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by exdsq 4y ago
I've honestly yet to meet a research software engineer without a PhD because of the academic bias you will get in, well, academia.
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by exdsq 4y ago
Sure! So when testing you want a deterministic environment - starting from genesis, couple accounts, the ability to build or wipe state, etc… sometimes projects use multiple chains, so maybe Ethereum and Polkadot along with a bridge between
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by exdsq 4y ago
Yea, it’s common that one doesn’t exist. I work as a test engineer and am usually the one to build and support those environments, I’ve yet to find a company that has it all working well before I join. I actually made a killing building int
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by exdsq 4y ago
Some startups are still requiring weird whiteboard questions sadly. Interviewed for a role recently and was asked to navigate a maze of obstacles and teleports with possible infinite loops, saying the minimum number of steps to leave the ma
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by exdsq 4y ago
I was being a little facetious, but there are some DoD/military industry towns where the majority of code will be C/C++ based stuff.
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by exdsq 4y ago
Can confirm. Went from £55k to $165k by going remote in the US
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by exdsq 4y ago
35k is above the average salary in most EU countries.
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by exdsq 4y ago
Yes, they are, but the issue is it’s so intertwined between the people in EA funds and their supported charities its hard to not be skeptical.
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by exdsq 4y ago
Depends where you live :)
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by exdsq 4y ago
This comes from a lot of reflection on ‘selfish altruism’. You might think it’s divorced from reality but I’ve had to argue for altruism existing far too many times in England to not think about it more. It’s probably the cause of donating
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by exdsq 4y ago
It’s okay if altruism is inherently selfish and for a warm fuzzy feeling or social media points as long as the altruism takes place
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by exdsq 4y ago
My issue with EA is similar to the posts point - it seems to be a lot of money being moved around between EA organizations finding their own blue sky philosophy research. For example the Future of Humanities Institute is funded by Giving Wh
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by exdsq 4y ago
If you’re programming autonomous weapons for fighter jets it tends to require a little more than a web server, or so I’ve heard!
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by exdsq 4y ago
Crypto adoption is rising pretty fast in these places. I know you dislike that, but it’s a fact - the tech does work for those usecases. SMS is factually less useful than crypto, there are cash onramps available in the most obscure places,
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by exdsq 4y ago
How do you sign up to AliPay?
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by exdsq 4y ago
How do you do that without a bank account?
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by exdsq 4y ago
Maybe if you’re working on partially open source code you want a layer of comments separate to the code that aren’t version controlled so you can mention internal bits to each other?
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by exdsq 4y ago
This. So many people who dislike crypto also assume the world looks like the US - access to banking, trust in their government, trust in their central bank, access to international finance… If the entire world looked identical to the US the
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by exdsq 4y ago
You can actually interact with some crypto projects over SMS, and at the moment there are countries where the majority of txs are SMS mobile credit swaps. The issue is these don’t offer things like account histories, you can’t access financ
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by exdsq 4y ago
How about all the communities that use mobile credit over SMS for finance?
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by exdsq 4y ago
I’m sure I’ve seen an audit before but because Coinbase is a public company all finances have to be released so you should be able to see it there too?
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by exdsq 4y ago
> Watching from the sidelines, the Crypto world seems to just be morphing into the normal financial world. Say this is true, how amazing would that be for countries without existing banking infrastructure to easily access it?
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by exdsq 4y ago
When I worked in crypto I knew news before release and, if I wanted, could trade on it. If there was a delay it’d almost always cause a minor crash, so I could short. On the other hand big investors or collaborations would give the price a
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by exdsq 4y ago
The entire thing reads like copypasta - the lack of humility from a fairly junior developer (9 years? I have 8 years experience in tech and still feel like a beginner) is just crazy. It's either satire or written by someone with the EQ
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by exdsq 4y ago
Is this satire? The comments section has brought out the absolute Reddit of HN hahaha
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by exdsq 4y ago
I did not expect to see my old chess clubs president from a small town in England pop up on the front page of HN!
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by exdsq 4y ago
Honestly how was this ever a YC company? Some of their Web3 plays I totally get - things like building dev infrastructure as a SaaS helps a ton when it comes to blockchain development. But products on Web3 seem to risky, especially DeFi o
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by exdsq 4y ago
Is that a real idea? Can’t Google right now unfortunately!
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by exdsq 4y ago
> We already have payment networks that work well. I assume you don't live in a country built around M-Pesa or EVC Plus, but it's very hard to build banking records around mobile credit. For example, in Somalia which uses the U
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by exdsq 4y ago
Edit: Just to clarify, in my response I think blacklist != censorship, if a blacklist can be altered by anyone on their own system. You seem to have interpreted what I said slightly deeper than what I meant. I didn't mean to suggest th

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