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by rxp 13y ago
"Slow money" in Neptune's Brood is a digital currency, and is confusingly referred to as a "bitcoin" a few times, but it's actually a really fascinating idea that's very different from BTC. The gist of it,
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by rxp 13y ago
What's to stop people from just running off with your loan? Would you require some sort of tie-in to real-world identity?
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by rxp 13y ago
This article is weirdly convinced that Microsoft is talking about dual-booting WP and Android, but even the source article they cite says that that's pretty unlikely.
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by rxp 13y ago
If only we had some sort of rigorous process for evaluating the evidence impartially, and coming up with conclusions, and constantly reevaluating those conclusions when new evidence comes to light. Actually, I've heard of something lik
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by rxp 13y ago
Keeping an open mind is one thing, but if you ever take what any politician says at face value, then you're nuts.
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by rxp 13y ago
Politicians like Matt Ridley can say what they like. I'll believe that things have changed when experts in the field begin to say so, and not a moment sooner.
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by rxp 13y ago
The way I read it, the author is asserting that Microsoft did exactly what a corporation is "supposed" to do, by focusing on maximizing shareholder value, and in the process stagnated. Meanwhile, Apple and Amazon are held up as ex
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by rxp 13y ago
Ah, yes, very logical of you. I think I recognize the form of the proof; isn't this the same basic argument that Fermat used to prove his last theorem? :p Anyway, your point isn't nearly as straightforward and uncontroversial as y
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by rxp 13y ago
Come on, like you're any better. You start off with a dismissal of the author's point based on a completely subjective value judgment, then point out some trivial rhetorical techniques to try to discredit their argument, and then
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by rxp 13y ago
RAINN's numbers only cover the US, as far as I can see, and the US is only about 5% of the world's population. So if we extrapolate naively from your numbers, we end up with 160,000, which is a lot closer to the figure from the ar
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by rxp 13y ago
Ouch, sounds like somebody got hit by a really bad batch of drives. Always a risk when you buy a bunch at the same time. :/
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by rxp 13y ago
You are oversimplifying by assuming that the supply of applicants for a given job is gender-neutral. I think it's generally accepted that one of the causes of the wage gap is that women are pushed toward stereotypically "female&qu
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by rxp 13y ago
Sure, but all the leaks so far are about cases where your data is already going through Microsoft services. If there were any evidence that there was a backdoor in Windows itself, or in any Microsoft software, then you'd have a point.
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by rxp 13y ago
So... does that mean that it's right? Because I don't think you can prove a point by assuming the existence of things that haven't been invented yet.
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by rxp 13y ago
> Aren't you curious why the majority of programmers have dark hair or brown eyes? Sometimes it doesn't matter. Is that actually true? If there's a statistically significant difference compared to the population as a whole, then I am de
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by rxp 13y ago
And... you're satisfied with that explanation? "There are fewer women in technical careers, because fewer women choose to go into technical careers, QED"? You're not even a little bit curious about why that might be the case?
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by rxp 13y ago
But top schools like that admit (and I'm completely making this number up, based on average class size for a school like that) on the order of tens of thousands of students per year, combined, and most of those are not going to be "rural ki