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> (...) beyond BTC as a highly unstable store of value and claims of some great future state. Bitcoin is not a store of value, and never was. A highly volatile asset, specially one whose market price halves overnight without much surpris
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> I’m in it for the money if the prices goes up, I’m in it for the art if the price drops From the looks of it, if the price drops at best we're in it for that sweet sweet URL pointing to Google Drive/imgur.
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> This is all discussed in the original article I read both posts, and I still have this question. Is it possible to provide a clear and simple explanation? Is there any answer at all which is not the expected "you're right, c
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> (...) is that centralization is a feature, not a bug. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't centralization in blockchain-related applications a critical problem which defeats the whole purpose of said tech? I mean, if a B
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It should be noted that some database providers already provide a UUID data type which is a 128bit integer. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/datatype-uuid.html
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> I'd scoff at C++ and the way in which the language has grown where orgs build up their own utility libraries rather than depend on a standard library. This comment makes no sense at all. I mean, would it make any sense to also cri
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> One word: support. That hypothesis is not credible. They can simply declare a feature is unsupported, and even that using it voids some guarantee. I mean, look at how overclocking is handled.
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> QWERTY has a steep learning curve as well, it’s just that it’s so ubiquitous that most people don’t question or remember the work that was put into. This assertion ignores crucial differences in the basic mechanics of typing in a stand
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> Do you assume Putin and western corporations are antagonistic? Please don't try to change the subject. Putin sent Russia's paratroopers to Kazakhstan to use them against Kazakhstan's civilian population to quelsh unrest.
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> It’s as “foreign” as any NATO country’s army to another. I don't believe your comparison is even remotely adequate. Could you point out an example of a NATO member requesting a military intervention from another NATO member in the
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> I went to school with a young kazak person (...) Their parents had direct contact to the state and they were unaccountably rich went to an insanely expensive private school and owned various apartments all across Europe. I don't u
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> But why is such a dysfunctional dictatorship so stable? (...) I believe the answer is: it is backed by the West because a stable dictator in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan guarantees the oil flow. And yet, it's Russia and it's str
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> If you're counting blocked attempts in logs, you're counting attempts that were never going to succeed. By your own logic, if the problematic traffic shares the same geographic origin and you only happen to spot failed attemp
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> (...) helping Cloudflare get it's meathooks in the internet offsets all the really big companies (...) What? No. Cloudflare reported a revenue of half a billion dollars, and already controls about half the CDN market. Let's p
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> What point? Nobody said anything about "cloud flare to reach its meat hooks" in the article or the above thread except you? The OP mention "cloud flare to reach its meat hooks" in the thread attacking those who have
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> Personally I'm waiting for engineering salaries in the non-US to catch up to the US because it'll make it easier for me to leave the US if I choose to do so but it doesn't look like it's happened yet. Let me chime i
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My question is whether Oregon was a hotbed of racism and discrimination within the US, not if the are racist people living in Oregon. The point being, if the company was honestly concerned about racial discrimination, wouldn't it run t
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> A feature branch is still expected to have meaningful commits, and is usually used for collaboration between several coders. No, not really. In fact, some issue tracking software equate feature branches with tickets, worked on by a sin
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> (...) but the neural net still managed to pick up the sexist hiring process by learning what kinds of activities were typical "girl" or "boy" activities. I'm not sure that's a valid take. It's my unde
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> Does Airbnb offer other alternative methods of identifying riffraff? The newspiece mentions a problem of racial discrimination based on checking profile pictures and how a name sounds. Do you feel it's appropriate to equate someon
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> I think you are overlooking the word "experiment." Is the so-called "experiment" focused exclusively on a jurisdiction that enforces those rules? A/B testing tends to be randomized per session or per user or pe
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> Along similar lines, I've adopted a hyper-frequent commit pattern in git. I do a bunch of meaningless micro-commits as I'm making progress, and then rewrite them all into one or two meanginful commits once I've reached a
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> There is a (high) probability users will close the tab after waiting for over a minute for MBs of JS to download and parse. I'm not sure what leads you to believe that a SPA requires "MBs of JS" to work. I've worked
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> (...) are definitely different to a container image that gets spun up (...) I'm not sure you're making a informed observation. "Spinning up a container image" is just fancy jargon/handwaving to refer to launchi
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> And as a bonus, your site works perfectly in degraded environments (poor network conditions, no JS runtime). What? No. Not at all. If you're behind a subpar network, your dynamic HTML web app does not load/refresh/update
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> They invented Another Cloud Thing, namely Lambda@Edge, to solve this. Yes, designed for usecases like those handled by Cloudflare Workers, which boil down to updating data cached in edge servers without requiring global redeployments o
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> It only gets the label if it's greener than existing solutions. They're not letting perfect be the enemy of good. That sounds very idiotic to me. One of the biggest environmental threats is global warming, which is caused by
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> Aren't they aiming to do that for plants that will be using synthetic methane as alternative to battery storage? I saw no reference to origin or source or type of gas. All I saw were references to low emissions. It seems they deci
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> Here we are, two years later. Never could have imagined. I have to agree, that was very disheartening. Nevertheless, the writing was on the wall right on the first week of the very first lockdown, when so many people made it their poin
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> * Accelerating inflation perhaps leading high single digits low double digits in the next several years. Didn't the US inflation rate went up to around 6% during 2021? Even though that's quite the hike, I wouldn't classi

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