midas007

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by midas007 12y ago
You're completely wrong and missing the boat. If someone is a child of a farmer and hangs out in a tiny farm town without internet access, doesn't complete high-school, their odds of creating great wealth are zilch. They may star
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by midas007 12y ago
That's all well and good. Learnings don't matter one bit when it comes to what an HR department or venture capitalist will look for on a resume or pedigree in a slide deck respectively, or the social network of having been presen
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by midas007 12y ago
Yes. BWRs and PWRs waste is one the most significant issues where MSRs have an advantage. I really hope MSRs and more wind farm deployments are used more as stepping-stones to realizing fusion.
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by midas007 12y ago
It's abusing the English language with misleading hysteria of how "more radioactive" term is defined. On net volume of radioactive material released on a yearly basis: coal wins, by far. But it's diffused over a much la
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by midas007 12y ago
I've worked in this industry for a consulting shop in the US. There's a world of difference between diffused emissions that never reach significant levels and concentrations of radioactive material that have to potential to cause
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by midas007 12y ago
There's plenty of more strongly correlated suggestions for the drop in crime than TEL: legalized abortion, drug trends, law enforcement, on and on. Common sense would put TEL at hypothesized causation reason # 10 or so.
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by midas007 12y ago
This is a better article than the OP. Thanks.
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by midas007 12y ago
It's probably a little more complicated: caloric surplus marketed by corporations in ultra dense, cheap and convenient hits coupled with insufficient exercise and other health/Maslow's hierarchy deficiencies. One example how
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by midas007 12y ago
Startups seem more consumers than potential producers. Further it smells like a market about to bud and quickly become a brutal commodity like coffee or tea. It would be cool to see cannabis traded in the futures markets though.
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by midas007 12y ago
TL;DR equal shares in the same layers and vesting are the big points. For the top layer: the real nature of a person comes out when they have a perceived opportunity to win big at someone's expense... hence good friends can make good c
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by midas007 12y ago
There might be another way to look at it in terms of overall risk appetite: - when maintaining a traditional venture, innovate more on tech to attract more talent and interest. (Microsoft Azure folks, Basecamp (formerly 37signals)) - when i
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by midas007 12y ago
That is LOL worthy. Due-diligence is mostly a business theater hazing ritual so folks don't run off to Cuba nor cons fresh out on early release. But yeah a few valley ceos are really good at pitching startups that they know have more f
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by midas007 12y ago
Oh, fair enough.
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by midas007 12y ago
Yeap, it's very handy to see the binary live. If it had editable hex and disassembly (just spew asm into the context), that would rock^3.
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by midas007 12y ago
Probably more for learning and some work too. It's closer to an IDE like TASM / Turbo Profiler was.
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by midas007 12y ago
Yeah, all I had back in the day were those quick refs that came with Turbo Assembler and MASM. Occasionally some BBS would have a half-done cheat sheet from an Intel manual.
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by midas007 12y ago
Interesting. The Moonies ships an army of Korean boys and girls to the US to solicit money from college students, old people and generally anyone that will look at their flipover clipboards with pictures of impoverished people. [0] It als
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by midas007 12y ago
It's most definitely abuse of a most insidious kind.
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by midas007 12y ago
So I have it on good account that [withheld top 3 VC] invested $15 million USD in [withheld] because they needed to have an investment in China to satisfy some arbitrary mandate. It was an investment of expedience. There is little science
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by midas007 12y ago
The tone of the article comes off as character assassination, so there's likely to be suits regardless of merit either way. Beyond that, I can't see how this is anything different than most any company: the boss has some grand vis
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by midas007 12y ago
Appending to the PHK on the OP link, it would be nice to be able to randomly choose amongst several crypto implementations.
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by midas007 12y ago
Not a big shocker. Last time I spoke with Luke, he mentioned client agents (facter, puppet) might eventually need to be non-Ruby compiled binaries.
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by midas007 12y ago
I say "well played." If this is the case, it seems perfectly fair and their own fault for not stacking the odds in their favor as is done the other 99.9999% of the time. Fair's fair and it was their own equipment that screw
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by midas007 12y ago
A handwritten signature is basically worthless. I make it a point to sign something mocking the form whenever presented with a signature box to make this very point.
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by midas007 12y ago
Couldn't agree more. The only real difference between an engineer and a hobbyist is that one gets paid (sometimes hobbyists get paid too (gittip, etc)). Both need to realize that engineering ethics of what they're involved in.
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by midas007 12y ago
Double-underscore the last point. TLS WG is the first fail. Look at how many draft feature proposals there are. https://tools.ietf.org/wg/tls/ Where are the proposals for deprecations for killing off features?
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by midas007 12y ago
Also part of the reason I grabbed the eject handles on enterprise devops consulting. Although I did manage to fight and win open sourcing changes to net-ldap so that it worked with A-D.
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by midas007 12y ago
There's a few counterexamples, which is a good thing: iXSystems does a lot of cool community work via FreeNAS, PC-BSD and FreeBSD. Github (Ruby), thoughtbot (Ruby), Google (Go, Python), Dropbox (Python), AT&T (C++, Ruby), Zurb (Rub
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by midas007 12y ago
PHP5 is widely used. The security history of that is less than awesome. I think OpenSSL is better than I could do or most people could do, but again, it's still at the mercy of C AND a wide range of TLS and other features that seem to
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by midas007 12y ago
Dead wrong. When lives and money are on the line, there is obligation somewhere along the line back to the source. Maybe it stops elsewhere, maybe it doesn't. If folks are depending on open source for life-safety or risk the safety

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