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by hudon 3y ago
This is not correct, nodes follow the longest valid chain. The word valid is key, and therein lie the politics.
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by hudon 3y ago
We can change Bitcoin's code to keep emitting beyond 21 million units. The consensus isn't there, yet , but nothing physical is preventing that from ever happening... Bitcoin's supply limit is a policy (ie. political), not a
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by hudon 3y ago
If voting is not political, you'll have to present your definition of "political", as you're using an abnormal definition.
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by hudon 3y ago
cryptography is based on non repudiation, but cryptocurrency is just human-written codebases. You can very much fork/modify/influence/introduce bugs in/backdoor/etc. code. It fails to promote cryptography's qu
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Pivot to AI: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain(amycastor.com)
3 points by hudon 3y ago|0 comments
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by hudon 3y ago
they're not saying lifestyle expenses are a tax in themselves, but rather the inflation on the lifestyle expense is a tax (ie. "cost of living"), as well as the need for certain expenses to begin with (eg. the need for a nann
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by hudon 3y ago
Sorry to be blunt, but it's probably because of how crypto is a Rube Goldberg machine that attracts similar tinkerers as those attracted by Haskell's Rube Goldberg machine aspects. Both technologies seem to be doing a lot of compl
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by hudon 3y ago
How is the C type system slowing you down? I thought the complaints around C productivity were around memory management and low-level APIs (both of which can be mitigated using libraries: you can “abstract away” these problems and stay in C
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by hudon 3y ago
That is addressed at the end of the article. > Why didn’t you just move to a different part of SF? > I wanted to live in a dense, central area and not in a single family house that’s 4 miles from downtown. Also, my neighborhood was pe
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by hudon 3y ago
The downvotes could be because your comment doesn’t add to the discussion but rather seems to be needlessly stoking some flames…
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by hudon 3y ago
Maybe we're not talking about the same people, then. I am repeating almost verbatim what the folks at the Centre for Humane Technology say here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ
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by hudon 3y ago
This is missing a key argument from the AI-cautious, which is that we shouldn't "pause AI development", but rather "pause public deployment". The case for only pausing the public deployment solves the "China pr
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by hudon 3y ago
The way I would play this is use my potential skills in open source to boost my reputation, experience, and credibility, and then be able to charge more for consulting gigs after the fact. Not profit from the OSS directly, but build up my i
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by hudon 3y ago
I wouldn't say it definitely owns that niche, yet, until there is empirical evidence of how using Rust correlates to safer software. Until then, I think it's a hope founded on a substantive argument (ie. the borrow checker) that i
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by hudon 3y ago
The web was immensely useful before, during, and after the dot-com bubble. Debate about its utility didn't last long because of how obviously useful the Internet was. Skeptics were proven wrong in a matter of weeks or months. These are
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by hudon 3y ago
sure, but the thing that's broken was just that, a "thing". It wasn't a "lightbulb", because it was never able to produce light. It's a broken "bulb", at best, and that's a correct use of th
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by hudon 3y ago
"I have failed to invent a light bulb" Broken implies it was working to begin with, or can be compared to something that works, as the post you're replying to states.
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by hudon 3y ago
What you're describing is less a statement on moats and more a statement on markets. Plumbers in one location share the market (the potential clients in that area), and as the parent comment states, there is no moat in that given marke
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by hudon 4y ago
Are you limiting your argument to software? Because it's been possible to curtail the use of non-software technology. Drugs, guns, cigarettes, drones, etc. Now even if you look at software, it's not clear to me that it's imp
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by hudon 4y ago
part of the book is an exhortation for introspection, to ask yourself what you really want out of a business (lifestyle, cash flow, money, etc.), and to realize that starting a business involves working ON your business, not IN it. There&#x
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by hudon 4y ago
The “don’t reinvent the wheel “ argument is overstated. If you’re avoiding frameworks, you tend to build up your own libs that “plug and play”. It’s not like you rewrite a sessions lib every time you build a new backend server. You copy the
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by hudon 4y ago
Isn’t that what orgs like the Apache Software foundation do?
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by hudon 4y ago
At some point you need to stop seeking and start building, and this requires you to set down some axioms to build upon. It requires you to be ok with your “bubble” and run with it. There is nothing inherently wrong with a bubble, it’s just
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by hudon 4y ago
I don’t know if you’ve used htmx, but it makes one way more productive in building websites that can behave like SPAs without the need for all the junk that one needs to get it going. All you need is html templates and a backend server. No
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by hudon 4y ago
This is a killer combination. Nothing has beaten the speed of iteration with Apache+PHP. You can also run a Go FastCGI server to deal with whatever you don’t want to put in PHP (jobs, complex business logic, performance sensitive logic, etc
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by hudon 4y ago
> you're either in the religious freedoms camp or the bodily autonomy camp An abortion kills a baby by directly attacking his or her body (dismemberment, lethal injection, etc.). You can firmly be in the bodily autonomy camp and in
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by hudon 4y ago
> This is basically the advice we'd give to people to stop looking at the birds, to focus on plowing the field in front of them. I think you leaped to a conclusion here. Parent post is about immoderate distraction, not having horse
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by hudon 4y ago
Aside from the all the FP-style GUI frameworks others have listed, it's also worth noting video game development adopting "data oriented design" [0], rather than OOP (usually in C++). [0] https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by hudon 4y ago
I disagree. Consider the Brainfuck argument. You can totally blame Brainfuck and its “paradigm” for detrimental consequences. My point is it’s easier to modularize and encapsulate properly with procedural or functional paradigms because the
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by hudon 4y ago
In terms of readability and maintainability, one problem with OOP is the development process that tends to go with it, where you're asked to create upfront the separation of concerns, before code has had a chance to run and breathe for

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