christiansakai

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by christiansakai 6y ago
Not sure I understand.
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by christiansakai 6y ago
On the other hand, plenty of us FAANG/Unicorn engineers would love the skillset of creating AND selling our own B2B skillset. Reversing binary tree is easy, dynamic programming is hella easy, but creating and selling your own B2B proje
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by christiansakai 6y ago
What's the solution then?
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by christiansakai 6y ago
Maybe don’t bail out bad actors like in 2008 and we gonna behave, promise.
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by christiansakai 6y ago
Like, uncensored AWS? You are free to run your own Parler without getting booted from AWS?
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by christiansakai 6y ago
Tangentially related. Cryptocurrency is just a side effect of blockchain. Once blockchain technology matures and if one day we see blockchain to store files and blockchain to run cloud services, then will the US government censor it as well
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by christiansakai 6y ago
Yup, learned it the hard way lol.
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by christiansakai 6y ago
Only when the actual piece of digital art imprinted itself on the blockchain and can be viewed with any non-closed source viewer for free, then yes. Until that happens, NFT is useless apart from supply chain/authorship identification
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by christiansakai 6y ago
I often always do this to deep print my javascript object. console.log(JSON.stringify(myObject, null, 4));
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by christiansakai 6y ago
TIL 35 is old.
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by christiansakai 6y ago
Wow, so companies managed to "Prisoner's Dilemma"ed workers? Amazing, brilliant idea.
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by christiansakai 6y ago
University's IT job?
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by christiansakai 6y ago
I finally reinstalled my Windows 10 after some time for a gaming PC and it was surprising to me that they are very intrusive. Like, I have to create a Microsoft account? And they have other sorts of update that happened randomly. Can we tru
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by christiansakai 6y ago
Believe it or not. You can just use an app that accept crypto payment that is installed in your smartphone in Africa. So the answer is, yes. I can send crypto to an orphan in Africa without going through intermediary. Fast, quick, trustless
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by christiansakai 6y ago
I have accepted the fact that writing tedious tests is part of life. It is better than having your code breaks somewhere.
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by christiansakai 6y ago
You can join each crypto's subreddits/youtube/twitter to find more. This is basically what crypto news aggregator do. They just read articles/watch youtube videos all day.
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by christiansakai 6y ago
That remains to be seen. Ethereum has their own way of solving PoS weakness and Cardano has their own way. You need to read more.
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by christiansakai 6y ago
AFAIK, crypto is very popular with right-wing.
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by christiansakai 6y ago
In conclusion, none of the points addressed in this article hold strong ground.
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by christiansakai 6y ago
Indeed, the world of cyptocurrency/blockchain research has many ground breaking papers and news are often real time, even crypto news aggregator can't keep up with it. HN crowd refuses to care about it because of bad taste of cryp
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by christiansakai 6y ago
I think the main premise of this article is the fact that crypto's carbon emission is insane, especially Bitcoin, which I agree (I don't hold Bitcoin for this exact reason). But there are many other crypto that uses Proof of Stake
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by christiansakai 6y ago
Paypal/Visa/Mastercard doing rent seeking again. Sign of old guards trying to be relevant.
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by christiansakai 6y ago
Pretty much. 100%
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by christiansakai 6y ago
I thought I knew what Christianity was, growing up in church. After I attended a theological seminary, I realized I knew nothing. Also I stopped debating religion with people online because I realized majority of religion debates are extrem
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by christiansakai 6y ago
Except me. I don't like making tools, and I am a software engineer, ironically.
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by christiansakai 6y ago
I know someone will reply this. But I’ll bite. Say, watch Netflix all day and play video games all day.
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by christiansakai 6y ago
Argument for PoW breaks down once PoS is proven battle tested for years. Ethereum will lead the way proving this.
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by christiansakai 6y ago
What’s your proposal? We have more unproductive people than productive people. We have more lazier people than dilligent people. We have more stupid people than smart people. Even free education doesn’t fix it because people are free not to
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by christiansakai 6y ago
Please no, no. We are talking about fixing the interview process. We already have Leetcode game and people complained already. Please don't make me play another game.
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by christiansakai 6y ago
Wow, I wonder how do they manage to cover the expenses of running a tech startup? We know that software business is capital and intellectual property heavy. How do these people do it?

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