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by hapless 13y ago
This is an implementation of Beam on the JVM, not an implementation of Erlang-the-language. It offers few, if any, of the advantages of being a JVM-native language. (e.g. java interop)
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by hapless 13y ago
This is true, but it misses the point: Erlang is missing enough things that this fellow would rather rewrite OTP in Lua than deal with Erlang. e.g. string handling
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by hapless 13y ago
I meant literal CPUs, in the sense of a microprocessor chip. The ECL VAXen were not killed off by RISC or 486es. They were killed off by CMOS chip-based VAX implementations. The last generations of VAX microprocessors were about 90% as fast
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by hapless 13y ago
By the time you were a sysadmin of a 750, in 1992, several generations of newer VAX chipsets had come and gone. The later VAX CPUs were considerably faster than a 486.
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by hapless 13y ago
You have a de facto monetary policy imposed on you whether you like it or not. It is "coercion" only in the sense that it is outside your personal control. This can be the blind "coercion" of a computer algorithm, the
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by hapless 13y ago
It is true that QE has tremendously increased the money supply. Inflation remains around 1%. Inflation and money supply do not have a simple or linear relationship. The oil thing is nonsense. All oil sales are enumerated in USD for histori
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by hapless 13y ago
You heard it here, first, folks. A citizen being asked to pay his legal due in taxes is exactly the same as being repeatedly robbed by thugs .
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by hapless 13y ago
If you use gold as your currency, your money supply is determined by the vagaries of the gold-mining industry vis a vis the economy. When the economy is booming, if not enough gold is being mined to satisfy the need, you will have a tight m
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by hapless 13y ago
You give your BTC to MtGox. At this point, you no longer hold your BTC . You have exchanged BTC for a MtGox-denominated currency that is ostensibly convertible to BTC. At that point, nothing stops MtGox from operating a fractional rese
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by hapless 13y ago
I have not, and I will not in the future. Just as one does not read alchemical texts for insight into modern chemistry, I have not spent very much of my life reading the Austrian school. There is certainly a great deal of historical interes
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by hapless 13y ago
I do indeed have answers. I doubt they will satisfy you. 1. Central banks are ranked on two measures: a.) How independent are they? Are they easily swayed by politicians? b.) How well do they meet their mandates? The U.S. Fed is universall
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by hapless 13y ago
Right now a huge amount of bitcoin is stored in accounts in exchanges. Just as you exchange cash for bank-denominated currency ("checking"), you exchange BTC for MtGox-denominated "currency" (your MtGox balance) MtGox j
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by hapless 13y ago
Parodying only the convenient criticisms is an important editorial choice by the author.
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by hapless 13y ago
Nothing about bitcoin's design prevents fractional reserve banking. You just have to place an inordinate amount of trust in your BTC bank (perversely misnamed "exchanges") Central banking and fractional reserve banking are o
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by hapless 13y ago
I am absolutely not joking, and the fact that the value of money can be controlled by a central authority is a feature not a bug .
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by hapless 13y ago
I came to this conclusion after spending a significant fraction of my too-short lifespan studying how money works. I am hardly an expert. But I (apparently) know a lot more than the average Joe. Seeing the rash of "end the fed"
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by hapless 13y ago
If everything were available over the counter, the presumption of safety would disappear, and we wouldn't have a problem. As it is, we have a two tier system. Consumers are trained that OTC drugs are so safe they barely have to glan
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by hapless 13y ago
Cash was "adopted" because it is backed by the United States Federal Reserve System. It is legal tender . It is fungible: every checking account is equal. It is issued by regulated institutions, people who sue you are obliged t
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by hapless 13y ago
To address these one by one: 1. My local government can choose to accept anything they want. The IRS, however, will want cash. They are not obligated to talk to your broker-of-choice about BTC. 2. Yes, "completely artificial."
530.
by hapless 13y ago
For the satire to work, the parodied criticisms have to make sense when applied to central banking systems. But they don't. When satire doesn't work, the author looks sillier than your target. I don't think this was a goal.
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by hapless 13y ago
The U.S. will be implementing chip-and-pin in 2015.
532.
by hapless 13y ago
Satire works when you hold folly up to ridicule. Central banking is possibly the greatest human invention since sanitation. The U.S. central banking system ranks among the finest of its kind. Bitcoin handles 7 transactions a second on a g
533.
by hapless 13y ago
Tylenol should probably not be available over the counter. It has a narrow therapeutic index and safer, equally effective alternatives.
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by hapless 13y ago
There are few, if any, documented cases of illness being transmitted by cash. This is why regulation does not require food handlers to take special precautions while handling cash.
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by hapless 13y ago
The game theory considerations of not watching ads do not interest me nearly as much as not watching ads.
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by hapless 13y ago
The only ads that have ever been useful to me, even once, in my entire life, were google search ads. Contextual ads presented to me when I am already looking for something. Coincidentally, in 2014, those are the only ads I don't block
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by hapless 13y ago
This is definitely the best model. But it doesn't matter. Up-front, I have no way to know which exploitative model is going to be used. Just seeing IAPs are involved is enough to turn me off. It's not worth the effort to invest
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by hapless 13y ago
nope. try it: set HOME; echo $HOME. on IRIX, $HOME for root is almost certainly root. So the resulting command is rm -rf /
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by hapless 13y ago
Most midwestern cities have no pedestrian traffic downtown. That is perfectly normal across much of America. In a typical midwestern city, anyone who can afford it commutes to the central business district by car. They live, shop, and eat
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by hapless 13y ago
"bundle package" caches the source packages, the gems themselves. not the artifacts produced by installing the gems.

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