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> Buying Bitcoin isn’t so much a hedge against inflation as it is a bet that demand will continue to rise. While I do agree with majority of your points, I think people are missing…

> And there are a ton of articles that talk about how microservices save you money over a monolith, but none include hard numbers. Yeah, you can do that by collecting a ton of data…

> I simply can't answer what BTCs and other crypto coins are actually good for. Everybody here is missing out why Bitcoin was made in the first place: the 2008 crash. The benefits …

10-20 year horizon: Battery Technology. Manufacturing improvements, improving density and cooling requirements, recycling economy, etc. There's a huge race first-mover race that Ja…

> Apart from saying you're a "generalist", how do you best sell yourself when you don't have a specialisation or a specific area you are focused on? "I have a talent and process fo…

> Bitcoin has been in an upward trend since early September for no discernible reason (to me at least). I think it's mainly due to purchases from institutions that believe that Bit…

I got around 300+ kills, I did that just by standing at the corner of the map and waited for them. Since they move slow, the turn rate was good enough not to be killed no matter ho…

I've always found the Sentry Gun UI in Aliens (1984) to be one of the more realistically usable ones.

For personalities try Jason Friedman. Martin Fowler's Refactoring is a nice read too. But personally, I'd like to ask what business goal are we looking to solve? Because regardless…

> I think scientists have made an overwhelming convincing case climate change is real and it's from an increase in co2, but I have seen no models that I can play with specifically …

> they think of all the possibilities that go wrong and start from the edge cases inwards, which individually represent a small piece of functionality. > I would rather they delive…

Balsamiq if I just want to get an idea across (layout, story boarding) Figma for higher-fidelity discussions (colors, spacing, icons, etc.)

+1 to Logitech K380. The only con I can think of are the arrow keys, but overall the key travel and typing is really good.

> So why are software companies so willing to offer more pay for a managerial role that is easy to hire for, and so unwilling to offer more pay for a technical role that is one of …

In 2029? I don't mean to sound "apocalyptic", but currently we're on track with a lot of global warming projections, 2030-2052 is the 1.5deg temp projection ( https://www.c2es.org/…

In 10 years? I guess, not. Maybe 20 or 30? The world will have a different set of problems 10 years from now. A different set of verticals, regulations to work with. A different am…

> whereas Libra is a Plutocracy (you need to be wealthy to be one of the few) Agreed. The same way governments require a large amount of capital to be a bank to ensure depositors o…

> That sounds amazingly dystopian. I mean, that’s literally a money built on an oligarchy. By design. IMO, it's a small step towards a better direction. The "validator" consensus (…

This: "There's a feature you and several other co-workers are building. The deadline is 3 days from now. You and 'Co-worker A' are tasked in building a module of that feature. You'…

> the grunts who get assigned more menial pieces of work Funnily enough if you automate and re-architect those menial pieces of work, you will turn that pile of boredom into a "ser…

> If not, my maker soul asks: maybe there should be one? Maybe I should build one? Would you consider using this kind of service in your applications if one exists? Why not? To ans…

> What goes into building a international payments service like Paypal? A LOT of bizdev and treasury work, a.k.a. doing things that's hard to scale. Let's take for example: paying …

A Web UI where you can click a button that says "Launch VM" given CPU/RAM/Disk requirements, after a few minutes it returns to you SSH credentials. Don't use cloud services. Litera…

> The best experiences I can remember were when I was building games prototypes in XNA. I was only using the basics of the framework and writing a lot of the engine myself. This ha…