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by jasmer 4y ago
It's a resonant issue: if everyone is taught Python, it's the tool they will reach for. And of course, Python is much more broadly applicable. I don't like to develop in C++ because it's a tiresome mess of issues that do
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by jasmer 4y ago
The bank manager will go to jail if he doesn't give you your money. And then the bank will give you your money. There is a 'system' of laws and regulations. This is unlike true decentralization i.e. 'trustless', whi
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by jasmer 4y ago
Yea, not really. The wild west was wild. People used to make up their own banknotes, there were fraud and schemes everywhere. We take for granted that our bank won't steal our deposits, that's a new concept. Most of that is derive
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by jasmer 4y ago
Yeah I don't think this is true. GDP is an economic measurement, not some kind of intrinsic thing. So you can make a beautiful thing for your home - not GDP. Make it and give it to someone - not GDP either. Pretty sure money has to cha
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by jasmer 4y ago
Thanks for that comment, but one small thing - in the military it's really not 'planning' so much as it is 'training' (or 'preparing'). This actually makes the analogy a bit closer to startupland. The #1 f
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by jasmer 4y ago
You'll know it when you see it. My gosh man the things I tried to do as a young Eng. myself - some of the tedious things I did to avoid copying strings or this or that! It's hard to see how such things add to 'complexity&#x27
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by jasmer 4y ago
I beg to differ. What has to be 'unlearned' is that Engineers think they have a clear vision of what they need to do ... but in reality they don't. This largely has to do with 'unknown unknowns', particularly in req
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by jasmer 4y ago
Let's consider the good news here: we can have NGOs provide effective, foundational services for reasonable costs. Some issues belong in the 'commons' due to elements of 'public good'. I'm not making a politica
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by jasmer 4y ago
It's possible you don't have experiences with community spaces? My father is getting up there in terms of age, and hangs out with his buddies every single day after 'work time' (most of them don't work). They go to
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by jasmer 4y ago
'3rd space' is a conceptual 'space', not a physical space. It just means places shared by a local community wherein there are material social connections: aka 'Bowling Club', 'Ladies Auxiliary of the local
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by jasmer 4y ago
Yes, 'Families' are a fairly foundational artifact of the '3rd space' concept. It's a bit of a sensitive social issue which relates to 'someone at home', obviously almost always the mother. I have no doubt
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by jasmer 4y ago
We have such an absence of '3rd space' areas, otherwise called 'community spaces' that literally the language seems to be missing, and we can nary fathom it into the analysis! I would have imagined that the entire discus
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by jasmer 4y ago
Good points, but most CEO's don't really earn that much, and even net worth generally several million. And I don't mean to discount your experience, but even a lot of 'big time' CEO's are not worth 'hundre
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by jasmer 4y ago
I'm a bit dismayed at the attempts at moral equivalence here. An imperial, totalitarian regime which currently imprisons people for being of a specific ethnicity (or any arbitrary reason), and has no measure of a proper judicial system
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by jasmer 4y ago
Thank god for the clueless, who keep the world running. I share some of the author's cynicism, but the thesis is a bit flawed. There's a very key mistake, often made from a populist perspective (those who have never had power) tha
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by jasmer 4y ago
The code at Ticketmaster is not a 'smart contract' - I mean it's reasonable to use that as an example to clarify the similarity between TM and 'defi contracts' - however, it truly is 'just code'. There&#x2
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by jasmer 4y ago
They are not 'contracts'. It's just code. Which some people can try to pass of as 'contracts', which is fine, but future magistrates will decide how much they are really contracts. That legal outcome is not clear so
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by jasmer 4y ago
It's all 'junk' from a scientific materialist perspective. It's a chemical reaction just like any other - it's random noise. There's no (scientific materialist) reason to attribute 'junk' or 'not
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by jasmer 4y ago
This lady is doing important work; her comments are thoughtful, balanced, not overtly cynical or vindictive, not hyperbolic, stated fairly plainly. I don't sense she's trying to get super famous from being an antagonist. Refreshin