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1. 61.▲
   by oraphalous 5y ago

   Climbing - because it's fun. And I need it to be fun to motivate me... There is a tonne of skill and technique behind it that has a lot of depth. I meet quite a lot of coders who are attracted to it for that puzzle solving aspect. I
2. 62.▲
   by oraphalous 5y ago

   Bed by 9.30pm - 10pm. Awake 6 - 6.30am - hit the climbing gym for at least an hour.
3. 63.▲
   by oraphalous 5y ago

   I wish they didn't use the term "crisis" for this. It's nothing like the problems other disciplines are having with respect to replication failure - where maybe the term is appropriate. Physics can still explain /
4. 64.▲
   by oraphalous 5y ago

   Headline seems accurate to me. The headline: New Study Disavows Marshmallow Test’s Predictive Powers. And it does. The marshmellow test as a single measure is referred to as RND. Which is a test which measures gratification wait times an
5. 65.▲
   by oraphalous 5y ago

   This. So much this. Futhermore - does it all really matter that much when most of us are stuck with delivery managers screaming: FEATURE, FEATURE, FEATURE in our faces, such that there is never enough time to use any toolset in an optima
6. 66.▲
   by oraphalous 5y ago

   >As the anarchists and idealists on HN will soon learn I don't know to whom this actually refers. I don't remember anything about enabling money laundering in Satoshi's white paper.
7. 67.▲
   by oraphalous 5y ago

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK76j8sdVaw
8. 68.▲
   by oraphalous 5y ago

   Yeah - I have been pretty slack with my social life over the past two years with the pandemic and a lot of friends moving away as well. But I still wouldn't trade remote work for the world. I can get a climb in at my local gym in the
9. 69.▲
   by oraphalous 5y ago

   There are significant political and economic tradeoffs between POW and POS... I highly recommend this article for an analysis of these. https://www.lynalden.com/proof-of-stake/ I suggest this analysis because folks ten
10. 70.▲
    by oraphalous 5y ago

    Also - it was just fun... I don't know why that can't be more of a consideration in modern UX.
11. 71.▲
    by oraphalous 5y ago

    > You have a multi year engineering project? Really a waterfall, or a waterfall/spiral approach will work. I'm not sure a long time frame is a necessary condition for a successful waterfall project - but I am certain it is not
12. 72.▲
    by oraphalous 5y ago

    Also - the answer is mid day. ;)
13. 73.▲
    by oraphalous 5y ago

    I do wonder how non-philosophers perceive later W. To me it seemed mostly about curing philosophers of their pathology - and thus not particularly valuable to any one else.
14. 74.▲
    by oraphalous 5y ago

    >But in the bank scenario, the dollars that it loaned out aren’t worth any less. Just a small point of clarification - I think - that helps to make your point a little clearer. If the bank collapses - it's likely precisely because t
15. 75.▲
    by oraphalous 5y ago

    If the experiment was to defy U.S. hegemony and see if your outcomes improve - then yeah, it's a failure.
16. 76.▲
    by oraphalous 5y ago

    I started working on converting our npm managed FE codebase to Yarn 2 just to get a sense of how much work it would take. The requirement of ensuring all deps are explicit before the build passes has exposed heaps of implicit dependencies
17. 77.▲
    by oraphalous 5y ago

    This isn't any more sound as an investment strategy than a dude is hip because they listened to band X before it was cool.
18. 78.▲
    by oraphalous 5y ago

    What an inspiring post and response... One of the few times lately I've woken up, looked at the internet and felt good about being a human being.
19. 79.▲
    by oraphalous 5y ago

    1) Cause it's effort... as opposed to one single capital gains event when I sell - I would have zillions to colate for all my purchases at different price points. It's not the fact of having to pay tax... it's the effort of
20. 80.▲
    by oraphalous 5y ago

    There are two main things incentivising me against using it as a form of payment. 1) Purchases with Bitcoin are a capital gains tax event. Or they might be? I can't be arsed figuring that out. It's hard to blame Bitcoin for thi
21. 81.▲
    by oraphalous 5y ago

    Yeah... I agree, and would argue further that there is a specific kind of mistake being made in this post that I see many in tech make... That of believing that living lower down the stack makes you superior somehow... Here's an exampl
22. 82.▲
    by oraphalous 5y ago

    Pariah state... Oh you mean because it's the one that had a foreign power overthrow its democratically elected leader, replacing them with a despot... ...right yeah I getcha... their desire to bypass the financial system put in place
23. 83.▲
    by oraphalous 6y ago

    Every single one of those names is more awesome than this guy and contributed more...
24. 84.▲
    by oraphalous 6y ago

    C'mon - give me a good explanation why this deserves to be on hacker news. Is this information why you are here?
25. 85.▲
    by oraphalous 6y ago

    To register contempt for the arbitrary assignment of status and recognition from a community I thought cared about greater things.
26. 86.▲
    by oraphalous 6y ago

    We recently tried to build a relatively simple PowerApps application - under the assumption it would save time over pumping out a React boilerplate form. Never again. We wanted it to be able to integrate with our backend which lives outsid
27. 87.▲
    by oraphalous 6y ago

    Despite everything - sometimes you have to marvel at just how awesome the human race can be. This visualisation is one such moment for me.
28. 88.▲
    by oraphalous 6y ago

    Carpenter Brut... Bless...
29. 89.▲
    by oraphalous 6y ago

    If you want a more nuanced understanding of the "Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme" claim then I'd highly recommend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT2e6dnY-Co
30. 90.▲
    by oraphalous 6y ago

    Balance of trade...