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by random28345 11y ago
> In what way would you say those terroritories do not belong to China, or any other country in the region? All I know is that when one country wants to take what another country currently has, people die. It's the slaughter of imp
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by random28345 11y ago
I still think the collision with underscore and lodash is intentional and appropriate. It makes a statement saying, "this library is designed to supplant underscore. Do not use underscore and this library together".
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by random28345 11y ago
Just as you wouldn't use multiple libraries that bound a CSS selector function to the $ variable, I don't think you'd use underscore and lodash in the same javascript code. Similarly, highlandjs looks to supplant the undersco
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by random28345 12y ago
Actually, I used two steps. 1. Take the subset of months without a globally unique day? (Bernard doesn't know the answer) 2. Of the subset of months without a globally unique day, is there a globally unique day within that subset? (
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by random28345 12y ago
As long as it includes ethanol, then it's sorta renewable.
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by random28345 12y ago
> The frictionless issuance of stocks bonds and dividends will change everything. Right now, I can issue all the stock I want for a minimal filing fee. In spite of this, companies regularly pay investment banks billions of dollars to fi
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by random28345 12y ago
> Like virtually everyone in the world, I pick #1. Then why Bitcoin? If you add regulation compliance, replace the block reward with higher transaction fees (which is built into the protocol as an inevitable end-goal), and remove (pseudo
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by random28345 12y ago
> If I want to, I can buy my next motherboard from Newegg using Bitcoin. Close. You can pay for your motherboard in bitcoin, which is then converted to dollars and remitted to Newegg. Newegg eats the conversion costs as a transaction fee
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by random28345 12y ago
> Bitpesa exist undercutting remittance Bitpesa takes 3%, significantly more than a credit card transaction, and much more than many established low-risk remittance corridors (e.g. Arabian Peninsula -> India/Pakistan, Europe -&gt
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by random28345 12y ago
> And this periodically actually happens to real government-backed currencies in the world, especially during times of hyperinflation Right, but that happens sometimes , and never with proper governance. (but what is "proper govern
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by random28345 12y ago
> you'll just go back to purporting the status quo being fed to you by authority figures Just because it seems obvious that Bitcoin is a narco-currency masquerading as a ponzi scheme, doesn't mean I am in favor of the status qu
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by random28345 12y ago
> when all the payment processors decided they didn't want to handle donations to Wikileaks after the US government asked them to make that change. On the face of it, this seems like the one legal use of Bitcoin, to circumvent sit
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by random28345 12y ago
> Even if that's true bringing internet or text messaging to the third world is easier than expanding bank coverage. Bringing internet or text messaging to the third world has the net effect of expanding bank coverage.
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by random28345 12y ago
> Its decentralized nature, alone, is its most important attribute. Bitcoin cannot be stopped. Period. It's just as decentralized as tulip bulbs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania ), and Bitcoin will be &
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by random28345 12y ago
Haha, because currency issued by a central reserve bank with historical origins in letters of credit and promissory notes is totally just like a cryptocurrency designed for illegal activity and backed by the wasteful expenditure of millions
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by random28345 12y ago
> Micropayments. There is simply no other infrastructure that does this as well as Bitcoin does, because processing fees dominate. You mean aside from currency conversion fees, the transaction fees ( https://blockchain.info&#x2
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by random28345 12y ago
> I would host the product on my own servers Don't do that. If you're targeting your product for the tinfoil hat crowd, that's simply not going to work. Instead, you create a build script that will generate your applicat
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by random28345 12y ago
> What is superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) ? SMI is advanced decision making software that literally eats the world. Think of HAL killing its crew so they don't jeopardize the mission, but on a global scale. Like a stock trad
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by random28345 12y ago
Should the goal of the US be to emulate happy, stable, wealthy, smaller economies but arguably more egalitarian northern European democracies? Or rather, should we chase China in a race to the bottom? Lower corporate taxes, longer working h
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by random28345 12y ago
> how an opinion [...] is callous and myopic? There have been hundreds of thousands of words written on how simple utilities can form the basis of supportable, complex systems and still retain the ability to be comprehensible. He has di
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by random28345 12y ago
> Life is definitely too short to not be using npm, browserify and React! These are all cool things, but sometimes you want to simply make a web page without setting up node and npm and all that jazz. Think of it this way... jQuery is li
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by random28345 12y ago
> There are other libraries though which provide (IMHO better) implementations of each of those things. jQuery has been around for ten years and has to remain backwards compatible. It's just not possible for it to be the best implem
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by random28345 12y ago
Every time I try to build something without jQuery, I regret it. Not because of selectors, that's (sometimes) easy to do for lots of (basic) selectors. Not because of DOM manipulation, as long as you're willing to sacrifice simpli
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by random28345 12y ago
That's why I pay for Prime (and Netflix, et. al.), and torrent the content. Admittedly, I feel a little bad about paying providers of DRMed content, it sends the wrong market signal. But if I didn't pay these content providers, I
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by random28345 12y ago
> I honestly think we're going to see a Firefox fork in the next 2-3 years. Who is going to fork it? The active contributors that are employed by the Mozilla Foundation? Google? Microsoft? Opera? Some currently peripherally involved
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by random28345 12y ago
Think of it as "remember my login on this computer". If you check the box, you sacrifice security and privacy for convenience. If you don't want to be tracked, you need to perform extra steps.
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by random28345 12y ago
> And in this case the guy gets a much smaller piece of the pie than a founder would. A startup founder is (in many cases) looking for a massive payoff by placing a bet in the equity bubble lottery, with a acquihire fallback. Assembly do
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by random28345 12y ago
While all your ideas have problems individually, modern homelessness is a mental health problem, rather than one of housing. While perfectly healthy people choosing eking out a meager living of booze or drugs by panhandling on the subway is
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by random28345 12y ago
> If this is the case, I really need to get a refund on my Harvard tuition. No refunds. It's your own fault really. Going to Harvard (or any other Ivy League school) and focusing on classwork rather than networking is incredibly sho
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by random28345 12y ago
> Point #2: You need to expand your view of meritocracy beyond just product/code. Expanding who you know, how much they like/admire you, and how much they want to work with you is part of meritocracy. This is why I also include

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