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Increasing performance by batching IndexedDB writes with mergebounce(opkode.com)
1 points by jcbrand 5y ago|0 comments
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by jcbrand 5y ago
IMO the shadow DOM should be used sparingly and in most cases not at all. You can use web components without the shadow DOM (I've seen them being called "custom elements" then). That's what I do and I'm happy with t
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by jcbrand 5y ago
Probably your village is competing with neighbouring villages to some extent, but to the extent that it is not, that is because there is a much larger, centralized entity (the Romanian state) that has a monopoly on violence and which is r
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by jcbrand 6y ago
If you're not paying off the principal, you're just renting from the bank without the benefit of having a landlord to fix things. Why bother?
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by jcbrand 6y ago
Even if that was the case, miners from outside of China would include the transactions that the Chinese miners don't want to include.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
I've rented three different properties (2 flats and now a house) in Germany, in three different cities, and each time it was from an individual owner, not some faceless corporation. I also own a property myself in a different country.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
I know people who live in cooperatives and I've explored it for myself as well. You might pay less in a cooperative, but you're expected to be more involved in its internal politics and in keeping things running, so you're li
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by jcbrand 6y ago
This is FUD. There is competition between miners and even if some miners for whatever reason don't want to include certain transactions (and how would they even know which transactions they want to exclude?), other miners will, because
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by jcbrand 6y ago
It's not some kind of vague consensus, just like it's not some vague consensus that gold coins are worth more than copper coins.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
You can buy gas in a depreciating currency and save in something else, like people have been doing with gold for thousands of years.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
We used to (indirectly at least) until 1971 when the US went off the gold standard in order to not be bankrupted by the Vietnam war
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by jcbrand 6y ago
The real Bitcoin will be the one that the market prefers. Why is Gold coins more valuable than copper coins? Why is the original Bitcoin more valuable than any of its forks?
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by jcbrand 6y ago
It won't be the real one, it will be a fork. Not everyone will accept such a change, so the original 21 million version of the network will still exist and will by many be considered the real bitcoin.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
The supply of gold on earth is finite. An infinitely growing cryptocurrency presupposes perpetual economic growth, which requires ever increasing population and resource extraction. Maybe that's realistic if we start colonizing Mars an
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by jcbrand 6y ago
> Bitcoin touting to be the future of money while having the same if not more problems than fiat currencies is exactly why it deserves all the scrutiny it can get. I'm totally on board that Bitcoin should be scrutinized and examined
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by jcbrand 6y ago
With Bitcoin, you've had ten years to acquire some, in multiple different ways. It's about as fair as one can hope for while being permissionless and not requiring identification. In the early days Bitcoin was given away for free
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by jcbrand 6y ago
> why would you do groceries now when you could get more if you waited for next week ? Because you're hungry and your fridge is empty? Inflation creates artificial demand and drives consumerism, thereby arguably causing more resourc
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by jcbrand 6y ago
Nobody is claiming that it's a serious investment.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
It looks to me like Nano will suffer from the free-rider problem. If Nano becomes an established currency, then a grocery chain can just rely on the existing Nano nodes to process its transactions (which will still be free), they don't
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by jcbrand 6y ago
There is no such thing as digital cash outside of cryptocurrencies. The money in your bank account is a liability of the bank, it's not cash.
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Bitcoin Is a Commons(opkode.com)
2 points by jcbrand 6y ago|0 comments
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by jcbrand 6y ago
I think the reason why you're getting so many different answers (ponzi, digital-gold, digital-cash, hyperinflation-hedge etc.) is because Bitcoin is not the same as any other money/currency/asset in existence, and people are
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by jcbrand 6y ago
I studied in Stellenbosch in 2001 and we still used Oberon then also. Some students later even formed a startup in Technopark that wrote code in Oberon the language IIRC.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
I don't need to know what the natural rate would be to know that the current rate is artificially low. Central banks drive down the rates by buying government debt that would otherwise have to be sold to the rest of the market. They&#x
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by jcbrand 6y ago
but I don't think it's related to interest rates. It absolutely does have to do with interest rates. Rates are kept artificially low by central banks due to all the debt that has been accumulated the last decades. We're at
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by jcbrand 6y ago
House prices are driven upwards due to low interest rates, so this move will most likely only exacerbate the already high house prices. I'm not sure about Denmark, but in Germany house prices have about doubled in the last 10 years, (w
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by jcbrand 6y ago
Interesting to see how programmers have turned into "engineers" the last decade or so. Do you have an engineering degree? Used to be that you'd have to be registered as a professional engineer before calling yourself one.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
Picked by people who play the lottery.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
The idea that the state needs to pull levers in order to manage things like inflation and interest rates isn't supported by all economists. It's definitely not supported by the Austrian school.
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by jcbrand 6y ago
They mentioned "social psychology" which is one of the sub-fields.

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