mgraczyk

52 ms·

811.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
A pre-mine might make it a security, but it's basically the opposite of a ponzi. Not everything is a ponzi. I think you're just confusing different financial constructs with one another
812.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
On the face of it, this makes no sense. Vacancy rates are incredibly low everywhere in the US, and what you're describing would push prices down as much as up.
813.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
You're confused, in a ponzi earlier investors are paid from the investments of future investors. That's not how PoS works. In Ethereum, everyone is diluted to pay stakers and the time of their investment does not matter.
814.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
IMO this is just a bad counterargument. I do in fact have nothing to hide and it's not worth it for me to worry about very unlikely potential changes in geopolitics 10+ years from now. I know how companies like Facebook and Google use
815.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
Half page popup cookie banner with no opt-out option. I am completely fine with cookies but clearly there is something wrong with the state of things when I have to click through a completely non-actionable popup
816.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
I walk to work and buying a new car every year + gas + insurance + parking would be less than 10% of my income, whereas I would need to save for years to buy a plane and couldn't possibly afford the upkeep and storage here. So seems li
817.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
I wasted the entire internship writing horrible perl code and not learning how to do anything that I would use later. This was early enough in my career that it had a lasting effect on my perception of software development and it took me 3+
818.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
The concept of “jaywalking,” for example, is integral to the “car technology” of today. The crime of crossing a street without respecting the dominance of cars was invented by the car industry in the 1920s, who pushed hard to define
819.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
I assume so, although if I remember correctly the actual error in the thread is caused by the the gradient computation
820.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
That's not the problem though. The problem is that the += operations mutate x in place, but the right hand side reads from x. There is no copy you could insert like that to fix this. You would have to do the following, for example Inst
821.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
All of the lines that have += mutate x in place
822.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
That's not safe if the problem is the in place mutation. You will still mutate x while reading from it.
823.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
Not really, because renewables will actually make BP better and there's a legitimate case that such a team would improve long term shareholder value. This team at Facebook had a very low chance of doing anything good for the company.
824.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
Spent about 4 weeks learning perl at an internship 10 years ago. I believe that is one of the biggest professional mistakes I ever made. There is literally nothing I would recommend doing with perl over python.
825.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
The real issue is that in most software engineering teams, these roles are better done by a SWE who is good at X than somebody who exclusively does X, but especially at big companies the person doing X doesn't really understand softwar
826.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
Almost all limit order books required posting the assets on the book and take a fee on trades. You can read off the amount paid to generate the fictional market cap and judge for yourself if it's likely to be fake activity. For thinly
827.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
This only works if the exchange is in on it. That has happened many times but it's much harder to do than faking node activity.
828.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
Your counterargument here only applies when exchanges participate in the scam. Of course that does happen, and for a long time you could even pay OKeX to do this for you. But it's much less common than obscure coins faking volume off-e
829.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
If there's a public order book, it's very easy to see through this. Harder to do that with nodes.
830.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
I'm not suggesting anybody do that, I'm suggesting that people move to SF for work because the pay makes up for the perks you get elsewhere. Europeans software engineers are better off moving to SF, working for a year, then moving
831.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
Right, but this is Hacker news. I'd bet at least 1/3 the readers on here in SF make more than that. The rest should move to SF or NYC.
832.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
I mean that the cost of living in SF isn't relevant because you can move. I'm claiming that if you're top ~25% software engineer with 5+ years of experience, you're much better off working for one year in SF, then moving
833.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
It's pretty easy to get a job as a software engineer in SF. If you're above median you can easily get 5 offers in a few weeks. The costs are irrelevant, you can move anywhere for those three years.
834.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
A good software engineer in SF with ~5 years experience takes home more than 3 years of top tier French pay in 1 year, so 3 years of parental leave doesn't sound so good to me.
835.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
Not sure what you mean by this. Even in the most basic rational choice analysis, where the players are agents seeking to maximize a utility function, the "reward" can be nonlinear. I'm not familiar with any economic model tha
836.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
The problem with the analysis in the article and with your analysis is that the expected utility of the player is not the same as the expected amount of money. Different people have different "utilities of money" reflecting their
837.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
Some STEM ones I could think of being very confusing to people. "set of measure zero" "Saddle point" "Ladder operator" "Top of tree" "Nested loops" "A star search" ;)
838.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
But there is, even in cases like this. Circle could issue new USDC for example. No technical barrier to a remedy like that.
839.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
Just want to chime in that ads-based network effects are a huge boon to the economy and ability to be innovating and build business on the internet. It's important to recognize that with "privacy" regulation like this will li
840.
by mgraczyk 4y ago
Yes GCC and Clang already do this in many cases, but it's not quite the same as what the posted compiler can do.

More ›