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by gjulianm 5y ago
It's a basic fact. If a problem is caused by something that is not related to lack of technology, you won't solve it with a technical solution. This is obvious in any other field (for example, you won't see a doctor that says
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> I'm sure most people think to themselves "I'm sure if the papers were legitimate then that person would be in jail, there must be something else going on". When you codify the system entirely, and people buy into it
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> You keep saying "why haven't they done it yet then?" while they are actively working on it. I don't know why it took so long, but it's happening now. Yep, and we have seen some government bodies using Github or
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> I didn't say it would be. You said it would enable it. But the stopper about that implementation is not ownership tracking, it's integration. So it's an use case that's not enabled by NFTs, just an use case where yo
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> You're wrong about "lacking initiative and the detailed procedures" - that's exactly what blockchains were created for: A response to opaque and unreliable systems. This is the solution to a systematic problem in g
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Is there a source for that? Last time I checked there weren't reliable reports even on total energy usage, much less energy sources.
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> NFTs could enable people to transfer digital assets between platforms without needing the platforms to talk to one another. I could buy an NFT of a 3D model of some Yeezy sneakers, and then bring that NFT to Fortnite for my avatar to w
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> I tried recently to explain to someone that cryptographically codifying law and contracts can be beneficial in a lot of ways (like transparency/enforcement in governance) There's another trend with crypto discussions which re
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by gjulianm 5y ago
It's not a straw man. Yes, if the energy mix was only reliant of renewables, energy usage wouldn't be as much as a problem. But it is not, and won't be in years, decades, so we can't just brush off the energy usage of cr
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> Well, it's still what you do every time you create a new project. Yep, and it is a pain in the ass when the package you want to use creates a dependency conflict. Luckily, at that stage I can still search for an alternative with l
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> You realize that if that was "impossible" and "never happening", then absolutely no Python environment would be working ever? No, it means that you can't be fully sure that upgrading everything to the latest ve
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> Again, if all python package were up to date as in "working together at this point in time" then `pip upgrade` would work. That is impossible, it will never happen. Packages will have different maintenance cycles, some will g
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> However, installing every dependency in the same environment is also what distro package managers do, I don't see that as a recipe for disaster, Distro packages are done in a way where it's hard to get conflicts. I haven&#x27
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I had the same idea about Notion before, and after using it the best way I have to describe is that it is a database manager, and what can it do is up to you. You can use it for simple note taking (and it does have nice features for that),
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I've run into problems when running pip install --user. Someone installs a package in the user environment, and that works. But later you'll install a package in a shared virtualenv (because a Python program needs to run as a serv
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by gjulianm 5y ago
No standard of evidence will solve the fact that you can't ever know the true motives of someone. If someone gets fired because their boss says it was for poor performance, you won't ever know that the thing that the boss cared fo
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> If the issue is people getting fired for ignoring a message, make firing people for not being available 24/7 illegal. It's much more difficult to prove that a worker is being fired for not being available 24/7 when they
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There's a difference between responsibility at all levels for all types of calls, which is the one of the managers; and responsibilities for doing things they know can cause accidents. Engineers are not machines that carry on orders mi
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I think the point is that the miners already have the GPUs, they will probably switch their operations to mining other coins/forks instead of just giving up on everything.
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If a manager makes a wrong call and the engineers know that it's so wrong it can lead to accidents, they absolutely do have a responsibility if they obey that call.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
For complex notation I had a keyboard distribution with symbols available (e.g., α is alt-a, ∩ is alt + shift + i, ∈ is alt + shift + [) and also made commands to abbreviate, which made it faster than writing (and more consistent). The pace
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> but everyone else is better served by handwritten notes. Completely disagree here. You need to find the setup that works for you, and for a lot of people that setup will be taking notes in a computer. And I know this because in my clas
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by gjulianm 5y ago
An important part missing in this is to add symbols to your keyboard layout. Instead of typing \alpha, just type α. To type \cap, write ∩. I used a StackOverflow answer [1] to build a key layout [2] for my Spanish mac keyboard, but this sho
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I took notes on my courses in LaTeX, and I didn't find it detrimental. If anything, it was way faster to write and understand them later. And it is easier to write whatever you need to keep track of the lecture and then modify it later
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> "bad" contributions is something that's not a part of this discussion It is, the GP said that renting is a leech and you said "but what if I buy the house with money from my contributions". If doing something
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> What if the money you buy the properties with is a result of your contributions? This isn't math. Prior "good" contributions to society don't even out "bad" contributions, no matter how we define them. To
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by gjulianm 5y ago
You can challenge people and things while being trustworthy and friendly. I've found it's the best way to do it, actually.
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Not many surprises. I'd place trustworthiness higher than friendliness, but both of those qualities are the things that matter in terms of making your job easier. A reliable mediocre programmer is better than an unreliable good one: yo
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The only commentary that is set up is "colonization and oppression is bad", there's not much more there.
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Again, isn't this "the youths these day" argument again with no data to back it up? I mean, to put a quick example, Tenet requires a level of attention that other movies don't require. Also, from the movie it's not

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