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Lol, yes, "distributed" means blockchain. Someone should cancel Torvalds for building git on a blockchain. Clearly a scam!

... So every single early computer innovation then?

Interesting take. Feels cleaner to me, and while I want to argue about the opinionated payload bit, I suppose that's something that should be clearly defined in the contract anyway…

People are not meant to alone. If the book is advising to do things alone, I advise not reading the book

> psychology for example while I'm pretty despondent with the replication crisis in psychology, medicine isn't much better. but to dismiss it outright is pretty ignorant. curious h…

I had the weirdest reaction to that last sentence. As an engineer, the first thing that went through my head was "lots of photos of their faces available, easy filter. My face spec…

I did not know the DC-10 had bit of dodgy record and oh hey, it's McDonnell Douglas. Again! What a coinky dink

I've never had an issue with data race conditions in go. Can I ask what you did to lose faith? The answer, for me, is always channels. What you put around the channels is the chall…

This opinion is just gross. Always do your required reading kids. - nobody uses semi colons, that's a huge red flag because the tooling will literally remove these symbols from you…

English Grammar is arbitrary and there is really no such thing as a "correct" form, only a formal one. Which is kind of elitist and disparaging imo. Ain't is my favorite example. I…

I need this to be expanded upon. Presumably you don't mean your own life or data, or that of your friends and family where you can find consent. So what's left is arguing for a rig…

I think it's pretty pathetic some of you are focused on copilot (as if youve never ripped code off SO before). I'm willing to bet none of you have contributed anything to open sour…

Very American opinion you have their. It does not hold up the world over though. Supermarkets are a bad example here because they are a critical link in the distribution economy. G…

Phone numbers and email: the primary identifiers that were never meant to be used as such. No idea what a good alternative is though. Preferably something federated though

> Euphemism for the Nazis Which is strange when you consider how the Brittish seemed to start that trend. https://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/#:~:text=British%20Conce... .

Coinbase is a representative of crypto as much as China is a representative of the USD. It exists only to exchange crypto for fiat. That means it _must_ be subject to regulation. O…

ITT: Critics ;) I think it's disingenuous to call crypto an investment. It would be nice to see some legislation tame the absolutely insane relationship between crypto and fiat. I …

Aren't new investors the required check for an investment scam like a ponzi scheme? Genuine question

> I've yet to see that from Tether The wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly, it's no different with any other financial scandal.

The US is only angry that they don't have the right to do this. Ya know, like with all the other tech firms they squeeze

I can't imagine there's much benefit to it or that the goal was to be better than the existing inter-session tools in Linux. But I built an ssh server in go once, which was a fun w…

Well when you wrap your identity around someone else's idea, you get weird outputs at the edge cases

I'm not following. You will not find trust _in people_ anywhere in modern society. Banks certify transactions, governments certify identity. We can go on and on here. Whole swathes…

The end goal is not the problem. It's ridiculous to suggest outlawing 50% of a state's living arrangement. Good solutions consider the current state, they don't skip past it entire…

The brexit comments I find interesting, but pretending the metric system is meaningless or without reason is just daft. It's called standards. And standards make life easier. Shock…