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This is one of those things that makes me feel like the battle is not lost yet. In a world where companies go out of their way to make you unable to actually own the hardware you buy, we are desperately in need for this. @nrp, is there any estimate about when will we be able to buy this in South America?
Never read that, I will look into it. One of the books I love is "The Mind's I" by Dennett and Hofstadter. Easily one of the best books I have ever read.
Well, it's pretty simple, actually. Central banking is a monopoly, you don't need to be the best option if you're the only one. Curiously, all central banks start launching efficient payment systems as soon as crypto shows up.
Not really affirming any conspiracy here since I'm very uneducated at the subject, I just thinks it's suspiciously interesting to a point I can't ignore, almost as if all those central banks were coordinating as part of a larger goal.
Curiously similar to "Pix" launched by brazilian central bank about a year ago. A quick Google search will show you dozens and dozens of countries getting instant payment systems promoted by their own central banks during the last years. Really makes you wonder who could be behind such a "coincidence".
Just as there are super smart, skilled developers in these areas, there are also lots and lots of software companies in EU, China, India, Japan and South America. These companies will need to up their game to keep these talented developers from fleeing to better paying, outsourced jobs.
This might not mean much for someone who made their career in SV, but certainly means a lot to an Indian, Russian or Brazilian developer.
I cant speak for the others, but at my last job, the team got closer when the pandemics started and we went remote. The key was having a virtual "water cooler". We did that with Discord, anyone interested in chatting could just hang in a voice channel and people would casually join in at their own will.
You are looking for Haskell.
Well, one could argue that "giving access to production databases to people who shouldn't have it" was just "making mistakes in the course of their work" for this dude.
I would argue that those corpses(or whatever it is they do in med school) are quite important. I don't think any amount of "book-smarts" can override actual practical experience. At least for me, I can't imagine I would be able to write a program if I had read several books but never opened a code editor. I believe it must be similar for doctors. Even if you read about lots of diseases and their symptoms, how do you go about diagnosing diseases with complex, overlapping attributes without any kind of experience besides what you read in a book to relate to?