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by ahtihn 4y ago
"Un cul-de-sac" is simply a road that just stops instead of going somewhere. It usually has a specific road sign to signal it. It's definitely used in (Swiss) French. Does it mean something different in the US? And what would
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by ahtihn 4y ago
> Obviously we're going to focus heavily on dumping Docker Desktop as fast as possible in the next quarters. If you need to invest significant effort into dumping it, it's almost certainly cheaper to just pay for it. Especially
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> North Korea has amassed a veritable crypto fortune, hundreds of millions worth Hundreds of millions isn't a fortune for a state. Certainly financing a credible nuclear program costs way more than that every year. Let alone everyth
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by ahtihn 4y ago
They signed up for it, I didn't.
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No this is all management's problem in any decent sized company. Individual developers don't have full autonomy over what they work on. If management doesn't want to spend dev time on helping operations, then tough luck. I su
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> devs who reversed the ethereum blockchain They didn't. They made a hard fork and the community followed. The "hacked" chain still exists, go use it if you want.
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by ahtihn 4y ago
There's no better way than cash for large transactions between private persons. All the apps have limits of a few thousand and bank transfers take a business day (in Switzerland). No one wants to transfer 5 figures to a random person a
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That depends on the country and bank. I can withdraw any amount of money for free.
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Buying a used car.
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> InputStream/OutputStream I think I missed the announcement of those being "legacy" APIs? They show up all over the place including in libraries, what is the replacement?
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Right, it's possible to pay the gas in Euros. But can Russia then spend those Euros?
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Banning cars doesn't limit your life to a few city blocks. I lived without a car for years in Switzerland and there's no issues going to other cities or even going on hikes or skiing on week-ends using public transport.
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Democracy can overrule those, there's a defined process for it.
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> On the same note, I didn't understand the inclusion of Optional in Java. It interacts nicely with stream pipelines.
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> Now, try to architect this in your favorite programming language. Isn't this trivial in java with streams? Or in C# with linq? Maybe I'm missing something.
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Market makers aren't in the business of keeping prices up. Market participants that do this aren't market makers anymore.
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> "Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times" cycle. This cycle doesn't exist. The idea that it exists serves political ideologies like fascism.
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by ahtihn 4y ago
The point of stablecoins is having an USD equivalent currency that isn't subject to US financial regulations. As said by sibling, trading crypto for crypto is still a taxable event in a lot of jurisdictions.
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> They killed a competitor by declaring them as insolvent. Worded like that you make it sound like that's a lie. CZ didn't declare them insolvent. He just made the fact public.
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> ignore performance on MS targets because anybody who cares about performances is running something else. That's a strange take. Surely games still represent a significant chunk of the demand for C++ developers that need to care ab
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> If he wants people to work 84 hour work weeks regularly - yeah that's a problem. No. The fact that it even crosses his mind as an acceptable demand at any time is a problem. No one, under any circumstance, should ever be asked to
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by ahtihn 4y ago
> Innovation dies when creators can't create without someone ripping off their work against the terms they release it under. I strongly disagree. There would be more innovation if code couldn't be copyrighted or kept secret.
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> you can sue someone for violating the ADA but you can't "win damages" The damages are the incentive to sue. If you don't have that, you might as well not have the law. Or you need to fund an agency for enforcement.
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by ahtihn 4y ago
> Unfortunately every time you create a new law with a private right of action, lawyers will monetize it at industrial scale. Why "unfortunately"? It seems to me this is the intended outcome. It's how these laws actually g
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by ahtihn 4y ago
There's no reason for rent to be rising if property values aren't rising. Rent rising would push property prices up.
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by ahtihn 4y ago
Seems to me that stability AI did a pretty shitty thing and runway ran out of patience. Pretty weird to paint runway as the bad guys here.
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That's not Amazon using open source code for profit. They make money from hosting. They don't make money from the code. The problem is releasing stuff as open source and expecting to profit off it while preventing others from doin
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by ahtihn 4y ago
It's a lawsuit in the UK, so only UK revenue is relevant. There's also the point about profit vs revenue made by someone else. And finally, even if the fine is "low", they still need to change their business practices (a
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> That's not very smart, and you don't want people to think you're an idiot, so don't do it. Yeah, that works about as well as saying you don't need tests because it's not very smart to write bugs. You need
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> Corps should be restricted to a single trade category. Can you come up with a definition of trade category that is legally useful and would prevent Meta from getting into VR hardware?

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