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by fnord123 5y ago
This is presented in a conspiratorial manner. "Who wants their money to be worth less?" "Governments don't want you to know..." It's very simple. 100 euros in your hand right now is worth more than a possible&#
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> Mandating BTC as legal tender is an awesome move. To me the most important benefit is that the 70% of the population which was excluded from banking and relegated to use physical currency will now be included. If the economy is an engi
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The people's interest is benefited by doing 'the right thing'. And if enough countries sign up to do 'the right thing' then they can release 'FATCA 2: Electric Bugaloo'
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZuTdpxHcW8 But Black Dynamite, I sell drugs in the community!
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El Salvador hasn't adopted it yet.
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by fnord123 5y ago
They probably tried it, it couldn't find a dynlib which is a Macos shared object file, opened the three line makefile, and then fixed it to copy a .so
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by fnord123 5y ago
Do you mean circulation as in air-flow? Or circulation as in traffic? I don't know about German but French speakers will often use circulation for traffic because it's a false friend.
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DDG uses Bing results.
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"both"? Sportingbet, betonsports...
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> High compatible with MySQL OceanBase Database is compatible with MySQL protocol and syntax. You can access to OceanBase Database by using MySQL client. Should be possible to use a python client to mysql.
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When metrics are you using?
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> Dataclasses! We could cheekily say Python gets better at something Rust does - dataclasses makes Python better at records It's not clear if you mean python got better at storing records than previous python or if it got better at
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So, one month of Mitchel Baker's salary.
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Pythonic guide, not too verbose? >>> import this The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than
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What was a failure?
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They planned to (or started putting the frog in the port with some lukewarm water) and got heavy push back from their partners. This is what precipitated Valve to make the Steam Machine. https://www.bbc.com/news/technol
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To chime in: I'm super impressed by flatpak. There is a small learning curve as with any tool, but once you get through it it works very well. Snap uses a compressed image format that makes startup horrid. And snaps don't seem to
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Education and healthcare also have network effects. If people near you are ill then you're likely to also become ill. If people around you think taxation is theft and coercion then they can band together and elect people with similar b
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If that was the claim, then why consider African hospitals instead of any hospital?
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"There exists a private hospital in a country of superior quality to a public hospital in the same country" is a weak claim. Even weaker is "there exists a private hospital in the world of superior quality to a public hospita
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> Is Haskell unmaintainable because of its dense, clever use of the type system? yes.
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> I'm always impressed by how effortlessly this claim of the extraordinary readability of Go code is thrown around by the language's apostles, given how substantial that claim is, and that it's only backed up by anecdotal
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Senior developers also like to be able to jump into a remote part of the code base and also immediately understand what is going on. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27051629 > Bingo, Go is geared towards junior pro
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>It's super weird to me that C++, with this whacky 1970s constraint that totally fucks up modularity, still builds neck-and-neck or better with Rust. Not so fast! The compilation and linking is neck and neck with Rust so you can hav
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Cool that you use all those tools. Wouldn't it be cool to be able to depend on libraries knowing they all use those settings? And you can depend on libraries by putting a single line in a toml file. I mean C++ dependency management is
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> Conversely, I’m on several slacks, and I’ve only ever used the same account on all of them. One slack app and one slack account works for all of them. How? Each time I join a slack, e.g. haproxy, i need to make a new slack account tied
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>It's quite sad Slack and Discord are often the first choice for open communities. Slack is particularly bad as you need to make a new account for each instance (i.e. project). And you need to log in to each instance separately on e
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Are you suggesting that HR get involved?
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This is a limited view akin to thinking you're doing your part for addressing climate change by staying off the grid. I agree with b0surk that this is redirection and fundamental changes to society need to take place. Like an end to wa
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>I think there is a bell curve happening here. What you describe is more like a bimodal distribution of price of a meal in restaurants using paper menus.

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