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by bhaak 5y ago
A condescending answer that totally ignores everything else that is in the comment you are replying to. You have with no word said why one would want a predictable supply curve. Ethereum's supply curve is lower than it was promised in
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by bhaak 5y ago
That's not how lawyers think. Microsoft's programmers were (are?) not allowed to read GPL code to rule out any doubt that they might be copy GPL code into the codebase, even if only unconsciously. Lawyers are not just for suing th
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by bhaak 5y ago
If I write a poem by variable names, don’t you think that would fall under copyright? The hurdle for getting copyright are pretty low (of course that also means any compensation by a court would be low). Anything that is not technical ly re
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by bhaak 5y ago
The definition of a premine isn't as clear as you put it. Or at least isn't always used in the same way. With your definition, Ethereum only had a 16% premine.
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by bhaak 5y ago
You're only thinking of honest miners. The cheapest energy is the one you steal.
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by bhaak 5y ago
The really bad thing about C's memory unsafety is that crashing is pretty random. Unless you use a plethora of tooling that patches over these shortcomings, wrong C code doesn't crash reliably (and even then it's not finding
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by bhaak 5y ago
You read that wrong. Rust eliminates a complete class of bugs. Memory safety bugs just don't exist. Logic bugs are another class of bugs. Formal methods can help you with those though.
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by bhaak 5y ago
Does your opinion only apply to unit testing or to automatic testing in general? I can't imagine the kind of software that wouldn't benefit from automatic testing (unless you would be writing the simplest of CRUD web apps or doing
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by bhaak 5y ago
You aren't paid either to write unit tests in the private industry. You are paid to write working code.
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by bhaak 5y ago
How much help your unit tests if your customer pivots from their original idea? Is that a reason not to write unit tests in the first place?
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by bhaak 5y ago
It's not easy to quantify but you can't just dismiss formal methods because we don't know how much development and maintenance overhead they would eliminate. How much revenue something generates is a poor metric. Otherwise, w
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by bhaak 5y ago
10 years ago would probably long enough ago to not care for me. But wouldn’t the standard -w be enough to ignore most of this commit. But I used ignoreRevs in repositories that messed up their history by using an automatic indenter with atr
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by bhaak 5y ago
Own two companies that agressively underbid all others?
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by bhaak 5y ago
>> They prefer a comfortable and often expensive lifestyle > Is that so crazy if you're making 1.5x the national median income? You left out the rest of the quote: "that leaves them living paycheck to paycheck." If y
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by bhaak 5y ago
> I am German myself and I am sure you can find more Italian than native restaurants in Germany, simply because it makes for a better dining experience. Not everything needs to be socially constructed. I doubt that. Every eating place wh
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by bhaak 5y ago
The financial crisis of 2008 showed us that you can say the same about the traditional finance system. Crypto is reinventing the same system as traditional finance and hitting all the same problems that we encountered in the last 100 years.
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by bhaak 5y ago
> So from the perspective of someone who has to actually install, use and frequently update a dozen of Android apps, it is much easier to stick to only using such which do not want internet access instead of constantly having to read a v
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by bhaak 5y ago
> I know the popular image of UBI is a paradise where nobody needs to work anymore, but that's not actually the basis of actual UBI policy proposals. It's really just a different model for structuring social welfare. The proble
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by bhaak 5y ago
As programmers, we have the ability to automate such things (given enough time). Not everybody is so lucky.
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by bhaak 5y ago
How about going backwards from Graeber's line of thought. His conclusion in the book is to introduce a universal basic income to get rid of bullshit jobs. If we turn that around the question becomes: How many jobs (and what kind of job
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by bhaak 5y ago
> When the book came out, this columnist was unimpressed [...] This commentator is very skeptical of people that speak about themselves in the third person. Only Julius Caesar is allowed to do that.
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by bhaak 5y ago
For what it's worth, even i.reddit.com aka reddit.com/.compact is still working.
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by bhaak 5y ago
> he wants Ruby devs to feel good about themselves We don't deserve Matz. He's too good to be true. :)
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by bhaak 5y ago
The discoverability is bad with IRC servers as well. But I really meant how to switch to channels on different discord servers you are subscribed to. In my IRC mindset, channels aren't attached to particular servers. They exist all in
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by bhaak 5y ago
How do you handle the plethora of channels every Discord server has? Like, I usually are only interested in a few channels on a given Discord server but by default, I get everything. How do you switch between different servers or different
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by bhaak 5y ago
Yes, Slack works for a company environment (where you only have one community open). But how does it feel if you have several different communities open? In an IRC client, there is no difference between two channels on the same server and t
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by bhaak 5y ago
How do you ensure that you got the correct code? Without the correct consensus rules that are encoded in the software, you can't be sure if the blockchain you are following is the right one.
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The chain your bank or your exchange trust.
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by bhaak 5y ago
Exchanges going down is the circuit breaker of cryptos.
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by bhaak 5y ago
> If ETH were PoS at the time of the split, it would be a lot less obvious from the chainstate which one people would choose to use. Both chains' participants would try to make it look like their chains had more users by some other

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