amackera

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by amackera 5y ago
Seems more like an attempted air gap :facepalm:
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by amackera 5y ago
Tulips bulbs are more-or-less fungible; but I guess you're thinking of tulips because of the speculative nature of these assets?
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by amackera 5y ago
What's stopping you from taking a picture of a painting and hanging the painting in your house? There's nothing stopping you, but your print is worthless and the original is valuable. The fact that the NFTs use the ETH blockchain
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by amackera 5y ago
I don't agree.
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by amackera 5y ago
Algorand looks like a promising proof of stake altcoin in my opinion. https://www.algorand.com/
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by amackera 5y ago
In every way I think about it, this difference in salary seems justified. I can't imagine inspecting slaughterhouses is very fun or rewarding, but it's super important for society.
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by amackera 5y ago
Thanks for the info!
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by amackera 5y ago
A good story, and a good lesson! Thanks for sharing
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by amackera 6y ago
This is cool. Access to capital at scale. Is it US only? Or international? Didn't see in the FAQ
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by amackera 6y ago
I totally understand the fascination with type systems. It's just that in my experience, the people are have the most success with intricate type systems are much smarter than I am ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by amackera 6y ago
I was exaggerating; however, I also learned TS and CLJS at the same time and walked away utterly confused with TS and absolutely loving CLJS. I'm a solo dev-- TS probably gets a lot more useful when there's a team of people workin
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by amackera 6y ago
Sounds like your clients might benefit from reading this essay :P
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by amackera 6y ago
Interesting, that would imply merge-able schema (and the ability to resolve merge conflicts in data too).
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by amackera 6y ago
I'm a developer with 15+ yrs of experience in the web, and I'm definitely not smart enough to understand TypeScript. It seems like only 9000 IQ geniuses can be productive in it, especially if you're starting a project from sc
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by amackera 6y ago
Great visualizations and clear writing, well done. Keep up the writing!
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by amackera 6y ago
In a way, by not running useful work 100% of the time, you're wasting the resource of time.
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by amackera 6y ago
I did this last year and I don't regret it for a second. I've also developed a kind of higher standard for the games that I allow to take some of my time. Praise be to Valve, as Proton has freed me from the tyranny of Windows.
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by amackera 6y ago
I am not making a claim of whether or not you want irreversible transactions or that they are somehow inherently better than reversible ones. I am simply pointing out that USD != bitcoin, so the Tesla-driving-cash example is a fundament
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by amackera 6y ago
I've heard driving Teslas is fun
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by amackera 6y ago
"Often" isn't a guarantee. Turning "often" into "always" is the reason bitcoin exists, and the reason it uses so much energy.
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by amackera 6y ago
It's reversible in the sense that the second you leave, I can just claim you never dropped off the cash. AKA I can reverse it. Bitcoin isn't digital cash, it has different tradeoffs. That implies there are upsides/downsides t
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by amackera 6y ago
In that case, write them a cheque? If you don't want irreversible transactions, you don't want bitcoin. My point is that claiming bitcoin is or isn't inefficient relative to other systems is nonsense. There's simply no c
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by amackera 6y ago
That's not really what irreversible transactions means in this context. What ledger has recorded this transaction? How might a dispute be resolved? What's stopping the receiver from just claiming you never dropped off the cash whe
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by amackera 6y ago
Unless of course you want to send two transactions at the same time.
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by amackera 6y ago
The downside of driving your tesla with a case full of bills is that there's no immutable world-wide distributed record of your transaction making it irreversible.
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by amackera 6y ago
This is super cool, well done
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by amackera 6y ago
Re-write of a) the internet, b) the WWW, c) compiler, d) operating system, e) app runtime. Presumably these all need to be re-written from scratch for undisclosed reasons . It could be the next iteration of networked software that adds s
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by amackera 6y ago
Not having to care about implementation details seems like a positive thing to me. There's a reason RTFM is a meme and "read the fucking source code" is not. Anybody claiming they need to know everything about their depende
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Tech to Detect Misinformation Will Be More Expensive Than Tech Which Produces It(sourcedfact.com)
3 points by amackera 7y ago|0 comments
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by amackera 7y ago
Super interesting. I love the point about “journalism’s proof of work”. Very excited to see developments in this area directly tackling systemic problems in journalism and reporting.

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