CryptoGhost

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by CryptoGhost 5y ago
It's not even SEO. Youtube / Google personally partners with certain businesses and injects them into seemingly organic video feeds. For example, there is an invite only advertisement tier that you don't automatically get acc
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by CryptoGhost 5y ago
It's often an issue with how to and DIY videos. A big offender is Howcast. They have good search results because of their early presence on the platform but a lot of their videos are low quality by modern standards and not worth watchi
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
Skim through some Handmade Hero: https://www.youtube.com/c/MollyRocket/videos Large breadth of content with lots of esoteric and domain specific knowledge sprinkled throughout. The higher level abstractions availa
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
>but isn't it irresponsible to not even ask oneself why financial markets are regulated in the first place? That's an entirely political question that has nothing to do with efficacy of a financial system or cryptocurrency.
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
You are talking about a barrier to entry (in the sense that it used to be easier) for a person who is new to general purpose computing to get on boarded while the person you are replying to is talking about the opportunity increase in the n
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
Mackay's account of inexplicable mania was unchallenged, and mostly unexamined, until the 1980s.[51] Research into tulip mania since then, especially by proponents of the efficient-market hypothesis,[17] suggests that his story was inc
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
Understood but Nvidia is justifying the changes by saying "we’re taking an important step to help ensure GeForce GPUs end up in the hands of gamers."
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
Nvidia should partner with Steam. Steam has enough meta-data on user accounts to be able to offer a level of certainty about how accurate and authentic a given account and it's user information is. You could then use a trusted enough S
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
>perhaps some day one will replace the USD USD is fiat currency. Fiat simply means by decree. USD is a currency by decree of the US Govt. It's highly unlikely Bitcoin would ever become a fiat currency by the US Govt. It's also
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
That doesn't jive on a historical basis when and where enlightenment era thinking and classical liberalism were much higher then they are today. Unless I am misreading your comment and you are simply talking about hedonism.
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
Article is pay walled, does it add anything on top of: https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html ?
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
Land use (especially in regards public access property) and homelessness go hand in hand. Most people don't care if someone can check off a box that says they have a home address, they care what people are doing in their parks, librari
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
Maybe trying to maintain a free beer web browser is not the best path forward (given all the requirements for a web browser in 2021). Perhaps the best solution is a paid application with an either free or proprietary source model. Free beer
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
>No one wants to live in a tent under the bridge when it is rainy and cold. Not to deride from the rest of your comment which I thought was solid commentary but this particular line is not true. Yes it is true the over whelming majority
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
The author doesn't make a good case for "The main value of a software company is the mapping of source code and problem space in the developer’s heads" being a universal truth. There are some problem domains and practical dev
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
>Once people can price a coin in terms of real-world assets like storage, it becomes easy to see when the coin is overvalued. Prices work in the opposite manner, it's the sum interactions of market participants that drive the price
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
They sent the email to literally everyone, even people without amazon email accounts through the employment website but yeah you are right. There is a caste system within Amazon that even working out of corp office or having a tech job won&
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
Isn't this the programmer equivalent of one of those old stories "just go talk to the manager and give him a firm handshake." All the recent research in hiring seems to point to trends that white board / hackerrank &#x2F
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
SO suffers from it's own version of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
I am wrong. For me using a dependency that can't be bothered to create proper documentation or uses SO as customer support is a non-starter.
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
None. Most of the content on Stack Overflow is just people repeating what they heard from a more authoritative source looking for some internet points. (and often when it gets repeated it loses accuracy, context, and a real understanding of
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
Piracy (as we know it today) is only really an issue because of lack of political will. Pirates find refuge in jurisdictions where there is little effort shown against them. There is no reason why this has to the case. Countries who have in
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
In my studies in college we did not do anything with the Windows API (or any other OS for that matter). While I can appreciate the concept of basically just using standard libraries to teach CS fundamentals in theory, in practice it just me
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
People who anthropomorphize the Earth and make strong ethical decisions about it are interesting characters. The more I study natural sciences the less I see Earth as metaphor for anything else. I guess that mindset helped create a lot his
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
Your point is accurate that true borrowing isn't really an apt description since they just alter the effective supply of money but technically they do need to borrow because they don't have complete control of the Federal Reserve.
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
I believe that claims of video game over choice and video game saturation are largely a myth. The reality of the situation is that players are faced with a large library of just okay games and few titles that actually check off all the boxe
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
Why is it unbelievable ? The business model involves not charging enough for the console and some big titles to lure in customers and then later capturing profit from things like DLC and peripherals. It was quite common in the history of PC
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
I disagree. Take Youtube as an example. A ton of mental overhead: videos padded for time, clickbait titles and thumbnails, in video promotions, reminder to check their patreon, reminder to like and subscribe, interruptions for Google ads, e
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
You would have to equalize for speed and transfer fees (because people consume a quite a bit of energy doing things faster and obtaining money) and then somehow come up with some way to calculate all the necessary energy for a wire transfer
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
Your putting words in my mouth. I never suggested that the description was the problematic part. A person can bring up tons of factual things that just stir the political and emotional pot (current events, anniversary of a war or assassinat

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