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by wtbob 10y ago
> while the increasing dominance of sophisticated traders begs the question of how long the juiciest arbitrage opportunities will last. Raises the question, not begs it. Begging the question would be to say, 'Bitcoin always gener
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by wtbob 10y ago
This is pretty deep, and pretty smart, since it deals with the things a firm is about: its customers, what it gives those customers, and itself. One could do worse than to consider those three areas in any decision.
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FSF Announces Major Overhaul of High Priority Projects List(fsf.org)
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> Consider being able to take a couple years to try a business without freaking out about health insurance. Trying a business in a much more challenging business environment? There's not exactly a plethora of French tech startups,
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They could, for example, sign the new cert with the old one.
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> We all kind of know that we're well beyond sheer domination of all things earthly and bestial. There's not much to revel in, and it's not valuable to teach your children to revel in such displays. I certainly don'
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If you have to revisit your projects to ensure that they work properly, then you wrote them improperly in the first place.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Second hand smoking puts others in risk too. No, no it does not. So-called 'second-hand smoke' (a genius marketing term for smoke) is no more harmful than any other smoke. It is , however, a wonderful excuse for the sort
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by wtbob 10y ago
Of course, a vehicle can still go around those road blocks, currently — a car _can_ drive across grass or dirt, just not terribly well. That's very different from an area-denial killswitch.
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Yeah, I think we can ensure that V2V receivers receive what transmitters transmit. What worries me is that the transmitters will lie . How difficult would it be for someone with a high-power transmitter — or many high-power transmitters
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by wtbob 10y ago
My experience with Perl was that me-a-week-ago counts as someone else. That's not flippant — it's an accurate reflection of my experience that Perl tends to be write-only. There are some people who do write beautiful Perl, but
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by wtbob 10y ago
Thanks, all I see is 'Please turn JavaScript on and reload the page,' which makes me want to comment, 'the web is dead, and we killed it' — but that's not fair.
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Quicklisp fundraiser is now up and running(lispblog.xach.com)
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by wtbob 10y ago
I don't know about that. Nearly every adult American drives nearly every day of his life, and only about 30,000 die each year. That's still too high, of course, and I look forward to autonomous cars, but it does mean that while m
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I'm worried that if I started using Emacs, I'd start hacking the Elisp (which I'd be terribly good at), and hate the lack of lexical scope, etc. emacs has lexical scope these days:-) https://www.emacswiki.org&
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by wtbob 10y ago
Markdown is indeed pretty awesome, and beats the widely-available alternatives (raw HTML? word processor files?), but I think that org-mode is even more awesome. Still, if everyone used Markdown, the world will be better.
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Why I switched from Vim to Emacs(matthaffner.wordpress.com)
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I'm not accusing you of trying to silence folks, just noting that's the MO of so-called 'cry-bullies,' who use forum admins, school administrators and other similar mechanisms to silence speech they disagree with rathe
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by wtbob 10y ago
Suppression of disagreement is exactly what I'm against. You're free to judge, as I wrote , but you're never free to silence. The problem of 'cry-bullies' is that they wish not just to judge, but also to silence.
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> The person using it is of course also claiming to be victimized as a way of shutting up their political opponents I don't think so: the difference is that the crybully wants to silence his opponent, while the one using the term wa
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by wtbob 10y ago
> For instagram, a key micro problem was it took too long to upload photos from a phone. They solved it by pre-uploading it. Say what‽ Does Instagram just upload everything? Or do they start uploading a picture as one is editing the com
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Someone illegally leaked the details of the ongoing investigation to the New York Times, changing what could have been a temporary unpaid leave for Raphel into a front page story with damaging after effects. Pending further information
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by wtbob 10y ago
> “The university has lots of rules against weapons on campus, so, because of all the bows, arrows, swords, axes, and so on, we couldn’t work there,” Aldrete said. Sounds like the opposite of what a university should be for to me.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> If you don't understand why cons is important, and the appropriate places to use it, then you really don't understand Lisp. Lisp-the-mathematical-model, perhaps, but not Lisp-the-programming-language. Conses are definitely a
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by wtbob 10y ago
Practical Common Lisp, along with pg's essays on Lisp, can be credited with inspiring the Lisp renaissance of the mid-2000s. It's an incredibly good book, showing Lisp (unlike Scheme) is a practical programming language, with the
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by wtbob 10y ago
> English: My native language. My brain tried so hard to make sense of it and pulled out snippets of words but there was no grammar there. As an English speaker with a bit of German, that's how Dutch sounds to me: it sounds like Eng
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Although I don't have any direct evidence regarding this instance, I wouldn't be surprised if the old system was greenscreen & form-based, while the new one is some kind of shiny Java-backed web app. It wouldn't surprise
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. This is like a poster child of that. Dang it[1], I strenuously disagree. I didn't post some 'generic ideological tangent'; I just mentioned the first tw
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> the neutral pronoun is equally correct from an English language perspective The neutral pronoun in English is 'it,' and using it to refer to a human being is always wrong. The use of singular they is in a few contexts corre
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Singular they is just as much proper English as generic he. In the right contexts, sure — but singular they is not a drop-in replacement for generic he, and using them identically is incorrect.

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