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Indeed, I truly don't understand how simply enabling parental controls onto mobile devices handed to kids which then gets advertised to each website/app that they use isn't suffici…

The combo of mise + UV has made my development environment setup/recreation so seamless. We've come a long way. (Props to your work on mise)

I mean, okay sure, but modify the counterexample they suggested slightly and then it's the same thing. If GM promised to "rent out" (instead of buy back) the cars it sold to Hertz …

One of my favorite thought nuggets from Douglas Adams

how well does this actually pan out for you?

Interested if you could elaborate further here or have some pointers to good references. I feel like I'm at a turning point in my life where I'm starting to see things a little dif…

Thanks for the input Troy. Although I can see the reasons for it, transfer restrictions seems to me a little like the company has too much control over its shares - but like you sa…

More specifically, is it possible to leave a startup, buy the equity available to me through my vested stock options and then sell part of it back to current employees of the same …

Yeh, definitely - I appreciate the input nonetheless!

Sure, but you can still track those individuals through the block chain and freeze all their other "classic" assets in the US. All I'm saying is that the argument that it's a good …

Yeh, I had actually briefly looked into after writing that comment and found the same - interesting that Paul came up with his own version of LISP to do it in. If you wanted to rem…

Thanks for the input oblib! Will check it out

And actually, re: "The only real, pragmatic usecases are fueling ransomware, drugs and illicit cross-border transactions", arguably, will all the KYC checks needed now along with a…

Yes, you're spot on. Thanks for catching that. It was late, brain slipped up on me ;) Shame it's too late to edit - it does make it confusing

Thanks for the pointer! Will look into it

That's fair enough haha! I guess just looking for a pet project to get started with.

Say you wanted to recreate hackernews as a toy project - what stack would you use nowadays to achieve that most efficiently?

Interesting, thanks for the feedback. Didn't even consider the whole innate multicore support.

Here's perhaps a controversial and less heard argument: The core concept of bitcoin is that it is decentralized and away from the prying "government". That's what also gives it its…

Thanks for the brutally honest reply :) I guess part of my question is Django still as relevant today or is it losing 'market share' and finding devs to help out in the future is g…

I'm an engineer who's just left academia where I spent most of my time programming in either Python or C++. Want to develop a web app in my spare time but getting analysis paralysi…

Unless PWAs really took off, in which case, you wouldn't need to develop for the custom linux phone - you would just need a supported browser.

So, by the same token, do you observe the galaxy you're approaching age quickly? On "fast-forward" if one could imagine that?

I think you would just get a lot less research overall. It might lead to a better fraction of research being of higher quality, but in absolute terms, it would be a drastic cut. R&…

This would indeed be great, but the impact on one's career of reproducing another's work would have to be equivalent to that of the original publication on the original author's ca…