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by cryptica 6y ago
What's good for some people is often bad for some other people. Win-win scenarios are very rare. As a thought experiment, if you gave half the population 1 million dollars, then that would drive house prices through the roof and the un
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by cryptica 6y ago
This sounds nice but whenever I hear something like this or any kind of philanthropy, I always think of all the people who missed out because of some technicality. What about people who were in the final stages of studying to be a nurse and
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by cryptica 6y ago
That's one way in which crypto is different from every other asset. The ownership relies on cryptography, not law. Legal ownership is one of the a weakest forms of ownership. A step above that is physical ownership (e.g. gold stored in
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by cryptica 6y ago
Seems like they're going for a "Too big to fail, too big to jail" strategy.
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by cryptica 6y ago
Our society has turned into a competition between different organizations and communities to out-bribe and out-corrupt each other... I think it's a matter of time before all hell breaks loose. This trustless, lawless environment is ide
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by cryptica 6y ago
What I don't understand is why the SEC doesn't investigate the federal reserve bank? I don't see any difference between Ripple and US dollars. The SEC can only win this case if the judge is corrupt because logic is not on the
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by cryptica 6y ago
It's scary how a government with such seemingly innocent goals as maintaining the prosperity its citizens can end up doing such horrible senseless things. It seems 100% counterproductive. It looks like checks and balances don't wo
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by cryptica 6y ago
This is a huge achievement because "without VC help" literally means "All VCs and all their corporate friends actively working to destroy you". Maybe they succeeded because they got things going a long time ago. I doubt
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by cryptica 6y ago
I remember when I started coding 15 years ago, I was one of a tiny handful of people in my town who learned how to code. I got into coding because I enjoyed it. My dad advised me against it and said that I should be a lawyer instead. There
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by cryptica 6y ago
"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice" - Grey's Law. You just need a handful of people to independently see a few opportunities to profit from different activities (which are related in non-
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by cryptica 6y ago
They're using man-made global warming as story to justify their unjust inflationary policies which are in fact all about control and centralization of wealth and power. Global warming could just be rhetoric to convince those people who
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by cryptica 6y ago
Yes it's musical chairs; through monetary policy, reserve banks keep pulling out chairs and thus inflating the value of remaining chairs... Then they'll claim that this is all to prevent global warming. All this is actually starti
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by cryptica 6y ago
The real cost of GraphQL is resource usage/performance on the backend. On the development side, the cost is that GraphQL allows developers to get away with writing really messy code whereas REST basically forces them to follow a more s
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by cryptica 6y ago
Maybe a surgeon is more likely to be assigned to a risky surgery on an elderly patient when it's the surgeon's birthday.
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by cryptica 6y ago
As someone who has over 15 years of coding experience with many different programming languages, I'm not surprised to learn that coding uses many different parts of the brain. I've noticed that people become more logical in all as
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by cryptica 6y ago
>> Wow, I wonder how would you ever attract anyone to that job then Most jobs these days are disposable, attracts plenty of people. Just pay a regular average salary and people will be lining up. >> Why would it be impossible? I
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by cryptica 6y ago
If others know that you have money, they're more likely to listen to you. But even if they don't know, money gives you an outward confidence boost because other people in your life who do know that you have money treat you better
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by cryptica 6y ago
I don't see what the problem is if some foreign country captures a diplomat. We can just elect another diplomat in their place. There isn't enough turnover of diplomats anyway and they typically have too much power or they know to
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by cryptica 6y ago
What is the purpose of diplomatic immunity anyway? I thought everyone was supposed to be equal under the law. If people don't like the law of a specific country, they should just stay in their own countries.
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by cryptica 6y ago
I was doing this early in my coding career, but after a certain point, I noticed that people kept making mistakes that I already made before and I didn't have the confidence to say anything because I assumed that they knew better and t
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by cryptica 6y ago
But people these days have to resort to heroic feats just to get by. It used to be that people who went through these kinds of obstacles would become relatively successful. Not anymore, now defying all odds and doing everything right means
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by cryptica 6y ago
I know what it's like to be unemployed and not have enough money to buy mobile phone credit in order to call a prospective employer to ask them for directions to their office in order to attend a job interview... While being homeless a
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by cryptica 6y ago
Many people are so unlucky that they control nothing and there is nothing that they can possibly do to get themselves out of their situation. Just like good luck, bad luck also compounds and if you start out very unlucky, your bad luck will
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by cryptica 6y ago
Luck-based selection allows unfit individuals to thrive and this makes populations less fit and more fragile. When you combine this with environmental forces which encourage increasingly homogeneous behaviors within a population, it sets up
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by cryptica 6y ago
They do hold fiat via corporate stocks like AAPL and MSFT and many others which hold a lot of fiat on their books.
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by cryptica 6y ago
The problem is that the distribution of fiat has become too centralized. Fiat is far too easy to earn for some and far too difficult to earn for others. The only thing holding the fiat system together are the elite's willingness to hol
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by cryptica 6y ago
Wow, that's impressive considering that the author did it all on their own without free money from the government.
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by cryptica 6y ago
There are some issues with the criticality score ( https://github.com/ossf/criticality_score ). For example, it counts the number of issues as determining criticality. If there is any kind of money attached to this score
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by cryptica 6y ago
>> The government chose to take on the risk Government officials didn't risk anything, they risked other people's money (tax payers). That's literally the meaning of "socializing the risk." It was certainly hi
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by cryptica 6y ago
>> Musk put his entire fortune from PayPal on the line for Tesla knowing that in all probability it would fail. It turned out well for him but it was still a huge risk he took. For sure Elon Musk is a very smart guy and he works reall

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