wickawic

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by wickawic 9y ago
> Because they are often fair weather friends No different than any other capitalist investor!
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by wickawic 9y ago
Agreed, but this move seems like a grab at Patreon and self promotion in general. Users can still put obnoxious annotations up.
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by wickawic 9y ago
the integration between the python code and SNS is relatively well documented, but it is missing examples for how to actually achieve real-world results (such as sending yourself a text message).
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by wickawic 9y ago
> Used SQS as database(long story) I would love to hear it. I have mistakenly used SQS for medium-term storage of state, which is what I am assuming your issue was.
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by wickawic 9y ago
It is slightly strange. The related concept of 'type A' vs 'type B' personalities is useful (even if not backed by science) to bucket people based on their general behavior. But only with men do we take that single step
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by wickawic 9y ago
I'm sure that it is much more complicated than this, but I wonder how long the virus can remain immune to all previous '99%' cures? Maybe eventually we could come up with enough of these and then administer them all at once.
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by wickawic 9y ago
It's a bit disingenuous to call extinction caused by human activity "nature's hygiene process".
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by wickawic 9y ago
On mobile it asks for an email in a persistent footer that takes up 1/3 of the screen. When you type a fake email (there is no way to remove it) it brings up another footer asking if you would like to have such a footer on your own web
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by wickawic 9y ago
And many didn't. Weasel words abound.
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by wickawic 9y ago
The issue presented at the beginning of the article is (as most philosophical issues are) one of semantics. Philosophers as I understand it use "consciousness" as the quality shared by things that are able to have experiences. A r
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by wickawic 9y ago
Just because something makes economic sense doesn't make it good. "Your wells are dry so we're leaving, but I assure you we all profited heavily during the process!"
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by wickawic 9y ago
I like that response, but to me it raises the question as to what incorrect theories might be embedded into our daily (or even scientific) language.
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by wickawic 9y ago
This is a plot point in season one of Silicon Valley, for whatever that's worth.
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by wickawic 9y ago
I always figured the people complaining about the whitespace thing are people whose code I really don't want to be reading anyway
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by wickawic 9y ago
The ad world basically invented modern A/B testing after all!
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by wickawic 9y ago
Scrapers can be pretty shady, so they're isn't a good way to ensure that web traffic is coming from a legitimate human using a browser. To the server it's all just bits on the wire.
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by wickawic 9y ago
For better or worse, inflation is a primary tool the government and banks use to influence their citizens' behavior. Without inflation there is no incentive to spend your money and recycle it back into the system. It can also be used t
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by wickawic 9y ago
People might have a misconception about the machine then. I had heard that the juice was easy enough to extract from the pack that you could do it with your hands. This gave me the idea that the pack basically just had juice in it already.
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by wickawic 9y ago
Spending company money means you're rich
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by wickawic 9y ago
Also considering the fact that Amazon constructed much (most?) of its office space. But "Amazon funds 25% increase in Seattle's prime office space" isn't as interesting a headline.
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by wickawic 9y ago
I think Manheim is a wholesale auction, unfortunately
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by wickawic 9y ago
Since I first heard of the monster group I have found the idea very Lovecraftian: a higher dimensional object that is so incredibly symmetric as to be incomprehensible.
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by wickawic 9y ago
But what makes something a currency? If in an alternate universe Bernie Madoff printed MadoffBucks and made agreements that you could use these as currency in some online stores and Pizza Hut, does that make it a real currency? Unfortunatel
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by wickawic 9y ago
If you are fiddling with lots of tiny pieces (imagine Lego, or watch components), you necessarily need to find every piece you use. If they are organized beforehand then it is much more satisfying and efficient to assemble since all the sea
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by wickawic 9y ago
Agreed. I think many people do a good job of logging when something goes wrong, and maybe they are good about logging inputs/outputs of a system, but I think that logging important decisions often falls off the table. Ideally I would l
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by wickawic 9y ago
Isn't that stuff about the cords just anecdotal? I have every power cord I've ever owned for my various Apple products; sometimes I feel like they are taking me over. Totally agree on your other points though.
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by wickawic 9y ago
It's worth noting that the zip-for-building case is very common, most cities with skyscrapers have a few with their own zip. It still definitely counts as an edge case though, in the sense that if the building were torn down or foreclo
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by wickawic 9y ago
You're totally right, I was stuck in CS world and write log_2 instead of ln absent mindedly
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by wickawic 9y ago
At some point you have to turn your currency into something useful to you. I won't say that this is always traceable, but Bitcoin doesn't obviate the need for a fence.
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by wickawic 9y ago
Up to a number x, there are approximately a = x/(log_2(x)) prime numbers. To a first approximation, we can assume that each of these numbers has b = log_2(x) bits. So to store all the prime numbers from 1 to x you need about a*b bits,

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