cryptica

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by cryptica 5y ago
Exactly. It's the most secure and reliable accounting system imaginable. Anyone who believes that this degree of reliability and security is not required is naive and doesn't understand human nature and doesn't understand how
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by cryptica 5y ago
But how will the corporate elites bribe people into compliance with their agenda without crypto?
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by cryptica 5y ago
CDBCs are going to be a goldmine for hackers. If implemented as centralized systems, some hackers and insiders are going to have access to unlimited free money. The fact is that nobody, no group of people on this planet is trustworthy enoug
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by cryptica 5y ago
In my books, the sound money folks are always on the right side because sound money is the most important thing.
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by cryptica 5y ago
This is the clearest evidence we have of a government trying to sabotage the monetary system of a country to steal the proceeds of its citizens' labor via inflation. Thankfully for some citizens of Yemen, they can opt out of being expl
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by cryptica 5y ago
EU is terrible for software developers because there is too much competition from immigrants who are willing to accept lower pay and are more compliant employees; sometimes willing to carry out unethical activities on behalf of their bosses
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by cryptica 5y ago
The title is click-bait but the conclusion makes sense. It's just unfortunate that most people have such different ideas about what 'clean code' means. I guess people will ascribe that label to any code which they produce. Ev
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by cryptica 5y ago
They haven't even come up with such practices, let alone taught them to anyone. The practices which they did come up with have been terrible, even harmful (e.g. changing passwords often and using special symbols). Of course if you teac
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by cryptica 5y ago
I thought we had reached peak bureaucracy but I was wrong. On the plus side, it's good that they finally figured out that forcing frequent password changes and forcing the usage of special characters are anti-patterns. I've been r
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by cryptica 5y ago
There are also other things beyond vendor lock-in which facilitate rent-seeking: - Cronyism. The only way to get a big B2B customer for you SaaS product is if you are friends with an executive at a big tech corporation. Otherwise your chanc
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by cryptica 5y ago
That's simply not true. The process is highly selective. Though maybe they only select from 20 year old inexperienced people on purpose (I'm in early 30s)? Otherwise, I can't reconcile observable reality with what you're
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by cryptica 5y ago
If you look at who is getting all the funding, you will see that they have rich and/or politically connected family members in 99.9% of cases.
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by cryptica 5y ago
This is definitely a thing. Nowadays, the only thing I care about when considering to join a startup is "Does this founder have a rich daddy?"
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by cryptica 5y ago
Yes, because the most critical element of most successes which are almost never mentioned in success stories is the social connectedness of the founders to wealthy individuals. This is 99.9% of what success is. You can have a terrible idea,
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by cryptica 5y ago
Agreed. Once you have experience, writing good code takes less time than writing shitty code, even in the short term. Good code is easier to test, easier to reason about and it's easier to work on it as a team. Shitty code is impossibl
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by cryptica 5y ago
I was thinking the exact same thing but I've read so many of these utter nonsense articles recently that I rarely even bother to comment on them anymore. Who knows. Maybe they're written by a bot with a job-creation agenda. It&#x2
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by cryptica 5y ago
Well pretty much. Gold would be good but it's difficult to audit as only a limited number of people can access the vaults; this auditing process is highly corruptible as history has shown us over and over again... In reality, because o
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by cryptica 5y ago
I noticed the same thing. Much of the over-complicated tooling and libraries which are being accepted in the industry today without any resistance would have triggered furious debates if they had been introduced 10 years earlier. There is a
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by cryptica 5y ago
I fully relate with this article. Especially this point: > Why in the world has this idiotic trend of abstracting everything away by layers upon layers of complexity gained such a strong foothold in the industry? Has everyone except the
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by cryptica 5y ago
They're just alternative currencies for people who want to escape fiat and they are more tamper-proof than regular currencies. That's all.
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by cryptica 5y ago
I feel so bad for the next generation. Society is already acting as if it's pointless to educate them because all the opportunities to extract value from the economy have (apparently) already been monopolized by earlier generations. Th
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by cryptica 5y ago
> some people want to run their own servers. I've been involved in the blockchain space for several years and I think this is absolutely critical. The entire decentralization and security aspect depends on people running their own s
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by cryptica 5y ago
I've been using DuckDuckGo to look up taboo topics such as vaccine data and conspiracy theories. I want Google to think I'm a 100% compliant COVID vaxxer and 'science' believer.
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by cryptica 5y ago
Yes, we're in a bubble, we've been in a bubble for at least the last 10 years. But the reason why the bubble still hasn't popped is because reserve banks have been propping up the stock market by creating massive amounts of n
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by cryptica 5y ago
I think it's right that wealthy people should not help their children and they should avoid helping each other. This approach allows the wealthy to stay in touch with the reality of the working classes via their friends and children. B
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by cryptica 5y ago
Like for example, you work for a company which claims to be working towards certain goals, then when you make some significant progress towards one of the main technical goals as an employee; instead of the project founders being pleased an
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by cryptica 5y ago
I think this article is generally accurate but it doesn't cover all the reasons. My family has been wealthy for over 400 years. The total wealth has kept growing but it was reduced at the individual level because people had too many ch
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by cryptica 5y ago
I guess that must have been the downside of living in a northern country during the winter. International freight was probably not advanced enough for perishable goods back then... They probably had to pick produce when they were unripe and
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by cryptica 5y ago
They own their own house. They could easily afford to have children. They could easily find well paid work outside of big cities, set up their own business. They didn't need higher education to get a well paid job. They didn't nee
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by cryptica 5y ago
I don't think that's true. My parents are far happier than I am. They have a far more optimistic view of the world than I do because they've had it far better.

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