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by scrumper 8y ago
Slightly annoying title but this is actually interesting, about an unlikely alliance of outlaw and MBA type to set up a guaranteed-clean marijuana distributor business in CA. More worryingly, it talks in some depth about various incredibly
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Inside the Weird and Wild Crusade for Clean Pot(rollingstone.com)
3 points by scrumper 8y ago|1 comments
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by scrumper 8y ago
Minor nit: It quotes an account from the '50s, not an accountant.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Can you expand a bit on Egalitarianism? What is it precisely?
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by scrumper 8y ago
Which is in effect saying that the residents' right to control access to their city is subordinate to random tourists' right to visit whenever they like. That doesn't sound like a reasonable position. Maybe a lottery system t
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by scrumper 8y ago
I think this is a simplistic comment designed to elicit a thoughtless emotional reaction from people who already agree with you. It doesn't really address any of the issues the article bought up, nor does it suggest any ways forward. I
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by scrumper 8y ago
David Marcus's move felt to me (on the back of no evidence at all) more like a play for FB to launch an identity service.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Not long after they banned cryptocurrency advertising...
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by scrumper 8y ago
There's a whole set of skills needed. If it's only half way in when it cams out, then you need a bigger pilot hole. If you're screwing into wood, another useful tip is to dip the screws in vaseline (petroleum jelly) first. If
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by scrumper 8y ago
Curiosity and a desire to explore the unknown might bridge that gap. We after all are quite fascinated by whales, by the idea of living in the sea, and we even here are having a discussion about what it might be like to think having only ev
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by scrumper 8y ago
This is fun and educational. Good work. I think you should take 5m to line up the tops of the strings and fix the string spacing in the zoomed-in headstock image. It looks sloppy at the moment.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Jet engines are massively more efficient at high altitude. Turbulence is much worse at lower altitude. Safety margins are reduced at lower altitude. Winds are far less predictable at lower altitude.
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by scrumper 8y ago
> If humans couldn’t even communicate with animals that shared most of our evolutionary history, he believed, they were a bit daft to think they could recognize signals from a distant planet. I've long thought that. Too obvious to b
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by scrumper 8y ago
But those are all intrinsic factors - as in, they are self-generated by the middle management layer. They're not imposed from on high. To enumerate: - Manager fills plate higher, accrues rewards. - Manager judges your target output bas
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by scrumper 8y ago
> In most cases, their job is to simply act as a buffer and propagate upper layer's wishes to mere mortals Well, they're there to take care of the details of implementing the execs' orders. That is a necessary function for
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by scrumper 8y ago
I think that, counterintuitively, that's a stronger argument at larger firms. There you have surveys and metrics and more room to focus on how the work gets done (rather than being in a mad scramble just to do it). Smaller companies, e
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by scrumper 8y ago
In my experience those at the very top are horrified when they find out that their staff believe that the boss requires them to enslave themselves to the company. I believe that in many cases cultures of overwork are intrinsically generated
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by scrumper 8y ago
Those are just brilliantly written, thank you. What a contrast in journalistic style to today! "And the energetic gentleman laughed in the same strain in which the cat was heard when she feelingly exclaimed, 'Hi, Hi! I have eaten
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by scrumper 9y ago
The three claims seem massively overstated and way beyond my understanding of the state of the art. How can AI “break down the positives and negatives” of a petition and predict its future effect if implemented or rejected? I’m I guess will
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by scrumper 9y ago
(Needs a 2016 in the title). CSV is a great example of what happens when you do the opposite of "be strict in what you emit, be liberal in what you accept." It doesn't matter though, because it's just about good enough,
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by scrumper 9y ago
Ah, I do remember this. It was pretty short lived. Good find.
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by scrumper 9y ago
Yes, for one thing it was supposed to enable all sorts of clever composable behaviors; a big change in how computers presented themselves to end users. Apple had OpenDoc[1], Microsoft had OLE. You'd be able to just work on some piece o
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by scrumper 9y ago
When you are in the position to do so, hire people with unconventional backgrounds. Prefer the un-credentialed person with promise who had to drop out of university because they had a kid; take the rough diamonds; ignore the degree and look
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by scrumper 9y ago
Lathe of Heaven is short and rather lovely. Wonderful characters.
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by scrumper 9y ago
Safari 11.1 (13605.33.1.2). Mac OSX 10.13.4.
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by scrumper 9y ago
One has to wonder if it's related to: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-blockchain-jpmorgan/jpmor... (In that maybe the bank decided not to, or will but wants someone else to lead it, or the spinoff will pro
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by scrumper 9y ago
Oh that's good. I hope you ban yourself from using dictionaries to help. Our main constraint is that it has to be a robot that my wife, a devout sci-fi sceptic, has heard of. Probably it would make more sense for her machines to be nam
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by scrumper 9y ago
I had a personal SPARCstation 5 at university. I named it 'sparky'. I probably could have done better.
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by scrumper 9y ago
My family's machines at home are all named after fictional robots, names don't get recycled when the boxes die which makes it a fun challenge when a new one arrives. So far we've had: johnnyfive marvin katya gerty kryten robb
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by scrumper 9y ago
That works fine (the URL directly). The certificate is valid. Entering https://1.1.1.1 doesn't, but shows the same certificate. Don't really understand what's happening here. Anyway thanks for the info there.

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