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   by api 7y ago

   To this day most IOTA comments on Reddit will get hit within an hour by rather obvious shills.
2. 8732.▲
   by api 7y ago

   These are lower orbits so any space junk released is eventually going to burn up. Not sure how long it'll take... years I think, but not too long.
3. 8733.▲
   by api 7y ago

   > It comes from terrible "corporate drone" software developers in the 80s and 90s These definitely still exist.
4. 8734.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Public debt should really be called something other than debt since it behaves very differently from private debt, especially for nations with sovereign currencies.
5. 8735.▲
   by api 7y ago

   So what will we use? Electron? Developing a massive professional grade UI library and platform is a monstrous undertaking. Who is going to pay for it? The alternative is for it not to exist.
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   by api 7y ago

   An early draft of 2001 A Space Odyssey had Discovery as an Orion, but apparently Kubrick having just done Dr. Strangelove didn't want to do another film with nukes.
7. 8737.▲
   by api 7y ago

   I would argue that we've seen only minor evolutionary advances in software in some areas, while others have actually gone backward. I've been coding since I was a kid in the 1980s. By the late 90s I was developing multithreaded st
8. 8738.▲
   by api 7y ago

   There seems to be a general tendency for fields to come up with useless jargon. My favorite for years has been "deplane" for letting people off airplanes, but "performant" seems even more pointless.
9. 8739.▲
   by api 7y ago

   How much do you think rents would have gone up without more housing supply.
10. 8740.▲
    by api 7y ago

    A TL;DR from my reading of this: As the world becomes more interconnected and both population and per capita wealth grow, the amount of information flowing into the global discourse becomes so large that "miracles" (highly anomalo
11. 8741.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Isn't that beyond the scope of a layout component library? It's React so you manage state.
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    by api 7y ago

    The fact that it's only in Chicago makes me think it's an AT&T error e.g. with BGP or internal routing rather than something intentional. We have our four core ZeroTier root servers on different providers at different data cen
13. 8743.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Are there any cryptocurrency dapps that anyone uses that are not novelties, gambling, or cryptocurrency investing (gambling)?
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    by api 7y ago

    I hate the way the cryptocurrency world has sucked all the air out of the decentralized room. Why does a decentralized app have to interact with a smart contract? We already have tons that do not. Why does it need a coin?
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    by api 7y ago

    Seems like a job for a peer to peer system if bandwidth is a major expense.
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    by api 7y ago

    These two come to mind. They're technically more math but they've had a significant impact on CS in certain areas like cryptography and data compression: Ingrid Daubechies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid
17. 8747.▲
    by api 7y ago

    HN adopted an anti-blockchain stance for the same reason it adopted a stance against memes, political ideologues trying to "red pill" people, culture war flame wars, etc.: to save itself. If it hadn't it would have devolved d
18. 8748.▲
    by api 7y ago

    These aren't mutually exclusive. We should blame both.
19. 8749.▲
    by api 7y ago

    A system-wide setting when the objective is user process control behavior? Really? Just wow.
20. 8750.▲
    by api 7y ago

    What? I didn't even know about that. This stuff is such absolute trash.
21. 8751.▲
    by api 7y ago

    It all starts when we leave the womb, which is a stupid reckless decision.
22. 8752.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Mostly that and a lack of context switches. Async programming is really a fine grained hand written way to do fibers. Goroutines are basically fibers too and are incredibly cheap.
23. 8753.▲
    by api 7y ago

    This is usually the case with executives but not for him, at least from several first and second hand stories I've heard. Musk doesn't do much long hours in front of a CAD program type work but he is definitely very involved in th
24. 8754.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Great, now I'm picturing wooks at a music festival passing around a bowl of tropical fish...
25. 8755.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Yes provided they are very very talented (Musk is an amazing engineer), a polymath, and extremely driven to the point that the money won't make them slack off. The thing about Musk is that he has a sense of mission beyond just money. S
26. 8756.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Does that matter much when you are working two jobs to afford rent?
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    by api 7y ago

    I see more parallels between pop Christianity in the USA and Mithraism or the Roman imperial cult. It was shocking years ago to read the gospels and realize they are not following the actual teachings of Christ at all. In some cases those t
28. 8758.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Ahh... that's probably it: the prevalence of physical industries like petrochemicals, oil drilling, etc. Patents make vastly more sense when applied to physical artifacts.
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    by api 7y ago

    Is there some historical reason East Texas is a rubber stamp mill for patents and troll suits or is it just something they decided was a good way to make money?
30. 8760.▲
    by api 7y ago

    That's because LA is growing. It would be a lot worse without the trains.