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by maltalex 9y ago
Are there sane ways of shorting Bitcoin?
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by maltalex 9y ago
It makes no economic sense at all. Mining Bitcoin using CPUs is unprofitable. They're basically gaining cents worth of bitcoins using dollars worth of electricity. See https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/41
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by maltalex 9y ago
I like the idea, but I really wish that the mining process itself would produce something useful. We should really be folding proteins, solving mathematical problems, or simulating complex systems like the atmosphere. Not calculating hashes
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by maltalex 9y ago
> Before looking for something 'better' than JSON, build a basic prototype of your app and see if your application actually needs to use something else. That implies that JSON is somehow the gold standard of serialization forma
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by maltalex 9y ago
> Example: when you add a new element to the API response, the recipient needs to update their schema. That's not the case with protobufs. The sender can add new fields, and they will simply be invisible to receivers using the previ
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by maltalex 9y ago
JSON loses its appeal once you're not targeting browsers and/or anything else that uses Javascript. Sure, it's simple and familiar, but it has serious drawbacks such as the time and CPU resources it takes for parsing and the
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by maltalex 9y ago
> Interesting that this effect may be a byproduct of automatic scaling the CPU frequency based on remaining battery capacity, rather than the newer OS versions being purposefully poorly optimized (like most people assume) 1. If such a co
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Looks like a rough flu season ahead(arstechnica.com)
3 points by maltalex 9y ago|1 comments
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by maltalex 9y ago
A technical manager can certainly be a developer. I'm not talking about business people setting technical standards, I'm talking about tech leads/lead developers.
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by maltalex 9y ago
> One view of management is that it's about making sure the cogs of the machine are completely interchangeable. That's not what I was talking about. Employees are neither bricks nor cogs. But having said that, if you run any l
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by maltalex 9y ago
I think that we're talking about two different types of managers. I was talking about a technical manager, as in a tech lead/lead engineer/lead developer/whatever you want to call it - someone who has to manage and coo
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by maltalex 9y ago
Ownership is good, but only up to a point. In this approach, developers end up being independent contractors on a payroll. If you focus only on deliverables and deadlines, you'll end up with developers using a mix of different approach
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by maltalex 9y ago
None of this is surprising. Corporations, like people, tend to think of themselves in the noblest of terms, even when they are clearly pushing their own agenda. And in this instance, they are pushing all the right buttons - "Children&
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by maltalex 9y ago
> Religion being a driving force for a lot of these discussions That’s true in the US. Not universally.
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by maltalex 9y ago
> The purpose of the discussion is basically to address whether non-monogamy is something people should consider - the idea being "hey, we were born for non-monogamy, so let people give it a try!". That's not my understand
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by maltalex 9y ago
> Males mammals tend to get aggressive when another male encroaches on their "space" or dominion - homicidal even. While that's probably true about many mammals, that doesn't mean that it's true for humans, at le
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by maltalex 9y ago
> This is weak theoretical propaganda pushed by biased amateurs. How so? What makes these authors biased. I'm genuinely interested. I haven't read their bio, but what makes these people biased against the current model of sexua
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by maltalex 9y ago
I highly encourage reading Sex at Dawn [1]. It's an amazing paradigm-shifter regarding human sexuality. In a nutshell, it (convincingly, IMHO) argues that the modern story society tells itself about mating and family is dead wrong,
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by maltalex 9y ago
Any theories as to why?
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by maltalex 9y ago
> It's really cheap to get $500 million dollars out of Netflix to pay for your line upgrades. And for the next 4 years, they have a blank check to shake down companies in the background. This. The consumers aren't the direct ta
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by maltalex 9y ago
So the maintenance costs are driving this?
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by maltalex 9y ago
Ok, but there are still paying customers on the end of that infrastructure. Are they not profitable enough?
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by maltalex 9y ago
It's doable in many cities. A large part of the infrastructure you need to replace when upgrading is inside buildings. With a 500m radius, you can avoid rewiring buildings and have loops terminate in the street.
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by maltalex 9y ago
Pardon the possibly ignorant question, but what do the telecom companies have to gain by destroying their own infrastructure? I feel like I'm missing something about the US telecom market here. Aren't these companies making a prof
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Canarytokens – honeypot tokens that tell you when someone used them(canarytokens.org)
4 points by maltalex 9y ago|1 comments
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by maltalex 9y ago
You're missing the point. The negative comments are about the market share. No one is saying anything negative about Firefox or Mozilla.
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by maltalex 9y ago
Of which I am one. Still, their market share isn't inspiring.
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by maltalex 9y ago
or Google? Anyone used Bing lately?
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by maltalex 9y ago
In 2001, just 16 years ago, Microsoft was almost broken up because Internet Explorer was shipped with Windows. Think about that for a second, I'll wait. Seems like small potatoes today, doesn't it? When was the last time you'
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by maltalex 9y ago
> Jeff Bezos is a true visionary, brilliant, and absolutely should be rewarded for that. We need more folks like him. That's probably true of any billion dollar company founder, not to mention the (more than) trillion dollar Amazon.

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