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by atmosx 5y ago
Adir Shamir did long time ago: https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pd tl;dr: 98% of BTC in circulation at the time belonged to 2% portfolios.
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by atmosx 5y ago
Money serves a specific purpose, it's an exchange medium. BTC is a digital asset, as an exchange medium _has already failed_. Additionally, having the FED controlling rates is a democratic, reasoned approach. BTC is not handled by a kn
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by atmosx 5y ago
Completely agree.
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by atmosx 5y ago
Not op. the op probably means that learning kung-fu takes _a lot of practice_. In the real world probably years not just a summer camp :-p
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by atmosx 5y ago
Many Japanese comics, stories, etc. showcase and celebrate the hero's trip from 0 to 1 on a scale of 100. I believe this is an Asian cultural thing, were struggle _matters_ and even little steps - sometimes invisible to others - are ce
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by atmosx 5y ago
I believe Trump's administration ended the "globalisation project" by promoting China as the No1 US adversary. While Russia was the ideal "bad actor", China manufactures everything for everyone, so there's a ca
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by atmosx 5y ago
I know. Re-reading my last comment, I'm afraid Brian paid the piper for many "I did X for 1 week and now I'm an expert" posts that appear on HN. A bit unfair to Brian for sure. I would hate it if Brian stops writing beca
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by atmosx 5y ago
> You are the one who chooses whether to enter the hellsite or the heavensite. That's naive because pushes the narrative that corporate run social media are just a neutral platforms with no agenda. That's simply not true. The a
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by atmosx 5y ago
I couldn't get over the fact that "Hiro Protagonist" is the actual _hero_ (and of course) _protagonist_ in the first few chapters. The writing style is good though. AFAIK the first chapter is when the virus takes over a rich
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by atmosx 5y ago
we call this :PASOK:
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by atmosx 5y ago
Yes, pretty much. Feel free to expand though. I enjoy these kind of conversations and there's always the possibility I might got this whole thing wrong.
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by atmosx 5y ago
Quoting F.N. “If you know the why, you can live any how.”. Meaning in the _why_. There's no guarantee or expectation of happiness.
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by atmosx 5y ago
> “Meaning” ends up being empty too. Not really. Meaning can change in scope at a moment's notice. We are the only creatures on earth that I can think of with the "divine power" to add or remove "meaning". We sho
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by atmosx 5y ago
We live in the post-modernism era. The common theme is the maximisation of hedonism, and through that we pursue "happiness". Happiness needs to be experienced. Explaining what it is or how it feels is of low value. The problem is
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by atmosx 5y ago
In your place I wouldn't accept that. If the client has such requirements they should be shipping their hardware to you.
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by atmosx 5y ago
> You build it, you run it For any set of non-trivial apps the cognitive load is simply too big. Assuming the engineer can handle it, eventually more time will be spent in keeping up with the current system(s) than writing code/prom
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by atmosx 5y ago
This is an interesting use case, thanks for sharing although these days, setting up kubernetes environment emulators is supported by most CI systems out of the box.
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by atmosx 5y ago
Is AWS lambda really cost effective? It has been many years since I was part of a team that was assessing AWS Lambda as _workers_ but the resource limitations at the time alongside cost calculation made PHP+VMs the cost-effective choice by
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by atmosx 5y ago
This is a communication problem, not a technology problem. Either could work or fail. Trade offs will have to be made. Complexity doesn't go away, it's moved to another layer :)
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by atmosx 5y ago
> why they didn’t see that obvious solution I’ve implemented. Not trying to be bring you down or anything, but the most likely answer is that every senior engineer in the company knows what needs to be done but lacks the political capita
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by atmosx 5y ago
> I'm really surprised to see this as the top comment. Me too. I consider most of these trivial too. But there's another aspect. Many things (version control flow, release model, rollbacks, etc) has to take into consideration a
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by atmosx 5y ago
:-)
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by atmosx 5y ago
> The biggest shock came from Morocco, which was apparently responsible for installing Pegasus spyware on the phones of five French cabinet ministers and for seeking to target Emmanuel Macron. So much bias, superiority complex and stupid
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by atmosx 5y ago
(more) Political Philosophy & Science :-)
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by atmosx 5y ago
Italians are not racists, Italians are chauvinists. They are acting against other Italians as well. If you're not local (from the village, town, municipality), you're _not local_ and that's about it. It is part of their cultu
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by atmosx 5y ago
>> 3. With the expectation of profit > Probably? Why else would they be buying a team for? Teams are money sinks. The reason to buy a team is political power. To the extend that the state will turn a blind eye or two (see ^2). A to
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by atmosx 5y ago
Isn't (4) better served by art? Like learning music (guitar, piano, etc.), painting, writing (novels, poetry, short stories, comics, etc.) and other forms ofc...
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by atmosx 5y ago
If you want to keep your assistant or employee around, you need to above market salary and flexibility. Then you need to make sure the employee feels properly valued. If you don't get it right the first time, you'll get it right t
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by atmosx 5y ago
Here are some links: - https://www.zdnet.com/article/singapore-police-had-used-covi... - https://slate.com/technology/2020/06/contact-tracing-law-enf... Given the past decade (Snowden &a
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by atmosx 5y ago
And yet, in the contact tracing case both Apple and Google refused to give data and control to EU governments. I believe the contact tracing app was used against protesters in rallies about BLM though, by the FBI IIRC.

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