cryptica

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by cryptica 5y ago
This line of thinking goes against not only everything that the original inventors of programming languages ever taught, but it goes against almost 20 years of my own professional experience... And I've written and worked on many highl
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by cryptica 5y ago
I've worked on several projects/codebases which could handle requirement changes whilst rarely requiting changing the interfaces of dependencies. It's not easy to design a system this way, but it's possible and it's
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by cryptica 5y ago
I get what you're saying. It's true that some very lucky people manage to escape their unprivileged position early enough in their careers such that it is not a problem for them. Their career growth trajectory has given them a con
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by cryptica 5y ago
I don't think it's a small extent at all. The idea that confidence/charisma is a good thing is at the heart of global entrepreneurial culture. It has become so deeply embedded into people's mindset that they don't e
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by cryptica 5y ago
In addition to racial discrimination, there is privilege discrimination (on the basis of luck). This can affect you regardless of race but of course it's likely worse when combined with racial factors. Privilege discrimination can be q
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by cryptica 5y ago
How far does this have to go before people realize how ridiculous this is. The Multi-mono-multi-monorepo stage? You don't need a monorepo. It's an anti-pattern that people resort to when their code is a tangled, tightly coupled me
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by cryptica 5y ago
I have similar 'issues'. My wife tends to fuss over tiny details that seem completely irrelevant to me. It's not that I don't want to make an effort to comply with her more stringent expectations, it's that I don&#x
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by cryptica 5y ago
The most effective trick for me is simply knowing why I need to remember something. If I don't know its utility value, I won't even be able to recall it an hour later. On the other hand, if I can see the utility, I might be able t
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by cryptica 5y ago
I was just trying to illustrate the ephemeral nature of identity to other primal minds. But yes the desire to 'leave behind a trace' is not nihilist. No living human can be completely nihilist. The subconscious mind is still prima
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by cryptica 5y ago
Facebook's success was all about network effects. It's no coincidence that it started out at Harvard. That was the root of the network where the most influential people of the next generation would come from.
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by cryptica 5y ago
Nihilism can be a positive force in people's lives. Nihilism allows me to not take anything too seriously because I know that nothing is important and everything will end eventually. Surprisingly, it can also be a source of altruism. F
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by cryptica 5y ago
Wait until the majority of boomers start retiring and/or dying, watch how that affects stock prices and/or the value of the USD relative to Bitcoin (if the Fed continues to prop up stocks artificially with more money printing), th
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by cryptica 5y ago
I get that, but if I must change who I am to fit in with specific people, then that would make me a phony. Though I suppose at that level, most people are phony. Phony is normal and genuine is awkward. I guess when a rich person is always s
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by cryptica 5y ago
Irreversibility is one of its best features. Imagine a scenario in 50 years when 80% of token holders are dead... This could result in a non-trivial % of tokens being lost forever; this greatly reduces the remaining circulating supply of to
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by cryptica 5y ago
Anticompetitive behaviour in the global marketplace is so pervasive that it's pointless to even mention specific cases - It only serves to perpetuate the ridiculous illusion that some people in government give a crap about it. Antitrus
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by cryptica 5y ago
I think the main problem is that the average investor feels uncomfortable around me when they know my backstory. Maybe it makes them question the meritocracy narrative. Maybe they feel guilty (about their own success) by being around me. Pe
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by cryptica 5y ago
I've been working almost nonstop (including many nights and weekends) for over a decade, became a skilled software developer, built some popular open source projects but I got to a point in my career where it started to feel like my em
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by cryptica 5y ago
It feels like a form of discrimination against unhappiness. It reminds me of the book 'Brave New World' - In the book, unhappy people are looked down upon and they see sadness as an illness which needs to be medicated with 'S
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by cryptica 5y ago
It's unbelievable that someone would downvote this. What kinds of freaks are hanging out here? That's not very nice.
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by cryptica 5y ago
My life is already wasted. I've seen too much and I know too much to ever be completely happy. The best I can do is try to leave behind some kind of positive legacy. Maybe with 20 more years I will achieve something.
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by cryptica 5y ago
The US government should just follow in China's footsteps and shut down Big Tech or nationalize them. Nobody with half a soul would complain.
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by cryptica 5y ago
Kubernetes is a complex solution but it solves a very complex problem. It could have been made slightly simpler (and slightly less flexible too) but it's a really good solution IMO. The structure is mostly straight forward and intuitiv
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by cryptica 5y ago
Many big companies don't need 90% of their existing engineers so they don't care if most of them leave.
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by cryptica 5y ago
I was thinking along the same lines so it's interesting to see that others have come to the same conclusion. IMO, large parts of the tech industry are artificial and fueled entirely by monetary policy. If reserve banks in the west stop
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by cryptica 5y ago
I think the real problem here is the tendency that people have to label and categorize everyone and everything. It's completely wrong to assume that there is a box and everyone in that box shares the exact same attributes. Society even
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by cryptica 5y ago
As a low-middle class white person who struggles to be heard, I find the term 'whitesplain' to be offensive. For the same reason that I find the term 'mansplaining' offensive when applied to some shy guy trying to expres
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by cryptica 5y ago
I've witnessed this kind of mislabeling on many occasions. Once I was on a forum chatting about how the reserve banks are controlling everything and also distorting culture and then some random person told me I was "anti-semitic&q
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by cryptica 5y ago
I'm a blockchain developer who spent years analyzing PoW and then went on to work on DPoS for years. What you're saying about PoS being the same as our current banks is incorrect. When you look at the fundamentals, PoS is superior
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by cryptica 5y ago
Bitcoin's brand and its technology are two completely separate things. The technology isn't as great as people claim but that doesn't really matter. You could substitute the Bitcoin network with an entirely different PoS bloc
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by cryptica 5y ago
It was a terrible situation, my boss had also been shouting and threatening me with violence previous day so I snapped the next day. It was a mostly normal workplace before that. The stakes were high I guess.

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