cryptica

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by cryptica 6y ago
Zero. But even if the project was good and for-profit, it would probably still be zero. It's 100% about personal connections of the founders. Nothing to do with the project. The project is just a vehicle for laundering money from one r
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by cryptica 6y ago
If globalization and wealth concentration/inequality continues, workers will become more malicious and we're going to be seeing more leaks and unexpected threats coming from all sorts of places and industries. Humanity will destro
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by cryptica 6y ago
>> Few if any are claiming RMS is "a bad person" in totality I used the word 'believe' for a reason, it's people's beliefs who drove him out in the first place. Besides, the term 'stawman argument&#x
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by cryptica 6y ago
It goes to show that it's not regular people who create 'cancel culture'. It's the financial elite. They do it as means to push forward a financial agenda. If those who orchestrate the cancellations were who they portray
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by cryptica 6y ago
For simpler projects (like simple front end applications), I usually let developers decide the architecture themselves (I mostly just offer advice). Since in those cases, architecture is not as critical. I was myself overlooked for promotio
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by cryptica 6y ago
I work on a "Proof of Stake" blockchain which uses very little electricity (no miners) so actually I'm helping to save the planet from both a rotten monetary system which encourages mass consumption and endless growth and als
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by cryptica 6y ago
They have great, extremely privileged positions with ridiculously high pay. They have no right to complain. If they don't love it, they should leave. My work as an indie cryptocurrency developer is more mentally challenging, requires m
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by cryptica 6y ago
They made a lot of money thanks to an entirely artificial fiat monetary scheme (which is nothing more charity for the socially connected). Then they refuse to pay it forward by investing in useful, transformational projects... Instead prefe
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by cryptica 6y ago
I have a feeling that Africa is going to experience an economic boom. I'm hearing about a surprising number of interesting, value-adding cryptocurrency projects based in Africa. In the meantime, the developed world is obsessed with eco
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by cryptica 6y ago
It feels like throwing money down the virtual toilet has become a new international sport for rich people. Ethereum is like giant garbage can for throwing away money; it lets you waste it all on ridiculous DeFi fees or on some useless NFTs,
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by cryptica 6y ago
Philanthropy is one of the greatest evils of our time. Philanthropists steal money from workers via monetary inflation and financial schemes. Then they give away a tiny portion of it to the world's poorest. In the meantime their financ
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by cryptica 6y ago
When you code all the time for over a decade, you know what good code looks like. When you care about the product, you know what a well implemented feature looks like from the user's perspective. So it's easy to approximate value
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by cryptica 6y ago
Well it's likely I wouldn't want to hire or sponsor you either because you seem to jump to conclusions and make incorrect assumptions. The projects I manage are open source, I pay in crypto (which has been going up in price so my
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by cryptica 6y ago
It's kind of ridiculous for a company to 'expect' 50% engineering and 50% people management. It should be fluid and vary depending on the skill level of the team and the complexity and criticality of various projects over tim
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by cryptica 6y ago
Under "Still doing much technical work": > Focusing on your team’s health and growth will pay much higher dividends than still being half an engineer. This logic is completely flawed as it assumes that the manager has reached a
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by cryptica 6y ago
I disagree about 'Still doing much technical work' being a problem. The author incorrectly infers that a manager writing code is going to take away developers' freedom. It's the opposite. The way I manage developers is I
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by cryptica 6y ago
It's great that they both helped to raise awareness of the dangers of big government from different perspectives. Milton Friedman taught me about the danger of inflation and centralized monetary policy and Sowell opened my eyes to the
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by cryptica 6y ago
The first part.
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by cryptica 6y ago
This could be a positive. It will create a disincentive for people to pursue political power or to get any kind of public attention. Anyone who draws attention to themselves could become a target. Control over the bot armies is likely to ch
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by cryptica 6y ago
It's kind of ridiculous to think that everyone is talking about money printing now. It's become such an obvious force in society that it cannot be ignored even by the layperson. And economists keep repeating "It's nothin
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by cryptica 6y ago
I think the biggest problem we face right now as a society is that many people think "I'm getting everything I need right now so I'm not going to complain" but they don't realize how fragile the economy is becoming
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by cryptica 6y ago
The financial system is a fraud. It doesn't make sense that you can keep borrowing money to pump up the value of a speculative asset and then use this growing collateral to borrow even more money to pump up the price of that asset even
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by cryptica 6y ago
It failed because megacorps didn't like the idea of a database which could allow startups to scale from zero to hundreds of millions of users out of the box. Anyone who's had any affiliation with projects which aim for 'out o
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by cryptica 6y ago
Banks and governments are constantly injecting new money into the economy. If you look at how that money flows into the system, you will realize that governments mostly award big lucrative contracts to big corporations and banks loan capita
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by cryptica 6y ago
They are right. The root cause for polarization is wealth inequality which is caused by government fiat money printing; of which Facebook happens to be a major beneficiary. Facebook is therefore only a beneficiary of the problem and not the
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by cryptica 6y ago
Monetary policy allowed a small number of people to accumulate a disproportionate amount of capital. This capital allowed them to lobby and influence politicians to give them the right to build and own a massive rail network. It simply woul
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by cryptica 6y ago
I keep saying this and repeating over and over again... Yet keep getting downvoted. The monopolization of everything is caused by monetary policy. All these megacorps are not a natural phenomena. They are not competing on an even playing fi
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by cryptica 6y ago
Rust was often touted as a superior alternative to Node.js writing servers. Perhaps this element of contempt is no longer there but it certainly was there before due to the competition. Similar competition existed between Node.js and Golang
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by cryptica 6y ago
Funny how the Rust community used to regard JavaScript with contempt. Yet now when you consider how well JS was able to add support for asynchronous programming, it's pretty clear that JavaScript was actually a great programming langua
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by cryptica 6y ago
The vocals don't match the electronic music as much as it should IMO. It sounds a but too much like children music. The vocals trivialize the subject matter. Electronic should be more neurotic. I like the tune but think it could be a l

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