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by st1x7 6y ago
> To be fair, the question was "with inflation" or "without inflation" (inflation rate of zero). As you're pointing out, currencies don't have built-in inflation or deflation, that's why it didn't
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by st1x7 6y ago
When it goes up it's "$40k", when it goes down it's "still worth 1 bitcoin"
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by st1x7 6y ago
> if you were given the choice of having two currencies If having = "to personally own with the hopes that the price goes up", then you pick a currency with limited supply. If having = "to have it be the currency on which
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by st1x7 6y ago
That's really not how any of these things work. Bitcoin is completely separate from monetary policy, changes in interest rates are a useful tool and inflation isn't necessarily bad. It's cool to be bullish on Bitcoin but this
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by st1x7 6y ago
Thanks, I just checked renv out (I haven't had to work with R in over a year). Renv looks much better than packrat at a first glance.
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by st1x7 6y ago
Even if that's the case, using dates isn't a solution because dates don't give you the build that the researcher used. Date of publication is different from the date when the code ran and there is no guarantee that the resear
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by st1x7 6y ago
I don't think it's ironic, the quote directly addresses the many criticisms towards C++.
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by st1x7 6y ago
Framing this as passionate vs lazy is very beneficial to people who aren't you but benefit a lot from your hard work. The real conflict is that 1) you need to set up some boundaries and have some realistic professional expectations abo
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by st1x7 6y ago
The original quote is from Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++. The quote also doesn't apply here. (You can't just use it to excuse any problem with software that you come across). The author of the article and the library in it
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by st1x7 6y ago
> and it reconstructs how the program worked on that day. It reconstructs how the fully updated version of everything worked that day which isn't necessarily the same as the researcher's environment. It's a horrible idea t
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by st1x7 6y ago
Either I'm misunderstanding or this is a non-problem. You can specify older versions of a package when you install it. You can also manage them with packrat. As long as researchers share their language and package versions, you can ful
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by st1x7 6y ago
The problem isn't silos, it's lack of privacy. Signal solves that problem.
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by st1x7 6y ago
This just made me wonder about the engineering culture at the FBI. Do they have standups and roadmaps? What's their relationship with the rest of the FBI? Do they search stackoverflow like the rest of us? Are they in on all the latest
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by st1x7 6y ago
I was with you until the third sentence. The better argument is that talented developers can get jobs at companies with similarly great engineering culture and good compensation but with better corporate ethics than Facebook's.
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by st1x7 6y ago
This is a great example of advice that might be true but is completely useless to anyone who is actually struggling.
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by st1x7 6y ago
You should really see what happens when you click reject on their terms and conditions prompt.
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by st1x7 6y ago
> But similarly, I can see some of these employers saying "Oh, you have a CS degree from Stanford? That's cool. How do you perform preorder traversal in a given binary tree? Whiteboard is over here." I'm not sure why
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by st1x7 6y ago
How do you guys think about the opportunity cost of learning dead/dying/new/unpopular languages? Even with newer languages that are gaining popularity and are likely to be used in the future, I struggle to justify the time i
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by st1x7 6y ago
She also works in a field that nobody can enter without the necessary education and some additional professional accreditation. Software is a lot more open, without hard requirements for a degree and without oversight bodies. Maybe this is
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by st1x7 6y ago
If only we had known that all of these Rust vs Go arguments could be resolved by learning both languages in 35 minutes.
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by st1x7 6y ago
Vaguely related question - what is the best textbook that you can recommend for studying complex analysis?
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by st1x7 6y ago
I don't think it comes close to 3blue1brown's video on the same topic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0NjbwqlYw Still nice of the video in the original post to give a bit more of a historical context, instead
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by st1x7 6y ago
It's only valid for the criminal underworld if eventually there is a way to convert back to a legitimate currency and launder it efficiently.
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by st1x7 6y ago
Is it Amazon? Sounds like Amazon.
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by st1x7 6y ago
This is also #1 in Grey's "7 Ways to Maximize Misery" Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o
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by st1x7 6y ago
A lot of this comes down to company culture and size. In some companies it's completely expected and even encouraged to switch teams. In others you're treated basically like an external hire.
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by st1x7 6y ago
I don't think it's sad to prepare for the interview process. I see it this way - whatever you do at your current job might be very specific to your current tech-stack/product/problem-domain/team/company. When y
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by st1x7 6y ago
No, it's more complicated than that. It's an argument against putting your long-term foreign policy up to a simple majority vote on only one occasion and in a way that one of the outcomes hasn't been clearly defined which all
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by st1x7 6y ago
> I use Alexa on a daily-basis - which can be seen as a chatbot. More general virtual assistants (Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri) are at a completely different power level from most chatbots. Most chatbots use cases that I come across are
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by st1x7 6y ago
The current state of chatbots is embarrasingly bad. I still haven't seen a chatbot use-case that can't be solved better with an FAQ section + documentation search and a human as second line of support.

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