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Comment · 3 years ago
I always wanted to have a family but I'm straight up too mentally ill to. And I reckon any woman that I'd lock down would be more mentally ill than me. I really think we're in a weird transitory period that child bearing is going to look a lot different in the next 10 years, seeing the age of marriage in the west is almost 30 for women, where > 35 is considered a geriatric pregnancy. There's going to have to be solutions if we want healthy offspring.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm not sure I agree with that rhetoric. There are many countries around the world who see the US as a fascist entity who has bombed the shit out of them imposed economic sanctions and destroyed their way of life. As an American I see economic freedom as intrinsically good and what the founders would have always wanted. I do not see our particular set of OFAC rules as democratic neither our economic hegemony as something we need to accept as morally right.

I am not against that set of rules, especially for the legacy system, but it's not on blockchain devs to comply.

We will have to let our legislators decide. Starting to see a good amount of bipartisan support for reasonable regulations (in the eyes someone who is pro crypto). And whatever they decide it will prove the true strength of a blockchain if it can resist censorship. For example, if they choose to make Coinbase comply with OFAC on an attestation level the system should be able to deal with that through social slashing etc.

Comment · 4 years ago
There are no implications, since Ethereum is a public ledger where anyone can participate in validating transactions who have at least 32 ETH. For contrast, with bitcoin anyone can add a block who can produce a verifiable hash below the current difficulty target.

It gets muddy where with Ethereum where there are public companies like Coinbase who have to comply with certain laws as they are a financial entity running their own validators with coins from their depositors. Don't get me wrong there is an urgent need for regulatory clarity and not all regulations are bad.

Comment · 4 years ago
Lol. You should take this up with the US banks processing millions of dollars of illegal transactions daily and get a light slap on the wrist each and every time they accidentally get caught.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah I get that, the same reason why I question some of the teams I've been on choice of JS frameworks, it's just what the developers were familiar with.

Go compiles so fast and reads cleaner imo, that I never saw the benefit of python. I always thought debugging python was clunky, could be unfamiliarity with interpreted languages. Also a few times I needed to use an ODBC driver with python left a bad taste in my mouth. But overall I get what you're saying, my new team writes all of their lambdas in python so I'm going to have to learn.

Comment · 4 years ago
Not to be shit-eating, but I never understood why people use python instead of Go other than for ML teams. I program mostly in Java and Go so would love a perspective.
Comment · 4 years ago
Will institutions involved in psyops be deploying AI models in the future to create bot nets of psyops?
Comment · 4 years ago
Same with crypto. We have 10 years of data so far.
Comment · 4 years ago
It's a commodity
Comment · 4 years ago
It's common financial advice if you invest in the US equity market index you will get a 7% return a year
Comment · 4 years ago
Except it does
Comment · 4 years ago
It's very standard for bitcoin and won't be going away for a while as the asset is still realizing its value across all global liquidity. It's scary and why the SEC dragging their feet on a spot ETF approval i.e. an investment vehicle that a non-crypto fanboy can use (yours truly) is criminal.
Comment · 4 years ago
Okay? And 1.5 trillion was wiped off of the US equity market.
Comment · 4 years ago
Wait..... There are people who don't use debuggers that are readily available for compiled languages?

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