent blogs to universal use of Medium for tech blogging as a step backwards.
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by mcherm 9y ago
There are two reasons. First: because it is socially unacceptable. In the US culture, talking about one's salary is taboo. It is rather as if someone were to post naked pictures. Sure, you are an enlightened person and you probably wou
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by mcherm 9y ago
I don't feel like discussing my salary publicly. Have you considered checking glassdoor.com or other similar sources?
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by mcherm 9y ago
> Just because somebody said something that was wrong 100 years ago, doesn't mean it's also wrong now. That is absolutely true. HOWEVER, if one notices that those in the past have made the same observation as oneself but were w
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by mcherm 9y ago
We can hope...
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by mcherm 9y ago
Well this is all stupid. Because we have double blind testing. It doesn't matter what the algorithm is, it just matters whether the test is accurate. And we can determine that by sending in test samples and having them rate these. If w
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by mcherm 9y ago
> A rich founder should take this companies on and bleed them dry. It can't be done. The way to win the contract is to offer the biggest kickback to the prison. One cannot pay such a big kickback without gouging prisoners and their
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by mcherm 9y ago
> it seems like a policy that basically subsidizes lower COL locations. I would put it differently. I would have said it is a policy that is (slightly) less "progressive" in high cost-of-living areas than it is high cost-of-li
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by mcherm 9y ago
I think you said "abusing" when you meant "using".
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by mcherm 9y ago
> When reading about Comcast I was always wondering why they have no competition when everyone who comments is complaining. Suppose you were a major company with big dollars to spend on offering internet service... someone like Google, f
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by mcherm 9y ago
You may be missing the point. Those "poor kids" you refer to should ALSO be granted an opportunity to rebuild their reputations.
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by mcherm 9y ago
Unit tests can only test certain kinds of behavior of the function under test. To give other kinds of examples, the current implementation might have used a clever trick to achieve faster execution (this cannot be evaluated with unit tests)
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by mcherm 9y ago
He mentions but does not address one of the main problems: sharing passwords is actually ADVANTAGEOUS to the politicians because it provides plausible deniability. Troy says "this is exactly the problem" (which is true), but provi
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by mcherm 9y ago
It all comes down to whether or not you think the owners of property rented out via AirBnB are, in fact, "employees". How about eBay or Etsy... are people who sell things via those platforms "employees" of the platform?

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