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because its convenient, and most people who are exposed to cryptocurrencies dont have the technical knowledge to do it on their own.

im in the official ethereum gitter and every day at least one person comes in saying something along the lines of "hello i have just poured half my life savings into this, my money is gone but my eth is not in my wallet please help" - only for some semi-official support guy to tell them that if they screw up, their money is gone.

then there are the people who make transactions in the tens of eth (thousands of dollars) to the wrong address, then begging on etherscan for the owner of that address to send their eth back.

crypto is in such an infantile state that even most "software engineers" shouldnt get anywhere near it on their own.

its literally 50% of the name.

programs not called perpetuity strength or elite strength or bodybuilders delight.

just double-check that you turn the aws instance off after using it, or it will get pricy.

because it wants you to register. how is that not obvious?

i cant browse linkedin without registering, either. angellist wants to be a social network. users who are not registered are worthless to them.

not our fault. government monopolized research and then took a dump on it. wall street pays what we're worth. universities do not.

besides, black scholes equation and heat equation are essentially the same thing. if "quants" figure something out, that can be backpropagated into research on the heat equation. several centuries later when the patents fizzle out.

thats just being butthurt because we chose to call it intelligence, and somehow not being classically intelligent is understood as a personal insult.

the IQ simply doesnt measure creative genius. if it was called "the test that measures how good a persons brain is at pattern recogniton", you wouldnt care. you'd simply state that you're not particularly interested in logical reasoning.

intelligence, in terms of IQ, is a more or less well defined metric. in popular language, its conflated with "not being a mouthbreather". thats why people get pissy when they dont score above average on an iq test. its kinda pointless, really. people only care about iq tests because of the name.

it is, sometimes, hilarious how entitled we can get.

a site full of jobs that allow you to use your favourite technology, work remotely, with hip startups doing cool things, but god forbid you have to upload a resume.

imagine one of the less fortunate get annoyed by the idea of "writing a resume". the horror.

what is particularly meaningful about eye color?

what difference does it make to me whether they stole from waymo or not? im not going to white-knight for google.

innocent until proven guilty, btw. some journalist writing something in a newspaper is not proof.

im not saying that the plan is particularly well executed.

their drivers are the training set for their self driving cars.

thats how they want to become profitable.

you dont need a CS degree to do AI. you need skills.

while most degrees have you acquire skills, if raw skill is what youre after, you can have that way faster and cheaper.

do fast.ai first.

doing 5 years of degree and spending hundreds of thousands on it, just to do AI, is very counterproductive.

congrats.

yea, because 5 is the end of the range.

if you do sum(range(0,10,2)), 10 isn't reached either.

why are we having this discussion?

the primary purpose of a gun is to deter possible aggressors from starting trouble with you.

the ultima ratio is to actually use the gun. for 99% of threats, showing it off is good enough.

0

2

2+4 = 6

2+4+6 = 12

if you sum even numbers, starting from 0, "10" is not a possible result. i dont know what youre trying to do there.

there is. i have no idea how things actually are.

but laws should not contradict common sense.

if you take away tetanus vaccination, a lot of people will die from random scratches. if you dont take it away, then no.

antibiotics resistances dont make bacteria immune to vaccination. entirely different mechanism.

1) is only right because we are vaccinated.

2) in 2017, yea. in the past, the prior for it being MRSA is essentially 0

3) thats because vaccination predates antibiotics

4) nope

your statements amount to "i have no clue how evolution works". bacteria are single cell organisms that dont just suddenly exist into the world being resistant to antiobiotics, which were specifically developed to kill those organisms off.

the only thing people die of today being MRSA is due to vaccination doing a great job at eliminating everything else.

in a pre vaccine pre antibiotics world, every time you get dirt into an open wound, you run the risk of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetanus

thats not hyperbole. it looks like hyperbole to you because vaccines.

but not at the expense of offending anyone who is potentially not even part of that group

how can it possibly infringe on any kind of patent to "promise that commands are executed in order".

maybe thats a difficult problem for hardware to solve. for software, thats just how software works.

maple is solving differential equations and that may have at some point been difficult to write software for. if they have a patent for that, then so be it. I start a company that hires professors who are really good at solving differential equations, and sell the results. basically what maple yields, except produced in a different way. am i infringing on the patent?

patents patent technology. not results. you cant have a patent for "a rocket that flies to the moon" in the sense that now nobody else can build rockets flying to the moon. you can have a patent for a way to store liquid oxygen in tanks to make it yield the energy required to get a rocket to the moon. patenting concepts of things you want to do is at least morally wrong.

a hardware patent should not be capable of preventing someone from writing software that does the same thing.

its like patenting a drug that cures cancer and then using that patent to prevent oncologists from curing cancer by applying chemotherapy.

online cash fixed limit holdem. got out in 2010. been a while.

im really happy with my macbook.

its reasonably powerful, doesnt make any noise, has an SSD and is a unix system without any of the linux haggling.

paying 1k extra for not having to deal with shit was really worth it for me. certainly made sense from a quality of life perspective.

and im anything but an apple fanboy.

germany. 29. studied physics/math, played poker for 6 years, run 3 SaaS. do consulting at 300/hour.

3 days ago ive decided to invest in real estate since thats the only market that the robots cant take away from us. the luxury living spaces of 2035 wont look significantly different from those of 2015. in terms of location.

a super conservative projection of the real estate thing will lead to acquiring property worth 500k a year, producing 100k ARR, with the option of turning it into a REIT.

^ as in after year 1, i own 1/30th of 500k and make 100k

after year 2, i own 2/30th of 500k and 1/30th of another 500k and make 200k etc.

the projection does not reinvest the ARR. if you reinvest, things move faster. thinking about the real estate game in SaaS terms sounds reasonably reasonable at the moment. i'm still talking to a lot of people in know in the business, but im going to make my first purchase this summer.

net worth today: ~350k

last year: 10k

the year before: tree fiddy?

hockeystick is about to kick in.

edit: im not saying that robots cant invest more efficiently in real estate. they clearly can, and i have my own software. but an algorithm can never purchase all the real estate that is valuable and then destroy the margins, like it would on the stock market. if you own a valuable piece of land, it doesnt lose its value because some AI is speculating on the lot next to it.

you can prove it by opening a terminal, typing "python", hitting enter, then copying my line and verifying the result.

whats your sticking point?

i dont really get the problem.

especially in the case of modulo, it often makes sense to just treat the result like a boolean, because it practically says "divisible yes/no".

theres nothing i remotely like about java and its great that python isnt trying to be like java, but those are just opinions.

is your complaint about the implicit typecast or about the fact that integer can be cast to boolean at all? if its the former then python is just less pointlessly verbose than java. the latter may make sense to complain about.

they are certainly bad computer scientists, since its a subdiscipline of mathematics.

can they be great artisans? sure.

why do i think its not better? i said im not sure. i think the two options are about equal in readability, up to taste. yours is probably more efficient in terms of cpu cycles.

its because comcast is a monopoly.

google was not a monopoly when it became popular. it was the idiot 12th search engine that nobody needed.

i get what youre saying, but its pretty obvious why a company gets big. its either holding some form of monopoly or people want it. there are not many other options to be honest.

you dont become the most popular car manufacturer by producing a bullshit product that people neither need nor want.

besides, why is comcast even a negative example? why did you pick that? its because you KNOW FOR A FACT that everyone hates comcast. even I know that. and i have nothing to do with america. people hate comcast. that may as well be a dictionary example sentence for the word "hate". how do we know that everyone hates comcast? because people say so every single day. just measure that. if you want to know whether a company is loved or hated, just ask their customers.