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The Next Big Thing in Crypto: Using Inflation to Create Stablecoin(bitflate.org)
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by dnprock 7y ago
I think IRS can work out the hard fork situation by letting individual declare which side he/she considers airdrop. There's no tax due right away. You declare it once at the time you sell. Once you decide, you can't change th
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by dnprock 7y ago
Someone (government) has to print your cash, track them, fight counterfeit. Cash is harder to track. But it is not no regulation.
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by dnprock 7y ago
> Pay people with bitcoin. I don't get paid in bitcoin. How do I pay people with bitcoin? :) I think regulation concern is overrated in crypto, at least, with Bitcoin. Crypto complaint about regulation is mainly rooted in libertaria
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by dnprock 7y ago
Cryptocurrency space is focusing on the wrong problems. Bitcoin original goal is to create a digital currency that people can use. We're not even close to achieve that goal. But the space is sidetracked into ugly technical wars, elabor
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by dnprock 7y ago
This is a problem with media backed crypto currencies. Someone is going to be a central authority. We have a system that works fairly well in Bitcoin. The system is decentralized and uses proof of work. It works well for being money. I thin
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by dnprock 7y ago
I find that different cultures and countries draw different lines between intellects and beliefs. I came from Vietnam. It has a communist leadership. The subject of evolution is widely taught and agreed. People in school show off their scie
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by dnprock 7y ago
I think Libra is a fine digital currency. It explores semi-centralized/semi-decentralized category. The main problem with Libra is its timing. It's too early. I don't think the market is ready for it. Most people think Bitcoi
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by dnprock 7y ago
Since I've raised my children, I find many problems with children are rooted in adults. So when I hear children parenting advice, I switch it to adult. That yields a lot of interesting insights. "Let Adults Get Bored Again" P
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by dnprock 7y ago
I find Kubernetes a funny tech experiment. It does not present any new innovation. We first had Docker. It's too hard to use. Let's abstract Docker with an orchestration layer. We have Kubernetes. It's now too abstract and ha
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Bitcoin's Missing Link to the World(bitflate.org)
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Short Story: Bitcoin Apocalypse(bitflate.org)
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Bitcoin Eats the World, or Not(bitflate.org)
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I think the reason is infinitesimal. Calculus touches infinities. And infinities are related. So we end up using infinities to describe each other.
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by dnprock 7y ago
I get that quantum computer can run faster with more states. But can someone with quantum computing experience explain how quantum computer can address exponential computation? Does it reduce exponential computation into polynomial? My answ
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by dnprock 7y ago
Meditation sometimes reveals itself through meditation. It's kinda like recursion in programming. I come from Vietnam. Meditation in Vietnamese is translated literally to "sitting zen" (ngồi thiền). Sitting seems like the opt
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How Cryptocurrencies Can Succeed(bitflate.org)
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by dnprock 7y ago
Modern web development is so complicated because we fantasize that a nodejs frontend and backend will make everything better. It's like my product is better because it has more integration. I still stick with Ruby on Rails stack. It ha
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by dnprock 7y ago
Corrected.
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China have been manipulating their currency before this week's drop. They use USD to buy CNY to prop up CNY exchange rate. If they stop buying CNY using USD, the value of CNY would fall (happening now). So China is technically no longe
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by dnprock 7y ago
I may hold an extreme position here. I believe sanction is always a bad idea. I grew up in a formerly sanctioned country, Vietnam. Life was rough for normal people. They become increasingly attached to their sanctioned regime. The US sancti
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by dnprock 7y ago
This is a flashback for me to 2006. I was working on storage technology and reviewing a few products in p2p storage. There's too much burden to apply p2p to get space. Storage is cheap enough for this idea to work.
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You can interpret it the other way. The stories we tell ourselves are mostly fiction. We make progress using these stories. It can lead us to unhappy places. We want to find meaning and purpose. But we end up with nihilistic reality. The au
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by dnprock 7y ago
I think there's a hype in quickly training software engineers. This article is an example. We poke around with tools to find quick and easy ways to create software. Tools have been improving quickly but creating software remains chall
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by dnprock 7y ago
Facebook is asking corporate interests of different sizes, big and small, to join Libra effort. They will all have equal stake, including the founding company, Facebook. It'll be the biggest, possibly only, corporate altruism experimen
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by dnprock 7y ago
I recently read Sapiens. The author discussed how the Agriculture Revolution tied humans down into boring and less rewarding agriculture societies. Perhaps after thousands of years running freely in the wild, humans got bored. They needed t
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Super cool. I got mining to work on my forked bitcoin. I've got 5-8 GH/s using a usb miner. It was a lot of work. It's also a good way to learn about cryptocurrency. My effort is trivial compared to this.
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Bitcoin is evil in some aspects. Its enigmatic origin triggers religiosity. Bitcoin consumes those who learn about it. It's like a spell. When price goes down, you'd come into its defense. When price goes up, it occupies your brai
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I come from Vietnam. People fight hard for inches of space. The country has dispute with bigger nations about tiny islands. They'd fight to the teeth. It's very irrational. I think land fight is highly related with survival instin
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I personally found that a good methodology: each team member has clear area of ownership/responsibility. John does X, Jane does Y, Ann tests X, Jeff tests Y. Everyone logs their own tasks. We define and work towards a sprint. No elabor

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