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I've been doing a lot more development of personal apps recently. AI coding agents make it so much easier to quickly ramp up on a new domain. e.g. got into HomeAssistant/ home auto…

I really liked this, thank you

Sounds like the opposite of housing from a national security POV. If a Chinese national buys a house in the US, then the US has 'control' over their property. The US would want Chi…

Thanks for providing some nuance on the banking accounts. It's helpful to be able to compare crypto's impact (which I still think is substantial) against a realistic situation inst…

The article mentions the Lebanese pound has "lost more than 90% of its value". For an equivalent loss in value from holding USDT that would mean that each USDT is only backed by 10…

USDT is hosted on Ethereum. The value of the USDT coin does not come from cryptocurrency as you've correctly pointed out, it comes from centralized authority backing USDT. But what…

Assuming 8hr work days and a 250 day working year for humans. No such constraints for robots. That's 2,000 hrs/yr for a human vs 8,760 (assuming 24/7) hours for a robot. Obviously …

I think that's fine because WASM isn't meant to write code in. It's just a source language for other compiled languages. I'm assuming the javascript complaints you're talking about…

If smartphones are any indication, VR on the go will happen eventually, without a doubt. If it's not this model that popularizes it, it will be some other model. what idiot is goin…

I don't think the 'past' link conforms to current best design patterns. We should refactor it so that it automatically posts a comment on the article.

Unfortunately from reading the first couple of chapters it seems like this textbook doesn't do an excellent job of favoring graphics over formula. It's acceptable but really nothin…

Once you've accepted that reality = reality and that to discuss reality, humans always need to revert to models, then any further discussion of the nature of reality seems like a d…

Yea I totally agree, partial function application certainly complicates things. Instead of `called` vs `not called` like you said, a function can have any number of states dependin…

As a strong proponent of functional languages, I would have to agree these are some good criticisms. FP solves many problems it cannot solve is code readability. Readability will a…

Like saying how is gold supply finite if you can break a piece of gold in half. When Bitcoin forks the value is split between the two forks. If the market cap of Bitcoin before the…

Debt can absolutely be issued with Bitcoin. What's to stop someone from saying, here I'll give you 1 BTC today if you give it back to me tomorrow? The reason you've probably heard …

This makes sense to me, that's something I hadn't thought of so thanks for sharing. But I still don't see how it differentiates BTC from USD. Because issuing any debt in the first …

> Even if demand for the dollar plummeted, the Fed could in principle keep burning money until a dollar is scarce enough to be worth the “right” amount This seems like the crux of …

It's interesting this xkcd seems to be making the point that complaining about the increase in pace from the previous generation is as old as time itself. This conclusion is plausi…

This does worry me a bit though. There is probably a reason they are difficult to test, because they go against the React DOM pattern of a component only having control over the DO…

Although I agree with most of the author's points I think he underestimates the value of ease of use by programmers. SQL syntax can definitely be daunting to some and difficult to …

I would have to say asking Sam Altman for advice. Most founders simply don't think to do it and it ends up hurting them tremendously in the long run. You're on the right track.

Hello Sam, what is your opinion on REST APIs (A CRUD based model) vs RPC APIs (a more functional based model)?