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by cryptica 5y ago
I've worked at a company in the past where I was earning 2.5x my previous senior developer salary. It was also the least productive I had ever been in my career and I contributed the least value to society (negative value, in fact). I
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by cryptica 5y ago
I don't think anybody believes that we still have a free market. IMO, based on the current unfree market, politicians should not be allowed to trade stocks and it should be illegal for any large corporation to fire employees for any re
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by cryptica 5y ago
I don't feel any guilt about it for several reasons: - I'm poor, so my impact on CO2 emissions is minimal. - Rich people will always invest in some green-washing scam (whether intentionally or not). Our leaders are not smart enoug
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by cryptica 5y ago
I think maybe people with this condition over-idealize what it means to visualize something. I think I'm very good at visualization. I can visualize things and recall visual scenes from my past but it doesn't look anywhere near as
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by cryptica 5y ago
I think MySQL's success comes down to developer-friendliness. I find Postgres a bit tricky to setup. For example, I don't like how Postgres authentication is intertwined with Linux user accounts by default; it causes more problems
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by cryptica 5y ago
Currency debasement always caused people to want to move to cities where the currency was being issued. Without currency debasement, people may have been incentivized in the past to move to cities for certain industries where knowledge was
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by cryptica 5y ago
Governments should form an international institution to regulate the algorithms used by social media and search engines. The goal of this institution should strictly be to ensure that algorithms of big tech companies: - Are impartial to spe
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by cryptica 5y ago
Globalization overshot. It was mostly artificially propped up with the global fiat monetary system. Now that the fiat monetary system is running out of steam and heading into high inflation territory, we will revert back to a more localized
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by cryptica 5y ago
I hope so. Out with big tech, in with small decentralized tech.
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by cryptica 5y ago
I guess that hits the nail on the head. Most people, especially rich people, seem crazy to me.
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by cryptica 5y ago
I guess my knowledge of German is still too basic. I know in the hundreds it goes left to right so I assumed that it would continue until infinity. That is extremely confusing. French and English are very simple and consistent by comparison
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by cryptica 5y ago
I could never get into serious trading because current markets are irrational. Being a good trader these days is not about knowing what's going on; it's about being irrational in the same way as the most irrational rich fools... B
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by cryptica 5y ago
It's only backwards for the last 2-digit numbers. Once you go into the hundreds and beyond, it's read from left to right. I think most Germans probably don't even realize it. They just recall all 2-digit numbers from memory.
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by cryptica 5y ago
Well in that case I really don't understand your reasoning. I can't think of any other reason why you cannot see that lines of code is the closest and most measurable representation of the information content of the system's
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by cryptica 5y ago
I find this to be true even in cases when you have large projects. Sometimes the scale of the project will necessitate adding 'extra complexity' to a specific set of core modules but this is only in order to reduce the complexity
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by cryptica 5y ago
Why is it outlandish? You're confusing the reliability of using source lines of code as a metric for measuring the productivity of developers with measuring the complexity of a system. It's a bad metric for measuring productivity
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by cryptica 5y ago
Lines of code is a very good approximation so long as each line is compiled into a similar number of bits across different systems and languages. The total size of the compiled source code in bits is literally the entropy of the system so i
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by cryptica 5y ago
Number of lines of code is a good metric for complexity. The hard part is estimating how many lines of code is reasonable for a specific feature. Some complexity is necessary. The problem is unnecessary complexity.
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by cryptica 5y ago
This article is complete BS. Proof of Stake is more secure than Proof of Work for a simple reason. The cost of doing a 51% attack (to stop the blockchain or to start censoring specific transactions) on a PoS blockchain is exponential, where
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by cryptica 5y ago
All reserve banks print to maintain a stable exchange rate so they will naturally all hyperinflate together. EU governments are dumping a lot of euros on grants for useless speculative tech projects which have no chance of delivering anythi
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by cryptica 5y ago
No wonder the US dollar is about to hyperinflate. They're printing it like crazy and handing it out to speculative projects whose clients' revenues are also all denominated in worthless USD. USD has become a liability for the worl
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by cryptica 5y ago
> Campbell’s law states that the more important a metric is in social decision making, the more likely it is to be manipulated. This also holds for the fiat monetary system; a metric by which all economic value is measured. It has been m
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by cryptica 5y ago
I understand that we are not used to factor in psychology when it comes to software development and that this argument may seem contrived but I'm speaking from my own professional experience when I say that I've observed both in m
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by cryptica 5y ago
Yes but you forget incentives. If a tool makes something easier. People get lazier. E.g. People today have terrible handwriting because of computer keyboards. Many people today can't do long division on paper because of calculators. Pe
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by cryptica 5y ago
What I don't understand is what is the incentive to publish fake studies to make a cheap generic (low profit) medicine look good? Even Merck, one of the manufacturers of Ivermectin claimed that the studies are invalid (then soon after
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by cryptica 5y ago
High cohesion, loose coupling. That summarizes it. But to understand what it means usually takes at least 10 years and most people will never understand it. My best interpretation of high cohesion is that it means that every component/
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by cryptica 5y ago
The real purpose of TypeScript is job creation. Corporations constantly need new ways to keep their employees busy, distracted, and compliant. I really hope that one day, most developers will realize that there are far more important things
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by cryptica 5y ago
I've been saying this since the early days of Node.js and npm... But nobody would listen; instead, they opted to go for the linux philosophy of encouraging many tiny composable dependencies... They went overboard with it..It doesn&#x27
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by cryptica 5y ago
> Taking long time to change the core protocol is by design (it's a feature, not a bug), so everything is working correctly. In that case, I hope it takes over 100 years to implement sharding, then at least the suckers who invested
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by cryptica 5y ago
Total BS. I'm a blockchain developer and I worked on a project worth half a billion $ and we made far bigger changes than that in less than 2 years... With a far smaller team... Without even a single 'rock star developer'. Ei

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