mmirate

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by mmirate 8y ago
Time and space are but a few of the many things that money can buy.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Pedantically: yes, but almost all of them have salary as a prerequisite. Practically: no, not really.
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by mmirate 8y ago
The users. If a person wants something, they buy it; if they don't, they don't; and if they didn't, they didn't. A very simple and straightforward model of action. Yet it has fueled almost every major non-military-funded
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by mmirate 8y ago
> US-developed ICBM defenses Uhh, if this is correct and complete, then why does it matter if the balance is upset in our own favor?
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by mmirate 8y ago
Unfortunately I was a few minutes too late to direct this reply to the right place before it got eaten by flags. Regardless, if anyone here thinks that the character "Thanos" would ever make a good exemplar among humans, then I en
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by mmirate 8y ago
Counterintuitively, the sole root of all zero-sum economics is self-fulfilling prophecy of it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iV18Xx5EkaE&t=5m19s
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by mmirate 8y ago
If this link isn't the kind of boring pure-ideology flamebait that we all hate so dearly, then I don't know what is. (cf the overly-impassioned, albeit correct, top-voted comment; and its wholly equal-and-opposite counterpart)
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Programming in Haskell(cs.nott.ac.uk)
2 points by mmirate 8y ago|0 comments
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by mmirate 8y ago
> Change your attitude and you can <fill in the blank> . It is amazing how much of the complaining and "activism" in this world is so shallow that it can be dismissed with nothing more than a single statement of the abov
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by mmirate 8y ago
The metaphorical pie doesn't size itself by its own accord or by some nebulous, external, godlike forces. Oddly enough, it grows when we don't let ourselves be ruled by people who act competently on the (mistaken) belief that weal
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Everyone Is Missing the Point of 3D-Printed Guns(aier.org)
2 points by mmirate 8y ago|0 comments
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by mmirate 8y ago
If water property rights were more explicit and the OP didn't gain property rights in the water as part of his/her house purchase, then the house's purchase price would have had to be much , much cheaper than it doubtless wa
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ULEX: An Open-Source Legal System(youtube.com)
3 points by mmirate 8y ago|0 comments
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Senators ask Facebook, Twitter, Google to block 3D-printed gun blueprints(cnet.com)
2 points by mmirate 8y ago|2 comments
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How Rust’s standard library was vulnerable for years and nobody noticed(medium.com)
9 points by mmirate 8y ago|3 comments
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by mmirate 8y ago
> employers Unless you are the employer, or at least the hiring manager, the decision ultimately isn't yours, regardless of leverage, so you have to care about how a change would affect the employer or hiring manager, if you want
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by mmirate 8y ago
... all of them that haven't retired yet?
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by mmirate 8y ago
> corral You do realize these are people you're talking about, not some animals to do your bidding?
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by mmirate 8y ago
> entire concept of professionalized industries that are unwilling to invest in the education and training of their employees is absurd and something we should all adamantly reject 1. We're a professionalized industry? Really? I don
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by mmirate 8y ago
It's better to take payment for a license granting the privilege of doing a job, than to go through the rigamarole of hiring someone to do it, paying them, and keeping them paid even if there's no work for them at the moment. The
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by mmirate 8y ago
I spoke and speak from personal experience; and I'm not going to copy-paste my HN profile. I do in fact hold rigorous formal education in high regard. But I doubt that more than about 70% of GA Tech BSCS holders have actually received
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by mmirate 8y ago
I see. HN is textual and it was unmarked so I consider that the sarcasm-author's fault.
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by mmirate 8y ago
And if it were any other way, then our field would go the way of the lawyers.
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by mmirate 8y ago
lol no. Job market for GT BSCS grads is the same bollocks as most anywhere else. I say, save your money and go someplace else (or self-teach) and then use a recruiter that knows wtf they're doing; that's what will make the differe
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by mmirate 8y ago
Which is to say, you might actually have to learn something if you go to CMU, UCB, MIT, Stanford or UIUC; instead of just leeching off of your group-project teammates. (Not that I've ever had any experience on the receiving end of this
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by mmirate 8y ago
1) Would a civilian-converted Galil battle-rifle be so readily described as a "hunting rifle"? That said, the make is irrelevant. What is relevant is that getting all the muzzle energy and accuracy out of a .308 cartridge so as to
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by mmirate 8y ago
I am what I can do: programming, music and road-racing. If I had lost even just my sight in the same manner as this young woman, let alone at the same age ... my only remaining desire would be to try again and aim better.
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by mmirate 8y ago
She lost her eyesight and several years of her youth; it's a safe assumption that many HN readers, my future self included, owe significant chunks of their careers and lives (pardon the redundancy) to those two things. She - like a men
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by mmirate 8y ago
Indeed. If you're hunting large animals, you want to cause plenty of destruction to a vital location in a single shot, so that the animal dies quickly and humanely. (And you certainly don't shoot at their face, parallel to their f
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by mmirate 8y ago
Looks like she aimed almost completely parallel to her skull, causing the bullet to expend most of its energy on bone. It barely had any energy left by the time it reached her brain. Her choice of aim was likely just the first thing to come

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