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by gaigalas 5mo ago
Ultimately, this is all irrelevant. The goal with Pix was not to increase the total amount of value tranfered, but the amount of small micro-transactions, increasing fluidity and bypassing unecessary bureacratic processes. TED still wins by
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
Our field is full of vague, terrible opinions and useless advice. Arrogant people that think they're better than others. That book isn't, it's built from humility and a rare bright light in this god forsaken field.
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
Brazil has not started in any ideological battle regarding this. It has developed a national technology, and it allows other payment systems to coexist peacefully in the spirit of honest competition. The ideological and geopolitical provoca
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
There is a wide misconception that state stuff needs to be fully state-developed. I don't subscribe to that view. Delegating and designing just-enough simple solutions, avoiding bureaucratic tanglements, is an immense challenge and don
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
That is an offshoot topic which is, in my opinion, irrelevant for the sovereignty discussion. I'm here just to clear out the confusion regarding the infrastructural pieces. The core PIX is undeniably sovereign and state-owned, and the
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
> The true scaling burden is on private banks not the BCB Exactly. That is one of the aspects that allow for the system to be sovereign and scalable. Banco Central controls the core, and that's all it needs to. This is good design.
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
You are incorrect. What went down were apps from banks that use PIX, not the core infrastructure. That is responsibility of the banks. It means private banks like Itau and Nubank rely on Amazon, not the Central Bank. They relied on those hy
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
> The former wished to be let alone, and to be permitted to manage their domestic affairs in their own way Which affairs?
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
Amy Eskridge made publications about concrete deterioration. A scholar, no doubt. Also, outside of her field, a nutcase with conspiracy theories about energy weapons and a troubled individual. No doubt a tragedy, but clearly an outlier (of
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
I've been a Sublime Text user for years, then a VSCode for years. Been trying Zed for the past couple weeks and it has been a good experience.
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Josh – Standalone JavaScript to pure sh transpiler/interpreter(gist.github.com)
1 points by gaigalas 6mo ago|1 comments
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
Olá! This gist is the prototype for josh, a comprehensive (but not complete) JavaScript interpreter that works as a JS-to-sh transpiler. Here is an example JS program that it is able to run: https://gist.github.com/alganet&#
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
Never said I did. At an enthusiast-level of knowledge (which is the level we're discussing here), I am way far ahead of you on this.
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
> Corporate contributions to Federal politicians and candidates are illegal in the US. And that's why the whole system is divided into two parties that both, each, funnel all their support to the presidential campaign (and then to t
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
It must be noted that the U.S. does allow inanimate object makers to fund politicians and such practices are widespread. If all is well, then it's all good: no need to blame anyone, campaings get funded, etc. If one major crisis occo
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
https://hai.stanford.edu/assets/files/ai_index_report_2026.p... > The United States reported the lowest trust in its own government to regulate AI responsibly of any country surveyed, at 31%. It seems US citize
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
I already did. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730179 Initially, I presented it as "please elaborate" questions. A courtesy, to give you the benefit of the doubt. So far, you were not able to answer them wi
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
> rockets are like that: they don't care what they are pushing or in which direction That is just incorrect. Fuel tank design and arrangement, for example, is full of internal mass dynamics. > would be politically complicated f
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
Brazil has the most advanced biofuels program in the world, by far. Ethanol alone accounts for roughly 1/5 of all energy in Brazil, with almost 50% of light-vehicle fuels being renewable. For heavy vehicles, biodiesel is gaining in. Et
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
> I'm not impressed by your insults. It's not an insult. You're overestimating SpaceX capabilities and I'm correcting you. There's no shame in that. I do find strange that you're insisting on it though. >
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
One weirdo is enough to predict widespread violence? I'm not convinced. The idea that people will revolt, replaying the luddites history, has been floated a lot . It's used to diminish all kinds of AI skepticism by framing it as
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
> A mechanical coupling is not that difficult to design [citation needed] > Reignite only the second stage. Baby delta-v. Weaker than my Uno Mille with a staircase on top. > right orientation Trying to re-orient a low earth orbit i
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
Can you elaborate more on that? I don't understand how the coupling between Orion and Falcon Heavy would be done (can't just put it inside the fairing). I also don't understand how you plan to re-light the engines on the 3 fa
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
Falcon Heavy cannot carry Orion.
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by gaigalas 6mo ago
It sent humans around the moon and back though. Can't say that about those other "advancing" programs yet. Little humility here goes a long way.
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by gaigalas 7mo ago
> the so-called “Dumb Zone” once a conversation starts approaching the limits of the context window. My zipper would totally break at some point very close to the edge of the mechanism. However, there is a little tiny stopper that preven
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by gaigalas 7mo ago
We don't know that. Consciousness might have actually started today at 7am and, before that, we were all automatons without subjective experience of the world, just going through the motions. You might say that's impossible, becau
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by gaigalas 7mo ago
This seems exciting! Wait - there is no actual way of verifying any of this. Lots to read. This is getting complicated. The correct approach is to be cautious instead and believe nothing at face value.
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by gaigalas 7mo ago
It will arrive in the same DLC as flying cars.
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by gaigalas 7mo ago
Demolition Man is the darkest timeline.

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