mcherm

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811.
by mcherm 9y ago
> The whole point of Bitcoin is that you are your own bank There are several important differences between Bitcoin and traditional currencies. This may be the most important one to you, but it is not to everyone.
812.
by mcherm 9y ago
Yes, but that comes at a price. It means that banks and financial institutions cannot make the same level of outrageous profits -- or at least not without finding different income streams.
813.
by mcherm 9y ago
I'm not sure that is the exact title I would use, but it is certainly a good description of the content I would put in this talk. (My only concern with the title is that the talk I am envisioning would cover the specific technical deta
814.
by mcherm 9y ago
I had no idea that was happening. Thank you for making this important point.
815.
by mcherm 9y ago
> I thought it could be stopped at anytime with agreement of all member states. ANYTHING can be done with agreement of all member states. Including completely rewriting the Treaty of Rome, Maastricht Treaty, and Treaty of Lisbon along w
816.
by mcherm 9y ago
* Isolating the effects of one team's functionality from another team's is essential if each team is to be allowed to deploy independently. * Doing so in a way that still allows your entire app to appear to be a coherent whole is
817.
by mcherm 9y ago
> Imagine if electricity was not standarized - you'd have to buy into one frequency or another. Then you'd face the same problem as with using BaaS! Ever tried traveling around the world (or even just around Europe) with an ele
818.
by mcherm 9y ago
Well, for instance I currently have a talk mostly assembled which would cover the way in which our team architected a system to allow small components of a complex stateful system to be deployed independently with minimal risk to the other
819.
by mcherm 9y ago
> For the former, it's rather easy really - there are plenty of minor events where you can offer to give a talk. Well, that's the part that I am finding difficult. I have some interesting topics to address; I have a decent amou
820.
by mcherm 9y ago
Where does the amount in the title ("45k ether") come from? I didn't see that in the article. EDIT: Apparently from https://etherscan.io/address/0x6a164122d5cf7c840D26e829b46dC... , which is something I
821.
by mcherm 9y ago
>At the same spot the skeletal remains of a man and a woman were found with personal effects known to be hers. I hadn't heard that. Do you have any references?
822.
by mcherm 9y ago
I don't have the slightest doubt that a classifier like zip code (or traditional observational disease markers) delivers much greater value than a genetic risk score model because its accuracy is nearly as good while its cost is a coup
823.
by mcherm 9y ago
The original article did not provide any supporting evidence for this claim. Can you point us toward actual research to back up your statement?
824.
by mcherm 9y ago
Other fixes would have been possible. If the hash table could be resized when necessary there would never have been a performance problem.
825.
by mcherm 9y ago
Maybe the problem that needs to be solved is the amount of time that it takes to bring an invention from "proof of concept" to "widespread use". In fact, maybe there has been significant progress on that particular issue
826.
by mcherm 9y ago
> The plague killed way more people than nukes ever did No one is worried about the number of people who have ALREADY been killed by nukes, they are worried about the number of people who might be in the future. But I suppose I fundament
827.
by mcherm 9y ago
If your program ALSO compiles VALID programs correctly, and somehow those are faster because it replaces INVALID programs with a nop, that sounds great!
828.
by mcherm 9y ago
I am 100% in agreement with the C standard committee on this one. Treating all use of uninitialized memory as undefined behavior is a reasonable limitation that gives compiler writers a great deal of flexibility to improve performance. If t
829.
by mcherm 9y ago
> Yes, think of the poor truck drivers. I'm sure they love doing a dull job. I have met some truck drivers who DO love their job. They have spoken about the opportunity to travel (that from a husband-and-wife driver team who claimed
830.
by mcherm 9y ago
Wells Fargo customers cannot file a class action suit because they have agreed to binding arbitration (with individual action only).
831.
by mcherm 9y ago
> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. The 13th amendment specific
832.
by mcherm 9y ago
> and can have their sentence extended arbitrarily by bureaucrats and not the court system That part, at least, is not technically correct.
833.
by mcherm 9y ago
> you could never have made the monkey make it to the interview You phrased that correctly. The hard part wasn't to do a good job in the interview, the hard part was getting invited to the interview in the first place. And to be fai
834.
by mcherm 9y ago
It makes me feel old when people talk about doing historical research on events that I lived through. When yahoo first started out (and at that time I was using it) the role it played was equivalent to that which search engines play today.
835.
by mcherm 9y ago
I work at Capital One. We have been a bank (and are regulated as one), but are trying hard to become a technology company that is specifically focused on banking. And I'm probably biased, but I think we have some pretty great products
836.
by mcherm 9y ago
> Many banks have very strict IT policies on posting things on internet Yes, they do. And I really love it. Because it means that MY bank eats their lunch, because the bank I work for actually UNDERSTANDS how to use technology, while sti
837.
by mcherm 9y ago
> We’re embarrassed by the level of communication on our side, and we’ll be working directly with this developer to resolve the issue. That gets to the heart of the issue -- I think most people believe that if there had been an effective
838.
by mcherm 9y ago
> Is he still handling routine support tickets just for the love of it? I've always understood that this is PRECISELY what he is doing. I hope it's true.
839.
by mcherm 9y ago
> Anyone who thinks that these bodies ever change their mind due to the public comment periods is gullible. It happened less than 2 years ago, on the topic of Net Neutrality. Remember? Tom Wheeler who was a known opponent of Net Neutrali
840.
by mcherm 9y ago
What kind of screwed up religion did this author grow up in? Someplace where people were judged just on the number of times they prayed? In the religions I see, activities like prayer are largely for the benefit of the participant (strength

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