lord_jim

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by lord_jim 9y ago
Say that I am building an app that leads to real world interaction, potentially with strangers. Clearly a real name policy is not a good way to make these interactions safer, but what would be a proper alternative? A reputation system? Any
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by lord_jim 9y ago
Yawn. Wake me when you can actually mine cryptocurrency using this (Although if anyone wants to build something similar, the lovense toys are actually a pretty good choice. Just serial commands over Bluetooth as far as I know, so it’s super
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by lord_jim 9y ago
Street art is supposed to be ephemeral and free. The people who put it inside frames and sell it for $200,000 are the real destroyers
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by lord_jim 9y ago
Any advice if you really do want to produce a cheap, disposable product? I’ve seen a ton of postmortems about what not to do, but few write-ups on what to do
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by lord_jim 9y ago
The value of bitcoin, as with other currencies, is the value people believe it holds. More concretely, this would be the value of goods or services you can exchange it for today, and/or the future value you believe the currency will ho
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by lord_jim 9y ago
I found that number surprising, although I also know very little about what it takes to manufacture things. Any idea what the employee breakdown looks like in terms of profession and area of focus (since they have solar city too)?
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SSD Advisory – Chrome Turbofan Remote Code Execution(blogs.securiteam.com)
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by lord_jim 9y ago
IMO there are some extremely questionable design decisions in 11. Some of these are just ugly (like the super bold date on the calendar icon) or wasteful of space (like the headers), but others hide useful info or decrease discoverability (
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by lord_jim 9y ago
Full steam ahead with decriminalization of possession/use, and with regulated markets for psychedelic and most stimulants However after seeing how business behaves when it can sell opiates, I'm in favor of even more regulation tha
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by lord_jim 9y ago
I'd argued that heavy regulation has been just as important. For example, how many other products besides cigarettes have to carry a warning over half of their packaging? Also taxation. Ideally the taxes should make people understand t
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by lord_jim 9y ago
All used deliberate scarcity, a large number of product editions, and rapid product cycles to create a collectors market and ultimately create the impression of value. It is also debatable in each case how organic the growth in desirability
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by lord_jim 9y ago
With the nuke mania of the early Cold War, I'm surprised that the military never tried creating a nuclear version of Project HARP: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP (I've also always enjoyed the pa
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by lord_jim 9y ago
Came across this Wikipedia list of wingsuit fatalities: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatalities_due_to_wi... The past few years is pretty sobering, especially given that most of these guys were experts and c
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by lord_jim 9y ago
(after reading through https://github.com/nodejs/board/issues/58 and other issues related to this situation) The Github comment revision needs to stop. It makes it impossible for people who were not involved
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by lord_jim 9y ago
It would probably be better to use a trie directly, maybe a radix trie or a b-trie.
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by lord_jim 9y ago
You promoting your software company that promotes software companies yo
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by lord_jim 9y ago
CoffeeScript. It had its time but it's focus on syntax failed to address much of what makes JavaScript difficult to work with. jquery UI. Jquery still has some use in banging out a quick page but it too is no longer essential Also poss
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by lord_jim 9y ago
Amazon's growth was methodical and controlled, with a net income near zero or slightly negative most quarters. This is different than how Tesla is operating. I like Tesla but do have to wonder if they are on more of the Twitter busines
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by lord_jim 9y ago
Good timing. I need to create a short porn film for an art project (yes seriously) and been wondering how the hell to actually find professionals who I can work with. Random emails have not been working but this article provided some new av
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by lord_jim 9y ago
I wish you could just run ghost locally and then publish a generated static site. I actually much prefer the Jekyll flow to ghost but the core ghost ui and functionality are great for less technical bloggers. It just seems like a waste of t
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by lord_jim 9y ago
Bolivia has had a small cocaine tourism industry for years, sometimes peddling just the leaves and sometimes more refined forms. Certainly not hard to find
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by lord_jim 9y ago
Mechanical Turk and Fiverr
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Connecting a Film SLR Camera to Google Cardboard(blog.mattbierner.com)
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A Real Hacker’s IDE(hackaday.com)
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Shuffle lines in Vim(briancarper.net)
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Three kinds of code(jbazuzicode.blogspot.com)
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Flexible karma and protractor configuration without duplication(martinsson-johan.blogspot.com)
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