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by obstacle1 5y ago
That's not a problem with feature flags per se, it's a problem with lazy implementations of feature flags. Flags should be associated with an expiry date, and company comms tooling should be consistently yelling in some public cha
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by obstacle1 5y ago
> Talk to anyone who works in the industry and they're trying to solve a problem. Sure. But are those problems worth solving? How many VCs does the world need to pump cash into NFT-enabled video games before we ask the question, &qu
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by obstacle1 5y ago
I am interested in learning about how "shard chains" work. I'm concerned after reading https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/shard-chains/ that sharding is aimed at letting individual dApps roll up tran
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by obstacle1 5y ago
Sorry, thought my last paragraph covered that. Can any blockchain-backed tech handle the number of transactions per second that current major credit card/payment networks do? One benchmark is 1,700 tps for VISA. https://phe
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by obstacle1 5y ago
Great pointer, thanks. This is a protocol that rolls up ETH transactions and executes them in batch, in an attempt to alleviate scalability concerns. I can't really speak to the side/unintended effects of transaction rollups on a
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by obstacle1 5y ago
OK perfect. "Inefficient" in every sense of the word. Let's say I'm wrong and skipped over that line. What else could the various senses of "inefficient" mean in the context of this article? Probably the fact t
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by obstacle1 5y ago
So this is Yet Another Liquidity Pool? $14B is not the kind of scale I mean. That is frankly trivial especially when transactions are large (or initial funding is high). What I mean is, if blockchain is going to be a revolutionary technolog
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by obstacle1 5y ago
> But I don't understand why people get so invested in it being a scam or failure. Can't speak for everyone. But from my perspective, it's because certain "applications" are being marketed very heavily to non-tec
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by obstacle1 5y ago
Didn't pg write Viacom (shopping cart software) in 1995, and sell it to Yahoo in 1997? http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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by obstacle1 5y ago
I'm not aware of any serious financial application running at scale and relying on blockchain under the hood. Are you? What is it? Specifically.
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by obstacle1 5y ago
The parent article doesn't say anything about performance. Therefore this comment seems like a red herring. A case of not reading the article? The parent article's point is that most currently popular technologies found an applica
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by obstacle1 5y ago
> You act like people that struggle with reading aren't capable of making a decision between usually only two candidates A functioning political system shouldn't only have ever have 2 viable candidates. Much less have the only
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by obstacle1 5y ago
> how a good lead or manager should go about identifying these problems. Notice when things aren't getting done by the time they were estimated to be done, and notice if the person seems to be continually pushing back completion dat
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by obstacle1 5y ago
Ideally you wouldn't waste everyone on the team's time every day just to suss out individuals who potentially can't ask for help. A competent lead or manager should be able to identify those kinds of team members without a st
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by obstacle1 5y ago
Re: your last example. Where is the incentive for a company to actually bother reaching into the ledger to determine who holds royalty rights? The underlying media pointed to by the NFT is not restricted, it's infinitely reproducible a
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by obstacle1 5y ago
So an NFT is a digital signature that is worthless unless it "makes a market for" itself. It is a pointer to an infinitely and freely reproducible resource, meaning the owner of the signature doesn't actually have control ove
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by obstacle1 5y ago
Ah, that is true. Full court doc for anyone interested in reading https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165768-us_vs_rei_i...
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by obstacle1 5y ago
It sounds like the bank accounts were owned by the guy's employer and he was perceived to be authorized to transact on the employer's behalf.
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by obstacle1 5y ago
While true, vehicle dependency is a serious societal problem in North America that needs to be fixed. This is partially the reason. Nobody should need a personal vehicle in order to be able to live a baseline satisfactory life.
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by obstacle1 5y ago
Pretty much every first-world country other than the USA has at least partially solved it. Social safety nets, regulation of utilities/public goods (education for example), and a guaranteed standard of living.
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by obstacle1 5y ago
I think that's more of an assumption based on social norms than something we can strongly conclude is true. Here is a study that suggests alcohol is one of just four 'high risk' drugs in terms of harm per user, and of those 4
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by obstacle1 5y ago
If you don't get a huge financial windfall, there was never a point in sacrificing yourself.
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by obstacle1 5y ago
> This doesn't explain why they wouldn't accept the offer of work from /u/lopkeny12ko It sounds like OP is moving a bunch of the startup's systems onto bigcorp's infrastructure. Usually you can't "
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by obstacle1 5y ago
Wasn't your argument that increased exposure leads to less harm via developing social regulation mechanisms, though? Using alcohol as an example? Yet alcohol is by far the most destructive substance in terms of both $ and human life co
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by obstacle1 5y ago
I mean sure, but if you're already working around the framework's ORM...
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by obstacle1 5y ago
ActiveRecord (Rails ORM) provides an interface for raw SQL queries if that's really what you want to do (`connection.execute`). You can use it whenever you want. You can also swap out ActiveRecord for something else like DataMapper (or
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by obstacle1 5y ago
> That's a problem with a limited imagination Only if you examine the problem so superficially you can't think of any other cost of personal vehicles than burning gas. Cars burning gasoline isn't the only or even the small
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by obstacle1 5y ago
> If their argument is it should be abolished because not everybody has the choice to go there Why don't you read the article (or my comment to you, fully) to understand what the argument actually is?
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by obstacle1 5y ago
Kids like suburbs just fine before they understand there's a big world out there outside the family unit. Often things fall apart after that phase. > I can't imagine that they would enjoy living in 2 bedroom apartment OK but th
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by obstacle1 5y ago
"Not too bright" is very relative. Even W Jr. is a genius compared to the average American. Even with legacy considerations Ivys aren't accepting truly incapable people.

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