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by vectorpush 10y ago
Hindsight is 20/20. You can look back on many innovations and say that they'd be impossible to imagine in the past, but that doesn't have any bearing on the inherent viability of a given idea. I'm not saying that the Zuc
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by vectorpush 10y ago
I agree, I'm only pointing out that in terms of genetics , the term hispanic is even less precise because it is commonly used to describe any person that originates from a region where Spanish is predominantly spoken (i.e. covering a
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by vectorpush 10y ago
I agree, though I find people commonly reference various nationalities as if they represented a "race" of peoples. I'd also point out that "Hispanic" is an even less genetically precise term than "Mexican"
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by vectorpush 10y ago
I'd hardly call uniformed commentary on the internet "political correctness drowning the exchange of ideas", however, it's ironic that those accusing the author of racism are inadvertently casting support for the racist
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Most people think about it, it's just that most people process these ideas through the filter of religion.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
A PaaS is not serverless either. We embrace the fluidity of language because that is the pragmatic choice, but using counter-intuitive terms with misleading semantics is not pragmatic so we should reject such terms instead of muddling the m
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by vectorpush 10y ago
And a large part of it does have to do with politics... what's your point? Obviously non-political content is not what I'm addressing here.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Can you elaborate on this reasoning?
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by vectorpush 10y ago
I'm not sure the GP would agree with your sentiments, however, NPR pretty clearly slants to the left. All their hosts lean to the left and the composition of their multi-guest panels usually include a balance of viewpoints that lean mo
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by vectorpush 10y ago
I'm not trying to bait, I am genuinely curious. I think it's possible to recognize bias in NPR and also recognize bias in Fox News or Breitbart. Maybe they can recommend a news outlet that they view as more impartial, even if not
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Don't you feel a little disingenuous making a flippant deceleration of what is true without substantiating it?
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what are your trusted news sources?
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> I didn't say the hackers would steal it from the bank, but even so that wouldn't matter. Well that's what I'm talking about because that's what happened with the DAO and what happens quite regularly to blockc
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> Meat-space is no guarantee of contract-performance. It replaces one set of risks with another. This is a false equivalency. "Meat-space" contracts aren't executable programs that can unexpectedly, anonymously, and irrev
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Right... that's precisely my point. The smart contract aspect adds no value to the arrangement, all it does is increase complexity and add the risk of stolen funds.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Indeed. It seems to me that the only concern was building hype for the DAO (in order to solicit further investments) and ethereum in general. I kept seeing claims about how smart contracts would enable autonomous corporations to pay employe
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by vectorpush 10y ago
I don't see this often discussed, but the DAO always seemed pretty shady, even prior to the hack. This was a system meant to function as an autonomous investment platform, but I couldn't find any details that explained exactly how
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Why ugh? They want to support the old chain for ideological reasons, what's the problem with that? Isn't that the whole point of these blockchain systems (i.e. that a centralized authority does not control the system)? I am a pret
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by vectorpush 10y ago
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. My favorite sci-fi story, I might even admit it is my favorite of all stories. I've given it as a real book but the experience really benefits from the e-reader format because, at least for me, th
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> Uh, yeah. That's the entire point of Bitcoin. The entire point of bitcoin is to avoid financial institutions? That sounds like a pretty big disadvantage compared to other forms of money that work well with financial institutions
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> this is good for Bitcoin ... The answer is, don't do that ... Make cold storage paper wallets and keep your Bitcoin there. Only in bitcoin land is theft considered good for the ecosystem. Only in bitcoin land does it make sens
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> Miniscule amounts of bitcoin really Until it isn't. Good luck displacing ads with average wallet balances of "50 cents"
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Internet users with browsers full of bitcoin... what could possibly go wrong?
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> shilling your product I'm not sure that a plug/PSA about a government program really counts as "shilling your product", we're talking about a program that was enacted by the congress and signed into law by the
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> You may feel unconfortable with group differences being labeled 'race.' That's your problem, no reality's problem. You keep trying to paint your opponents as unwilling to concede to your argument because it makes
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by vectorpush 10y ago
"Differences in groups are real" doesn't mean anything, everyone agrees that differences between groups is a thing, that is the entire purpose of groupings, what you've failed to prove is that racial groupings represent
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Right. My point is that immutability doesn't mean anything when the government can simply arrest you and coerce you to reveal your password, it's no different than a gangster stashing cash in a hidden safe.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
React supports stateless components, it's literally just a plain JavaScript function. From the React docs: > In an ideal world, most of your components would be stateless functions... This is the recommended pattern, when possible.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Immutability didn't stop the U.S government from auctioning off Ross Ulbricht's 44,000 bitcoins.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> The alternative interpretation is that the #DNCLeaks don't seem very interesting. The e-mails contain details of strategic political planning on the part of the DNC, and although there doesn't seem to be much in the way of

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