cryptica

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by cryptica 5y ago
I'm a blockchain developer and I wrote a DEX from scratch so I know exactly how that works :) It doesn't change the fundamentals.
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by cryptica 5y ago
This actually helps with decentralization since there are usually multiple exchanges and it's very rare for 1 exchange to hold more than 10% of all tokens.
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by cryptica 5y ago
I think this conclusion is correct. I can think of two reasons why no other token has been able to surpass Bitcoin: - Network effects arising as a result of having many crypto markets which use BTC as the base currency. This gives BTC a lot
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by cryptica 5y ago
Proof of Stake is superior to Proof of Work because with PoW, it's possible for someone to take over the network and tamper with the data if they control more than 50% of the mining power. The cost of buying new mining hardware grows l
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by cryptica 5y ago
>> I mean... where's the bad news here? Crime at all time highs. Homeless people. Rampant inflation. Censorship. I'm consuming multiple US media sources. My acquaintances in the US seem to support this narrative.
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by cryptica 5y ago
Well I was a kid and living outside the US at the time and I saw some newspaper which said something about an alien's body having been found in the US. I asked my dad if it was true and he said something like "Haha no, American me
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by cryptica 5y ago
Why is it that whenever there's something wrong with the US economy, the media starts talking about aliens and UFOs. I remember similar stories from 20 years or so ago when the media claimed to have photos of an alien. Is this a joke?
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by cryptica 5y ago
All these big corporations use virtue signalling as an alternative to actually being virtuous. They preach equality of opportunity while engaging in the destruction of the free market system; the only system known to humanity which has ever
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by cryptica 5y ago
>> i'm sure that any peasant from any period would happily sell his left arm to enjoy the privileges we all enjoy. Not sure about that. Who would hire people with such low level of education? They'd have a miserable time liv
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by cryptica 5y ago
If you want to succeed in this industry. You have to constantly lie, cheat and manipulate. All the people I know who got promoted with big salaries had this in common.
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by cryptica 5y ago
It's so arbitrary. Now I know what it felt like to live during the dark ages. We have: - Presidents and CEOs instead of kings and queens. - Corporate shareholders instead of knights. - Scientists, economists, lobbyists and regulators i
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by cryptica 5y ago
It's both. Network effects. Same forces behind both. We have an a monetary system which creates the economic environment and all companies compete and succeed (or fail) based on the rules of that environment. If the environment was dif
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by cryptica 5y ago
These days, it's not difficult to create products that are far better than your main competitors' products in every respect. The hard part is merely getting the attention of customers so that they know that your product exists...
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by cryptica 5y ago
Ask for a pay raise. Then they'll think you're competent just because they pay you more.
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by cryptica 5y ago
Can someone please point me to an example of a well-designed (modular, maintainable) FP project (e.g. on GitHub)? I've only had negative experiences so far and I can't imagine how to use FP in a modular way (high cohesion, loose c
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by cryptica 5y ago
I thought it was mostly because of the slight upward angle of the wing which creates air compression under the wing and suction above the wing. If you try to move a flat object through water, it creates pressure at the front and suction at
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by cryptica 5y ago
They are highly profitable because they have an oligopoly over consumers. Consumers are forced to use them and other companies are forced to do business with them. For no other reason than a lack of alternatives. The reason that there are n
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by cryptica 5y ago
Because this tired old argument has been made far too many times. These companies have become bloated and become a liability to the US and the dollar... Soaking up all the newly printed money and wasting it on bureaucracy whilst depriving e
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by cryptica 5y ago
You obviously never tried Google Sheets.
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by cryptica 5y ago
>> Windows. Has anyone in the history of the earth tried any other operating system for longer than 1 week and decided to stick to Windows? And no, vendor lock-in (e.g. games which only run on Windows) don't count... You can&#x27
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by cryptica 5y ago
That's a a big valuation for a company which doesn't have a single successful product which people actually want to use. Beat that Oracle.
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by cryptica 5y ago
For most people, if they came across a CV of someone who might be a serial killer, they'd want to read the full article. It's not something that happens every day.
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by cryptica 5y ago
It's disturbing how often people infer that Google is impervious to the law.
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by cryptica 5y ago
In my case, I focused away from my personal complexes for so long that nowadays I don't care about them at all. The negative emotion is completely gone. When I was younger, I was obsessed with my appearance and the sound of my voice. T
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by cryptica 5y ago
My view on gender is the same as anything else. We should accept the cards we're dealt and focus on our strengths. Nobody is making you focus on your problems, you can choose what to focus on. If you were born as the wrong gender, why
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by cryptica 5y ago
If Satoshi spent it on mining equipment, they would have to pay for electricity. And the profits of mining are never again going to be above 6.25 Bitcoins every 10 minutes (and that's assuming ownership of 100% of all ASIC miners in ex
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by cryptica 5y ago
The funny thing is that nobody has ever once bothered to debunk a single one of my points in any of the comments that I've ever made against Elixir or FP on HN. I've written much more detailed points in the past. Only downvotes bu
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by cryptica 5y ago
HN community should stop promoting Elixir. It ruined many companies by depriving them of talented developers and it also ruined the careers of many developers by preventing them from becoming talented. Pure functional programming makes it e
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by cryptica 5y ago
>> And new BTC is continuously being printed But unlike fiat inflation which compounds, this inflation is fixed so each year it represents a smaller percentage of the total in circulation. The inflation percentage goes down each year
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by cryptica 5y ago
This gives new meaning to the phrases "I have a gut feeling" and "Trust your gut."

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