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by giaour 4y ago
I remember learning during my ethics briefing (OMB, not congressional) that industry events frequented by feds and congressional staffers will oftentimes say on the invitation how much the catering will cost per person and provide a way for
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by giaour 4y ago
> are already laws on the books in the United States explicitly protecting DAOs from personal liability when they are registered as a DAO Isn't this only relevant when ash organization takes the legal steps to register as a DAO in
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by giaour 4y ago
The markets are heavily regulated; you were complaining about someone (seemingly) getting away with insider trading. It's completely irrelevant to the topic under discussion, which was that blockchain-based solutions have been escaping
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by giaour 4y ago
> Some problems are technology problems (e.g. "transfer network improvement"). Not sure what Congress has to do with solving these (read: nothing). Other problems are finance problems (e.g. financial consolidation, whatever tha
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by giaour 4y ago
I have applied directly on company websites for my last three jobs (two BigTech cos and a stint in the public sector). Before that, I used recruiters who reached out on LinkedIn, which was honestly a lot easier but didn't get me partic
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by giaour 4y ago
> Cryptocurrency makes everything pertaining to money easier, unfortunately crime too This is where you lose me. Cryptocurrency makes most transactions considerably more difficult, and so far, the one segment of the economy that has cons
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by giaour 4y ago
This article completely ignores the "embodied carbon" emissions and e-waste generated by the mining ecosystem [0]. Electricity usage is not the whole story. [0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article&#
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by giaour 4y ago
> PoW security is a vector, and doesn't flip from secure to insecure at some specific point. The network does flip from secure to insecure whenever the cost of mounting a 51% attack dips below the amount an attacker could expect t
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by giaour 4y ago
> Bitcoin isn't a deflationary currency. It's emission is deflating to 0, after which it is neither inflationary nor deflationary. There is no mechanism to replace coins to which private keys have been lost. There are most cert
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by giaour 4y ago
> Bitcoin is inherently a-political I would disagree pretty strongly with this. Bitcoin has been aggressively libertarian from the start, and its popularity is due in part to the political arguments made in support of its use ("mone
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by giaour 4y ago
> I thought, like China, [Russia] would ultimately ban it to prevent civilians from easily exiting the Russian economy. (another legitimate use of cryptocurrency that is often overlooked) You're kind of proving GP's point here.
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by giaour 4y ago
> Those aren't "rules engine"s though Yeah, I don't know why I picked rules engines as an example of things that are hard to configure with JSON. My day job is working on an infrastructure-as-code DSL, and I previousl
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by giaour 4y ago
> A "custom configuration file" format for a "rules engine" is a scripting language I see what you mean, but if a project is defining its own configuration language, it can impose as many restrictions as it wants on w
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by giaour 4y ago
I remember Amazon making a bunch of noise about offering 80% time and 60% time jobs a while back; they may still be doing so. If not, there are plenty of "full time" roles in big tech that only realistically require 24 hours/
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by giaour 4y ago
Those are simple expressions (no multiline blocks, no named symbols, no expressions that call other expressions), and you're still forced to treat them as opaque strings when you use a serialization language for configuration. That may
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by giaour 4y ago
Sometimes you need to support something more flexible than JSON but just can't hand your (non-dev) users all the footguns that come with a Turing complete configuration language. "Key/Value" makes the problem sound simpl
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by giaour 4y ago
> It doesn't matter if the end client is submitting queries in plain text (protected in transit) or this fancy encryption It's not just the query that is encrypted in this case, but the data being queried. From MongoDB's
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by giaour 4y ago
... What sticking point? Red flag laws are the bipartisan solution du jour, and they are preventative rather than interventative measures.
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by giaour 4y ago
This seems really pedantic, like saying that shark repellant won't help you when the shark already has you in its jaws. You've clearly reached a point where the shark repellant would have helped had it been used. It's much ea
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by giaour 4y ago
Autocorrect error: Second sentence should start "The pay will be way lower"
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by giaour 4y ago
Have you ever considered working in hospital IT? The past will be way lower, but you would spend a lot of time interacting with nurses (and whoever else is doing chat updates /data entry in a given facility). To echo another commenter,
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by giaour 4y ago
I was also asked that question during my Microsoft phone screen in 2021. I think there's a fairly shallow question bank
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by giaour 4y ago
With a fully remote setup like you describe, what are the mechanics of hiring a foreign team member? Do you need a subsidiary or some legal entity in the foreign country in order to pay employment taxes? If they're direct employees of
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by giaour 4y ago
I have used visualization generation tools but have found them of limited utility to me. When the generator is built into an IDE, the artifact it generates is less useful than the IDE itself, which typically provides a structural (symbol tr
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by giaour 4y ago
It's difficult (but not impossible) to find niches where cryptocurrencies are being used as currencies. They are more often described and used by enthusiasts as securities or investments, so it's this aspect that dominates discuss
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The crypto-skeptics’ voices are getting louder(washingtonpost.com)
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by giaour 4y ago
Privacy and security seem orthogonal to me. Privacy is only one thing of many that could be assured via security. Imagine an office with glass walls, very little sound insulation, and a security guard at the door. The security guard and wal
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by giaour 4y ago
> Kermit the Frog in David Lynch's Dune DALL-E would just shoot back a still with Kyle McLachlan in it. He's already so Kermit like!
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by giaour 4y ago
This is why I follow Carmen San Diego's example and only accept looted treasures as compensation for my crimes.
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by giaour 4y ago
If a relationship is bound by ethical principles on one side and a cold economic calculus on the other, it seems pretty clear which will be taken advantage of most often.

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