slyfocks

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by slyfocks 9y ago
While I agree that the gaming industry is exploitative, it's unfair to assert that gambling is zero-sum by generalizing all means of gambling as "screens flashing bright lights for a few seconds." You or I might value a video
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by slyfocks 9y ago
> But ultimately, what political needs would a community of last-name-starts-with-C need? None, which is why that grouping would only make sense in a society of extremely generic robots.
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by slyfocks 9y ago
The U.S. is not a monolith–registered Democrats in West Virginia have very different priorities from those in Massachusetts–so geographical boundaries actually serve a purpose in electing a representative who is (ideally) aware of local nee
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by slyfocks 9y ago
This is not well-written nor is it particularly relevant to anything “hacker-ish.” Has the bar for notability been lowered to content simply having decent graphic design?
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by slyfocks 9y ago
This is extremely reckless investment advice. Active trading, by definition, incurs higher transaction costs than passive investing. Since transaction costs are generally priced per trade, active trading is more costly on a percentage basis
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by slyfocks 10y ago
Just from a cursory glance at the results, it seems like they're simply providing a naive search on the play-by-play descriptions that the NBA provides (e.g. http://data.nba.net/data/10s/prod/v1/2016
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by slyfocks 10y ago
> If a company's project/product were failing and/or losing money, then investors would have priced the loss into the stock price long ago. Not necessarily--often, money-losing operations are valued by investors because of
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More than you ever wanted to know about GeoJSON(macwright.org)
4 points by slyfocks 11y ago|0 comments
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Creative usernames and Spotify account hijacking (2013)(labs.spotify.com)
2 points by slyfocks 11y ago|0 comments
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by slyfocks 11y ago
Bitcoin's historical volatility (3-10x the currencies listed) makes for an unfair comparison to other currencies--as a currency's volatility increases, so does the probability that it will be an outlier, especially over an extende
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RFC 2550 – Y10K and Beyond (1999)(tools.ietf.org)
25 points by slyfocks 12y ago|11 comments
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How Neo4j Cypher Queries are Evaluated(kennybastani.com)
7 points by slyfocks 12y ago|0 comments
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by slyfocks 12y ago
Maybe some people don't like following ambiguously-titled links only to discover old news masquerading as something new. Novel idea and totally ridiculous, I know. How could I have been so silly? Furthermore, my logic is perfectly vali
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by slyfocks 12y ago
Unfortunately, in the process of sensationalizing the topic, the article strongly suggests that the discovery is breaking news. While a recent revision to the original research was posted on arXiv two weeks ago, the original was published i
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by slyfocks 13y ago
Just a suggestion: I would choose a shorter domain name for the service if the purpose is to create shortened urls. Every character is precious on Twitter et al.
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Why Bitcoin owners should stop worrying about hoarding(hacked.co)
2 points by slyfocks 13y ago|0 comments