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by ar_lan 5y ago
This weird meme that Bitcoin is so beneficial to criminal activity (especially in comparison with physical cash)... I don't know where it started, but I wish its completely bad-faith nature would die. Sure, the Silk Road started, but t
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by ar_lan 5y ago
Anarchism and Stalin wouldn't jive well, so I wouldn't say it's "traditionally another word for communism"
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by ar_lan 5y ago
Well the reality is the blockchain is programmed by people, right? So any network established to act as the new government is still at the will of the people who write it. What I could imagine is an open source "constitution" of s
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by ar_lan 5y ago
"Free" being the confusing word here, because it has two meanings, and often are used without context in open source software. Typically, OSS is both definitions at the same time - free monetarily, and "free" as in &
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by ar_lan 5y ago
I am interested to know what percentage of their user base they lost after the past few months. I know I personally cancelled my account with Robinhood, but I don't know if I'm in the minority or not. I just don't see the poi
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by ar_lan 6y ago
> does anyone use google flights instead of travelocity Yes, absolutely. I don't even know what Travelocity is :) What surprises me is that people still use Expedia. Agreed, this is probably satire.
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by ar_lan 6y ago
I was wondering when this was going to happen.
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by ar_lan 6y ago
Isn't this, in large part, what games like CryptoKitties kind of shows? Digital art is a good example of "I can validate I own this piece". If you consider this in place with something like, not only digital goods, but even p
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by ar_lan 6y ago
They also didn't just do it for high volatility stocks - they are doing it for "competitor" stocks as well. IPOE is limited to one share now, right after their merger with SoFi (a Robinhood competitor).
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by ar_lan 6y ago
> The biggest problem is Robinhood's poor messaging. It's clear their highest priority was to avoid admission that they were running out of money. They didn't want to trigger a bank run or shake the confidence of their new
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by ar_lan 6y ago
I mean, the internet is wide open. Get your fellow socialists to congregate to your own little hole, if you need to. Facebook is not the end-all-be-all of communication. I can't even think of the last time I used it - yet I'm stil
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by ar_lan 6y ago
Why? They are private companies at the end of the day - just use something else if you don't like how they operate.
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by ar_lan 6y ago
The title does a bad job of this, though, as it's extremely ambiguous who is doing the "rehiring." The way it's worded, the best assumption is the "New Intel CEO" is doing the "rehiring" - but Pat did
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by ar_lan 6y ago
Tax credits aren't really government support (it's not like the government is paying them anything). It's more akin to a discount, if anything - we support the work you do so we won't penalize you further with taxes, bec
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by ar_lan 6y ago
Because Tesla is only kind of a car company
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by ar_lan 6y ago
No, not a typo, just specific to Twitter. On Twitter, I seem to only find React-devs that gain any kind of fame, and then it's all a big circle of people who self-promote one another. My personal guess is it's because front-end pe
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by ar_lan 6y ago
Kelsey Hightower comes to mind. In general, I try to avoid Twitter though because the software community there is very self-congratulatory and a bit toxic elitist. Not to mention if you aren't a front-end dev good luck being treated li
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by ar_lan 6y ago
> Why aren’t people just getting bikes and then putting them on trainers? Maybe for single people, or households where only one person is interested in it. Have you ever tried sharing the same bike with someone else who is an entirely di
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by ar_lan 6y ago
Yep, I have to physically read books if I want to ingest any information from them.
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by ar_lan 6y ago
Concept2 rowers make for amazing workouts. Great cardio, and it's truly full-body. I love mine. Granted, I love rowing too though.
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by ar_lan 6y ago
The problem is you might end up writing strange endpoints just to satisfy a specific UI page. For example, take a small blog, that holds several posts, each with an author. In GraphQL, you could fetch all the posts, and all info related to
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by ar_lan 6y ago
It doesn't lose it - it just doesn't remain an advantage over the alternative. It's not like if there is a schema with a REST API, the GraphQL alternative becomes un-typed.
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by ar_lan 6y ago
Your response is to the typing nature of GraphQL, but this isn't the only strong reason for GraphQL. GraphQL reduces both response payload size to only what is necessary for the client, but also reduces round-trips. Unless you are writ
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by ar_lan 6y ago
I get the sentiment, but if this occurs 99%+ of people will definitely go remote, which is possibly not what companies really want. What's the incentive to stay in the $1k/sqft Bay Area if our coworkers in $90/sqft Michigan a
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by ar_lan 6y ago
> I'm worn out by slight variations on the same old pitch: 'here's a database with a UI, and we'll host the database!'. AKA - I learned how to make a CRUD app - pay me money (or your data) for it!
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by ar_lan 6y ago
Serious grammar question... Is the "an" in the title proper because NES, pronounced, sounds like /ɛn/, even though it's actually a consonant?
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by ar_lan 6y ago
It's also the ugliest building known to man (and I believe the Unabomber taught there!)
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by ar_lan 6y ago
It's single-threaded, it's much slower compared to languages like Go, Java, etc, and for any app that performance needs to be a consideration, Node would just never be my first choice. If I'm building a blog, then maybe it ma
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by ar_lan 6y ago
I think the same could be said about node, though. A big ideal would be to be able to use the same libraries, code, tooling, etc. instead of needing to fragment with multiple languages/impls/skills/tools/etc. I don&#x2
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by ar_lan 6y ago
Humans have proven time and time again that we are very good at optimizing for specific metrics, and apparently generally very poor at choosing the right metrics to target. School is a prime example, in my opinion - there is so much I &quot

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