dualogy

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Ask HN: can software be made "anti-fragile" (aka "better than just robust")?
7 points by dualogy 14y ago|11 comments
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by dualogy 14y ago
> Sounds like Go adding more Erlang style features. Nitpick: this is simply an independent 3rd-party package / external lib for Go developers. Not a language or runtime feature or addition.
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by dualogy 14y ago
5-6 days a week should be fine with the right kind of "split". But indeed at least one full rest day a week is going to do more good than harm. And indeed just lifting 3-4 days per week is certainly fully sufficient for most-any kind of lif
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by dualogy 14y ago
Here's another idea, let's not even go there... German politics is just as stale a topic as anywhere really..
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by dualogy 14y ago
> switch the hashing algorithm OH boy now this is interesting -- to an outsider like me, explain who would decide this? Some central committee? The source-code "custodian"? Will BTC fork at that point so every holder can "vote with th
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by dualogy 14y ago
> Plenty of currencies exist without being de facto global currencies and survive just fine. The question is what makes the USD likely to collapse as a currency altogether Bingo! You got it! The US D is not going anywhere or collapsing
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by dualogy 14y ago
> It would be a global catastrophe of a scale not yet seen, but also not threatened It would have been in the 70s -- which is why USD support has remained despite the Nixon shock for a few more decades. By now, most central banks and go
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by dualogy 14y ago
Did I hear "global military hegemon"? Try paying your soldiers far from home in a dying currency, go for it! ;D (Not making a case for "collapse gonna happen", just saying "if, then your military's worth sinks with your currency"...)
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by dualogy 14y ago
> And until the shock, national currencies circulated at a fixed exchange with the USD - thereby his own currency was effectively gold backed? Yes, "effectively gold-backed" until the first guy came along to openly demand an actual ph
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by dualogy 14y ago
Yeah but that I define as "monetary metal for Central Bank settlements" gold, not "day-to-day normal-people transactional currency". Was it still "money" / monetary after 33? Certainly, until '71 (42 years ago, not 39). But "currency" (circ
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by dualogy 14y ago
> I doubted that these ASIC rigs would ship any time soon. Wouldn't it be more profitable for the vendors to simply to delay/cancel orders and run the rigs 24/7 themselves? Only if they're "long BTC". What makes you think they are? They
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by dualogy 14y ago
> Gold serves as a currency Not for the last 80 years it hasn't..
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by dualogy 14y ago
> Whether you back your money with energy, cryptography, flowers, or seashells, you can never control all the other factors, and thus your currency will fluctate. Indeed! And before long, people will want to lend and borrow BTC once usa
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by dualogy 14y ago
> Does anyone have a link to a good rundown of where everyone stands? Well, even if I had one, it would be outdated in 2 weeks..
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by dualogy 14y ago
You will think much about this :) I don't think the EUR is designed as a competitor or alternative "equivalent" to the USD. Rather, it is a "readily available" option --differing in a few substantial aspects (rather than outright mimic USD
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by dualogy 14y ago
> Monetize it? Default on it? Not that there is a difference in real terms...
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by dualogy 14y ago
Well it DOES send a message to these countries for the future. Wouldn't be surprised if the ECB --supranational and quite independent from day-to-day voter-pleasing politics-- had a longer range view. They do demonstrate to the world now tw
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by dualogy 14y ago
A national currency being used as the international reserve and trade settlement currency affords the US quite a few unique perks, doesn't it? And has so for decades, indeed. The USD being the international "yardstick" other currencies are
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by dualogy 14y ago
Sounds like the only reason you're in that place is your wife. Is this the only possible location in the whole world (or country) for her to be reasonably happy? If not, start working together to find a better place, no?
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by dualogy 14y ago
Wow... so first you choose "the family life", then proceed to outsource every last tiny aspect of (used-to-be) "normal" day-to-day ops? You guys must be very, very busy indeed!
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by dualogy 14y ago
Yeah. I think at this "early" (from a mainstream PoV) stage, services like Coinbase and Bitpay are just simply another "VCs+founders betting" on how something might play out in the medium-term future. IF you have a few crashes like that in
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by dualogy 14y ago
> His approach will hopefully force developers to focus on useful utility rather than trivial novelty with the goal of extracting money from the first waves of users. Rephrased: "this approach forcefully prevents developers from making
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by dualogy 14y ago
That's all fine and dandy until Apple's iGoggles come along, generously allowing you to deploy commercial apps (perhaps for an initial "outrageous" profit-sharing of 50/50?) and bam, these iGoggles within a few months offer zillions of uses
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by dualogy 14y ago
Go? This is awesome to hear. Unlike Android, Glass will be an instant win for us Gophers. ( Well, once they have crossed 1m+ devices-sold so that the potential audience for hackery becomes actually interesting )
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by dualogy 14y ago
Well, I guess that's akin to asking "what if aliens invade NYC in September 2014?" -- answer being, we'll find out. ;D
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by dualogy 14y ago
Yeah I'm myself anti-"Keynesian" in the "what should be" department. In the "what is" department, I get the impression that, given an official sanctioned and sufficiently convoluted "vehicle", the "masses" don't mind consuming more than the
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by dualogy 14y ago
A lot of political-philosophy replies here on the ills of inflation. That's not my main point. My main point is: what if a non-deflationary competitor (so BTC couldn't just "copy" its defining differentiating feature) takes off as the way
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by dualogy 14y ago
Except when the competitor introduces something that goes against the very fundamentals of Bitcoin yet appeals to "the masses". Such as, slightly inflationary instead of intrinsically deflationary. Would make the competitor more of a curre
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by dualogy 14y ago
> have a graphic designer give it a 2013 layout 20x this. Or, switch to Bootstrap: instantly have numerous gorgeous pre-fab themes at your disposal, plus an infinite number of web designers who will have an easier time customizing and t
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by dualogy 14y ago
> How My Co-founder's Dog Boosted My Productivity Well, this is some straight up @shit_hn_says material right there.

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