cryptica

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by cryptica 5y ago
I hope that investors did the math to ensure that the energy used to dig such a deep hole with microwaves doesn't end up consuming more energy than the hole will generate over its lifetime... Will the hole crack irreparably after a few
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by cryptica 5y ago
Agreed. I guess it could be said that usury is an integral part of our current monetary system. It looks amazingly profitable from the bank's perspective. You just print money, loan it out to PersonA to buy a house, then collect intere
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by cryptica 5y ago
I don't know if it's the most important. I think monetary policy is the most important. But I agree that it could go a long way if governments would make the distinction between value-creation and value-extraction. The way things
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by cryptica 5y ago
IMO, the solution is to either: - Stop money printing globally. Switch to a deflationary monetary system like Bitcoin or other. - Change the mechanism of money printing globally. Distribute all newly issued currency via UBI indiscriminately
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by cryptica 5y ago
Decades ago, someone's reputation was in a large part based on their ethics. Nowadays, with globalization, money and rank act as substitutes for a reputation; ethics and morals are seen as hurdles to achieving a desirable reputation, n
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by cryptica 5y ago
The worst thing about this is that the people who are responsible for all these transgressions only get a slap on the wrist, a small fine and then they can keep doing what they've been doing... Accumulating more wealth and power, impos
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by cryptica 5y ago
It's an ugly, over-engineered device. Not surprising that a device with so many moving parts is prone to failure. The whole point of smartphones was to reduce visible complexity as much as possible. Steve Jobs' innovation was cons
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by cryptica 5y ago
I consistently get around 8 to 10... I get approximately the same performance if I try to use my gut to match shapes or if I mentally rotate the shapes one at a time. The focal length distortion is a bit too extreme for me. I would prefer i
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by cryptica 5y ago
I do not agree with this. Some level of chaos adds charm and authenticity to the place. Not allowing people to do what they want (provided that it doesn't physically hurt anyone) is a suppression of freedom and culture. One of the most
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by cryptica 5y ago
> "Mr Oh was stopped by officials and found to be trading without a licence" The guy is living alone in a forest and he still can't escape the collective insanity in the few brief interactions he has with society. Trading
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by cryptica 5y ago
I don't understand this mindset. HTTP was a protocol designed for transferring text files. It literally means 'HyperText Transfer Protocol'. Its use case has been getting broader and broader over time. Why does everyone want
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by cryptica 5y ago
This makes sense. It's immoral to promote the possibility and benefits of financial success to people who cannot reach it via legal means. All it will do is drive them into criminal activity because, without the right social connection
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by cryptica 5y ago
Sounds like you found a good way to keep learning on the job. This approach wouldn't work for me though because I like building products and features. The way I kept learning was by doing open source on the side.
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by cryptica 5y ago
The only area I could find where this 'clean and maintainable code' approach is appreciated is in open source. In open source, it's not about money (it's rarely the primary motivator); it's about meeting goals so de
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by cryptica 5y ago
Great to see that big VCs are having these deep insights. As a developer, I've essentially had to leave the industry because all the small software companies are constantly coercing all their developers into using specific tools and pr
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by cryptica 5y ago
It's quite unusual to find agency work which rewards good programming. Most agency work involves adding unnecessary complexity and bugs to keep the client coming back for fixes... Then after some time the client becomes dependent on th
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by cryptica 5y ago
There are two key differences: - Supply of tokens is limited or otherwise is entirely predictable. In the cases where the supply is not limited, the rules for minting new coins are clear in the code and for the vast majority of cryptocurren
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by cryptica 5y ago
Agreed, the Bitcoin transaction(s) which stole and moved the funds out of the exchange did have finality. The entire premise of crypto is that whoever knows the private key controls the account... So this is essentially a seizure of an acco
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by cryptica 5y ago
I've been saying that this type of thing would be happening increasingly often. The government wants to control people's money. In the future, you will need a license to sell company shares and other private property and only the
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by cryptica 5y ago
Being smart isn't enough to be happy. You also need a sense of freedom and purpose. If you're out of touch with yourself and aren't free, you will not find a genuine purpose in your life; your whole life will be about channel
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by cryptica 5y ago
FP solves some issues but simultaneously introduces a new set of issues which creates new 'No true Scotsman' debates around ways to address those new issues... It's like the joke that there were too many competing standards a
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by cryptica 5y ago
I've provided a very specific definition of what good OOP requires so it's not fair to suggest that my argument is pointing to some vague characteristics or is evasive. I can look at any project's code and assign it a score i
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by cryptica 5y ago
Those who hate OOP have never used OOP correctly. None of these articles mention 'cohesion' or 'coupling'... It's not possible to critique OOP unless you understand the principle of loose coupling (ease of substitut
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by cryptica 5y ago
What makes matters worse is that the current monetary system of centralized currency issuance creates an anti-competitive environment which increases the power of advertising. Supply-side economics is demand-constrained so the game is all a
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by cryptica 5y ago
But the thing is that any movement of tokens on the blockchain is public for all to see. It removes a government's ability to do things in secret. With centralized systems, shady stuff is happening all over the place. Systems get hacke
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by cryptica 5y ago
Anyone can move their tokens on-chain so nobody is forced to trust an exchange. Exchanges aren't gate keepers. You don't even exchanges to acquire Bitcoin; many deals are done OTC or salaries can be paid directly on-chain. Also, m
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by cryptica 5y ago
The fact that those in power think that 'infiltration' and 'manipulation' only happens downstream shows how well it's working on the upstream... They're not even aware of it.
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by cryptica 5y ago
Though I believe you, it is incredibly far-fetched to think that they will go to such lengths, invest so much time and energy just to alter someone's mental state. It shows that these big interest groups have way too much money.
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by cryptica 5y ago
These kinds of things seem so far-fetched, but they're happening. That's why I think the stigma around conspiracy theories is harmful. It makes people believe that this kind of thing couldn't possibly happen to them... And if
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by cryptica 5y ago
It's not fair to equate terms like 'data', 'analysis' and 'result' with 'reason'. In fact, terms like 'think' and 'believe' are more rational because they leave room for doubt

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