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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Nah, they'll just create expendable shell companies to decouple the risk from the profit.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
So, can anyone tell me, why are there three credit agencies? Why not one, or thirty? Could I start a credit agency, just by judging that certain people are level 9000 reliable, and others are just level 100 reliable? I swear it's not s
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
What makes you think that any of those things, including plastics, must by made from fossil oil? So tired of being told that the only way to do things, is the way we are currently doing them. Heck, we don't even have to make so much st
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Their marketing looks quite shady to me: no technical details, uses Facebook likes as a quality metric, defective link to the one third-party review. You definitely want to see a teardown and a proper review of something like this, before y
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Could anyone point out the boundary between the open-source Mesos / Marathon stack, and the commercial DC/OS? The official documentation ( https://docs.mesosphere.com/1.9/overview/what-is-dcos/ ) does
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Who is George Parker?
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Build nation-scale infrastructure? Surely a major bank would benefit greatly, if indirectly, from any improvements in the national economy.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Well, if the illumination was from the radio telescope, then the moon would be hidden behind the parent asteroid when it is eclipsed. We would not see it go dark, it would just be obscured.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Imagine heating and spinning it into a thin foil disk, and then curving it into a slight parabola by gently accelerating the center point away from the sun. Solar-cooker death-ray for anyone who disputes your claim!
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
The first number is the wind direction, in degrees, not velocity in a different unit. The UX could be improved with a ° symbol.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Might be worth checking out the various issue-bounty setups, like Bountysource. Focus on documenting the design of your MVP in a public Git repo, then file issues with a bounty on them to get tasks done. As soon as you have something workin
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
A lean startup, done right, plans the MVP and promises only that, as a first iteration. Then, if necessary, they can pivot in a new direction with another MVP v2, or use the credibility from the execution of their first, viable, release, to
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Put it at the bottom of the ocean in shallow water, on top of a fiber optic line. You get free cooling as a bonus! Not sure about backup power, though. https://news.microsoft.com/features/microsoft-research-proje...
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I think that the Lofstrom loop is way more realistic than an orbital elevator, mainly because the cables "only" need to span ~100km, rather than the ~36,000km required for a geostationary elevator. Also, I see that there are imp
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Sounds to me like the GP believes in minimally constrained competition, where monopolism is one of the many undesirable constraints on their way of life. They are correctly identifying large corporations as analogous to overbearing governme
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Can you recommend a good source of info about running a personal email server? I have heard that it is extremely difficult to get mainstream email providers to accept email from unrecognized sources, but if that is not the case, or if there
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Synthwave intensifies
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
When did Tor Browser start enabling JS by default? It was blocked by noscript by default for me, when I started using it years ago, and that was still the case the last time I installed a new workstation OS, earlier this year. I use TBB for
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
IMO, requiring a mobile number is grounds for disqualification, because it strongly identifies a person, and can be abused quite badly. Telegram demands a mobile number, even though it does not need to place calls. Check out Wire for an alt
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
If people are leaving because they are unable to unilaterally execute politically motivated purges, then I would say that over the long term, this bodes well for the Node community. It's a technology platform, not a political platform,
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
This is only for San Francisco. It would be nice if we could get that mentioned in the title, this is a more significant piece of info than the list of sources.
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Data is the new oil: Your information is now the world's most valuable commodity(cbc.ca)
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
If I was given a few $trillion to solve atmospheric CO2/CH4, I would move mining to the moon, and move manufacturing and agriculture into orbit. Then smother the Earth-side economy with cheap/free stuff to discourage the remaining
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Check out Nerdarchy on YT if you want to level up your DM skills, just let them chat in the background while you flesh out the campaign. Try not to squirrel too hard; if they give you an awesome idea, just make a note for next week and then
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I don't believe that government is seriously hindered by free speech, but rather by it's lack of profit-incentive and by the perverse incentives of our current implementation of democracy. We should expand the free speech rights,
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
What I mean, is that it does not really matter that Canada is not the highest paying country in the world, because money is not the only factor in determining where academics choose to live. If we can offer an environment that is conducive
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money. We don't have to pay as well, someone else will always be willing to ravage their own country t
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
That argument becomes weaker as responsibilities and power are transferred from the government to the private sector. How many of the rules that we follow are currently dictated by a corporation, rather than a government? Do we not want che
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
So, sanitize your `/add?a=1&b=2` endpoint inputs by making sure that they don't add up to something greater than... wait a sec. Actually, let's just return an unsigned int. No wait! We might get a negative number as input
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Looks fine to me. Are you supposed to check for integer overflow before doing the addition, or something?

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