bradwood

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by bradwood 5y ago
Yeah. Let's ban the internet because of kiddie porn and hackers and drug dealers on the dark net. /s
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by bradwood 5y ago
P2P fiat on/off-ramps
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by bradwood 5y ago
Middlemen implies a few (or one) centrally controlable group (or unit). BTC miners are anything but this. Is a router a middleman on the internet? No. Same thing.
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by bradwood 5y ago
Yeah. And anyone unlucky enough to live in a place where the govt fucked the local fiat currency with hyperinflation. Zimbabwe, Turkey, Lebanon, Argentina, Venezuela, etc.
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by bradwood 5y ago
Crypto is destroying the environment? Bollocks. The electricity of the worlds ATM,s bank branches, trading floors, etc dwarfs the electricity cost of bitcoin. And for a system that rewards those close to the money printers and fucks over th
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by bradwood 5y ago
Amen to that. Incidentally this is not just a crypto tax avoidance play. It's an asset-rich tax avoidance play. Do you think Bezos sells stock to buy the latest mega-yacht? Of course not. He'd realise a substantial capital gain. I
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by bradwood 5y ago
Yes. Source: me
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by bradwood 5y ago
"Sysadmin"? Is that still a thing? I thought we'd moved onto DevOps and SRE and Platform Engineer now.
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by bradwood 5y ago
It has been that way for some time. It's near enough impossible to turn it off and, for many, it represents the natural evolution of money.
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by bradwood 5y ago
Whilst management often sucks in big banks. What gets me down is the process drag. Everything is ITIL signoffs, death by bikeshedding, and quarterly releases. Silos abound and the pernicious affect of Conway's law applies to turn most
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by bradwood 5y ago
> I work in finance too and hate it. I'm not sure anywhere else would be better though. There are definitely better options than finance. I worked in finance (investment banking) for years. Didn't like it either. The obvious ne
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by bradwood 5y ago
blah blah blah ;)
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by bradwood 5y ago
funny how everyone refers to coins which are pegged to a massively inflationary fiat currency as "stable"...
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by bradwood 5y ago
Which is not likely to happen any time soon. Just look at the palava associated with the US debt ceiling. Fed tapering and interest rate rises will either result in a US government default (which won't be allowed to happen) or more mon
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by bradwood 5y ago
It's excessive QE since the pandemic started... The number of US dollars in existence is up around 40% since March 2020... Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
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by bradwood 5y ago
Lukashenko? Putin, you mean...
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by bradwood 5y ago
Filing cabinet = drive (C:) Filing cabinet drawer = folder/directory (C:\blah) File in filing cabinet drawer = sub-folder/subdirectory (C:\blah\blah) Page in file = specific document/picture (C:\blah\blah\pic.gif)
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by bradwood 5y ago
You need to be asking yourself why you need so much documentation. Engineers writing docs is a bad use of time. Find a way to make the engineering obviate the need for docs is probably better. Otherwise, maybe hire some technical writers
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by bradwood 5y ago
You are comparing an RDBMS with a cloud service provider, which is nonsensical. "Microwave ovens can solve pretty much everything that Plato and Socrates does". You need to frame your problem better. You can run Postgres _in_ AWS
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by bradwood 5y ago
Layer 2: side chain Potato: Potato
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by bradwood 5y ago
It's not true because of "eventually" it's true because of "fiat". When an entity (e.g, the government) decrees (which, remember, is what the word "fiat" means) that some piece of paper or entry in a
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by bradwood 5y ago
L2 is probably a better choice here IMHO. Maybe Polygon? As regards PoW vs PoS: this is a huge argument - both for and against. PoW can act like an electricity buyer of last resort, soaking up excess waste and enabling green business model
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by bradwood 5y ago
They will all go, eventually, but how long for the current batch (USD, EUR, GBP, etc)? A decade? 2? a century?
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by bradwood 5y ago
All fiat money eventually succumbs to hyperinflation
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by bradwood 5y ago
How can something blow your mind "a little"? Mind-blows must be "a lot", otherwise they're just thoughts.
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by bradwood 5y ago
You need to report the details of the party on the other side of the transaction. Who exactly is that when the other side is a smart contract? This part is unenforceable
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by bradwood 5y ago
"Cryptocurrency" is well understood to be a misnomer. The correct term is "Crypto Asset" as, at least according to most tax legislation, it is not a _currency_. Currencies do not attract CGT on disposal. Assets (like cry
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by bradwood 5y ago
git, vim, tmux, i3, zsh
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by bradwood 5y ago
This will likely have to be tested in court if not fixed legislatively. What is more concerning is that legislators can come up with this clearly unworkable law without doing a modicum of research.
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by bradwood 5y ago
This. Make it spit out a markdown file which means your docs are always up to date.

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