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by mrjin 4y ago
Do you really think they care?
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by mrjin 4y ago
It was never about outsourcing.
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by mrjin 4y ago
If you interpret it from a different angle, it would be much clearer. 1. Those made the decisions are smart, really really smart people. If they were dumb, there is no way they can get to where they are now. So if the decisions look questio
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by mrjin 4y ago
Why that is surprising? Mediocre people in leadership for sure will hire people worse than themselves for obvious reasons: 1. Much less likely to challenge them. 2. Numbers look much better. 3. When things went south, there would be someone
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by mrjin 4y ago
Yep, the question is really why do they need blockchain in the first place? But I do agree that there was no better way to burn that $250M.
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by mrjin 4y ago
Also the % before register names is completely unnecessary, it just another extra character to type.
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by mrjin 4y ago
There is much more than the superficial code analysis. Especially on Windows, there is a whole framework of how exceptions are handled etc.. To me, exceptions are super expensive, we should avoid if we can.
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by mrjin 4y ago
Took a glance, it seemed the author took exception handling as simple as try {} catch{} and thus never discuss OS' role in exception handling. But one of the most expensive part in user mode exception handling is context switches betwe
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by mrjin 4y ago
Why has this to be hack? Wouldn't it be much easier an inside job?
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What do you mean by "Decentralized exchanges"? If decentralization ever worked, I don't believe exchanges would be necessary.
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by mrjin 4y ago
Yes an no. When there was no electronic means of transactions, what banks lent out was indeed mostly customers' deposit plus their own assets. Things became interesting when electronic transactions came into play. Banks virtually no lo
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by mrjin 4y ago
That's the exact example why cryptos solved no problems at all. Centralized institutions are there for a reason, and obviously cryptos failed to recognize that. And soon exchanges were created which are in the exact role of banks etc.
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by mrjin 4y ago
As long as there are good alternatives, it's fairly easy to switch, especially for something like search engine or streaming service.
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by mrjin 4y ago
I don't think they really care who get fired. To those executives in large organizations, individual contributors are no more than a number. As long as they can make the numbers they do care looking better, no one really matters much.
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by mrjin 4y ago
That was almost exactly what happened to me a couple of years ago. The company hired a terrible guy with an architect title. What he did was some really simple 3rd party integration sending some transaction details to an accounting provider
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by mrjin 4y ago
What if it was meant to?
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by mrjin 4y ago
Had very bad impression with TomTom. Needed a car navigator badly but the Go-6200 never made it on time thus had to go with Go-6100. It was slow initially, but more or less enough, the cellular data was only good for real time traffic updat
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by mrjin 4y ago
I was about to post something similar but you already found something with more details. The resistance between the male and female connectors can be much higher than what most of us have expected. While I was down the rabbit hole trying to
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by mrjin 4y ago
Oh well, it's a game with costs not everyone want to pay for but eventually as you said, everyone has to pay.
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by mrjin 4y ago
It's simply not economical to recycle most if not all plastics a.t.m.. So unless taxes on new plastics get increased dramatically, we will never ever seem any substantial recycling in play, period.
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by mrjin 4y ago
Not sure how well/bad is AMD doing right now. Have been using Intel machines for over two decades now but not long ago I finally switched to AMD with my new PC and I regret haven't done so earlier. In the meantime, I'm also a
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by mrjin 4y ago
Why so many Germany cities on the list? Wondering if any British and French cities on the list but not declassified yet?
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by mrjin 4y ago
^ If Russia were to use nuclear weapons and the west did not respond How would you respond though? Launch nukes on Russia and draw nukes on your own head? How is that better than not responding? There is obviously no way out of that, except
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by mrjin 4y ago
We do. But for those making decisions the answer is probably no. It's was never about right or wrong, better or worse, it's all about interest, but definitely not much about ours. Sadly the fact is, to some people, our lives are n
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by mrjin 4y ago
It's and has always been anti-anyone that can threat US hegemony. It was against USSR, now Russia, China and EU(Germany in particular). So you can see that when China was making shirts only, China was US' best friend. And now we g
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by mrjin 4y ago
That's exactly why US doesn't want to get involved directly.
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Were you seriously talking about laws? For those super powers, they are the law as long as they can win the war.
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by mrjin 4y ago
Weren't any nukes onboard with Russian Black See fleet? I guess in their position, they wouldn't mind to take the whole world down with them by launching all nukes onboard?
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by mrjin 4y ago
Indeed. In this case, US would want the war to drag for decades without further escalating. Europe, however, would want the war to end as they are in deep sh*t themselves and there is no reason to continue fighting a war to benefit US.
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by mrjin 4y ago
So why risk getting jailed or even killed instead of just waiting for a couple of years? And you don't have to clean up someone else's mass neither.

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