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by atemerev 4y ago
Here in Switzerland, you can pay taxes with crypto (at least in the cantons of Zug and Ticino). Money is money.
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by atemerev 4y ago
In Portugal and Switzerland, you can do that (with some restrictions; you need to register as a drug user, only on-site consumption is allowed, and you’ll get psychological and paramedical help). But yes, technically, you can buy pharmaceut
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by atemerev 4y ago
Why do you even need to look at someone's face for remote working? Most of communications are text-based and asynchronous.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Well for me, crypto is highly moral and should be developed to prevent artificial trading restrictions and eliminate borders. There are many people who consider individual freedom to be of highest importance, and who are willing to develop
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by atemerev 4y ago
And even harder (nearly impossible) for anything else than work or study, e.g. if you are a consultant or want to start a company.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Well, PWRs are dead end, we need breeders.
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by atemerev 4y ago
See "closed nuclear cycle" and breeder reactors.
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by atemerev 4y ago
We have enough uranium to last for millions of years at current consumption levels, and nuclear energy is nearly completely CO2-free. Electric heating is a thing. I don't think we need to worry about this. (Using oil for heating is out
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by atemerev 4y ago
Also entrenched high performers with extremely high salaries (to be replaced with young enthusiasts at the beginning of their career cycles), also some random people too — just like a simulated annealing schedule for performance optimizatio
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by atemerev 4y ago
At every large company, especially after the growth period, there will be 10-15% of people which can absolutely be fired without any effect on operations. It is difficult to let them go en masse because the people and the media will happily
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by atemerev 4y ago
Well, after resolving some obvious issues (like “the warhead should execute its firing sequence precisely or nothing will happen”), we enter the realm of highly classified information, and can only speculate how the modern designs would beh
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by atemerev 4y ago
This problem was discovered and taken care of from the start of the development of modern nuclear weapon designs. See “strong link / weak link” and “always/never problem”, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St
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by atemerev 4y ago
Well, imagine some newly created state (South Sudan etc). They can, too, issue notes that initially will be worthless. What do they need to do so their notes will: a) have value for their own population, b) be freely converted to other worl
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by atemerev 4y ago
Cryptocurrencies are not bonds, stocks, tokens, “digital assets”, commodities, etc. Cryptocurrencies are _money_. Governments are not the only sacred emitters of money. There is no divine right of kings, or kings-replacing bureaucracy. Ever
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by atemerev 4y ago
Not exactly; in 1971, it was for one last standing half-canton. On federal level and for most other cantons, women were allowed to vote long ago. Sadly, women rights are a recent development in many recent countries. In Spain in 1975, women
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by atemerev 4y ago
Everything’s fine here in Switzerland so far.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Well, nearly anyone in algo trading have a 12C lying somewhere :)
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by atemerev 4y ago
I stopped bookmarking long ago. I almost never read bookmarks, and if I still bookmark something, and never return to it, I don't feel any guilt. Such the way it is. I, however, still sad that I don't have energy and not bright en
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by atemerev 4y ago
Some of the use cases of the last year: - Working with companies everywhere in the world, as the bureaucracy of setting up the monetary relationships for, say, a Ukrainian immigrant residing in Poland willing to work for a US-based entity,
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by atemerev 4y ago
Survive in the next world war; baby booms are usually what happens next.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Photopia Varicella Violet (these three impressed me the most)
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by atemerev 4y ago
famous last words!
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by atemerev 4y ago
There are many simpler languages with speed and memory efficiency (Nim, Crystal and the like). Rust somehow became even more complex than C++; what an achievement (not).
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by atemerev 4y ago
Yes, most of my code deals with graph-like data structures. It is _really_ hard to understand how to write this in Rust. Just doesn't fit in my head.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Wow, impressive. At last, something _new_ and _better_ in the field.
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by atemerev 4y ago
As a consultant, urgently looking for a full time job: not now. Most probably not now.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Have you actually tried to write something with ROCm compared to CUDA? For me, ROCm is very low-level, boilerplate-ridden and nearly unusable.
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by atemerev 4y ago
A great report, which concludes with “everything we described here only supports CUDA backend for now, but it will change at some indeterminate point in the future”. And there’s a reason for that. OpenCL and particularly ROCm are much lower
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by atemerev 4y ago
In electronic trading, most new systems are tested in production by running with smaller capital allocation first. It is hard to flatten out all bugs unless you are on the real market with real money and real effects (of course, simulations
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by atemerev 4y ago
Yes. Fizzbuzz is redundant, perhaps by design. If you start thinking to optimize the redundancy away, like “why do I need to divide by 15, if I am already dividing by 3 and 5”, you spend some precious 30 seconds thinking, and look exactly l

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