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> Nevermind that for most of history human societies have been built on gift economies or that humans always cooperate in times of extreme crisis unless there are external influences explicitly preventing it. The key point here is that
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> Haha, you must be blind. Nowhere in the article did they say that. Second paragraph. Hard to miss by anyone who clicked on the link. Be my guest and check it out. > I quote: "we believe there are fundamental problems with go
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> How does the customer microservice (that wants to be hypermediaful), generate a deep link into the order microservice, e.g perhaps to obtain the latest order for a customer? In short, you're asking how to implement service disco
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> You can't use it anywhere as currency! I guess you can buy weed with it online, but that's about it The same can be said about jugs of Tide detergent, but somehow that's not presented as disruptive technology of the fu
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> Orrrrr.... because its value is backed by the world's largest economy? There's also the fact that oil is quoted in US dollars, and about 65 countries, about a third of all the countries in the world, peg their currency to t
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> They of course do give a damn about theoretical concepts such as "The Great Monetary Inflation" It seems you tried to shift the subject mid-discussion and thus move the goalpost. The point being discussed was "proof of
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5y ago
> For Tesla, one single shareholder holds 17% of the whole company. If said investor abused his leverage to manipulate the stock value to dump his holding on unwitting buyers prior to making it tank, he would be facing a prison sentenc
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> Motivation of participants is irrelevant. Bitcoin is working because its participants are greedy and behave as such. The key problem you're trying to glance over is the fact that not all participants have the same degree of infl
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5y ago
> Bitcoin aligns incentives. It's in the interest of those with lots of bitcoin to have everyone else use the same fork, so their coins have value. This discourages bad behaviour from whales. No, not really. It is in the interests
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> Do you really believe (...) conspired together to manipulate the price? > Yes, there is a lot of small scale shenanigans with crypto currencies, but (...) . There are no buts. Either the market is manipulated, or it isn't. Y
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> That's not what's exciting about bitcoin. What's exciting is that it is the first digital, global money that isn't protected by the proof of violence of the state. No, not really. At all. You're trying to mak
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> Soooo. . . you're saying a tiny fraction of the population controls the vast majority of the resource? You mean just like every other major resource on the planet? :) I understand the need to try to dismiss this problem, special
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> Money is largely controlled by a small group of investors and central banks. [citation needed] There are an estimated 40 trillion dollars in circulation alone. The US government debt is currently close to 30 trillion dollars. The wor
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> Users have the money. If there's a fork, users can value one side higher than the other and then developers and miners will follow the money. As the article shows, BTC's user side of the equation is actually controlled by a
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> Central bank policies are not subject to voting by people. Did any of us vote for bailouts, QE?. Isn't the role of a central bank to enact monetary policy and to contribute to financial stability? I mean, actively working to st
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> So now I am confused. How are they treated differently other than requiring the PCR test twice a year? Please read your own source, particularly the section on "I am not vaccinated or recently recovered from COVID-19. What shoul
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> Yes, you need a PCR test every 180 days to get the certificate, but it's the same certificate as if you had a vaccine. You should read your own source. Even though the swiss COVID certificate applies to those who "have had
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> This data is pretty easy to find, so not sure what was stopping you from gathering it. One tip is to look at the requirements of vaccine certificates in use in Europe. Actually, it isn't because your claim goes against pretty mu
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> Many other countries do classify people who gained immunity from exposure the same as vaccinated. Can you point out an example of any country that exempts those who were already infected with COVID from taking the vaccine? As far as
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> Is there a scientific reason, as opposed to political, why this would not exempt one from a mandated vaccine? First of all, taking the vaccine is not political. What is political is the contrarian stance against vaccinating against C
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The content is interesting but the page is totally unusable in mobile.
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> (...) but it seems to me like the overall System is perfectly capable of correcting itself when people succumb to "misinformation" to the point it harms them. For this hypothesis to be valid, you'd require a population
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> Microservices make it easier to change stuff inside each service, but only if the separation makes sense in the first place. With regards to stuff inside each service, microservices aren't really different from monoliths. When s
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> But that can be "good enough" for many applications I disagree. If you expect any type of non-trivial user interaction from the front-end, you'll find most of your needs is not practically possible to implement withou
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> With server-side rendering you don't have to create yet another layer to actually transfer the data to the client just to render it. That layer doesn't go away with server-side rendering. It is always there, even if you don
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> In my mind, server-side rendering means: no more JavaScript framework to maintain Not necessarily. All the major JavaScript frameworks also support server-side rendering, which is used to improve load times and perceived performance.
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Paywalled.
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> No matter how careful you are with the initial architecture of your microservices system, it is inevitable to re-architect as you go. Isn't this true for all software systems? If anything, microservice architectures just make it
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> Use server-side rendering if possible. Doesn't this lead to an unnecessary increase in complexity without any immediate benefit? > API development is a waste of time. Why do you think so? Doesn't a well developed API m
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> Yes, and it's doubly pointless here, because it isn't doing anything that couldn't be done better by the OS's own package manager. No, not really. With Docker, packaging is a solved problem, and you also get for f
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