JBSay

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by JBSay 2y ago
Just like any other authoritarian state
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by JBSay 2y ago
Most of government agencies are errors themselves
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by JBSay 2y ago
When China is more open than you, you've got a problem
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by JBSay 2y ago
Quite an interesting fact that both committed victimless crimes and both were victims of exceptional prosecution
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by JBSay 2y ago
Grossly excessive sentences for non-victim crimes while letting rapists, murderers and corrupt politicians go free with at best a slap on the wrist, is why people are abandon your "holy religion" in droves
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by JBSay 4y ago
Money is not created through fractional reserve banking. Money is loaned into existence by commercial banks. Similarly Coinbase can sell you coins which don't exist. Like a bank it doesn't have to make good on this IOU until you
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by JBSay 5y ago
The author admitted in her opening that she doesn't understand the point of decentralization. Reading anything beyond that point is a waste of time.
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by JBSay 5y ago
Vaccines are not magic. Every treatment has potential downsides. That's why they need approval to weight the potential benefit/harm trade-off.
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by JBSay 6y ago
As opposed to what? Twitter? All social media platforms are ideologically moderated.
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by JBSay 6y ago
This is just the same old keynesian fallacy. You can only consume if you produce. If we produce nothing it doesn't matter how much money we have. There is nothing to consume.
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by JBSay 6y ago
That's absurd. If a baker sells bread to a democrat politician it means he supports the Democratic party?
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by JBSay 6y ago
Nobody says that. All KNOWN future events are priced in. We are not doing divination here.
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by JBSay 6y ago
Does your circle of friends exactly match the general population demographics? No? You're a racist! See how absurd your expectations are?
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by JBSay 6y ago
You're wrong. Bonds protect against depression and index-linked bonds protect against stagflation.
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by JBSay 6y ago
Politics doesn't select for altruism. Politics requires lying, bribing and stealing so it's no wonder the very scum of the earth ends up in positions of power (same for most NGOs executives BTW). Power corrupts, so you will never
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by JBSay 7y ago
I find this problem to be overblown. I've met dozens of dirty coders who happily copy-paste code without a single thought for maintainability and their colleagues. I've yet to meet a single clean code zealot. It's impossible
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by JBSay 7y ago
Clearly false as there is no regulation to prevent the formation of very large companies (anti-trust laws don't apply). In fact companies tend toward giant behemoths in part BECAUSE of government regulation. Small companies can't
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by JBSay 7y ago
Do yourself a favour and open a history book.
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by JBSay 7y ago
Yes and he acknowledges that by saying they are "really HARD" to find. Clearly after 25 years in the industry he didn't wait for you to point out that reliable talented artists don't usually come cheap. He's simply
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by JBSay 7y ago
I started reading his sample chapter on refactoring and I'm constantly put off by some really rookie mistakes and bad code practices like naming a function after nouns instead of action verbs (e.g. "amountFor" instead of &qu
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by JBSay 7y ago
Something made of straws comes to mind.
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by JBSay 7y ago
That's the point. A serf didn't have to prove his worth. An employee does.
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by JBSay 7y ago
Somehow I don't think you know much about medieval serfdom. While the serf was not allowed to leave neither was the lord allowed kick the serf out of his land. The only way the lord could "fire" a serf was to sell the associ
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by JBSay 8y ago
There is never going to be enough information and no matter how you slice the data you have it will always be arbitrary and biased. This whole debate is silly.
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by JBSay 8y ago
Something tells me you don't understand financial markets.
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by JBSay 8y ago
The rest of what you wrote is silly. Social media websites are not charities. They don't have to provide you with a service if you are not willing to compensate them with your data.
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by JBSay 8y ago
Aww that's cute!
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by JBSay 8y ago
Funny how the very people who rail about corporations and Too Big To Fail are the same ones asking for regulations which raise the barrier of entry for small startups and protect large ones from competition.
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by JBSay 8y ago
That's why it's called data science not cognitive science. Duh!
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by JBSay 9y ago
You mean stable like the US dollar which went from $35 per ounce of gold when Nixon closed the gold window to $668 ten years later? By contrast the aureus, the solidus, the fiorino and many other metal based currencies preserved their value

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