mr_luc

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by mr_luc 12y ago
I'd like to thank the gp for his comment and his honesty; I think his participation adds a lot to this discussion. That said, I felt just as uneasy as you. Here's my experience from the Funemployment thread, if anyone's inter
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by mr_luc 12y ago
mmorris answered this, but can I take this opportunity to add a couple of absolute gems, which I love, and which I have read and re-read so many times that I've gone through 3 copies each? They are: 1. Dreadnought (by RKM) 2.
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by mr_luc 12y ago
I agree with the gist of these comments; all I meant by that bit put that bit was to make the argument about the inevitability of inequality's increase a more conservative one. It seems obvious (to me) that redistribution, maybe in th
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by mr_luc 12y ago
I'd love to ask Andreessen, (or anyone here, really) a question informed by a book on pg's reading list: I, too, am dubious about Pikkety's thesis. But I'd like to call out a distinction between the concentration of weal
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by mr_luc 12y ago
For coders - Peter Norvig's PAIP (which might be The Best Programming Book, but no room to get into that here) talks about these and leads you through building something like EMYCIN, the base of a functioning expert system without anyt
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by mr_luc 12y ago
As someone who is no longer a beginner: consider listening to this guy. It can be a net win for some of us. I've lived a sometimes extreme version this for the past 8 years, mostly on the pacific coast of South America. My first few ye
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Hey - thank you for this comment, it makes a murky situation a bit clearer for me. My next question is, of course, what's the solution? I can't tell from your comment (being unversed in this landscape) who the 'specialist cou
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Hey man, I loved that article, I read it a while ago. It seemed like it had a pretty simple takeaway: JS crypto by itself is laughable, and JS crypto on top of real crypto is pointless. I do have a question though -- you say that 'you
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by mr_luc 12y ago
I just wanted to call out where you say that it's "hard to prove" that ISPs are purposefully degrading service. Hard to prove in a court of law, perhaps, but the speeds of access to the businesses being extorted can tell a pr
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by mr_luc 12y ago
Well, I did mention what I was interested in: the future. Viewed in that light, if you take the view that many (perhaps a majority) of HN types do of the stifling effect of patents on industries as malleable as (software/maker/diy
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by mr_luc 12y ago
First, from elsewhere in this thread, from April 23rd, 2012, there is this auto-leveling technique, which probes by applying a slight current to detect contact: http://hackaday.com/2012/04/23/automated-bed-lev
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Yeah, I don't mean a literal mod of minecraft. I just mean that it's a great illustration of what'd be entailed. If you start from scratch, you still need something like voxels, ie keeping track of many points in 3d space rep
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by mr_luc 13y ago
I was wondering when someone was going to mention Minecraft because that's a great way of illustrating to people something of just how vast the gulf to be crossed is. There are graphical mods for Minecraft, but none that bridge the g
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by mr_luc 13y ago
As one of those expats (starting my 8th year in a little fishing village in pacific coastal ecuador), can I just say -- We're on pay-as-you-go plans, but usually on nice phones we brought unlocked from our home countries. I'm typi
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Honestly? Probably the same number that dream of going to work at the intensely-hated digital utilities, aka cable companies. Who in the world has ever said "My dream is to work at Time Warner Cable"? I wouldn't tell people I
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Did they do that? That sounds like a pretty elementary mistake, and since it's the NYT it isn't in the direction I'd expect.
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by mr_luc 13y ago
This is fantastically interesting. I probably just missed it, but I hadn't seen such clear-cut, Snowden-style proof of parallel construction at other, non-intelligence agencies before.
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by mr_luc 13y ago
On the contrary! You need to post links to these articles. I want to read all of those articles. I absolutely love the history leading up to and around the first world war, I've read a good portion of the issues of Punch from those y
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Not if he uses a mixer to pay you the bitcoins, no. Blockchain.info has a fantastic almost-free one.
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by mr_luc 13y ago
We can't avoid the collection of secrets without talking about the power of secrets. Governments collect secrets because uncollected secrets can actually be very powerful. One of the sources of power that a secret gives you is the elem
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by mr_luc 13y ago
It would certainly be very convenient if secrets were unimportant in a war, or in contests between adversarial nations generally. Everything above-board, all cards on the table, eh? However, as other comments have mentioned, that certainly
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by mr_luc 13y ago
1. I think that there are anti-money-laundering regulations that don't require $20m in bonds, like the know-your-customer laws that many exchanges are complying with. 2. Many people want consumer protections, but they'd probably,
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Huh. An 'unfair competition' lawsuit by someone with a nominally competing payment product ('FaceCash') ... After reading your CrunchBase profile, where I saw that you have your own competing product, and looking at the
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by mr_luc 13y ago
That might be the opposite of what you want if there's any chance you'll be working with a heterogenous web stack. Define your styling framework in scss, use it from multiple backends. A common case is to share between a static si
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by mr_luc 13y ago
I just wanted to chime in with observations on working poor from my own experience. Anecdotal, but maybe interesting. I mostly agree with the root, but I want to challenge 2 things: the vulnerability to advertising, and the perceived percen
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by mr_luc 13y ago
I think this is probably the definitive comment for the 'cost of talent' portion of the discussion. I just wish it weren't buried so far down.
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Hi, I made macros.coffee, and I'd like to say that this guy is right. It's non-hygenic (on purpose) and it's a hack. And purely a labor of love! Slides: http://mrluc.github.io/hammy/12-7-rum-macros&#x2
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Well, I think that you can probably write a compiler from "yes, if" to "no, because" and vice versa. Example: Yes, if the '"yes, if" attitude' is defined as 'never disagreeing with anyone ever, s
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Yeah, some kind of outcomes-based incentives for the prisons seems like a good idea -- it would have to be fairly small, though, to avoid gaming. See that case this past year where a judge (in PA, I think?) had a corrupt relationship with
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Seconded! Like a lot of Emacs users, sure, I love Lisp. But I don't really understand how it's architected. Sure, I understand that there is this abstraction of a Buffer. But it's quite abstract. I'd love to know what&

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