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by woah 5y ago
Yea, again, very complex and experimental technology. Now the entire blockchain you are bridging to needs to be written in an experimental VM technology which is being developed real time by dudes on twitter. And this Solana hack was a VM i
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by woah 5y ago
The hype a couple of years ago was at a fever pitch. Starlink was going to replace all forms of internet with space-ey goodness. Millions of people getting 100mbps for $50/m on cable who just didn't like the cable company's c
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by woah 5y ago
> Also - why would you ever set up a system where the majority of its assets can be drained by a single transaction, whether legitimate or not? Just because it's not centralized doesn't mean every transaction is made equal; one
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by woah 5y ago
> the ecosystem tosses it aside This is false. Many of the most heavily used Ethereum contracts, such as Uniswap, are non-upgradeable.
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by woah 5y ago
The "hosing the hedge funds" thing around GME was a big scam, and it seems that people are still falling for it. The GME pump and dump had no effect on the Wall Street establishment, and it's not even clear that any short sel
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by woah 5y ago
With an ability to foresee the future, surely there are better ways to make money?
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by woah 5y ago
It's much harder to understand how rich Elon Musk is, because if he tried to sell even a small percentage of his Tesla shares, the value would evaporate. The revenue figures of these companies are more understandable because that is co
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by woah 5y ago
Huh?
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by woah 5y ago
Why not go on a train?
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by woah 5y ago
Web, Android, and iOS? Fully internationalized? Every single screen, including hundreds of variations that only apply to specific weird scenarios that you only see once you're managing hundreds of thousands of stays a day? Special prom
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by woah 5y ago
> Just an email saying "yeah, sounds good. We agree to this." That is entirely sufficient to legally demonstrate agreement. An in person conversation is too, but it leaves less evidence. > I say this only because I can see -
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by woah 5y ago
Again, it's a matter of evidence. I guess the court would have to get to the truth of the matter, and when they did, the side that was lying would go to jail. IANAL but I'm guessing signature forgery disputes are a very small port
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by woah 5y ago
> You could have a solid Airbnb clone in a couple months (I'd imagine) I've never worked there, but I imagine you are hilariously wrong. You couldn't even make static copies of the website and mobile apps on all platforms
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by woah 5y ago
I think you misunderstand the concept of a signature. What matters is that you agreed to something. The signature is just evidence of this agreement.
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by woah 5y ago
> We are talking well over a thousand SWE years. Why didn't you just take over support of python 2.7?
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by woah 5y ago
Society is a scam
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by woah 5y ago
The author makes a lot of claims such as > Until this phase of history or prehistory, the elders and males rarely exercised socially dominant roles because their civil sphere was simply not very important to the community. Indeed, the ci
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by woah 5y ago
Nice! Great solution to a common inconvenience.
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by woah 5y ago
> If software engineers were engineers, testing would be a higher priority, and visible regressions would happen rarely, if at all. That would mean they were doing their jobs badly. All engineering requires balancing priorities such as p
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by woah 5y ago
As he says in the article, many engineers in the past had neither a degree nor a certification. And they were certainly building "real things".
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by woah 5y ago
This is a bad take. The problem with Google analytics is that it allows Google to surveil everyone's movements around the entire internet. This is enabled by the fact that for a long time, Google analytics was the best analytics produc
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by woah 5y ago
> Most people, regardless of race, find suburban living more pleasant and more convenient. This is very easy to disprove: houses and apartments in urban areas cost more than in the suburbs. Most people are not able to afford a large enou
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by woah 5y ago
I'm not a scientist so maybe I don't get it, but it seems like code could be analogized to a chemist's laboratory (roughly). If a chemist published pictures of their lab setup in their paper, and it turned out that they were
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by woah 5y ago
Works OK for me. It's on Notion, a Google Docs competitor that gets heavy usage. Maybe something is wrong with your browser
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by woah 5y ago
> I haven't read it in detail and won't because my spidey senses say it's not worth it based on what I've seen skimming. Wow thanks for this extremely well researched and authoritative opinion
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by woah 5y ago
Presumably the adversary has already launched an easily detectable nuclear attack themselves so they know something is up
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by woah 5y ago
This is basically like the famous "20% time" but way better
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by woah 5y ago
You can easily fit 10 bicycles in the space of one car.
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by woah 5y ago
Get an electric bike or scooter. The fact that the government is willing to offer thousands of dollars in subsidies for electric cars, when that amount could buy the best of the best electric bike or scooter is insane.
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by woah 5y ago
NIMBYs are not against new housing, they're just against new housing that doesn't meet 100 different conflicting requirements that are impossible to satisfy at the same time. Meanwhile the most famous picturesque neighborhoods (in

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