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by geekpowa 7y ago
Dilution / inflation is a feature not a bug. Money should be put to work doing productive stuff in the economy, not hoarded. Also crypto currencies, are not currencies. They are commodities. It is far more accurate, conceptually to th
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by geekpowa 7y ago
I think you are lensing this through your own cultural filters/assumptions. My first reading is as a veiled threat: honour our agreement or I bring trouble to your heart.
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by geekpowa 7y ago
And this is at the heart of what crypto currency advocates fail to understand what money is. Money is a social construct. It isn't a thing, mined out of the ground or a cryptographic nonce that satisfies a a constraint on a hashing alg
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by geekpowa 7y ago
What would explain why he completely overlooked a key primary function of money, something that decentralized crypto cannot, by design, satisfy : money is transferable debt. Crypto currency view of money is that money is a store of value. M
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by geekpowa 7y ago
Part of Friendsters death spiral was the decision to move to AWS, which was a technical disaster. On Cloud vs baremetal arguments. I respect people find cloud works and is valuable for them. This inspite of my own personal experiences, dire
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by geekpowa 7y ago
Carl Sagan rationalized the Fermi paradox in terms of nuclear annihilation in one of his Cosmos episodes, which was created during endgame of the cold war. The same episode introduced the Drake equation too. This article framing the paradox
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by geekpowa 7y ago
You trying to link his claim to being raided? He was raided because he is a tax cheat who has been under investigation for years for multiple unrelated tax compliance events. * edit. Typo/grammar.
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by geekpowa 7y ago
Renato Constantino, Filipino historian, argues persuasively that children should be educated in their natal tongue. Largely a political essay, also discusses language issues like a child having to learn a language not spoken in the home bef
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by geekpowa 7y ago
'Classic' NVP and this is in production right now.
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by geekpowa 7y ago
"PayPal really doesn't care that the world's most popular browser no longer displays the EV visual indicator." OT but hopefully interesting: Paypal doesn't care about many things. Like keeping their callback JVMs up
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by geekpowa 7y ago
Retained GUIs vary wildly in implementation. Many of authors most significant criticisms on retained GUIs are implementation considerations. GUI frameworks exist that solve his key criticisms of complexity and are pleasant to work with. Cri
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by geekpowa 8y ago
To back who you are replying to. My story might be interesting. Small niche software doesn't suck : if you love that niche, if you can create something that that niche loves and that what you create is difficult for others to replicate
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by geekpowa 8y ago
Unsurprising Philippines is at top of list. World leader in adoption of tech that enables social interaction. From 2007: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-textmessages/... Another. Undated. Avg sms pe
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by geekpowa 8y ago
The resource is link is a very weak critique of IRV. consider their criticism of Aus 2007 general election. https://rangevoting.org/Aus07.html The key point which is laboured a couple of times is that some seat results are
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by geekpowa 8y ago
Audio of apollo 12 mission is online. https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap12fj/audio/audioindex.html In EVA 1, Conrad and Bean carry on like kids at an amusement park. There is a genuine sense of joy and amazement
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by geekpowa 9y ago
I dabble in music. Long time ago for a couple of years I studied arrangement and composition as something interesting to do outside my day job. Included some study on conducting. I did a few arrangements for big band orchestras and it is q
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by geekpowa 9y ago
A few different sources compute similar results. All of them acknowledge difficulty in computation. It's like trying to solve the drake equation. Unless you know all the terms in the equation accurately the number at the end isn'
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by geekpowa 9y ago
That depends on how you define "Blockchain". My definition of "blockchain" is a distributed ledger in a entirely trustless p2p network. To which PoW is the most widely deployed mechanism in use to secure against the doub
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by geekpowa 9y ago
I agree that bitcoin's use of sha256 nonce seeking is a very easy target for critique. My broader assertion though is that proof of work, by design, will always centralise into a few, one way or another. Other theoretical schemes may b
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by geekpowa 9y ago
Blockchain is a terrible solution. Firstly Proof of Work is incredibly energy inefficient, to extent that electricity consumed to append to public blockchains is comparable to electricity used by nation states. Secondly POW by its inherent
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by geekpowa 9y ago
And what would it take for a climate alarmist to admit they are wrong? With respect, this sort of questioning is tedious and only serves to try and shutdown discussion. Mann's name against this synopsis is really remarkable given his
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by geekpowa 9y ago
Thanks for the link. That was well awesome. I withdraw my criticism.
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by geekpowa 9y ago
KSP taught me that orbital intercept to rescue Watney was nosense. (The book was slightly more believable here). also the whole swing by Earth and head back at the last minute was wrong. Orbital intercepts between planets requires very pre
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by geekpowa 9y ago
Another reason for writing your own: I have a sprawling codebase written in a 80s/90s era closed 4gl. Crossroads. a) keep kicking this can down the road using what I have inspite of its obvious and increasingly imposing limitations, b)
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by geekpowa 9y ago
Stars align in strange ways. Chelsea Manning walked free from prison a couple of days ago. so will Assange honour promise made an Jan or will he weasel out of it.
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by geekpowa 9y ago
My ex is Filipina who I met while working/living in Manila. We moved back to my home country and we both where heavily involved with the Filipino ex-pat community here. Your sentiments and concerns match mine. Although the internet h