milesf

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   by milesf 10y ago

   I guess I lucked out, as well as a good number of my friends and colleagues.
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   by milesf 10y ago

   Here's a novel thought: Monogamy. Wait to have sex until you're married, then have only one sexual partner your entire life. That'll deal with the problem, and every other sexually transmitted disease out there. It's alm
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   The Purpose Hotel and What It Takes to Turn an Idea into Reality(forbes.com)

   2 points by milesf 10y ago|0 comments
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   by milesf 10y ago

   The flying car has been promised for decades. Even if this suddenly becomes a reality, it's not something I want anymore. I am looking forward to Google and others to provide self-driving cars so I can focus on owning and flying my own
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   by milesf 10y ago

   How would one write code for such a monster?
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   Here Are the Top IoT Influencers to Follow(medium.com)

   3 points by milesf 10y ago|0 comments
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   by milesf 10y ago

   It is relevant to the original post. I know it was risky to share, but being able to make sense of life and death is something we will all face. I used to be a nihilist. I kept asking the same two-word question: then what? Take every hope a
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   by milesf 10y ago

   I lost both my parents last year to cancer. Both were Christians, and so am I. I know many people find Christianity and the subject of faith to be uncomfortable, even offensive. But that's because the Christian message _is_ offensive.
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   by milesf 10y ago

   And because CPUs are optimized for both gamers and Windows, the world has access to lots of cheap, powerful hardware. I'm not a Microsoft fan, but I'm very appreciative to them for making this ecosystem possible. In fact, games ha
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    by milesf 10y ago

    Which is why the "gold standard" is still gold. It has value because of limited supply and demand. You can't print more gold or "rollback" a heist.
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    by milesf 10y ago

    Getting hacked is a different problem, but solving it with rollbacks means any future country would likely do the same if adopted.
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    by milesf 10y ago

    What's with all this nonsense about could have "been developed only with the active support of a nation-state"? Do nations suddenly have access to some sort of advanced, alien software development teams? Feels more like polit
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    by milesf 10y ago

    This all reminds me of what happened to VeriCoin and the MintPal heist. A hacker stole millions in coins, but the devs of VeriCoin rolled it back and in one fell swoop stopped one theft but cut the floor out from under themselves. What&#x27
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    by milesf 10y ago

    One of my all-time favourite games: Mind Walker. Haven't really played anything else like it since: https://archive.org/details/Mind_Walker_1986_Commodore
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    by milesf 10y ago

    I'd love to have the same thing but with the ability to compare fonts side-by-side. For example, I can't really tell the difference between "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" and "DejaVu Mono".
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    Test Drive Over 50 Free Programming Fonts(app.programmingfonts.org)

    3 points by milesf 10y ago|1 comments
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    by milesf 10y ago

    Sad that the message of this piece will likely be discounted and discredited. It amazes me the blasé attitudes towards drugs in the tech world. Hearing even high-profile tech leaders extoll the 'virtues' of getting high while igno
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    by milesf 10y ago

    Jeremy Cowart is one of those people I never heard of, until a friend of mine sent me a link to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC-rpAkfE2I The man is on a mission, and yet he has accomplished so much already. T
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    The Purpose Hotel: Change the World in Your Sleep(kickstarter.com)

    4 points by milesf 10y ago|1 comments
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    by milesf 10y ago

    VeriCoin did something similar when MintPal was hacked. They rolled back the blockchain prior to the heist. Now it's a shadow of itself, and MintPal is dead. What a mess.
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    by milesf 10y ago

    "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill, House o
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    by milesf 10y ago

    The best material I've found on this subject so far is Barbera Oakley's "Learning How to Learn" course ( https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn ) along with the companion book "A Mi
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    by milesf 10y ago

    Provide an environment that give workers autonomy, mastery, and purpose (see Daniel Pink's work title Drive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc ). You provide those three things and a sane group of people, happi
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    by milesf 10y ago

    The folks at Facebook are not stupid. This is likely setting the groundwork to ream more bandwidth through their Aquila project https://info.internet.org More bandwidth means more money, which means convincing more of the public
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    by milesf 10y ago

    In Canada, it's easier to list what is not taxed rather than what is. You do not pay taxes on: - any GST/HST credit or Canada Child Tax Benefit payments, as well as those from related provincial and territorial programs. - child a
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    by milesf 10y ago

    I'd be curious to know what his custom software looks like and what performance indicators he keeps track of. I'm assuming it's written in Ruby.
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    David Heinemeier Hansson: LeMans 24 Hours – Numbers Tell the Whole Story(lemans.org)

    2 points by milesf 10y ago|1 comments
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    by milesf 10y ago

    Welcome to Canada :) Oh, and we're taxed on income as well. I think something like 44% of everything I earn goes to taxes.
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    by milesf 10y ago

    Let me know when I can 'wallpaper' my house with it. I hate painting rooms just to change the colour.
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    by milesf 10y ago

    I miss my Amiga.