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by virgilp 6y ago
If you claim "Always X" (going back to democracy HAS to be violent), it's perfectly proper to disprove your claim with a singular example of "not X".
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by virgilp 6y ago
In theory, both forms should get optimized similarly by the DB, but the practice will likely differ from database to database, and maybe even from DB version to DB version. There are though things that CTEs can do and sub-selects can't
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by virgilp 6y ago
You just need to modify the rule a little bit. "If you transact with these blacklisted wallets, your wallet also automatically becomes blacklisted, and if we find you then you go to jail. As an exception - if you receive any amount of
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by virgilp 6y ago
But if half of people in the world have Teslas with self driving, Tesla can also sell entertainment (they've already started, with video games!). They can also sell fancier version of self driving where you can "rent" your ca
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by virgilp 6y ago
Now I'm not sure if you're still talking about BTC or we switched to vaccines...
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by virgilp 6y ago
Come on. It also takes a couple of USD cents (per operation) for the government to automatically blacklist all wallets that "touched" (received any amount of transfer from) a blacklisted walled. The great advantage of BTC is that
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by virgilp 6y ago
Again, the claim I objected to is "transfer money[+] across political boundaries without censorship". That's what I'm objecting to. Yes - you can make a transfer of bitcoin/ it's very hard for the state to stop
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by virgilp 6y ago
Do note that I don't claim (or think) that it's very likely for this to happen. But the comment I replied to made a strong claim: that (technologically?) BTC offers this ability. This is not just some nice property that it current
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by virgilp 6y ago
Like Retric says below, it's easy to put an upper bound to all of the other commodities on earth (and especially so to amber, since no amount of asteroid mining is going to increase that). I think the appeal of BTC is that it's a
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by virgilp 6y ago
To clarify my position: I 100% agree that bitcoin is the first digital commodity. I disagree that it's appropriate to call it "money" (based on the fact that, by design, it has low acceptability - if enough people would use i
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by virgilp 6y ago
... by changing the BTC offline into fiat currency. Doesn't change anything, using the same mechanisms you could create a similar card backed by any commodity. A coinbase card transaction is not actually a BTC transaction.
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by virgilp 6y ago
It's not a currency. It lacks "acceptability", by design - you can never pay for your subway trips with BTC, it just wouldn't scale not even to a city like NY.
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by virgilp 6y ago
> ignoring that the ability to independently verify the money supply and being able to transfer money across political boundaries without censorship is probably the most important intrinsic value one could hope for in a MoE/SoV. Tha
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by virgilp 6y ago
That's actually a worse argument, if I understand it correctly (are you claiming that the article is not interesting for HN readers?? It's frontpage position - currently at #3 - seems to be a pretty convincing counter-argument. Th
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by virgilp 6y ago
That doesn't make it wrong, though. - that BTC is volatile is, hopefully, non-controversial. Do you want your stock to be volatile? (if you have large BTC assets, it should be...) - I won't comment on deflationary/inefficient
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by virgilp 6y ago
It's almost as if they claim to be pro-union :D
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by virgilp 6y ago
Remember that Singapore is a flawed democracy - even though it rates highly on rule of law and government effectiveness, it's somewhat of an outlier in this regard amongst the authoritarian states. But it's not really surprising t
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by virgilp 6y ago
It needs to be said that life expectancy wasn't great for Roman emperors, either :D
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by virgilp 6y ago
Software projects often operate in high-uncertainty scenarios. Best approach may often only be "obvious" in hindsight. It's not irrational to do it in parallel/ in several teams - in fact, I'm surprised it's n
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by virgilp 6y ago
It set it back 11 days apparently... not a few months. They’re moving it to the launch site now: https://twitter.com/BocaChicaGal/status/1341378205962395649?...
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by virgilp 6y ago
I think nobody would mind advertisers being able to target to "subscribers". What people don't want is the ability of advertisers to target "white male who works at ACME, lives in north Fairview and bought a car last wee
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by virgilp 6y ago
I also don't understand the line of reasoning 'Nokia had no choice, they were already way behind Android and iOS". Why, oh, why did Elop have to choose "differentiation"? Nokia could have simply said, "oh, so w
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by virgilp 6y ago
Whether or not $10 is "sustainable premium price" is more than questionable. They tried so much, that they don't yet have free trials and paid upgrades for apps.... (like, true support, not the in-app-purchase workarounds)
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by virgilp 6y ago
Facebook, Netflix, Youtube/Google would be in similar positions even without Apple. They are not "app developers", they are software developers. Snapchat and Tiktok are good examples, but, what are their market caps? Add the
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by virgilp 6y ago
Interesting; my strategy has been almost the polar opposite of his ('learn widely', not 'deeply'), and it served me well so far. It's the whole discussion of being a specialist vs. a generalist, to some extent. Do y
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by virgilp 6y ago
I'd argue that they do, and that will become more and more true. Things as simple as an Excel file, or writing simple email filtering rules may expose you to _some_ programming. As a side note - I believe this is going to be more and m
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by virgilp 6y ago
Maybe; but I do have the full suite. Have used it plenty during the pandemic to fill in forms digitally (some that were designed to be filled in digitally, others that were not), both on an iPad and on computers. Sure, I'm not a hardco
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by virgilp 6y ago
I never saw these screw-ups in Acrobat, so maybe the problem is not the format, but Apple?
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by virgilp 6y ago
If you need an additional datapoint, bubble sort is also the first sorting algorithm I came up with. I find it super intuitive - the only slightly-less intuitive part maybe is that you need to do the outer loop at most N times (in my implem
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by virgilp 6y ago
Some people, when confronted with a performance problem, think "I know, I'll use a cache." Now they have two problems. (in other words: caching is complicated, and may make your systems very hard to understand & debug)

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