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by javert 4y ago
To me it feels like someone could rethink the unix tools in the way you're talking about, and maybe it could become a successful and widely-adopted project. Because a suite of tools like this could live alongside the old unix stuff. Th
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by javert 4y ago
> So then just don't respond to me...? This comes across as an admission that your earlier comment was not genuine, but I can't believe you actually mean that. It's also gross behavior, because you've encouraged me to
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by javert 4y ago
> "Many people say" this because they aren't the ones with the power. You're literally saying that here that everyone who makes the argument that bitcoin creates a positive transformation of power---which is at least
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by javert 4y ago
> "Many people say" this because they aren't the ones with the power. No, they are saying it because they believe it. To use my prior example, they think it's better to transform the kind of power Dick Cheney or Berni
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by javert 4y ago
Uh, the bitcoin community has come out unilaterally against the concept of premining and ICOs. Bitcoiners fucking hate that shit and have been heavily criticizing it from when it first started. Which was substantially after bitcoin starte
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by javert 4y ago
I'm definitely not missing the point.
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by javert 4y ago
I see what you're saying, but I think that's too narrow of a reading of his comment, but it doesn't really matter.
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by javert 4y ago
> Crypto is "cult by design" in much the way all greater-fool scams are. If you study the history of bitcoin (or were around and paying attention), it wasn't at all designed as a cult or a scam. So this is factually wrong.
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by javert 4y ago
i got these Bose QuietComfort noise cancelling earbuds, and they are like magic, cancelling out bass noise from nearby outdoor stereos. i can't believe how well they work. I live by the beach where people play loud music---the concrete
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by javert 4y ago
sounds like literal torture. i don't think you are joking, but it's hard to be sure.
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by javert 4y ago
Ah, thank you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Ordinal_dates Looks like I'm using the second format (YYYYDDD) with the first two year digits truncated.
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by javert 4y ago
As I stated in my comment, I use this in tooling made for myself only.
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by javert 4y ago
I noticed on his websites that he likes to write dates in a format like "2009-121" or "2006-257", i.e., year and then day of year (1..366). I also use that concept, though I write it as XXYYY where XX is years post 2000
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by javert 4y ago
I haven't burned myself in any significant way (i.e. seriously), but apologies for an admittedly imperfect example. Here is a better example: "Live by cooking, expect to die by getting burned." That's the kind of argumen
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by javert 5y ago
That statement is just blatantly illogical. It's like saying, "if you cook using heat, you can expect to burn yourself sometimes." If you make a living under a strong copyright system, you should expect to be perfectly fine a
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by javert 5y ago
Teach Yourself David Deutsch’s Constructor Theory in 21 Days
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by javert 5y ago
The problem is that political comments lead to unpleasant flame wars. Sure, people can express excitement. I didn't speak against that. You're doing a bait and switch by presenting it that way. Expressing excitement is very differ
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by javert 5y ago
I don't think the conclusion you reach follows from the premises. There is unfairness in the world. That does not mean that HN is obligated to be a soapbox for all unfairness. Anyway, comments on HN should be intellectually substantive
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by javert 5y ago
Seems like you are agreeing with me?
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by javert 5y ago
HN is not a political forum. I get that we like to talk politics here, and that's all well and good. But having someone make a brand new account to make a political opinion post that has little to no intellectual content seems li
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by javert 5y ago
> Vitalik proposed a theory... That is not at all original to Vitalik. It pre-exists in the bitcoin community and maybe is even older than that.
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by javert 5y ago
> Spotify has been publicly advocating for platform fairness Big companies arguing for "fairness" is absurd and in the long run it will blow up in their faces. In a society that prioritizes "fairness" over capitalism,
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by javert 5y ago
> Bitcoin is not a viable currency. It's value is not anywhere near stable enough. It can't go from zero to stable overnight. It has to start somewhere and gain stability over a long period of time. > It's honestly incr
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by javert 5y ago
My comment explains in detail the specific mechanism I'm concerned about in a way that everyone can understand it. Your comment regurgitates something from a textbook that people have on reason to actually trust. I don't have a pr
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by javert 5y ago
It's because US monetary policy has created an enormous transfer of wealth to the wealthy and out of the general economy. They do this by extending credit at low interest rates with the collective understanding that the value of the do
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by javert 5y ago
I don't think it's inevitable, but bitcoin can be audited and transferred immensely more easily than gold. The fact that historically, foreign countries kept gold in vaults in the US, speaks to this. Also, gold gets mined at a fas
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by javert 5y ago
> It means nothing to keyboard warriors here. (entire comment) This kind of insult (you're referring to me, but have probably misconstrued what I said) is not OK on HN. There is no intellectual content at all in what you said. Flagg
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by javert 5y ago
So what if it feeds his narrative? "The teacher punishing the bully feeds the bully's narrative that school is unfair." "Feeding a narrative" is never a reason to not do the right thing.
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by javert 5y ago
It's not a misnomer. And, asserting NATO air dominance in Ukraine is easy and guaranteed to succeed with de minimis cost (in lives and/or military equipment). Whereas creating land dominance with tanks is another matter. A no-fly
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by javert 5y ago
> On a pedantic level Well, if you're going to be pedantic: There's a fundamental distinction, which you're missing, between initiated force and defensive force. When someone robs or murders, that's initiated force. W

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