feedjoelpie

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by feedjoelpie 8y ago
Guitar pedant: Shouldn't the up/down on the tuning keys be opposite directions on opposite sides of the headstock?
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by feedjoelpie 8y ago
Eh, there's always a limit though.
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
If you're talking history, I don't think that's quite fair. The whole hash-based algorithm was just the most mathematically simplistic way to make the idea work. It still is. If you're talking present-day, yeah, mostly B
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
Every single thing you mentioned benefits from increases in efficiency that drive down the cost of these pursuits, making them accessible to more people.
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
Gold without millenia of collective psychology to give it staying power as a store of value once more useful, cheaper, and faster to transact cryptocurrencies get any uptake.
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
I think you're confusing the present state of cryptocurrency as being its conclusion. Yes, Bitcoin was the first mover, and Bitcoin has the most buy-in. But cryptocurrency in general does not have global buy-in as a way to buy and sell
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
Whether or not that's true, I literally have code sitting on the shelf waiting for it be cheap enough to run on ETH, and I think PoS will make it cheap enough.
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
The one with the most utility (connected services, ability to spend, and other infrastructure).
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
Not to be all "both sides tho," but I think you're both right. I code on blockchain stuff from time to time, and it's both really awesome for the decentralized no-trust part and straight-up nonsense for entire categories
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
IMO PoW scarcity is only more important to the future of cryptocurrency than global speed and cost of exchange if: You are already heavily invested in PoW coins.
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
PoW coins have a multi-year headstart, and Bitcoin didn't have any truly interesting decentralized competition until Ethereum. Ethereum is moving to PoS, I presume because being able to more cheaply and quickly execute smart contracts
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
If you want to compare Bitcoin deflation to substance addiction, I'll agree with you all day long.
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
IMO the problem with Bitcoin as an asset, over the long term, is that its proponents' nearest comparison is gold. Gold has at least _some_ intrinsic value, and more importantly it has millenia of history as both an asset and a means of
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
What if you having a personal near-guarantee that this weird asset you hold onto stays deflationary _isn't_ the most important problem for blockchains to solve? Currencies' value lies in their usefulness as a means of exchange. Ch
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
Because it's insanely expensive to operate a PoW blockchain. We literally set things on fire to generate electricity for these global brute force algorithms. Proof of Stake uses game theory (you will avoid cheating if cheating costs yo
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
Is it weird that for a certain category of tech company that I intuit would learn from their mistakes, I trust them more _because_ they've had one catastrophic failure? And just sort of assume that many of the ones who haven't are
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
The buried headline here is that the AFL-CIO apparently used prison labor.
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
> It is noticable again and again that devs publishing to npm are not up to snuff, I wish I knew why, as this does not happen with other dynamic languages/their code repos. It absolutely does happen with other languages. It just hap
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
Most democracies don't have winner-take-all systems like ours. I would argue as part of the "wasted vote" crowd that this viewpoint is entirely justified given the mechanics of a U.S. presidential election, and that the best
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
I can't believe we're suddenly having a moral crisis about business cultural politics... over the fact that a guy was fired for arguing in part that historically discriminated-against groups are underrepresented because of biolog
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
A few things... * Your boss parading his religion around and making you feel othered, while probably legal, is uncool. * Though I would be remiss if I didn't point out that across America, it's by and large the Christian viewpoint
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
"At conservative oil companies, those who disagree on politics say they're isolated" Okay, see how utterly useless this "controversy" is now?
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
I wonder if our experiences aren't wildly different because you seem to hail cabs the traditional way whereas I hail and pay via Curb.
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
Just curious: What makes you call Uber fast and taxis unreliable in NYC? I would agree with you in almost any other market, but I find getting a taxi in NYC using Curb just as fast and reliable, yet cheaper.
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
Hello, fellow Park Slope yuppie! Y'all have a good thing going. I just don't think the co-op model necessarily translates to that many scenarios. Park Slope Food Co-Op depends a lot upon volunteer hours, and operators are customer
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
Vanguard is owned by funds that are owned by shareholders. Essentially, it's customer-owned. That's a very different proposition.
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
Co-ops aren't a new idea, and they certainly can survive. But in the two forms I've really seen them in action, they have been a mess. Form 1: Freelance designer and coder co-op. Top players were continually dissatisfied with perf
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
Isn't this more of a lack-of-education problem? There are plenty of maker-grade boards out there that are easier to turn into manufactured product. Arduino is particularly bad and almost an outlier.
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
Solidity's relationship to JavaScript is negligible and way overplayed in its marketing. Similarities are entirely superficial.
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by feedjoelpie 9y ago
This is only a valid analogy if in our real world I could make a tuxedo appear on my body with no more effort than snapping my fingers. (Which would be awesome.)

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