cryptica

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by cryptica 2y ago
> Incorrect. Where is the money that had beem loaned by central banks and is now needed to keep infrastructur and our society in general afloat? Our f̵i̵s̵c̵a̵l̵ monetary system is a zero sum game in the end. So where did the money go? M
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by cryptica 2y ago
> Central bank != government in most developed countries If the government can keep issuing more bonds, essentially any time it wants, and it knows that the central bank will always be there and can use its infinite money supply to buy a
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by cryptica 2y ago
I did. I studied the global monetary system in detail. It's a scam. Let me summarize (as best as I can as it's surely the most elaborate scam, with the most unwitting collaborators that has ever existed): The governments of all co
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by cryptica 2y ago
I don't know how the courts can decide on any verdict about any case when nothing makes any sense. The entire economy is a massive government-centered money laundering scheme. Citizens of nations are burdened with trillions of dollars
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by cryptica 2y ago
I struggle to see how limiting free speech would reign it big tech power. Government should make it illegal for companies to algorithmically discriminate/censor or throttle speech... Technically, it should already be illegal under exis
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by cryptica 2y ago
> Programmers Should Never Trust Anyone, Not Even Themselves Yep. Can confirm, the best programmers are often paranoid. I guess over time your brain becomes more logical and you start to notice inconsistencies everywhere around you... Th
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by cryptica 2y ago
One thing I learned about the software industry is that a lot of the tools we use are objectively horrible, but it doesn't matter because somehow big tech manages to shove it in our faces anyway. Also, the inverse that really good soft
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by cryptica 2y ago
Very interesting reading that. The part about how ranking affect social interactions was particularly relatable for me. In my case, I experienced this with cryptocurrency. I was a contributor/developer to a major crypto project (was on
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by cryptica 2y ago
It comes down to the power of incentives. As a developer, there is no incentive to make code simple. It's subconscious. Coming up with near-optimal solutions that are more maintainable in the long run takes time and effort. Most develo
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by cryptica 2y ago
The US treatment of Assange did a lot of damage to the reputation of the US government internationally and also within the US itself. It contributed to a general feeling of institutional decay, decay of the media, decay of law and order whi
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by cryptica 2y ago
I think he is viewed very positively. Australians appreciate law and order but we also love to see a rebel break through and restore common sense once in a while. Australia has been a loyal US ally historically and so our politicians avoid
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by cryptica 2y ago
It will be great to have him back in Australia. This is a win for press freedom and hopefully the beginning of rehabilitation of the political system.
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by cryptica 2y ago
It would be interesting to see a chart showing the % share of electricity being used for real world activities versus abstract computations. The current AI wave reminds me of Bitcoin. You have to wonder if humans actually need all that proc
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by cryptica 2y ago
Yes, it's been happening more and more over the past decade. 10 years ago, code was on average relatively clean and easy to understand. Concepts like 'high cohesion, loose coupling' were drilled into us. Nowadays, developers
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by cryptica 2y ago
100%. Maybe he will get a job with US intelligence or something, that could provide some safety. People should take this stuff seriously. As you say, it's not like in the movies. Hollywood continuously trivializes the enormous power wi
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by cryptica 2y ago
There is something weird about EU approach to online child protection. They project themselves as being hell-bent on solving the problem, yet, as with the US with the Jeffrey Epstein case, they are curiously inactive when it comes to prosec
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by cryptica 2y ago
Yeah and North Korea is known for punishing family members. It's just foolish to brag like that. Probably worse than the hack itself.
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by cryptica 2y ago
The hacker doesn't understand what they're getting themselves into, especially bragging about it. The hard part about going up against an entire nation/state is that it's relentless. The state never gets tired and never
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by cryptica 3y ago
I'm usually very good with visualization and spacial reasoning but these days I've become so reliant on mobile phone map software that I barely pay attention to my surroundings and I can never remember how to navigate around an ar
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by cryptica 3y ago
Wow that is a crazy next level user acquisition story. Acquisition using source code as marketing, never heard that before. Great to read from a true self-made entrepreneur. I can relate to the feeling of everything working against you and
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by cryptica 3y ago
A multi-cryptocurrency payment system would be the perfect solution for online payments but unfortunately nobody has figured out how to solve the double-bullet problem which stands in the way of mass adoption.
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by cryptica 3y ago
Seems like a bad idea. Processes are more elegant and scalable than threads as they discourage the use of shared memory. Shared memory is often a bad idea. You end up with different threads competing and queuing up to access or write the sa
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by cryptica 4y ago
I've been passionate about coding since I was 14; I self-taught myself to code on school library computers during my lunch break, went to uni, was involved in some startups. I still enjoy coding (I'm 32 now) but I hate coding as a
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by cryptica 4y ago
So long as the energy which can be produced from the hydrogen is less than the energy which is required to extract it, these scientists are safe.
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by cryptica 4y ago
I find these government contracts completely immoral. The government could easily hire skilled people directly for a fraction of the price. These are always really just about lining the pockets of execs.
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by cryptica 4y ago
Lightning network is a hack. It doesn't actually work. - There are many ways for a malicious entity to rollback a payment and prevent it from being detected (just DoS the watchtowers). - You still need to make an on-chain transaction t
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by cryptica 4y ago
I've always felt that people use close to 100% of their brain capacity. Some people just don't have any surplus mental energy to spare to learn anything complicated; they would get angry and frustrated if they try; this emotional
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by cryptica 4y ago
"Sell before you build" is the tech elite's "let them eat cake". It's literally impossible to do unless you have the right connections and raised funding from the right people. Unless your startup received mass
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by cryptica 4y ago
The thing is that they never realize this until it's too late... once it's too late, they are too usually too proud to ask you to come back. That's what easy money does to people, it makes them proud and complacent. Most of t
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by cryptica 4y ago
>> Why it had to be rebuilt? Was there a really unsuccessful attempt of a handover? This is a good question. It could be either that management is incompetent or that the code was unmaintainable. But still, the fact that it took a tea

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