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by ric2b 5y ago
> It was a very, very hard negotiation to go to 4 week of PTO while reducing my yearly salary by the equivalent of 40H*MyRate. Simple, because the value you're providing is much higher than your salary, so reducing your output costs
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by ric2b 5y ago
Kings didn't have smartphones 1000 years ago, but they did have multiple large castles and entire armies ready to do their bidding. And they didn't have to work a single day in their entire life to get it, they were born into the
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by ric2b 5y ago
Sounds like he just learned about the domain while working for the company, there was no stealing of trade secrets or IP violation.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Lack of syntax highlighting is the reasoning in SQL, I think.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Why would you even need a reverse proxy for a static page? This isn't about that.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Easily compared to what?
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by ric2b 5y ago
> as a response they don't think of a way to build a system without losers Which system is that?
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by ric2b 5y ago
> it doesn't answer the question of why an entity would want to invest their money on an uncertain venture when it would just be worth more doing nothing with it. Simple, because the investment would return more than the natural rat
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by ric2b 5y ago
> Because I want a $5 beer today So then why feel bad about trading some BTC for it? The regret would be for not buying back.
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by ric2b 5y ago
The selection is arbitrary because they're not the ones doing the selection, women are. There's a well known study from OkCupid about this, women are way more selective so men only have very few matches a week (and some of those d
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by ric2b 5y ago
The best UX is in products they killed, like Inbox or Play Music.
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by ric2b 5y ago
You can outsource while retaining ownership so that you can opensource it later if you want. Just need to pay for it and add it to the contract.
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by ric2b 5y ago
> Firstly it got rid of Trump who was before covid in charge of one of the best economies in the USA and would have had an easy path to reelection. The virus was a black swan event that caused that to go away and trump.to make several mi
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by ric2b 5y ago
> and communism has the potential of solving it How?
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by ric2b 5y ago
Saying something is a scam is a claim in itself.
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by ric2b 5y ago
They can correlate your login timestamps with emails you send to gmail users and identify your protonmail account.
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by ric2b 5y ago
And also without the useful "automatically achieve consensus between untrusted parties" bit.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Except it has no way to achieve consensus automatically. That's left as an exercise to the reader.
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by ric2b 5y ago
> there isn't anything original about them Cool, so let's say we're using this to track financial transactions. Server A has an Immudb at some state x and server B has an Immudb at some state y. Which one is correct, how d
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by ric2b 5y ago
> I.e. These rules CHANGE, and since they change(and have changed in the past) if you can convince a majority, you can change the rules to be whatever you want. False, everyone running a node is enforcing whatever rules their node is wri
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by ric2b 5y ago
> If I had >50% hashing power of BTC(for exactly 1 transaction), I can make the current chain say anything I want, like give me all the BTC, and it would become valid and "permanent". No, this is a big misunderstanding of ho
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by ric2b 5y ago
> This is ignoring that if you own 51% of the network, you are free to just rewind the chain back to whatever you think is suitable, and rebuild it from that point on. Not exactly, for every block you rewind there is extra work you have
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by ric2b 5y ago
But it's easier to notice they're outdated, because you don't see them only when looking at the implementation.
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by ric2b 5y ago
> they could have turned around and fly all the way back to Russia had they desired to do so. Not sure if it's that simple, the plane has limited fuel and if they are banned from most of Europe's airspace on the way back it mig
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by ric2b 5y ago
As someone who has brought this up in previous discussions, I just want people to criticize both events (not necessarily equally) and pressure their own governments to be better instead of forgetting Snowden, who is still not able to go bac
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by ric2b 5y ago
> Fossil fuel companies aren't greedy monopoly men burning oil for no reason. But, as in this court case, they are greedy monopoly men advertising dangerous lies to the public to keep selling their product.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Kings aren't gods, regardless of how much they claim to be.
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By definition? Can you expand?
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by ric2b 5y ago
The releases are signed with well-known keys. But if you don't trust the devs you'll need to use other software, yes.
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by ric2b 5y ago
> All decentral systems trust that the majority of something does "the right thing". There's a difference between assuming a majority of relevant nodes are honest and relying on your ability to identify that majority.

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