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by efnx 9mo ago
I don’t know if we should be so sure that he will be gone in three years. There is no incentive for him to relinquish control peacefully. We’ll have to give him a plea bargain, or a pardon of sorts, to incentivise him stepping down. Without
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by efnx 10mo ago
Hot take - Along these lines video games score incredibly well. Arguably not a “toy”, but it’s interesting to think about.
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by efnx 10mo ago
That bot is cute, but every kid is going to kick it over. Its not realistic to have in a park.
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by efnx 10mo ago
Sending funds overseas is much easier with crypto than with traditional banking. For the most part all I need is an address. That’s it. Then it takes a couple minutes to transfer - done!
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by efnx 10mo ago
What do you think about zcash? They seem to have solved the private transactions problem, have a better anonymity set than monero (and are accepted at exchanges) and are actively working on faster consensus. Disclaimer, I currently work at
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by efnx 10mo ago
It pretty easy. I personally think it’s much easier than in traditional banking. The hard part is that for day to day things you still need an on ramp and off ramp, but that is changing as merchants accept crypto directly.
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by efnx 10mo ago
Ah, yeah, I missed that one.
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by efnx 10mo ago
Yeah, which book are we talking about? Reamde features crypto heavily, but I remember having bitcoins at the time it came out.
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by efnx 11mo ago
Honest question here - is this getting downvoted because it’s untrue, or something else?
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by efnx 11mo ago
It would have to be a very special dart. Cars are mostly aluminum and foam. A piercing dart would be dangerous and a magnet would really work.
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by efnx 11mo ago
I think that's definitely a prevalent sentiment. There are enough scams that the stereotype is probably well earned.
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by efnx 11mo ago
Eh, I think this falls right into the traditional hacker ethos of doing what seems cool, it's just that what you think is cool may be different than what I think is cool. I want to make games, but I know how much time that takes, so I
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by efnx 11mo ago
How would you feel about a free game spending one frame per second mining a cryptocurrency? This would be as an alternative to a one-time purchase (and as an alternative to ads). So, you could play a full game for free, indefinitely, and ha
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by efnx 11mo ago
That’s putting a pretty low price on human life.
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by efnx 1y ago
It would be used by the right too, if they weren’t toadies.
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by efnx 1y ago
Honest question- which one is fake?
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by efnx 1y ago
Do you mean “but that doesn’t make AT&T _their_ boss”? Because in this scenario I’m paying AT&T, right?
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by efnx 1y ago
Exactly. If Uber is really just providing a service to the drivers, the drivers should be paying a subscription to Uber while taking money directly from the customer. (Edit) And they should be setting their own prices!
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by efnx 1y ago
The 50’s called and wants all its mechanical lever-actuated extendo arm-clasps back! Joking aside, the present always has a tangential future that never comes to be. Right now the current zeerust is “AI and robots doing everything”. Continu
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by efnx 1y ago
pandoc
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by efnx 1y ago
> Not practically possible in regular democracies. In what kind of irregular democracy is this practical? Not arguing, just curious.
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by efnx 1y ago
I'm not sure I would visit a subreddit called "fucknintendo" for an unbiased opinion on a Nintendo product.
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by efnx 1y ago
> You’re constantly thinking about lifetimes, ownership, and borrow scopes, even for simple tasks. As a professional Rust developer, I don’t find I do this. I occasionally think of those things. But I do remember a short adjustment perio
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by efnx 1y ago
I will always reach for a language that has sum types, pattern matching and async support. Catching errors at compile time is a boon too. It doesn’t have to be Rust, but after those requirements- why not?
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by efnx 1y ago
I don’t think that will happen. There are still problems with React and folks are going to address those problems, sometimes by rolling a completely new UI layer.
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by efnx 1y ago
> it _feels_ like there should be a better way Yeah, totally. I have those same feelings. It's hard to fight it because `.lock()` and friends do _feel_ heavy!
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by efnx 1y ago
> but that, in turn, means that you have to lock that RwLock every frame, also not great. Unless that RwLock is in contention to get acquired every frame I doubt it will add anything significant to the frame time. Worrying about things l
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by efnx 1y ago
Sounds like a hypothesis! You should do a study on that.
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by efnx 1y ago
> maybe people were thinking, ‘we’ll sacrifice some culture war things for this good economy that’s going to come from this administration.’ It doesn’t seem like that’s happening.
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by efnx 1y ago
I recently joined the zcash team, but there are other groups out there doing good through open source.

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