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   by srbl 8y ago

   Haven't seen any business school professors chime in yet, so as one I'll do so: Increasingly, what "elite" undergraduate schools offer at the graduate level is less valuable than what research universities offer. The be
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   by srbl 9y ago

   As a fellow enthusiast, this doesn't look particularly agile (or fun).
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   by srbl 9y ago

   I think you should re-examine the notion that toxic workplaces in tech (particularly w/r/t sexism) result from forces entirely unrelated to the behavior of "actual" computer nerds.
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   by srbl 9y ago

   I agree with you that the public use case makes more sense than the private one, though really I feel that it's not about "public" or "private" but rather about different sides in some market, whether it is public o
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   by srbl 9y ago

   So I can't provide a strictly bank-oriented response, but blockchain is just a distributed ledger system. I think some disservice is done in not clearly separating out the functions of blockchain from those of cryptocurrencies. You c
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   by srbl 9y ago

   For what it's worth, Ross Ulbricht also paid to have 5 people killed. (They of course were not killed, because it was part of the larger sting, but that's irrelevant to his repugnant behavior)
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   by srbl 9y ago

   I work on several DARPA programs and agree with most of this. But some programs are by design far more basic or applied than others. Also worth noting - DARPA generally doesn't pay contractors anything like what the private sector pays