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by sparkie 7y ago
Bitcoin solves a real problem: It creates a permanent fix for monetary inflation, which allows people to save money without being taxed on their savings. The rest of "cryptocurrency" is snake oil. Most of it attempts to reintroduc
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I'm not talking about abundance versus scarcity. I believe that resources are abundant enough (we're a long way from "overpopulation"). I'm merely talking about how the resources are used: ie, who earns their keep a
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> You just wrote out this long, politically charged comment basically asserting your opinion as fact, which appears to boil down to "socialism bad". Well yes. Theft is bad, and socialism is theft. > Don't you think most
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Who is "we?" I have a question, if you don't mind answering. What are you doing personally to help the homeless and less fortunate than yourself? I get that it is easy to sit behind a keyboard and complain that other people
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by sparkie 7y ago
95% of the problem is having an up to date record of zip/postcodes. As long as you treat the postcode as a separate field, the rest of the address can be handled by the courier. Most couriers will go off the postcode to determine wheth
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by sparkie 7y ago
> Just because it can be controversial and subjective in some cases, doesn't mean it is equally controversial and subjective in all cases, nor does it follow, therefore, that no cases can reasonably be judged by any criteria, becaus
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The trick is to get them programming without them even realizing they're doing it. There's examples of this working effectively: millions of people can use excel to perform computations on groups of cells - the formulae they'
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by sparkie 7y ago
The author mentions XMonad, which does precisely that. However, you can update XMonad without "restarting" the program. When you update the config, which is just a haskell program - the config is recompiled and launched. The state
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The BBC's bias can be considered as pro-State. While some of their journalists and presenters have their own biases, the overall direction they take is to act as the mouthpiece of the government, particularly for international coverage
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It used to be the case that you required a TV license merely to possess a TV. This is no longer the case, and you can possess a TV without a license as long as you do not use it to receive any broadcast media. You also need the TV license t
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by sparkie 7y ago
> It's not that simple. Transactions can, and will be, replayed on both chains. There would however be many opportunities for attacks such as double spends for a short window of time. My point was that a merchant who accepts a payme
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> everybody already understands that the dollar is subject to long term inflation which is why people put their money into stocks or pension funds and don't put cash under the mattress for 80 years. The predictable change in the val
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The devolving of the internet to national intranets is likely, but I don't think it can be done to a big enough extent that it stops Bitcoin. It only takes information to leak through the firewall at one point of entry to make the fire
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by sparkie 7y ago
In Bitcoin, you trust only your own node. You don't place any trust in particular third-parties - you only accept communication from a large number of randomized nodes in hope that at least one of them is honest, which is sufficient to
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> The American government and the American economy underpinning the dollar however represent vital goods and services as well as security provided and have an army to back it up so the chance that it magically loses all its value is just
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A "rejoin" isn't really possible. People who spent money on the "wrong" chain will simply have to live with the fact that their money is lost on the "right" chain, although it will probably not be an overn
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Ok, this is completely silly. No miners have the luxury of the price dropping, as it could make all of them insolvent. They depend on Bitcoin's exchange rate increasing so that the revenue generated from the block reward exceeds the co
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by sparkie 7y ago
Liquidity isn't everything. What makes USD bills any better than Hasbro dollars? Why are people trading dollars over the internet when they could be just trading packets, which are infinitely more available (liquid). You're missin
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by sparkie 7y ago
I was a night owl until about 30, and I enjoyed it too. I didn't plan to become a morning person. When I had to wake at 4:30 for work, I hated it. Now that I don't have to go to work so early, I love getting up early, because thos
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by sparkie 7y ago
I made the switch unintentionally too. I ended up with a job in logistics which required me in work at 0630, with a 30 min commute. Started going to bed earlier to try and maintain 6-8 hours sleep. Was working 13 hour days and pretty tired
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> if I allow users to use an AGPL product on my server and that AGPL licensed product connect to a commercially licensed application server or database on my intranet, will that be a problem? Generally, no. The AGPL work is a distinct wo
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by sparkie 7y ago
My understanding of copyright is that the method of linking is more of a vague guideline than any set in stone legal principle. Copyright determines whether or not some work is a derivative work of an already covered work. If you simply pro
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> The website says "it eliminates builds and most dependency conflicts, allows for easy dynamic deployment of code, typed durable storage, and lots more." but I don't understand this. Dependency conflicts usually occur whe
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> It is the big party using their power to get developers to give up their rights. Sometimes that big party is a single developer, or just a small group. They invest several years into developing a working product, unpaid, and then gi
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They have a brand image to uphold. If anybody were to be able to open up a franchise and run it badly (ie, have rats running around), this would have a serious negative image on the whole brand and would sway people away from eating at the
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There are two aspects to maintenance. One is in maintaining a codebase, which is what you're referring to. This greatly benefits from static typing as you can have good guarantees about your code before you deploy it. The other aspect
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The difference between static and dynamic typing isn't about how explicit you are about the assumptions in your code. You can be equivalently explicit in dynamic and static languages. The fundamental difference lies in when you want
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by sparkie 7y ago
I think Linux is going in the direction of "everything is a dbus API" instead. Linux needs it's own "9P," or equivalently practical, if it wants to reverse this trend. DBus, while perhaps not the best IPC mechanism,
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It's conventional in Scheme and Lisp to just use `#t` directly to match anything.
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> 1) If I fix a bug in a function, (thus creating a new version of an existing function) how do I propagate that fix to all that code that transitively depends on the buggy version? Doesn't that mean I need to create new versions of

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