mcherm

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by mcherm 9y ago
If actual money is involved, then not every part of your investment is anonymous. If actual money is NOT involved, then the SEC shouldn't need to worry about it, right?
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by mcherm 9y ago
Precisely. The argument is that they are less common due to regulation (not that they cease to exist entirely).
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by mcherm 9y ago
Not having a reliable income, in exchange for receiving stock that is (if you aren't lying to yourself) extremely likely to be worthless. How to overcome: Don't. Stay employed in a traditional job. I mean, except if you have the m
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by mcherm 9y ago
I thought the comparison of 1 second of computation today to the lifetime computation of older computers (since they were released) was clever.
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by mcherm 9y ago
That same reasoning would probably tell you that no one would want a "box in your home that you can talk to", yet Alexa and its competitors are doing quite well.
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by mcherm 9y ago
Thank you! That was really a great read, and I wouldn't have sought it out without your help.
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by mcherm 9y ago
Fascinating story, do you have any idea where you read that?
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by mcherm 9y ago
See, now that is TWICE as informative as the entire article. I never knew that.
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by mcherm 9y ago
The point of this article is that spotify's revenue sharing model really sucks for BIG artists. Justin Bieber definitely qualifies as a "big" artist.
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by mcherm 9y ago
STEAM club -- this is an activity outside of the normal curriculum.
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by mcherm 9y ago
Is this libertarian paradise?
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by mcherm 9y ago
Do you consider the difference between a mosquito and a goose to be "almost irrelevant"?
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by mcherm 9y ago
We could "solve" the entire ad-blocking "problem" by delivering DRM-protected web pages that cannot be modified by the end consumer, merely viewed. This would also "solve" the "problem" of scraping. A
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by mcherm 9y ago
> Why do we accept the out of control increase in cost to get a degree? Because that degree is valued, not for the education the student received, but as a formal gating mechanism: those who do not obtain it (and it better be from a &quo
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by mcherm 9y ago
> Why should I pay to have people see my post? Shouldn't I have to pay people to see their posts instead? Based on perceived value, I think that the fee for posting should be negative (it costs to post), but with a small amount reco
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by mcherm 9y ago
You are in luck! At one point in time, text messages were extremely expensive (several cents per message, depending on the plan you had). At that time, laws were passed (in many countries, I don't know where you are) that made it illeg
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by mcherm 9y ago
Depending on how it is used, my answer is "possibly". Put yourself back in the days of Joseph McCarthy and the "red scare", but with today's laws (and hopefully we seek an outcome that is MORE friendly to free speec
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by mcherm 9y ago
We HAVE a set of laws and regulations mandating that SSN numbers be kept secret. It doesn't work. We have laws restricting the use of SSNs (it is illegal for most situations to demand an SSN, except for the situations where it is manda
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by mcherm 9y ago
I feel like the article boils down to "the Russians have a big advantage influencing the US because we allow free speech and they don't" with a strong implication that we need to give law enforcement more tools to crack down
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by mcherm 9y ago
> Rectangle edits are equivalent to a tiny minority of what I use multiple cursors for Okay, now THAT is interesting. Can you comment on some of the other uses you have for multiple cursors? Perhaps give some examples?
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by mcherm 9y ago
Milk-drinking is not CORRELATED with criminality. Criminals and non-criminals have (as far as I know, but I could be wrong) similar levels of milk-drinking. And so forth. Unless you are using a different definition of "correlated"
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by mcherm 9y ago
If the company were worth a lot less it would be EASIER to support a different browser that already works.
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by mcherm 9y ago
> > This is culturally alien to me; the students receiving the benefit are not harming other students. > It's not just "culturally alien"; it's a straight-up error. Perhaps an exaggerated example will illustrate
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by mcherm 9y ago
> "It mostly works for simple programs, but probably segfaults on anything complicated" is not a promising beginning. Perhaps they would have done better to say "it works correctly for all programs that do not assume the b
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by mcherm 9y ago
> it should go back to us, directly. It does. There is a reasonable argument that such fees should go to the general fund for the locality, not to some specific department like law enforcement (because of incentives). But I do not think
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by mcherm 9y ago
> judges are federal appointments True > ...and not local people Generally false.
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by mcherm 9y ago
> I now predict an uptick in people using 'correctbatteryhorsestaple' as their password... At least that's slightly better than "correcthorsebatterystaple" which appeared in the XKCD. The really funny part is t
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by mcherm 9y ago
> perhaps better advice is to use words from a random language other than your own I think you may have missed the point that the XKCD cartoon was making. The question here is NOT how to generate passwords that are hard for computers to
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by mcherm 9y ago
> if you ignore the technical legal points, am I really harming anyone > In my opinion, it's helping. Have you talked this over with Paul Graham (the copyright holder)? Because if you have, and he agreed that it was fine for you
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by mcherm 9y ago
> I've had money locked up in Coinbase, unable to sell or trade out of their platform, until I complete an identity verification. Problem is, their code seems to be buggy and even after correctly entering information, I'm told

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