cryptica

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by cryptica 2y ago
It's not like that. I worked with some pioneers in the space who collected millions from the very early days and were within their rights to use those funds as they saw fit but they were coerced/forced into creating non-profit ent
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by cryptica 2y ago
Yep. I worked in the space for 3 years and basically became a conspiracy theorist in some sense because of how messed up it is. It looks as though only scam coins are allowed to succeed in the space and well-intentioned people are forced to
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by cryptica 2y ago
The Roman empire collapsed at the hands of barbarians which it used to oppress. Most of French nobility was killed off and replaced by peasants. Those peasants are now running the country and EU and are oppressing the population with high t
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by cryptica 2y ago
The first Battlezone was an awesome game, graphics were amazing for its time. Second one was also not bad TBH. I loved the feeling of hovering above the ground and shooting down enemies. Then if your ship was about to be destroyed, you woul
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by cryptica 2y ago
It's frustrating to watch governments constantly argue over what they should do to help the economy when what they should be arguing about is what they should undo to stop hindering the economy.
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by cryptica 2y ago
My theory of politics is that it runs in cycles. Each cycle sees a reversal of roles whereby the oppressors become comfortable and thus become kinder and fairer... At this point they are taken advantage of by the previously oppressed class.
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by cryptica 2y ago
It's fugly and orientation is messed up; the weird angle is OCD-triggering. They should just have taken the square with the "NEXT" letters, rotated it so that it's straight. Would be a lot better.
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by cryptica 2y ago
Kubernetes is awesome but I understand what the article is getting at. K8s was designed for a mostly homogeneous architecture when your platform requirements end with "deploy this service to my cluster" and you don't really c
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by cryptica 2y ago
Who is to judge that it didn't work better for the people? Maybe some occasional minor tensions and conflicts is worth it. With a globalized coercive system as ours, we're headed for a mass extinction event.
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by cryptica 2y ago
It's becoming apparent that many large tech companies were government-backed entities and their success was fueled by public money. Where else did they get the rights to do this kind of stuff? Surely the public owns these cables as the
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by cryptica 2y ago
Electronic voting is a horrible idea. We should reform the voting system to something that doesn't require counting massive numbers of votes. But also, the idea of a president or prime minister is dumb. In fact, nobody needs a federal&
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by cryptica 2y ago
This is my experience as well. LLMs are great to boost productivity, especially in the hands of senior engineers who have a deep understanding of what they're doing because they know what questions to ask, they know when it's safe
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by cryptica 2y ago
At my current company, we used Postgres with pgvector so the text is co-located with the embeddings on the same rows. At first, I was a bit apprehensive about the idea of getting so close to the nitty-gritty technical details of computing v
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by cryptica 2y ago
> Subsequently, but very infrequently, I will accept a totally different completion and the previously-declined suggestion will quietly be applied as well. This sounds like a nightmare. I think the biggest problem with AI at the moment i
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by cryptica 2y ago
Now there are quite a few. Mine was one of the first ones and it's one of the few DEXs which is fully deterministic. Meaning that it's highly secure, traceable and auditable. The founders of the community I was associated with def
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by cryptica 2y ago
Yes it's weird. It's basically charity re-framed as capitalism. As if it's the waiter's performance which determines their tip as opposed to just blind luck. If each waiter could provide their own menu on which they coul
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by cryptica 2y ago
This is quite a prophetic article for its time (1993). The points about Intelligence Augmentation are particularly relevant for us now as current AI mostly complements human intelligence rather than surpass it... At least AFAIK? Current AI
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by cryptica 2y ago
I was thinking we should split JavaScript based on the 'good parts' vs 'bad parts' as opposed to 'new features' vs 'existing features'. That said I also see the rationale for that. JS is already getti
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by cryptica 2y ago
It reminds me of when I built an open source, fully decentralized exchange and the founders of the project I worked for tried to shut it down. I quit the industry because there were too many government and possibly intelligence agency shena
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by cryptica 2y ago
Philanthropy never works. Philanthropy requires large amounts of money. Only the monetary Ponzi yields that kind of money. So effectively, philanthropy is funded using the proceeds of theft. It's about diffusing harm to all and concent
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by cryptica 2y ago
If Tether is a fraud then the entire financial system is clearly a fraud as well. What kind of financial system allows a fraud of this size to continue for over a decade? Let me guess, nobody knew anything. Yet the government knows about ev
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by cryptica 2y ago
Great. Now we just need a guide on "How to convince your wife to live in a caravan". I've been thinking about this problem and I've identified several sub-problems which need to be solved first in order to set the stage
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by cryptica 2y ago
It's interesting how celebrity culture works that most Americans have probably never heard of this guy. French people know essentially every American movie star but there is almost no culture flow in the other direction when it comes t
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by cryptica 2y ago
I think there is some merit behind the idea of Product-Market Fit but my main critique of it is that it neglects the importance of social connections in achieving business success. It makes it sound like entrepreneurship is some kind of sci
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by cryptica 2y ago
Why? I'm not in it for myself anyway, I have a greater purpose now; to help create to inflation. I just have to get paid more than the value I provide to society.
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by cryptica 2y ago
Situation is quite ridiculous. People are working jobs they don't like and being low-performers on projects they have little control over while working on side projects that they like (for free) and not able to monetize their high perf
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by cryptica 2y ago
One of the companies I worked for (a non-profit), the product I was working on was 100% open source and 100% running on Linux, but they still forced me to used a company-supplied Apple Macbook instead of letting me use my personal computer
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by cryptica 2y ago
In this case, people are the problem for being suggestible and buying Apple obsessively. I've worked for 3 different tech companies which bought and forced me to use an expensive company-supplied MacBook, in spite of the fact that thei
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by cryptica 2y ago
I wish I had known that 10 years ago, it would have significantly altered my career path.
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by cryptica 2y ago
It's just sad how the corporate-government complex wastes taxpayer money suing itself. Ripple and the government are two sides of the same scam. One scammer operating a monetary ponzi scheme is suing another scammer for taking advantag

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