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by ric2b 5y ago
> There are few people that have authority to negotiate and their time is expensive. If they spend two hours to "negotiate", they are charging a pile of money the company could have paid you instead. Right, but making my code M
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by ric2b 5y ago
Yeah, he's no idiot, he knows what he's doing by mixing relevant/important opinions with his scams. Luckily he's a very bad actor as well, he doesn't sound very trustworthy when trying to pull a fast one.
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by ric2b 5y ago
"Banging the close" is definitely a thing, should probably use daily VWAP instead.
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by ric2b 5y ago
> one of which has no real meaning anymore because it doesn't exist anywhere else. What do you mean? That's the feature branch, what's the issue?
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by ric2b 5y ago
Unless you actually have rogue employees I'm guessing you'll be able to do this once or twice before you get told to stop making people lose an afternoon or even entire days of productive work because of bullshit like that.
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by ric2b 5y ago
We've had it for 20 years and were still doing it.
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by ric2b 5y ago
> $4m/year means I could retire before I'm 40 and live the rest of my life with the lifestyle I have now with comfort. I would be able to retire after 1 year, $4M is enough to just stick in an index fund and live the rest of yo
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by ric2b 5y ago
I guess it's not a 10 because it couldn't cause a fire or explosion? You can't just expect to get a perfect score by accident, you need to work for it.
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by ric2b 5y ago
I would just sell everything I own and go try to survive in some large forest where no one can find me.
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by ric2b 5y ago
I think a subscription would be different in that you'd be able to easily switch to a different car on demand, for example if you needed a truck/van to carry some stuff. And possibly work like electric scooters, you just park the
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by ric2b 5y ago
What language lets you ship scripts that use features of version X and also works on versions <X? Docker tends to be the easy solution for all this stuff, and it's language agnostic. > Doesn't work very well unless you also
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by ric2b 5y ago
> So everyone was stuck in a game theoretical position where there was no first mover advantage because one straggler would invalidate all the investment. Clearly not, as most libraries are now Python 3 only, so the switch did happen. I
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by ric2b 5y ago
> I'd focus on protocol not people. The protocol encompasses the nodes on the network. If the network is highly centralized the protocol is unsafe.
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by ric2b 5y ago
> - The network has shown capacity for 50k tps No, that was a lab demo of a single beefy system being directly fed with test data and being measured on how long it takes to process it.
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by ric2b 5y ago
That's just a lab demo of a single system, not the network or even a common node configuration.
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by ric2b 5y ago
> Schnorr signatures, a feature that been available on BCH for years now. Not in a useful way: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/l8v8sa/heres_a_6of9_sc...
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by ric2b 5y ago
A Ponzi-scheme is a specific type of scam, it's not a generic word for any kind of unsustainable investment or scam. This whole thread looks like someone saying "No, a boat is not a car" and the other going "but it does
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by ric2b 5y ago
> Here's a better question: Why? Profit. There are a lot of people with USDC locked up in the contract and they might be willing to pay a share of it to unlock it.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Who owns those 31 nodes? Who gets to choose which nodes are part of the calculation?
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by ric2b 5y ago
That's a very basic example. Let's say your program also depends on ffmpeg to convert some images, psql to interact with a database and a few other non-library dependencies. With containers you can trivially ensure those are alway
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by ric2b 5y ago
Sure, because open-source devs really want to ask for donations just to turn around and hand them directly to Apple. Must feel great.
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by ric2b 5y ago
This one time a guy offered to give me $5k, but I had to give him my car. There are sick people everywhere, I simply said "No, thank you" but clearly I should have called the cops on him.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Except from literally anyone that pays them a monthly fee? That's not privacy.
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Yes
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by ric2b 5y ago
It's this one: https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...
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by ric2b 5y ago
Litigate someone else's legal tax returns? That doesn't make any sense.
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by ric2b 5y ago
> Maybe they're kicking the can down the road, but that's their choice. I can't just say "Oh, I'm investing 30% of my income, tax that part when I sell later", I don't have that choice of kicking the ca
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by ric2b 5y ago
> And the solution is essentially using force. Someone will guard the cookie jar and make sure you don't take more than one. Sounds like private property to me. The gatekeeper tries to defend the commons and, even assuming they succ
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> The only thing that could happen is that the network forks and different parts of the network reach majority on different states. That's the main thing that Bitcoin solved, how to resolve this exact situation. You can't just
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by ric2b 5y ago
> Investments inherently contain risk which would dissuade potential investors if they have a stable source of growth. Stable sources of growth have existed for decades but somehow most investors aren't just going all in on those. T

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