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by megiddo 3y ago
You could hash the hoard and stick the signature on a blockchain. If only it was 2018, we could do this as a startup and make a mint.
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by megiddo 3y ago
If it was a company you could trust with LTS, it would be interesting.
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by megiddo 3y ago
Money and economies of scale. Food got cheap, people got rich, and humans are designed to eat whatever they can see. 200,000 years of living feast to famine tells you "if can get calorically dense food, eat as much as you can, you&#x27
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by megiddo 3y ago
Isn't this just vilification of begging by technical means? The article says the mud bath participants were lining up for gigs. I don't understand the videos, but how is this morally different than criminalizing begging?
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by megiddo 3y ago
Yes. Medical software dev in the US is a dumping ground for the under-qualified or people looking to coast the balance of their career.
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by megiddo 4y ago
House prices don't rise due to "sweat equity", they rise because demand outpaces supply. The rest of the article then follows a false syllogism.
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by megiddo 4y ago
Personal liability is still a thing. If you kill someone as part of your job, you are criminally liable and the corp is civilly liable.
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by megiddo 4y ago
It's like treating an addiction by telling the addict "it's ok to have some, just pinkie swear you won't overdo it." People who are obese or grossly obese often aren't just eating a "little extra" her
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by megiddo 4y ago
Check out Synthesizer V with Eleanor Forte. Synth V is extremely fast and the output is shockingly good with some tweaking - good enough to be indistinguishable for many people.
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by megiddo 4y ago
IME DNS TTLs are low because debugging DNS during development is a pain. So you set them low the first time you run into a DNS issue where you had to wait an hour or a day to resolve some bad configuration and your "fuck this" met
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by megiddo 4y ago
Which bird was it? I can't give enough fucks to wade through 6000 words for the name of a bird.
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by megiddo 4y ago
Minizinc!
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by megiddo 5y ago
This is exactly what I did, worked a charm. I signed up, but their product kept crashing - it never worked. I called to cancel, they asked for 50%. I said, I don't owe it because the product didn't work - contracts require conside
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by megiddo 5y ago
Thank you! I've been hunting for this story for years.
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by megiddo 5y ago
Title: We Can’t Trust the Market with Scientific Knowledge First claim: The publisher rakes in 100 percent of the subscription fees, and access to what is meant to be a public good is restricted thanks to intellectual property laws. This is
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by megiddo 6y ago
And the error rate of 10^-3 seems problematic, as well.
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by megiddo 6y ago
Monopsony
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by megiddo 6y ago
How does this entire article have no references to the DMCA and copyright? Like, the ENTIRETY of the "right-to-repair" issue could be resolved by repealing the worst parts (or all of) the DMCA and updating copyright law with respe
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by megiddo 6y ago
Investment opportunity: Find a hole in the ground, buy salt in the off-years, sell at peak.
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by megiddo 6y ago
"I am not saying that inflation or interest rate rises are impossible in the future but I am suggesting that those who suggesting these are anything but very temporary phenomenon have to explain why the trends of many decades are going
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by megiddo 6y ago
I think you're right. One of the first comments is the video he says is "Nacon is licensed to release it on Steam." OK. Then why is your licensee going to such great lengths to publish to a platform you contractually agreed t
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by megiddo 6y ago
Malthus was refuted by the early 19th century on economic grounds - namely that the pricing system prevents people from over-exploiting scarce resources. While there has certainly been some poor husbandry of the earth's resources, ther
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by megiddo 6y ago
This whole academic branch is the included the reproducibility project. Papers sit at about flip of a coin repeatability. In either case, if there's no change in net productivity, why spend the money to do it?
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by megiddo 6y ago
I like the little detour through "uncritical analysis of rent control in post-WW I New York" which shows that the author is at least ignorant of one topic, and perhaps others. "What they often found was discriminatory high re
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by megiddo 6y ago
In Texas, you can deduct sales tax paid on non-taxable purchases from sales tax owed on taxable sales.
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by megiddo 6y ago
He also confounds costs with prices. Costs are not a significant factor in the prices of market goods - that is dominated by supply and demand.
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by megiddo 6y ago
20 years for me, for sure. Maybe a touch longer. I love it. My professional career moved to .NET and Python over the last decade, but if I'm building for myself, I build in PHP. Whatever foibles people claim are in PHP are really just
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by megiddo 6y ago
Science article generator! Cut off data at 2.3 sigmas, apply shocking result to catchy headline!
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by megiddo 6y ago
All the responses are about legality or process. I mean, if we're going to defund the police, you can't pick a better target than the DEA. Just get rid of them. They represent everything that's wrong with moral policing. In a
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by megiddo 6y ago
I try to explain to non-PHP devs how they live in a world of darkness and ignorance. PHP documentation is a major factor in it's long-term record.

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