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Mobilecoin doesn’t use mining Their stated design goal was to create an actual usable payments system; not a speculative asset . Edit : Urrgh got that wrong . Fixed distribution of…

The author addresses cause and possible solutions in their longer essay. The fundamental cause is taxation policy changes around 2000. The solution is further policy changes, but t…

Podcast with the author on same news outlet: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2023/nov/25... Cannot be stressed enough how much of a pernicious and destructive forc…

Audiences are fickle and audiences captured during a websites golden period of explosive growth steadily move away over time. I am daily fark user for 20+ years. The site certainly…

It’s an argument about survivorship bias in any critique of Covid policies that imply Covid response was unnecessarily harmful My personal pandemic experience was luckier than many…

The living complain about the adverse impacts they experienced, while the dead remain dead.

Ordinarily this would be victim shaming / blaming. Though the endgame of crypto is dystopian. A reversion to centralized command economies where the gatekeepers of economic activit…

First article google search returns today != the first time NYT reported these things including clarifications as they became public which was months after the event around April 2…

Are we blaming traditional media companies for the content overload shitshow we now find ourselves living in? If NYT could provide a remedy, what would that remedy even look like? …

I search "Jan 6 Deaths" and very first hit is this NYT article. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/us/politics/jan-6-capitol... The article contradicts your claim "reported and qui…

As a non American I see the US as a country with significant structural problems. On that basis, the narratives are justified. Especially after Jan 6 riots and the absence of a bip…

I originally tried this with a project I am working on, moving as much of the logic as possible into the DB. But abandoned the effort quickly in part because the logic I need to im…

Merchants are not allowed to add a surcharge line item for using Afterpay. Instead they have to increase base pricing across the board to cover their increased costs. Afterpay are …

Afterpay's business model relies on high merchant fees which merchants, under their merchant agreement, are not allowed to pass onto their customers. So from customers point of vie…

The energy usage of itself is a red herring. My issue is just how incredibly wasteful and inefficient PoW is. It's resource requirements completely disproportionate to the the unde…

Rationals are to decimals as arbitrary precision decimals are to binary floats. Drill the junior devs: use decimals if you want accuracy. What is unsaid with this: if you want accu…

Insisting that Facebook / Twitter workplace should be apolitical, is as persuasive as Wernher Von Braun and his rocket engineer colleagues insisting that their workplace was also a…

The authors writing is quite moving, certainly moved me. But taking a step back, my read is that the author wants the allegations to be essentially tried in detail here and now. To…

If only PayPal were as accessible and responsive as stripe. There is a serious regression in their API right now : it is so bad and obvious it shouldn't of even made it past their …

Query plans are dependent upon actual data itself. Plan performance issues can be difficult to replicate in test envs. AFAICT, this product relies on LVM snapshots/copy on write : …

"Any fugitive status he may have had has been proven to be political in nature." Proven you say? Things asylum seekers typically say: "If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will…

“Mr Assange showed all symptoms typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture, including extreme stress, chronic anxiety and intense psychological trauma.” Emphasis mine.…

Rich Client / Consumer PC. SQL backend (originally was proprietary DB), fairly tight coupling between UX and model, old school rich client event loop. An unhealthy amount of global…

I think my original comment mischaracterized my project. It is a refactor, but a refactor that is going to take about a year to complete, where there will be nothing to show for it…

Evolution will not let you escape local minima, intrinsic/sprawling design decisions that cannot be evolved away from. I am sitting on a codebase whose oldest line of code is about…