bgroat

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   by bgroat 5y ago

   The answer is that it isn't, and none of these systems ever were. They're distributed, not decentralized. And this distinction, and the refusal to acknowledge it is what put me off crypto entirely.
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   by bgroat 5y ago

   Sometimes when architecting something I'll imagine an elderly person with a child and that'll indicate that I'd want to utilize inheritance instead of composition
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   by bgroat 5y ago

   I'm not deaf, but my primary thinking style is visual. Sometimes it's exactly what you'd imagine - I visualize a data model, or an algorithm implementation. Other times it's more abstract, symbolic, or analogy based
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   by bgroat 5y ago

   There was a period of time where I brought NDAs with me to network events. Not because I had something to hide, but so I could whip one out when someone was evasive about what they were working on. I wasn't very popular at the time.
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   by bgroat 5y ago

   I appreciate how thoughtful this comment is. Question, in the gold scenario is your issue with the idea of capital gains, or an issue with how it's accounted (given that you think the gold *hasn't* appreciated)?
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   by bgroat 5y ago

   Thanks for sharing a source
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   by bgroat 5y ago

   Source of this ever happening?
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   by bgroat 5y ago

   >> The FED isn’t even the problem for what you are trying to resolve. I cannot understand why people tend to focus on it. Because they don't know what they're talking about. I'm a capitalist with many socialist friends.
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   by bgroat 5y ago

   I found devdocs years ago but lost the link. THANK YOU for bringing it back to me
10. 160.▲
    by bgroat 5y ago

    I love how you work, how you communicate, and I fully expect to love your product
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    2 Questions: 1. I see you're on v.0.21 - how stable is this? I know the point of the article is that you don't set deadlines, but I'm anxious to implement something that may have breaking changes. 2. How can I pay you? I&#x27
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    I love this essay because it breaks down how distributed != decentralized. Sure anyone can run a node. But most nodes are in centralized pools running code that few developers can approve pull requests too. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    You can bury the char or plow it into fields as a soil ameliorant. Or if you wanted you could literally just bury it. Then it becomes a coal plant in reverse
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    I'm working on agri-forestry and biochar reactors on a hobby farm. Hybrid poplars mature within a decade, and a biochar reactor is a net-energy producing reaction that produces soil improving char as a byproduct. It won't save the
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    Completely anecodatal story coming up. When I was a kid my school had a "Gifted and Talented" program. The "gifted" kids were selected based on performance on aptitude tests, then "talented" kids were appointed
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    I literally opened this so thread so I could see how long it takes for someone to say "This is good for bitcoin" First comment
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    Honestly, the answer is gaslighting. They trust you, they trust this source. State the idea that you want them to believe, and then back it up with a manufactured argument from this source they trust. They won't remember if it was ever
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    I'm one of those happily married people and my heart has been going out to people like you the whole time. It's an incredible blessing to have been locked-in and had 24/7 support from someone I love and I wish you had it too.
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    I have this rails app that behaves really weird on Heroku, where every build fails the first time. So I have a comment "Commit comment" in my html that I adjust a capitalization on then push again. Works 100% of the time I expec
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    I'm not a neuroscientist, an AI specialist, or a hardware engineer. But as an enthusiast of all three I really think that AGI is a hardware problem, not a software problem. Reinforcement learning on a massive corpus of data is how we t
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    I think this idea, but I always thought that a country or countries should just be on the cap table. Forget tax, but if I want access to the Canadian grant ecosystem they take 7%. I want Delaware Chancery courts the U.S takes 8% Swedish ban
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    It isn't
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    You're forgetting the immense riches that can be made in cybercrime!
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    Proof of Work eliminates the need for a centralized authority by identifying the planet all financial intermediaries live on and destroying it
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    I've deliberately cultivated this. As I often as I remember I adopt the perspective of someone who's 14,000 years old. I don't know why I haven't died, and at this point I don't expect to at anytime in the future. B
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    I frequently tell coworkers and clients that *nothing* is more urgent than an email, but less urgent than a phone call.
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    I'm not saying this *isn't* expensive, but it's way more affordable than I'd imagine.
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    by bgroat 5y ago

    I know there's a huge "It depends", But how much does a nuclear plant actually cost?
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    by bgroat 6y ago

    By the 2nd line of your comment I had lost my shit. I thought The Sprog had emerged on HN
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    by bgroat 6y ago

    That's a hot take