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by yourabstraction 5y ago
Currently I see NFTs as a new status symbol, but without a way to display them (ie: flex your status/wealth). However, if you think the world will move further towards the digital realm where people will spend large portions of their l
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by yourabstraction 5y ago
I think the problem is you're looking at cryptocurrency with the wrong perspective, so you're missing the fundamental ways it can rewrite the entire world of finance. I imagine you're looking at this from a consumer perspecti
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by yourabstraction 5y ago
I completely agree, trying to solve these kind of issues with morals really doesn't scale well at all. It's much better to just let people be greedy but put in place a system of taxation and economic incentives to guide the desire
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by yourabstraction 5y ago
Exactly, cryptocurrency is a powerful human coordination tool that allows us to build networks that contain real monetary value on top of legacy infrastructure. I'm not surprised to see this on the front page, hacker news has taken mis
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by yourabstraction 5y ago
It's really pretty ridiculous and frustrating. I come here for intelligent discussion, and I agree it's okay if people don't like Bitcoin, but at least take some time to learn about it if you're going to argue. It's
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by yourabstraction 5y ago
I've seen this a lot when new people join a software project and immediately start telling people the "right" way to do everything and that all their solutions are far from optimal. Sometimes this can be useful if the project
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
> The more and more I code the more I see it closer to something like music than something like engineering. For many years I've also made the comparison between programming and music. You can learn the theory (CS or music) in schoo
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
> Maybe finding a way to scale up good things like trust or good will? Have you considered working in the cryptocurrency space next? I think that would satisfy your desire to find ways to scale up trust. One of the key value propositions
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
Exactly. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
Interesting. Do your trading strategies still work, or has the market become too efficient? Did you ever trade in a bear market, and by how much did you beat returns on holding just BTC and ETH?
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
I think a lot of what you're saying makes sense. People tend to lump all types of raising cows together, when it's really only the factory farming type or rainforest clearing kind that needs to be stopped. There's a tremendou
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
> For those reasons the “limited supply” argument isn’t as true as it might appear—e.g., if Blackberries were in limited supply they still wouldn’t be worth much because they were replaced by competitors that were more advanced. I still
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
So many of you on here are eager to form a government committee to determine what is and isn't appropriate use of electricity. How are you going to feel when this witch hunt comes to shut down the activity that you deem useful? Maybe i
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
Bitcoin has some unique properties that are hard (or even impossible) to recreate in a new cryptocurrency, which form a large part of its primary value proposition. This is why you can't simply fork Bitcoin or create a new crypto from
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
I'm doing the same with my 2015, it really was the pinnacle of MBP design. Mine still works flawlessly, and typing on it is such a joy.
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
Do you find that working in VMs or containers hampers developer productivity once you're up and running?
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
Do you know if this kind of setup works on other popular IDEs, like Jetbrains products?
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
NixOS seems interesting, but I keep hearing about the steep learning curve, and I also prefer to work on macOS, so I haven't delved into it yet. It does seem like it's worth checking out though. I wish there was a way to get some
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Ask HN: Why hasn't config as code taken off for developer machines
11 points by yourabstraction 6y ago|10 comments
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
I think they're likely in deep tech debt. They built their original trading system in Ruby. A trading system in a language as slow is Ruby is a completely insane choice and I have to wonder if it's now hamstringing them. I know th
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
> Or is bitcoin still treated like a risky asset and nothing more? I always find this sentiment a little funny, because I think payments are the least interesting thing about Bitcoin. Fast and easy payments will come in time with crypto,
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
This bull market may just be getting started, see the recent OCC news for some very positive legislative action. How much are you willing to bleed to try and make a point. Even if you don't believe in Bitcoin, shorting it at this point
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
Thanks, and I agree this perfectly sums things up.
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
Problem is when I have a job I dislike, I loose all motivation outside of work too. So even if I slack off I'll still be miserable.
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
I was super motivated by the money when I was doing leetcode prep, and then when negotiating and playing offers against each other. And that makes sense, the work I was doing had a direct correlation to the total compensation I ended up sig
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
The bureaucracy sucks, but I think I could deal with that. The biggest buzzkill for me is working on such minuscule parts of enormous systems. In software, the results of your work are already pretty abstract, but working for a huge company
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
I'm about a month into a new FAANG job, and I hate it so far. I can't decide if it's better to quit sooner as to not waste the companies time (and avoid suffering more), or if I should give it some more time. My team's w
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
I get it, there's a lot of unsavory stuff in the crypto space, but I think it's a huge mistake to miss the good stuff just because you dislike the bad stuff. We're talking about open protocols here, that means they're op
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by yourabstraction 6y ago
> But those capabilities exist whether a Bitcoin is priced at $1 or $25,000 This is simply false. If the value of Bitcoin was $1, you would not be able to store or transfer large amounts of wealth with it. Based on current circulating su
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Ask HN: Why does HN hate Bitcoin so much?
13 points by yourabstraction 6y ago|10 comments

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