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by rmah 9y ago
They understand it just fine and you simply wrong. Proof of work validation IS probabilistic and central agency validation is not probabilistic. But it does require trust in that central agency. You may not trust that central agency, but
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by rmah 9y ago
That's not the problem, that's the point. Sadly, those words inspire and convince some people. Words are how they recruit. I fail to see how how people fail to see this. Limiting the spread of such hateful ideologies is, IMO,
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by rmah 9y ago
There are no balances in bitcoin. It's all deltas.
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by rmah 9y ago
"For whatever reason(s), a lot of entrepreneurs can't seem to conform to the typical 9-to-5 job." In my experience (almost 30 yrs of working at all sorts of companies, 2 startups of my own, lots of friends and acquaintances w
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by rmah 9y ago
The scale problem exists because of two things: 1) currently, only about 6 blocks can be verified by the network per hour. That is fixed, any faster and the difficulty rises. Any slower and the difficulty declines. With the current code
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by rmah 9y ago
That's not being lazy. That's being proactive in improving your productivity. This is the opposite of lazy.
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by rmah 9y ago
I would agree that it was exceptional. But I would also argue that how your people perform during exceptional situations is what makes or breaks teams and companies.
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by rmah 9y ago
IMO, a randomly selected congress hands power to the executive, or God forbid the government bureaucracy (aka "civil servants"). Whichever one, they will become the only ones who know what the hell is going on. If a law gets pass
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by rmah 9y ago
That is precisely what an aristocratic elite (or any semi-permanent elite subgroup) is supposed to do. What seems to have changed in America is that the elites no longer grow up learning that "we are better, and therefore, it is our j
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by rmah 9y ago
Here's a tip: most live programming interview questions should be answerable within a few minutes. Any approach that you think will take a half hour is the wrong approach.
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by rmah 9y ago
I once had to diagnose and fix a bug in a financial system that went belly up under extremely heavy load -- causing the company lose tens millions of $'s per hour (literally). Turned out to be a timing problem caused by satellite comm
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by rmah 9y ago
The short answer is: it depends. The long answer... New customers come from two primary sources: 1) marketing and 2) referrals. Marketing is things like events (trade shows, media hits, advertising, reviews, etc). None of those things hap
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by rmah 9y ago
"Besides, my local librarian doesn't decide what books the library will have" Um, of course they do.
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by rmah 9y ago
He's essentially saying -- in the nicest, most neutral way -- that it's a silly selling point.
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by rmah 9y ago
Lol, as if Musk is the first to dream of colonizing space. Please.
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by rmah 9y ago
I vaguely recall reading that a population of apx 200mil is required to maintain a modern industrial society with all bells and whistles (e.g. semiconductor fabs, rockets, etc).
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by rmah 9y ago
"Because of that, people thought you should write software the way you build a bridge or a car." The reason people think that is because they have no idea how the engineering to build a bridge or a car is done. Note, the term is S
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by rmah 9y ago
No they can't. I don't doubt that this has happened before and I'm sure someone can dig up an example or two. However, what you describe is highly questionable and borderline illegal. It's certainly grounds for a lawsu
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by rmah 9y ago
Yes, because heavy action on the sell side means Venezuelan debt prices would go down, which would raise the yield. Which means that future bonds issued by their gov would have to pay a higher coupon. This would definitely anger them.
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by rmah 9y ago
It doesn't mean anything. It's marketing tripe.
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by rmah 9y ago
The short answer is "no". But a human powered residence may be possible, but that ignores the huge amounts of power consumption required to build and support that residence.
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by rmah 9y ago
This article and the referenced "study" are breathtaking in its idiocy and ignorance. As long as people continue to believe such disturbingly counterproductive narratives, the poor areas of Africa will remain poor. That said, som
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by rmah 9y ago
NYC for example was underwater in a recent storm doing a lot of damage and largely shutting down the city NYC was not underwater. A small part along the rivers got flooded due to poor drainage and river water water backflooding the sewer
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by rmah 9y ago
This article essentially boiled down to: I want X. A few companies already offer X. You should offer X too. There are sometimes advantages to offering full or partial work-from-home options to employees. For some projects and company cul
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by rmah 9y ago
What happens is that housing prices fall until enough people can afford them.
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by rmah 9y ago
Thank you for taking the time to explain what I meant in my overly terse terse post.
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by rmah 9y ago
Create a vision, get the team to buy into it. Convince senior managers to buy in. Present and execute a plan to fulfill the vision. Be the change you want to see. Edit: I can see that I need to explain in more depth. Too many technicall
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by rmah 9y ago
When it gets cheap enough, you won't want to move there. That's why it'll be cheap.
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by rmah 9y ago
I think your experience is highly admirable. But I think even you have to admit that most people, regardless of background, do not have the sort of will power and drive you exhibited. So yes, any particular person could overcome the obstac
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by rmah 10y ago
The "money" banks create when they lend is the same sort of "money" you create when you deposit cash into your checking account. The problem with money conspiracy theorists is that they conflate different types of money

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