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by mundo 9y ago
ETH noob here. I don't understand why load would be a problem. Isn't the point of ETH that "miners" provide the space/cpu to execute contracts, and get paid in gas? Why doesn't "too much load" trans
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by mundo 9y ago
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." The book "The Cheating of America" goes in to great detail about how this works (for individuals
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by mundo 9y ago
I was surprised by that too. It's really unclear whether companies can just say "$50k - $500k" though.
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by mundo 9y ago
You're not opening yourself to a lawsuit, it's still perfectly legal to refuse to hire felons because "I don't like felons." You just can't avoid meeting them and interviewing them.
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by mundo 9y ago
I think this (the defensiveness elicited by "here's why you're sexist" articles) is an unfortunate side-effect of overloading the term sexist to mean two nearly-opposite things ("subtle background prejudices that af
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by mundo 9y ago
> Can you show us a comparison of GDP growth rates, before and after wealth taxes were promulgated? Two hours before saying that, you said: > ...every time it's been tried anywhere it's been a disaster for the overall econom
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by mundo 9y ago
Why do you have to pay for road maintenance in your whole town, if the only streets you drive on go to your job and the mall? Because roads aren't a bunch of separate things you pay for and benefit from individually, they are one thin
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by mundo 9y ago
> If the ISPs suddenly become not common carriers, do they then become responsible for all the content? No, "common carrier" is an overloaded concept that implies some responsibility for the thing being carried in other context
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by mundo 9y ago
When people talk about broadband competition, they're generally not suggesting a second physical line to your house, they're talking about requiring telecomms with subsidized last-mile infrastructure to rent access to it to their
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by mundo 9y ago
To my mind, the connotation of factoid is that it's not false, but it's too simplified or stripped of context to be wholly accurate. Consider, "Did you know that squids have eyes as big as bicycle tires?" That's no
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by mundo 9y ago
Feature flags! They're not a requirement of CD but they are very often used by the teams that use CD, for more or less this reason.
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by mundo 9y ago
"It sounds like something those jerks would do" is the absolute least persuasive reason you could've given. Here's why I think it's implausbile: * It's hard for me to believe this practice would be profitable.
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by mundo 9y ago
Do you have any reason to think they do this? With "this" meaning "give higher rent hikes to tenants with high incomes than they otherwise would've." It doesn't sound remotely plausible to me.
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by mundo 9y ago
I wonder if perhaps the article is a teaser for a forthcoming documentary? > A chance remark just over three years ago brought me a commission from a television production company to analyse the illustrations of the Voynich manuscript a
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by mundo 9y ago
> The prosecutor said Tipton will serve no more than five years, if he behaves and makes parole. Well at least he didn't sell drugs. Slightly relevant story: A few years ago I was visiting China and my colleagues there were discuss
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by mundo 9y ago
> Supporters of the program said it could help people struggling to make ends meet and claimed it is one of the most accessible in the country, with a $5 annual membership for low-income people and options to sign up without a credit or
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by mundo 9y ago
Agreed, this nuanced and honest discussion is more worth reading than all the Medium "He's a hero / He's a demon" pieces put together.
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by mundo 9y ago
That's a really inflammatory and totally inappropriate analogy. Downvoters, please cite which part of Damore's essay you think is comparable to overt racism. He explicitly said that he thinks women are capable, and should be hire
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by mundo 9y ago
If I had a job that required COBOL, I'd be interested in hearing from anyone with a genuine interest in it, regardless of experience level. Apply!
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by mundo 9y ago
Don't think this is from the point of view of any sort of economist at all. Exhibit A: > Inflation is synonymous with a decrease in the value of money which in effect means that inflation is a partial default on the debt contract t
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by mundo 9y ago
"An indie game is a lottery ticket that takes a year or two to scratch off." -- my brother, who is currently around month 20 of scratching
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by mundo 9y ago
I don't think you're being paranoid enough; the end goal here is for Google to be the biggest and best source of every kind of information anyone would ever want, ever.
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by mundo 9y ago
I don't really follow. Is this transaction in eth or dollars? If the former, how does the algorithm know what the exchange rate is? If the latter, how does it know a USD transaction has even taken place? It sounds like you're t
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by mundo 9y ago
Who is being trusted to accurately report whether the borrower has paid? I have never understood how the "oracle" problem gets worked out in practice.
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by mundo 9y ago
There's a middle ground between that and applying to "hundreds of jobs in under two minutes". What I do, what I assume most people do, is spend an hour hand-crafting the perfect response for the first application, and then u
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by mundo 9y ago
I will take your reply-less downvotes as meaning, "I wish that what you said weren't true."
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by mundo 9y ago
Candidates are judged relatively, not absolutely. Doesn't matter whether I'm hiring PhDs to write neural networks for $200K/yr or bootcamp grads to move fields around a form, a generic copy-paste application is a sign of a w
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by mundo 9y ago
Hiring managers don't look poorly on generic applications because we're prima donnas who want people to jump through hoops and waste time, we consider generic applications to be an indicator of a weak candidate. If it's not i
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by mundo 9y ago
Absolutely wonderful dissection of Null Object pattern and how dependency injection should/shouldn't be used. This is Sandi Metz (of "Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby" fame) at RailsConf 2015 but it's not R
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“Nothing is Something” – OO design talk by Sandi Metz (2015)(youtube.com)
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