moneytalks

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by moneytalks 6y ago
Can't wait to see how http://n-gate.com summarizes this one.
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by moneytalks 6y ago
Some would call political activism on your employer's dime theft. Unless it's part of your job description. But no one likes to face what it means to sell their time to another person.
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by moneytalks 6y ago
As a US person myself, I don't really take issue with stopping extraditions because it would probably be a lot cheaper just to execute enemies abroad. Think how much money Putin has saved over the years. Now the whole Kashoggi mess sho
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by moneytalks 6y ago
If it really was a totally foreign concept to native Americans, who did the European invaders steal the land from?
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by moneytalks 6y ago
The bans will expand to the rest of the world soon enough. There is no way to satisfy this beast and no border that will contain it. After Biden wins, I'd guess we'll have a couple years of laxer enforcement and that will doom the
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by moneytalks 6y ago
I think you're right and we should just use a different word instead of fighting against the plain meaning. It shouldn't come as a surprise that when it takes 4 paragraphs to explain why the plain meaning of a word isn't how
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by moneytalks 7y ago
It's just panhandling if you ask for a tip before you've done any service. And it's offensive to get panhandled by a commercial enterprise.
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by moneytalks 7y ago
I don't think anyone would argue with the value side of the question. The tricky part is calculating the cost side. (The cost of not deleting old messages.) Surely we can agree that the cost side is > 0. I'd argue that the bene
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by moneytalks 7y ago
And loading apps outside the Play store on Android.
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by moneytalks 7y ago
Lighting a fire is a crime. (When it's arson.) Painting a wall is a crime. (When it's vandalism.) Jumping a fence is a crime. (When it's trespassing.) Not going to be much left to watch if every act that could be a crime is
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by moneytalks 7y ago
I was 100% with you until > Please stop buying these raspberry pi kit things unless you have one of the specific use cases (a small desktop computer) in mind. They seem like so much marketing, and in my opinion, they are actually hurting
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by moneytalks 7y ago
Maybe that's how life on earth began and we would just be continuing the process.
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by moneytalks 7y ago
Could fungi be used as shielding?
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by moneytalks 7y ago
The real problem with talking about slippery slopes in tech is that we're already on an unrecoverable slide into the unknown. So the question is just "does this new thing make the slide even faster?" Not, "we're on
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by moneytalks 7y ago
Fuel in the US is subsidized? I thought it was heavily taxed (not compared to European countries but compared to other consumer goods).
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by moneytalks 8y ago
Yes, the entire flight control system could just be an Electron app running open source javascript. Or typescript if you're a (type) safety nut. # npm install boeing-aileron boeing-throttle boeing-flight-controls
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by moneytalks 9y ago
The desperate clinging to a numeric system oriented to the binary internals of a computer in the human interface to those internals is insane. Choosing base 2 numeric systems as the default number system in any high level language is just s
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by moneytalks 9y ago
Here's a satirical summary of the agenda: http://n-gate.com/fosdem/2018/01/28/0/
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by moneytalks 9y ago
I'm not sure which is worse: unaccountable Big Tech or Big Tech 100% accountable to governments. I'd be more sympathetic if it seemed he wanted Big Tech less powerful, instead of simply transferring control of that power to electe
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by moneytalks 9y ago
It's a very short article, here are the salient bits: === A massive data breach at Yahoo in 2013 was far more extensive than previously disclosed, affecting all of its 3 billion user accounts... ... ...Oath ... said the company determi
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by moneytalks 9y ago
Yes and that's what's so depressing about it. As engineers, wouldn't it be cool if the most valuable thing we could do was building tools that are inherently valuable instead of valuable because of the tool's ability to
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by moneytalks 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_cases_make_bad_law The situation sucks and you can't help but feel terrible for her, but please let's not change the law based on this. And if we do, let's deport the m
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by moneytalks 9y ago
Criminal justice attempts to align punishments with the public's sense of fairness, not the other way around. When people regularly feel compelled to mete out vigilante justice, it's a sign that the justice system is broken not p
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by moneytalks 9y ago
Can't believe we're to the point of debating whether a private educational institution can base an admissions decision, in part, on a past murder conviction. This isn't about redemption or rehabilitation. No one is suggesting
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by moneytalks 9y ago
Never went to the site, never plan to. But it was just the one article that the CEO said was the reason for the kill order.
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by moneytalks 9y ago
Didn't realize that too-high engagement counted against rank. Interesting approach.
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by moneytalks 9y ago
Let's take bets on how long this survives on the front page. I'm going with 15-20 minutes from now. Who wants the over/under? edit: Already down from 3rd to 6th while points went from 130 to 170. 7 minutes in. edit: now 7th
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by moneytalks 9y ago
The article strikes as very Anglo-centric and the worst of first world problems with a solution that is both condescending and out-of-touch. His problem was the monotony of life and a feeling of being basically too secure and too happy. Wit
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by moneytalks 9y ago
Any parts of the project open source and/or have you written any detailed blogs on the development process? Would love to read more about the challenges you encountered and how you solved them. Even moreso the move to Phoenix is entici
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by moneytalks 9y ago
Trump can't take a leak without it getting leaked. Panama papers were equal opportunity... the leaks seem pretty well equal opportunity.

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