sametmax

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by sametmax 8y ago
There is a balance here. Yes, I'm incredibly more productive in Python because I know the stdlib and most frameworks and tools API by heart. But it took me 10 years of practice, and my daily rate is way more than it used to be. I'
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by sametmax 8y ago
Glad to read that as the top comment, because when they came out, I expressed strong doubts about this new features, and I mostly received mad comments in return. The alienated react fans stated that I didn't understand what modern cod
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by sametmax 8y ago
Wanted to try it, but it's US only unfortunatly.
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by sametmax 8y ago
Appart from the obvious benefit of not storing the credit card yourself, I imagine if a user switch cards, the number change and we are back to the same.
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by sametmax 8y ago
French here, but isn't it a typo ? "Use this list with so payments by these customers are always allowed automatically."
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by sametmax 8y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by sametmax 8y ago
Like most gov, they probably have access to a root CA and they MITM.
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by sametmax 8y ago
Besides, you can ban credit card number of abusers. It's easy to create an email, it's harder to get a new credit card.
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by sametmax 8y ago
By operation, do you mean a legal one, a financial one or a technical one ?
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by sametmax 8y ago
Good question. I host http://0bin.net/ . I comply to the regular take down notices, but by its very nature, I cannot filter the service since I cannot see what's been pasted. Would it mean I'll have to move the ser
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by sametmax 8y ago
Any kind of concentrated power is a danger to democracy, but you can't setup any system that can counter that, because it will just concentrate somewhere else. The only way to avoid this problem is for the people to actively, on their
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by sametmax 8y ago
It reminds me of this lecture from Albert Bartlett: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&feature=list_oth... Eventually, any kind of growth is limited in a closed system, so it makes sense that it will be the daw
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by sametmax 8y ago
In a city, you won't have this problems, as traffic will jam at the first road work it encounter anway. Besides, how do ones plan to make all those people collaborate ? It all seems very theorical and not that useful.
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by sametmax 8y ago
Look at the video, the cars have enough space to fit on one lane. Better close the road from the begining, and let cars on one lane.
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by sametmax 8y ago
It has the benefit of posting something simple and easy, a picture. And those pictures rarely convey opinions, so there are less wars on instagram.
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by sametmax 8y ago
I used to no care as well. But the world is heavily influenced by all those fake images. People may know something is fake, yet being exposed to it again and again do change their expectation and behaviour. It's like ad. You think it d
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by sametmax 8y ago
What's discouraging me more is that people that do this find it harmless. It says a lot about the state of our society: we still think a little bit of bad is ok, forgetting what happens when everybody is doing it.
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by sametmax 8y ago
I don't get it: why not just put all the cars on one lane then ?
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by sametmax 8y ago
3 reasons: - they are too big now. No one care, no one is paid to care, and no one has any incentive to change that. - they are too big now. Tpoo many customers, with too many dumb problems. Just sorting out the real ones from just the idio
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by sametmax 8y ago
I've been thinking that for 20 years, but it's still holding. Our system have an incredible resilience... or inertia.
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by sametmax 8y ago
Again, all that doesn't change your life much. The difference in quality of like is nowhere close to the gap you bridge when you can stop trying to make a living and doing daily chores. You hit diminishing returns. But being able to in
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by sametmax 8y ago
It's funny to think a lot of the « We are the 99% » are probably actually part of a class of people that are the 1%.
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by sametmax 8y ago
Working in Monaco without being from Monaco does not grant you the same benefits. Besides, it's a really, really boring city.
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by sametmax 8y ago
What's the number for the 1% world wide ?
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by sametmax 8y ago
Given the population size and density, competition is not nearly the same, and hence, top education is probably more expensive compared to the local wealth in India.
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by sametmax 8y ago
Which makes sense, as it's a x1000 factor. Millionaire is actually just a x100 factor from a middle class saving account. Each time, the real difference is not the physical goods anyway. From middle class to millionaire, it's the
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by sametmax 8y ago
I read the article. Then I read the home page. It still don't know why I should give it a try. The practical added value, espacially compared to the cost of switching, is not clear to me. "faster, easier, mathematically proved&quo
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by sametmax 8y ago
Lots of small subtle effects generally ends up with pretty big emerging phenomenons.
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by sametmax 8y ago
The local fighters are slaughtered in mass for very little effect toward their objectives of liberation while the US still maintain control of the natural resources the way they want. Winning is not always necessary.
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by sametmax 8y ago
Counter terrorism is not the real reason there is a war here. Several countries in Europe fight terrorism, and they don't need to go to war. The american are still here because they benefit from it.

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