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by ahelwer 6y ago
Actually it's quite easy to predict! We can simply look at the track record of Western intervention since WW2, see that it comes down so squarely on the side of "please USA just leave the world alone, my god" that it achieves
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Why must there be alternatives? Why do anything at all? This bias toward a manufactured vague "do something!!!" feeling has just led to the deaths of countless civilians around the world.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Sanctions lead to widespread suffering & even death among the civilian population. Why do you want the Chinese people to suffer or die? Sanctions are scarcely less psychotic than bombing a school or hospital. The violence is just hidden
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Looks like their consensus algorithm is proprietary: https://docs.hedera.com/guides/core-concepts/hashgraph-conse...
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Haven't looked into it. I don't really find proof-of-stake very interesting at a technical level, though. I don't know what all that "research" could be about if they are just going with proof-of-stake. Edit: taking
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Yeah this is kind of where distributed systems theory comes up against practice, and I think is very interesting. On a theoretical level Nano is just fundamentally flawed, as are all coins which use this "everyone has their own blockch
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Neglecting the DS component, it just requires a lot of weird behavior like parking money in channels in order to send/receive money, nodes having to be online in order to receive transactions, etc. Why go to all this trouble to build a
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by ahelwer 6y ago
According to this chart BTC oscillates between 3 and 5 transactions per second: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/charts/transactions-per-secon... What is my blatant lie?
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Okay, so it isn't 3 tx/sec. It's a bit more than that. Not an order of magnitude more, or two orders of magnitude, or the five orders of magnitude more to have the throughput required for everyone on earth to be able to tra
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I think it's an interesting example of people being too close to something, technically, to really see its totality. I'm a distributed systems person so I basically blew off Bitcoin two bubble-cycles ago because of the 3 tx/s
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Read an interesting theory that this "missing inflation" from all the money printing is already here - it just affects things that people with money buy, so stocks/real estate/collectibles/cryptocurrency basically.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Are you personally disabled in such a way as to be unable to leave the house to pick up food, or is this an example of woke-washing where you defend exploitative labor practices because they benefit a marginalized group?
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Also a good solution, although I tried to eat takeout once a week to help keep local restaurants from closing.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I went through an entire year of lockdown across two major cities without using a delivery service once. Just go out and pick up the food yourself, either on foot or via bike or car.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Assuming you mean W-2 job. This arrangement is actually quite common for software engineering contractors. There are a number of "proxy" contracting companies (ex. iWorkGlobal) of which the independent contractor is a W-2 employee
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by ahelwer 6y ago
> If they did this, they clearly think that the pros outweigh the cons, and they believe they are operating within their legal rights. No, they don't necessarily believe they are operating within their legal rights. They believe the
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by ahelwer 6y ago
If you've ever interacted with a lawyer you would know that "right vs not" is not a binary and all advice is tempered with discussion of risk. In this case, the risk is Amazon has action brought against it by the heavily neut
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by ahelwer 6y ago
> You think Amazon, one of the largest companies in the world, will engage in any anti-union campaign without consulting their lawyers on what's right and what's not? This is staggeringly naive about both how large companies &a
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I'm sorry but this is just a complete fantasy. The "extra money" for nationalized healthcare can come from taxes instead of premiums, and enormous efficiency gains with the elimination of N x N redundant billing departments &
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Yes, I agree having insurance tied to employment is bad for workers. The conclusion is "therefore M4A", not "therefore everyone should buy their own insurance on a public exchange, paying half as much as their rent". You
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Have you taken a look at a public health insurance exchange recently? Buying your own health insurance is a terrible deal. I'm self-employed so have had to deal with this myself. Nothing solidifies deep disdain for any politician who d
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Well, this is where we see inequality as a force that perverts democracy. The side of capital has an enormous quantity of resources (by definition) that they use to influence electoral outcomes. So in a way, yes, the votes aren't very
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Okay, so weight the costs by how many people experience them then. Oh! More people live in those big cities? Huh. And those cities are the only places with jobs that have experienced decent wage growth? Man.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Well, that's electoral politics for ya. Without organized labor power to stand up to capital, things are close to a one-way ratchet.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This is a pretty interesting question, and I think prods at other questions about the actual form that tech worker unions will take - especially in big companies like Google. Will they be actual organized units capable of orchestrating coor
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Housing (and healthcare and education) will never be included in US inflation metrics because the inflation of those cost categories is a government priority. In particular the US gov wants homeowners to experience a consistent annual retur
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This Amazon union vote is one of the few things I see around me in the world where things have a chance of heading in the right direction. Truly hoping it succeeds and creates a nucleation event to stop our march into ever-more-innovative m
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This reads word-for-word like an email from a PM to management talking about how their project that imploded embarrassingly has so many intangible future benefits that really, it's a huge success when you think about it.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I half-wrote a tree-sitter grammar for a niche DSL (the PRISM probabilistic model checking language). It was a very nice experience. It's part of another half-written side project to create a language server for PRISM; I still haven&#x
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by ahelwer 6y ago
How exactly are you approaching this conversation with your Chinese coworkers?

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