kindfellow92

Yup. Bittrex is a good companion

I can read. I’m a millennial and I haven’t been scammed. Bitcoin is changing lives for the better and has allowed me and my family to join you in wealth but you seem to hate that.

I diversified 6mm into index funds and bond funds on Vanguard :)

No, you don’t arb on BTC/USDT. You arb on XXX/BTC and then convert BTC to USD regularly on GDAX.

You don’t need to short BTC/USD you just need to be able to short. You can always convert to USD after your arbitrage gains in BTC, which I do and have done.

I’m worth 13 million dollars because of crypto and I’ve diversified half... tell me more about how Bitcoin is a scam. :)

You can also short on poloniex

Meh, it’s possible to challenge the status quo without being a dick. I think it’s more sincere to not be a dick.

Let’s be real, nobody wants to use Homebrew. It just fills a niche for a tool that’s missing on MacOS. People use homebrew because they search “apt-get yum for Mac” and it’s the first thing that pops up.

In other words, the day that Apple bundles a native CLI package manager with macOS, nobody is going to stick with Homebrew for its amazing UI/UX.

I don’t think we should be praising this guy for being a usability mastermind. I think homebrew is successful because he was someone willing to do the grunt work of building an apt-get clone on Mac. Paradoxically this actually reflects poorly on him because a talented developer prefers to spend time on more intellectually stimulating projects, not grunt work.

Hehe maybe you’re right but it’s not self-aware to think that calling yourself a dick makes it okay. Instead he should just not be a dick.

Yeah after enough projects and jobs, I think the morale and productivity cost of having people with whom are difficult to work is too high. Jerks breed resentment and destroy the motivation of others. Companies are about large organized groups of people accomplishing a goal larger than any given individual could accomplish by themself. Individuals who can’t cooperate with others are literally destroying a core aspect of any company.

Right, smooth vector fields aren’t actually physically realizable.

Sure

What does this even mean? BTC is a commodity, the government wins via taxes when people make gains. That’s like saying the government will never embrace stocks or real estate.

This was already the case... FUD

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf

Bitcoin is new technology, the fact that its use cases are changing is evidence of that. That should be exciting, not disheartening. It would be a worse sign if it simply accomplished the goal it purportedly was intended for and nothing else. This shows it may have more growth potential.

I for one know a few folks who have used bitcoin to transfer large sums of money across borders... pretty crazy times we live in. I expect bitcoin to dominate in this area in the short to medium term.

An argument could be made around you not being smart enough for C++ either if you are truly unable to write the equivalent program in Rust.

Rust simply makes memory-correctness something the compiler can check. Correct C++ programs are the same as correct Rust programs, the compiler simply isn’t enforcing it.

My point is that “sophisticated abstractions” should reduce complexity, not increase it.

If Tokio’s abstractions are seemingly increasing complexity, maybe they aren’t sophisticated abstractions.

This is a criticism of the OP, not Tokio.

I think you’re comparing apples and oranges here.

Writing memory safe code without Rust is harder than using Rust’s abstractions to do the same task. If you agree with that then my comment stands.

> Unfortunately, Tokio is notoriously difficult to learn due to its sophisticated abstractions.

Aren’t abstractions supposed to make things easier to learn? Something about the idea of “complex abstractions” seems wrong.

(Edit: this is not a criticism of Tokio, it’s a criticism of the OP’s characterization of “sophisticated abstractions” which IMO should reduce complexity)

> If you take $10,000 USD in cash and put it in the freezer, in a year it would be worth $9,700 of today’s value.

> Yep you read that right. Holding USD means the cash will be “worth” less next year. This is because of a 3% inflation rate.

This math is wrong. The value in today’s dollars will be 10,000 / (10,000 * 1.03) * 10,000 ~= 9,708.74

Parser(s)? As in more than one? Hopefully you’ll ever need to only write one parser (e.g. for Rust) but practically zero since regexs are a solved problem.

Sigh, compare the trends in the last 17 years to the trends in the previous 17 years and the 17-year periods prior to that.

“Effectively dead” does not mean 0.0%

Those things are not related to inflation. Look at the CPI.

> If you take $10,000 USD in cash and put it in the freezer, in a year it would be worth $9,700 of today’s value.

> Yep you read that right. Holding USD means the cash will be “worth” less next year. This is because of a 3% inflation rate.

USD inflation is effectively dead ATM and has been since at least the early 2000s.

I see your point, theoretically majority miners could manipulate BTC supply. The major difference is that with fiat currency control of the money supply is centralized, while with Bitcoin it is distributed.

In addition, at the point that miners reached consensus for new BTC rules, arguably it would no longer be BTC.

Bitcoin’s qualities today make it more like gold than fiat, but in reality it’s neither. “Digital gold” is just an analogy.

One day this will be true for Bitcoin, once it reaches a stable value.

Another consensus argument. There is more of a consensus around bitcoin than other cryptos and you can’t “invent” consensus either.

> People in unstable countries may have trouble safeguarding gold stockpiles, as well.

Hence Bitcoin. cf. Zimbabwe

Meh, this is essentially a consensus argument which falls flat because gold’s value is ultimately based on consensus.