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by azth 5y ago
We saw what happened in the 2008 crash. Selling debt for debt, facilitated only by lending money at non zero interest, caused a huge chain to come to existence. Once the first domino tipped, everything came crashing down.
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by azth 5y ago
Lending money (with interest obviously) is a ponzi scheme. It's not surprising to be honest, and this shouldn't be news. We've known this for literally thousands of years now. It has nothing to do with crypto currencies per s
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by azth 5y ago
> - The spouse-acceptance-factor is extremely high (unlike e.g. a couple of circuit boards wired together off of Aliexpress). Which circuit boards do you recommend that have high accuracy that can be ordered?
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by azth 5y ago
It's both. You need some regulation, but only moral ones.
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by azth 5y ago
Once you ban money lending with interest, this is automatically solved.
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by azth 5y ago
This is why loans, except out of pure charity and nothing expected in return other than the principal, are immoral and cause chaos and destruction as we've seen time and time again. There's a reason Islam prohibits money lending w
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by azth 5y ago
Would be great to go back to the gold standard.
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by azth 5y ago
Reddit has a similar subreddit for the opposite, people who didn't take the vaccine and died, and it's also so filthy. Seems hypocritical of NY times not to report on it.
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by azth 5y ago
Why aren't flights from South Africa banned yet?
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by azth 5y ago
The large investors will buy even more.
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by azth 5y ago
A person I know has a similar experience in academia, a summer intern in his/her group was hired because of her sex and skin color, barely made it through the project, and even the supervisor acknowledged (in private) that the hire was
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by azth 5y ago
Start your own business if you can.
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by azth 5y ago
> And where will we all be when the venture capital dries up VC capital will have to go somewhere. You seem to be arguing against ad companies, which I understand. But there are so many other tech avenues that produce tons of value. Heal
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by azth 5y ago
After making the change in the golang version, I saw it go as low as 867.61ms. The JVM is very good at inlining. It's not perfect obviously, but in this benchmark just using an `int[]` wrapped in a class (similar to an ArrayList) produ
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by azth 5y ago
No problem. I'll try to download a Valhalla JVM build and see how it fairs.
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by azth 5y ago
Plus, no reason that the major cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Eth) won't become stable over time as things become more mature. Secondly, many of these articles seem not to mention that the major crytpocurrencies are a way out of government
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by azth 5y ago
For the time being, until Valhalla is finalized, Java can emulate this approach simply by using an int array. After making the modifications, on my local machine, Java ran as low as ~820ms, compared to golang's ~932ms. golang's GC
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by azth 5y ago
Because that's the nature of those systems. If you wrote them in golang they'd almost surely run into similar issues.
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by azth 5y ago
Quite a bit of it also comes from the fact that people are tired from the fed printing money at will, devaluing people's hard work they put in for years to save some money. Secondly, people in the EU are also excited about bitcoin rega
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by azth 5y ago
Straw man argument.
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by azth 5y ago
Now do the same in Java and it will be as fast, if not faster. The point is the benchmark is looking at GC performance. In large real world programs, it is not trivial to make such changes.
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by azth 5y ago
That's because Java is used to run huge systems (dare I say, "enterprise scale"), whereas golang, especially today with microservices" is not seen in such areas. However, we still see issues in golang like * https:&#x2F
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by azth 5y ago
> In C#, for example, reference objects and value objects live entirely separate lives. Value objects are always passed by value. *You cannot take the the address of a value object and pass that around.* The last sentence is wrong. You c
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by azth 5y ago
> Modern languages such as Go, golang is modern? it's stuck in the 70's
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by azth 5y ago
It will take some time for the infrastructure to mature.
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by azth 5y ago
There's a difference between how very bold Linus was with his insults to today's "cocs" which makes people walk on eggshells being too afraid to say or insinuate something that may be perceived as "incorrect".
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by azth 5y ago
The problem is that today's economy is also based on debt (a very bad idea), many if not most people cannot simply save to buy assets like the old days because, due to inflation and interest, prices keep going up. Some of us refuse to
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by azth 5y ago
> by pumping up the value of debt relative to labor, i.e. making the rich richer and the poor poorer. In other words, interest based debt is bad because it is exploitative. Something we've known for a long time now. Interest based
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by azth 5y ago
> The fact that blockchains are used by criminals is definitive proof that it improves upon traditional financial infrastructure Reminds me of how some people were making a big story about why Toyotas are popular with ISIS. I saw it as a
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by azth 5y ago
> What problem does Bitcoin, solve? Moving away from an inflationary currency that the government is able to keep printing more of and devaluing everyone's hard work, to something closer to the gold standard. Of course, things are v

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