TobyBrull

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by TobyBrull 5y ago
Please don't!
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by TobyBrull 5y ago
Not a Nix user, but I spent some time trying to understand it. One thing that I wish I would have understood earlier is that "Nix Pills" is a decent, bottom-up Nix tutorial and probably a good place to start. Initially I thought &
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by TobyBrull 6y ago
Some would argue, of course, that inflation well above 2% has been with us for at least a decade if you don't measure by the biased CPI. I don't see how it helps the argument to bring politics into this by saying such people are &
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by TobyBrull 6y ago
It's not obvious that Turing-complete smart contracts are a good long term decision. I agree that Ethereum is fascinating tech, but with great power comes a great many ways to shoot yourselves in the foot. For financial institutions, b
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by TobyBrull 6y ago
Care to share a link? I could only find this: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-D... ? That's already a couple month's old, though.
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by TobyBrull 6y ago
Given that Bitcoin has become quite liquid, there might also be ways to short it. But yes, governments doing it for political reasons would seem like the most obvious incentive.
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by TobyBrull 6y ago
Note to my future self: On top of the argument above, there is also the issue of "chaos" with complex systems. "Chaos" means that small perturbations to the initial state of a complex system can lead to vastly different
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by TobyBrull 6y ago
I believe that things like this are simply unknowable by any rational take because we're dealing with an extraordinary complex system. To make a statement like "These were the winners or losers of Brexit" you'd have to c
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by TobyBrull 6y ago
Actually, we'll never find out who the winners and losers of Brexit were.
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by TobyBrull 6y ago
Not convinced this is a good analogy. If we could have gone to the moon at a fraction of the cost, but people had still insisted on doing it the expensive way, just because the expensive approach came first, that would be a better analogy.
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by TobyBrull 6y ago
Give people tenure after their PhD and pay them a crappy salary that is guaranteed for the rest of their lives.