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by cryptica 2y ago
Such a bad regulations. Rideable luggage actually seems reasonably innovative. It sucks how the government often gets in the way of meaningful improvements. Feels like we are really headed for dark ages.
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by cryptica 2y ago
My take is that crypto is a scam but fiat monetary system is a scam. The fiat proponents likely corrupted crypto intentionally, leveraging government agencies and financial institutions to prevent adoption and soil its reputation... Same th
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by cryptica 2y ago
I used to think that people who were sick and stubbornly refused to go to the doctor were silly, but now, after reading enough cancer stories, I fully understand them and would do the same. If I got a cancer that required chemo, I wouldn&#x
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by cryptica 2y ago
It's just ridiculous how the FDA works. They have no issue fast forwarding the process when it comes to approving an experimental mRNA vaccine to force upon billions of healthy people, but try to get them to approve an mRNA medicine fo
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by cryptica 2y ago
Interesting approach. It's interesting how FP community took one issue which affects many OOP implementations and decided to throw the baby out with the bathwater... Completely ignoring the reason why OOP was invented in the first plac
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by cryptica 2y ago
IMO, Functional Programming was a zero interest rate phenomenon. Some mathematicians suffering from professional deformation believed that programming should adhere to the purity of mathematical conventions... Meanwhile, there was no proof
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by cryptica 2y ago
Where did I mention a specific blockchain or coin? How can I monetize my previous comment? It is deceptive to infer that there is a financial benefit. My idea is purely practical. It doesn't align with any mainstream financial interest
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by cryptica 2y ago
Blockchain-based DNS would allow people to actually own their domain names instead of just renting them for an annual fee. Domain transfers could be effected on-chain for a fee. Spam prevention is built-in because any action recorded on the
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by cryptica 2y ago
It's interesting how TypeScript beat Flow in terms of popularity, and yet everyone is now calling for TypeScript to be more like Flow (to focus on plain type checking instead of transpilation; just strip out the type annotations)... An
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by cryptica 2y ago
It's kind of sad how slow some technology progresses. 10 years ago, I thought that by now we'd have self-powered machines which can manufacture insulin inside the body or replace essentially any organ. It's crazy that we stil
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by cryptica 2y ago
Interesting read. It's crazy how artificial pancreas aren't yet broadly available. It seems like a big market and represents a big problem that people would be willing to pay substantial money to solve. Surely it's not that t
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by cryptica 2y ago
If you don't know the coin but you can see that its blockchain is connected to a blockchain that you know and trust, you can look at DEX chain-to-chain trade volume between your blockchain and the unfamiliar blockchain to determine its
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by cryptica 2y ago
If the chains are distinct and tokens are merely easily interchangeable, they are isolated security-wise. Of course, accepting payment in a token you've never heard of presents a risk, but this risk isn't significant if that new t
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by cryptica 2y ago
Yes, but this doesn't account for the fact that a cryptocurrency can be recorded across multiple blockchains (e.g. sharding). So a cryptocurrency (as opposed to a blockchain) can have all three properties of decentralization, scalabili
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by cryptica 2y ago
Both the state and corporations want to homogenize the population. The state wants a homogeneous population because it make it easier to obtain desired election outcomes and desired amount of power if people can be manipulated as large grou
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by cryptica 2y ago
I'm convinced that plain web components are now the best solution for the front end. That said, I don't think any libraries are needed to use them well. Also, I hope that people don't try to implement 'reactivity' i
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by cryptica 2y ago
Yes. I think the first one I tried was a very simple kind. I think in retrospect, it probably wasn't bad, it just wasn't the kind that you would typically eat by itself. Later, I tried some really good ones that I could eat on the
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by cryptica 2y ago
First time I tried Kimchi, I didn't get it. It just tasted bitter. But I grew to like it a lot after a few more times. It seems to serve a similar role in Korean cuisine as the pickle in American cuisine or the pickled ginger or wasabi
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by cryptica 2y ago
I didn't say it was entirely a good thing, hence the importance of the PR review process. As I said, I found numerous bugs, sometimes nasty ones that are hard to identify/fix before they got merged. That engineer was building feat
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by cryptica 2y ago
This is what happens when you entrust software security to ex-hackers. Hackers love complexity because that's the kind of environment they thrive in; yet when they start working for the other side as security consultants, they still lo
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by cryptica 2y ago
I've been warning about the coming software apocalypse for years. This isn't a one-off, this is the beginning of a pattern. Tech recruitment is broken, software is more complex than ever, more and more people are turning to hackin
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by cryptica 2y ago
My view on FP is that one of its main benefits in terms of avoiding bugs is that it forces you to turn all your 'movable state' into raw messages. The fact that it also abolishes 'unmovable state' is just a quirk of it,
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by cryptica 2y ago
I think it's because money is so important that happiness cannot be found without it. Unfortunately, I was born indoctrinated (brainwashed) into this society's ways, so this has created expectations and baselines for what I consid
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by cryptica 2y ago
Though I agree about the point about not creating objects/instances where a pure function will get the job done, I disagree with the general stance against OOP. I think OOP is absolutely essential to simplicity. FP tends to lead to too
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by cryptica 2y ago
Life has taught me that money is the most important thing there is. I don't understand how people could say that health is more important. What's the point of being healthy if you don't have money? You have to spend your enti
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by cryptica 2y ago
That's the problem with our current socio-economic system, the level of deception near the power centers keeps growing ad-infinitum. It has become a kind of self-perpetuating corruption. Corruption occurs faster than it can be uncovere
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by cryptica 2y ago
> the entire goal of tech hiring is just finding people in the 100 to 115 midwit block then outright rejecting everybody else as too much of an unknown risk. This is clear to me. My performance on tech tests is extremely mixed. I either
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by cryptica 2y ago
Yep agreed, there are always outliers. Some extroverts are very skilled and can switch to first principles thinking (or at least the appearance of it) when they need to. They may have a really strong sense of their audience and adapt well t
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by cryptica 2y ago
I found a job as a developer after about 10 months of applying for 100 jobs per month. It was very weird this time round. Especially weird considering that my resume is exceptional (lots of experience; corporate, startup, back end, front en
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by cryptica 2y ago
I think what is meant is that many extroverts don't fully understand what they're talking about. Their communication often consists of catchphrases which sound good and clever, superficially. But by prioritizing form over substanc

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