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by vvpan 6y ago
I think the concerns are real. And I addressed some of what you are saying in a reply to the other comment. But I think the concerning difference in how you see the technology and how I see is due to the word "cryptocurrency". In
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by vvpan 6y ago
Um, well I'll try my best. In a way it's true that it's a solution looking for a problem and I think we are seeing novel ways to use it. I think a problem is that people still associate blockchain with "currencies"
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by vvpan 6y ago
Perhaps due to a certain naivete I enjoy almost all discussions on HN. There are few exceptions and discussions under blockchain-related posts are the a prime example. I will disclose right away that I wholeheartedly think that blockchains
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by vvpan 6y ago
Didn't Microsoft make an effort to bring Linux into Windows a few years back? Is that no longer a thing?
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And cloud tokens and other credentials. Those get scraped super fast.
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US did fund the Taliban that's true. US has done plenty of meddling in external politics. I wouldn't compare Hong Kong citizens to the Taliban though. They are not an insurgency group. Hong Kong, as I understand, and I'm no e
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by vvpan 6y ago
Weren't Andrsessen-Horowitz sponsoring a bunch of research on the topic. Any results?
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I think people are assuming that it's relying on questionable sources.
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The "these people are funded from abroad" rhetoric is employed too often by countries trying to control their population. Without hard evidence I wouldn't trust such things. I Russia, for example it's the number one way
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by vvpan 6y ago
That's good to hear!
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by vvpan 6y ago
I like hooks but here are some uncertainties that bother me. I am quiet new to React and hooks, but I am a senior dev, so I am wondering if any of this confuses others. * I sometimes have to use an empty dependency array inside useEffect to
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by vvpan 6y ago
Yeah, there are gotchas and issues with hooks and some of them are quiet common but this article does not cover those. Odd selection of "mistakes".
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by vvpan 6y ago
I think you are vastly underestimating the complexity of communication across businesses. I am not an expert in what it takes for, say, two ERP systems to sync (EY are, though). But if you have two separate companies trying to order things
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by vvpan 6y ago
Whether intentionally or not the article entrenches some narrow ideas of what blockchain is. At this point talking about Bitcoin as _the_ blockchain is an ancient narrative and does not see wood for the trees. Bitcoin fulfills a certain goa
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by vvpan 6y ago
My connections helped me little. If I just worked during that time I think I would have been way farther up on the hard metrics of career progress. Not to say that I didn't get anything out of college. The campus radio stations introdu
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by vvpan 6y ago
I do not work on a Mac or want to. So anything that praises Figma over Sketch I upvote. You might think that it's a shallow position but when a company decides to limit their product to only one platform there is a price they have to p
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by vvpan 6y ago
I am not certain why NYT published those articles but I am glad they did. I see it as exposing the dirt and muck-raking. I think it's up to NYT readers to separate what is a real ideological call to arms and what is giving bastards lik
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by vvpan 6y ago
What blew me away is that the author is using 2d vector graphics to draw all that. I think there might've been a follow up post where he shows the process.
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by vvpan 6y ago
So you are saying Haiku is a hobby project with no goal of being um... "production"? Are you sure that people building it feel the same way?
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by vvpan 6y ago
Yes, floral inspiration is very strong in Art Deco. Also, being heavily inspired by all sorts of peoples of the world like Mesoamerican art for example, it has this sense of encompassing many cultures and gives me a dose of romanticism and
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by vvpan 6y ago
Another example of a relatively successful go at this but for a whole country - Georgia. https://www.u4.no/publications/police-reform-in-georgia-crac...
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by vvpan 6y ago
An aside: Why does Medium add a login wall to some articles? Creating an account on a website to read somebody's blog post to me sounds... excessive.
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by vvpan 6y ago
That is a nonsensical statement. ICOs are a way to raise money. There is nothing that inherently deceitful about them. I want to be able to invest into early-stage companies and an ICO is a way.
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by vvpan 6y ago
I'm in the same boat. I tried buying tickets for European shows last year but didn't succeed. And now the show is coming to USA town, I get 4th row tickets and bam... Disappointment all around.
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by vvpan 6y ago
My three year old nephew would ask to play the "robot man", as I referred to Kraftwerk for a while. Then would walk around swinging his arms like a robot to "We are the robots". I, having my "cool uncle" aspira
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No I have not. Thank you!
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I am not the first to point out that our issue is not the lack of resources, but the inability to direct them in a meaningful way. The idea that free-market dynamics will create the best resource allocation is just hard to believe. People w
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by vvpan 6y ago
It seems to be happening. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/world/coronavirus-domesti...
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by vvpan 7y ago
I can't relate to much of the criticism but can say that the inspector has gotten awesome. I switched all of my development to it. There are a couple of things that _require_ chrome, like Slack calls, otherwise I'm Firefox only an
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by vvpan 7y ago
I am with you on that. I recently had to write a bunch of Vue and scrolling up and down really annoyed me. But, fortunately it is becoming a moot point a bit, at least in React world, with more focus on presentational components. Right now

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