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andyzweb··on Alan Kay on How Many Books You Can Read in a Lifetime
Specialization is for insects.
andyzweb··on Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amazon's brand
>poor experiences with cheap phone chargers/etc are the reason I've been sticking to the Amazon Basics line.

This is a brilliant strategy on Amazon's part.

andyzweb··on Ask HN: What to use after SQLite?
SQLite has an option to use a different commit/rollback mechanism called the Write-Ahead-Log. It can alleviate some of the concurrency issues in certain workloads. https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html
andyzweb··on The Tech Bubble Didn’t Burst This Year
There is a feature in Excel called "Goal Seek..." Valuations rely heavily on this feature.
andyzweb··on In Brooklyn, Uber is now bigger than taxis
>You cannot give away money and expect to have more money than before you gave it away.

In the valley this is the most effective way to raise money.

andyzweb··on iTunes will never work well
fMRI + thought-crime enforcement bureaus
andyzweb··on A Regular Expression Matcher (2007)
http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/se.pdf
andyzweb··on Why a Universal Basic Income Will Not Solve Poverty
The system is this way by design. The people who drafted, voted on, and passed these programs did so with disincentivizing its recipients from making more money being one of the goals.
andyzweb··on Moving Forward on Basic Income
survival
andyzweb··on Bank of Japan Is an Estimated Top 10 Holder in 90% of the Nikkei 225
>They're not going to default on their own debt since they own it all and can print whatever they need to keep it serviced.

I wouldn't discount this possibility entirely. As recently as the late 90's Russia defaulted on their own debt.

andyzweb··on Congratulations You’ve Been Fired
it's been that way since Noyce left Beckman/Shockley in the late 50's and formed Fairchild
andyzweb··on UCOP Ordered Spyware Installed on UC Data Networks
pro tip: there already is a full packet capture system on every ISP
andyzweb··on Chatroom.horse
well done
andyzweb··on Is curl|bash insecure?
`cat` abuse is rampant
andyzweb··on How American Fans Pirated Japanese Cartoons into Careers
related: http://www.phauna.org/papers/anime/anime.pdf
andyzweb··on The Differences Between the Plane Crash in Tapei and the Miracle on Hudson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management
andyzweb··on Ask HN: Digital nomad taxes – which country to pay in?
this is by design
andyzweb··on The Price of Oil Is About to Blow a Hole in Corporate Accounting
that chart most likely comes from this calculation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Dollar_Index
andyzweb··on Enabling JSON Document Stores in Relational Systems (2013) [pdf]
http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/
andyzweb··on Sergey Aleynikov Sues FBI Agents Who Arrested Him
I am for one, okay with people being arrested for using svn
andyzweb··on The Case Against Credentialism (1985)
Try this one from the same publication. Written in 1945 and reads like it could be written in the future http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma...
andyzweb··on Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
>Why would companies here go out of their way to hire cheap labor of questionable skill outside the U.S.??

http://www.accenture.com/

andyzweb··on Ask HN: Why do you code?
because it is fun!
andyzweb··on The Most Popular Drug in America Is an Antipsychotic
I tried my google-fu at this. what is your source?
andyzweb··on Report Reveals Wider Tracking of Mail in U.S
every piece of mail in the United States is tracked. Every package, every envelope.
andyzweb··on Rewriting Reddit (2005)
RIP Aaron ;_;
andyzweb··on 75000 Futures
fwiw in many markets (a) is prohibited activity. I would hope that exchanges have some kind of test network that members could use.
andyzweb··on Bye Bye JavaScript Promises
I would be interested in seeing it posted~
andyzweb··on The invasion of corporate news
related pg essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
andyzweb··on Generate raw WAV output by hooking malloc and read
oh wow this is fun
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