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by yason 8y ago
But since when bitcoin has been "money" as acknowledged to any official sense? As far as I can tell, it hasn't. That was my point: if bitcoin isn't currency or money then it's just trading bitcoins like trading any
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by yason 8y ago
Not sure how the bitcoin part is relevant. AFAIK it's not a currency even if it wants to be. So same problems and rules should apply to other trading as well. What if he had been dealing cars instead of bitcoin? A guy comes in, buys a
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by yason 8y ago
Chicken-parts processor interviews aren't like this, para-legal interviews aren't like this, firefighter interviews aren't like this, teacher interviews aren't like this, etc. Doing this sort of interviews on programme
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by yason 8y ago
I think the idea is that your culture can enslave you in an idea of who you want to be, which isn't really yours, but rather your culture's. The idea seems to be that this identity has been forced on you, and isn't really yo
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by yason 8y ago
To me, this sounds like a feature. Basically I'd like the phone to cut off all mobile data, wifi, gps, and other radio and kill all applications when the screen is locked. OnePlus has some background activity limits and you can turn on
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by yason 8y ago
I can see the case for representing characters' inner states, it's an important part of the story, but modern literary fiction takes it way too far. Considering how things are written now maybe the inner states are the story ?
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by yason 8y ago
Any serious programmer simply can not worship complexity because then his/her work would never get done. You can start with a trivial problem and grow it into a system so complex it's hard to even begin grasping what it actually d
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by yason 8y ago
I sometimes wonder why do they want to protect the state by cracking down churches instead of using religion, a powerful tool of control, to their advantage. It would take more time to build a Chinese branch of Christianity (and others) but
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by yason 8y ago
I'd be worried if Arc had caught on already. Didn't he say Arc was to hopefully be a hundred-year language? It took Lisp several decades to inject its ideas into more common languages. It's now we've been seeing many
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by yason 8y ago
To me, it seems that they just found a good reason to kill a product born to fail without losing their face.
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by yason 8y ago
You can create lists in Facebook and classify people into close friends, acquaintances, and restricted classes. You can view the feed from those lists if you want. It's more cumbersome than Google+ but you can do something similar on F
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by yason 8y ago
A lone drone pilot from the bush can easily avoid that hammer with trivial precautions.
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by yason 8y ago
That's the problem with jerks. The other problem with jerks is that they don't follow any rules anyway while the good guys get to deal with the added bureaucratic overhead. How do the rules prevent a jerk from buying a drone (with
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by yason 8y ago
Consider comment inflation. Comments should only be needed when things are especially complex and if they are everywhere their average value goes down. Most codebases of good quality that I've seen have not had particularly detailed
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by yason 8y ago
How do you define "web" and "centralized" here? The internet (not necessarily the world wide web) was created to be decentralized Web as the world wide web of HTML pages served over the HTTP protocol. And centralised a
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by yason 8y ago
People are lazy and don't care. They're happy to let Facebook host and own their data if they can comment and like friends' videos for that. That's basically fine. From what I can learn from the history the web has mostl
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by yason 8y ago
This can be made easier with a secondary discardable-grade phone with the same O/S as your primary phone. Do factory reset and cross the border. Then just sign in to your travel phone just like you did when you bought it and switched o
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by yason 8y ago
I wonder what's the difference between countries that makes the police behave so differently as to citizens having to come up with video surveillance to back up their case? In Scandinavia you'd have to be genuinely paranoid to not
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by yason 8y ago
If your work really is so simple that all of it can be automated then it initially sounds like a golden deal: the employer is getting what they're paying for and the employee has a lot of... free time. But the trouble is that most dece
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by yason 8y ago
Are you suggesting the IRS could start coming up with fraudulent charges for tax crimes and forfeit assets from individuals and companies to... well, hire more people to create more made-up charges and continue the cycle? And nobody would n
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by yason 8y ago
It would be wise to let IRS fund its investigations with the recovered taxes, and not on a budget.
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by yason 8y ago
This poses an interesting question. How simple an algorithm can be so that "cheating" it is still considered illegal? At which point it becomes the machine owner's loss instead of the player being guilty of cheating? Suppose
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by yason 8y ago
That's the reason I've never subscribed to any of the itunes, spotifys, or whatever services there are for music and video. I always went "Oh, I'll join a bit later when these services can be trusted as much as my local
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by yason 8y ago
In the case of athleticism, it stigmatizes exercising and wellness. So you're doing a triathlon or a marathon in your 40s? Now this is a bad thing? Can those of us in our 40s get a break? It's another form of ageism in many regar
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by yason 8y ago
This is just what is expected: the vendors do this because they need to shine in these meaningless benchmarks because that's merely the name of the game. The tech magazines are in between: they publish results in reviews and phone comp
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by yason 8y ago
Rendering the vector fonts into cached bitmaps is complex. Rendering the final buffer by blitting those bitmaps isn't very. Smooth scrolling is inherently bounded by the vsync rate of the display. As long as you can render the terminal
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by yason 8y ago
The Free Market is one of the greatest economic tools we've ever discovered ...and one we've rarely employed. Most markets are absolutely not free in the libertarian sense, and while often for near-sighted politics—such as tarif
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by yason 8y ago
It seems to me that the content identification works as advertised: it's the metadata that is missing essential information due to inadequate process. If Youtube knew that the author is Bach and not Sony it would know not to flag the s
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by yason 8y ago
Why render with the GPU? I don't think I've seen a visually slow terminal emulator since 2000 and barely even in the 1990's. Text rendering is basically just blitting cached glyph bitmaps into a buffer, and CPUs have been mor
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by yason 8y ago
As a general rule, consider number of installations akin to window shopping or browsing in a shop. Most of them will be followed by an uninstallation. The same install/uninstall churn will happen to several similar applications at the

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