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by exdsq 5y ago
Was hoping for something a little deeper than "Personal projects", "blog", "read books", and "go to relevant conferences". But then I noticed it was written by a content marketer and not a 'Brain
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> It's not usable as a currency except in the most dire circumstances and no one is working to fix this. I've pushed two different crypto companies I've worked for to focus more on African payment systems, supporting one o
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by exdsq 5y ago
Yeah! Nigeria is trying to move everyone to their own digital currency, but Statista did a survey and 32% of Nigerians were using Bitcoin for general payments. Quick look for some supporting info came up with this - https://www.r
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by exdsq 5y ago
> That's just plain not true You can only use USD if you're a resident in Dollar Stores. You can't use USD cards, you can't bring USD into the country, and even on the link you shared it mentions the USD black market
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by exdsq 5y ago
What about those countries with sanctions from the US or governments that don't allow the USD to be used, such as Cuba? Do you think the majority of people in Nigeria pay their rent with a USD note or a gold coin? Yes you can get USD o
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by exdsq 5y ago
> In more than a decade, crypto has still not found a viable use-case. In my eyes, having an alternative to high-inflation currencies around South America and Africa is one hell of a use case.
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I'm not so sure. When he was cryogenically preserved he moved his cryptocurrency to funds/charities/families but the Satoshi accounts were not touched. I bet he knew who Satoshi was, but seems weird to me that he'd not h
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by exdsq 5y ago
Really? Feels like this has been the prevailing perspective since at least late 2018 - I guess the 2017 crash had something to do with that
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by exdsq 5y ago
Not OP but if you have user accounts you suddenly have legal responsibilities (in Europe) to follow GDPR rules etc…
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by exdsq 5y ago
Honestly Django or Rails with a few ‘Top 10 Performance Optimizations’ blog tips will get you most of the way there - certainly beyond proof of market fit and an initial investment round or two. Stick it in a docker container on ECS and con
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by exdsq 5y ago
I asked something similar previously on HN and a researcher in the field said that scaling size/computation actually does keep showing significant improvements
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I think it's going to be very lab specific there, but you could be right for systems research (I've not read any myself)!. FWIW, she's in medical engineering. Edit: All it takes is one tenured professor who strongly filters s
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My wife’s very recent PhD experience at Oxford was a little crunch time around conferences, a nice 20/25 hour week, and enough spare time to row with the Oxford Uni boat team. She stayed a year as a postdoc and it was much the same. Sh
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by exdsq 5y ago
To be fair you can do this in a Typed Lisp! But yeah this is a really nice way to develop
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by exdsq 5y ago
Not OP but check out type driven development - there’s a few great F# blogs on the topic and a book on Idris if you want to go further
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> Do they think that a system where $1 = 1 vote is going to be democratic? There’s alternatives to this like quadratic voting where you do get more votes with tokens but they tail off quickly, among many other methods
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by exdsq 5y ago
Too late for me to edit it I’m afraid
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by exdsq 5y ago
What I meant was that an uptick in 0x account names is not in and of itself a signal on if there's an increase in Eth-related usernames
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Master of Fine Arts in Software(dreamsongs.com)
2 points by exdsq 5y ago|0 comments
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The Poetry of Programming(dreamsongs.com)
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The Art of Lisp and Writing(dreamsongs.com)
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by exdsq 5y ago
Without starting an a discussion on the technology itself, volume/users are growing and not declining so this isn’t the case
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by exdsq 5y ago
I don’t know if that’s a reference to crypto for the majority of people - I’ve worked in crypto for years and I had an 0x name for my white hat hacking related accounts (it was trendy there a while back) but never for cryptocurrency stuff
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by exdsq 5y ago
I think it was a little more altruistic than that - he just found people with criminal backgrounds were struggling to find places and on the whole were just as reliable to pay rent on time because they appreciated the opportunity
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by exdsq 5y ago
Why would it replace docker? You still need the dependencies of the CLI app Edit: Ah I guess it’s just the WASM vm if it includes everything
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Canada used to be a really good place for foreign investment buying and renting/flipping houses pre-2008. My dad had around 50 properties in the Nova Scotia region just before the crash and the income from that was barely taxable (as a
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by exdsq 5y ago
Life is too short to spend hundreds or thousands of hours learning a tool to save you time. Nix might give you 'perfect' reproducible builds but does the time saved from this beat the time taken to learn it? I'm skeptical.
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by exdsq 5y ago
A positive of taking the nix brick road is if you get bored of software development you'll have enough yak fur to retire.
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> you spend your time tackling the original problem, not tackling the language. Would you say it's as good or better than Lisp?
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by exdsq 5y ago
Hey! So first off I’m not a doctor and am talking from my own experience, and note SSRIs are incredibly independent and personal in how effective they are and what side effects you can get. I’ve been on Sertraline for around two years. It w

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