cryptica

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by cryptica 6y ago
My main problem with declarative/functional programming languages is that they force developers to separate the logic from the state (they are not co-located based on concerns) and this often causes developers to neglect the separation
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by cryptica 6y ago
This is a variant of the no-code mindset where people expect coding to be easy. What they don't understand is that tools which aim to make coding easy or automatic don't add any value if the person using the tool doesn't unde
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by cryptica 6y ago
If you're a workaholic but your job is less than useless to the point that society would be better off if you didn't work, of course that will lead to mental health problems... That said, the fact that someone would be willing to
814.
by cryptica 6y ago
That's why I said to look at any place. It you want to make the argument that the temperature differences are so small that we shouldn't expect to notice any difference from looking at many different before and after charts then p
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by cryptica 6y ago
There were some unusual 'hottest on record' last year in the summer in some parts of Europe. But also there were a lot of 'coldest on record' in other places like the US and in Russia during the winter so it doesn't
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by cryptica 6y ago
Examples (I just picked two random places and dates for temperature records for the month of December at least 20 years apart): Miami Florida December 2000 (peak day-average is 77.08): https://www.wunderground.com/history&#x
817.
by cryptica 6y ago
Over the last 20 years and having traveled back and forth all over the world, I have not noticed any changes in temperature at all. In fact, local temperature records over several decades seems to be flat in pretty much every place I'v
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by cryptica 6y ago
That's right, you're not supposed to, but some very wealthy people do it anwyay to prevent inflation from skyrocketing whenever the banks increase the money supply. The people who are at the front of the line for the money printer
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by cryptica 6y ago
I suspect what is happening is that a handful of high net worth people and companies are accumulating massive hoards of cash at a loss to themselves (relative to gold, real estate...); they do it for the sole purpose of 'doing their bi
820.
by cryptica 6y ago
>> When people aren't spending, more is created. There is a point when people have gotten wealthy to the point that they have bought everything that they could possibly want but the money keeps coming anyway. Wealthy people will
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by cryptica 6y ago
Total currency supply is the only metric that really matters in terms of true inflation. Velocity of money is a mostly useless metric in our current highly unequal society. High currency supply and low velocity means high fragility... That
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by cryptica 6y ago
The economy beat the optimism out of me. My sense of certainty these days is based only on my skepticism of alternative explanations (which I learned were incorrect, the hard way).
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by cryptica 6y ago
These days you have to create 'financial incentives' just to get people to do the right thing... Every business is going to need crypto. You need to bribe people into doing the right thing to prevent them from being bribed into do
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by cryptica 6y ago
The reality is that we just don't know what happened. We cannot know what happened. Perhaps some nations and companies are just too big and too powerful to exist and people are now starting to realize that.
825.
by cryptica 6y ago
I'm surprised by how many people are happy with Twitter censoring the president. Censorship is not OK. It's totally disproportionate. The freedom and well being of 320+ million people is far more important than a few buildings and
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by cryptica 6y ago
Agreed, it's quite ridiculous seeing people who need a store of value using corporate stocks as a store of value... It's like if you need to sit and decide to use a table as a chair.
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by cryptica 6y ago
>> Having control over supply of your currency is a good thing, as long as it’s well run. Depends whose control we're referring to. The people who control the currency control the dynamics of the economy and society. That's
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by cryptica 6y ago
The purpose of these images is not to help individuals to avoid emotional discomfort, it is merely to teach individuals what a term means. In this case, terms like 'state killing' and 'execution' are supposed to create e
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by cryptica 6y ago
I don't understand how 'being triggered' is a bad thing... People who 'get triggered' are too sensitive. They have to train themselves. We are on planet earth, we live then we die. This is a fact. Emotions are tools
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by cryptica 6y ago
Well these people in particular need to toughen up and face reality so that they know what it means if the government executes someone, that it's not just a data point on a chart. They need to feel it and toughen up. If we become a nat
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by cryptica 6y ago
It's important to see the photos to properly absorb the content and message of the article. This reflex to shield one's self from reality is extremely harmful for society and it's cowardly. The fact that the images are a &#x2
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by cryptica 6y ago
Most of the people I know who ended up working for big tech are the biggest psychopaths I've met. These companies don't even select for talent anymore; they just select for psychopathy. If you're not a psychopath, you will no
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by cryptica 6y ago
It's ironic that the big tech companies which are most affected by issues of racism, misogyny, safety... Are also the ones doing the most preaching about it in the media. Just because these corporations and the media are rotten to the
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by cryptica 6y ago
That sounds like a good idea but I think that might affect the jinx ;) Clearly, the money must be given to me for free, not paid within a capitalist context or resulting from an investment strategy where I would get the credit for making a
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by cryptica 6y ago
I'm a harbinger of failure on the supply side. Whenever I join a company or new industry or make an investment or make a prediction, it does the exact opposite of what I anticipated because of some insane global event that has nothing
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by cryptica 6y ago
Mostly satire to summarize the current mood of distrust and paranoia. I think that the people at the top have been getting more crooked and reckless so the trend is definitely getting there but I don't think we're there yet but I&
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by cryptica 6y ago
I disagree that Bitcoin is a collector's item. Bitcoin is a network composed of many different kinds of software systems, the Bitcoin cryptocurrency represents the core unit of account of this network; the value of Bitcoin is thus deri
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by cryptica 6y ago
>> It will take effort to prove... This statement could not be further from the truth. It's far easier and more reliable to prove that you own an authentic Bitcoin than it is to prove that you own an authentic painting. In fact,
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by cryptica 6y ago
When I see that someone wants to talk to me and is about to distract me while coding, I start narrating my technical thoughts out loud and then they leave me alone.
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by cryptica 6y ago
>> Some of the most rewarding human experiences have zero financial value The most rewarding human experiences I've felt in my life so far have had financial value attached... In fact, they usually involve me receiving some kind

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