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by wskinner 11y ago
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. I would add that in my own experience (took CS61a at Berkeley with no prior programming and little math) those guys who already had a lot of knowledge were inspiring and a great asset. Working with mo
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by wskinner 11y ago
Just like governments, corporations are groups of individual people nominally organized around a common goal. If the government overreaches to a degree that will have a significant negative effect on corporations' bottom lines, as woul
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by wskinner 11y ago
As others have noted, this is probably mostly about branding. But that's why it is genius. Tim Cook is committing Apple to this pro-privacy position in a very public way. This means that a reversal of this position or a revelation that
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by wskinner 11y ago
Epictetus said it well: "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." Having an 'internal locus of control' is not incompatible with knowing when
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by wskinner 11y ago
Assuming that you would have paid $8-$10 for that level of shipping before. If you're like me, you never would have paid extra for 2-day shipping, but when it's framed in the language of "free", everything changes.
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by wskinner 11y ago
This may add some degree of context: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/05/01.html
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Architecture Astronauts Take Over (2008)(joelonsoftware.com)
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The Problem with Integer Division (2009)(python-history.blogspot.com)
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by wskinner 11y ago
This is simply a consequence of how prices communicate information through the market, and is the whole point. End-consumers should pay more for things that have a (direct or indirect) carbon footprint. Otherwise why would they change the
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by wskinner 11y ago
From the article, it seems this is not a true p2p architecture. It's more of a hub and spoke model, with each phone connected to the cloud, but not to other phones.
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A repository that tries to feel superior by correcting your mistakes(github.com)
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This is good, but it really just skims the surface. Something these articles tend to miss is that sexual commodification doesn't necessarily favor men. On Tinder, it probably favors women. For a more in-depth explanation of why, see h
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by wskinner 11y ago
Looks like a good idea with good execution. I like that they are trying to marginalize the dating aspect. I really hope it takes off, because the only way it will be good to use... is if people use it.
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How social security works in 2014(heritage.org)
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The curse of the secret question (2005)(schneier.com)
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by wskinner 11y ago
"Of the next six adults you meet, chances are one of them has never sent an e-mail." This is a misleading way to restate the title of the article. It's misleading because this statement is not actually equivalent to "1&#
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by wskinner 11y ago
Who gets to decide what's immoral and what is only unfair? And just because a French person puts on his consumer hat, does he suddenly cease being a citizen? By granting monopoly rights to one group (the taxi industry) you limit the ri
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by wskinner 11y ago
Why shouldn't people willfully ignore unfair laws? Isn't there quite a bit of that sort of behavior in the history people fighting for civil and economic rights?
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by wskinner 11y ago
“Here’s something simple I came up with. It may not look like much, but trust me, it was really hard to realize this was all I needed to do.” This reminds me of something Scott Shenker, my computer networking professor at Berkeley, drilled
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by wskinner 11y ago
Scarce resources need to be exposed to market forces. The purpose of markets is to allocate scarce resources and price them appropriately.
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by wskinner 11y ago
Chris Stucchio advocates exactly this approach here: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/microservices_for_th... tl;dr: "When building reliable software, the network is your enemy. Distributed systems are
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by wskinner 11y ago
Chris Stucchio advocates exactly this approach here: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/microservices_for_th... tl;dr: "When building reliable software, the network is your enemy. Distributed systems are
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by wskinner 11y ago
Money is fungible, so this is in fact what basic economics would predict. The root problem is that assets can be seized sans conviction.
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by wskinner 13y ago
https://www.youtube.com/user/JoergSprave - The Slingshot Channel
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by wskinner 13y ago
The original title, "Why the 9-to-5 Day Is So Tough on Creative Workers", might be more appropriate.
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by wskinner 13y ago
It also seems to allow some illegal moves. The computer moved its bishop like a rook.
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by wskinner 13y ago
Can you give more details about the OTR backdoor(s) you are referring to? I've never heard of this and google doesn't return much either.
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The state presses charges, not the "victim". For an example, see the recent proceedings around Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi in San Francisco.
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But this assumes "well-functioning public transport". In reality, this does not exist. Many, even most buses where I live are empty most of the time. Energy efficiency issues aside, cars provide something even more valuable: isolation and p
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by wskinner 13y ago
Strongly agree. Aside from the first-order benefits of encryption becoming ubiquitous (government can't read my ) stuff, there are side effects that may be even more important. If everyone is using Tor, for example, there is a lower probab

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