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by srdev 13y ago
I think that's reasonable, but ultimately I'm not sure it matters. It doesn't change the fact that a consumer can spend it at a given location. The ability to spend coins directly, from the consumers' perspective does
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by srdev 13y ago
That's unfortunate but I have not run into that problem. Your claim was that everyone who has dealt with bank has had a problem Bitcoin has solved. You provided a problem that is specific to people with business accounts at a certa
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by srdev 13y ago
>Go buy something at your local No Name Shoppe and compare it to what you were paying 3 years ago. Adjust for inflation. Be shocked by the random ~3-4% cost increase. That wouldn't give actual data though, just anecdote. I'm i
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by srdev 13y ago
Can you list one? I don't want to "be my own bank," as the advocates so cheerfully put it. I stopped working at a bank for a reason.
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by srdev 13y ago
> This isn't entirely accurate. Most credit card companies now tack on a 30c + 2.9% surcharge for processors that do fewer transactions than some arbitrarily defined limit, well known to most small companies as the "PayPal tax&
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by srdev 13y ago
As currently implemented, no, because network traffic and disk size scales at O(n) with the number of transactions. There is currently a 7 transaction/sec limit in order to avoid the blockchain ballooning in place. The fact that Bitc
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by srdev 13y ago
Credit card companies do not charge 4%. I worked in credit cards about a decade ago, so unless the marketplace is less competitive now than before, I assume this still holds true. Furthermore, the fees that do exist are not necessarily pa
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by srdev 13y ago
Vastly over-used quote. I've heard that more from people who have eventually gone on to lose than winners. Sometimes the people being laughed at are just clowns. Also, bitcoiners are not even in the same ballpark as Ghandi.
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by srdev 13y ago
Seems to me that most peoples' points is that Bitcoin solves problems that most people do not have. I still haven't had any Bitcoin advocates explain to me why I should care. My credit card is vastly superior in pretty much ever
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by srdev 13y ago
As a software developer on corporate credit card applications, dealing with managing transactions, accounts, and restrictions. Our infrastructure was ACID. We certainly wouldn't have used experimental, flaky datastores like Mongo, an
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by srdev 13y ago
Worked at a bank. They have better processes than this. Not gonna say they're perfect, but they can handle balancing their books and not dropping transactions. They certainly don't use a non-ACID PoS like Mongo. Excel was over-use
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by srdev 13y ago
>Who said otherwise? Apparently a lot of HN posters. Looking at the siblings, you see the exact circle-jerk I criticized: "Only launching matters. Builders are so much smarter and more talented than maintainers. Code quality is a
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by srdev 13y ago
Well if we're singling out maintenance programmers, lets also talk about programmers who use "maintenance" as a dirty word. They tend to be the type to vomit out whatever immediately comes to their head and ship when it just
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by srdev 13y ago
I'll provide a dissenting data point. After going through 5 RMA's with Vertex 2 drives, I finally convinced them to just upgrade me to a Vertex 3, due to reports of better reliability. The Vertex 3 failed within a week. Conside
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by srdev 13y ago
Burden of proof is on the person making the claim. Thats you.
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by srdev 13y ago
There's no evidence of that. This theory just comes from the Bitcoin community's desire to make DPR into a martyr. Its not as if he was particularly sophisticated in covering his tracks in the first place (a lot of the things he
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by srdev 13y ago
That's a bad comparison. You're comparing using Bitcoin after its set up, with a bank account with no set up. I have direct deposit plus a credit card, and using my money is as easy as a swipe or inputting some numbers. And unl
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by srdev 13y ago
I said I don't disagree given the assumptions stated. I do disagree with the unqualified assertion that "compromising on people is one of the worst mistakes a technology company can make." Culture is a broad term that covers
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by srdev 13y ago
Assuming its the case that you have to make a choice between the existing culture and this project, and that there is no compromise, that would be a fair justification. I have no idea if this is actually the case or not, since I'm not
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by srdev 13y ago
That makes more sense than my initial understanding of what you were saying. I would still argue that Valve, as a company, should not have strung her project along if they were not really interested in committing to AR. The problem I see he
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by srdev 13y ago
That's a poor conclusion. Saying that she was poisoning the culture is inherently making a judgement that the existing culture should be sacrosanct and that any changes are bad. This is poor reasoning. There is such a thing as bad c
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by srdev 13y ago
And I would argue that rigidly deciding that Valve is just going to be about what PC gamers think is cool and refusing to seriously consider other ideas is not good culture. Its close-minded. Adopting a hardware project and then hamstring
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by srdev 13y ago
> She's complaining about the flat structure because she cannot cocere coders to get interested and join her project. Maybe that's because they're all chasing the big bucks and prestige or maybe it's because they&#x27
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by srdev 13y ago
There's a lot of discussion around this interview, and unfortunately much of it tries to paint her as a trouble-making whiner. A lot of her complaints match what I would expect from an attempt of a non-hierarchal organization: cliques
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by srdev 13y ago
She told Gabe after she was fired that he should either fund the project she was working on personally or give it to her. Its not much of an ultimatum because she was already fired and had no bargaining power. Its pretty awesome thing for
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by srdev 13y ago
You might consider moving teams if you can. Not all teams at Amazon are like this.
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by srdev 13y ago
That's an interesting thought. Yes, it'd be very nice to see detailed statistics on various US dollar denominations, and Bitcoin as well.
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by srdev 13y ago
> That hasn't happened with cash [yet]. Humorously, if the idea of cash was new today like digital currencies are it would be outlawed for our "safety". The key word here is "proportion." Cash is used in a lot of illegal stuff, but its
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by srdev 13y ago
I honestly find a lot of the arguments irksome particularly because many are predicated on the idea that techies can "afford to live somewhere else." Its a bit ridiculous to insinuate that its our moral duty to spend extra money from our p
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by srdev 13y ago
Since the only frustration seems to be a lack of immediate and instant access to the engineers, I'd imagine that the fix here would be for the product management team to adjust their expectations and communicate better. Many managers consid

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