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by vectorpush 8y ago
The words have meaning. If you don't understand them you could just ask for them to be explained rather than throwing out insults. I suspect you actually do understand the meaning of what was written though so I suppose that means you&
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by vectorpush 8y ago
There is no agreed upon measurement of job performance that transcends the partisan divide.
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by vectorpush 8y ago
This is a typical condescending blockchain enthusiast line. Stop implying that the critics don't understand how things work, it's insulting, intellectually lazy and false. When the blockchain is actually useful enthusiasts won&#x2
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by vectorpush 8y ago
It's statistically possible, so why not?
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by vectorpush 9y ago
It's not "fair" as far as logical argumentation is concerned because the statement proves nothing since it is equally true of successful technologies as it is of failed technologies. It is an absolutely meaningless platitude.
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by vectorpush 9y ago
This is an oft repeated fallacy by blockchain enthusiasts. Skeptical predictions from the past that turned out to be incorrect in hindsight has absolutely zero relevance to the viability of blockchain technology.
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by vectorpush 9y ago
Sure you can, just store them in .sql files and have your CI system auto deploy them.
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by vectorpush 9y ago
It's unfortunate that you take such an inflammitory tone when you're so completely incorrect. They are constant, end of story.
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by vectorpush 9y ago
This makes no sense. Have you ever used a web forum before reddit? People get banned all the time for arbitrary reasons on forums all over the web, why should reddit be any different? "The internet" has not been turned into anythi
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by vectorpush 9y ago
If you're rebuilding aspects of your production system for the sake of "incorporating newness" then the problem is poor engineering not react or any other tool. If things are working fine as they are, you only have yourself t
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by vectorpush 9y ago
Not necessarily (based solely on the axiom that men and women have different brain chemistry). It is logically possible that the differences we observe in career distributions are more heavily influenced by other factors besides differences
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by vectorpush 9y ago
It does not follow logically that just because men and women are biologically different that those differences are necessarily significant with regard to career distributions.
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by vectorpush 9y ago
Bitcoin ATMs are rare, notoriously unreliable, often require invasive KYC and always come with a gigantic markup.
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by vectorpush 9y ago
> You can acquire cryptocurrency just as easily as you can acquire cash: This is obviously untrue. Cash is ubiquitous throughout every corner of society, while cryptocurrency is extremely niche to the point of practical obscurity. >
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by vectorpush 9y ago
People who buy drugs "in the streets" generally aren't versed in how to acquire and manage cryptocurrency. Most people buying drugs have a personal relationship with a dealer and don't do transactions "in the street
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by vectorpush 9y ago
I agree and I appreciate the nuanced tone of your answer.
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by vectorpush 9y ago
So the only option is to arrange an in-person meetup with a random stranger from the internet so that they can gouge me with a gigantic markup or just rob me. This sounds terrible even if I have no beef with the government, but totally absu
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by vectorpush 9y ago
It's a currency that can't buy much of anything, so it's close to useless as far as paying for the needs of a typical person. You can speculate about the future of crpyotcurrencies all you like, but the future you imagine is
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by vectorpush 9y ago
How do you turn eth into spendable money without a bank account?
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by vectorpush 9y ago
Facebook is not mandatory, you don't have to use it, the government doesn't need to get involved.
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by vectorpush 9y ago
I absolutely agree that the SPA was already a thing before angular, in fact, angular was specifically designed to wrangle the general design concerns related to building SPAs and doing so sold the distinct concept of the SPA to many develop
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by vectorpush 9y ago
It's a double-edged sword. The code's behavior is apparent in that simple example, but things get considerably more difficult to understand when you're dealing with monkey patched methods and dangerously clever method_missing
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by vectorpush 9y ago
Rails was designed at a time before angular brought the SPA into fashion. SPAs manage state and template rendering on the front-end, so much of the Rails machinery becomes unnecessary. You can still use Rails to implement your JSON API back
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by vectorpush 9y ago
> You" as an entity are really just a process emergent from chemical reactions on some area, and your "will" is just the result of feedback between many regions of that process and outside stimuli. Agreed. > Biologic
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by vectorpush 9y ago
> I disagree with your assessment that it's any blinder of a process than your own will is. I understand what you're saying, but the two concepts cannot be effectively compared. An organism's "will" is a label
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by vectorpush 9y ago
> There isn't really a threshold beyond that pattern or object somehow communicating to you that it does indeed possess a will or some form of consciousness I agree. It is a further anthropomorphism to even assume that the integra
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by vectorpush 9y ago
Your analogy doesn't really say much except that you endorse the idea that bits and atoms are comparable with regard to the "realness" of what they compose, but that assumption is the crux of the debate. One could just as eas
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by vectorpush 9y ago
> and tell me again, based on your own definition, how all news isn't fake news? That's a pretty disingenuous response. Obviously, "all news" is not deliberate fabrication presented as truth, and to suggest as much
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by vectorpush 9y ago
> I'm open to it being in some other category of fake, but then we need a label for it. I agree with you. I think "deliberately misleading", "factually inaccurate", even "complete bullshit" are applic
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by vectorpush 9y ago
> you don't get to define fake news. Fake news is as simple as it sounds: articles that are factually incorrect. I'm happy to debate the nuance of the term fake news, but I think it's ironic that you presume to glibly as

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