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   by yingw787 8y ago

   I think the difference is the police officially recognize one currency and do not officially recognize the other. The U.S. dollar is backed by the full faith and trust of the U.S. government. A cryptocurrency's value is backed by the a
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   by yingw787 8y ago

   Of course you can stiff the legal system. But you can only stiff it so far. I Googled "Ethereum steal" and the top three results have figures in the millions, through something as straightforward as a 51% attack. No court system c
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   by yingw787 8y ago

   I still don't get cryptocurrencies. Yes, a blockchain works when zero trust is needed/desired for transactions, but that's still an implementation-level concern, and implementations aren't perfect. Without legal means of
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   by yingw787 8y ago

   I wonder if there's room for a software deployment model for SMBs. Create a GUI on top of Ansible so customers can configure their build, build/deploy a software tarball to a VM, and provide data and code migration tools to your l
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   by yingw787 8y ago

   Hey cheer up now, there's no aliens we've found yet to compare to! We go our own pace and do our own thing, and Mister Rogers will always love you, and that's all that matters.
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   by yingw787 8y ago

   I don't know. First we'd have to identify if there is one center of the universe; can we guarantee that the universe expands uniformly? I can't find anything online and I'm not a physicist. If there are multiple centro
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   by yingw787 8y ago

   I'm not sure about the usefulness of increasing precision if you can only guarantee a certain precision upon synchronization. I wonder if increased clock activity translates to increased clock temperature and increased clock variation.
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   by yingw787 8y ago

   Yeah, I was thinking only of in the Solar System. Beyond that, the primary bound on commercializeable space is probably spacecraft propulsion, which will take a while.
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   by yingw787 8y ago

   Hmm...would this only be relevant on the scale of nano/picoseconds, or seconds or higher granularity, given a frequent synchronization schedule?
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    I know that system clock drift can be bounded to milliseconds using an atomic clock or GPS receiver, but I didn't know whether we could overcome synchronization difficulties when speed-of-light differences are significant. I thought we
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    Might be O/T, but I found it really interesting how they mention "5,352 Martian solar days". Do we humans have plans in the pipeline for a universal time standard we can use wherever we are? Something that is a little more us
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    Oh yeah. Be careful with what you wish for. One day us humans might not be just dominant, we will be alone. And in that sense, I don't want us to prevail against Mother Nature; I just want a healthy balance.
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    I think I noticed this too. When I was in elementary school in the early 2000s, the stench of run-over worms was almost unbearable after rains. Worm guts everywhere. There were also bugs flying around me whenever I went outside to play. I h
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    I think that's the premise of a video game already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_The_Division
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    Wonderful news! I don't use C++, but I appreciate how at the end of the day, C++ will always be with us, and so will its benchmarks/expectations, battle-tested tooling ecosystem, and generously bestowed developer power. Makes the
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    CPA: You do it wrong, IRS audits you for years. Barber: You hold a sharp object to somebody's head wrong, you could take out a chunk of scalp. If you're malicious, you could do more. Electricians: You do it wrong, you can literall
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    There is absolutely no situation where safety-critical code will be pushed to production builds without extensive testing, analysis, and verification, if the org standing behind it wants to live. This holds for medical device technology and
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    I think level of safety is higher for other professions; if you mess up as a doctor somebody dies, if you mess up as a lawyer an innocent person goes to jail. If you mess up a CRUD app as a junior full-stack developer, prod is broken until
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    This is really cool! Thanks for sharing!
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    I agree with the notion that democracies aren't synonymous with "good", but I disagree that things shouldn't be democratic. The sole purpose of democracies is to make people's problems their fault. Most systemic iss
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    I love this! I draft pull requests as an ad-hoc branch management scheme at work with a [WIP] prefix, and reviewers are notified when I make a change (small team so not too spammy). When it's ready I update the summary and remove [WIP]
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    I can't agree with this more. One company I worked at did proof-of-concept sales to enterprise customers, and as engineers we supported the sales team by adding additional features the customer may demand before making the sell. Someti
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    I remember in the book "Remote: Office Not Required" by Jason Fried and David Heinmeier Hansson, they mentioned finding internationalization issues early on because globally distributed remote teams naturally dogfood for internati
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    I don't know how much I support basic income as a substitute for jobs. Jobs can suck, but basic income takes away the levers for poor people (anybody relying on one primary income stream for disposable income) to be useful to the rich
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    This is pretty crazy. I love it.
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    I'm going to go out on a limb here and conjecture that this isn't a typical Google pullback like with todo list apps. There are significant financial/intellectual capital outlays required for nationwide-scale ISPs, in additio
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    This reminded me of what Jeff Bezos told the founders of Basecamp: "Focus on the things that don't change". In software, the global implementation-specific knowledge changes quickly, but the global first principles knowledge
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    I did see that thread, but I wanted to post this here too. If you are worried about incumbents while starting a company, just remember your customers are used to being treated like how Jabra treats its customers, and if you treat your custo
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    The no-questions-asked 90-day money back guarantee was one of the best decisions we ever made at Fog Creek. Try this: use Fog Creek Copilot for a full 24 hours, call up three months later and say, “hey guys, I need $5 for a cup of coffee. G
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    by yingw787 8y ago

    1. Pictures? 2. Did you use any guides on how to build your shuttle bus? 3. What do you do about external services (e.g. showering/toiletries)? I've heard at campsites there's valves to drain sewage into underground septic ta