peterjlee

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by peterjlee 8y ago
Alternatively, you could put your computer in a tank of mineral oil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V06LLTNxc4
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by peterjlee 8y ago
Millennials still watch sports and it's still pretty hard to watch sports without having your parent's cable service logins..
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by peterjlee 8y ago
Have you tried https://play.pocketcasts.com/ ?
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by peterjlee 8y ago
I've been frustrated with many free podcast apps so I paid for Pocket Casts and I've been happy since. I think it's a smart move by NPR et al. What they want is the usage data like where they pause, where they skip, etc. Thes
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by peterjlee 8y ago
I don't like using fingerprints because my fingerprint is literally left on the reader. Anybody with a scotch tape can get a copy of my fingerprint left on the reader or the screen. That's like writing down your password on a post
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by peterjlee 8y ago
I think what killed AIM, MSN, etc. was SMS. You had to meet your friends in person at school or be home in front of a computer to talk to your friends. With SMS you can talk to them anytime, anywhere. Then smartphones came out and apps like
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Here's a 2014 study of top 39 US CS programs on what language they user for their intro courses. More than half use Python, followed by Java. https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-th...
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I'm using unit cost here so it's easier to see how I personally feel about it. Just multiply the number by however many employees you want to imagine.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I'm just using the per user cost here. $6.67/user/mo is the standard plan price if you pay annually.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
If Slack was down for 5 minutes in a month that will break the 99.99% SLA. If you pay $6.67/mo for Slack, 6.67 * (0.01%) * 100 = 0.07 Yea I'll rather have Slack for that 5 minutes than save my company 7 cents.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I'm not suggesting any theories. I'm just pointing out that Apple isn't really in a terrible position because of this news.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
This might be a good scenario for Apple. Apple doesn't have to build a backdoor, which is good for PR, and the Feds got what they want to they'll stop bothering Apple. Which is the position Android/Google was in all along.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
One thought I had was that species evolved to maximize the survival of the species, not the individual organism. Once an organism is too old to reproduce or contribute to the survival of the species, it's probably better to die than be
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Just anecdotal but all of my friends who majored in chemical engineering are somehow software engineers now..
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by peterjlee 9y ago
How does one go about telling the DMV that your car is no longer in use because you sent it up to space on a rocket?
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Who are the "wilfully accepting" people you speak of? I think most people aren't accepting nor rejecting anything. Someone is hungry and now they have food delivered. Someone doesn't have a job and now they have a delive
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I think the point of undergrad is to have as much exposure to relevant material in the field, so later in their professional life if something relevant comes up they'll at least remember that they learned about it and know where to loo
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I've been wondering why Korean and English is so different and one obvious reason is geographical. If humans originated from Africa and spread East and West, Korea is pretty much at the Eastern end of the spectrum and England is pretty
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by peterjlee 9y ago
This isn't something new. Scoop is already doing this and Lyft had carpool for a while before they shut it down.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Finding the origin of contents are already a challenge these days. A random idea I have is creating a blockchain where content creators can register their creations to prove their origin. Also, camera manufacturers can get involved and buil
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I agree with the gold comparison. Gold is priced far higher than it's industrial usefulness because it's seen as an value holding asset. The properties that make gold a good value holding asset is: 1. It's rare and supply is
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Whatever inherent value gold has is far below it's current price though. If gold wasn't seen as an asset and was purely valued based on it's utility like iron and copper, it'll be priced far below the current price.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I don't think $1B is the transaction amount. In the last 24 hours, trade volume on GDAX(Coinbase's exchange) for Bitcoin alone was $247 million.[1] Their trade fees are around 0.25%[2] so in the last 24hr they made over $60M in Bi
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Anything can have "value" if someone is willing to pay for it. The US dollar is just a piece of paper if nobody is willing to exchange anything for it. Cryptocurrency has value because some speculator is willing to pay for it beca
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by peterjlee 9y ago
There's a high demand in S.Korea (mostly FOMO) and it's a bit hard to transfer a large amount of money out of S.Korea for some legal reasons, which makes arbitraging hard.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Here's a relevant video from Wendover productions explaining why Boeing 787 is doing better than A380. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlIdzF1_b5M
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by peterjlee 9y ago
What do you mean by "they do have the ability to credit their accounts"? So the Fed will print more dollars and buy bitcoin? The total number of Bitcoin still doesn't change and it will raise the value of Bitcoin while devalu
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Isn't it already a common knowledge when someone says "the Fed prints money", they're flipping digits in their computers and not actually printing paper bills? The Fed doesn't print the paper bills anyways. The Trea
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by peterjlee 9y ago
It wasn't "The sort of activity which led to the financial crisis" that inspired bitcoin. After the crisis happened the US government funded the massive bailout by printing more money. It turned out to be a "good" d
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Right after the S.Korean Justice Ministry announced this, the Finance Ministry is like WTF? we were planning on taxing them. We can tax them if you get rid of it. So far this plan doesn't have the full government support so it might no

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