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I wonder how much of this work to make "crypto" part of the economy is regulatory instead of computer science.
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Sure, it works for some. But for most the return is not (officially) promised and if you want to actually access the money, you have to sell the asset on a market. With Ponzi, you can just collect dollars and run away. Some Ethereum scam co
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by 127 4y ago
Calling crypto a pyramid scheme is much more accurate than Ponzi. These two concepts are quite different.
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Trains
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There's also the driving our novelty seeking brains into overdrive with all kinds of artificial stimulants, including this very forum.
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Well, I'm certainly not going to chase your idea of value. Seriously speaking, though: money and accolade are both social abstractions. Humans are animals of social abstraction, so it's kind of silly to state things that matter to
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by 127 4y ago
My experience after a couple of weeks: Pros: Extremely good C and C++ interop Significant indentation Very good performance Quick compilation Terse, but readable Easy cross platform Powerful macros and close to trivial DSL construction Very
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Single memory card adds +10% to the price of a used Nikon Z6
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Hiding the cause also prevents anyone from fixing the cause.
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Wasn't SARS-1 stopped largely with contact tracing? You're saying that understanding the origin of the virus does not help the production of a vaccine in any way?
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- Can't easily indent - Can't easily copy paste - Can't easily edit - Looks ugly - Harder to read
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Writing multi-line strings in Zig is not easy.
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Dollar has been going up in value, not down.
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The types of governments we live in are not axiomatic, they are just contracts that have formed over time that seem to work somewhat.
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>Everyone blaming "meat" for global warming is just a shill for the petrol industry, distracting from the real cause (fossil fuels). It's not either or. Recognizing the cost in fossil fuels, does not magically reduce the c
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You can also use a similar algorithm for smoothing, but it's rarely used because how simple it is to write a axis separated Gaussian.
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92 jobs for each step, 22 jobs for each form, 17 jobs for each office visit, $5,554 into the government coffers. Each step can be sold by some politician as some kind of a win for their campaign. Each of these people will fight hard to hold
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Only proof I've seen Todd being good at is marketing. That's it.
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Destroying the resale value of your laptop because trashing through a non-replacable SSD is not something I would really appreciate. We don't have(?) official numbers, but consumer SSDs go as low as 150TBW
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8GB gets you better performance, but it gets a lot less software running at the same time. The fact that just running a web browser and vscode already almost fills the entire memory is a disgrace. I love the device, but how little effort th
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by 127 4y ago
Because nobody wants to make themselves or their friends obsolete. In fact, technical debt is a feature, not a bug. Invent a highly functional, durable tool: nobody will buy anything related to it from you again.
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by 127 4y ago
What do you think about Saddam? If he was allowed to continue, would that not have destabilized the middle east? I'm not making an argument here, just honestly curious what you think about it.
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If you look just at how small the shaped charge inside the NLAW is, and how the weapon works, I wonder why you wouldn't just put that shaped charge inside a $50 drone and fly it directly above the tank.
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Removal of cash is a great way to further remove the population of its personal power and enable authoritarian forms of state.
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Google Translate is one click away. I can easily translate both Japanese and Chinese comments and variable names to get the gist of it. Using single hieroglyphs for it makes the entire endeavor impossible.
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I have only had good experiences so far on JLCPCB. I can very much recommend. Quality boards for very cheap, plus you can actually get the parts pre-assembled if they have them in their catalog (most common parts should be there) It's
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It's been 30 years and GUI toolkits are worse than they were in 1995
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We have been riding four positive tidal waves in the west: (momentary) end of war, positive population pyramid, rapidly improving technology, extremely cheap resources. Now that all of those trends are reversing or at least stagnating, we a
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...and I've been programming games since 0x13h ModeX and contributed to core industry software. Which means absolutely nothing. It's quality times quantity. Not time and acquired credentials.
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I think the point here is that he has some really spicy takes that one can not call balanced or objective by any measure, while not doing anything that's impressive enough to actually deserve to be taken seriously when it comes to such

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