krupan

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by krupan 3y ago
Lawns are beautiful and useful. Are we not allowed to expend resources for beautiful and useful things?
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by krupan 3y ago
If leaves are just left alone they cover your grass and kill it
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by krupan 3y ago
Just block YouTube, your kids will find other things to do. If you find a good video then watch it with them on your device
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by krupan 3y ago
Lol! What even is property?
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by krupan 3y ago
"Intellectual property" is a huge misnomer and it should not indicate that software development is a "capital" investment. If you disagree, I'm curious what you think about this: if the software you develop is all o
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by krupan 3y ago
Yes
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by krupan 3y ago
Are those the only two options?
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by krupan 3y ago
Why does she need to pay more taxes because she owns vacation homes? If they are generating income for her then income tax would make sure she's paying her fair share. Certainly whatever income she used to buy those homes was also ta
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by krupan 3y ago
My favorite interviews are when they give me some code to read and understand, and then either test or fix bugs or add a feature to. That is what we all spend bulk of our time doing and so it makes sense to make that the "technical ch
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by krupan 3y ago
It's so weird to me that with our income tax laws we to try and make sure they are fair and taxing people according to their means. You make more income, you pay more taxes, you make less income, you pay less taxes. But then we layer
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by krupan 3y ago
Let me try and say it more simply: Your argument is kinda like saying, "this 1 ton pickup uses too much gas." My argument is kinda like saying, "this 1 ton pickup uses too much gas, if all you are doing is driving yourself ar
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by krupan 3y ago
"Programmers often put in speed hacks based on performance knowledge which is outdated or inapplicable to the target platform. Separating cases lets the programmer supply their high-level knowledge about what values are likely to be en
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by krupan 3y ago
I was trying to acknowledge that. Passkeys, passwords, same result if someone has physical access to your phone. The improvement is that passwords don't require physical access to your phone, there are other ways to steal those like
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by krupan 3y ago
It will never get to that point completely, but we can definitely make strides towards it
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by krupan 3y ago
any of those is an improvement over passwords
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by krupan 3y ago
So we should stick to game over passwords, that don't even require device access, just a clever phishing email or hacking a weak website that has a copy of your password that, oops, you reused on 10 other websites?
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by krupan 3y ago
phishing, password reuse on easily hackable websites, strong unguessable passwords require more work that most people will do and they require storage on some device just like passkeys anyway.
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by krupan 3y ago
your phone, but the complaint in the original article is about those who don't use great security practices, which is most of us. Passkeys limit the attack surface to just your phone. With passkeys, attackers can't get your pa
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by krupan 3y ago
This! If they pown your phone, they've got all your passwords that you've stored on it. Passwords, passkeys, it doesn't matter. I hate all the resistance to even small improvements over passwords (like passkeys). The only
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by krupan 3y ago
Also, lightning is not a joke, it is used everyday. Take a look at the Strike app for an example, it's basically venmo, but using lightning under the hood.
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by krupan 3y ago
"knows they'll get the money" is different than actually has the money. And they don't know, there could be a chargeback, the credit card company could decide their business is illegitimate and withhold funds, the feder
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by krupan 3y ago
Yes, that happened, but in the long run it failed and Vitalik still reigns supreme over the original Ethereum, despite him breaking one of the central promises of Ethereum in that scenario (the promise that "code is law"). Ethereu
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by krupan 3y ago
Saying bitcoin has had plenty of time is laughable. Do you think anyone said that about the internet in 1985 maybe? When you start talking about scams and get rich quick schemes are unfairly grouping all of "crypto" with bitcoin.
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by krupan 3y ago
I assume you don't know how bitcoin works because you are using the same arguments against it that most ignorant people use. The fact that you do know about it and you are still boiling things down to those explanations/arguments
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by krupan 3y ago
I suppose, but it's just not a very useful number. If you are sending a billion dollars of Bitcoin from one address to another, the transaction fee could be one dollar. No bank in this universe will do that amount for that cheap (and
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by krupan 3y ago
The temptation for sarcasm here is so high...15 whole years huh? This isn't a JavaScript framework we are talking about here. A secure and reliable financial system has very different properties than a consumer product like an iPhone
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by krupan 3y ago
Yeah, you don't even have the right units on that metric, Bitcoin fees are not per transaction. They are not scaled by the amount of Bitcoin you are transacting either. It's a per byte fee. Different transactions take up more o
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by krupan 3y ago
Some people complain Bitcoin isn't anonymous enough, others complain that it doesn't have built-in protection that would absolutely require an invasion of privacy
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by krupan 3y ago
Bitcoin wallets can also give you a notification instantly that your transaction is "moving through the system" if that's all you want. The real test of transaction settlement time is how quickly you can withdraw physical dol
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by krupan 3y ago
Does it still exist, with people actually using it? Is that what you were referring to originally?

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