cryptica

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by cryptica 6y ago
At a global scale, even things that are extremely unlikely tend to occur. Because there is so much going on in parallel, it's like the lottery; it's extremely unlikely to win the lottery but play it 1 million times a minute and it
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by cryptica 6y ago
Inequality is likely a major cause of crime as it creates more pressure/trauma on the poor. A lot of people think that criminals are fundamentally different from them. More aggressive, less empathetic, etc... I'm pretty sure that
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by cryptica 6y ago
All software development has failed. Everyone is mindlessly copying megacorps with terrible development practices. Then when their crappy systems fail constantly, they blame the tools and demand even more complicated tools from their corpor
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by cryptica 6y ago
Your counter-argument is about semantics. Logically, it only reinforces my argument. Unless you're suggesting that global warming is natural and not caused by humans... If you agree that 'artificial selection' can work quickl
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by cryptica 6y ago
>> Evolution takes thousands of years Not true. Natural selection can work its magic in a single generation. For example, given any normal population, choose any trait and remove all individuals which have this trait from the populati
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by cryptica 6y ago
Humans will use nuclear weapons eventually. They exist, so they will be used eventually. That cannot be stopped. "Monkey see, monkey do" principle. And the people in power seem to keep getting dumber so we are probably not far off
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by cryptica 6y ago
As a rule of thumb, any attempt to control things on a global scale when there are millions of unknown variables will always have unexpected drawbacks and more likely than not, the drawbacks will not be worth the benefits.
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by cryptica 6y ago
I don't see what is the point to try to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. I don't even understand the fuss around global warming.Why is global warming a bad thing? The plants and animals will adapt and evolve to handle the additiona
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by cryptica 6y ago
The older I get, the more I understand why some people refuse to go to the doctor for any reason. They are not stubborn fools, they are perfectly rational. Some people don't even want to know if there is a 10% that they will die, they&
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by cryptica 6y ago
>> This is untrue. There is also repayment This is incorrect. Repayment helps to clear the debt only from the perspective of the individual who has the debt but this is only possible because someone from the next generation took on ev
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by cryptica 6y ago
Agreed, KDE is great. The default theme is somewhat disappointing but once configured, it beats OSX and Windows hands down. It's extremely configurable. I also wouldn't mind Ubuntu/Gnome but I encountered some touchpad issues
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by cryptica 6y ago
As an power user (dev), I would never consider switching away from Kubuntu for any other OS.
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by cryptica 6y ago
True, and I guess private banks just sell all that toxic debt to the reserve banks. But it's not the money which is being destroyed by defaults, it's only the debt component which is wiped clean. The credit component of the loan w
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by cryptica 6y ago
If they double the money supply by putting the new money in the hands of regular citizens, the resulting inflation will be much, much worse than just halving of buying power. Because given extremely high inequality, 100% of the total money
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by cryptica 6y ago
What about people who didn't inherit anything and don't own any assets and don't have any debt? What do I get? Does this mean I should go to the bank right now and take out 1 million in loans to buy crypto then wait for my de
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by cryptica 6y ago
Taxation is not enough to pay back the entire public or private debt since all the new money which is injected into the economy enters via the banking system as loans or via government bonds (also backed by debt at a 1 to 1 ratio); so no am
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by cryptica 6y ago
I agree about the problem but disagree about the solution. Forgiving debt would not only have a hyperinflationary effect on the currency since everyone will suddenly have massive surplus income but it's down right unethical. What about
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by cryptica 6y ago
>> He is CTO at Adjoint - "digitises cash and settlement processes for multinational corporates." How can anyone respect such person? His job is as unethical as it gets. He is a monster and a woke hypocrite.
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by cryptica 6y ago
>> [cryptocurrency] entices masses of dumb money investors to pour their savings into what is effectively a unregulated speculative momentum investment untethered to any real economic activity. As if that was different for the stock m
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by cryptica 6y ago
The military is a great vehicle for cronies to launder large amounts of money to each other... All paid for by the tax payer of course through taxes and asset inflation. Straight from the money printer. Millennials can say goodbye to ever o
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by cryptica 6y ago
It's a scam obviously. Microsoft is using its connections to scam US tax payers.
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by cryptica 6y ago
BRRRR, straight from the money printer. May the US taxpayer continue to subsidize Microsoft. May Microsoft continue to fail to deliver projects. I still can't believe people don't see what's going on. People must be getting d
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by cryptica 6y ago
This argument makes sense. One of the principles I abide by for all my new projects is that I want the dependencies to be more generic (not specific to the current business domain) than their dependents. The code hierarchy 'tree'
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by cryptica 6y ago
>> When your project grows in complexity, there are some concerns that cross the boundaries of your repositories The notion of 'cross-cutting concerns' is also an anti-pattern. It's a violation of the 'separation o
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by cryptica 6y ago
The goal of the typical developer is to add as much complexity as possible while ensuring that the system works correctly 99.999999% of the time such that failure will not be detected for a few years - Just long enough for the project to be
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by cryptica 6y ago
I don't believe all these stats... I'm pretty sure China would have their own version of the 'Press Freedom Index' which shows China as having perfect press freedom and US and Europe having terrible scores. Based on what
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by cryptica 6y ago
Another thing is that corporations use the open source tools to shape industry practices, often in ways which result in net loss of productivity for themselves and their competitors. Corporations in the software industry are often monopolie
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by cryptica 6y ago
Wouldn't those fit under "obstruction of justice"?
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by cryptica 6y ago
It sounds like a legal concept out of the middle ages... Like witchcraft. Given the state of things these days, it ought to be illegal not to show contempt for the legal system.
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by cryptica 6y ago
I also hate monorepos. I consider the monorepo to be an anti-pattern. It's an architectural advantage to separate each module into a different repo as it encourages careful separation of concerns. If you find that you often need to upd

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