knowitall

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by knowitall 13y ago
Maybe you are right in this case. However, nightclubs need women because a major reason to go there is to hook up. What is the reason to bribe women into showing up at hacking competitions? Actual cynical me thinks "more sexy workplace
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by knowitall 13y ago
Then again, why not pick up a book for 20$ and get cracking?
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by knowitall 13y ago
I'll probably always be a bit wary of people who learn coding from a school or who need a school to learn coding. Since most of the time you have to learn new things while coding (new libraries, new languages, new challenges), I don&#x
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by knowitall 13y ago
I must admit things like that make me angry because of the implied "women are victims" message.
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by knowitall 13y ago
Any citations for your latter claim? Never mind that you set up a false dilemma, as if it could only either be "both parents working and worry-free" or "time with kids and constant worries".
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by knowitall 13y ago
And what about that is racist in your opinion?
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by knowitall 13y ago
Still, it's not racism, just the way the human visual system works. What do you think is racist about it? "People don't even care enough to remember the name"? That is not what is going on at all. If they wouldn't c
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by knowitall 13y ago
"There is a slight correlation between the egalitarianism of a household and a fairer division of domestic labor" How did they measure "fairness" of the division of domestic labor? I suspect that their evaluation is very
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by knowitall 13y ago
Yeah it's really annoying that once you have kids, you also have to spend time with them.
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by knowitall 13y ago
"marginalized" implies discrimination
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by knowitall 13y ago
That may be so, but then it wouldn't be the fault of discrimination.
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by knowitall 13y ago
I've read somewhere that most open source contributors started their own projects, rather than joining existing ones.
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by knowitall 13y ago
"more than 8 in 10 open source developers are white" According to Wikipedia 72% of the population of the USA are white, so maybe 8 in 10 is not really that much of an indication of discrimination or disadvantage. (72% boils down t
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by knowitall 13y ago
"we updated Chrome’s certificate revocation metadata immediately to block that intermediate CA" Dumb question, why then does Chrome on my computer show "Google Chrome is up to date."? Shouldn't there be an update re
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by knowitall 13y ago
By that logic the whole computer industry is worthless because it's comprised of worthless ones and zeros.
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by knowitall 13y ago
What is the secret ingredient of graph databases? The presentation linked from the presentation mentions physical addresses instead of IDs. I get that that would be a speedup, but I would expect it to be more like a constant factor? Then ma
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by knowitall 13y ago
God forbid anybody could be interested in other things than you are. Btw your submission singlehandedly increased the amount of Bitcoin articles on the HN front page by 33%.
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by knowitall 13y ago
Always the volatility remarks - because in contrast the world economy is so very stable, as recent years have shown?
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by knowitall 13y ago
Unfortunately once I typed it in, I can not trust the password anymore.
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by knowitall 13y ago
Is "pump and dump" illegal? Seems to me all they were doing is selling a lot of BTC in one go, then buying again? I actually find this Twitter orchestrated "pump and dump" a rather amusing concept. I don't think it
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by knowitall 13y ago
Also, taxes
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by knowitall 13y ago
There already is a transaction fee - miners will ignore your transaction if you pay too little or nothing.
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by knowitall 13y ago
The original whitepaper already mentions a way to reduce the size of the blockchain using Merkel Hashes (iirc) - they show that it is sufficient to only remember parts of the blockchain. It hasn't been implemented yet, but I suppose if
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by knowitall 13y ago
People code bitcoin clients. People vote for a protocol change by using those clients instead of the old ones. A change can not be enforced. If a significant subset of clients decides on a different path (for example stay on the old protoco
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by knowitall 13y ago
Sure dodging taxes is of course illegal. But you don't have to dodge taxes just because you barter.
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by knowitall 13y ago
I didn't mean it to deride Bitcoin - I like Bitcoin. I just don't think it will lead to an Utopia were we are all just friends and forever without debt.
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by knowitall 13y ago
What exactly does that mean? Is it illegal to, say, pay for a house in eggs (I give you 1 million eggs for this house)? Any kind of barter is illegal?
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by knowitall 13y ago
While I like Bitcoin, I doubt it will lead to an Utopian future. It doesn't change the basic economic problem ("there isn't enough to go around") or human nature. It's just an utility that makes some things more eff
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by knowitall 13y ago
It is economic equality: everybody owns the same, which is nothing. Envy is a powerful force...
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by knowitall 13y ago
"A definition of sexism : "behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex"" That's just plain silly. So anything that suggests any gender in a person is sexism? Good luck wit

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