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by gizmo385 4y ago
> This is a completely ridiculous assertion because if Walmart didn't employ these people, then taxpayers then they would be required to be subsidized by the taxpayer even more. That's a massive false dichotomy. There are optio
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by gizmo385 4y ago
> everyone in the space knows that Tether is a scam People seem to say this every time one of these big crypto companies fails, yet it’s just plainly false. Tons of people put money into these companies and are left holding the bag when
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by gizmo385 4y ago
DeFi is orders of magnitude smaller, which makes aggregation much simpler.
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by gizmo385 4y ago
> o need to pay some UI designers big bucks to come up with rounded corners). It’s really unfortunate how dismissive of the entire ui design profession so much of HN is. Not a great look IMO
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by gizmo385 4y ago
> You don't get to tell another person what beliefs they are allowed to have. Never said I did - just said that I’m not going to simply agree to disagree. In a disagreement between someone pushing for change and someone advocating f
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by gizmo385 4y ago
> What happened to agree to disagree? I’ll agree to disagree with you about how best we spend our tax dollars. I’ll agree to disagree with you about the right strategy to tackle climate change. I’ll agree to disagree with you about what
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by gizmo385 4y ago
I’m the exact opposite. I’ve never seen a hackathon with that mentality and you should avoid hackathons that guilt you into working beyond your limits
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by gizmo385 4y ago
Requiring a raspberry pi and burning an image is not generally accessible to a non technical person imo
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by gizmo385 4y ago
> due to the interfce with fiat and they also tend to be where all of the fraud occurs. Yes, because that's where the actual value is at the end of the day. Regardless of how much people want to pump crypto, when push comes to shove
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by gizmo385 4y ago
> Its also accurate that I don’t care about that and I’m never one of the people pushing for “mainstream adoption”. And you think the value is going to rise without increased adoption? Or that actually using your Crypto to purchase goods
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by gizmo385 4y ago
> I *know* that the fair value is much, much higher than it is now, because there is virtually no real adoption (emphasis mine) This seems like an incredibly bold claim to make. I would argue that there is little adoption because many ha
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by gizmo385 4y ago
> Even though it might look reckless, it is clear that much of these staff wasn’t on critical path for running day to day operations. So, Twitter will keep running smoothly on infrastructure side Is it clear though? There is a lot more t
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by gizmo385 4y ago
> Having employees pull 80+ hr crunch time is common in the AAA game industry You say that as if the working conditions in the AAA game industry _aren't_ widely regarded as horrible... Crunch happening in the games industry isn&#x27
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by gizmo385 4y ago
"You're gonna do WHAT" - Merlin
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by gizmo385 4y ago
“ESPP” is an Employee Stock Purchase Plan and is a program that allows employees to purchase company stock, usually at a guaranteed discount
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by gizmo385 4y ago
> the War of Northern Aggression That’s some choice phrasing there. Mind explaining this framing? Pretty sure the only people I’ve seen use this phrasing were people who thought the confederacy and slavery were good things
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by gizmo385 4y ago
While I agree with the larger point you're making here, asking whether or not the company people are working for is net profitable is a poor counter here, specifically because it centers "meaning" purely around monetary amoun
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by gizmo385 4y ago
> There's way too much emotion in politics these days. I would like to see a return of rational discourse. Politics affect people's daily lives. Suggesting that people should just ignore the inherent emotional component of thes
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by gizmo385 4y ago
While that’s true, people don’t often get their paycheck in Funko Pops or LEGO.
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by gizmo385 5y ago
You could make this argument about basically any service and it comes up on HN without fail anytime something like this happen: "Just self host, it isn't hard." And sure - self hosting might not be terribly complicated but th
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by gizmo385 5y ago
And what do you plan to do after the switch to proof of stake?
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by gizmo385 5y ago
POW was never sustainable.
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by gizmo385 5y ago
With respect to reproducible builds, they're pretty extensively used in engineering but have you considered that the reason they aren't more widely used outside of the industry is that most people simply don't care? I don&#x2
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by gizmo385 5y ago
But you can already build the signal binary yourself, right? Or are you suggesting that should be the default and everybody should rebuild the binary?
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by gizmo385 5y ago
> If you’re living in a dysfunctional government then at least crypto protects you from random seizures/freezing of your assets. How so? We've already seen large scale shutdowns of crypto projects by centralized authorities lik
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by gizmo385 5y ago
> That is coming this summer. Hasn't that date been continuously pushed back? Like the parent you replied to, I'll believe when I see it. And regardless, the mining infrastructure spun up because of the gold rush on Ethereum is
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by gizmo385 5y ago
Per the government briefing a couple hours ago, over 500 structures (which are mostly homes) have burned down. That number is likely higher now. Absolutely devastating.
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by gizmo385 5y ago
No, merely that the epoch times is a rag not worthy of citing. If you want to cite the primary source, then just do that.
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by gizmo385 5y ago
I'd recommend citing a source that isn't the Epoch Times. And we shouldn't have our medical staff wasting their time on things that we know don't work just because folks who trust Facebook memes more than trained profe
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by gizmo385 5y ago
> Yes, search engine results are for amateurs (except for finding the source, spec, base documentation, etc.). If you are serious, hold yourself and your learning to higher standards. This is exceptionally gatekeepy and predicated on the

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