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by ertian 5y ago
It does not rest on any of those assumptions. Those are just characteristics of the very first implementation.
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by ertian 5y ago
There are a dozen different approaches to solving the bandwidth problems. IMHO, it's safe to say one or more will succeed.
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by ertian 5y ago
Huh? Not in the original article, or in OPs reply, unless I'm seriously misunderstanding him. He's talking about the pros/cons of cryptocurrency.
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by ertian 5y ago
All the disastrous things that proponents of NN said would surely happen without it haven't happened since it was repealed, and also never happened before it was implemented. It really does beg the question why it was ever needed in th
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by ertian 5y ago
By what mechanism would they do so?
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by ertian 5y ago
This is an advantage of proof-of-stake: in order to 'mine', you only have to own some of the coin. It's still not one vote per citizen, but it's much closer to it--and it's more stable, since people holding large am
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by ertian 5y ago
And people who seeking power do all sorts of stuff to gain it, including asking trap questions with no right answer and using the result as leverage to push people out of leadership positions.
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by ertian 5y ago
Have you stopped beating your wife yet? It's a loaded question, with no right answer. According to the article, the same speaker claimed that there was a culture of white supremacy at the company. There were demands to stop 'prote
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by ertian 6y ago
The same thing actually applies to DS&A interviews: a person can memorize the solution to a given problem, but the interviewer can easily throw some curveballs that require deeper knowledge to handle. It might come down to who is doing
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by ertian 6y ago
There may be something to what you say. But on the other hand, there's that old adage: if you meet an asshole one day, you met an asshole. If _everybody_ you meet during the day is an asshole, then _you're_ the asshole.
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by ertian 6y ago
A skilled interviewer can take the classic CS interview questions and combine them or take them in unexpected directions. Memorizing the solutions won't help with that, and it'll quickly become clear if your understanding is shall
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by ertian 6y ago
Talking about past projects selects for people who are comfortable talking at length in florid language about relatively little substance, and who are maybe comfortable exaggerating or stretching the truth. The most substantial and complex
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by ertian 6y ago
There's a huuuuge gap between "some prominent old white dudes might be targeted in specific communities" and "white guys are the most persecuted people on earth." When the Stallman thing was still fresh, I saw peopl
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by ertian 6y ago
Well that's a hell of a strawman...
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by ertian 6y ago
Right...but in this specific case, Stallman was loyal because he didn't think his (at that point deceased) friend did it, and in the end he was right. So this seems like a good example of why it's appropriate to withhold judgement
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by ertian 6y ago
I think OP's point is that many users aren't pushing machines to the limit or saturating 10g links. They just need the equivalent of a several-year-old desktop to run a webserver or whatever. Consumer-grade colo.
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by ertian 6y ago
> what role do you think Google plays in the survielence based economy in keeping Gaza in it's horrible plight? What role do _you_ think they play? I'm not aware of any Google projects to help with government surveillance in Ga
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by ertian 6y ago
Just because something doesn't work in the first attempt doesn't mean it never will (see various attempts at ecommerce, online news, streaming video, or just general computer-network-for-the-masses attempts from the 80s and early
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by ertian 6y ago
Yeah, that seems a bit unfair. You could start any article on the stock market the same way, but it would sound gratuitous.
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by ertian 6y ago
I watched a little mini-documentary on QAnon the other day, and I was struck by how diverse the adherents are. I figured it'd be mostly older, middle-class white people, but footage of some of their protests revealed them to be a cross
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by ertian 6y ago
The eventual distributed money could be bitcoin-associated without being bitcoin itself. For example, DAI[1] is (AFAICT) a derivative of Ethereum, but pinned to USD. It relies on the underlying store of value that Ethereum represents, but i
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by ertian 6y ago
Well, for one thing, you can easily write Gemini pages in a text editor, without worrying about HTML, WYSIWYG or other markup formats. You can write your own server or client in a couple days, from scratch, without using libraries or worryi
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by ertian 6y ago
There's a subreddit dedicated to images something like what you describe: http://reddit.com/r/wimmelbilder
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by ertian 6y ago
You should probably be able to run Nix on Void. It might get awkward running two parallel package managers, but I've heard good things. The idea of Nix is that you can specify a package's dependencies very explicitly, and have it
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by ertian 6y ago
Second this. It's mostly been a pleasure, but Steam is a mess. And I just gave up on Android development on NixOS; I used a Ubuntu VM for that. But starting off with a new computer, copying over a config file from one of your existing
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by ertian 6y ago
Yeah, configuring systemd with Nix changed it from annoyance to a pleasure for me. Instead of fiddling with a bunch of random .service files, you can just do everything in a nix config and have them generated for you. Complex systems involv
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by ertian 6y ago
Yeah, you potentially could. Generally you don't specify a specific version as a dependency unless it's necessary, but when 'building' the system, specific versions are used. If things break during an upgrade you can rol
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by ertian 6y ago
That first picture looks so much like a colorized shot from an original Twilight Zone episode. The flight suits (military surplus, and sort of timeless), the (foam and plaster?) rocky background, the big mysterious artifact (that happens to
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by ertian 6y ago
Total US trade with China was vanishingly small well into the 1980s, and didn't start to become significant relative to total US trade until the mid-to-late 90s[1]. I think there's a better argument for trade at large, since ~1970
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by ertian 6y ago
Yup. There was a moral panic about fiction specifically in the early-to-mid 1800s. Kids (and women, too) were sitting around staring at these made-up stories instead of going out and doing real things.

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