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by bradwood 5y ago
Us too - a B2B app with quite spikey load. We use a Lambda monolith with NestJS framework behind API GW and CloudFront - it works pretty well for us... Bits of SQS, SNS and DynamoDB all hang together quite nicely...
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by bradwood 5y ago
React SPA AWS API G/W AWS lambda running NestJS AWS dynamodb AWS SNS/SQS Managed with SLS and terraform via gitlab and gitlab-ci
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by bradwood 5y ago
Wtf is "semi-done"? There is "done" and there is "not done"...
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by bradwood 5y ago
Note the word "so-called". And note the use of quotes citing the OP. This is a very serious discussion. On a side note, where is that "democratic mandate" of which you speak? Been looking for a while and can't seem
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by bradwood 5y ago
You can't print bitcoin, but you can mine more gold.
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> ..."evil" bankers are held accountable by the judiciary and regulators ...by the judiciary and regulators only so far as the (imperfect) legislation of the day allows. You are forgetting the unelected central bankers who know
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and there is no Bitcoin "company"
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> As long as they do the debasing competently... This is a contradiction in terms... Bitcoin promotes hoarding no more than gold does. And speculation no more than FX or commodities trading does. If a payment currency was pegged to bitco
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by bradwood 5y ago
> Eh, that's pretty obviously untrue under any reasonable definition of "competent Federal Reserve" It's not obvious. Is any central bank that debases currency through money printing without some kind of fixed peg&#x2
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Simple: there is no country with a competent Federal Reserve (Central Bank)
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Yes
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Central bankers do this all the time. They are unelected. They lie. They are largely unaccountable. And they control the levers of monetary policy that, if mismanaged (which is more than often true) results in a pernicious stealth tax on th
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by bradwood 5y ago
not quite a "GUI", but lets not forget about vim-fugitive which does all this and a lot more besides.
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er... it does... Source: the UK
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The Economist
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by bradwood 5y ago
There is logic, and there is statistical inference. The latter might require empirical indicators and analysis; the former does not. This is a matter of logic, not statistics.
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by bradwood 5y ago
the answer is so obvious though... It beggars belief that people can't see it. Less guns -> Less crime
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by bradwood 5y ago
Ask here... Or start by reading up on EMI[1] schemes in the UK... [1]: EMI (Enterprise Management Incentive) is how typical tax-wrapped employee option schemes run here in the UK https://mylegaladviser.co.uk/advice/emi-
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by bradwood 5y ago
It's the best example of a fiat Ponzi scheme. Keep printing money to keep the guys near the printer (at the top of the pyramid) flush. USD and other fiats are doing the same. Just at a much slower rate. Edit: It's basically just t
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by bradwood 5y ago
Zimbabwe required taxes and tariffs in the form of Zimbabwean dollars... You need a little more than just taxes and tariffs for a fiat currency to have value... You need a hard money that is not going to be devalued also. This is where all
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by bradwood 5y ago
And how is fiat not a Ponzi scheme?
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About as well as prayer itself works..
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by bradwood 5y ago
Yeah. But most BTC miners are energy buyers of last resort. Sucking up the dregs at the cheapest possible price. They aren't "using up" renewables. In fact, often it's this consumption that makes the renewable enterprise
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by bradwood 5y ago
This is so stupid. These firms will probably just say "no" and carry on as before.
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Yeah. Plus chowder?!
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by bradwood 5y ago
Laudable though this desire is, we live in the real world. How many politicians and unelected central bankers are trustworthy in any country? What you want is a monetary system that is inherently trustless. Let the policy makers deal with
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by bradwood 5y ago
> It's about using a medium of exchange which works best for all parties, which today is the US Dollar. It's also about a store of value. Which is no fiat currency in the world today.
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by bradwood 5y ago
> Mind you, the more the price of Bitcoin goes up, the more energy miners burn on mining, so if Bitcoin actually grew to the size of the fiat economy we’d be talking about substantially more energy use. You are not taking into account th
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by bradwood 5y ago
Not if I use a brain wallet. Short of torture they cannot take your bitcoin without your keys.
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by bradwood 5y ago
Gold can be confiscated by the state also as happened in the past. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

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