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by ahtihn 3y ago
> We call those "nodes" in the blockchain space. Mirrors existed long before blockchain.
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Struggling for survival is the natural condition of living beings on this planet. What's unethical about birthing children in poverty exactly? Rich people consume orders of magnitude more resources than poor people so if anything it&#x
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> shooing away acts like these just make going open source all around a worse business choice I don't understand? They're not going open source so why is the reaction in this thread making actually going open source a worse cho
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None of these are actually trusted by the general population. The average person has never even heard of USDT and USDC and barely knows what the other 2 are.
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> Nobody's telling you not to drive to an office every day. This argument doesn't work because it's not about being in aspecific physical location, it's about being in the same physical location as all the other work
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> Grandma's savings/deposits arent going to evaporate the next time a bank collapses. That's already the case.
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Does history show things working out better when other groups make rules?
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How are you supposed to recover from IllegalArgumentException or NullPointerException?
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by ahtihn 3y ago
Name a single unfair right that whites have over others, today?
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> Poor White and Asian kids still beat out poor Black and Hispanic kids academically on average Why is that the case? For Asians, I don't see what systemic privilege they could have that would need to be compensated away?
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> if you need to store a bank account number “01234567789” will have the leading zero stripped if you use a numeric type. This goes for any "number" that is actually an identifier. Phone numbers aren't really numbers eithe
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by ahtihn 3y ago
> What would stop Redhat from saying "[...] and anybody distributing the source code owes us 50k..” The GPL doesn't allow this.
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> Sundays in Belgium were awful. Nothing to do. I never got this? The only thing to do in your mind is shopping? Restaurants, cinemas, other leisure activities are all available right?
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> BiFunction<String, Integer, Foo> fn That signature is awful. I never remember if the return type is first or the last in the list. Also the "generic" types don't document anything, by design. Yes it's an actua
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That's not the point. You can cherry pick stocks that have outperformed the S&P500 too. The point is that USD isn't for holding. It's for spending. BTC is more like a stock or asset than money. Money isn't supposed t
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No this is a terrible idea. Spoken conversations are different to chats. For one the very fact that they're not searchable after the fact makes everyone more relaxed and not worry so much about saying something wrong that could get bac
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by ahtihn 3y ago
Why does everyone always compare BTC to USD when it comes to "holding". That's not the only alternative! You're not supposed to hold large amounts of USD over long time periods. It loses value by design . You're su
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by ahtihn 3y ago
That doesn't change the fact that it's not a valid refactoring. If you can't make it unit testable without changing behavior, then it should tell you that. Replacing a function that does `print("hello world")` with
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by ahtihn 3y ago
> Fully Correct It's not though. It doesn't print the values anymore, so the behavior isn't the same. Refactoring isn't allowed to change behavior.
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Do you have any examples of books where this is the case? I can believe that there are books that Amazon won't carry but I don't believe that there are books that Credit Card networks won't deal with.
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That is not an answer, you are not describing anything close to TDD.
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by ahtihn 4y ago
B2B SaaS targeting "enterprise" customers. You know the kind where the people making the buying decision aren't users. Does Atlassian look like they care about the performance of their products? Is it a significant factor in
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by ahtihn 4y ago
> virtual threads in Java are an alternative to async await in other languages Not really. Async/Await is mostly about syntax. Transform callback-hell into something that looks like linear code. The underlying threading model doesn&
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by ahtihn 4y ago
> All the Windows history tells me that backward compatibility is the killer feature of Windows. Backwards compatibility generally means you can use programs made for older versions of Windows on newer versions of Windows. What you want
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by ahtihn 4y ago
> LLMs have become part of the infrastructure of the Internet Have they now? What part of the internet relies on LLMs to function? These things are still toys.
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by ahtihn 4y ago
Wouldn't making this argument mean that ChatGPT is violating copyright?
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> As a former player, I would love if I could sell those skins on the open market. I hope you understand that for the same reason, Riot does not want you to be able to sell your skins?
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by ahtihn 4y ago
> Yet they acted like bunch of illiterate peasants. Anyone who withdrew their money was acting rationally. There is 0 upside to leaving your money in a bank that is at risk of experiencing a bank run.
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> rather a case of an IC taking on too much themselves Which is a management problem. If management can't see that this is happening and fix it, what are they even doing?
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This is never going to happen. Do you forbid shell scripting? What about turing-complete configuration formats? How do you define static typing? Is TS `Any` allowed? Is C# `dynamic` allowed? Are you allowed to use reflection? How are you g

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