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Not at all, now that I've learned about your learning, we can all discuss how happy that makes us feel. It's a win-win.

Wait, maybe if there was a higher context to share our approval of the article without distracting away from its content? Like some kind of high-level rating system that was enforced through a framework of some sort and presented as a low-friction indicator of the quality of the article? We could even improve it by presenting the highest quality articles above the fold.

Of course then content that appealed to the lowest common denominator would become the most approved, and people could congregate around shared understanding and beliefs, further cementing those ideas as the "right ideas".

Only if there were some social rules that would prevent this "circle jerking" behavior that causes forums to devolve into roaming bands of up-vote brigades. We could start by not "circle jerking" about the quality of the article, we could probably go a long way toward reducing congratulatory posts that celebrate elementary-level understanding of economic systems, and in turn, encourage feel good comments that are up-voted because people agree with them instead of them actually contributing anything.

RTFA

Because it has dependencies on libs that are not open source, so that means "closed" as propagated across this "open" system.

We should start a thread about how ignorant you were before this awesome guide. I'm sure we can talk about all sorts of stupid things people believe while managing to learn nothing beyond the scope of the very basic article.

Seems kind if weird that Bitcoin (actually bitcoind) itself would be dependent on a google-developed database solution that isn't open source, and not only that, has non-determinate behavior, depending on the host system..

Of course, Perl has been doing this for over a decade. Nobody thought it was remarkable enough to write an article about it though.

Replace your "Chromecast" with any generic USB Linux computer and your wish will be granted.

Volatile, high-profit incomes more closely matches a market based on nature or real progress. It makes sense that high-earners who do real work are doing work that is risky. What is concerning is the 'old rich' who've managed to make obscene profits by market manipulation such as regulatory capture, or removing risk from their operations and moving it to the employees.

The irony is that the 'old rich' are required to create the more real-market-representative positions artificially, and as a result a large percentage of the new rich's work goes to keep the old rich in their current positions.

i.e. the old rich (who were once the new rich) are keeping the new rich from being the new old rich. Often this is done by keeping the new rich from using strategies and tools outside the power of the old rich, thus impeding real progress. Real progress would be outside of the control of the old rich, who, let's face it, are just too old and stupid to make good returns on new things. The general populous does this best, and if the general populous is out-innovating the oligarch, then that would be socialism and socialism is scary because informed markets don't buy sugar water and red labels.

logic, math and linguistics.

Yeah, writing anything that doesn't conform to typical rules of lexicography.

Here's another: \\546

and another: %%

etc.

So?

Somehow I feel safer with a random pirate having my DNA in a database than Google.

The real reason is his business is probably plateauing and he didn't want to say that publicly. That would make much more economic sense as a reason to move off of AWS.

Because decompiling is a lot easier when your "executable" is a high level language built on top of a well known and heavily targeted VM.

Maybe it was Santa Claus and he used Iceland because it reminds him of the Arctic. During this time of year, assuming it's Santa Claus should be the default assumption. Remember that He is "making a list" and "checking it twice". So assuming it's Santa Claus is the best bet.

Never mind that, the article is simply written horribly.

I'm going to start starting

It really depends on the context you read it in and how you define some of the key words.

I never said taxing and banning wouldn't work. What I said is that taxing and banning will never happen because of health impact. It won't change until the health impact has a significant economic impact.

Step 1: compile to local binaries.

There is no step 2

Interesting how the wiki version of the "Obligation of the Engineer"^1 seems to speak toward being a good steward of technology, humanity and public resources where the oath the OP quotes is more focused on delivering a good product and being obligated to do so by your pay.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Engineer

It's clear that 23 thinks that the FDA is incapable of enforcing their mandate and is daring them to do something about it in the media. This is just more BS spin to try to justify their bold and reckless PR maneuvering, under the guise of super-important and helpful medical technology being held back by big bad careless government regulation. I hope 23 continues to pretend like it does nothing wrong in the boardroom, while playing the media through their Google trumpet.

tl;dr: how to be a good robot.

I'm not certain your example of Tobacco is a success. My point stands, that Cell phones are needed by the economy so we'll have cellphones. Tobacco sales were needed by the economy and now they're not. Also, your idea that Tobacco fell out of market acceptance because of the health risks, widespread campaigns is wrong.

Imagine all the lives saved from killing off millions of Jews.

I see these "embrace my programming paradigm via my awful, mixed-context, confusing argument" on HN more and more. Seems to me it's just some project-managment-type thinking in abstract high-level ways of how much easier his business would be if everyone thought just like he did.

Well, guess what, there's nothing particularly valuable about your perspective. In fact, it sucks and it's wrong. Even Jeff Bezos perspective is wrong and stupid, but he paid 10,000 developers to embrace it. Just because your job would be so much easier if everyone architecture their data so you wouldn't have to doesn't mean anyone has a reason to. Maybe instead of me creating a single standard API for you to scrape my content, you fuck off and take your money with you? How does that sound? I think we have an agreement. (this is what every website ever has said).

TCP/IP and telecom cos who own racks of networking equipment are two different things. These kind of distinctions are important.

But our economy is already dependent on mobile data. So cancer or not, there's no stopping it. The economy decides what's safe.

I'm sure working in security you can comprehend the difference between telecom companies and internet infrastructure. I'm sure you'd prefer if your customers don't make that distinction.