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by codebolt 5y ago
Another explanation is that EU is not a large cohesive economy like the US. In the US, startups target a potential userbase of 300M+. In the EU, a startup typically only targets a single country with a fraction of the population. Seems obvi
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by codebolt 5y ago
Looks like it's actually over 600M. https://twitter.com/peckshield/status/1425104635984023560?s=...
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by codebolt 5y ago
If someones choice of values leads them to wilfully and proudly become a parasite and a burden to the people around them, then they are the ones with the mental disorder.
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by codebolt 5y ago
The market is the source. Just look at the market cap chart here, you can see that it's been flat for the past few weeks (after a long period of exponential growth): https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether&#x2F
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by codebolt 5y ago
Do any of those have a CAS which is as powerful and easy to use as Scientific Notebook/Workplace?
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by codebolt 5y ago
Wow, very sad to hear this. My high school ran a trial project back in 2000 and my class became the first in my country where every student received a laptop to use in all classes. We used Scientific Notebook for math. Being able to solve a
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by codebolt 5y ago
The Super GameBoy comes to mind. Was it a full-fledged emulator or did it use any neat tricks to run GB code directly on the SNES?
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by codebolt 5y ago
The more I think about it, the more I think that this is actually a pretty genius trade. The price of Tether is effectively capped at 1 USD, so it's not like a short position could blow up in your face. All you'd stand to lose is
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by codebolt 5y ago
Indeed, I'm personally half of a two-dev team maintaining and developing a system that I'd say falls deep into this category. Our giant legacy codebase has a few warts, but on the whole it follows a few simple design patterns that
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by codebolt 5y ago
The only sane use of On Error Resume Next is surrounding one or two specific lines of code where you dont want to let the ordinary exception mechanism be triggered. For larger blocks of code it's completely insane.
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by codebolt 5y ago
I always thought the classic synchronous message loop in Win32 was actually rather elegant if you took the time to understand the mechanics surrounding it. DoEvents is a bit crude but it serves a purpose in the context of VB6. Cant disagree
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by codebolt 5y ago
One major caveat; You're not shorting BTC/USD, you're shorting BTC/USDT. As long as Tether is managed by a shady, unregulated corporation with zero transparency or oversight, that has full freedom to create as much artif
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by codebolt 5y ago
Crypto is hardly a "sector of the economy". It's main utility right now is lining the pockets of a few speculators. Traditional centralized ledgering systems do everything crypto does better and with a fraction of the energy
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by codebolt 5y ago
Except this bubble is a bit more insidious because you have actors like Tether that are most likely creating a lot of artificial liquidity/demand. If there is a sudden loss of faith and enough actors start rushing for the exits, it wil
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by codebolt 5y ago
Even worse, this week I ran into an issue which was answered with "just use .net 6" which isn't even out of beta yet.
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by codebolt 5y ago
As a developer, I got some valuable insights from the book Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willinck. I think particularly the principles of "leading up the chain" is crucial when you're a developer with managers who don't hav
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by codebolt 5y ago
Could be related: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/technology/massive-internet-...
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by codebolt 5y ago
The main argument for static site for me was the simplicity and price of hosting. It's also CDN friendly which means a huge performance boost. Hosting a static site on Azure costs me 2-3$/mo which is well within the free credits I
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by codebolt 5y ago
Absolutely. In 2010 I used FANN for my Msc thesis research, and found it pretty easy to make my own little training sim for stock price data on top of it. Haven't done any ML work since, but I always scratched my head over how Python b
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by codebolt 5y ago
I'm guessing pre-rendered animations. Better alternative if you're optimizing for performance, but maybe not if we're optimizing for other metrics.
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by codebolt 5y ago
PornHub is a certifiably criminal organization with a despicable leadership. Mastercard is only enforcing the morals of any sound minded individual in this instance.
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by codebolt 5y ago
I can sympathize with that argument. But the way humans raised animals prior to the last century seems a lot less problematic. If we reverted to a more sustainable, regenerative practice of farming, that would surely reduce animal suffering
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by codebolt 5y ago
Frozen meat is perfectly fine, I use it all the time. And even if it wasn't, should we really sacrifice the environment for the sake of our tastebuds?
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by codebolt 5y ago
One thing I've been asking myself is how much fresh meat gets thrown out from western supermarkets because of expiration. It might be possible to reduce a lot of waste simply by requiring meat to always be sold as frozen.
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by codebolt 5y ago
But much more speculative. Just because we can imagine something doesn't mean science can/will achieve it. Brain-to-computer communication seems much more straightforward to achieve from a technical perspective, and has enough pot
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by codebolt 5y ago
The GUI designer for C# with WinForms is at least equally good, I'd say. I also like WPF but it requires a bit more careful thinking.
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by codebolt 5y ago
If you have an MSDN subscription (e.g. through work), using your free Azure credits to host a site is a pretty good option.
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by codebolt 5y ago
Granted, communicating with any type of hardware on the users machine is a major challenge. We've had to spend significant effort just troubleshooting printer issues. If you need low latency, virtualization is likely a non-starter. The
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by codebolt 5y ago
I develop desktop apps that are run exclusively virtualized, and don't really have to deal with either set of problems. From a developer perspective I'd say it's a pretty sweet spot, as you get the best of both worlds to some
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by codebolt 6y ago
I think the comparison to NP-completeness is very apt. Will have to borrow that one.

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