__alexs

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by __alexs 5y ago
How do I put bitcoins in my hand? Sounds painful.
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by __alexs 5y ago
> But it isn't on a block chain and it isn't extensible. It is very extensible. My bank has an API. > With our current digital cash I can not create NFTs and trade then around. I'd call that a feature rather than a bug.
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by __alexs 5y ago
> That said digital cash and tokens and NFTs do have value and I expect them to get even more popular. Literally all my cash is already digital.
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by __alexs 5y ago
What the author calls cat computing I like to call crab computing. I think crabs are a better analogy because crabs have successfully been used to perform logic operations in a lab and cats have not.
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by __alexs 5y ago
Buddy we know when you're on cocaine were just polite about it.
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by __alexs 5y ago
Everyone I have ever met who is on cocaine has been a complete ass for the duration. Even people that I normally get on with just become utterly intolerable and blind to the damage it's doing to their relationships with people aren&#x2
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by __alexs 5y ago
While I'm sure street cred plays a factor there is also good money in being able to break the protections to enable piracy.
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by __alexs 5y ago
Have done this several times and it's generally been very easy to find a better job than the one I was in. The only thing I will say is that you are in a much worse negotiating position which can be a problem if you're heading tow
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by __alexs 5y ago
Like a bug bounty where you give attackers an SSH login.
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by __alexs 5y ago
I was confused what "dss-flash" was so I looked it up. It's a DAO that enables you to mint infinite DAI (some crappy "stablecoin") for a transaction as long as you pay it back in the same transaction. One of the sta
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by __alexs 5y ago
I don't think causality really works like that, even the Bible for this one right. "The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son."
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by __alexs 5y ago
Grinding up working RTX 3090s to use as aggregate for building roads also "uses chips" but might also be considered waste.
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by __alexs 5y ago
Probably depends on the duration of the bonds? I'd have thought anyone holding long term bonds when interest rates rise is going to be hurting.
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by __alexs 5y ago
Invest in companies that will benefit from inflation. Ones with low capital and debt requirements. This happens to be most of the S&P500 these days already.
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by __alexs 5y ago
Are Perl programmers generally more morally flexible than others?
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by __alexs 5y ago
> China is huge so I can see how it could work for them, but I still have to admit it's very hard for me to imagine someone becoming say a competent web dev without picking at least some basic English along the way, Having worked wi
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by __alexs 5y ago
> Fortunately, this is quite easy to fix - just don't accept any patches with source code that have any non-ASCII outside small set of localization resources There are plenty of projects out there written by people who aren't E
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by __alexs 5y ago
In English literally any word can be a verb my dude.
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by __alexs 5y ago
It's fundamentally impossible to be both racist and not right wing so I'll just have to assume you're a troll.
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by __alexs 5y ago
So if you are far-right, but only to brown people, you aren't far-right? This seems so obviously racist I can't believe you can argue for that position in good faith.
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by __alexs 5y ago
Just let people mint it from thin air but make sure all minting is traceable on the block chain. This will obviously create immense inflation, but since everyone is capable of just inflating their own holdings to match it's perfectly f
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by __alexs 5y ago
What if you don't have eyes?
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by __alexs 5y ago
I don't miss the weird misogynistic elements of his writing at all. It's a shame that technical blogging in general has faded away so much though.
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by __alexs 5y ago
There are no courses that don't eventually intersect with land, or other ships...
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by __alexs 5y ago
> If everyone cuts trade for moral reasons, then there's no incentive for us not to point nukes at each other again. I don't agree with OP but this is actually a pretty common talking point around the benefits of globalization.
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by __alexs 5y ago
Didn't the quails cause a plague?
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by __alexs 5y ago
Thousands of professors that can't be bothered to learn Julia.
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by __alexs 5y ago
You may be surprised to learn that the economics of small scale theft are pretty weird. https://priceonomics.com/why-thieves-steal-soap/
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by __alexs 5y ago
Circuit Mind | Python Engineer | Full-time | London, UK At Circuit Mind we are completely automating the design of electronic circuit boards. Just as the introduction of software compilers and interpreters enabled an explosion in software a
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by __alexs 5y ago
They are considerably more complicated to build and their main benefit is efficiency in turbulent flows, however it turns out that also turbulent flows tend to be slower in practice so there's less energy to get out of them anyway. Thi

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