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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Why not pay a notary to store your will or a bank safe ? I mean you re inventing solutions to problems we always solved with a fee and a legally binding contract...
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
They had it easy being paid to sum a few numbers and call it a banking application :D
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
You can take advantage of it ofc, but be careful not to be taken advantage of, like everything: do not buy coins, buy stocks of crypto companies, do not get employed by a crypto company but provide consultancy to them etc. When it fails, yo
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Freeing users from regulated banks and taxes is a way to make money fast. It s never been the goal of bitcoin to provide any utility to businesses (insured loans, public offering, leverage financing, future contracts, merger consulting, ass
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
And what harms a child more, in a rational compromising world: part of the family dead or losing revenue due to hard sickness, or staying away from school for a while? This writer may not have children, im terrified to leave my toddler behi
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
You can use it but maybe I didnt explain that I work mainly in performance optimization of heavy trading applications in electronic trading for a tier 1 investment bank. No I cant explain why we wont finance a gigantic team to redo it all,
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
As a new joiner from Java on applications that are decades old, I wish it would be more backward compatible. I cant forgive they didnt find a way to fix WinForms, that we cant find the budget to move away from and limp along trying to upgra
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Well I admit I also never understood the sunny nickname and I liked your explanation. Ofc I didnt counter check either hehe
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
We kill processes, destroy variables, put objects in blacklist, push to a master branch, are we monster ? Meanwhile in my language, every word has a gender, from table to banana, should I then be triggered by gender neutrality, a concept th
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
OMG wait until people realize it.
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Yeah but the Académie is really just consultative. I will still never say mot-dièse for hashtag. And that master thing is really stupid, like every population has been enslaved at some point, the word comes from the romans, and it's no
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
You cant see in it because there's no light ? Maybe some crude analogy to the first cameras dark chambers ? French wikipedia says it entered our language during WWII to describe enemy military strategies we had to analyze by interactin
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
But then you must charge all the employees who did so, instead of her. Her crime is fraud because she told investor one thing and commanded employees another. But it's not the army, they could refuse, they all did the tests and gave th
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
One word: frictionless. Zoom is by far the easiest thing to onboard for a random person. My mom struggled to understand Skype account creation wall. I work in a megacorp that forbade Zoom to the profit of our already well established Skype
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
I remember my dad telling me one day we could see each other over the phone and finding this insanely cool. We imagined it as a sort of mini tv on top of the landline phone. No one predicted me writing to you from an elevator in Hong Kong a
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
So you buy less and less gas for your car as you hear CNN loop on gas price rising due to supply issue ? Abd what about toys when everyone is talking about saving Christmas ? You'll make triple sure you have one, maybe even buy several
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
And you d expect they d ask a random Indian in the street just it case, as you seem to say, this would be so trivial people dont feel the need to explain it.
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
I dont know, I used to believe these more but now that I have a toddler telling everyone I give her french fries everyday when in fact I, from time to time, give her ONE of mine and then tell her she must eat her vegetables, I tend to consi
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
In Hong Kong it's simpler: 3-week hotel quarantine when you enter and no guarantee that if you leave your airline will be allowed back in. I havent moved for the last 2 years and my daughter has grown her first years by seeing her gran
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
I... have two accounts above yours (1k and 3k) wtf it's a small community indeed - I dont even work in a startup, the US, or care about YC lol. I post too much crap here :s Ill be more careful posting since it's easier to stand ou
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
This is false, I've optimized horrendously large json parsing by simply rotating the data in a table form and using a binary serializer/deserializer (c.js provided by kdb: https://github.com/KxSystems/kdb&#x2F
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
This is like asking why talented video game programmers dont do more to advance compiler optimization since they re so good. I suppose some people think software goes beyond entertaining video games.
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Yes, ofc I meant the aggressivity would come after they invade Taiwan and transform it into a colony. My English is sometimes awkward but the British could have switched to French when we invaded them. Sadly we all learned the hard way Fran
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
I disagree with you on Hong Kong (I m now a voting citizen, for what it's worth - not much). The problems in Hong Kong didnt start 2 years ago, they started when the UK came in, and we inherit a difficulty I know well where I come from
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
From what I know of Santander systems I had the "pleasure" to interact with as a third party dev, it's probably a poor sob who triggered a method called "doTheRightThing" which ended up doing something completely di
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
You cant compare two companies providing service to millions of people worldwide with a completely dead transaction !! Yes there are winner and losers in useful business, but when someone times the btc market better than someone else, what
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
The endless printing is more necessary than the strict stock control fot a currency. You cannot avoid people starving unless you do it, and you cannot live in peace unless you avoid people starving and getting desperate. You do know there w
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Winning what ? US dollards?
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Taxpayers, law abiders, hell even environment conscious is who we are to say our way is better.
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
See it another way: the people who "owned" the things did nothing with them for centuries, when Champolion decoded the language millenia later, while the Egyptians were busy praying their new gods destroying their own ancient cult

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