srdev

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by srdev 3y ago
Its getting pretty tiresome for people to host super-alt-right events and then claim that they're moderate or politics-free. If your event is called "BasedCon" then you're knee-deep in politics and those politics are no
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by srdev 5y ago
Spinning the spaceship is a pretty hard problem. There's all sorts of constraints on how fast you can spin it for a given radius, and you have to spin it fast enough to be useful. The end result is that you're looking at a prett
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by srdev 5y ago
Benford's Law requires that the numbers being analyzed typically occur over a wide distribution spanning orders of magnitude, which typically doesn't happen in trading (except over very long time periods).
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by srdev 5y ago
None of those frameworks are slim and fast. No framework is going to admit that they are bloated, and many will claim to be slim and fast, despite the fact that they are not.
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by srdev 5y ago
I've gotten a lot of flack for saying that advertising and marketing are terrible industries and need to be chopped down by 95% or more, but I think this only supports my point. They can't stop themselves from trying to hook into
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by srdev 6y ago
> For the endless commentary on Trump profiting off the presidency, Trump running an "organized crime family", Trump this Trump that, we have actual hard, concrete evidence that a Vice President's cocaine addicted son was
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by srdev 6y ago
From my point of view, its not just about whether the company is private but also how easy it is to substitute the service. Twitter and Facebook are not close to the only means of publishing information. I don't think that people des
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by srdev 6y ago
Not sokoloff, but that would be a reason to move to another mail provider. If Twitter is censoring speech then the correct option is to move to another service or host your own speech. People talk about social media monopolizing the disco
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by srdev 6y ago
That just demonstrates that there isn't an easily definable political neutral. From my point of view, the "Burisma scandal" got all the attention it deserved. The reason the media isn't harping on it is because it wasn
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by srdev 8y ago
Is there much in the way of software development and data engineering? I clicked on some of your links but the focus was on engineering jobs involved with building the physical infrastructure, which sort-of matches my expectations. But it
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by srdev 9y ago
Can you use mechanical drives for long-term storage? I would expect that any long-term storage would involve a strategy including backups and redundant devices.
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by srdev 9y ago
Small amounts of money can have outsized effect on a market if it’s thinly traded, which crypto markets tend to be.
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by srdev 9y ago
It’s used in nearly every climate change discussion. Its not particularly profound or thought provoking.
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by srdev 9y ago
Ideas like fascism rarely spread because they’re better. They’re simpler which makes them more appealing. Better ideas also tend to be less appealing on the face of things because they’re more complex.
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by srdev 9y ago
Can you elaborate on what the bin packing problem is?
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by srdev 9y ago
In stock trading, we say that there are a million reasons to sell and only one to buy. Sales aren't a particularly good signal, since they can be very specific to ones' personal situation.
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by srdev 9y ago
We’re not. The problem is with the “everyone got one” part. Every time I’ve discussed this issue personally with a republican they act indignant when I assert that the ids need to be free and trivially obtainable. Usually grousing about the
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by srdev 9y ago
Proper key management is a hard problem. This is a fact that the cryptocurrency scene has been relearning for years now.
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by srdev 9y ago
You're not thinking probabilistically nor in terms of risk. There's no way to know for sure that an exchange is insolvent or at risk of becoming insolvent, but there are signs that increase the probability. Being run by amateurs
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by srdev 9y ago
That's a pretty big point by itself. Lots of people with pre-7 phones looking for an upgrade that don't need or want all the X features.
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by srdev 9y ago
My observation is this: The "killer app" of Blockchains are the trustless nature of the system. In most practical application, allowing actors without a trust relationship to interact with the log is not a significant requirement
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by srdev 9y ago
No, because there is a block reward too that subsidizes the miners, so you have to account for that too. We don't really know the relationship between transaction rate and electrical usage in a mature BTC system, because mining is main
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by srdev 9y ago
I think that depends on how much mining hashing power scales with regard to transaction rate. From a technical point of view, there's no reason that the hash rate has to increase to process more transactions. But from an economic and
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by srdev 9y ago
On a per-transaction basis? No. Those costs specifically end up being reified in the fee those processors charge to their customers, so we can determine an upper limit to how much is spent on energy in that way.
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by srdev 9y ago
You're assuming that a global system must be trustless. This is not really a requirement. Heck, in most cases its not even desirable.
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by srdev 9y ago
These companies handle orders of magnitude more traffic than Bitcoin and also provide services beyond just processing transactions. The comparison is not useful.
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by srdev 9y ago
That sentiment hasn't been the norm for at least 8 years. Obama was highly disrespected.
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by srdev 9y ago
I guess it depends on how much writing the actual code factors into your enjoyment. Most people I know enjoy building systems. Working with a boilerplate-heavy language is a minor annoyance in the grand scheme of things, and is balanced o
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by srdev 9y ago
I'm with you on this one. I understand frustration at "trick" problems or problems that make use of little-known algorithms or approaches. But there seems to be this sentiment that doing basic traversal and manipulation on
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by srdev 9y ago
Great performance, a massive community, top tier support by partners and vendors, deep talent pool, and a huge ecosystem of libraries and products. Nothing else even comes close. People have a tendency to trash talk it for being verbose, bu

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