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901.
by phillmv 15y ago
Right. I think that overall that's correct - for all intents and purposes it's effectively impossible for the US Treasury to run out of dollars. But the way the incentives for agencies are set up makes me think we're begging to be lied to.
902.
by phillmv 15y ago
I wonder; is it not increasingly obvious that rating agencies are fraudulent by nature/rent-seekers writ large?
903.
by phillmv 15y ago
It's a bit hysterical. Shit! MRI/YARV/REE are inherently fatally flawed! All that code I have running in production must be a FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION! SAVE YOURSELVES
904.
by phillmv 15y ago
Oh, I remember back in the good-ole days when it'd be hitting the front page of Slashdot. Not a terribly new phenomena.
905.
by phillmv 15y ago
You're not wrong but I'd say the degree to which it has eliminated forking costs far outweigh the occasional confusion. If you think about it, this is basically 1) a marketing problem and 2) would be solved instantly should GitHub introduce
906.
by phillmv 15y ago
Eh, it's not THAT easy. For skilled workers, you're in if belong to a narrow category of professions and have worked for a year in the field[0], or you have a job offer. Otherwise, you need to score enough points[1] on this semi asinine que
907.
by phillmv 15y ago
Well, no, this is assuming the problem gets fixed and most of the undocumented people living in the US suddenly become eligible. If a rule is unjust to begin with, I don't see how being fair in its application is all that paramount. Insert
908.
by phillmv 15y ago
>I think the people we should have compassion for are the people who are trying to do things the right way but running into headaches. Those are the people we should make things easier for, not the people who are willing to break the la
909.
by phillmv 15y ago
What's the canonical gitx repository these days? Everyone I know uses a different fork, much to my dismay.
910.
by phillmv 15y ago
"We're like America, but with gays and healthcare and poutine and a thirst for hockey only blood can quench."
911.
by phillmv 15y ago
Back in the day they'd do that and give you land on top of it, as long as you were willing to go out West.
912.
by phillmv 15y ago
Have you tried Canada? We're kind of like the US, but better.
913.
by phillmv 15y ago
Seriously. It's effectively deep voodoo; to talk about it properly you kind of need to know a fair bit about things evolved in the 70s-80s. In some ways the best part of the Unix Hater's Guide is that it chronicles a lot of the history of t
914.
by phillmv 15y ago
No? It's only important because everyone has a javascript interpreter. The point will become moot as Javascript interpreters get good enough to allow us to run with languages that compile down to Javascript and enable more optimizations lik
915.
by phillmv 15y ago
You still need to pay rent and eat. Pretty integral parts of any good education, I'd wager.
916.
by phillmv 15y ago
Sure. Take any circle made with a piece of string and declare it to be your reference unit circle. Blammo! Its diameter is 1 and its length is now pi ;).
917.
by phillmv 15y ago
>What about the auxiliary scripts that need to be written for some tasks to automate some task that is ancillary to your product? If you are writing a ruby script for those tasks that are useful but could be done by brute force methods
918.
Why the Media Is Always Wrong About the Value of a College Degree(tnr.com)
6 points by phillmv 15y ago|0 comments
919.
by phillmv 15y ago
Actually, I kind of like the feeling that I'm building a golem when working on webapps.
920.
by phillmv 15y ago
I don't know, I always found the notion that humans will always be able to optimize better than machines to be somewhat... naïve. Is it an NP complete problem our own heuristics are currently better at estimating? No one has performed con
921.
by phillmv 15y ago
There's a word for people like that: pricks. They're running a business at the end of the day, especially with so many of them arguing against public healthcare options.
922.
by phillmv 15y ago
That is bad advice. Always always get out of debt first. CC debt is highly liquid. If you're fucked, you can max it out within 24hrs. Ergo, it doesn't make sense to have a pool of savings around and service the debt interest payments when y
923.
by phillmv 15y ago
>In my country, nearly all price increases in the last 3-4 years are related to direct government involvement or regulations preventing competition. Yes, I'm sure the price of oil and the price of grain rising 30% due to shortages hasn'
924.
by phillmv 15y ago
Oh, I would argue that latency often has no correlation to distance.
925.
by phillmv 16y ago
It's because being direct is not the same as being an immense prick. Most people (including Linus at times, credibility does not make you immune) confuse that issue.
926.
by phillmv 16y ago
... I find it hard to believe they are concerned by the tune of $50million that TweetDeck would create a viable competing service. That said, I find it hard to believe TweetDeck is worth anywhere near $50million. Based on what revenues and
927.
by phillmv 16y ago
Yesterday, I could get 1kg of sugar for $1. Today, I can only get 0.75kg of sugar for $1. My dollar is worth less (can be exchanged for less goods) than it was before - I'm pretty sure that's inflation.
928.
by phillmv 16y ago
Hrm. My understanding is that inflation can affect anything we attach value to (and that broadly speaking "value" is also an abstract concept). Suppose the price of oil (or any other primary resource) jumps 50%, increasing the nominal cost
929.
by phillmv 16y ago
Inflationary currencies? I'm pretty sure every form of currency is subject to inflation.
930.
by phillmv 16y ago
A good work place environment is easily worth $10k in salary. If a manager were up front with me - "Hey we pay everyone the same rate, and everyone else makes this much. Still interested?" - I would consider that to be a good sign.

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