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In my experience that has never happened Usually its a bunch of people advocating for socialism, screaming silence is violence, and saying white people are going to hell From what …

jesus calm down

You can but only really one will have value There are crypto punks on Binance / Tron but they are pretty worthless. Everyone knows which one is the real one For most projects that …

Hey — don’t listen to these clowns. They are upset because all they do is make enterprise widgets for a megacorp and memorize leetcode. Most software engineers in megacorps are inc…

Game theory? Distributed systems? Cryptography? The technical challenges in crypto are much more interesting than that of a FANG company’s (i.e enterprise software and widgets)

True retail is mostly on CEX's. Folks on DEX's are mainly power users. Also there are two reasons why DEX's have high volume: - Long tail of assets are only on DEX's. Average retai…

You would love Eth 2.0 then! The idea of proof of stake is to remove waste from the equation

This article employs the same malicious cropping Taylor Lorenz did that made people so mad. I think the origin story is not that she complained about the CEO of Away, it was that w…

It is funny that Alex Stamos works there. After all his morale handwringing about working for Facebook, he is now working for Zoom, a Chinese Communist Party spy operation. Not onl…

One reason people don’t trust China’s aid is that the shortage is caused by China. They bought up the worlds supply of PPE (over 2 billion masks) and nationalized factories owned b…

What I find interesting is that my opinions on Edward Snowden have drastically changed over time. When the leaks first came out, I regarded him as a hero, for exposing what the US …

The CIA definitely was not behind Tiananmen square and there is no way it could be behind a two million person strong protest... Conspiracy theory is one of the strongest forms of …

This is why a quit weed. Weed makes being bored fun. So all the motivation that being bored typically gives you goes away and you are content to do nothing. However it is healthy t…

GI is a pretty common acronym for 'gastro intestinal' 'The GI Doc', 'I have GI issues', etc

I hate these style of interviews. I give them to prospective engineers every week for one of these FAANGM companies. They don't test for good engineers -- they test for people who …

The economist is much cheaper when you sign up for a student account - if you have your university email that will work. I do recommend subscribing -- their articles are really goo…

However Taiwan, Korea, and Japan all did this without pissing everyone off. China needs to learn to play by the rules

In my experience a gram of K in the US costs around $100 In the UK it is more like $20-$40

As someone who works at a large company in the networking space, you would be surprised that minor changes to configuration can cause catastrophic failures that are really challeng…

Both companies are massive and have tons of developers. It becomes almost impossible to look at the system as a whole with the amount of changes coming through. And, you get scenar…

I microdosed shrooms once (.1g) and it was distracting. I guess my creativity was 'up' but that was because I kept getting distracted by cool lights and random thoughts. It did mot…

The romanticism comes from the fact that 4chan has been incredibly influential in internet history. Chaos is a ladder, as they say in GOT, and some of the best content out there ha…

I have been working for a large internet corporation for the last year and, despite coding more often, I feel like I have lost touch of what is present and new in academia. During …

I was a nic addict for several years. Most of the time it was spliffs (weed mixed with nicotine) but my consumption rate was probably the equivalent of 4-5 cigs a day (8 king size …