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by slindz 9y ago
Currency is such a misnomer. In the near term, it's a horrible decision to buy anything that doesn't appreciate in value at a similar rate as your cryptocurrency of choice if you can possibly avoid it. That doesn't mean Bitco
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by slindz 9y ago
It has been trivially easy to restore files and folders in situations like this with TimeMachine for a very long time. Thinking of what it would be like to go back to a world without similar functionality makes me shudder.
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by slindz 9y ago
Is the greenhouse infinite in size? (ie. the economy) Are flowers grown the primary metric of success? (ie. revenue generated) Do the non-Vanilla plainfolia seeds on-average prefer different growing conditions than the existing greenhouse c
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by slindz 9y ago
If only it were that easy.... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15009759
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by slindz 9y ago
Painfully slow watch. I made it ~5m into the 18m video. My tl;dr (from what I could sit through): 33% of the video is spent explaining the existing process of bundling real estate investments. This offering wants to put that process on the
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by slindz 9y ago
You're right. I regret my careless barb. I wish I was able to reply to your comment as well as jbob2000 did. His point-by-point reply summarizes my understanding of reality perfectly.
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by slindz 9y ago
Is your last name Ballmer by chance?
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by slindz 9y ago
But I chose computers because I like clear cut solutions and the lack of bullshit......
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by slindz 9y ago
That is a blog article I would read. Doubly so if it was on Coding Horror.
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by slindz 9y ago
Exactly this. I have never wanted to use all caps so badly before in my life. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
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by slindz 9y ago
> We don't live in an ideal world. People have their own agendas, obsessions, feelings etc. that obscure their judgement. It will definitely take a long while. Well, when you put it like that, firing the guy was clearly the best dec
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by slindz 9y ago
How many levels until we're talking about the fair points he made, along with the well-intentioned suggestions he was making?
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by slindz 9y ago
No. Plenty of people see what's happening and play along because it's pretty dangerous not to. This guy was naive enough to try and present a rational and measured suggestion for meaningful improvement.
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by slindz 9y ago
The memo's main point was that it would make sense to focus on diversity efforts closer to the day people are born instead of desperately filling quotas. He was interested in exploring effective long term diversity instead of the kind
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by slindz 9y ago
Maybe, on average, women don't prefer tech as often? - Grab the pitchforks! Snivelling white dudes. - Let's call a spade a spade...
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by slindz 9y ago
For the curious: Comedic bit about voice activated elevators. In Scotland
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by slindz 9y ago
The morning after pill.
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by slindz 9y ago
I'll have you know MC Hammer gifs are so hot right now.
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by slindz 9y ago
I fully agree. My thoughts are that there must be a lot of low hanging fruit, judging by the way a chat app can rev up my maxed out Macbook Pro.
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by slindz 9y ago
Or.... it's not surprising at all.
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by slindz 9y ago
For those who read comments here first, I read the abstract, here's my tl;dr: The people in developed countries who buy themselves things to save time are happier than those who don't. Yup. Sounds about right.
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by slindz 9y ago
Need? No. Compelling and valid temptation? Yes.
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by slindz 9y ago
For those who read comments first: Tongue-in-cheek code snippets of the evolution of programmers/managers/hackers over time. It's a humour piece, not an advice piece.
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by slindz 9y ago
I bought two SIM cards while travelling this month, one in Estonia, one in Latvia. No ID checks at either. Felt nice.
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by slindz 9y ago
My estimate would be that the telco's rely on each others networks to 'roam', and absent of common rules, the behind the scenes peering agreements would leave someone's network with a bill to pay. Under these circumstanc
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by slindz 9y ago
tldr; dunking became a thing, the three point shot eventually balanced it out. Color me disappointed.
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by slindz 9y ago
I haven't checked on it lately, but Iceland had introduced their own crypto currency (Aurora coin) a few years back. It began with an initial distribution to all citizens.
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by slindz 9y ago
I'm building a process engine. It started out as me building a scheduler (with a focus on repetition) on to the functionality of Workflowy. Now I'm growing it in to a multi user tool for knowledge exchange, scheduling, and complet
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by slindz 9y ago
Current daily: Elixir (Phoenix), Javascript (Vue) Recent-ish daily: Ruby (Rails) Before that daily: AS3/AS2 (many), PHP (WordPress, Yii, others), Throughout: HTML/CSS/JS, SQL, Side note: I was surprised at how short my list w
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by slindz 9y ago
It's a podcast with anthropologist from Vanderbilt, specializing in the downfall of civilizations I would have also loved a summary, but my curiosity was piqued enough to give it a listen. Here are some hastily taken notes for anybody

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