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by applepple 5y ago
The best way to stop global warning is through intervention by Central Banks. We need to create monetary policy which promotes incentives such as green energy and carbon capture technology. We also need to focus on improving battery technol
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by applepple 5y ago
Innovation can harm efficiency by creating needless competition which is wasteful. That's why innovation should be in the hands of corporations. The government should introduce laws to require innovation permits to prevent wateful comp
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by applepple 5y ago
Interesting. It reminds me of Capitalisk https://capitalisk.com/ except without quantum resistance and harder to setup.
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by applepple 5y ago
Maybe not completely, but they all profit from having an element of deception. They are drawing attention away from better projects by hoarding all the top spots on all the exchanges and ranking websites. They are destroying the industry an
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by applepple 5y ago
>> So Stellar, Cardano and XRP are all scams? When Stellar started, they were all about 'Quorums'; trying to imply that this was the secret sauce which would allow it to scale unlike any other blockchain. I initially thought
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by applepple 5y ago
Name any major project and I can tell you why it's a scam. Bitcoin: Uses the electricity of a country to process 2 transactions per second. Layer 2 solutions such as Lightning Network have some significant drawbacks which make them unp
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by applepple 5y ago
There is a massive difference. In monopoly, everyone gets the same amount when they cross 'Go'. If we had taken the rule from the real world, people would be paid proportionally to their net worth (value of all assets). Real life
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by applepple 5y ago
The vast majority of top projects are essentially scams and the real projects are not in the rankings. Even promising projects seem to turn into scams once they get into the top 200 or so. It's as if some wealthy investors buy up a lot
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by applepple 5y ago
Our society is not capitalist. New currency is constantly being printed out of nothing and pumped into the system. That's not a free market. Businesses just follow the money. It can be as inefficient as society allows it to become. As
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by applepple 5y ago
It would be an interesting experiment if you could show me the GitHub repo of the best written open source FP project you've ever encountered and I could point out its flaws and rank them on a scale based on how critical they are in te
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by applepple 5y ago
It's always the case that when I present these arguments above to FP devs, they respond with personal insults instead of counter-arguments. This suggests that they know my arguments are accurate but they are too invested in FP and are
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by applepple 5y ago
>> I feel really sorry for you if... I never said that this is what I believe. I said it's what a lot of people in the corporate sphere believe. It's the opposite of what I believe. OOP solves complex problems in a simple wa
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by applepple 5y ago
If the article only attacked that specific book "Clean Code", then I would not be as critical. But the first line in the article suggests that it is an attack against the entire idea of writing good quality code: 'It may not
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by applepple 5y ago
This article is garbage. The argument is basically like saying "famous scientist X was wrong about Y, let's stop doing science. Clearly there is no point to it." I cannot believe what I am reading here. My open source communi
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by applepple 5y ago
State mutations are safe and easy to handle if the state is fully contained inside a blackbox (a class) and you only return copies of the state but never the actual references. A blackbox should never expose object references (its internal
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by applepple 5y ago
Yes, but the difference is that OOP can scale indefinitely but FP cannot. If you don't co-locate related state and logic, ensuring that each piece of state reaches the correct components becomes a logistical nightmare at scale (either
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by applepple 5y ago
Functional programming is OK up to a certain degree of complexity... Good if you have a lot of junior developers on your team because it prevents certain kinds of mistakes which juniors tend to make. But many FP projects end up becoming a g
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by applepple 5y ago
That's not a great option in most cases either. You need social connections or else your product will never sell.
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by applepple 5y ago
Nice, this is a broader way to explain the effectiveness of my CSS approach and many other approaches. IMO, Modern developers should read fewer books about tools and more books about software philosophy. It's far more important. It&#x2
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by applepple 5y ago
A single developer who can complete projects in the same amount of time as 10 or 100 or 1000 regular developers to at least the same quality standard (but usually to a higher quality standard because code quality is key to getting that prod
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by applepple 5y ago
There are so many. Sometimes they're big picture stuff, sometimes they're more detailed. One of the lessons I learned in my junior years is that I used to write CSS with a lot of nesting and relatively short class names (I used SC
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by applepple 5y ago
That doesn't align with my experience. In my experience, they pretend to care about the employee, but when the employer is in the wrong, even in an obvious way, they will side with the employer in the blink of an eye every time instead
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by applepple 5y ago
From worst colleague: Succeeding in our modern economy has nothing to do with ability, intelligence or work ethic. It's about luck and intimidation. From best colleague: 10x, 100x, 1000x... developers are real. I also learned that maki
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by applepple 5y ago
This is horrible... And just like that, now the government can introduce laws based on people's identity/group. Well at least it doesn't affect me personally... I didn't get the vaccine but I identify as a vaccinated per
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by applepple 5y ago
Based on the article and the fact that they implied that sticky sessions are necessary, it doesn't seem that the abstraction is airtight. If it was properly stateful, then sticky sessions would not be required. With WebSockets, sticky
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by applepple 5y ago
I would trust a random individual more than a bank. There is a chance that the random individual might be honest... On the other hand, I know for sure that banks are running a pyramid scheme.
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by applepple 5y ago
How are they any different? They both do fractional reserve banking. If anything, Tether is more robust because they aren't controlled by central banks.
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by applepple 5y ago
HTTP2 is not a suitable protocol for implementing persistent, stateful communication channels. HTTP2 is bidirectional but it's stateless. gRPC is bidirectional but intended to be stateful. WebSockets (bidirectional and stateful) would
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by applepple 5y ago
Why not just create intangible collateral out of thin air? E.g. crypto? Then you just use some of the credit to pump up the value of the collateral to meet the bank's expectation.
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by applepple 5y ago
Maybe revenue laundering using borrowed credit? I wouldn't be surprised if some day we discover that many corporations the tech space have been engaged in some kind of global credit laundering scheme using shell companies as a filter t

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