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by ftlio 4y ago
I worked at a custom millwork firm and had a knack for value engineering projects. After making the switch to SWE, where I assumed everyone knew how to do this, I've realized that there only seems to be two kinds of SWEs as well, exact
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by ftlio 4y ago
I think specifically for multiplayer, you could handle non-visible chunks on the server and figure out a better way to update the client with what it needs, rather than requiring the client to handle the full simulation. I know it’s a well
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by ftlio 4y ago
I see potential for playing with your Switch on a beefy community server, where the server is responsible for UPS. Edit: I guess the client also has to run the simulation, never mind. It seems like overall, Factorio is well under-optimized
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by ftlio 4y ago
There's a space mod that has you jumping to different planets and allows you to ship things between them on rockets (or, more hilariously, effectively shooting them between planets). Definitely seals that vibe. That same mod also uses
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by ftlio 4y ago
There’s also the overall economic argument that Proof of Work is actually just the least obscure version of anything else: https://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/ Overall I’d just argue that because PoS does
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by ftlio 4y ago
Miners in Proof of Work don’t control the rules. There have been multiple attempts to exercise hash power as political control in Bitcoin that have failed. There already exists precedent regarding the political power of running your own nod
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by ftlio 4y ago
Consistent 51% attacks rely on Bitcoin already being more-or-less worthless. If it is, then yes, the cost of terrorizing the network will be low. The same follows based on Vitalik’s argument for why PoS is supposedly too expensive to attack
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by ftlio 4y ago
Considering he thought Bitcoin block space was too scarce, and now not scarce enough, and considered people running their own nodes a “weird mountain man fantasy”, but has now built a political topology that depends on something like Bitcoi
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by ftlio 4y ago
There's still a lot to figure out in the space, and the blockchain adjacency always makes things feel like a land grab or first-mover obsessive. I don't think that much matters though. The majority of us will still keep our identi
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by ftlio 4y ago
The speculation is on that the alignment of central banks globally is towards savings debasement and non-custodial property. HODL is a rallying call to exit the current monetary infrastructure into the next one, one that specifically allows
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by ftlio 4y ago
What was money's killer app? Bitcoin is money from the ground up. It's going fantastically fast. As for smart contracts, these are the basis of Bitcoin. A permissionless ledger inherently requires smart contracts. Their killer app
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by ftlio 4y ago
That's the whole problem that Lightning solves with other tradeoffs. There are no centralized entities.
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by ftlio 4y ago
For the last 8-10 years it's been the same thing. Bitcoiners believe you can't sacrifice its finality, but can scale at a different layer. Other "blockchain" people believe something different. It is a weird line in the
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by ftlio 4y ago
In my experience, most IDE users don’t know that Emacs is effectively an IDE that can do all of the same things, and even more. When you show them, then the complaint is that it’s a hassle to configure, and I don’t really know what to do wi
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by ftlio 4y ago
Whatever's next is just user-level PKI and DNS. Can I roll a private/public key pair and use it to authenticate everywhere as the user BabyFarkMcgeeZax? Can I authorize Spotify to BabyFarkMcgeeZax/playlist? In theory, I can u
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by ftlio 4y ago
> I think Bitcoin was a really interesting idea in the pre-iPhone era, but for a variety of reasons it just didn't pan out. It’s panning out just fine. Everyone who thinks Bitcoin is old news presupposes that you can do something li
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by ftlio 4y ago
Based on how I've seen it mismanaged, the only way I see it working is hiring "provisional VPs". In the same way that you might have hired slow and fired fast in the beginning for competent ICs, you need to do the same with
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by ftlio 4y ago
There’s cool cryptography going on in Ethereum, but it’s not helping economize anything useful. At some point you have to notice that all of the “cool new stuff” in Ethereum for the last 7 years all seems to disappear once greater fool liq
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by ftlio 4y ago
Second, I love this keyboard, but it isn't wireless, which I think is a fair requirement. I personally like my keyboards to be wired, but can see why someone might seek out something like the Logitech keyboard. Even with the browns, i
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by ftlio 4y ago
Except that Bitcoin miners have tried and failed to exercise any such power because it doesn’t exist. The most successful attack was creating a short-lived arbitrage opportunity between the massively pumped Bitcoin Cash and regular Bitcoin
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by ftlio 4y ago
HN is still high quality content. Tech as a culture is defunct, but building stuff, and a network of builders, will never go away.
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by ftlio 4y ago
I worked in construction/manufacturing as labor, then in a CNC engineering capacity, then as middle management, then at a vendor for manufacturing as a software engineer. All were progressively less work, but my god consumer tech isn’t
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by ftlio 4y ago
There is no solution to the Peter Principle. That's actually the thesis of the book. I'd argue that management that can't promote from within has likely already reached the position of their incompetence as well. There are
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by ftlio 4y ago
I can't think of anything I care about that's on Netflix. I also can't imagine cancelling it... There's always something. Between my wife and I both barely caring, they have my money for years. I imagine they'll
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by ftlio 4y ago
Most Americans consume media most of the time, yes. I know people who haven't read a book since high school, but can tell you everything about either sports or celebrities, and often both. Indexical knowledge of sports and/or wh
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by ftlio 4y ago
Are there a lot of businesses in the space not attempting to service lots of new coins that are generally characterized by lack of novelty, lots of marketing fuel, or where if there is novelty vis a vis cryptocurrency, it isn't highly
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by ftlio 5y ago
You can find interesting people saying things, but most of them will be appealing to their audience by complaining when their ingroup gets any negative commentary, and quote retweeting shade at their outgroup. It's like some weird ver
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by ftlio 5y ago
Yes, the idea that you can't hold "the neoliberal view" of your household, and "the communist view" and the "romantic view", and the "spiritual view" all together for all their benefits and trade
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by ftlio 5y ago
> If you think of Bitcoin not as competing against Visa, but as competing against the bank settlement network, then it makes a lot more sense. Yes, this is Bitcoin precisely. If you then lock your bitcoins in different schemes with diff
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by ftlio 5y ago
BEVs are also a better way of economizing wide scale distribution of storage throughout the grid. With one battery per car, you do run into load shifting issues (everyone generally charging at home during the same night time interval, even

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