cryptica

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by cryptica 5y ago
I just see a strong correlation between mental instability and career success. I'm only speaking from personal experience. Sometimes it feels like it's the instability itself, not any specific action which leads to success because
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by cryptica 5y ago
Were we're heading, we will wish that discrimination was based on biological factors. Instead, it will be based on mental factors. Cruelty, deception, hypocrisy, psychopathy, inhumanity will be rewarded. The determinant of class will b
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by cryptica 5y ago
My point is that, on average, in my experience, they are more interested in big complex theories and hypotheticals than in reality and all its tedious subtleties. They can miss the point that all these tedious subtleties add up in terms of
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by cryptica 5y ago
Formal proofs are a waste of time. You're more likely to make a mistake in the proof than in the code. How do you prove that the proof sets the right expectations? What is the point of proving that software meets certain requirements i
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by cryptica 5y ago
PhDs often make the worst possible developers. People with PhDs (especially in Mathematics) are often lacking the most critical characteristic of a good developer; they don't know why they do things. Being good at math requires being a
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by cryptica 5y ago
Over-sensitive, politically-correct people are going to end up in a hermetically sealed bubble of their own making, hooked up to virtual reality and drugs while the rest of us enjoy the real world. I have no problem with that. It's nat
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by cryptica 5y ago
It has nothing to do with the language. It's all about software architecture and logic. Modern JavaScript is one of the best programming languages in existence.
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by cryptica 5y ago
IMO, if the project is truly decentralized as they claim, then the recipients of the tokens should be entitled to keep the funds. That said, I hope the SEC will investigate this to rule out a scheme in case the bug was an intentional way to
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by cryptica 5y ago
Money printing and the Cantillion effects associated with it have created asymmetric playing fields which are fundamentally unfair. The injustice of modern markets can be explained with an analogy: Imagine that you don't have much mone
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by cryptica 5y ago
> If you want companies to pay for your work, slap a price tag on it. Without VC funding and personal connections to insiders, no corporation will ever work with you no matter how good your product is and no matter what the price tag is.
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by cryptica 5y ago
I like Mathematics but I hate the language of Mathematics. Mathematicians chose to sacrifice readability in favor of terseness; they invented a large number of abstractions, often with only tiny differences between them. Also, descriptions
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by cryptica 5y ago
I think the economy has become overly financialized - It has become too difficult to earn income through value creation and too easy to earn income through financial schemes - People are realizing this and giving up on value creation en mas
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by cryptica 5y ago
This is spot on. Investors don't give a damn about the business. They just want a machine that they put money in and more money comes out. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of fast growing businesses these days are frauds. In such
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by cryptica 5y ago
Time to switch to https://odysee.com/ - It's been growing very fast. You can buy LBRY tokens to align your incentives on the financial side: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/library-credits&#x2
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by cryptica 5y ago
I keep hearing this narrative about "We need to help open source developers" but it feels as empty as the narrative around gender and race diversity in corporate environments. People within big corporations talk about the problem
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by cryptica 5y ago
Nice article. Excellent point about software heterogeneity. Ecosystems and platforms should support potentially a wide range of different tools, engines, languages, hardware... Heterogeneity is necessary for 'natural selection' to
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by cryptica 5y ago
It was obvious to me from the beginning that GraphQL would add overhead and complexity on the backend; especially related to caching all possible permutations/views of the data. In some cases I imagine it would consume a lot of memory;
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by cryptica 5y ago
The benefit is that many third-party services and many users don't want to have to trust a centralized auth provider. The blockchain provides redundancy and security guarantees which don't require trusting company employees. Not t
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by cryptica 5y ago
>> This sounds like an anti-feature to me. Especially since it'd be foolish for a service to only support authentication via a blockchain. Imagine telling my grandmother that she needed to buy some btc in order to sign up for the
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by cryptica 5y ago
- Resistant to centralized censorship (as you pointed out) - It allows you to use the same passphrase for all services without compromising security since your passphrase never needs to leave your own machine; it is never sent over the wire
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by cryptica 5y ago
Yes but it also makes it a LOT less likely that your passphrase would be compromised because it is never sent to any service over the wire; with blockchain signatures, your passphrase never needs to leave your own machine. So the service pr
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by cryptica 5y ago
I think this is an accurate assessment but I think authentication and account management should be seen as separate from 'identity'. Authentication can be useful without being associated with a real-world identity; for example, it
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by cryptica 5y ago
Authentication using the blockchain makes a great AI-resistant alternative to signups with captcha. The same account could be used by multiple independent services and this removes the need for a signup process altogether. It also removes t
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by cryptica 5y ago
Corporations hire hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in management positions whose main purpose is to think about how to increase market share in a world where those corporations already have far more market share than they de
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by cryptica 5y ago
In the corporate sphere, software is treated as an ever-evolving amalgamation of code and people - This is why enterprise software services keep changing and breaking over time; without the people, the software stops working. Also, as the p
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by cryptica 5y ago
This sounds like corporate propaganda. The way I can tell is that it tries to convince people to surrender their freedom using arguments such as "What is freedom?", "There is no other option" or "Alternatives are il
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by cryptica 5y ago
I agree with this 100%. Passwords are awesome. I've never had any security issues related to passwords. They are perfectly secure for almost everyone. Just because a tiny handful of multi-millionaires feel that passwords are not secure
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by cryptica 5y ago
Rendezvous hashing is simple to understand. I'm surprised that the article didn't mention the skeleton-based variant which provides O(log N) lookup (same as consistent hashing). Based on my experience implementing the skeleton-bas
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by cryptica 5y ago
To make matters worse, it's also a vicious cycle. For example, if everyone is focused only on specific kinds of data and ignores observable reality, the trend in the data will become self-fulfilling until a point when the perceived inc
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by cryptica 5y ago
The take away is that governments and large institutions which impact large numbers of people should never attempt to set quantifiable targets and should never attempt to meet quantifiable targets.

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