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by geekpowa 2y ago
Mobilecoin doesn’t use mining Their stated design goal was to create an actual usable payments system; not a speculative asset . Edit : Urrgh got that wrong . Fixed distribution of coins and yes the founders control most of them
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by geekpowa 3y ago
The author addresses cause and possible solutions in their longer essay. The fundamental cause is taxation policy changes around 2000. The solution is further policy changes, but the wicked problem is that the democratic majority do not wan
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by geekpowa 3y ago
Podcast with the author on same news outlet: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2023/nov/25... Cannot be stressed enough how much of a pernicious and destructive force housing policy is in
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by geekpowa 3y ago
Audiences are fickle and audiences captured during a websites golden period of explosive growth steadily move away over time. I am daily fark user for 20+ years. The site certainly is past its prime but this is just the natural lifecycle of
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by geekpowa 3y ago
It’s an argument about survivorship bias in any critique of Covid policies that imply Covid response was unnecessarily harmful My personal pandemic experience was luckier than many . 3 wilderness years of lost time only; of no growth. no lo
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by geekpowa 3y ago
The living complain about the adverse impacts they experienced, while the dead remain dead.
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by geekpowa 4y ago
Ordinarily this would be victim shaming / blaming. Though the endgame of crypto is dystopian. A reversion to centralized command economies where the gatekeepers of economic activity are early adopters. Understand what you are putting y
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by geekpowa 5y ago
First article google search returns today != the first time NYT reported these things including clarifications as they became public which was months after the event around April 2021, and widely reported in detail by the press at that time
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by geekpowa 5y ago
Are we blaming traditional media companies for the content overload shitshow we now find ourselves living in? If NYT could provide a remedy, what would that remedy even look like? Wikileaks' ascendancy was on the narrative that traditi
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by geekpowa 5y ago
I search "Jan 6 Deaths" and very first hit is this NYT article. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/us/politics/jan-6-capitol... The article contradicts your claim "reported and quietl
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by geekpowa 5y ago
As a non American I see the US as a country with significant structural problems. On that basis, the narratives are justified. Especially after Jan 6 riots and the absence of a bipartisan response to this event. It is hard to discount the n
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by geekpowa 5y ago
I originally tried this with a project I am working on, moving as much of the logic as possible into the DB. But abandoned the effort quickly in part because the logic I need to implement was simply too complex and was better expressed &amp
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by geekpowa 5y ago
Merchants are not allowed to add a surcharge line item for using Afterpay. Instead they have to increase base pricing across the board to cover their increased costs. Afterpay are quite happy for merchants to do this, what they don't
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by geekpowa 5y ago
Afterpay's business model relies on high merchant fees which merchants, under their merchant agreement, are not allowed to pass onto their customers. So from customers point of view, afterpay often appears to be cheaper than other paym
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by geekpowa 6y ago
The energy usage of itself is a red herring. My issue is just how incredibly wasteful and inefficient PoW is. It's resource requirements completely disproportionate to the the underlying problem/solution space. It offends my sensi
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by geekpowa 6y ago
Rationals are to decimals as arbitrary precision decimals are to binary floats. Drill the junior devs: use decimals if you want accuracy. What is unsaid with this: if you want accuracy with monetary representation. Lots of problems out ther
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by geekpowa 6y ago
Insisting that Facebook / Twitter workplace should be apolitical, is as persuasive as Wernher Von Braun and his rocket engineer colleagues insisting that their workplace was also apolitical.
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by geekpowa 6y ago
The authors writing is quite moving, certainly moved me. But taking a step back, my read is that the author wants the allegations to be essentially tried in detail here and now. To what extent is this appropriate in such a hearing? Other li
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by geekpowa 6y ago
If only PayPal were as accessible and responsive as stripe. There is a serious regression in their API right now : it is so bad and obvious it shouldn't of even made it past their internal testing stage. Been there for 2 weeks now. Yo
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by geekpowa 7y ago
Query plans are dependent upon actual data itself. Plan performance issues can be difficult to replicate in test envs. AFAICT, this product relies on LVM snapshots/copy on write : so is ideal diagnosing, trying out ideas on large datab
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by geekpowa 7y ago
"Any fugitive status he may have had has been proven to be political in nature." Proven you say? Things asylum seekers typically say: "If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear uncons
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by geekpowa 7y ago
“Mr Assange showed all symptoms typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture, including extreme stress, chronic anxiety and intense psychological trauma.” Emphasis mine. His terrible mental health condition is not under dispu
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by geekpowa 7y ago
Rich Client / Consumer PC. SQL backend (originally was proprietary DB), fairly tight coupling between UX and model, old school rich client event loop. An unhealthy amount of global state ( what the original programming language encoura
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by geekpowa 7y ago
I think my original comment mischaracterized my project. It is a refactor, but a refactor that is going to take about a year to complete, where there will be nothing to show for it until it is finished. From old codebase, probably about 20%
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by geekpowa 7y ago
Evolution will not let you escape local minima, intrinsic/sprawling design decisions that cannot be evolved away from. I am sitting on a codebase whose oldest line of code is about 20+ years old and has evolved successfully in that tim
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by geekpowa 7y ago
Apparently rednecks have bandwidth and time to burn. Home page load: * 48 requests * 5.68 / 5.69 MB transferred * Finish: 42.53s * DomContentLoaded: 1.67s
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by geekpowa 7y ago
I am guessing blog author has got some things wrong here. I would expect JIT will be useful in a fastcgi setup. Edit: to clarify, PHP processes in fastcgi persist across multiple web requests. So seems reasonable to me that a JIT would do u
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by geekpowa 7y ago
M-Pesa was a foreign commercial product. Even server infrastructure was hosted offshore until relatively recently[1] [1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/m-pesa-shuts-down-as-they-mov...
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by geekpowa 7y ago
G-Cash, in the Philippines, was the first mobile based money transfer platform. It was launched in October 2004, a year before M-Pesa. There have been many attempts to replicate M-Pesa's extraordinary success. M-Pesa in Kenya is a sign
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by geekpowa 7y ago
Inflation is an emergent property of money. It isn't set or enforced it just naturally happens because of money. Monetary policy can be set to try to corral it to certain ranges based on economic beliefs about what rate of inflation i

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