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by xyzzy4 11y ago
It's partly a Rails problem because there's a ton of different ways to implement something, so people will always find reasons to disagree with what you did. And the Rails community seems particularly over-opinionated about these
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The main problem with Rails is that other developers you work with have strong opinions about coding style, and they hammer you on code reviews if you don't code their way.
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Maybe you could use it for encryption.
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AR500 Armor Builds Mandalorian Ballistic Armor(pulse.therpf.com)
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Michael Bloomberg also advises to spend less time in the bathroom. "Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg ticked off a few of his tips for success: arrive early, stay late, eat lunch at your desk. Oh, and don’t go to the bathroom so much."
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I want to visit, but I don't have anybody to go with me, and nobody to see there... so I'd just be wandering around by myself.
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Is it hard to get a visa there if you're going to not work at a local Singapore company?
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But the "noise" also reduces ambiguity. For example, you can search the code and see s is a NSString in Objective C. You can't do this in Swift.
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If your intent is to memorize every factoid and point made in the text, then speed reading won't be effective. However, if you naturally skim articles really quickly looking for information that will be of interest to you, then in a se
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Do whatever you are already doing, but 4 times more effectively?
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Once the money is free of the bank, it's out there in the wild, even if the borrower defaults. If it's deposited into a different bank, it could be fractionally lended and the money supply would increase. So at the worst, a loan d
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
This reminds me of how Peter Thiel said extreme pessimism and extreme optimism are both problems because they both lead to inaction. Why do anything if you believe the world is getting really good or really bad?
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When private companies take out loans, that creates more money. So economic growth causes the money supply to increase. If they default on the loans, the money created previously is still there.
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Don't forget the version numbers!
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On a zoomed-out log scale of significance from 0 to infinity, bullshit activities would rank almost equally important as non-bullshit activities. So just let life happen. Nothing you do is extremely consequential or important regardless. If
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13k BTC, 300k LTC Stolen from Cryptsy Exchange(blog.cryptsy.com)
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No, not them specifically
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It's pretty simple. Be open when it makes you look good, keep secrets when the information doesn't make you look good.
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Why don't they just stop changing the syntax? They already ruined print statements. Don't engineers have better things to do?
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I think the only feasible way Twitter could stop abuse is if it charged $100 per signup, and then ban people on the slightest whim. I don't see how anything else would work. Of course the downsides of a plan like this are so large that
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When will be the year when a robot will clean my room? I've been waiting 28 years. Please just make it happen, someone.
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I think he should've just taken a plea deal and gone to prison for a few months. It wouldn't have been that bad - maybe he could've taken the time to write a book.
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Preventing kids from walking down a public street is nearly as stupid as preventing mature women from doing so. Reminds me of Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.
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My first question is, how much of this is provable, and how much is conjecture?
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Just look at Twitter. They were worth $24 billion or so at the IPO, while losing money. If you hypothetically had every person on Earth using your app, it would be worth tens of billions at least regardless of any other factors.
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It's still somewhat controversial, because if everyone did that, it would reduce the GDP.
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Number of active users is the most important, and realistic growth expectations.
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It takes time for the prices to increase because it's not a liquid market. If wages or inflation are increasing faster then it creates a buffer time for these inelastic goods to catch up. There's also other factors, like institut
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Education, housing, and healthcare are inelastic. So the price will always increase to a level where people can barely afford them.
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I think advances in cultural norms improve more slowly than advances in technology. Also if you are a policymaker who discourages productivity, then that is equivalent to discouraging economic growth. Even if it would increase the well bein

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