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by nkuttler 4y ago
> A fixed block subsidy (i.e. pure linear emission) is not only simpler, but arguably fairer too, avoiding a concentration of wealth on early miners/adopters, and leaving later generations more than mere crumbs Yet Ethereum had a pr
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by nkuttler 4y ago
Keeping legacy code around is a choice.
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by nkuttler 4y ago
> You missed the part where our brain is much better prepared to deal with visual complexity than textual. Citation needed. Text is also a visual representation of language. If you want symbols instead of letters to represent logic you b
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by nkuttler 4y ago
> Anything to reduce the friction from thought to working software without having to worry about syntax. The syntax complexity will just be moved into a visual layer, it doesn't disappear. > VR with 3D representations of code as,
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by nkuttler 4y ago
You don't even need leetcode easy level though to stop imposters, a trivial challenge with a loop and variable that you manipulate somehow will do.
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by nkuttler 4y ago
Resume driven design
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by nkuttler 4y ago
OP probably meant governments, not countries, inflation is hardly good for individuals.
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by nkuttler 4y ago
> and only 14% of the people have electricity That number is probably for electricity at home, considering that 33% of the people have mobile phone subscriptions. Mobile payment solutions are very successful in Africa, in part because th
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by nkuttler 5y ago
Interesting, thanks for the suggestion. Is there an easy way to create a list with everybody I follow?
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by nkuttler 5y ago
Are you saying that a free market for currencies is anarchy?
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by nkuttler 5y ago
Docker is just another solution to the problem.
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by nkuttler 5y ago
Hm, would be nice if they had a comparison. More than just "it's Rust".
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by nkuttler 5y ago
9% of the population of an entire country wanting bitcoin sounds like a decent win to me. It's not clear to me where that optimistic number comes from though.
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by nkuttler 5y ago
If you rely on a trusted entity (winery) you don't need a blockchain to do anything you just described.
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by nkuttler 5y ago
Anything, even a statically linked binary can run into problems if you upgrade the entire OS..
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by nkuttler 5y ago
This attitude contributes to the problem: many teachers at a higher level don't even bother to teach this stuff because they think everybody already does it.
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by nkuttler 5y ago
> First, how do you use cryptocurrencies with limited access to electricity? You only need to charge your phone once per day. If power goes out, no problem. If you have no electricity at home somebody close by probably has a phone chargi
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by nkuttler 6y ago
As long as there are no replacements for tools like wmctrl and xdotool Wayland is not in a usable state for me.
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by nkuttler 6y ago
> I don't really believe the notion "imperfect code style is a code smell" anyway. Blaming developers for something that can be automated? Yeah, something is off here, though not necessarily the review. > nitpicking of
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by nkuttler 6y ago
Just a guess, but casting a string that's not a number to int would give you zero?
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by nkuttler 6y ago
The mempool is pretty empty, transactions costs are very low at the moment. I think there was a brief spike in mempool usage and fees around the time paypal announced their bitcoin option, but that didn't last.
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by nkuttler 6y ago
I find it interesting that you think this is noteworthy. On a global scale half of the adults don't drink alcohol. In the US around a quarter of all men and a third of women don't drink.
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by nkuttler 6y ago
https://takeout.google.com/
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by nkuttler 8y ago
When a production system pulls "latest" of anything, such things are bound to happen. There probably is no reliable testing or QA either when deployment methods are not deterministic.
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by nkuttler 9y ago
Yes, measuring productivity is hard. You can decrease the "productivity" of everyone in a team, yet still end up with a more productive team.
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by nkuttler 9y ago
You can also receive payments once you open a channel. You could live month to month with a channel you opened years ago.
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by nkuttler 9y ago
So, just like every generation before them that was comfortable with the world they were born into. Got it.
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by nkuttler 9y ago
> You need to get your coins to and from it you know. Once LN works people will need to do this every few weeks, months, or even years.
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by nkuttler 9y ago
Oh, this looks wonderful. I've used one big gpg encrypted file for years, still better than all password managers I tried. I'm wondering if there is a way to combine find and show with pass though. Like pass find <keyword> a
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by nkuttler 9y ago
> competent Bitcoin broker That's the entire problem. Bitcoin has existed for eight years, and for a long time virtually nobody knew about it. Not a single bitcoin broker could demonstrate competency yet. It's better to stay ou

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