triangleman

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by triangleman 6y ago
Even so, the blame is not with the "stupid", especially when stupid seems to be a catch-all definition for all kinds of reasonable behavior, including acting in one's own interest, and not having all the information available
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by triangleman 6y ago
Let me get this straight. Thieves and grifters are not the problem, none of your business in fact, it's the rubes who fall for their sophisticated schemes?
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by triangleman 6y ago
Like Madoff? The subprime lending/NINJA loans? In my opinion both of those things would have been harder if everyone was doing more due diligence. Moral hazard took away some of the incentive to do that.
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by triangleman 6y ago
Is that so? The designers of toxic recommender systems on social media are stupid? The bundling of thousands of mortgages into "AAA" bonds was done by stupid people? The lab in Wuhan where they were collecting bats was staffed by
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by triangleman 6y ago
Couldn't developers have easily ported their Windows games to Windows CE?
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by triangleman 6y ago
There is a relatively simple root cause of the financial crisis, it's called moral hazard: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspan_put Now, how exactly to solve the problem is a complex question, so I suppose in
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by triangleman 6y ago
I'm getting back into collecting and I think that's what I'm going to use for mobile play. And to think just a few years ago I was encoding with LAME...
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by triangleman 6y ago
No one in this thread has mentioned that YouTube recommendations have dramatically changed in 2017, from the heavy conspiracy/sensational/lies videos to something much more "toned down" and IMO rather annoying. It's
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by triangleman 6y ago
You could use a greasemonkey-style script to modify youtube.
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by triangleman 6y ago
Youtube changed their recommendation algorithm sometime in 2017 and stopped recommending the more egregious conspiracy videos. Their recs are now rather bland and mainstream.
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by triangleman 6y ago
What are your feelings about AAC 128kbps?
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by triangleman 6y ago
Wow, so this is rust compiled to JS? Or I guess WASM which is a subset of JS? Is this the future of the web? Also I noticed the base64/deflate URL fragment storing the entire text content, à la flems.io ... nice!
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by triangleman 6y ago
Indeed there is nothing new under the sun: 2 Samuel 15:1-6 Now it came about after this that Absalom provided for himself a chariot and horses and fifty men as runners before him. Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way to t
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by triangleman 6y ago
>Or, this was fun, my first gov't job the guy had stored passwords on a sticky underneath the keyboard (I changed them all). Nothing wrong with writing passwords down. Or at least it's the least wrong thing you could do among a
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by triangleman 6y ago
Yeah my bad, I meant 100 gallons per day, or 3000 gallons per month.
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by triangleman 6y ago
Well then I'd say the rules ought to be changed and if you pump more than 100 gallons per month, you should pay a little more.
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by triangleman 6y ago
The loan situation can be attributed to Nixon closing the gold window and the US having the world's reserve currency anyway. Money is cheap these days. It will not be forever.
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by triangleman 6y ago
Indeed the first securities were sold via auction under a buttonwood tree, and I don't think any government agents were on hand to facilitate it, but I could be wrong.
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by triangleman 6y ago
You seem to have made 2 claims: 1) The "market" (for what, you don't say) was created by government policy hundreds of years ago (but not thousands of yeas ago?) 2) The market needs constant interference in order to not destr
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by triangleman 6y ago
Don't miss the "Legal Changes" section of that article. The bubble and subsequent bust, it turns out, was caused by government meddling (at the behest of powerful economic interests, mind you).
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by triangleman 6y ago
Still they ought to pay their fair share
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by triangleman 6y ago
I mean look at the MDN page on cache control itself: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ca... Now click away and click back. There will be a request and a 304. That's wha
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by triangleman 6y ago
OK So the Expires header is set to 15 minutes in the future. I think this is the secret sauce. I've never seen this before but I plan on trying it out heavily in the future. You don't even need to wait for a 304 content not modifi
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by triangleman 6y ago
Aaron Sorkin needs to make a sequel to Steve Jobs immediately, where Tim Cook leaves him in the dust and changes the world with truly groundbreaking innovation.
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by triangleman 6y ago
Castanhas do Pará (Brazil nuts) are not that expensive in Brazil are they? I'm seeing R$50/kg on an ecommerce site, that's like like $5/lb. I'll try to get a better price quote tomorrow. You can't have too many
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by triangleman 6y ago
If you're like me and were expecting the history of the digital.com domain, it's here: https://digital.com/about/#section-5 Now my question is, how did they make the site so fast? Checking my Firefox dev tool
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by triangleman 6y ago
confirmation bias, availability heuristic
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by triangleman 6y ago
What if you fixed the lottery with a PRNG where if you knew the IV then you would know the output, but then someone forgot to set the IV or some other human error, leading to the PRNG simply incrementing numbers from 5?
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by triangleman 6y ago
Overtakes, not takes over.
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by triangleman 6y ago
This looks great, and way more capable than simply "prototyping and testing" as you put it on your web site. How did you get sqlite3 to index JSON? I don't see anything in the product that does that. I'm searching throug

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