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by olefoo 14y ago
You prefix it with 4 spaces. # like this
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by olefoo 14y ago
The headline unemployment rate for the US is misleading, if you look at overall work force participation it's going down. [1] And if you used some metric of job insecurity that took into account whether people were on flexible schedules, or
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by olefoo 14y ago
Black market resellers not understanding the goods they are selling is not entirely surprising. But that's one of the things that makes me think this could be marketing, not reality.
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by olefoo 14y ago
Thanks.
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by olefoo 14y ago
I am mildly disappointed that there is not a torrent seed of the whole dataset... It might be interesting to see what sort of correlates could be inferred by a crowdsourced analysis.
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by olefoo 14y ago
The wikileaks cables exist in grey zone; it's they were never released by the US Government, but they are public. Generally speaking if you are not and do not plan on being an employee with a mandated security clearance, you have nothing to
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by olefoo 14y ago
Unless money and speech are exactly the same thing; it's not.
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by olefoo 14y ago
If true, this is a sad day for the industry. We're currently in the phase of the industries adolescence; and of the longer struggle of the culture at large to deal with gender imbalance. That some men can engage in this sort of behavior for
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by olefoo 14y ago
And we know for a fact that it's not possible to manipulate large networks of people in an organized manner...
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by olefoo 14y ago
Perhaps they are counting on their 'brand equity' to serve as a competitive advantage? I'm similarly dubious as to their chances of success with the initial population ( the part of the market for digital currencies that overlaps with bitco
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by olefoo 14y ago
> fraud mitigation Ah yes. The fraudsters favorite service for irreversible cash transfers will certainly have an advantage there.
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by olefoo 14y ago
Post a link to your github repository in the appropriate programming subreddit for your language. Make sure that your posting declares that your code solves problem X better than anyone else. Sign off with "and I defy you to find better cod
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by olefoo 14y ago
[ citation needed ] on both the declaration that he's been proven right and on your slapdash dismissal of that assertion. And, please, could you be more of a contributor and less like an aggressive drunk starting a bar fight?
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by olefoo 14y ago
Or just getting all their peering exchanges to null route packets in and out. Advantage being that it's cheaper, more effective and less lawsuit prone.
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by olefoo 14y ago
Retrodiction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrodiction
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by olefoo 14y ago
Not to get too deeply into the weeds of philosophy of science; but macroeconomics very is at least as much of a science as climate science. Observations are made, hypotheses are tested against reality, and predictions are derived that fail
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by olefoo 14y ago
He's commenting as an expert in Economics, not internet protocols. In this case, he's looking at the economic effects of a service that is valuable to it's users, and that appears to be both slightly unprofitable and a nautral monopoly. He'
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by olefoo 14y ago
No. Consumption is in fact a form of labor. One that in some manifestations is employed in support of natural hedonism; but often has little or no relation other than that hedonism is used to propagandize the consumption. In the United Stat
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by olefoo 14y ago
Clearly you need to run a cronjob that checks every minute and texts you when it becomes available...
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by olefoo 14y ago
I suspect that they are overprovisioning vms If you notice how it can seem laggy when logging into your vm at first? And since the swap partitions of the physical host are all SSD's it's not impossible that they are oversubscribing memory a
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by olefoo 14y ago
It's not the end-user who's likely to be doing money laundering, although that might happen any how. Here's a sketch of how it might work, an entity with a large amount of USD in bank accounts in the US, that wishes to move the money elsewh
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by olefoo 14y ago
I see that the prepaid accounts for cellular and game access can be sanitized. I expect at least one shady MVNO to offer prepaid SIM cards that can be recharged with BTC as that's a very easy way to move cash across national borders; and I
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by olefoo 14y ago
The first amendment makes no distinction between someone who says "Hey your shitty website is broken. And I'm telling everybody." and someone who sends a private email, hat in hand, saying; "Excuse me kind sirs, but I can't help but notice
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by olefoo 14y ago
It's the tragically hip syndrome, people only like companies that it gives them a social advantage to like and tell people about. In other words, obscure indie startups from Portland are more likable than global behemoths... Justin Bieber m
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by olefoo 14y ago
If the predictive analytics said all your friends were going to jump off a cliff next week, would you jump off the same cliff?
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by olefoo 14y ago
How is that more useful than a link to the source data in a format appropriate to the data?
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by olefoo 14y ago
It's definitely appropriate if you're talking about the practice itself; slightly less so if you're using it metaphorically. But you know what? The boundaries of what's appropriate and not are culturally constructed, you should be able to u
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by olefoo 14y ago
Well, part of that is that authors are not as a rule gifted with assets, so it's a fruitless task to recover money from them. The other part is that it looks bad. And the third leg is that that is how commercially successful authors subsidi
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by olefoo 14y ago
Your math is a bit wonky and you are missing some aspects of the traditional publishing contract. The traditional publishing deal involves the author getting an advance (cash up front) which they do not have to pay back unless they fail to
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by olefoo 14y ago
If we're going to plump for prescient John Brunner books Shockwave Rider was a better book; and may have been closer to the mark in some respects. And I think the protagonist of that book would be someone most HN readers could identify with

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