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by sadkingbilly 11y ago
A Corporate Republic (from Civilization: Call to Power, one of the government types available in the Genetic Age). "The Imperial Trading Companies such as the various East India Companies should possibly be considered corporate states,
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by sadkingbilly 11y ago
Instead of $1/day, do $365/year to limit transaction fees. You could even offer to let them withdraw the dividend each month as an allowance or let it reinvest.
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by sadkingbilly 11y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Who is really going to read these updates? If I was forced to do this at a company, I'd probably automate responses with a bot of my own. I'd call it the schitt-bot.
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by sadkingbilly 11y ago
It could be worse: PayPal and their 3.1 MB Child_Snowflakes_8_V2.mp4
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by sadkingbilly 11y ago
Not really. One could be deaf or blind from birth, yet fully intelligent. It's more a matter of getting sensory from the world into the brain. That sensory may be visual, auditory, touch, etc. The brain is very plastic in this manner.
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by sadkingbilly 11y ago
It seems a lot of consultancies follow this pattern: 1. Hate permanent job. 2. Start consultancy. 3. Spend half the day finding work/collecting bills; other half programming. 4. Eventually find reliable client with lo
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by sadkingbilly 11y ago
In reality though, I'd like to know what the author did for health insurance when he quit his job weeks/months after having a baby. Medical risk is very high during this period.. looks like he is based in Canada (not US), so I gue
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by sadkingbilly 11y ago
One of the features of KeePass is that you never see or type an actual password. You simply hit CTRL-C to copy the pw to memory and paste into the form. This is a guard against key loggers and visual snooping.
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by sadkingbilly 11y ago
What does this mean: "extraction of KeePass 2.x password database information from memory"? When is KeePass data held in memory? When the program is simply running or only when you copy a password to the clipboard? KeePass shows a
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by sadkingbilly 11y ago
I've been on two interviews recently, and both saw experience in .NET as a negative. I found myself having to down-play experience in .NET in both cases, in order to guide the discussion toward more applicable skills for the role. Even
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by sadkingbilly 11y ago
Agreed. Sellers and buyers of domain names (or web sites) selling for at least $300 should use an escrow service. The fee is around $25 and can usually be split between parties. Just think about the price you're paying/selling the
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by sadkingbilly 11y ago
That's the problem with oil and gold. No dividends. So you sit on it for a couple of years, earning nothing. Still, oil is a finite resource and is very sensitive to world events, war, etc.
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by sadkingbilly 11y ago
Audio books has made "reading" a hobby for me. I never thought I was the type that really enjoyed reading a good book. After switching from radio to audio books while driving, traffic has almost become enjoyable (not quite, but yo
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by sadkingbilly 11y ago
What if you're the smartest person in the room and also highly paid? It may be more strategic to stay put, save as much as possible, and spend your time getting intellectual stimulation outside of work.
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by sadkingbilly 11y ago
Same. Even if they did, just take a screenshot of the "Course Records" screen that proves you took the class and the grade. Besides, you can still download the Statement of Accomplishment.
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by sadkingbilly 12y ago
I just finished this book a couple weeks ago. It was definitely a great one. Although, a difficult book to read, purely from the perspective of the topic. Growing old and/or dying are both topics people tend to ignore. I also hadn&#x27
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by sadkingbilly 12y ago
Being able to edit files from any physical location is nice. Although you already get this from just using github/bitbucket, for the most part. I think the biggest drawback to an online IDE is the development box itself. Are you comfor
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by sadkingbilly 12y ago
"so I implemented a small neural network and trained it to sort 10 6-bit numbers, which was easy to do to my surprise" Does anyone know what the inputs and outputs of a neural network that sorts numbers would look like?
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by sadkingbilly 12y ago
Yes, but their original bug was from dynamically loading routes from an external source. I don't see how Express is to blame for this. Moving to Restify is not a solution, but they state having different reasons for moving (support for
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by sadkingbilly 12y ago
Mosquitoes are a food source for many animals, including: fish, birds, spiders, and bats. Maybe those animals could find something else to eat, but there sure are a lot of mosquitoes - imagine how many get eaten.
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by sadkingbilly 12y ago
"But a malformed packet could also be an emergent signal. A self-created packet." If a program sent out a malformed packet, this would indicate an error in the sender's program. Let's assume that a receiving program re
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by sadkingbilly 12y ago
The probability grid is very neat. One question though, it looks like Ship.DIRECTION_VERTICAL and Ship.DIRECTION_HORIZONTAL might be flipped. It seems consistent, so it's ok. Just the label "vertical" actually means "hor
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by sadkingbilly 12y ago
How does this not violate the terms of your affiliate agreements? Are the video ads from direct clients of yours or through a general affiliate program?
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by sadkingbilly 12y ago
Or replace writing to the file system with storing as a json object on one of many online (eg. cloud) providers.
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by sadkingbilly 12y ago
A sump-pump that sends an email when it detects water and/or runs. Would be great if it included a humidity measurement too.
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by sadkingbilly 12y ago
If a comet breaks up into several pieces, will those pieces continue to travel next to each other in the same direction, maybe re-combining via gravity back into a single rock? Or will they just drift apart?
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by sadkingbilly 12y ago
Flippa is probably his best bet, but you'll usually only get a couple hundred, depending on the site's ranking and traffic. Better than letting the domain just expire though.
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by sadkingbilly 12y ago
I also watch at 2x speed. I do the same for audiobooks. Your brain adapts. Sometimes I play them in 1x speed just for a bit and it sounds like extreme slow motion, and I think, people really listen to this?
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by sadkingbilly 12y ago
I feel the same way about machine learning algorithms and even deep learning. The more you learn about how the algorithms work, the more it seems like just simple averaging of numbers. I think this is a good thing though, because it removes
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by sadkingbilly 13y ago
TradeKing has no minimum balance, $4.95/trades, and it was fairly painless to sign up http://bit.ly/19JPLlS Sharebuilder is ok too, but more expensive. I think bitcoins are actually more complicated to trade.

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