jiriknesl

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by jiriknesl 5y ago
Vegetarians eat eggs, drink milk, eat cheese and use leather (and other materials sourced from animals) so the scale of animal production could be lower but cannot be eliminated. Vegan alternatives in materials depend on oil production. So
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He does and you should too.
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Well, I guess you are speaking about companies who don't know what they do. But this article speaks about banks, who have hundreds of servers, ability to recover anything, full-time employed ops teams, monitoring & automation in pl
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
I don't think there's causation even when there's correlation. But your comment has led me to a thought. Yes, it's true animal in cages live longer than animal in the wild. Would I prefer to live in the ZOO or in the wil
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
When I have studied economics, our professor went into long lengths in explanation what makes one an economist. And the main thing is. To be economist, you have to act in discourse of economics. And discourse of economics is defined by econ
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Supply, demand. People don't have better use for electricity than miners. If they did, they would buy it out. So your implication is false. The fact you don't see value in cryptocurrencies doesn't equal for others it's t
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
I think your points prove the motivation lots of cryptocurrency authors have. They don't want politicians and bankers to set the rules. They want developers to set the rules. So they build systems enabling ideas they stand behind. Just
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
PoW is now done more with renewable energy than most of other sectors. Bitcoin is one of the most clean markets out there. In fact, Bitcoin is way better traceable than remittance systems used by terrorists. They smuggle cash, they use hawa
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
For sure. Cryptocurrency community has so many fanatics it's not healthy either. The thing is, some clown shouting diamond hands, HODL, to the moon, won't make it to #10 on HN I guess.
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
Western Union doesn't have business accounts in most of countries. Normal transaction doesn't allow Business -> Business payments. They cannot send money to Iran (where we also have partners). But you are right. Their fees are
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
I wouldn't name it quite, from all contents I have read from him, he is fanatically negative towards crypto.
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It depends on exchange. Each has different fees. Also, as Bitcoin is deflationary, in those 5 years, I usually got more than $2000. But this is I guess just temporary. And if Bitcoin will grow, it will stabilize (probably) and interfacing w
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> The notion that these technologies can transform financial services in any way is laughable, because there is no mechanism or specific problem they aim to address that is not currently better done with a simpler solution. Well, he hasn
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They do it a lot. The whole India outsourcing story is about exactly this.
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He/she doesn't. SW developers are not poor anywhere in the World. And what he says is not "don't enable jobs for non-US citizens, because I hate them", he says "..., because we will earn less money". It&#x
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
It depends on how you define ethics. I am for example deongological rational egoist. I can decide for myself if my acts of sending money to Iran are ethical. In my case, I send them to people who are aginst the regime, don't torture an
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
If a developer in Iran wants to work with a company in the US and they are prevented in doing so, it might be illegal, but it is ethical to bypass such a regulation.
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When you put in KYC/AML in place, you lose ability to employ people in restricted countries easily. How do you employ someone in Iran if the US government or Iranian government is against? Bypassing regulations is a great perk.
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
Paying lower taxes is nothing like kill or rape. There are lots of internet-only companies for which the government did absolutely nothing.
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So it depends. For example in Argentina, they AFAIK have two conversion rates. When you use a normal bank account, you have to use government conversion rate that's 50% of black market rate between Argentinian pesos and USDs. With Bitc
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
I use crypto (and mainly Bitcoin) to pay for three years every month now. Average fee over those years is more like $1. In comparison with $20 transaction fees my bank asks when I transact for example from EU to SouthAm, zero hassle and no
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
I think, the biggest issue with UML is that it helps with things that doesn't need such a ceremony and doesn't help in things where you would need it. Modeling database structures, class diagrams, interactions between components i
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by jiriknesl 6y ago
I think, there are three things in this one. JVM, Java itself and how it is used. JVM is great. I think it gets a lot of love (in comparison with .NET Core which is IMHO as good as JVM). In this one, you see JVM everywhere except desktop ap
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by jiriknesl 6y ago
When you are building wealth, you are likely to be young (so often healthy) and there is so much information online, libraries cost nothing. So I don't think this is a valid argument.
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Any cutoff between use and overuse is artificial. It is still use. If it is use, and if it is with billions of people, one day, some resources will be consumed. Maybe sooner, maybe later, but on million-years-scale, it doesn't make any
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by jiriknesl 6y ago
Humankind itself is the reason. Since bronze age, we mine, use the nature and lower diversity of species. There is nothing you can do about it. People cannot live without using scarce resources, if they aren't in "stone age"
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My problem is that human activity for thousands of years is focused on using resources and basically consuming the planet. We take for example iron ore in a places rich with iron, we turn them into the product and spread them across the wor
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by jiriknesl 6y ago
Hot take: If something is a good idea, you don't need a totalitarianism to convince people to value them and change their behavior. If people don't change their behavior, it isn't either that good idea, or the person is not g
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Maybe there are lots of people from the UK here.
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I think this movement comes approximately 10 years late. Microservices led to the growth of devstacks that has replaced frameworks a lot. I don't know a lot of people who start new projects with big frameworks (maybe Java guys), it&#x2

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