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by scabarott 7y ago
These are just his favorites not everything he's read, and kudos to him for putting this out there. But I'm a little disappointed as the list is kind of heavily Euro-centric. Probably even just a couple decades ago this would be t
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by scabarott 7y ago
This doesn't make it any less artificial or arbitrary. The marathon is a different beast from the mile and it doesn't make much sense to compare two different eras.
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by scabarott 7y ago
Well the first 4-minute mile was achieved in a similar manner and for some reason it is well known in the popular imagination. To be honest I think these arbitrary marks of achievement are all very artificial and more about good PR more tha
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by scabarott 7y ago
There is a spec, just not a formal fixed in time one. There's only one reference implementation so that might as well be taken as the de-facto spec.
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by scabarott 8y ago
Hadn't heard of vault or Algorand before, but woah, what a team of heavy hitters: Micali, Goldwasser, Andrew Lo, Kenneth Rogoff, Herlihy etc. basically a who's who in CS, Cryptography, Econ & finance. If any group will do cryp
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by scabarott 8y ago
Haven spoken with a few friends of mine who are in the position to know better I guess I can answer part of my own question. Apparently if a law exists that is obviously broken it's usually because there are vested interests interested
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by scabarott 8y ago
I didn't understand this too. It read as if they reached a settlement with Blackbird and part of that settlement involved taking down Project Jengo. From the site: "The larger bounty (up to $30,000) will be spread among those subm
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by scabarott 8y ago
The case against trolls is so clear and obvious, why does it seem so difficult to craft legislation to prevent this? I imagine a simple addition to patent laws invalidating a patent if the holder does not commercialize it after a certain pe
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by scabarott 8y ago
This is interesting. How long did it take you to do this? Do you manually curate the articles in the app or are they randomly pulled from the web?
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by scabarott 8y ago
Huh? Maybe the headline is content-free, but the tweet it links and reply tweet could be useful esp for someone on the fence about Rust, and not just because of the person replying
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by scabarott 8y ago
No one's disputing that.
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by scabarott 8y ago
Long time? Days?? If you park in an unauthorized zone with "no-parking" signs it can literally take minutes (believe me I've had this happen). I've heard some towing companies actively patrol lots where there's like
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by scabarott 8y ago
I don't think their original piece actually made a judgment, it just reported what everyone else initially thought was the case (correct me if I'm wrong ). Still I agree it's disappointing that they a news organization takes
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by scabarott 8y ago
This is really fascinating. Had no idea just an HN comment can get you an invitation to write a NYT op-ed. Is this usual? Have you written for a newspaper before or do they randomly source semi-anonymous internet commenters for opinion piec
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by scabarott 8y ago
This is astute and quite accurate (imho).
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by scabarott 8y ago
Unfortunately this happens a lot but I don't entirely blame the media companies. In the age of twitter and social media, some news moves fast and they have to decide quickly whether to publish something about a trending news item or wa
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by scabarott 8y ago
>Failing that, I see it as a niche product that'd revolutionize the entertainment industries but doesn't change much outside of them. Entertainment is certainly not niche by any definition. If VR replaces gaming consoles alone
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by scabarott 8y ago
You're really caught up on this commoner/non-commoner dynamic (from your other comments). Was it really that important? - many of the well known scientists of that time were 'commoners'.
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by scabarott 8y ago
I'm in awe of his skills and intelligence. Sounds like someone who knows how to work smarter. I would have taken that as a learning opportunity. *edit: Getting a few down-votes on this one. I was being mildly sarcastic but on the other
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by scabarott 8y ago
>I'm actually very interested in hearing concrete ideas of what the unintended consequences could be and their cost, from actual experts. Not all unintended consequences can be predicted let alone have a cost attached to them. In fa
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by scabarott 8y ago
I would never think of banking with BOA after all their shenanigans during the financial crises. A couple years ago I moved all my accounts from another major bank (one that rhymes with 'shittybank') to an online-only bank to avoi
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by scabarott 8y ago
Well said. Those efficient killing tools patriotic people like GP want to invent end up in the hands of Taliban or Colombian drug lords or on both sides of a civil war between African warlords making the lives of ordinary civilians in such
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by scabarott 8y ago
>What I'm saying in this thread is, the author seems to be incredibly myopic using his own limited experience as a way to judge others for judging. This is quite a judgemental statement to make about someone who says he's been
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by scabarott 8y ago
Holy smoke, talk about reinforcing stereotypes about Indiana
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by scabarott 8y ago
Don't forget auto-playing video that requires 4 clicks to close when you find the semi-hidden close button, like a pesky roach... and restarts every time you navigate to another page or revisit the page
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by scabarott 8y ago
I think stablecoins is where the cryptocurrency experiment is headed for the near & forseeable future. It's interesting to watch the experiment slowly give way to the reality of operating in the world at large. At least we still ge
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by scabarott 8y ago
One thing though, the internet was/is solid technology. Underneath the internet bubble was something that worked. Blockchain is promising technology but without solving the scaling issue it will always be just that.
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by scabarott 8y ago
Or doctors the healthiest, fittest, most disease-free individuals?
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by scabarott 8y ago
I think they mean it in the sense that: Theoretical foundations --> practical problems = Bottom Up, practice without theory --> building up the theoretical legs to stand on == Top Down
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by scabarott 8y ago
It's been replaced by the Decentralized Web as the latest fad (also with the backing of Tim Berners Lee). Let's see how far this one goes as well (though I'm really rooting for it to succeed).

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