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by repolfx 8y ago
Sorry, I was mis-remembering, Wikipedia claimed it was a ponzi scheme. The rest still applies. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=196238.0 I'd note that this: The second two refer to the multiply-cited opinion of
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by repolfx 8y ago
Yes. It's a very strange and basically un-contested idea that trade integration discourages war. If that was true then civil wars would be the rarest form of war, but the only type of war going on in the world today is civil war. And i
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by repolfx 8y ago
Blockchains get their history rewritten all the time too, it's call a re-organisation and occurs naturally whenever two blocks are found close enough together that the network splits over which one came first. You can also get longer r
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by repolfx 8y ago
That's not a very helpful reply to a post lamenting how people can't discuss their differences in a civil way anymore. You literally responded like this: Q: I remember when people who disagreed could still be friends. Can't w
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by repolfx 8y ago
That depends a lot on the topic. I've seen articles on Wikipedia that were ridiculously wrong and couldn't be corrected for some byzantine reasons. For the longest time Wikipedia claimed Bitcoin was a pyramid scheme, despite it fa
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by repolfx 8y ago
That sounds more like a mess handling things that are not Unicode.
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by repolfx 8y ago
The languages have changed - English used to have a more complex grammar (thee, thine, thou, etc) and I think it had genders, but that died out over time.
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by repolfx 8y ago
Honestly, I know that's the conventional wisdom, but I've never once heard an engineer go to their manager and say, "I'd like to spend some time documenting this important process you asked me to implement" and bein
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by repolfx 8y ago
"Free", no. Much less affected, yes. Organised crime in Mexico and Italy is a much greater problem than in, say, the UK or Germany.
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by repolfx 8y ago
I think it's just that everyone realised that powerful people can be browbeaten into compliance with almost trivial levels of complaining if it's phrased right. All you have to do is say, "I'm a woman and this is hurtful
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by repolfx 8y ago
I hope they do too. I don't know who Bosworth is or if he's implementing officially decided policy here, but I hope he is. It's been incredibly unhealthy for tech firms to cowtow to every whim of their most extreme employees.
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by repolfx 8y ago
We can find somebody, easy, who doesn't drink like a fish and harass women No you can't. No judge the Republicans nominate will not be the target of some accusation by some woman at this point. If "the bar" is that no
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by repolfx 8y ago
Not all societies are equally corrupt.
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by repolfx 8y ago
I've heard very similar stories from people in the card industry before. I don't think it's made up, unfortunately. Card readers from China are systematically untrustworthy.
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by repolfx 8y ago
You, obviously, have no idea how hard it is to write decent documentation for any system. Especially when it has been in existence for many years. I've been programming for decades and my current project is frequently praised by othe
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by repolfx 8y ago
Better structured, easier to debug, and the tooling exists to incrementally refactor in a relatively safe way. There are also migration paths to better worlds. IntelliJ can auto-rewrite Java into Kotlin, preserving comments and formatting a
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by repolfx 8y ago
Self made ... by both the banks and the programmers. As the article notes, these developers don't seem to have done a great job of documentation. Perhaps deliberately, given the comment about personal vindication. "You can't
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by repolfx 8y ago
There's no particular reason you have to use C to write Linux. Linux is written in C because when the project started, that was the most reasonable choice. It persists today because of inertia and because introducing something better,
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by repolfx 8y ago
It's probably a small disagreement in your case. Language decisions are hard to undo. JetBrains doesn't (yet) have the reputation of long term support for developer platforms that Sun, Microsoft, the open source community etc have
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by repolfx 8y ago
Why does anyone try to defend universities anymore? Why does anyone working at them think they can voice un-PC opinions? Other than maybe the university of Chicago, are there any that don't routinely punish academics for offending extr
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by repolfx 8y ago
No. Corruption of blood is a constitutional term that specifically means penalising children for the crimes of their parents. It's related to crimes. Racking up the national debt is a bad thing to do but it's not a crime, and it&#
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by repolfx 8y ago
I vouched for your post because as far as I can tell, it's written in good faith and is not in violation of any HN guidelines. I'm not sure why your post got so rapidly killed - the posts you link to are clearly discussing bond de
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by repolfx 8y ago
You seem to be starting from the assumption that the former is obvious and proven, and the latter is OK. Both assumptions seem wrong to me. 1) I don't believe gender imbalances today are due to past prejudices in past eras. Many other
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by repolfx 8y ago
What a straw man. "Men should not be punished for the perceived crimes of their ancestors" is not in any way an argument against the general concept of taxation. But if it helps you ignore the argument, feel free to write it off a
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by repolfx 8y ago
The banking system was creating money in various forms outside of QE. That was just a well known mechanism. The main way it's created is through loans, many of which end up in housing. And rampant speculation on apparently ever-rising
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by repolfx 8y ago
That's not irrational at all. Why would the decisions of people 50 years ago have any impact on my hiring decisions today? You will rapidly end up arguing about subconscious bias and other things you can't prove. The idea that inn
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by repolfx 8y ago
People have expressed these arguments in: - Conference talks - Essays posted to libertarian blogs - Private corporate memos written after feedback was explicitly requested Probably others. The same thing was said in every case: "it&#x2
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by repolfx 8y ago
Monetary inflation affects all goods more or less uniformly Money being created is like pouring water into a pool - it creates ripples outwards. Eventually, if you stop, yes the surface of the pool will become calm and the pool will be hi
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by repolfx 8y ago
That could only apply to founders who can sell parts of their company, surely. Employee number 1 would still face the same tax ceiling, and you need employees to build a company. The ratio of founders:employees will still be tiny even in Sw
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by repolfx 8y ago
Yes. That's the usual story indeed. I'm not sure where the concept that banking was 'dirty' came from - I suspect that's mixing up banking with lending. Lending at interest was subject to religious prohibition for a

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