GenericsMotors

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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
So still plagued by whales and cartels dominating the votes.
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
Merkel trees have been around since the 70s.
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
He definitely seems like the exception to the rule. Whereas if I've slept 5 hours I'll be ready to pack in at 4pm he's still fine. And I'm pretty sure its not an act as he's older than me, consistently competent and
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
Not having one vote per person seems to be one of the main grievances. How will ethereum solve this aspect?
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
Then don't call it a crypto currency and pretend its going to replace fiat currencies any time soon. A currency is something people want as means of exchanging goods and services, an investment instrument isn't that. And crypto
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
And for a comparison in the same tech era: Facebook had more than a billion users after 10 years. The "its still early days!" argument holds no water.
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
> As a counterpoint to your "gains nothing" view, many "average citizens" used bitcoin for transactions in the early days, only to find out that holding some of their currency in bitcoin made them rich, so they did ga
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
And proof of stake has its own problems, if the EOS project is anything to go by...
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
Everyone's different. I'll wake up after 7 or 8 hours without an alarm if I haven't had any crunch time recently. A colleage of mine seems to do fine with 5 hours sleep, and another needs 9-10 hours like GP.
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
Yes, the fact that the Linux kernel is written in C is nothing short of total disaster. It is bad for humanity. Just count all those "use after free" vulnerabilities.
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
Musk gets told his PR stunt is unwelcome and should bugger off, and his reaction is to call one of the people who risked their lives to save those kids a paedophile? What a narcissistic prick. Confirms his stupid sub was nothing more than e
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
Most "paper" money is already digital, IIRC only something like 10% exists in physical form as bank notes and metal coins. And which decentralized ledger would this be? Bitcoin, with its maximum of 7 TX/sec? Before you come b
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
> Because if you don't know what you want you are almost guaranteed to pick the wrong technology. That's one way to look at it...but a bit shortsighted. Requirements can and do change, and a well designed model in an RDBMS will
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
Or use a language with reified generics :)
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
Sigh... The repo's readme is melodramatic and entitled. If you don't agree with GitHub's direction, and have already made your objections known to them, then move somewhere else. Or you know, perhaps pay to host your own sour
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
This is what you get by leaving the invisible hand of the free market to "regulate" itself. Companies have enough rope to hang themselves dozens of times over with the way they collect and handle personal information (startups inc
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
A good rule of thumb for asking questions on StackOverflow is to only do it as a last resort. And then, put effort into your question: - explain clearly what you've tried, and how it didn't work - link to other resources that appe
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
Or perhaps a skin rash.
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
A bit melodramatic, don't you think? Corporations will continue to have their details listed, this covers what info can be stored and published about actual persons.
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
Fair enough :)
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
Correct, but the rest of the paragraph sort of gives that impression (at least to me) by mentioning how language compilers are usually written in a more primitive language, like the Go compiler being written in C then later rewritten in Go.
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by GenericsMotors 8y ago
Thanks, enjoyed the article! Though on this point: > As you may know, in .NET CoreCLR (and Mono), the JIT has been entirely written in C/C++. That’s sometimes even a joke used by C++ developers to remind the enthusiastic C# develope
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by GenericsMotors 9y ago
Yep. If you follow his Robots series right through to the end of the Foundation series, the theme is how robots R. Giskard and R. Daneel "evolved" to not follow a strict and rigid interpretation of the 3 laws, instead taking actio
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by GenericsMotors 9y ago
There's definitely something evil (extremely unethical?) about handing the decision/burden to take someone's life to machines. Also, I don't think your remark is a fair representation of the parent comment.
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by GenericsMotors 9y ago
> "No", respond taxpayers. "K, enjoy prison. And the fines. And interest." > How do they intend to record this? Coinbase shares data with the IRS. I imagine Kraken will also, as they are US-based. Maybe you've
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by GenericsMotors 9y ago
Thanks, my mistake (and apparently too late to edit my original comment).
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by GenericsMotors 9y ago
> The original story wasn't very clear how blockchain was involved. Didn't stop the ridiculously titled "Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election" [1] from being shared and strongly upvoted here on H
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by GenericsMotors 9y ago
"blockchain-based election" is a bit of a stretch. A third party recorded part of the election results using a blockchain. The election itself was still a paper ballot. Perhaps if the company had used Postgres to store the results
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by GenericsMotors 9y ago
Acebook?
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by GenericsMotors 9y ago
> Surprisingly this is not true with Blockchain topics. Upvoted Blockchain stories feel ok but not that relevant or often random. Comments, discussions are sometimes constuctive (like this one) but often anti-blockchain or of low quality

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