wickawic

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   by wickawic 9y ago

   You can just move to Madagascar and close the ports.
2. 62.▲
   by wickawic 9y ago

   "blockchain, et al"
3. 63.▲
   by wickawic 9y ago

   What people do and what is legislated are two different things. The point is that with a law on the books you can fight about your SMTP connection being closed, but without the law then there is no framework to even complain.
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   by wickawic 9y ago

   Yes. But there are very few differences anyway. The only thing is that there is not 100% backward compatibility, which is why we get articles like this. For computers that is a Big Deal, but for humans it is really easy.
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   by wickawic 9y ago

   This page is very silly, it basically says 'men get to do what they want when they want'. I like how the longest rule is about being 'single-minded', which is basically just an excuse for not taking part in all facets of
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   by wickawic 9y ago

   I have a feeling you would enjoy this paper by Scott Aaronson. It outlines some interesting issues at the intersection of philosophy and computation. Page 9 is “known integers” and touches on your argument. https://www.scottaaron
7. 67.▲
   by wickawic 9y ago

   That brings up another issue, but what about the original issue that GP brought up? If bitcoin continues to fluctuate wildly in value then it isn’t a great currency.
8. 68.▲
   by wickawic 9y ago

   "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” - Al Bartlett
9. 69.▲
   by wickawic 9y ago

   Easier: make exchanging bitcoin for real money illegal.
10. 70.▲
    by wickawic 9y ago

    And apparently not all of the performance improvements are even integrated into the browser yet!
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    What is worse about it in your opinion? I was pleasantly surprised with how well it worked, and in fact the old extension had bugs for me where hiding the tab bar wouldn’t work properly.
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    I did this intentionally recently by only listening to spotify’s discovery playlist for a few weeks in a row. I started out with some r&b and electronic music, and ended up weeks later with a playlist of bland, uninspired rock music, ap
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    I'm really surprised Youtube hasn't implemented some sort of Patreon-like payment scheme. Seems like they are off making Youtube TV because no one learns anything and we must repeat the same mistakes indefinitely.
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    Just because it is ubiquitous doesn't mean that it shouldn't be railed against.
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    I know your children are younger, but there is definitely something about school that brings out the lowest-common-denominator in all of us
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    This is something that programmers (including myself) are often guilty of. We see an implementation and understand what features based on that implementation are difficult/infeasible. Then we say things like "it isn't possibl
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    question at this point though: If a crypto currency were to gain widespread adoption, why would it be Bitcoin?
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    Yeah I understand there are benefits, and I didn't mean to make it sound like I am against medication. It is just interesting because our culture dictates what behaviors are successful, which in turn informs which behaviors are undesir
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    This line of reasoning is why giving children (or anyone, really) medication for moderate behavioral problems is an ethical gray area. If there is a pill that helps an unruly-but-otherwise-healthy kid sit still and stay focused, do you have
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    For anyone who doesn't know the whole trick: 2^10 ~= 1_000 (2.5% error) 2^20 ~= 1_000_000 (4% error) 2^30 ~= 1_000_000_000 (7% error) Because of exponentials, each power of 5 between is about 1/30 of the way to th
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    sidebar: lots of easy to enjoy things are implemented in 'slow' interpreted languages. This site, for one.
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    with the incredibly dark pattern of saying you can 'continue' to the app with a big button, or 'go to the mobile site' with small text below. Of course you are already on the mobile site, so to use this wording is intent
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    So now they get expensive tiny houses and bigotry!
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    It was even easier than that at one point. The handlers and Trump had different mobile OSes http://www.businessinsider.com/realdonaldtrump-data-suggests...
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    Thankfully most people don't currently use Google maps for their daily commute. This will be a problem with self driving cars if people aren't allowed to choose their own route.
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    While insightful, you very strangely answered a personal question directed at another user. How could you know what they eat?
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    glassdoor seems like a great opportunity for fakespot.com to take a crack. They don't have the same types of things they can reference though, since most people probably don't have > 1 reviews on the site for cross-referencing.
28. 88.▲
    by wickawic 9y ago

    I have never seen a UPS employee throw a package at my house
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    I can answer the second question, which is 'no'.
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    by wickawic 9y ago

    We all signal virtue through any action. Not including these emoji is also signaling virtue. What do you recommend they do? It is not in their best interest as a global and publicly traded company to be intentionally exclusive.