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by bernawil 4y ago
I think this comes from the fact that we give a lot of leeway to the definition of "supply" and "demand" in common economic talk. "I'd totally buy a Ferrari for $500" says nothing about the supply or deman
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by bernawil 4y ago
Anything that prints its own money can be "like a central bank". If FTX had all its assets AND liabilities denominated in FTT they'd be like a strong one. But their assets are in their token and their liabilities are in real
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by bernawil 4y ago
At this point everybody is pretty competent at identifying pyramid schemes. Now people enter them willingly hoping to cash out on time, no different than gambling. The scam now is making people believe they are higher in the pyramid than t
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by bernawil 4y ago
You're describing a chroot jail. key there is "process". Dealing with processes permissions is the OS's job. A if a language wants to deal in library's security it should strive to make static analysis possible. Eg:
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by bernawil 4y ago
A resource access model for dependencies doesn't make much sense to me, there's basically only 2 things you want to gate access for libraries: filesystem and network. And it's all-in. A library that needs network access may b
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by bernawil 4y ago
This is it. The writing is just awful in every sense. I mean, the story begins with Galadriel not wanting to leave Middle Earth. At that point I though: "okay already stranding off canon but let's keep an open mind. So she's
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by bernawil 4y ago
I think this is a bad take on an old premise. It's not that "global state is bad", rather, "global MUTABLE state is bad". Which is kind of right but for the wrong reasons. Truth is, "mutable state" is bad
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by bernawil 4y ago
The state that remains is often simple enough that plain old React state management with useState/useReducer is sufficient hah this is an understatement. For hooks, the React runtime already does a ton of non-standard-js things
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by bernawil 4y ago
This is pretty much it but it's larger than that. It's not just "magic", it's the whole nature of Tolkien's world. The world has a creator-all-powerful God and everybody in it knows it. He created all sentient
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by bernawil 5y ago
I honestly don't get the appeal and cult-like following around them. Dark Souls came out in 2011, right when Youtube started heavily promoting gameplay videos (Minecraft came out the same year). It was probably the only "h
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by bernawil 5y ago
Commerce, capitalism, etc. nothing works under extreme wealth inequality, prices just don't matter then. When someone has too much wealth compared to the others, it doens't even make sense to trade when the rest can only sway your
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by bernawil 5y ago
I'm saying public companies -as in trading in the stock market- (and to a lesser extent private ones too) and corporate culture is very similar to communist government. Schumpeter said something in the lines of "it's ironic t
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by bernawil 5y ago
NK is really the odd one there with the hereditary thing and all. Almost all other communist "dictatorships" are really not that different from US style corporations. Basically, organizations staffed by common people jockeying for
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by bernawil 5y ago
> If you were a Cuban that supported the Cuban regime and were happy, why would you leave, taking on so much risk and expense? I met a Cuban like that. Simply put, to make more money. He knew the nuances of their system and was thankful
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by bernawil 5y ago
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina. GMT-3 Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: NodeJs, React, Typescript, Docker, SQL, AWS (SQS, SNS, Lambda). Résumé/CV: https://tinyurl.com/87tu8w94 Full St
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by bernawil 5y ago
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina. GMT-3 Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: NodeJs, React, Typescript, Docker, SQL, AWS (SQS, SNS, Lambda). Résumé/CV: https://tinyurl.com/87tu8w94 Full St
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by bernawil 5y ago
> which is in fact too pure to be just dumped back in the ground, needs to be re-mineralized before it can be dumped how so? isn't rainwater also "pure H2O"?
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by bernawil 5y ago
people are arguing here that housing in Europe is even less affordable than in the US, so what is even the point?
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by bernawil 5y ago
This applies to mostly any other country in the world as I can't think of anywere where they regulate vehicle sizes. Yet you don't see nearly the same ammount of SUV in the roads. And in fact I think an SUV makes more sense in the
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by bernawil 5y ago
The book (Debt, The First 5,000 Years) goes over this (IIRC it's in the Games with Sex and Death chapter). It says that these kinds of "weird money" examples like stone wheels in Micronesia, where not really used to trade for
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by bernawil 5y ago
Here's my lazy technique. Get the biggest thermos flask you have. Get as much milk as it fits. Get any yogurt. So far literally anything has worked: flavored, with added sugar or even the cheap versions with lots of gelatin. Heat the m
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by bernawil 5y ago
I first heard it in Short History of Progress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsPMaGdg_38 Wheat yields progressively fell as salt accumulated in the ground. They switched to barley until that crop failed too. According to
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by bernawil 5y ago
That's interesting, can you expand?
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by bernawil 5y ago
Hunter gatherer societies fought all the time for control of hunting grounds. What's interesting it's that researchers that lived with the Yanomami and other Amazonian peoples noted that most inter tribal conflicts weren't ab
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by bernawil 5y ago
there's two things that make my hands cringe: drag-clicking (e.g drag file to trashcan) and mouse-wheel click (close chrome tab). I built a trackball into my split keyboard and now I move it with my right hand and perform al clicks on
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by bernawil 5y ago
probably because kebab is basically taco. Tacos with weat tortillas and the meat prepared in a cylinder were introduced by lebanese immigrants.
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by bernawil 5y ago
> For many countries such thing could never be enforced so it follows that if a country bans ransoms payments criminals will just ingnore that country and focus on the next easiest target, putting pressure on every country to follow the
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by bernawil 5y ago
it's a textbook prisoner's dilemma paradox. If everybody agrees not to pay ransom and follows through, criminals won't try to hack companies to collect ransom. But as an individual company, you can't coordinate with ever
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by bernawil 5y ago
I had the same question reading Tolkien. The Elves don't age. They live amogst deities and have first hand knowledge of the creator of the universe. More so, they even know beyond doubt the fate that awaits those who die from other mea
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by bernawil 6y ago
If a company knows that it'd actually cost 300k to hire the local kind of engineer that could make 150k in the Bay Area, that company is either going to move to the Bay Area or hire Bay Area-like engineers as remote contractors to get

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