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by patmcc 12y ago
Their uptime calculation is...interesting, to be polite. Look at Dec 2013 or Sep 2013 and you'll see major incidents covering most of a day, but still three nines. How? See https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/her
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by patmcc 13y ago
It may, however, be a pyramid scheme, where early adopters can only profit by getting others to invest at ever-higher prices. History will either record Bitcoin as a currency or a pyramid scheme, and anyone who says they're sure which
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by patmcc 13y ago
https://www.beeminder.com has some similarities to this idea. You have goals that are tracked over time (lots of options on that) and if you derail they charge you an escalating amount. Money goes to them rather than charity, bu
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>>If so frankly how is it even still in business? Newspapers sell a lot better in a universe with constant supervillain attacks.
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>>It is like a wtf limitation of freedom to speech "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech" doesn't mean that you can't pay me to be quiet, if you and I both agree to it.
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>>Sometimes I wake up with hundreds or thousands of steps (maybe I am a sleepwalker?) It actually sounds like either it's not going into "sleep mode" correctly or it's coming out of it for some reason. I have a
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by patmcc 13y ago
If you put a bunch of content on a public webserver, I don't think you have any expectation of privacy about that data. Besides which, Google abides by any robots.txt it finds, so if you're really that concerned about the data you
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by patmcc 13y ago
From the blog post: "We listed 1 or 2 dozen of the most popular artists available". From your link there are 150+ artists listed. Quite a difference. I think you're very right, this does look spammy.
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by patmcc 13y ago
This is roughly equivalent to expecting a locksmith to re-key your lock because you left your keys sitting in public for a couple years. Why would a locksmith have a responsibility to do that? His lock and key were fine, you (or people&#x2F
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>>All roles help build the company. This is true, but rightly or wrongly roles are compensated very differently. A successful tech company probably needs programmers, designers, testers, customer support, managers, ops, etc. It wo
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by patmcc 13y ago
If a third-party is always willing to buy houses (or sell houses it owns), then you don't have the awkward case where I want to buy your house today but you really really wanted to sell it a month ago.
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by patmcc 13y ago
Interac e-Transfers (the only widely used method for doing this I'm aware of) do let you send money to someone via an email address, but it's a notification channel, nothing more. An account enumeration isn't possible with it
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by patmcc 13y ago
Which is one of the good reasons for using credit cards - when my wallet gets stolen, the cash is gone and my credit card liability is $0. Bitcoin is very similar to cash in a lot of ways. This is both a pro and a con.
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by patmcc 13y ago
Tax fraud has always been easy, why do you think restaurants/barbers/plumbers/etc. prefer cash so strongly? The official line is that credit and debit cards have high transaction fees, and that's true (especially for ver
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by patmcc 13y ago
To your first point: not necessarily. Most serious suggestions of a basic income don't involve just printing a huge amount of cash and mailing it out. They're about taxing high earners more, saving a bunch of money on other social
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by patmcc 13y ago
Unless Han Solo is force sensitive.
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>>"One was her observation that he put two spaces after a period" Wait, was that actually one the reasons Dorian was labelled as Satoshi? Because that's true of a huge number of people. Many people who learned on a
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by patmcc 13y ago
It would be awesome to see this kind of salary transparency. Worst case, you end up paying someone closer to the top of the range than you would have had to. But you save a whole bunch of unnecessary work by both job seekers and applicati
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>>and wish these extensions were at least more upfront about it It's the third item on their FAQ ( http://www.getinvisiblehand.com/faq ). That's hardly hidden. I don't even use these services, but it
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by patmcc 13y ago
Are you going to be actually buying the lottery tickets? Or is it just a service to manage/organize the pool? If it's the latter you might want to get in touch with the payment processors, as that's probably fine.
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by patmcc 13y ago
I think it's fine to do social login, as long you only request the most basic of permissions: email address, name. If I see "post on my behalf" from a company I don't already trust, I'm not giving you permission (ev
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by patmcc 13y ago
Yes, except there are ways to launder bitcoins. Put them through a tumbler, use them to buy something, gamble with them and withdraw later, put them in a wallet service and transfer them around (wallets may move bitcoins around, they'r
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by patmcc 13y ago
Not that I disagree, but if you were being charged per-request it would behoove you to use a CSS sprite sheet instead of 10 different images.
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>>On a busy new york street with tons of foot traffic at $.50 the machine could easily generate $5-10k/day gros I think you're an order of magnitude too high on that estimate. If a bathroom was used for 45 seconds, clean
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by patmcc 13y ago
Sure they'll spend it, but it might be on something that increases their wealth/earning potential. Maybe they buy a washer/dryer and can stop spending time and money at the laundromat. Maybe they'll buy supplies to start
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>"Once you start letting the manufacturers sell direct, then all of a sudden the dealers I have in 163 towns of under 15,000 population, they disappear" Why, because they're artificially increasing prices for consumers
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by patmcc 13y ago
A tip for you - please add to your FAQ where the gifts can be sent. You will have potential customers from outside the US visit and wonder (like I did) if you ship to Canada/Europe/Asia/etc. Also, your FAQ doesn't make i
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>>We also have enough fast food workers. That doesn't mean they're doing the job because they want "a satisfying job with good benefits." That's definitely not a good assumption about any profession. Teach
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by patmcc 13y ago
"Physical cash" stored at a third-party like a bank or credit union does have mugger protections - they have safes and vaults and security guards and insurance. If a bitcoin "wallet" service opened that offered those thi
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by patmcc 13y ago
We'd get better teachers if we paid more to good teachers. The problem is no one can seem to agree on how to measure what makes a good teacher - one side is busy arguing seniority should be the primary measure, the other side argues te

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