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by sparkie 8y ago
The "gig economy" you speak of is only part of the economy and centred in certain industries. It's a high risk, high reward which leads people to put in the effort for low pay now, because if they are successful, they'll
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by sparkie 8y ago
> Im not sure people really understand the implications of a team of companies that collaborate often banding together, and eliminating the need for 3rd party audits and 3rd party fund settlement. I think it is more that people don'
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by sparkie 8y ago
"Stable coin" is one of those misnomers where it means exactly the opposite of what one would expect from the existing definition of those words. Something pegged to the US dollar is inherently going to be unstable , because the
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by sparkie 8y ago
I'd add that one should also learn LL and (G(LA))LR grammars. Regex are handy for quick hacks, but anything non-regular becomes hacky and overcomplicated compared with a self-describing grammar. PCREs are over-engineered. There seems t
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by sparkie 8y ago
This is simply not true. If deflation is low, it is not a big issue, much like low inflation isn't a major issue. Hyperdeflation causes problems, as does hyperinflation. The arguments against deflation don't really add up. There a
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by sparkie 8y ago
No better alternative is going to be found for Bitcoin. Bitcoin's security depends on it being super expensive to attempt to hack. Electricity is perhaps the most in-demand good (aside from food and water) over the globe. Those other s
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by sparkie 8y ago
I was referring to the ability to discover that your funds have been stolen, not necessarily who stole them. (The latter usually doesn't matter, you probably won't see the money again). The fiat system has no ability to monitor f
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by sparkie 8y ago
It's a feature. The black market economy is part of the overall economy, and at least a double digit percentage of it. Elimination of black markets means a massive overall economic loss for a country. No government wants to completely
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by sparkie 8y ago
> Untraceable theft from your wallet Theft is traceable (by looking at the blockchain). Theft is untraceable in the fiat system, because you don't have access to the bank's coffers to check they've not pilfered your money.
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by sparkie 8y ago
"Blockchain" is over-hyped. Bitcoin is the real innovation. The use-case has been clear since its inception: It is censorship resistant digital money with no externally-decided monetary policy. There are a lot of people who want i
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by sparkie 8y ago
It's a mistake to look at pools as distinct entities in themselves or to think that their members are in cohesion to do anything other than increase their chance of monetary gain from their pool generating valid bitcoin blocks. The m
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by sparkie 8y ago
The point of Bitcoin is that the trust is not in specific humans or groups of humans, but in a set of humans so diverse and distributed that there is no conceivable way for a minority of them to collude to screw over the other users. Moreov
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by sparkie 8y ago
Whether you think inflation is justified or not does not negate the argument. It is still theft. If savers did not have money, economists would not have anything to inflate. The inflation benefits the money printer, because they spend it at
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by sparkie 8y ago
Not only 1933, they've been stealing money ever since through a monetary policy of constant inflation. Deliberate inflation is theft of a small percentage of the money of all savers.
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by sparkie 8y ago
Typically, lisps will implement their lists internally in terms of a VList[1] or similar data structure, which has some of the benefits of both linked lists and vectors, and the downsides of each are minimized. VLists are [O(1) cons, car, c
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by sparkie 8y ago
The usefulness of having a common structure for which to build types is that you can break them down from code into smaller types, or combine them into larger types, using just the functions `cons`, `car` and `cdr`. This is particularly use
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by sparkie 8y ago
> A derivative work is a work based on or derived from one or more already exist-ing works. A management software might be considered a derived work, depending on how coupled it is with the underlying software. There is no black and wh
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by sparkie 8y ago
You're still missing my point. The AGPL closed a loophole of GPL software that people did not need to release the source code because they never actually released the software (but made it available through a server). We can agree that
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by sparkie 8y ago
The toxin is in tiny concentrations of the fish's muscle which is normally eaten. The parts that can't be eaten are mainly the liver and ovaries, where the toxin is most concentrated. Interestingly, there are traditional fermentat
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by sparkie 8y ago
The AGPL has the requirement that all "derived works" are equivalently licensed. The SSPL does the same, except it has a different definition of what a derived work is, based on a more modern understanding of how software is used
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by sparkie 8y ago
The definition is not well-accepted. For example, why does the AGPL get a free pass but the SSPL does not? When it comes down to it, there are just a bunch of people who make arbitrary decisions about what is to be included. But what they i
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by sparkie 8y ago
In uncontroversial cases, it is not that people let the OSI be the arbiter, but rather, they have no need to argue with the OSI about the use of the term in those cases because their goals are aligned. The controversial cases make this clea
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by sparkie 8y ago
Copyleft licenses are not necessarily "free in the broadest sense possible." They place certain restrictions on what you must do with software you publish which contains code licensed under such licenses. There are several such co
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by sparkie 8y ago
Yes, but open source was already used before the OSI came about. I don't think anyone knows exactly who coined it and when. OSI is trademarked, and they are in their rights to defend that trademark, but that obviously does not extend t
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by sparkie 8y ago
"open source" is just two words. "open" and "source", the latter being short for source code. I hate to break it to you, but language does not work by having people sign statements to declare that you think cer
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by sparkie 8y ago
You are comparing people defending their own property to people stealing other people's property. Fortunately, humanity came to agreement about which of these two were acceptable at the dawn of civilization. Stealing is not acceptable,
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by sparkie 8y ago
Communism implies violence against anybody who does not wish to have the fruits of their labour stolen from them by the state. If people had the choice as to whether or not they can keep the wealth they generated, or to give it up "for
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by sparkie 8y ago
If this is true (which I might be willing to concede), then should the same standard not be applied equally to anyone who self-identifies as a communist in today's world? Simply existing as a communist might be a call to repeat the sam
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by sparkie 8y ago
There are people being loud in the center who are still incorrectly labelled as "far right" or some other meaningless label and targeted for deplatforming. Unfortunately, politicization is inevitable when double standards exist in
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by sparkie 8y ago
Just treat the static class with static only member as if it were a namespace. C# now even has support for omitting the need to type the class name because you can import it as if it were a namespace (`using static`). Seems like a trivial c

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