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Show HN: Codewars 12 years ago

Outstanding user experience throughout the account setup, I will continue playing with this as it's quite enjoyable so far. Thanks for sharing.

#edit it's kind of sad (and telling) to see the complexity and cleverness in the higher ranked solutions.

#edit2 rampant regex solutions, nested returns, oh my.

... and as expected, it's always the manager, not coding types that state this so aggressively. I know the servers are beefy at OmniTI, so I suspect there might be a code problem related to handling the load.

If I see sloppy code, or have to write sloppy code, I move to another company, and will continue to do so. So how's that employee turnover rate (hint, use the internet archive and check the about us page)?

Better to just make them feel 'naturally' unwelcome in this sick ecosphere of over-socialized nerds? Systems of re-enforcement like this are akin to the worst kind of intellectual inter-breeding.

Nah, the time has passed for stuff like that. It's time to wait for a reset. The intelligent people tried to warn the rest of us long ago, no one cared then, fuck the rest of you now that it's too late. I'll only do anything to speed up the reset... and I doubt the rest of 'you' will be ready for that until things have once again gotten so bad that something else will needed for success.

#edit hellban request denied then, I guess. Thanks idiots, it's your site afterall.

If US economy tanks, all world economies will tanks, too.

I think in a few different ways it's possible this wouldn't be the case. Specifically in the event of an all out attack on the US, where the dollar might become useless while bitcoin could fair well. Regardless, I couldn't agree more about gas, drugs and other better doomsday investments, but I think bitcoin serves me in the short-term for more scenarios. I do however have a doomsday trade prepared, moonshine makin'! :D

If I lose all of my assets in bitcoin it's an acceptable loss. If the US economy tanks and I lose my dollars, I'll be pissed, because I saw it coming.

Second point is this fits my narrative. I will be quitting my job and moving out into a van sometime this year. I feel my only ability to effectively protest against the people of this country is to stop contributing. Bitcoin will serve me much better in this regard.

I thought etanazir was being facetious, my bad. I guess I underestimated how many people can keep asking the same stupid question that assumes the dollar has intrinsic value while bitcoin does not. Usefulness is in the eye of the beholder.

If these people keep running around with blindfolds on, it might be time to put up some bumper walls.

That's not at all why I choose to use bitcoin. I'm not a spectator, I'm investing in something that has slim chances of success, but I'm idealistic enough to want it to work anyways. That's why I store some of my value there. So you were incorrect, while you seem to just be a spectator of bitcoin, realize not everyone else is. I feel just as secure investing in bitcoin as I do leaving value sitting around in the form of dollar bills at this point. So as delusional as I may seem to you, I think you've missed a lot of the reasons (some) people are clammoring for bitcoin. Also, the volatility means next to nothing to me in this respect. I bought in at what I thought was reasonable, refused to panic sell, and so far everything is golden, I've been up, I've been down, but not really lost any value at all... yet.

So you would choose not to store your value in bitcoin because of it lacks usefulness to you. Thank you for expanding on your original statement, but I think I missed the response to the question. I however would choose to store value in bitcoin because of my own prejudice against the dollar, should I expect to see bitcoin to do better because of this?

With such volatility, you need to put a huge buffer in your pricing and only idiots and criminals will spend their BTC instead of paying with fiat in such case.

Then I have to say, I don't really think you see the real value in bitcoin.

I was under the impression bitpay-type services would deal with the transactions. How would the volatility be an issue in that case?

Yes, it would be much more comfortable to continue riding inside the machine that tramples others than to be the others. Perhaps the divide is how you see of our current global actions. Truly sinister, or just the actions of a jumbled congress/governing system.