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by lukeramsden 5y ago
The same can be applied to your comment of "Crypto doesn't really solve a problem that needed solving". That's not an axiom, thats a subjective opinion, saying its not useful because it's not useful. Plenty of peopl
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
> Sooner or later, the founders of BTC (for example) will start to cash out. At the moment, they seem to be cashing out gradually Who are these "BTC founders" that are cashing out gradually? The only actual founder of Bitcoin,
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
That's the central bank narrative, whether its a good thing or not I think is still up for debate. Regardless, this can still be done with crypto (in fact, Ethereum is inflationary and not fixed cap like Bitcoin is), except that specul
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
Extremely easy. The bookkeeping for tax is less easy though.
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
How does DMCA handle steganography? For example, you could post hex-encoded bytes of a copyrighted image in a Facebook post - obviously a trivial example, but with a minor amount of effort and some more obtuse encoding it would be nigh-on i
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
> 1. There's no set of players who are guaranteed to win Pension fund managers are guaranteed to win, and they win more as life expectancy goes down. > 2. There's no set of players who are guaranteed to lose Literally everyb
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
> I just don't see how doing everything in a web3 solves anything better than regulations. Maybe - but then, good luck getting every single country in the world, to agree on identical, completely open regulations way, way more advan
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
Then you can use Bitcoin Lightning, a micropayments network layered on top of Bitcoin, and settled on-chain. There are solutions to these things, it's still just an early market.
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
On the testnet you can get free ETH to deploy contract(s).
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
There are also offerings that are already regulated and licensed by the FCA, so as long as you stay within their consumer credit guidelines it's not a "risky play".
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
Double digit ms in my experience. Not including the fact that V2 will renegotiate TLS constantly when it could just keep the socket open.
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
Inngest looks very cool - is there any chance of this being an "open-source SaaS" / open-core type thing like, for example, TimescaleDB or Temporal? Would love to contribute to something like this, but not as paid employment.
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
Saying anything on the internet these days is a risk, you're almost guaranteed to be wrong somehow.
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
Have AWS / employees ever spoken about the stack they run for IAM? Sounds fascinating
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
I think printing "im awake" to stderr during the last minute of August might terrify a few people.
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Delta State Replicated Data Types (2016)(arxiv.org)
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
Maybe this may help as some inspiration https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
> - AWS charge you on compute time, Apple don't charge you for ongoing use of their services beyond one initial charge for app submission Yes they do, the fee is yearly, and they make billions in revenue from this. Google charge o
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
The amount of time I've had to spend making PRs to multiple branches across multiple codebases just to change full-stops... I've sent this to some of my colleagues.
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
Would this not likely be the TLS handshake slowing you down?
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
Doesn't seem to be affecting us (UK company)
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
Are there any tools/libraries/services that make it easy and intuitive to, say, start your API in the OpenAPI format from the beginning, and work backwards towards implementing it? It seems like a useful and interesting concept.
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by lukeramsden 5y ago
On the bright side if there is ever a large ship-getting-stuck-event he's already in position. Maybe the next one could be a spaceship.
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
I get this on version 2.30.1 so presumably a 2.30 change. I don't think they're planning to move to main for definite, just that they're preparing people to stop treating `master` as always the default branch
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
No problem with almost-pedophilia too! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lolita-Penguin-Classics-Vladimir-Na...
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
> Have you ever heard of Ingres? Only because of HN comments talking about the history of Postgres!
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
I know, I'm a Brit and my girlfriend doesn't even remember her login to HMRC Gateway - if she pays too much tax she gets a rebate automatically, other than that its not even something we think about.
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
It's likely more of an issue if you're wanting to fetch lots of nested data in one request, but only a few specific fields of what could be an extremely large object, like say the just the names and profile picture URIs for a larg
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
I've absolutely noticed that my RSI / carpal tunnel flare-ups are extremely closely correlated with the closure of gyms in my local area due to pandemic restrictions. Now I'm training on bars at the park its getting a lot bet
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by lukeramsden 6y ago
I bet it was still more within delivery parameters than HS2 is.

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