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by apantel 3y ago
> How is this, and most of the rest of what you're saying, different from the capitalist consumer lifestyle that's programmed into you if you're not Amish? To quote you, "You don't have a choice in that. When you
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I think actually you could say that virtually no Amish people truly choose their own lifestyle. If you are born into an Amish community, the Amish way of life is programmed into you. You don’t have a choice in that. When you grow up, all
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That’s not right. Not every speculative investment vehicle can function as money. To function as money something has to be divisible (e.g. cut a dollar into cents, cut a kg of gold into grams, cut a Bitcoin into bits), it has to be fungib
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Not really. It is possessible (you possess the key that enables transfer), fungible, divisible, scarce, easily transferred. It has all of the basic qualities of money.
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My philosophy on holding Bitcoin is: hold it until cryptocurrency has matured to the point where you are no longer interested in converting back into government-issued money. Once cryptocurrency has the type of optionality that government-
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Bitcoin made a unique imprint in the collective consciousness by painting a believable picture of a world where a decentralized currency is viable. It wasn’t just a white paper. It was a working protocol and an actual network. Think abou
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There’s an important point hidden in your comment: Bitcoin won despite better forks and alternatives, and all its issues, because it managed to achieve the main thing that is required for something to become money: enough people have to thi
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The inverse of “premature optimization is the root of all evil” is “all bad performance is the result of sub-optimal implementation”.
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Here is a presentation by a team that did benchmarking of different runtimes: https://youtu.be/sRCgu1ng6Bo?si=SV_Mcinuqh_c-nuX JavaScript is ~8x slower and Python ~30x slower on average vs Java / Go / C++ that are
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> The need for a 50-100x perf bump is indicative of average projects reaching a level of complexity and abstraction that's statistically likely to be tech debt. I don’t think this is the right way to look at it. The issue is that J
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It’s _always_ about power and control.
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That would beavery nice of me, wouldn’t it.
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Not a single good picture of the dam.
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One thing people should keep in mind when reading others’ comments about how good an LLM is at coding, is that the capability of the model will vary depending on the programming language. GPT-4 is phenomenal at Java because it probably ate
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Ask HN: What other good forums are out there?
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What I’ve learned from a lot of productive coding with ChatGPT as a soundboard and generator is that you need to review everything it generates in order to catch little issues as well as ways things could be done better. Only an extremely
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Train an LLM on all of Satoshi’s known correspondences, then have it grade the correspondences of each suspected Satoshi candidate to determine who actually writes like him.