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by jshen 5y ago
I don’t have time to compile a list, but if you listen to crypto proponents you frequently hear advocacy for circumventing democratically enacted laws and institutions like fiat currency, taxation, financial regulation, international regula
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by jshen 5y ago
I love how the crypto community encourages circumventing laws, UNTIL someone steals from them using their own “smart” contract then calls on authorities for help.
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Ah yes, then there is the third big complexity. Some devs are on Mac, some windows, some Linux, and a few rare people on BSD.
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by jshen 5y ago
This has not been my experience. First, I work on lots of code bases and this is where a lot of the brittleness comes from. They don’t use the same versions of the same things. Second, C dependencies are a giant pain in the ass when you add
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by jshen 5y ago
If you willfully ignore regulations you don’t like, ones that were established through democratic processes, and advocate for others doing the same … that’s undemocratic lawlessness. If instead you are saying that it’s good to find loophole
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by jshen 5y ago
What you are advocating for is undemocratic lawlessness. Which, ultimately, is what many arguments for crypto boil down to.
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by jshen 5y ago
It’s almost like the finance system we have today is the result of complex adaptation. It’s not perfect, but it seems less corrupt, more stable, more approachable, and more useful than the crypto space.
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by jshen 5y ago
You and I have very different ideas about the definition of democratic.
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by jshen 5y ago
Next they’ll learn why we have this thing called democracy and how it’s used to enact laws and oversee enforcement. Wait, what is crypto about again? I can’t figure it out.
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by jshen 5y ago
Most of Europe is a good example of alternatives.
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by jshen 5y ago
I think there are two big flaws in PGs essay. 1. This problem of constant interruptions through email, slack, etc affects everyone. It's extremely arrogant to pretend that it's primarily a problem for the special engineers. (I&#x2
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by jshen 5y ago
I don’t know if Paul G has ever been a leader of a large organization, but he gets it wrong when it comes to managers. Managers and executives need deep work time as well, they just have higher demands to context switch more frequently than
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by jshen 5y ago
Isn’t one of the beauties of lisp is that you don’t need much from the language creator. It should be far more stable than non-lisp languages, and you can implement most ideas with macros outside of the core language.
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by jshen 5y ago
Sent you a LinkedIn request. Wouldn’t let me put a message with it.
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by jshen 5y ago
Thanks for the great convo, it’s so rare on the internet!
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by jshen 5y ago
Yeah, I think we mostly agree, but we do have this one small disagreement. If I understand you correctly, you are saying that human nature naturally leads to a system that demands superexponential growth. Let me know if I'm misundersta
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by jshen 5y ago
"What parts of economics seem Western and not objective to you?" I don't think the western part is relevant to the point I was making. I probably should have left it out. I was inartfully trying to point out that our current
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by jshen 5y ago
That’s a deep question, I’ll try to answer later when I have time to do it justice. On the off chance I don’t, the book “Debt: The First 5000 Years” is pretty close to my view of it. Also, if you want a less “economics” view of it, I’d reco
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by jshen 5y ago
I’d say that the western view of economics has taken over most of the world with minor variations here and there. That includes countries like China. I define this view as an economy predicated on exponential (or superexponential) growth.
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by jshen 5y ago
Ultimately, our current economic system is based on superexponential growth, and this cannot be sustained. Really bad things are going to happen if we don’t change this. Reference: https://www.worldometers.info/world-populat
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by jshen 5y ago
https://mashable.com/article/influencers-altcoin-scams
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by jshen 5y ago
That’s because a recruiter or HR person screens resumes at most big companies. I always tell them to send me all the resumes so I can screen them myself. Have to find a way to get past the HR screen until you have experience. Somethings tha
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by jshen 5y ago
We do, but that’s not the point. Someone suggested that new comp sci grads are having a very hard time finding work. I don’t believe that given how hot the market is right now. If anyone is having real trouble, then they are either being se
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by jshen 5y ago
I’ve implemented it several times, and it hasn’t been clearly better. Don’t get me wrong, the alternatives haven’t been great either. I think it’s just hard when you have large organizations, large number of systems some of which are decade
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by jshen 5y ago
We offices in several cities. LA, Seattle, and more.
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by jshen 5y ago
It is admittedly an oversimplification for affect, but it’s more or less what you said. Maybe I’ve worked at bigger companies, we have over 1000 devs in my division, and trying to get them all aligned is very very difficult. I think central
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by jshen 5y ago
Starting salaries were around 75-80k ten years ago. Again, there’s a contradiction in the claim that college grads in comp sci can’t find jobs, and the suggestion you are making.
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by jshen 5y ago
:shakes-fists: why doesn’t everyone understand software engineering as well as the software engineers. Wait, let’s force it on them, what could go wrong?
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by jshen 5y ago
In short, making streaming architectures work require great central planing, a grand architect in the sky, or they fail miserably. I think that is an argument against streaming architectures ;)
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by jshen 5y ago
We’re not a big tech company, so comp isn’t quite what it is at Amazon, FB, etc. but, it’s solid. 100k+ salary, annual grant of restricted stock units, good health and other benefits etc. Having said that, there’s a contradiction in claimin

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