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by spinlock 11y ago
Isn't that the old joke about C++: no one uses more than 10% but every team uses a different 10%.
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by spinlock 11y ago
Price gouging might be bad but the alternative is worse. If you allow the market to set the price of a limited resource, that resource will be allocated to those who truly need it. If you set the price so that "everyone" can affor
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by spinlock 11y ago
Naked shorting doesn't do much to exacerbate the downside of shorting a security. Even if you have borrowed the security, you still have an unlimited downside (i.e. the stock price _can_ go to infinity). Naked shorting is more of a sys
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by spinlock 11y ago
Yup. My thesis advisor flat out told me to stop wasting my time with "crap" like neural nets. He came up in the time when they were disparaged by researchers competing for funding in AI so he didn't like them. He didn't
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by spinlock 11y ago
You know COBRA? That law that says you can buy insurance through your former employer after you leave the company. You know what COBRA stands for? Combined Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act Stuffing projects into the budget happens all the
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by spinlock 11y ago
That is not "disruption" in the technical sense.
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by spinlock 11y ago
Am I the only one who would have really appreciated a trigger warning?
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by spinlock 11y ago
All the programmers in silicon valley are above average.
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by spinlock 11y ago
Exactly. I think the author's example of Uber is also way off the mark. Uber did not disrupt the cab industry the way PCs disrupted the mainframe industry. Cabs did not provide a good service; they provided a bad service that was prote
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by spinlock 11y ago
If it's good enough for Snowden, it's good enough for me.
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by spinlock 11y ago
I'm pretty sure Chris Rock self-censored and doesn't play colleges anymore. But, he still plays other venues.
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by spinlock 11y ago
How far can you take that? Can a spammer put up a TOS claiming that by accessing their site you are agreeing to host their botnet?
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by spinlock 11y ago
Yeah. Doesn't bother me one way or the other. I was just confused. Great list btw.
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by spinlock 11y ago
I'm a bit confused. I would characterize this as documentation which can't really be "tried out". From the rules: > For example, blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they don't c
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by spinlock 11y ago
The sad thing is, the government broke up AT&T before they had a chance to connect every home in America with fiber. The project end dat was 2000 :/
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by spinlock 11y ago
> All a take-home project does is separate those who can build superior code from those who can build good code under ideal conditions. It also separates those with no job who spent 20 hours on the project from those with jobs who put in
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by spinlock 11y ago
I used to think the healthy at any weight movement was a gateway to actually being healthy. Start acting healthy and forming healthy habits and eventually you'll be healthy. Kinda like magic thinking except it would actually work. But,
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by spinlock 11y ago
no coffee no workee
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by spinlock 11y ago
Right. I hate the snacks in our office because it's all chips and junk (no free drinks here :( ) But, I bet Sprint could really cut down on snack costs by providing celery sticks and water instead of chips and soda (no one would eat an
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by spinlock 11y ago
now that's how you do it. Did you charge them an early cancelation fee?
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by spinlock 11y ago
Where does your homebrew live? I have a few different users on my mac that I want to all share resources so I've kept it in /usr/local (also the "easiest" because it was the default). TBH, things like this make me r
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by spinlock 11y ago
I was just thinking that the Javascript community saw that the Ruby community were both snobs and well respected, assumed a causal link, and thought they just needed to be snobs for people to respect Javascript.
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by spinlock 11y ago
On the one hand: who cares? It's private, non-leveraged private money. It isn't a debt bubble like the mortgage crisis and hasn't infected the public markets like the 90's. Caveate Emptor and all that. On the other hand:
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by spinlock 11y ago
What about silk road? Do you think people were using it as a currency there or still as a comodity?
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by spinlock 11y ago
As a startup founder, do you try to capture every available market or start with a beach-head and expand from there?
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by spinlock 11y ago
Europe is pretty anti Arab these days.
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by spinlock 11y ago
William Randolph Hearst spent a lot of time and money getting both marijuana and hemp criminalized in the early part of the last century. His motive was to change the way we produce paper (he owned lots of forests and wanted to move from he
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by spinlock 11y ago
What I don't get is how this jives with debasing the Yuan. Won't selling Treasuries create demand for Yuan and drive up the Yuan price? Maybe They are selling Treasuries for another currency?
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by spinlock 11y ago
In the EU we all know it is very hard to fire someone once they have been hired. Why won't employers start using background search services to find this information rather than Google?
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by spinlock 11y ago
> Obviously this sort of law creates an incentive for background check services Bingo

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