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Comment · 1 month ago
The other option is to make everyone gamblers, either speculate on properties or stocks. Pick your poison.
Comment · 3 months ago
probably gas price
Comment · 5 months ago
No, that would be implementation defined.
Comment · 9 months ago
losing the gold standard 1971?
Comment · 9 months ago
What if a piece of software isn't packaged, like for example the ARM GCC toolchain. In a Dockerfile I just need to curl and unpack it. How do I solve that with guix?
Comment · 1 year ago
Only if your system/browser is set to dark mode
Comment · 1 year ago
Found an error immediately "Any lowercase character" doesn't match all Swedish lowercase characters.
Comment · 1 year ago
It would be semver compatible if they used 0.DATE.0 or 0.0.DATE instead.

from semver spec:

4) Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be considered stable.

Comment · 2 years ago
Does the data support the "general rule" then? I think 65 year olds today are much more able than 65 year olds 50 years ago.
Comment · 2 years ago
Please read the article. His produces 200x intermediary values. Clickbait title, since it wasn't a leak.
Comment · 2 years ago
You can have different standards for different use cases. So you mean that iMessage and rcs are so different that Android can't use iMessage or apple couldn't use rcs? We don't need to find one standard to rule them all. But we need to stop anti-competition behavior like allowing these protocols to be exclusive.
Comment · 2 years ago
The reason gsm, 3g, 4g, sms and so on succeeded was because everyone could implement them. I guess you had to pay license or patent fees, but they are not walled gardens. Phones from different manufacturers and/or different operators can communicate. I'm surprised that "chat"-protocols are allowed to be monopolies by the regulators. The regulators probably don't understand tech.
Comment · 3 years ago
The roundtrip time is never consistent. Light travels with different speed in fiber depending on the temperature. This is why you calibrate every second.
Comment · 3 years ago
The SEK used to be locked. That lead to another kind of crisis in the nineties. You are right that we should've adopted the euro though.
Comment · 3 years ago
Tax, if your country has capital gain tax you need to declare every single trade to real USD. When you are trading between crypto pairs you are not realizing any gain, thus you don't need to declare it. Until you eventually sell of course.

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