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   by sedeki 7y ago

   Is it just me or do most of these begin in medias res ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_medias_res
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   by sedeki 7y ago

   > then bitcoin will become more valuable as a function of time simply because the amount of "stuff" increases. > The reason deflation is bad is because it discourages investment. I agree that economies are naturally deflatio
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   by sedeki 7y ago

   Deflation means that aggregate prices go down over time. I am not sure what it means that, as you said, people bought cryptos in the hopes that the dollar prices of bitcoins would ”””deflate”””. But sure, prices go up when demand go up - is
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   by sedeki 7y ago

   Because gold is less risky due to its traditional status as money? Just curious.
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   by sedeki 7y ago

   I am pretty sure deflation is the big concern with limited supply, not inflation. For exactly the reason that the supply is limited... There are issues of Bitcoin one could argue about - but inflation is not one of them. Give us a concrete
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   by sedeki 7y ago

   No, in fact they do not keep track of each individual dollar. At least for aggregate money supply; perhaps they do keep track of M0. I am not sure.
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   by sedeki 7y ago

   Tell that to a Zimbawean. EDIT: Seriously. Just because our Western bureaucrats are comparatively honest these days, doesn’t mean how it functions doesn’t matter? Things could change, you know, as history repeats itself.
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   by sedeki 7y ago

   I am curious about what federal law they are referring to and what it says? I am not an expert nor a US citizen.
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   by sedeki 7y ago

   My first post to start this whole discussion was me genuinely asking . I am not claiming I know the answer. I am not a native English speaker. Do you mind giving me a link to the essay?
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    Nixon famously took the US, and thus the world, off the gold standard in 1971, effectively giving the Fed a carte blanche to print money. To me this alone would explain the flatness. I sense some sarcasm in your comment - maybe it doesn’t t
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    Wow - what happened in 1974? Something that has to do with the gold standard?
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    My experiences exactly. I realized this a few years ago. So, do the books follow a particular theme, or are they on very disparate topics like for me?
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    I am prone to buying a book about the subject. Problem is I already have too many books and honestly I don’t read them all. I didn’t read much technical literature before Uni, and didn’t know where to find information about technical subjec
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    I am not a native English speaker, first of all. My point is that SO is not a representative example of general internet culture, given its rules and gamified aspect(s).
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    I agree. I think you misread what I wrote. If we are talking specifically about SO, just realize that it is a gamified forum where comments like ”thanks” is specifically discouraged. On most places it’s not.
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    It seems as if declare(strict_types) works for scalars as well (first example)? However, if I remove that declare from your latter example, only one output is shown. Edit: Nevermind, I get it.
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    It was long ago I worked with PHP, before PHP 5. Is typing enforced with PHP these days? Or is it more like type hints, as in Python?
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    You can be direct and nice at the same time. You’re saying that nice always implies extra, redundant chatter. I don’t consider the SO culture a relevant counter-example. Like, why does a gamified forum hurt your feelings?
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    Well, do you consider people you know soley on the internet, friends?
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    Nah, C++ is hardly mutating, in the sense of being backwards-incompatible. Rather, it is expanding incrementally (these days in big chunks). Anyway... Would you compare Python and C++, then? The goals of the languages are clearly different.
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    Exactly. There's not much choice. The best approximations are considered hacks.
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    That's not my view of the market for Go devs. A few decent Go projects in your GitHub profile perhaps? Sounds like you're being filtered by HR. Just mention a few extra buzzwords.
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    Although I share similar experiences with what you're saying per se, I don't understand why people compare Go to C++. Comparing Go to C makes sense; to Rust or C++ does not.
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    The point of React Native is being cross-platform, yes. But you said Android had a native app.
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    Delayed/scheduled email to self is a thing, to answer your product question. Guess mainly for the non-tech crowd.
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    A string that is supposed to represent a ”name” in a web app context — safe or not? I am referring to potential SQL injections. Surely, no names contain semicolons, but is the business logic-part of your app to determine that names which on
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    I agree with you on legalization. However, I imagine these cool kids in my surrounding neighborhoods (that like to intimidate people etc etc) using them and it makes me think twice. It feels like it would be anarchy. Which I believe most pe
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    I believe fentanyl can be provided in a relatively safe form if it was legal.
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    Because of crypto’s ”monetary policy”. And the point is you are not obligated to use a third party.
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    by sedeki 7y ago

    You might be interested to see https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2019/what-i-wish-someone-had... where he puts those things under the header "Wrong Assumptions".