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by billytetrud 3y ago
If you made a point about that, it was not clear to me. Perhaps you were implying that simple life could be very common even if intelligent life isn't. While yes, that is a possibility, that says nothing of its probability. Were that t
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by billytetrud 3y ago
It is a fact that we haven't been eaten by a swarm of anything. Facts are evidence. If you don't understand that, I don't think we'll be having a productive or fun converstion. Sound more like you're interested in m
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by billytetrud 3y ago
I'm curious what makes you think that. That is, of course, one of the general solutions put forth to the fermi paradox. Ie either the species develops species killing weapons (like nukes) or individuals gain massively destructive weapo
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by billytetrud 3y ago
> That seems like a valid belief. Its not at all clear in general. It might be true. But it also might not. It seems quite reasonable to believe that life inevitably evolves into intelligent life if given enough time. Why some life wou
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by billytetrud 3y ago
Ah that's interesting, I can see how that would result in a lot more dynamic behavior.
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by billytetrud 3y ago
There are, in fact, reasons to believe that. Nothing definitive of course. But the fact that we haven't been absorbed by a von neumann swarm or something like it places strict limits on the prevalence of life and/or what stages th
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by billytetrud 3y ago
This is fascinating. It's like a more complex game of life than John connoway's. It's crazy that little creatures seem to form at such small scales easily with these parameters. It's almost like the parameters of our rea
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Parsinator.js – a JavaScript parser combinator library with state(github.com)
3 points by billytetrud 3y ago|1 comments
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by billytetrud 3y ago
Yet another parser combinator library with a couple unique features: * State, which helps for contextful languages of any reasonable amount of complexity (like ones that have LR conflicts or whitespace delimiting). * Supports parameterized
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Today's NFTs are not trustless, but a simple hash can make them trustless(blog.futureofgaming.wtf)
3 points by billytetrud 4y ago|0 comments
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Bitcoin Astronomy – the far future of cryptocurrency(unchained.com)
2 points by billytetrud 5y ago|0 comments
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by billytetrud 5y ago
Hopefully your interview process weeds out most of them. Beyond that, companies should be evaluating their devs in the first 3 months. After that length of time you can really know pretty well how good they are at what you want them to be d
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by billytetrud 5y ago
They were already at the mercy of the US federal reserve. Now they're less so. And you're misinformed about the influence of chinese mining syndicates. Miners have almost no influence on the structure or stability of the currencie
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by billytetrud 5y ago
Well, it seems you're right that soiled pizza boxes can be recycled: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/yes-you-can-recycle-your-p... . But I think calling it a myth is not accurate. A significant fraction of recyc
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by billytetrud 5y ago
Ah. Well as others have pointed out, its likely that people will need to go to atms less often (since they can send directly with their app) and that amounts handled at atms would be substantially lower (because when using the lightning net
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by billytetrud 5y ago
Criminal hotspots? How so? Are ATMs usually criminal hotspots? If you're thinking that bitcoin ATMs can help people launder money, you're mistaken.
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by billytetrud 5y ago
I guess you're right, the article is pretty pro bitcoin. Still an odd choice of headline if you ask me.
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by billytetrud 5y ago
I guess you're right, the article is pretty pro bitcoin. Still an odd choice of headline if you ask me.
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by billytetrud 5y ago
The giant recylcing symbol on a lot of pizza boxes sure doesn't help.
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by billytetrud 5y ago
I guess if you actually keep food material off the cardboard you put into the recycling, it should be fine. The vast majority of pizza boxes I've seen have way too much food material on them to be recyclable. TBH paper is hardly worth
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by billytetrud 5y ago
CNBC loves to frame Bitcoin as evil. The headline is unbelievably disingenuous. Western union losing business to a better system is not bitcoin damaging western union in any way that anyone should be upset about. Just like when tesla comes
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by billytetrud 5y ago
But it would be worse if they used a centralized currency. It's an additional risk. Those risks add up. And el Salvadorians can individually opt out of the government app whenever they want to. It's a lot harder to opt out of a cu
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by billytetrud 5y ago
You might want to think through the logistics of having a person or a group of el Salvadorian government officials living in every foreign country in the world handing out cash to people. What you're talking about is recreating an inte
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by billytetrud 5y ago
Currencies like nano are cheaper, not "more efficient". They're the bargain bin of cryptocurrency. Nanos design has no breaks and then people are surprised when it has enormous problems like spam attacks.
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by billytetrud 5y ago
Lack of regulation is not an accurate way to describe what goes on in one of the most highly regulated industries. Rather what I think you mean is the lack of a specific regulation that limits the price of various services. In actuality, it
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by billytetrud 5y ago
I was thinking about this yesterday when I saw a pizza box with the recyclable symbol on it. It's infuriating that intelligent people can't seem to understand that pizza boxes aren't recyclable after they've had pizza in
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by billytetrud 5y ago
Really bizarre that this author refers to the college student as a "child" and refers to college students in the 70s as "proto-adults" implying that today college students are children. College students are young adults.
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by billytetrud 5y ago
You don't have to intentionally search for mediocre devs. They're everywhere. Good devs will probably not even apply to your mediocre company. But if one does actually want to work for it, you damn well better let them. Better to
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by billytetrud 5y ago
I agree with others, code commentary shouldn't be a novel. Comments should only provide info that the code can't make easy to understand. Why it was done this way, what it's intended to do, complex or nonlinear interactions t
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by billytetrud 5y ago
Start your own company

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