silentsea90

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by silentsea90 4y ago
It's odd how much time software engineers will spend on discussing the same old boring stuff like TDD. There are a thousand flowers blooming in cryptography, ML/AI, cryptocurrencies etc. Yet here we are with yet another rehash of
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by silentsea90 4y ago
If other nations with collapsing currencies are any indication, that's not how it works. People always move to a better, harder currency. What authority would the government be left with if the money fails? How would the government dis
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Not a joke. In the 2013s it went from $10s to $1000 (100x), 2017 it went from $300 to 20k (70x), 2021 it went from 6k to 60k (10x). In each of these cases, the crash floor is also a smaller multiple. Overall, Bitcoin is becoming more contai
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by silentsea90 4y ago
In the short term, absolutely no asset class is immune to fed monetary policy ie interest rates, QE/QT. In the long run, fiat has only lost value relative to all hard assets (gold, RE, Bitcoin etc) I'm not sure how what you'r
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I agree but please expand on the pain so I can respond.
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Price of Bitcoin inflating at the same rate as fiat printing = Bitcoin deflating while fiat inflates. That's good right?
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Stable against what? TVs? Food? Healthcare? Education? Real estate? https://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2017/5/29/saupload_i...
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by silentsea90 4y ago
You may have answered your own question. You don't need to turn it back into fiat for it to be used in the long run. Lightning network makes txns quick and cheap, and BTC volatility has been going down enough that it isn't hard to
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by silentsea90 4y ago
What makes you think BTC utopians are going to be disappointed?
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by silentsea90 4y ago
The biggest use case for Bitcoin is of it being an escape from arbitrary printing of money by central banks. The richer your home country, the further you are from intuitively grasping how catastrophic printing is in the long run.
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by silentsea90 4y ago
It takes a fair bit to go from hearing about a game to being addicted to it. What game is it?
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Why isn't end to end encryption a standard now?
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I love Carcassonne on Board Game Arena. It is much lighter than chess and takes 15-20 mins in a 2p game, but still offers enough challenge. There's excellent balance between trying to screw the other player (by stealing their roads, ci
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Ha! This fits so well there that people would refuse to believe it actually happened
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by silentsea90 4y ago
This is movie script material right here.
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Great call out. I was confused why Madden 2005 was being referenced but it makes more sense (note: madden 2005 launched in 2004)
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Why does game dev take so long? I assume most of the physics, game dynamics etc are standardized. Artwork, building a story, designing the game etc sure require work per game. I ask as a noob, not expressing an opinion at all.
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Difficulty adjustment takes care of reducing mining difficulty every 2 weeks based on hash power, so this should self correct
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Part of me fears that you might run into an even worse class of problems as it relates to your points including: > 1. Infrastructure complexity - Sure, but there would be a LOT of complexity in kernel dev > 2. Debugging - :) MS kernel
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Wow. That's genius
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Way to brighten my day with awe and wonder, way to ruin my day with existential dread about our place in the universe.
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I assume it is done manually?
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by silentsea90 4y ago
What's the solution? Open pdfs on a VM, and never on your phone?
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I am in almost the same state as you (age, num companies etc). In my latest job switch interviewing, a company did actually reject me for this reason. I think it is important to not do it too much. In my infinite wisdom I took a chance this
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Would this be useful as a vscode plugin perhaps? I would much rather search this on an IDE imo but I am just one random dude.
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Why do pdfs even allow executing code outside of the pdf env ie why isn't there a sandbox/apis that allow very limited operation?
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Who knows, hackers might be using their $ on fashion but alas the profession makes it hard to flaunt.
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by silentsea90 4y ago
What's the point of "winning" if everything is made up and the points don't matter? I get there's satisfaction in posting content that was useful, and HN isn't Fb/Twitter/Reddit and awash in ad $, but
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by silentsea90 4y ago
THIS. I feel like I keep smashing my head against a wall explaining the same thing to everybody. This isn't quantum mechanics. Why is this so hard to understand for others :(
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Gosh. Have you guys even heard about the Lightning Network? Throughput higher than visa. We're already well past the scale needed to handle the world's txns. https://watcher.guru/news/morgan-stanley-says-bitco

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