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by random28345 11y ago
> I've never understood why it's ok for people to waste their money on HBO but not fantasy sports I've never understood why it's okay for people to waste money on fantasy sports but not on Ponzi schemes.
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by random28345 11y ago
> but there are people who are using third-party tethering applications Actually, I think it's more common to simply tell Android to not send tethered data to a special "tethering" APN. Frankly, I bought my phone, I can co
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by random28345 11y ago
> Reading it is fairly infuriating I think you mean hilarious
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by random28345 11y ago
> Don't understand why the down vote. Because you're weighing in on a complicated subject without considering your inherent biases. You're conflating the success of individuals with equal opportunity. Having a black presid
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by random28345 11y ago
> If you're going to run a casino (whose entire business model is based on exploiting weaknesses of others for profit), There are plenty of casios, and many of them comply with the law. People who choose to gamble there might be exp
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by random28345 11y ago
That's one way for NASA to lose funding.
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by random28345 11y ago
> What happens when more and more of us abandon fiat currencies for cryptocurrencies? Short answer: Pigs will fly. Long answer, in order for this to happen, the high transactional costs of cryptocurrencies (FX costs, electricity, blockch
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by random28345 11y ago
> Because no matter how attractive the Apple Watch is in the context of other smartwatches or smartbands, no matter how much of an aesthetic advance its rounded corners and rectangular display, it still looks like a gadget. Which is why
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by random28345 11y ago
> There are other countries with people in them that can program too. I didn't say anything that disagrees with this statement, I simply said that for the last decade the way to increase profits has been to bring in migrant workers
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by random28345 11y ago
> Rather than work hard only to see most of his earnings confiscated, he'd make just a few movies and then enjoy those profits instead of spending time on diminishing returns. Sounds good to me. More actors, more variety. Maybe we w
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by random28345 11y ago
> When your firm can't hire anyone with experience, and there's no entry-level jobs, it will discover the same solution to that problem that has been discovered any number of times in any number of other situations already Yes,
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by random28345 11y ago
It's a lottery. The masses aren't playing it because they think it's equitable, the masses are playing it because they lack critical thinking skills. As long as people think they can get rich quick, it's a good design.
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by random28345 11y ago
> Making it acceptable to default on or get bailed out of debt (whatever the source) is a recipe for financial ruin for us AND our children. One can argue that those who pay off a $250k college loan to a small liberal arts college are cr
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by random28345 11y ago
You responded to a complaint about the website providing insuffcient information about the game and simply asking for an email address... with no information about the game and a request for an email address. I hope the game itself is more
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by random28345 11y ago
That is the standard python convention. https://docs.python.org/2/faq/programming.html#how-can-i-pas...
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by random28345 11y ago
And to continue the questioning, if you have one reroll, and we assume you reroll a 1-3, then the expected value is (3.5 + 3.5 + 3.5 + 4 + 5 + 6) / 6. I'll take that hedge fund job now.
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by random28345 11y ago
> So often commenters will thoughtlessly say things like "Just give [poor people] a bunch of money!" The amount of money we spend on effective social welfare programs (e.g. food stamps) added to the money spent on ineffective s
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by random28345 11y ago
> Homesteading is an easy way to move in this direction without needing such riches. Homesteading is a great way to work significantly harder for a lower standard of living. > Your math/programming skills will help immensely if y
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by random28345 11y ago
> I think the Snowden leaks have caused tremendous damage to the US geopolitically I also think these MRIs that show the spead of cancer have done tremendous damage to the body medically.
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by random28345 11y ago
> If someone robs you or breaks into your house, you have the right to defend yourself. Yes, that's why in the non-internet world, when someone breaks into my house, I now have the right to commit identity fraud, make false statemen
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by random28345 11y ago
"We could submit a DMCA takedown request via GoDaddy and Media Temple. Starting with a broad request to see if that works, and then lay out the details if we get any pushback from the companies." Awesome. More DMCA abuse. And this
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by random28345 11y ago
"See, Bitcoin isn't just for illegal drug purposes. It's also for illegally circuventing currency controls!" Psychic prediction. In ten years, there will be some jurisdictions where possesion of a copy of the bitcoin led
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by random28345 11y ago
Being in a position of privilege and wealth due to being born in the right time in history and getting exactly the right circumstances of upbringing and location totally qualifies you to dispense wisdom to the masses.
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by random28345 11y ago
> I don't see how the idea that Steam should get a share approaching 30% is any less repugnant than that. If you don't understand they 30% is reasonable, then you haven't tried to sell a game in the last 5 years. That 30%
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by random28345 11y ago
> Honda doesn't get a cut if I have my car modded at an independent shop. Not yet at least. However car (and tractor) manufacturers are moving to make such activity illegal using encryption and intellectual propertly laws. I'm
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by random28345 11y ago
> Amdahl's law only really makes sense in parallel computing. Contemporary computing is parallel computing. Even phones have multiple cores.
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by random28345 11y ago
> But Bethesda who developed the actual game that brought the modders and gave them a platform to derive their work on, not to mention creating the actual game and game engine and putting it in the hands of the actual customers; they sho
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by random28345 11y ago
So the closest analogue to computer game "mods" in the book publishing world is "fan fiction". Note that 25% is pretty generous when you're creating a derivitive work off of someone else's IP. See Kindle Worlds
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by random28345 11y ago
Diverging more, and obstensibly adding more value over the "baseline" node.js, gives the io.js committers more "leverage" in governance discussions. It also arguably reduces the chances of a successful reunification. Sti
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by random28345 11y ago
> Nowhere near... You're right, Apple is significantly worse. Microsoft went out of it's way to make sure that competitors applications didn't work (DOS isn't done until Lotus 123 won't run). This sparked a devel

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