cryptica

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by cryptica 5y ago
There is a theory that the term 'conspiracy theory' and the stigma around it was invented by government agencies to discredit unsavoury leaked information and to discredit whistleblowers. This category allows information to be mix
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by cryptica 5y ago
In school, I was so shy, I constantly struggled to initiate conversations and I was always playing back what I said in my mind and feeling bad about how dumb it sounded. I held others to a higher esteem than myself. But as I grew older, the
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by cryptica 5y ago
Exactly, a public utility is useful to the public. Social media companies harm the public. Glad they finally admitted to this.
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by cryptica 5y ago
The comment must have hit a nerve because people are almost outvoting the downvote bots.
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The economy is a negative sum game and so, while the rich keep getting richer and their friends keep getting richer, opportunities for the majority of people are drying up. It becomes increasingly easy for the rich to earn money and increas
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by cryptica 5y ago
There are no real friends in crony-capitalism. Every relationship is parasitic. One is either a host or a parasite.
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by cryptica 5y ago
Your own eyes and your brain.
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by cryptica 5y ago
Impostor syndrome is a prerequisite for getting a job these days. Companies only want to hire people who feel like frauds and investors like to invest in people who feel like fraud. Since companies can't actually advertise that they&#x
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by cryptica 5y ago
I agree; it's a tool for censorship. Also, upvote is a tool for propaganda. If implemented honestly, downvote (and upvote) would be fine, but it's not gonna happen. The downvote functionality will be an excuse to censor content. A
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by cryptica 5y ago
>> Information drives financial That's not true. Government money printing drives financial markets.
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by cryptica 5y ago
I don't like this kind of interview question because it's all about subjective terminology and superficial knowledge and not about logic or reasoning. The author is right, the MVC pattern can be considered from many different angl
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by cryptica 5y ago
There is no life when money is tight. It's just constant struggle for survival. There is no time or energy for engaging in any 'non-essential' behavior. I had a lot more humor a decade ago but nowadays I have no surplus energ
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by cryptica 5y ago
>> Google generates 180 billion in revenue, 140 billion of which comes from ads. The problem with looking at revenue numbers is that they ignore just how profoundly monetary policies affect the way the entire system works. A catfish m
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by cryptica 5y ago
Assange's main mistake is that he underestimated how corrupt politicians are and how apathetic citizens are. I wonder if he would have started Wikileaks if he had understood human nature. What's the point of helping society if it&
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by cryptica 5y ago
What crimes? He just published leaked documents just like New York Post and The Guardian did. Wikileaks just happened to be first. There is no evidence of hacking since this key witness admitted that it was made up.
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by cryptica 5y ago
Yet the question remains; on what basis are they holding him in prison right now? They have nothing on him. The UK government, the US government and media are the only entities embarrassing themselves here. Any intelligent person with moral
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by cryptica 5y ago
Maybe Google is. I remember a time over a decade ago (before the insane 0% monetary policy started) when they were struggling to turn a profit. The business model did not change much since then and yet now they are profitable. It's pos
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by cryptica 5y ago
Stocks pretend to be backed by real business activity. Without being propped up by central banks, there is no guarantee they would be profitable. They might be destroying value, not creating it.
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by cryptica 5y ago
I said meaningful. Unscalable DeFi scams don't count. All these ERC20 projects force their community to pay between $10 to $20 per transaction to Ethereum miners who add no real value to their project/token. No real project based
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by cryptica 5y ago
I never understood why people like Ethereum. It's one of the worst cryptocurrencies in existence. They've been working on staking and sharding for years and have shown no results on those fronts. This update is insignificant. This
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by cryptica 5y ago
Agreed. It's not true anymore. It was true maybe 5 to 10 years ago; especially for startups.
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by cryptica 5y ago
Agreed. Moreover, it's infuriating when people claim that 'technology' is responsible for changing the dynamics when they know (or should know) perfectly well that things like inequality and monopolies are caused by monetary
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by cryptica 5y ago
I'm generally skeptical about all such news but a few things make me cautiously optimistic: - Lina Khan: I had heard about her a long time ago before she even got into politics. She is known for her academic work on antitrust and big t
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by cryptica 5y ago
IMO, software engineering won't exist for another 50 to 200 years because: - It takes several years for someone to prove themselves as a developer among their peers and this reputation does not usually spread outside the confines of a
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by cryptica 5y ago
You must be an extrovert. I don't think it's black and white. It's more like a spectrum. Some people become more drained than others when hanging around other people. Also, some people like to hang out with many different peo
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Australia and Europe do not recognize them either. Australia is pretty innovative in the software industry considering its small population (which is less than 1/10th of the US).
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I can't speak for every industry but in the software industry, they are 100% counterproductive and harm innovation. It's good that many countries do not recognize software patents.
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The problem is that the monetary system is ending and it desperately tries to propagate itself by promoting/enriching people who are able to maintain the illusion of normalcy which keeps everything together. It becomes increasingly dif
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Scary. Anonymized assassination will be good for cryptocurrencies because it will create incentives for powerful people to further hide themselves. To do this, they will have to disconnect themselves from centralized financial systems which
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by cryptica 5y ago
I'm a blockchain developer. Worked on a top PoS blockchain for several years then launched 2 additional PoS blockchains since. I've also analyzed many other PoS blockchains over the years. Exchange wallets improve the security of

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