cayblood

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by cayblood 3y ago
One of the profound contributions of Christianity, corroborated in other wisdom traditions, is the assertion that every single one of us ignorantly does irreparable harm to others in the course of our lifetimes. Recognizing this is the begi
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by cayblood 4y ago
You're partaking of the spoils of your ancestors, and the material losses they caused can be directly traced to the living citizens of Haiti today. It's not really that much about guilt, but about actual liability.
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by cayblood 4y ago
It's important not to treat all porn equally, but I think it is fairly safe to say that much porn was not obtained with the full consent of the people depicted in it, or with completely fair terms of compensation. Even if it was, it is
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by cayblood 5y ago
Part of his technique is to plant tall shade trees on every street, shading both streets and houses.
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by cayblood 6y ago
"That, not exploiting people, is the defining quality of people who become billionaires from starting companies." This is one of the sentences in the essay that most reveals Graham's reductionism. A person can become a billio
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by cayblood 6y ago
Did you consider Step Functions for taming some of this complexity?
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by cayblood 6y ago
Still confused about how micropayments for content would work practically. Either you have to wait at least until the next block is produced to verify that payment has received before responding to the HTTP request, or you respond before ge
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by cayblood 6y ago
This doesn't seem that "jaw dropping." Hans Rosling was saying this for at least a decade prior to this, that global population would peak around 10B and decline thereafter. That said, I think that viable longevity therapy wi
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by cayblood 6y ago
Those are three anecdotes, and at least two of them are not as stark as described. The data scientist's timing was bad and his prior relationship with several stakeholders was already on the rocks. There are rumors that the worker who
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by cayblood 6y ago
All it takes is one accidental sneeze in a grocery store for a face shield to become useful.
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by cayblood 7y ago
What was the process of registering a domain name at that time? I've often dreamed about going back in time to when I was a kid and registering a bunch of domains before 1995. What would have been involved?
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by cayblood 7y ago
Pretty ironic that he later came to call maximizing shareholder value "the dumbest idea in the world." https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/28/maximiz...
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by cayblood 7y ago
Several highly-educated Mainland China associates and colleagues have shared such thoughts with me and expressed general disdain for the HK protestors.
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by cayblood 7y ago
The Arctic World Archive description says: "The film technology relies on silver halides on polyester. This medium has a lifespan of 500 years as measured by the ISO; simulated aging tests indicate Piql’s film will last twice as long.&
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by cayblood 7y ago
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing. It's good to point out the positive potential uses as well as the negative.
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by cayblood 7y ago
Seems like they could greatly reduce fraud by using RFID stickers to authenticate manufacturer-authorized products.
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by cayblood 8y ago
These kinds of systems tend only to work for people who don't need to coordinate their schedule with a significant other. Using online synchronized tools was the only way to prevent our family from constantly being unaware of upcoming
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How Dapps work in 2018 [video](youtube.com)
7 points by cayblood 8y ago|0 comments
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by cayblood 8y ago
The problem with the Lockean conception of rights is that merely improving some natural resources doesn't necessarily entitle a person to claim ownership. It doesn't factor in any externalities resulting from the appropriation, no
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by cayblood 8y ago
There is an easy solution to this that has been around for a long time. What most people do is park on the outskirts of town, where there tend to be lots of park and ride lots, then take public transit downtown. So, in your case, you drive
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by cayblood 9y ago
FYI 1password just released an excellent Chrome extension that makes all their important functionality accessible to all platforms that Chrome runs on.
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by cayblood 9y ago
The IP geolocation database they are querying is returning a 429 too many requests error.
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by cayblood 9y ago
One aspect of his argument that seems insufficiently explored is an apparent assumption that governance is primarily a binary state, either present or absent. It's important to recognize that different approaches to governance have dif
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by cayblood 10y ago
Graham's casual dismissal of 'useless' theology demonstrates a complete lack of awareness of the demise of the secularization hypothesis.
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by cayblood 10y ago
There's nothing preventing a contract from adding fallback modes that require interaction from human agents. Indeed, most of the more high-assurance contracts will probably require this.
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Teachur: Accredited bachelor degrees for $1000(kickstarter.com)
11 points by cayblood 11y ago|3 comments
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by cayblood 11y ago
Most crawlers of any reasonable size need to use anonymizing proxies, throttling and shuffling of proxy IP addresses. All this starts to get complicated in bash.
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Please petition GitHub to support HTTPS on GitHub pages(gist.github.com)
141 points by cayblood 11y ago|68 comments
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by cayblood 11y ago
exratione, please consider posting a github link of your approach.
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by cayblood 12y ago
For further exploration of some of the ramifications of this hypothesis, see http://www.new-god-argument.com/

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