mr_luc

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by mr_luc 11y ago
Have you taken a look at the study this article is written about? I'd agree that it makes intuitive sense that childcare could do better than exhausted working parents, and possibly even emotionally drained stay-at-home parents, but an
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by mr_luc 11y ago
I'm not sure if your comment will get much attention because of how strongly worded some of it is, but I feel it contains a nice insight about the relation (and potential tension) between Product and Process. If your hypothesis holds,
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by mr_luc 11y ago
I'm sure that this is a valued asset in the fight against crime ... ... but as this story illustrates, it's so shockingly immoral as to constitute robbery. Shut it down.
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by mr_luc 11y ago
It seems as though this was a murky situation that administrators/provincial governments did not understand was happening at the time (much less a central government back in London!) Which would make it very different from the other fa
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by mr_luc 12y ago
"Devil's avocado, Larry": Assuming a perfectly efficient system, that's slightly under $2,000 per person per year. Divided by 52 weeks, that works out to $38.00 per week in food aid. (In a perfectly efficient system; so,
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Sure, they didn't originate with regulatory capture. But the actions to prevent Tesla from selling direct now, today, have definitely been the result of regulatory capture. The original interventions created a kind of local businessm
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Is math classified as philosophy due to some historical accident? Is that really relevant to the discussion at hand? And wasn't Wittgenstein essentially out to destroy traditional philosophy?
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Right, that's all context around this situation. Obviously companies want whatever they can get. But it's actually less grim than it seems: 1. there are laws, 2. the price pressures exist for the coordinating companies as well, as
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by mr_luc 12y ago
This will not kill it. The Gig Economy will be a thing, and it should be. But it needs to be legitimate, and it should lead to more autonomy and freedom for the Giggers, not less. To accomplish this, businesses that treat contractors like
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Using dokku for a few BigCo projects since late 2012. I want to do what another commenter (renegar) mentions, and simply use Docker/machine/compose, now that that is a viable option. For my next green-field project, I probably wil
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Swiss pikemen and (briefly) spanish swordsmen aside, foot soldiers were either horse or archer fodder. The implicit contract for military support between the King and the areas he ruled changed in the Dark Ages: instead of providing many me
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Huh. Funny - you can probably come up with a few scenarios where that would happen, like if their large-scale deployment software for self-driving cars is heavily dependent on the wisdom of crowds, for instance.
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Yeah, I don't see where in your article you encourage overstaying visas! I spent the last 7 years living in pacific South America, during the last 4 of which I hacked remotely several months each year. In the rare event that someone is
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Did you read that article you posted? Those stats assumed CPU/GPU and FPGA, not ASIC, miners. For instance, the 5-to-500-gigahash-per-second rigs would have to be running at over 300k watts of electricity using those statistics. :) S
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by mr_luc 12y ago
I agree that "someone else's land" is a bit much. Saying that "North American Aborigines lived outside the republic" is a bit misleading, because it insinuates that they weren't interested in assimilating, and
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by mr_luc 12y ago
It seems straightforward from here: Because empirically, history seems to tell us that very many people will always be "offended" by others disagreeing with them, or living/worshipping/looking differently. And so if ther
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by mr_luc 12y ago
I spent a full week of vacation time once playing around with Factor. It was a real trip -- I'd been reading some of the Forth books the month prior for the first time, and reading over jonesforth, and then when I began using Factor th
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Congratulations, I noticed a lot more Commonwealth types than Americans doing that sort of thing as still-working professionals (but a heck of a lot of Americans doing things as investors). Yes, you've probably done the math and know t
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Just wanted to say that I lived in a small ecuadorean fishing village for 7 years, and my experience was the opposite ... but I'm not starting a startup! My internet was even more limited (EDGE), power went out sometimes (two power bri
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Just wanted to say that I lived in a small ecuadorean fishing village for 7 years, and my experience was the opposite ... but I'm not starting a startup! My internet was even more limited (EDGE), power went out sometimes (two power bri
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Expeditious is used rarely enough, and 'expedited' services are spoken of frequently enough, that I don't think that expeditious would at all capture the notion. Things that are expedited are put on a 'fast track,'
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by mr_luc 12y ago
I agree with you so much. Learning without casting a wide net may means you end up with the kind of tunnel vision that used to lead poor souls to 'learn Dreamweaver', or 'learn Crystal Reports', or ... ASP.NET controls,
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by mr_luc 12y ago
I couldn't agree more with this notion, with the caveat that the writing happens in second and third and fourth languages. So learning programming is like learning language, and should be taught similarly -- lots of feedback (REPL, t
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by mr_luc 12y ago
I agree with your comment, but it makes me think: Even if we can have that kind of AI, it's not a given that it will mean any of the things that the Church Of Singularity types think it will mean. If it turns out to be something that&#
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by mr_luc 12y ago
I was just going to mention the physics engine aspect of it. I saw this in miniature a couple of years ago, when I was experimenting with real-time gaming using web technologies (I know, I know, TCP), but one blocker for low-hanging-fruit p
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by mr_luc 12y ago
I highly recommend both "Storm of Steel" (best first-person view of the war) and "Dreadnought" (best telling of the majestic story of the runup to the war).
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Oh, boy. I have a house in Ecuador. I am a fan of Bitcoin. And I am, on the whole, probably still a fan of Correa. But ... yikes.
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Yeah -- and it's way easier to pack out 4 or 6 solid months of work than it is to find work that trickles in regularly at anything like "2 days a week," at least for me.
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by mr_luc 12y ago
I think an easy answer would be a "stocking fee" if the item doesn't sell. That will encourage people to pick a price others might jump at. Some fine-tuning would of course be required.
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Eyeballs. I also read the whole thing, even though I started disliking myself halfway through. I also wonder why this is on HN. But the reason it was written is eyeballs, a thin excuse to tie together a bunch of viral videos. This kind of &

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