shobith

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by shobith 6y ago
Peak dystopia is close.
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by shobith 6y ago
It took ~10 years for flexible screens using OLEDs to be mass producible. 10 years seems to be the norm as of now for things produced under research conditions to enter mass production/usage, are there counter examples?
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by shobith 6y ago
I guess you can make a case for the neo-luddites
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by shobith 6y ago
It seems to be available in browser, see script.js it's not minified.
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by shobith 6y ago
- The haters have not changed their mind despite their hatred being addressed, they've moved on to other reasons. - Bitcoin continues to improve. On a serious note, that's a good summary, thank you!
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by shobith 6y ago
> It's not about good or bad. ok > Bitcoin is bad because... ??
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by shobith 6y ago
I don't like Bananas. Instead of just not buying them at the grocery store and not eating them, I'll post a negative comment whenever someone mentions Bananas. Bananas are bad for you! Bananas suck! Bananas are a scam!
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by shobith 6y ago
What does tether have to do with bitcoin's block reward halving? I couldn't see any references to it here: http://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
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by shobith 6y ago
"tether bad, so bitcoin bad!"
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by shobith 7y ago
Where do you work?? :D
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by shobith 7y ago
Was it an on-site interview? I’m curious how he was able to convince you to install the env.
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by shobith 7y ago
Capitalism is amoral Edit: This wasn't posted as a judgement, it's just an observation of a trend.
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by shobith 7y ago
People always prioritize the remembering self over the experiencing self :). Like someone else pointed out, you can strike a balance between the two.
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by shobith 7y ago
"It's so ... black!" said Ford Prefect, "you can hardly make out its shape ... light just seems to fall into it!"
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by shobith 7y ago
This. I have first hand experience in this phenomenon multiple times. Complexity helps this effect too.
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by shobith 7y ago
This is great! The Expanse has a similar theme around the EAILD, they have the protomolecule instead.
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by shobith 7y ago
I wonder at what point would it make sense to start exposing a part of your "software development pipeline" to the external world and then hiring people after they've proven themselves on your pipeline (with compensation). Th
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by shobith 7y ago
Serious question to the author: Can we know how many hires you've made that you're happy about? what is your interviewing process like?
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by shobith 8y ago
For the purposes of fraud prevention, payment processors can be viewed as an escrow service (along with other things, of course). This can still be programmed on top of bitcoin, someone like amazon/eBay can build this escrow system and
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by shobith 8y ago
My hypothesis around this was younger (or curious people) would just "get" the UI and the older people won't be on the app or not be as active.
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by shobith 8y ago
In any case, I'm not one to judge a programming system by its artwork. I hope people don't get discouraged by it and not try it out, It's a phenomenal system for translating thoughts to programs.
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by shobith 8y ago
For someone who's familiar with the "IDE" shown in the artwork, I was able to quickly parse the different components and it conveyed a vague sense of excitement :).
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by shobith 8y ago
Kurzgesagt had a nice video on plastics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS7IzU2VJIQ it is a scary situation!
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by shobith 8y ago
> I don't think you can explain this by simply categorizing people I was not trying to categorize people, but I was trying to abstractly point out how this might happen, but I used a "category" to explain it simply. > I
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by shobith 8y ago
> Of course, you couldn't do this nowadays because abusive people would show up and ruin it for everyone. I don't know why they didn't back then. People who had early access to Internet (or any tech) were more likely to be
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by shobith 8y ago
Maybe we (or is it just me?), a collection of brains are the ones simulating the universe.
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by shobith 8y ago
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by shobith 8y ago
This sounds very familiar. Do you know any other variants of this song?
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by shobith 8y ago
> Buying Bitcoin, alone, does not admit one into a cult, either. It’s the behaviour of the community around Bitcoin that exhibits cult-like tendencies. In that case, is Bitcoin really a cult? or is there a cult that is using Bitcoin?
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by shobith 8y ago
small correction: s/is/starts out as/g To the telephone counter-examples in the responses: early telephone users were probably "culty" until the mainstream adopted it for useful stuff.

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