bradwood

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by bradwood 5y ago
I've always thought their name was unfortunate. After all, Snowflakes are servers not managed with IaC.
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by bradwood 5y ago
You guys seriously seem to think that run risk exists more in the cryptosphere than fiatland. With the exception of shitcoins, I think the risk is more of a run on fiat... When you start using something like BTC as your unit of account and
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by bradwood 5y ago
> The real question is what happens in the next recession A massive inflow of capital to crypto, bitcoin in particular.
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by bradwood 5y ago
Credit should have nothing to do with the ability to pay cash for something.
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by bradwood 5y ago
Bitcoin fixes this duck
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by bradwood 5y ago
You nailed it. Bitcoin is not some kind of panacea that will make everyone rich. It's just money that cannot be fucked with by central bankers, governments, dictators or anyone else for that matter. That's it.
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by bradwood 5y ago
Crypto is the answer here. As it is for Visa/MasterCard's refusal to process payments for firms like PornHub. Fuck these assholes - they need to be disrupted out of existence.
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by bradwood 5y ago
Teams on Linux is a massive pile of shit. It's definitely a second class citizen as far as development and is missing heaps of features the other versions have.
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by bradwood 5y ago
Maybe I'm missing a nuance here but what's wrong with just using a Result / Either monad here. It seems cleaner than overloading try/catch...
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by bradwood 5y ago
No good reason as far as I can see. Bitcoin SV is as dead as disco. Use something like lightning or solana or Polygon. But this? Nah...
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by bradwood 5y ago
Time to put all this on crypto rails and disrupt these bastards out of existence.
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by bradwood 5y ago
taxing big tech properly?
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by bradwood 5y ago
> the populace hates everything about it This sentence alone tells me everything I need to know about your position: "the populace" (implying everyone) and "everything" -- riiight... I think you need to tone down the
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by bradwood 5y ago
and which people were those? rich people, that's who... I agree that desperate times call for desperate measures, but there are fairer ways to fund this. Just inflating the money supply just hits asset-poor people hardest... this is th
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by bradwood 5y ago
This. Plus also, lets for a moment remind ourselves how reliable of a measure of inflation CPI is. Its basis is a basket of products the composition of which is opaquely tweaked to suit an particular agenda. This makes it _less_ reliable th
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by bradwood 5y ago
its mandatory _for businesses to accept BTC_ not for the populace to use it.
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by bradwood 5y ago
And what would you call the US dollar's monetary expansion of over 40% [1] since the start of the pandemic, if not stealing? The Cantillon Effect has never been stronger, but those that continue to measure their financial worth in a un
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by bradwood 5y ago
Isn't this just Real Options Valuation[1]? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_options_valuation
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by bradwood 5y ago
On and off ramps are predicated on the necessity to transfer fiat into and out of crypto. This (some would argue) is just an intermediary state before _everything_ is crypto. In El Salvador, there is no need to off-ramp fiat into BTC...
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by bradwood 5y ago
I thought it was DeFi, Crypto and Web3...
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by bradwood 5y ago
> Did he check in individually with any employees? Never. How the fuck does this author know this? The boss could have spoken to any number of employees with the author being none the wiser. FAQ my arse -- this is a whinge from a disgrun
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by bradwood 5y ago
Nice -- shill us the Pinenote then! I'm in the market for an e-ink reader and have been considering the RM2, but the Pinenote looks pretty tasty too..
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by bradwood 5y ago
falsy, truthy, undefined and null...
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by bradwood 5y ago
Increasing the blocksize makes running a node much more expensive (due to storage, mainly) which in turn makes the network less decentralised. Bitcoin (rightly) selects for decentralisation over transaction speed, hence LN as an L2...
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by bradwood 5y ago
Set up a gmail rule that searches for the word "unsubscribe"....
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by bradwood 5y ago
> You are never making a mistake by not investing and instead keeping your savings. Not necessarily. If the monetary unit of those savings is being debased at an astronomical rate. That's like expecting your iceberg of savings not t
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by bradwood 5y ago
Of course they are. How would they know you said "hey Google/Siri" otherwise?
568.
by bradwood 5y ago
It _forces_ you to take Windows. FAIL.
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by bradwood 5y ago
Type ‘man tee‘ on any Linux box
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by bradwood 5y ago
Why not just unstoppabledomains.com?

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