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by oleganza 5y ago
Security framework is mostly orthogonal to AppStore being the only way to install apps. Also, Apple strips developer's signature replacing it with AppStore signature. So I, the user, cannot independently verify that I'm running th
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by oleganza 6y ago
It could be the opposite: a way out through the great filter. Due to imperfection of gold or any resource-based money (symmetrical security), people can never stop fighting for it and build wasteful political hierarchies with ever-escalatin
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by oleganza 6y ago
Snapchat data center uses as much energy as needed to extract value from Snapchat-the-product. Same goes for employee's time invested in support, development and research. If Snapchat makes money, it attracts investing resources into i
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by oleganza 6y ago
I think the discussion of the rent cap is more complex. In every city there's some distribution of wealth and there are plenty of people who are sensitive to rent. Then, gov orders businesses to shut down, a lot of people lose money, t
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by oleganza 6y ago
My impression of Berlin (living there for the last 2 years) is that there's plenty of space, plenty of new housing already built and plenty of new construction still going. SF, NY, Paris and London are way more crowded and under-housed
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by oleganza 6y ago
This may also seem like a nice cover up for French gov messing up economy and having companies go bankrupt / close destinations. "Looks, the flights disappeared not because we fucked things up, but because we are proactively savin
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by oleganza 6y ago
Don't confuse VC's position to have more capital, closer to action, so even if their bet is shit, they'll be able to exit with profit because they entered on lows and pumped it to everyone else.
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by oleganza 6y ago
I'm using Mail.app since 2007 when i switched to Mac and never had issues other than a couple of times around 2009-10 when it had sync problems with Gmail. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by oleganza 6y ago
Wars are inherently destructive and can only be funded for prolonged periods of time with mountains of debt. Especially if you can extract taxes backing this debt relatively painlessly. Extracting Bitcoin from individual wallets is no small
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by oleganza 6y ago
The power of a software is in composing things via powerful abstractions. When you write a useful library in a PL with GC, you automatically make it unavailable in all applications that can't use GC. What's worse, other libraries
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by oleganza 6y ago
In addition to what Ygg2 mentioned (tests and unwrap_or), Rust is still (slowly) moving towards support of `Never` type that auto-erases impossible branches. Without `Never`, if you statically know that your function always returns `Option:
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by oleganza 6y ago
> way to transfer USD between parties There's a bigger world outside the island of U.S. There are more political regimes, tax regimes, banking restrictions and all sorts of uncertainty that needs sound and cheaply stored/secure
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by oleganza 6y ago
*virtually all of countries.
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by oleganza 6y ago
If the original problem is "people consume too much short-lived plastic crap", then maybe let's address the root cause, rather than placing a band-aid of DIY fixing things that keep breaking. For instance, how about having mo
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by oleganza 6y ago
It's not the generalization pitfall, but a completely wrong metric. "Hours spent" is an expense, not a revenue. If you were measuring machines by KWh spent, you'd never have an insight to optimize that number down inst
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by oleganza 6y ago
Funny that you mention it. It's the opposite in my view. Depending on "to whom". If you you have savings, of course it's better for you to have it hold value. And if you hold debt, it's better for you for that to fa
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by oleganza 6y ago
That example is typical "confused deputy" security vuln irrespective of the language, not a "validate input" one. Meaning, the typical unix interface to the filesystem is such that it's hard/impossible to expre
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by oleganza 6y ago
Notice that it's a giant PITA to work with any variable-length data. Because language lacks adequate means to abstract away safe fast memory access with generic types, RAII and borrow checkers. Comparing to C, both C++ and Rust (very d
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by oleganza 6y ago
The warning was not explicit enough to ask you to remove the constructor as well as changing the method name. If it called for "hey, you can remove the constructor and emplace_back would automagically call it for you in place!" an
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by oleganza 6y ago
The important thing is how probability of BTC tanking to $500 compares to probability of USD tanking in BTC terms in the next few years. Historical data hints that we are not close to the peak of the current bubble and when BTC drops it pro
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by oleganza 6y ago
Also instructive to see prices of altcoins in terms of BTC. Barely anything moves up. There are very temporary spikes, but mostly it's all one giant opportunity cost compared to just holding BTC.
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by oleganza 6y ago
I guess we are talking about different deflations. If the prices fall because economy crashed (e.g. due to an inflated credit bubble beforehand) and now everyone is without spare cash and broken/useless production chains, then sure - n
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by oleganza 6y ago
You know what also encourages spending? Appreciating currency that lets you save money over N days to buy N*$ expensive stuff all by yourself (e.g. start your business) without getting into debt and serving your creditors instead of yoursel
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by oleganza 6y ago
I think halvings-driving-fomo is a myth. Each halving is possibly a catalyst for the crowds-waiting-to-jump-in, but not the reason for them occuring in the first place. Even without halvings, there would be speculative bubbles, then they&#x
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by oleganza 6y ago
Yet you did it more than once? Kinda like you have personal preference between having X portion of your savings S to be exchanged for goods today (life is short) and leaving S-X for the future uses (life is not that short)?
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by oleganza 6y ago
Maybe BTC succeeded at providing people with free (as in freedom) money, so some of it is inevitably going to all sorts of unregulated uncensorable trading games.
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by oleganza 6y ago
14% is not so crazy if you zoom out and check overall volatility of BTC and how it's in "correction" phase of a larger seasonal super-bubble. It's just speculators returning to "normal" in expectation of return
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by oleganza 6y ago
When there's a talk about Bitcoin, there are always people saying that deflationary money will lead to "no one buying things" and how it will ruin the world. Can't find those opinions about, literally, a "buy nothin
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by oleganza 6y ago
Coal is more portable than hydro electricity, so you can burn it where you actually need heat/electricity. What do you do with unused hydro output? You can waste it or you can power bitcoin. This could be arbitrary big numbers in terms
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by oleganza 6y ago
According to your own words, even those who timed their FOMO badly won't be worse off forever - it's more like buying a computer for yourself right before the next one came out - just wait a couple of years. If you are into bitcoi

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