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by aserafini 5y ago
I think in the even longer term, when the price stabilises (ie. we are not in this growth/adoption phase) the transaction volume will dominate. And that’s because there will be no more Bitcoin to mine and the price will not be going ‘u
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by aserafini 5y ago
It is, yes. And would be for anyone seriously researching where to base an international office.
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by aserafini 5y ago
Exactly - selling heroin to kids (outside of medicinal purposes) should be illegal. Whether it is a "company" (co-operating group of individuals) or an individual seems irrelevant.
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by aserafini 5y ago
One thing I find really interesting from Redis that I would love in a relational database is the concept of ‘blocking’ queries, which block until they get a result. For example: https://redis.io/commands/BLPOP If I cou
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by aserafini 5y ago
Unfortunately your policy, in a small way, perpetuates this ‘sub-optimal’ efficiency by obscuring the true cost of your work from your employer. You’re making life harder for everyone else!
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by aserafini 5y ago
Yes that’s true. Also some don’t even run in a browser for example.
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by aserafini 5y ago
Very interesting and you’re right that this is almost uniquely and most easily expressible in C, but if that makes C ‘weird’ I don’t understand what the point of the article is anymore. By that definition all languages are ‘weird’ including
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by aserafini 5y ago
IMO the greatest achievement of collaborative programming so far is Linux. Not a CRUD application written by Junior developers. And it is written in C, which I assume is not one of PG’s blessed ‘weird’ languages that supposedly superior pr
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by aserafini 5y ago
Sure, but the article is rather disparaging to the engineer spending their life in the so called ‘mainstream’ 99.5% of languages, implying their work is in someway less ‘smart’ than those exploring the 0.5%. I am offering a counterpoint tha
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by aserafini 5y ago
But in one sense, there are no languages with unique powers. Ultimately all languages are instructions for a CPU. The language can make you ‘feel’ smart as an individual or ‘be’ smart by allowing a large group of people to accomplish someth
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by aserafini 5y ago
But a meta-smart engineer that wants to maximise real world impact through a software project would realise that not all ‘smart’ people agree about what smart ‘IS’. So for engineering efforts that require large amounts of people to contribu
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by aserafini 5y ago
Right, but because the ‘default’ inclination is towards ever increasing complexity, I still believe the mental exercise of attempting to simplify is almost always worthwhile. Meaning to say, I find KISS almost universally applicable, there
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by aserafini 5y ago
No ads, same funding model as Wikipedia: non-profit, nagging for donations. The platform needs to have zero motivation to keep the user on it: in my opinion it is the profit-motivated encouragement of addictive UX that is the root of Facebo
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by aserafini 5y ago
Yes they might even save money from this downtime.
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by aserafini 5y ago
Internal competition can be ok if the cost is low. For example, having multiple ‘two pizza’ teams working on the same problem domain can reduce risk and help explore the solution space more quickly - multiple paths can be explored in parall
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by aserafini 5y ago
Redis also supports ‘Redis on Flash’ (use SSDs to augment RAM), but it is part of their Enterprise product.
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by aserafini 5y ago
One disadvantage of the proposed idea is that it will not cache very nicely at the HTTP level, ie. GETs that you would normally offload to a CDN. Although it would be technically possible, I am not aware of any CDN that lets you cache based
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by aserafini 5y ago
The current desktop UX (today) of using cryptocurrency to order takeaway food from the market leading delivery platform in Germany is actually MORE convenient than Visa in my experience. Visa: get card from wallet, type in number, type in C
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by aserafini 5y ago
I believe Redis belongs in this map.
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by aserafini 6y ago
While still keeping it one page of html source code.
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by aserafini 6y ago
Yes, we could have tabs to switch between different applications running on that shared runtime. And a universal way of accessing any published application for that runtime through some kind of address bar.
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by aserafini 6y ago
That is not a tweak: Berlin did exactly the same thing, the rent controls did not apply to new apartments.
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by aserafini 6y ago
But this is like saying email lost its unique selling proposition after Yahoo web Mail came along. Email was always useful and is still useful. Coinbase is like the first Webmail. Maybe it turns out most people like managing their Bitcoin t
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by aserafini 6y ago
The name for this is ‘variable reward’, and yes it is the root of gambling addiction as well.
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by aserafini 6y ago
But as far as I understand it, the actual transfer of the underlying shares does not happen in a fraction of a second. The only thing that happens in a fraction of a second is an agreement between two parties to settle some shares in the ne
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by aserafini 6y ago
My very basic understanding is that Robinhood is only creating an illusion for its customers that the stocks are settling instantly: in reality it can still takes days behind the scenes to really exchange shares.
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by aserafini 6y ago
I’m reluctant to be ‘that guy’, but it really seems like this space is ripe for disruption by a blockchain solution. Surely a stock can be modelled almost directly as a scarce digital asset token traded anywhere or exchanged directly if d
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by aserafini 6y ago
They are not competing in Berlin against Delivery Hero. Delivery Hero exited Germany and sold Foodora, Pizza.de AND Lieferheld.de to Lieferando: who promptly shut those 3 platforms down leaving only Lieferando. So now Wolt is competing in B
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by aserafini 6y ago
Well, that made me put my phone away (or it will do, after writing this comment)!
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by aserafini 6y ago
They exist because they’re profitable. They can become unprofitable through democratic legislation.

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