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Shame Boy posted:
its like they did a find and replace
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last weeks economist had a tolerable piece about stablecoins.quote:To get an idea of just how volatile cryptocurrencies are, compare them with the stockmarket. Bitcoin, the biggest one, moves as much against the dollar in a single day as the s&p 500 does in 23. For speculators, this is a feature. For anyone who wants to use these digital monies for payments, savings or lending, it is a bug. In other words, volatility is a big obstacle to cryptocurrencies becoming much more widely used.
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Oct 30, 2018 07:10
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I hope at least the graphic artists are making money from this, 
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Oct 30, 2018 08:09
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that oyster one under personal just stole everyone's money today so that chart aged well
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Oct 30, 2018 08:15
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...! posted:also that's technically an emoji, not an emoticon. they are two different things, nerd it's literally japanese for "picture-character"
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Oct 30, 2018 08:39
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incidentally it's also the japanese word for emoticon, which is characters arranged into a picture
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Oct 30, 2018 08:41
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へ へ の の も へ
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Oct 30, 2018 08:43
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MrMoo posted:I hope at least the graphic artists are making money from this, these are definitely in use
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Oct 30, 2018 08:43
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boy howdy do i ever want a Healthcare Blockchain when i'm sick
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Oct 30, 2018 08:49
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im the insurance company ai gang
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Oct 30, 2018 08:52
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'In short, we're going to build a Dragoniahc-based solution with bread integration and THEKEY support. You can download our full celsiusripio proposition and price list from siqIPFS or contact us on ONG for more detailsa. Your wax promo code also entitles you to a 10% discount if you pay through humaniq!' A totally real thing someone probably said at some point while discussing business.
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Oct 30, 2018 09:19
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all of this is so clearly just nerds cosplaying as c suites and investment bankers
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Oct 30, 2018 10:20
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shitcoin
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Oct 30, 2018 10:25
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case (post) ofSham bam bamina! posted:an emoji is mapped to a unicode character, idiot  Sham bam bamina! posted:incidentally it's also the japanese word for emoticon, which is characters arranged into a picture Boxturret posted:へ へ jimmyjams posted:shitcoin default:
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Oct 30, 2018 10:56
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Number go down today
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Oct 30, 2018 11:01
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but number can't go down. number go to moon. moon is up. i don't understand.
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Oct 30, 2018 11:06
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 no, not those kinds of sirens like my bitcoin job just got busted for crimes, just sirens to alert you to a long overdue update $ cat ~/secret\ folder\ keep\ out/my_crypto_currency_ so a week after i joined this job the guy who hired me "quit" or was "fired" depending on who you ask. i surmise that he saw my pay cheque (darth figgius muahahaha) and demanded a raise on the spot, then left when refused. there are two people who know "how the app works". by that i mean how we push it, where it's hosted, etc. and both of them were now gone. so i spent 3 days learning gitlab and AWS as much as possible to not only allow us to deploy the app, but integrate some ~30 or so tests i've written for the app so that we don't deploy broken poo poo. DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself. it's actually a stupid rule with many faults, but it's applicable 90% of the time when you use React. you just import the component and you use it again. you pass in props. oh, and you have a central store of information that all components subscribe to and keep updated to matter where they are. this is web development. the ~~main guy/CEO??~~ instead had the idea that each part of the app should be it's own separate component. wait, aren't all react components already like that? no, not enough so! so the project is like this code:
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Oct 30, 2018 11:38
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if it goes down far enough, it will come out the other side and reach the moon that way
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part 2 so the dude who hired me said i was hired to refactor the app. for weeks i toiled away combing the redux stores, making shared components, adding cool middlewares, and then re-writing the pipeline to include builds, build artifacts, tests and deploys to S3. it was really looking sharp, as long as you didn't look at the other folders and realize 90% was still duplicated work. things got kinda fishy. i asked on Slack that people review my code so i could merge. again and again, and even CEO-ish guy bloviated "tomorrow we go through each and every pull request!" never happened. when i saw one of my PRs was 5 weeks old i said gently caress it and spent 6 hours fixing merge conflicts and adding 90% of my work into the test branch whether anyone liked it or not. jeez, there were NO OTHER PRs! it seemed like no one else worked there and Slack was populated but dead silent. for the savvy, i updated Babel, Webpack, React, actually used Redux properly, and overhauled everything. no complaints, oddly. i wrote wiki pages and linked them in the slack about how to use the new stuff. some people said it looked good. little else. slowly i catch on that there is another branch, a huge feature, that doesn't have an MR, that i've never, as a senior dev, been assigned to review, and that is based on code now months old and several frameworks versions behind, on several frameworks. valiantly, i snort 1 gram of cocaine and merge everything. things are running, tests are passing. but mind you, no one has actually read my guides on tests and made any tests of their own. there's a bug. the CEO decides then and there to roll back my 2 months of work and deploy the new feature along with the old site. no tests, no type checking, no shared components or improved forms.
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Shame Boy posted:
https://poopstat.us for blockchain movement news
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part 3 rewind a little bit. my tests are running, but when we get to the deploy phase of the pipeline, they stop after the 1st or 2nd deploy to the test server. this is where i learn about how cool gitlab is because you can run your own build/test/deploy runners. but ours is broken, giving several different errors, including hardware/allocation ones. someone gives me an AWS account with read access to maybe 3 things. i realize they have 50 EC2 servers going with volumes of up to 200GB each. they're tiny compute-wise and not mining, far as i can tell. i hate aws and tell them i think a docker instance has eaten up all their HDD. i set up my own VPS and run the tests securely on that. but while investigating this, i notice something weird. their script says code:but it gets worse. if I take the AWS credentials from the environment variables, i can download all the SUPER_SECRET_FILEs I want, for all environments! first i downloaded the dev version... phew, nothing secret three. reluctantly i download the staging env file... phew... exactly the same as the one (stupidly) already in the git repository. dare i get the prod one... oh gently caress me it's the exact same file as in the git repo! there is no reason for this, the files are exact copies aside from the new public API key we've been trying in vein to add. but there was more in the S3 folder. private keys to certain blockchain wallets, admin passwords to everything ever. i saw it all and reported it privately to them. but yeah, their security was 100% pointless because the files they held in secret were right there in the git repo, but it was also 100% a liability at the same time because they also stored EvErYtHiNg in the same bucket.
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Oct 30, 2018 12:15
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of course you took the buttcoin wallet keys and drained them to teach them a valuable lesson about proper birdbath usage
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Oct 30, 2018 12:31
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Weatherman posted:of course you took the buttcoin wallet keys and drained them to teach them a valuable lesson about proper birdbath usage surely someone somewhere noticed and drained them first
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How everyone’s wrong about the energy used in Bitcoin mining There’s no such thing as a free lunch. There’s no such thing as a zero sum game. The 2nd law of thermodynamics tells us this. You know, the one about entropy and how everything will be really, really lame in a couple of trillion years. There’s no action without an equally big reaction somewhere. This is also true for Bitcoin mining. Every once in awhile, some ignorant click bait hungry journalist writes an article about Bitcoin’s energy usage and how it’s connected to global warming or how widespread Bitcoin adoption would kill us all someday because of its “wasteful” production process. What they all fail to address is they alternative cost. First of all, Bitcoins are valuable precisely because they’re costly to produce. The same is true for gold or diamonds or anything else that is scarce and hard to come by. The mining algorithm can never be any more energy efficient because the electricity spent is directly linked to the value of the token. Secondly, think about what most people use their Bitcoins for. Nothing. That’s right, nothing. Bitcoin incentivizes saving rather than spending. This is the exact opposite of what our current systems of fiat money does because Bitcoin is deflationary rather than inflationary. This means that every dollar, yen or pound spent on Bitcoin would have ended up being spent on some other energy demanding thing had it not been spent on the Bitcoin. Either that or it would have lost its value due to inflation which means that even more dollars, yen or euros would have been created and spent on frivolous things. The very idea of central banking and the philosophies of John Maynard Keynes is that fast spending and a lot of transactions in general is what drives the economy. Bitcoin is the opposite to these views. Yes it’s costly to produce but so is overproducing every product on earth because you need your business to expand as fast as possible to pay off your loans. Human well being has always and will always be linearly connected to energy consumption. You can’t get around that or bypass this fact. They’re inevitably linked. The thing Bitcoin does is taking away the need for unnecessary energy consumption by incentivizing us to save for future generations. It’s a tool for stopping our destructive tendencies. Not a threat to our planet’s health but a remedy. So, the next time you hear about Bitcoin using as much energy as a small country, ask yourself — where would all that energy have ended up if it wasn’t funneled into the the only invention trying to save us from ourselves there is? Into a Chinese factory producing consumer goods shipped by boat, truck and car for temporary use by westerners and probably ending up in a garbage pile the size of a small country in less than a year? How is that better for the planet again? The only place solutions for humanity’s problem can stem from is from human ingenuity and human ingenuity itself stems from places where people with brains have a shot at getting somewhere in life. Thanks to the internet and Bitcoin that somewhere is everywhere. The internet connects us and Bitcoin frees up our time and emancipates us from the destructive mechanisms of our current systems. Bitcoin helps you plant a seed and watch it grow if you will. Before you criticize Bitcoin, read up on why it was invented and what inflationary, soft money does to the mechanisms of the market. Why we have a climate problem in the first place. Why we over consume. What underlying forces pull our psychological strings and makes us lend money for a new car? It takes a special kind of ignorance to criticize the solution to a without first getting to know the problem.
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Oct 30, 2018 13:11
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If there were no wars, think about where all those bullets and bombs would go? Probably directly into your stupid head. So the next time you say you don't like wars, remember you are not immune to bullets, fucker.
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Oct 30, 2018 13:41
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I'm lmaoing at "someone withdrew all the money" Excuse me I'd like to cash a check for all the assets under this bank's management Ok
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Oct 30, 2018 13:56
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well, it's not like that was intended functionality. it was just a bug and what can you do.
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Oct 30, 2018 14:19
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triple dot exclamation mark needs to start quoting his sources so we can go directly to the broke brained idiots posting these screeds and throw popcorn at them because this was infuriatingly stupid
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Oct 30, 2018 14:34
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MrMoo posted:I hope at least the graphic artists are making money from this, i love whatever company keeps making these because they did a massive one about marketing companies and my last company (which was very proud of itself and sure it was the ~industry leader~ in whatever bullshit it was making) wasn't even on it 
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Oct 30, 2018 14:51
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lol dentacoin is on there, bless u dentacoin
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Oct 30, 2018 14:51
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i know when i see a chart with a trillion balkanized systems i go "man how do i plow my life savings into this" and not shriek in horror and revulsion
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Oct 30, 2018 15:01
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kw0134 posted:i know when i see a chart with a trillion balkanized systems i go "man how do i plow my life savings into this" and not shriek in horror and revulsion same, it's like a fun new pokemon game to discover every time I want to accomplish some mundane daily business a dream come true
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Oct 30, 2018 15:06
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kw0134 posted:triple dot exclamation mark needs to start quoting his sources so we can go directly to the broke brained idiots posting these screeds and throw popcorn at them because this was infuriatingly stupid https://medium.com/@knut.svanholm/how-everyones-wrong-about-the-energy-used-in-bitcoin-mining-fe3009fd9102
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Oct 30, 2018 16:31
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...! posted:https://medium.com/@knut.svanholm/how-everyones-wrong-about-the-energy-used-in-bitcoin-mining-fe3009fd9102 oooooooooooooh! he has a terrible book too! https://www.amazon.com/dp/1718610351/
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Oct 30, 2018 16:33
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quote:Dear Bruno,
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Oct 30, 2018 17:09
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did anyone else just hear a ghost
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Oct 30, 2018 17:13
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why would you brag about how much money you have in the TfL payment card
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Oct 30, 2018 17:16
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Dear scammer, I hope you are well. Please let me know if you want more money from me. Sincerely yours, Absolute imbecile
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Oct 30, 2018 17:19
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the number of people using bitcoin has no bearing on the mining, why don't people understand this? satoshi in his infinite wisdom teeth decided that no matter how much computing power you throw at bitcoin it will never get better and only gets more and more inefficient
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Have you considered that bitcoin is just so Good, that the mining is worth it?
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