strgcmc

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by strgcmc 6y ago
Crypto has beauty too. Surely technologists can appreciate an elegant algorithm? Art takes years of craft to perfect, and part of the value of the final piece reflects the years of work that went into training and developing the artist&#x27
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by strgcmc 6y ago
What is the "intrinsic value" of fine art? Why is it a billion dollar industry?
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by strgcmc 6y ago
I'm always thrilled to hear stories from people who have or reach this level of self-awareness, about what determines their mood/satisfaction. It's so wonderfully freeing to know yourself to that level, and understand part of
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by strgcmc 6y ago
Think that story is about Google Fi. I'm a Fi user, but haven't had to try and reach a human to resolve a problem yet; I dread the day if/when that happens where I actually do need a human to solve something I encountered...
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by strgcmc 6y ago
You don't know any people from Venezuela I take it, or any countries experiencing hyper-inflation. And not to say that that is THE killer use-case, but it certainly is A use-case for Bitcoin. Bitcoin started with essentially novelty a
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by strgcmc 6y ago
The insight here is, why not both? Old economies lurched from hard/gold-backed currencies to fiat. Why not build an economy that exists on multiple layers, and has both options? Use fiat to make short-term transactions and investmen
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by strgcmc 6y ago
In response to (1): https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/toys-r-...
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by strgcmc 6y ago
Not the "group" you're thinking of. Groups exist along a spectrum of cohesiveness, and a political party and/or political cult centered around one individual, is several orders of magnitude more cohesive than grassroots
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Actually businesses should and must decide these things for themselves. A lot of stores now enforce rules for customers to wear masks, without any legal mandate or ruling by courts that masks are mandatory. It's good business, because
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by strgcmc 6y ago
I mean, you've taken the analogy to mean something other than what I intended: in my mind, the lost hiker is equivalent to the person asking for help to save his family (i.e. he is starving for methods to convince them/save them).
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by strgcmc 6y ago
I don't know if this will actually help, but I do think it's important to keep in mind two underlying principles: - People generally cannot be argued out of positions using facts/logic/science, if they didn't use fa
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by strgcmc 6y ago
And your problem is going in circles and not listening to the person you're replying to. You are guilty of doing the exact same philosophical run-around that he's complaining about. The fact is, this person is watching his close f
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by strgcmc 6y ago
I agree there's no grand plan here, but from another perspective, the rise of TikTok/WeChat/DiDi/Alibaba (e.g. was surprised to see that I can use AliPay at CVS in my area in the US), shows that China doesn't need U
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by strgcmc 6y ago
The trick is to know the bounded context of the "iffy-ness". Iffy code that might occasionally lead to latency or a timeout for some users using your service, is different from iffy code that charges the user the wrong dollar amo
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by strgcmc 6y ago
I don't think it's dismissive to be honest. In many ways, software is not so different from the rest of the world. Industry (in the Industrial Revolution sense), underwent similar transformations (and is still going through them),
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by strgcmc 6y ago
You should know that Windows includes a similar feature (to call home and report file hashes and the user's IP for example) called SmartScreen, and with default settings it also triggers on every single application launch in the OS. Re
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by strgcmc 6y ago
IMO the short answer is, yes pardons can seemingly be bought in the Trumpian era of American politics. Whether $1B is enough, I don't necessarily know, but I don't see why the likelihood is something to dismiss out of hand.
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by strgcmc 6y ago
You may be in interested in the domain of litigation finance then: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/17/this-young-litigation-fina... Not quite the same thing as what you mentioned, but by creating financing tha
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by strgcmc 6y ago
I know this is in jest, but honestly there are two kinds of wheels: round things that everyone uses to roll around with in common/universal ways, and specific configurations of wheels like this person mentioned for microwave routing. Y
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by strgcmc 6y ago
It's not an "argument" per se, as in whether we should or shouldn't pay the pharma companies. Of course we should pay pharma for this for COVID, and of course it is "worth it." There is no argument (from me at
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by strgcmc 6y ago
This is also how criminal mobs operate, in terms of protection money, extortion, ransom, etc. The underlying economic principle is the same ("gee, sure would be a shame if this expensive thing X were to break..."). Beware of relyi
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by strgcmc 6y ago
Your twist on the analogy is better, but still misses one crucial element IMO. Forgetting your keys, driving your car into a lake, or running out of gas are all very, "obvious" and transparent failures or error states to the user,
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by strgcmc 6y ago
But many night clubs have dancers on stages anyways, so the major difference is one of clothing/uniform, not of skill set, no? Along with bar tenders, servers, bouncers, etc. The Venn diagram of staff-roles-a-night-club needs vs staff
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by strgcmc 6y ago
Yes, but if the law bans strip clubs, then a strip club could simply become, well, a clothed regular (night) club, serving drinks and music and whatnot. So it's not really an existential problem, because there is a quite reasonable opt
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by strgcmc 6y ago
Was originally reported few months back: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/04/amazon-licenses-slack-for-wo... Actual rollout started couple months later. Currently living in a nebulous/purgatory in-between st
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by strgcmc 6y ago
Just imagine what it's like for Amazon, that just rolled out Slack internally last 1-2 months. (hint: it's not great, but at least we can fallback to Chime)
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by strgcmc 6y ago
Let's try to tie together what you're talking about (auto-scaling/capacity), with the OP and blog post was mainly about (chaos engineering/engineering-for-failure). Imagine: - You operate a service with significant traf
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by strgcmc 6y ago
This probably isn't a simple nor use-friendly intro, but it's pretty comprehensive at least: https://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs430/coq/pdf/Tutorial.pdf (section 1.2 has the first minimal proof, although f
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by strgcmc 6y ago
I would go so far as to say, their "solution" was not a solution at all. Granted, in the absence of being able to recognize alternatives, it may have been the best available option left, but it fundamentally missed the root cause
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by strgcmc 6y ago
Plucking a number randomly from a real-world point-in-time snapshot of https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/ , I see a suggestion of ~150 satoshis/byte, so for your example, transaction fees for an ideal/max size block wou

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