VarFarYonder

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by VarFarYonder 1y ago
Seems like basic supply and demand rather than something nefarious? But I guess if we accepted that, nobody would be to blame.
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by VarFarYonder 6y ago
Doug Stanhope did a good bit on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgXwc-Gy19E
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Better pull requests with interactive rebasing(mark.youngman.info)
1 points by VarFarYonder 6y ago|0 comments
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by VarFarYonder 7y ago
You can find the printout he refers to during the lecture here: https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/5/7046/files/20...
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The Craft of Writing Effecively(youtube.com)
1 points by VarFarYonder 7y ago|1 comments
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by VarFarYonder 7y ago
This lecture contains the best advice I've come across for academic writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM
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by VarFarYonder 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AecPrwqjbGw
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by VarFarYonder 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-La8gyNVCI
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by VarFarYonder 8y ago
> In fact, a system where you can lose your life savings if you forget your key or download a piece of malware is not particularly trustworthy. No amount of explaining how SHA-256 works to prevent double-spending will fix that. A second-
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by VarFarYonder 8y ago
Strip it back to basics. What is worry? It is when you're compelled to react to a thought with more thoughts. The response is habitual. You cannot let the thoughts sail by without commenting on them. So the real question is not how to
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
> The open questions for philosophy are a function of our present limitations, and as those limitations are overcome, the space for philosophy shrinks. I don’t think it says much that’s good about a field of study for which the major cri
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
> Are you saying that you believe Richard Feynman didn’t have a working grasp of the issues at hand? Or are you saying that “philosophers of science” don’t know anything about the science they philosophize about? I'm saying that und
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
> Unfortunately instead of sticking to ethics, morality, and other hazy constructs, too often philosophers think they have something useful to say about everything. They do have something useful to say about people who, due to not having
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
> The core ideas in philosophy could be summarized on one page with little information loss. This probably seems horribly arrogant, but that's just how I honestly see things. I think academic philosphy aims to be more rigourous, so
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
> Researchers at Curtin University in Australia observed 20 participants working at standing desks for two hours.
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
> Now compare this to online banking and seriously tell me that this is easier. It's not. But compared to storing large amounts of dollars, pounds, or euros, it is easier. > Yes, you can set up a system that is very resistant to
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
> I meant individuals rarely keep gold as a store of value. I think individuals with an actual portfolio of investments will hold gold or have some exposure to gold. Also, you wouldn't expect gold to be widely held when you consider
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
> Hardly anyone uses gold as a storage of value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve#Officially_report...
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
It's irrelevant whether exchanges accept privacy-focused cryptocurrencies, because people could always use atomic swaps: https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/what-are-atomic-s... I don't think they
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
Here is a graph showing the number of lightning network payment channels on the bitcoin mainnet: https://p2sh.info/dashboard/db/lightning-network?orgId=1
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
I've looked for it previously and not found anything. I'm hoping that MS are working on it in secret, but seems unlikely.
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
James Mickens gave a great talk about how we could build a better browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uflg7LDmzI
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
> If I had a large holding in Bitcoin now I would be cashing out or I'd be nervous. I'm not saying it won't go higher, I'm saying that at some point its demise is inevitable. Might be quick, might be slow, but it&#x27
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
Fungibility is something other cryptocurrencies have and that could be added to bitcoin via a hard fork. That's one of the strengths of cryptocurrencies: they can adapt. And, in my opinion, which version is most valuable is decided by
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
> Bitcoin is global at this point. No one jurisdiction is going to shut it down. Especially as countries like Japan are embracing cryptocurrencies. That must make other countries wonder whether trying to attack cryptocurrencies will end
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
James Mickens gave an interesting talk on what we could do to build a better browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uflg7LDmzI I'm hoping that WebAssembly might be a route towards allowing something like this to hap
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
It could be argued that cryptocurrencies' value is their ability to store value and to act as a medium of exchange.
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
> There have been a few attempts at a Software Minimalism movement, but they seemingly haven't gained much traction. For those interested in exploring a minimalist approach, it's worth checking out http://suckless.or
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
If worked at Google and thought the evidence suggests that due to natural difference in the sexes, women are less likely to seek a job in tech -- that's not an ethical opinion on whether that is as it should be, but an opinion (whether
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
It's not about the guy. It's about what he said. And what he said is highly polarizing.

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