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by snitko 13y ago
As for how to get into the business... I posted a submission on a popular (Russian) programming site offering Ruby and RoR lessons. 2 years later my post is Google's search results first page. Then I started doing Ruby and RoR screenca
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by snitko 13y ago
I wanted to make more money. So it was really selfish. And I wasn't good at teaching right away. What kept me on the way to improvement is also money. I knew that if I don't provide value to my student, he'll leave. If I act
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by snitko 13y ago
Abolish grades. Teachers are there to teach. Employers are there to assess and hire. You're just looking at it from the same old perspective. Let me give you an example. I teach programming privately. People pay me $100/hr. Some o
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by snitko 13y ago
So if it results in grade inflation, why not abolish grades? When graduates are hired, why don't you look at their actual skills and knowledge? Teacher's job should be to teach and give feedback, so that students can correct thems
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by snitko 13y ago
The structural problem he mentioned at the end is this: students are not customers. Had they been customers, who could instantly stop paying this professor because they think he's boring and doesn't deliver, you'd see a compl
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by snitko 13y ago
No you couldn't, I'm 28, not 22.
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by snitko 13y ago
That is not the nature of humans. That's the nature of some humans to rule and enslave others. Some people just want to be left alone - I would argue that most people want that. Then a group of thugs comes over, sets us fighting agai
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by snitko 13y ago
It could be. If someone spends money digging holes, it adds to the GDP, but is it good? Hardly so, because no one else profits from it and no additional value is created. The money are wasted, but it looks good on the paper. So why is GDP
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by snitko 13y ago
> It seems that we agree on the effects of deflationary currency incentivizing not spending money. I'd say a deflationary currency incentivizes less spending, not no spending at all. That's the difference. Now, your point abo
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by snitko 13y ago
No, I don't believe Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme at all. And I really don't think my age is relevant, you either have arguments or you don't. But let's come back to that notion of yours > If you're always incentivi
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by snitko 13y ago
As for the miners, yes, they pursue their own self interest, of course. But what they are really doing is helping the network process transactions. So it's very similar to how Adam Smith described businessmen in a free market: they don
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by snitko 13y ago
So? Is Gold a ponzi scheme too? I don't see a problem with the declining rate of generation because you can divide Bitcoin up to some pretty small fractions. You have to really wrap your head around deflation, you know. It's a bea
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by snitko 13y ago
You don't need to be a prophet to guess that. Of course they don't like it. To me, it's not even a question. The question is, what are they gonna do about it and for how long will they manage to delay Bitcoin adoption.
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by snitko 13y ago
Bitcoin is not a ponzi scheme. It's a technology with actual useful properties. The code is out there to see. If you don't understand why these properties are useful to so many people, I welcome you to the third world countries wh
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by snitko 13y ago
A slightly offtopic question: can anybody point me to a js lib, which converted tabs pressed when inside a textarea into spaces and indented the text below accordingly?
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by snitko 13y ago
I've been using http://workflowy.com for the last couple of years to organize my work and it does work.
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by snitko 13y ago
The problem I see with this is that the market is too narrow. Most small to medium size webapps wouldn't care. There aren't enough big ones and those you can't charge too much. I'm sure it's a useful service, but wi
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by snitko 13y ago
Let's say I built a house on a land that belongs to no country. Now, whose house is it? It's mine as long as I can protect it. So property rights are defined not by some piece of paper, but rather by the ability to enforce them. G
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by snitko 13y ago
So if this 60% majority decides to kill the 40% minority, would you still think it's okay to do so? If not, then how about 70%/30%? Or 90%/10%? Where are the lines for which actions and who decides on them?
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by snitko 13y ago
Who are they? How are they different from me? Am I not a part of them? And if 60% of people say it's okay to kill the rest of the 40%, should the 40% submit?
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by snitko 13y ago
Let the mammals organize voluntarily. In my country, for example, some people are against central asian immigrants. That's fine. I propose they don't do any business with them and don't allow them on their private property. I
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by snitko 13y ago
Holding a US citizen for 4 hours. And tricked him into giving his cellphone. Yep. He probably came there to work illegally.
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by snitko 13y ago
The problem is not that there are restrictions, but who imposes them and for what reason. Governments, for example, mostly don't want people to come and work illegally. Well, why do you think that is? It's because they would compe
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by snitko 13y ago
Or so one might think... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24mlK24YDPI
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by snitko 13y ago
I would start with the question of why is it that people need visas. We live on the same earth. We should be allowed to travel wherever we want. It's ridiculous.
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by snitko 13y ago
I, personally, have no trust in any government, so I sort of assumed that too. But that's me. I think you're right and it raises an important question for others, whether the government is really what they think it is.
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by snitko 13y ago
I don't mean to undermine the effort of put into the lawsuit and this careful analysis. But... Shocking. Government has access to passenger's itinerary. I mean, with all the recent revelations, we might have just assumed that.
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by snitko 13y ago
I think this answers the question of "but if you don't like the rules, you can always leave". In fact, you can't. Even if you can afford a piece of land like this, you're still a subject of taxation of some country.
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by snitko 13y ago
My question is not whether they can afford it or not, but whether they indeed would do it or not. If not, then you can consider this island a separate country, which is pretty cool. If, on the other hand, it's still Canada's juris
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by snitko 13y ago
I wonder if indeed it's completely out of any state's control or it's technically still in a state's jurisdiction. I wonder what would happen if someone bought an island and started hiring people and making money there a

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