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by troad 7mo ago
If "taking part in a huge ecosystem in a foundational role" means 'other people choosing to use your FOSS software', and I can't think of what else it would mean, then no, you have no obligation to do any of that. F
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by troad 7mo ago
Australia is much closer to the vast economic centres of Asia and across the Pacific from the US. It has existing and much more robust trade deals with the US, China, ASEAN, and India. (The EU has failed to achieve FTAs with most of these e
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by troad 7mo ago
Lol. Evidentiary standards? Mate, I don't give a flying fig if you believe me or not. You asked for my experiences, so I gave them to you. I certainly don't believe you, so you're free to not believe me. Seems only fair. Your
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by troad 7mo ago
I never said I obtained sanctions exemptions, I merely pointed out you're just straight up making stuff up when you're concocting "serious crimes" with no knowledge of the underlying facts whatsoever. Which seems like a
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by troad 7mo ago
>> They also claim to have used their bank account to pay for trade in North Korea, a comprehensively sanctioned entity, which seems to be a public written confession of committing a serious crime just to own the crypto use crowd for
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by troad 7mo ago
It's always worked for me manually (straight domain replace, rest of the URL untouched), so I believe so. I'd certainly find it handy if it were offered automatically in the top text. :)
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by troad 7mo ago
Reading the details, this is objectively a terrible deal for Australia. No wonder Australia previously just walked away from these negotiations. Everyone is so upset about Trump that they're signing awful trade deals so they can preten
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by troad 7mo ago
Using Windows with a local account is a very weird experience. On the one hand, most of the adware and other nonsense is turned off. On the other hand, virtually nothing seems to have been tested against local accounts. If I want to update
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by troad 7mo ago
To save folks the typing: https://xcancel.com/shanselman/status/2035110958314745891
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by troad 7mo ago
Clearly your situation of trying to obtain residency in the Comoros by investment would raise eyebrows at banks whose job it is to monitor tax compliance. I don't think you're describing an everyman kind of scenario. I also don&#x
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by troad 7mo ago
Oh yeah, "most people outside the US" are looking to build orphanages in deeply sanctioned war zones. How could I have forgotten. Come on now, that's absurd. If this is your best use case for stablecoins - groping for concoct
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by troad 7mo ago
I am outside the US. Many of my assets are in USD and USD-denominated securities. I've never touched a stablecoin. Waiting to hear what "most people outside the US" are supposed to need those stablecoins for.
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by troad 7mo ago
But you do have to deal with bullshit payment systems. I can't receive stablecoins in my regular bank account, I'd have to set up some crypto nonsense on DankRocketBets or whatever for it to even work. Why would I do this when I
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by troad 7mo ago
You may not be a stranger to the functional style, but you do seem a stranger to the Lisp style, which is closely allied. A lot of FP originated in Schemes and Lisps - Haskell is greatly influenced by the ML family, which is itself greatly
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by troad 7mo ago
Thank you for confirming!
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by troad 7mo ago
It happens 1/2290 (0.04%) of the time. You are significantly more likely to guess a stranger's birthday totally at random (0.27%) twice in a row (0.07%). If you don't consider that exceedingly rare, then you and I need to hit
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by troad 7mo ago
This is a simple reflection of the fact that Nix has a steep learning curve. People who persist generally have deep-enough interest or a compelling-enough use case to power through. I feel like it's more of an indictment than praise; i
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by troad 7mo ago
> This is not a language that is optimizing for being written by humans I've taken a look at the code - having never written a line of Guix in my life - and it seems very readable to me. It's cleanly structured and makes good u
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by troad 7mo ago
> When reading through OpenRCT2’s source, there is a common syntax that you rarely see in modern code, lines like this: > NewValue = OldValue << 2; I disagree with the framing of this section. Bit shifts are used all the time in
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by troad 7mo ago
This is a relatively opaque article for someone who isn't up on dotnet's GUI frameworks. So am I understanding correctly that Avalonia, the OSS project, is contributing an AvaloniaUI backend upstream to Microsoft's MAUI libra
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by troad 7mo ago
Yeah, let's try not to make a habit of punishing people making subsistence wages for the sins of the corporate elite. If you're making half a mil designing spyware for Palantir, different story.
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by troad 7mo ago
> Who's profiting from us customers? Uhhh... the person whose company has 30% of its customers in the US. See above. > You sound like the lunatic president you have > You're the usual case thinking US is an exception to t
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by troad 7mo ago
> This isn't about business but charges. There's no way in hell US can e.g. prosecute non us citizens from trading with Cuba Sure it can. It can do whatever it wants in its domestic courts. Turkmenistan can prosecute you and me
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by troad 7mo ago
Zero difference. If someone is selling children's toys, and 30% of her customers are in the US, and then it turns out her toys are made entirely of lead and asbestos, should she not face US criminal penalties? You choose to do business
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by troad 7mo ago
You're serving US customers. You are doing business in the US, and therefore you are subject to US law. What about when a customer requests a refund, do you just pretend US consumer protection laws don't apply to that customer? Or
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by troad 7mo ago
> Just a crazy idea, but could it be that they don't dogfood their own stuff? I am so convinced that this is the case. They're using their own product using some max-level sub that removes all the annoyances, and don't rea
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by troad 7mo ago
I do mostly use a strictly FP language, but it's trivial to use Java (C#, etc) as FP languages too. Just use classes as stateless function namespaces. FP Java is best Java. > And all the stuff like factories and everything exist in
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by troad 7mo ago
> not offer services to several countries The kind of vague phrasing that makes one immediately suspicious. What were these 'several countries'? Iran? Cuba? North Korea? > also US customers were 30% of the total which made i
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by troad 7mo ago
> Political speech is very much protected in UK law With "protected political speech" being defined as which flavour of the established, incompetent elite you prefer this year. People have been arrested in the UK for holding b
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by troad 7mo ago
I totally agree one ought not use a non-OOP language for OOP. Right tools for the job and all that. I work on large (but private, so I cannot share, sadly) FP-style codebases. The code style is stateless functions grouped in modules that op

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