Hermel

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by Hermel 5y ago
In my experience, it is much easier to love what you do than to do what you love. I think I could develop a passion for a vast spectrum of goals.
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by Hermel 5y ago
In practice, it is very hard to get away with the ransom due to the public nature of blockchain-based transaction. For example, the author of the wannacry failed at layering and exchanging his Bitcoins into fiat. Source: https://
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by Hermel 5y ago
No, it’s the way laws are written in a broken legal system. In a well-designed, principles-based legal system, laws are kept short and concise, with guidance and examples being provided through more suitable channels.
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by Hermel 5y ago
The problem with all these EU regulations is that they are overly detailed. If you have to mention "Bayesian estimation" in a document called a "directive", then you are doing something wrong. In an ideal world, a direct
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by Hermel 5y ago
I wonder what the statistics say: what’s the likelihood of a Bitcoin residing with a custodian being stolen or lost versus the likelihood of a Bitcoin directly held by the end user being stolen or lost?
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by Hermel 5y ago
Another important point is that the top 350 US companies today are much larger than the top 350 US companies of 1989. To have an accurate comparison, the authors should have compared the compansation ratio of similarly sized firms, maybe th
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by Hermel 5y ago
What if the discrimination is based on interest? For example, the researcher found that a job ad for a car salesperson is more often shown to men and a job ad for a jewelry salesperson more often to women. But that could just be correlation
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by Hermel 6y ago
That still does not explain why they refuse to answer the question.
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by Hermel 6y ago
Yes, this is a missed opportunity for crypto. Unfortunately, securities and exchanges for securities are so heavily regulated, that it is very hard to try something like this with a “fail fast” approach and we will probably have to wait for
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by Hermel 6y ago
Would a mechanism that selects for more intelligence automatically create evolutionary pressure into that direction?
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by Hermel 6y ago
Contrary to popular belief, OO is not primarily about inheritance. That’s one of its distinct features. But experienced software engineers tend to prefer composition over inheritance. OO is about encapsulation and about putting conventional
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by Hermel 6y ago
“Therapy” does not necessarily imply a disorder. Consider physiotherapy, which is quite common to address things like a pain in the back or to support the recovery of muscles after an accident. Neither are disorders. Therapy does not even i
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by Hermel 6y ago
Maybe the most talented women prefer pursuing a career academics over one in the real sector?
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by Hermel 6y ago
When articles get basic, easily verifiable facts wrong, I immediately start to doubt the quality of the whole article. Here it says: > " By comparison, there are just under 50 billion Swiss Francs in circulation today, which are wor
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by Hermel 6y ago
You implicitly assume that when governments start to burn the bridges between fiat and crypto, it is the crypto holders that will run to the fiat side before the last bridge is gone. But it could also go the other way around.
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by Hermel 6y ago
This is a good development! I also want to enable something similar in my local market (Switzerland) with my startup. Here, we have various regulatory advantages, for example, there is no 2000-shareholder rule. [1] This enables us to explor
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by Hermel 6y ago
I see the problem with steroids in sports. They are unhealthy and sports is a zero-sum game. But what's the problem with manipulating people to be healthier, smarter and more attractive? Wouldn't that improve the world? Everyone b
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by Hermel 6y ago
At least their are not hiding their political affinity any more.
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by Hermel 6y ago
It might be enough to use many different messaging apps in parallel. This enabled competition and a smooth transition between them. For example, I tend to slowly move from WhatsApp to Telegram as more new groups I join are created in Telegr
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by Hermel 6y ago
Yes, and what if they see extraordinary people as a threat? They might be willing to sacrifice some potential growth if it helps them staying in power...
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by Hermel 6y ago
There are two mistakes in the quoted section: 1. Even under perfect competition, there is still a surplus. But it goes to the consumer. Example: a loaf of bread costs 1$ to produce, is sold for 1$ and delivers 3$ of value (economists call t
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by Hermel 6y ago
The problem is that unit testing as it is often done tears the object oriented design apart. The right way to do unit testing is to not test the internal state of an object in the test code, but to instead test it within the tested object u
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by Hermel 6y ago
The problem is not the language. It is possible to write very elegant and well-structured software in Java. The abstraction bloat usually seen in Java software comes from somewhere else, and I’m not sure where. Is it a symptom of corporate
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by Hermel 6y ago
Nonsense! I’ve been part of the Swiss startup scene for more than a decade and there are plenty of interesting startups and opportunities. If there is a lack of anything, it is technical co-founders that are willing to take a risk. (Working
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by Hermel 6y ago
> And they are, but if they want to do it on Twitter, Twitter gets to have its say as well. And that's why they are exercising their right to move away from Twitter.
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by Hermel 6y ago
So what? People should be free to discuss stupid and wrong ideas. Btw: I think conspiracy theories are good indicators for what certain people want to believe. I personally don't want to be disconnected from these indicators.
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by Hermel 6y ago
Do you mean “all but” literally (everything except confirmed) or colloquially (absolutely confirmed)? (I hate the term “all but”. I find it often hard to tell what people actually want to say when using it.)
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by Hermel 6y ago
Anything that puts human lifes at risk. That's why Assange and his team worked in close collaboration with a number of news organizations (for example the Guardian) and reached out to the US government in order to remove all informatio
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by Hermel 6y ago
And your reading of the situation lacks one crucial piece of information: Apple does not allow app authors to forward the “Apple tax” to the user. For example, if a newspaper subscription costs 300$ on the website, the publisher must not ch
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by Hermel 6y ago
What if the locked-down ecosystem is the result of overly restrictive copyright laws? Wouldn’t it be better to tackle the root cause and adjust that?

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