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   by piercebot 6y ago

   I don't see why Bitcoin's technology stack is failing if it's what is enabling its current value. Keep in mind as well that the protocol is mutable as long as people agree to change it. Saying BTC is doomed to fail as it&#x27
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   by piercebot 6y ago

   People often bring up the Bitcoin algorithm to make arguments against it, but don't seem to acknowledge the fact that the protocol is mutable. If the sha-256 algorithm was cracked such that BTC blocks could be solved instantly, the exi
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   by piercebot 6y ago

   Thanks for the thoughtful reply; I'd never heard of Hammerstein-Equord before, so that was enlightening. I think I've lived a charmed life in that, for the past 7 years, I've worked at a company without a bell curve distribut
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   by piercebot 6y ago

   I'm not sure it's the manager's responsibility to compartmentalize and then assign/distribute work to each employee. Aren't people happier and more productive when they're in charge of their own destiny? I view
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   by piercebot 6y ago

   I agree with the point about managers and decision-makers setting the tone with regard to the "hurry up" culture, but I take exception with one line: > Expecting great things of all your workers Why is it not OK to expect great
6. 36.▲
   by piercebot 6y ago

   What's the market for borrowers? What are people borrowing cryptocurrency for? With fiat interest rates at record lows, why not borrow fiat instead and use it to buy crypto? Surely not all of the demand is coming from the unbanked? EDI
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   by piercebot 6y ago

   I may have missed this on the page; is the interest paid in USD or in the asset you're lending? The examples only show USD. It says interest compounds daily; keep in mind (US Residents) that every day is another line item you need to r
8. 38.▲
   by piercebot 6y ago

   How do you find REPL integration in Common Lisp compares with Clojure? I find myself blissfully productive in Clojure, and I wonder if it's the same for all Lisps
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   by piercebot 6y ago

   This comment, and your many replies to the other comments below, are wonderfully insightful; thank you for sharing. I'm actually in the middle of reading the Nebula-winning novel The Windup Girl, which takes place in 2200s Thailand, an
10. 40.▲
    by piercebot 6y ago

    The Clarity language spec of these contracts is very interesting; seems like a very easy spec to keep in your head compared with Solidity. https://clarity-lang.org
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    by piercebot 6y ago

    Silicon Valley does not control the Internet though. I get that headlines like this make for good clickbait, but it's not like Parler can no longer exist on the Internet. Parler can go buy some servers, hook them up to the internet, an
12. 42.▲
    by piercebot 6y ago

    The internet was founded on principles of free speech, and it still works that way. Parler can go build servers, connect them to the internet, and come back online. They're not being censored, they're being inconvenienced.
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    by piercebot 6y ago

    I wonder how much of this was caused by natural selection brought on by changes in human behavior; masks wearing, social distancing, etc.
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    by piercebot 6y ago

    Thanks for sharing. This post makes a lot of sense, and I think it jives more closely with the original (How to Escape the Modern Rat Race) post when it comes to finding meaning or purpose in life.
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    by piercebot 6y ago

    The good news is that there's development in this space! https://github.com/jetbrains/skija > Existing offerings are: Graphics2D from AWT, GraphicsContext from JavaFX. They are good, but underwhelming. > Ent
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    by piercebot 6y ago

    Thanks for all of your contributions, Steve! I live in JavaScript land mostly, which is the wild wild west when it comes to "the way to do things," so rustfmt is still many times better than, say, prettier and eslint. It exists AN
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    by piercebot 6y ago

    One of the reasons it's so enchanting is how it manages memory without the use of a garbage collector thanks to the magic of lifetimes. Couple that with performance that's on par with C/C++ and design choices that encourage t
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    Flexible UV-absorbing solar panels generate power even on cloudy days(fastcompany.com)

    2 points by piercebot 6y ago|0 comments
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    by piercebot 6y ago

    I use Google Pay for touchless payments with my phone. I like it for that. I use other solutions for tracking spending and organizing finances. If these features help somebody gain personal insights or build some financial literacy, I view
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    by piercebot 6y ago

    The ability to click and drag the timeline to scroll through it would be an excellent addition!
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    by piercebot 6y ago

    I think you bring up a great point, and I think especially with the advent of more advanced AIs (like GPT-3), there will be a lot more noise in the system, and the gap between signal and noise will be much smaller. Therefore, As a society,
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    Physicists Build Circuit That Generates Clean, Limitless Power from Graphene(news.uark.edu)

    148 points by piercebot 6y ago|86 comments
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    by piercebot 6y ago

    Surprised that nobody has brought up size over the wire yet. XML, by virtue of the fact that it has both opening and closing tags, tends to be more verbose than other standards. With larger requests, this can translate to hundreds of extra
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    by piercebot 6y ago

    I love my keyboard.io Model 01. I think a refresh is coming later this year (Model 100?). Worth the price IMO.
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    by piercebot 6y ago

    I use the `npm-check` [0] to help me with that problem. Might not check all of your boxes, but it certainly helps me manage dependencies in my JS projects! [0]: https://github.com/dylang/npm-check
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    by piercebot 6y ago

    Of course, the other side to this coin is assuming that you can do better than the folks who have specialized in solving particular problems, and open-sourcing their solutions. I'm not arguing that package bloat is a good thing, but I
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    by piercebot 6y ago

    Yes, I consider myself friends with my manager. I also consider myself friends with 2 of my 5 direct reports. These are people that I've known for half a decade or more, though. Also, I think the manager aspect came after the friendshi
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    by piercebot 6y ago

    I've had a lot of good luck with ZFS over the past decade and a half. I just started building my third file server last week, actually. Going to try it with NVMe drives this time! https://ajpierce.com/2020-09-02_file-se
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    by piercebot 6y ago

    Hi HN, thanks for taking the time to come chat! I'm still learning Rust, so if you have suggestions for how to improve hodl, I'd really appreciate issues or pull requests :) https://github.com/ajpierce/hodl
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    I learned Rust by trading Cryptocurrencies(ajpierce.com)

    5 points by piercebot 6y ago|1 comments