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2 out of 5 of his clients are blockchain companies/orgs. I feel this path would be quite easy in blockchain, where almost all of the projects are open source

Plenty of user facing apps do need strong consistency. We use Cassandra at Ripple, for API access to the XRP ledger, and strong consistency is a requirement. Records refer to other records, and not being able to reason about when things are going to show up in the database would lead to a ton of complexity. For instance, I read a transaction, then I want to read the account that sent or received that transaction. I need to know the record for the account is going to be there in the database, and is consistent with the transaction, as opposed to stale. Or, a client might be paging through data over several calls, where we return a marker to allow the client to resume. This wouldn't work if some nodes might not know about the marker.

I mean this is just evolutionary biology. If you're a defenseless woman in the African Savanna, do you go for the skinny, short man who's nice, or the tall, muscular man who will protect you and your children? Hard to rewire millions of years of conditioning.

Hacker news is just not that pro west. I actually find it quite refreshing.

Yeah I mean I totally agree that live coding in an interview is some contrived thing that doesn't reflect the actual value that you would bring. No one builds anything great in 45 minutes. It's like the industry doesn't know how else to assess skill.

Practicing a ton can reduce anxiety, since you'll have confidence that you can most likely solve the problem. Plus, if you practice enough, you'll see so many problems that you might get the exact same problems in the interview. If you do something everyday, it becomes less of a big deal.

Doing other activities that induce this sort of anxiety can help too. I've been a combat athlete my whole life, and the anxiety you get before a match is like no other. Not being able to sleep the night before is the norm, and I've seen people vomit before matches. Plus, it's not a few engineers watching you, but rather a whole crowd of people watching you, with half of them cheering for you to lose. After this experience, live coding interviews are a cake-walk. I get nervous as well with a pounding heart and nervous sweats, etc. But I tell myself I've been here before, and perform as best as I can in spite of it, like I've done before. I generally don't perform quite as well in the interview or match as I do when no one's watching, but that's just how it goes. Learning to perform under pressure like that is a skill that needs to be cultivated.

I am not spending Christmas alone, but sometimes I wish I was. The holidays are the toughest time of year for me, because they bring up bad memories from my childhood, and the darkness of winter amplifies it and makes me feel dead inside. Every year around the holidays I have at least one really bad breakdown, and I'm just way more vulnerable emotionally, so everything hurts so much more and for longer. The pain generally has to do with relationships with other people though, so being alone helps. I don't know if it would be better to be totally alone, as OP is, but spending extensive amounts of time with family or a romantic partner is just terrible for me. Cheers OP, buy yourself a gift.

Hey I have bipolar and borderline too! But I just want to say, life isn't about achieving things; it's just about being happy. And a little secret: achieving things doesn't actually make you happy. Maybe temporarily, but anyone who achieves great things is never satisfied. Otherwise, they never would have put in the work to achieve what they did in the first place. It's sort of a prerequisite.

I was really good at a sport through high school and college. And one thing I noticed very early is that how good I was didn't make me happy. Sure, in the instant I won, I was happy. But then I went back to practice the next day, and was just focused on the next opponent. And then when I lost, I was crushed. I didn't become any happier as a person or enjoy my life more or anything as I got better at the sport. I cared a lot about getting better. What actually made me happy was just doing the sport itself, especially in the moments where I let go of the outcome. It's the old, appreciate the journey, not the destination. It's really true!

I also know a lot of people who are really good at things. They are no happier than anyone else. It's not something to be jealous of, or feel bad that you are not like them.

I also will say that I started to focus on achievement a lot less when I had a kid. It became obvious to me that what I did for my kid was infinitely more important than what I achieved for myself, and pursuing success for myself was really just a kind of game.

That's quite a pessimistic outlook. You can find inner peace even though you're being harassed.

Gym memberships are notorious with this. I always wondered how it was even legal. I cancelled my debit card and they sent me to collections.

You should 100% talk to the original author before rewriting though. Not doing so communicates that you think you know better than them, so much better than them that you don't even need to talk to them to understand why they wrote it the way they did, and the tradeoffs. This is very arrogant and would most likely bother the original developer, which is bad for team dynamics.

They are fiat on and off ramps, they hold crypto for you, and they allow you to exchange different cryptocurrencies.

> republicans represent a minority of Americans. They'd never have power again if we had fair democratic elections. Democrats represent the majority of Americans. They benefit greatly from fair democratic elections. It's just that simple.

This is the truth, and is why Republicans are doing what they are doing. It's not because Republicans are bad and Democrats are good. It's because Republicans are going to lose otherwise.

The article said mildly depressed people could have a more accurate view of reality, not majorly depressed people. Quite different. A mildly depressed person doesn't have a completely warped view of reality like a majorly depressed person does.

Actual paper cash is more anonymous than most crypto, including Bitcoin.

How would a government seize Bitcoin? Stealing Bitcoin is not the same as seizing.

You can still use unions to fight unethical decisions though

Do you really think you can't just find a new job and quit? (In that order).

If you really hate your job, quit and find a different one. If you hate the tasks, asks for different tasks.

I know this might not be an option though. So some things that help me to do tasks that I hate doing is to break things up. Set a small goal, accomplish that, and then take a break. Go for a quick walk or grab a snack or read something. Rinse and repeat. Slow and steady wins the race. Eventually the larger task is done. And while you're doing the smaller task, try not to get distracted. Manage your distractions and just let yourself get distracted in your breaks. You can take a lot of breaks lol.

I also find that doing random things to make myself happy let's me enjoy my time working a little more. Like having some nice snacks at my desk, or wearing really comfy clothing, or listening to good music. Then I'm not just wishing I could be done, because at least I'm eating these snacks.

I've been here. It sucks. I really would suggest trying to find a job you like doing a little more. Good luck!

It is not a human right to make the planet uninhabitable for future generations

I don't think the climate problem can be solved without some form of authoritarianism.

For most people, climate change does not affect their everyday lives. It primarily affects future generations, and non-humans. Caring about future generations is a form of long term thinking that most humans don't care for or are not capable of. Most people's long term thinking stops at their five year plan, or their kids' future. Very few people think about hundreds of years into the future, let alone thousands. Will this planet be habitable two thousand years from now? Very, very few people think that far ahead. Even less people care about the fate of non-humans.

Then when you throw in the fact that a lot of people have an incentive today to fight back against measures to combat climate change, because it would reduce their profits or threaten their job, the outlook is even more hopeless.

We are never going to get a majority of people on board with fighting climate change, at least not until it's affecting a majority of people's everyday lives. And by then, it will be far too late.

I think the only way is for the minority, who do think long term, to seize power and impose their will on the majority. And, I have to add, because most people think authoritarianism in any form is bad, that in this situation, the authoritarianism would be good, just, appropriate and the best course of action.

Tangentially related, I think political advertising actually does work. Not just ads ran by candidates, but all the different memes and infographics and whatnot. At least in America. Most Americans are sort of middle of the road, but in recent years, the right has gotten very good at drawing people in through media. I know many people who are now all wrapped up in all sorts of right wing conspiracies and viewpoints that they were not wrapped up in before, that if it wasn't for seeing it on Facebook, Twitter or Reddit, they never would have believed this stuff or even thought about it.

I don't think it matters if $75k is middle class or not. It's definitely not ultra rich, as was the other example person in the original comment, so the argument still applies.

Middle class is kind of an arbitrary term though. I think working class describes things much more clearly (I work for an employer for a living). And there are plenty of working class people making $75k a year.

If it were imposed by a democratically elected government, would it still be a problem?

The lack of charge back is really a small issue. I don't think it applies here. Crypto does solve this problem. Even if there's the lack of charge back, it still overcomes the censorship problem, which traditional systems do not. So do you want censorship + charge back? Or no censorship and no charge back? In this case, I think it's clearly the latter.

The strange thing is these problems are already solved through cryptocurrency and decentralized social media. We just need more adoption of decentralized platforms. To me, as I hear about these centralization problems more and more, it seems like decentralized platforms are the future.

We are mostly there.

Environmental impact is mitigated by newer proof of stake tokens. Cardano, Solano, Polkadot. Also, Ethereum is moving to proof of stake eventually as well.

Slow confirmation times are also solved by these same coins. Even ETH with proof of work has a quick confirmation time. Also, for payments over the internet, confirmation time is not a big deal. It's more an issue when buying something in person.

Price fluctuation is an issue, but we do have stablecoins. However, there are only a few.

We do need ATMs, but that also does not matter for online payments.

Fiat to crypto translation layer is probably the main issue in regards to online payments. However, setting up an account on Coinbase or Binance is pretty similar to setting up a PayPal account. Then you can pay any merchant with a QR code or address or whatever, using any of the coins Coinbase supports.

I also just want to say, as a full time remote worker, I need Slack on my personal phone. Remote work allows you to work anytime and thus break out of the 9-5. But to properly do that and still be a member of a team, I need to be reachable on my regular phone. If I decide to switch up my day and work at night, I need to still be reachable for random things during other people's working hours. It's usually just someone has a quick question. Team members in other time zones have discussions on Slack that are outside of the time I'm sitting in front of my computer. I like seeing these discussions and contributing while I'm at the grocery store or some such. If mission critical software is blowing up, I need to know that I need to get back to my computer. If I don't have any real work to do that day, I can go do something else, and just check my phone to see if I need to get back to my computer because someone who actually is working needs me. I can actually sort of take days off this way, without having to actually ask for the day off.

In general, as a remote worker, having Slack on my personal phone allows me to work less and more efficiently. It gives the illusion that I am always working, whereas I'm actually working only when I want to and am most effective.

Are Mac and Windows not also full of an enormous amount of crap that we don't need?

What about just nationalizing the entire energy industry and everything related, instead of trying to work within the parameters of a free market for something with so many externalities?