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Re:Emporion: A P2P Economy for Agents on Sunday March 08, 2026 @06:16AM (#47296064)
Hey Hacker News! I'm the developer of Emporion. It's a really new project but I'd be happy to answer any questions.
Yes, self made. Based on fairly standard practices. The intensity of the plan workouts are based on how you are performing during the training block and adapt to fit the most “optimal” for you
Re:Ask HN: Promoted, but Career Path Derailed on Monday February 03, 2025 @12:54PM (#42920870)
1. Communicate this to your leadership? They can’t read your mind and communication is the only thing that makes an organisation work.

2. You don’t have to join the team and just observer the status quo, especially in an under performing team. I see a Sr Staff Eng as a leadership role- shatter the status quo and reform it to be a high performing team.

Take the bull by the horns.

Edit: This will do more for your career than any team or product you can produce.

Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday on Thursday January 16, 2025 @07:06AM (#42724214)
The fact people are using either is mind numbing. Such a waste of life.
Re:Freenet: A decentralized alternative to world wide web on Sunday October 27, 2024 @03:32PM (#41964992)
Nostr (https://nostr.com/) is doing reasonably- though I think most apps are still in the social media realm.
Re:The Importance of Local Development on Sunday October 06, 2024 @08:13AM (#41756584)
Not having a local development env is a total productivity burner for me.
This is true in crypto, but not true in Bitcoin
The supply wouldn’t even be increasable if SHA256 is cracked
It’s also not just that! theres no requirement for a business to be involved for it to be an investment (e.g Gov bonds)
Re:Why, after 6 years, I'm over GraphQL on Thursday May 30, 2024 @03:27PM (#40527696)
I admire the 6 year dedication (or architectural investment?). We were both jumping aboard that hype train in 2018, even talked about it in meat-space. I left that project in 2019 and never looked at GraphQL again, so didn’t make it as far you to the technical depths.

Something just never felt right about the client building the queries for me, I guess.

Re:Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf] on Saturday March 02, 2024 @05:44PM (#39576451)
Certainly doesn't seem like first principles...
Re:Holepunch Unveils P2P Platform "Pear Runtime" on Saturday February 17, 2024 @08:14AM (#39409136)
I certainly had no intention of attempting to put words in your mouth, but I believe the words you wrote have the implications that I highlighted.

I disagree that I am being dishonest. I stand by the fact that the money is stolen. Bank rescues are financed through the monetisation of government debt, this causes monetary debasement which directly confiscates purchasing power of those who hold the money, without their permission. This fits the definition of theft.

Re:Holepunch Unveils P2P Platform "Pear Runtime" on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:11AM (#39380955)
> Banks can be rescued by governments. Tether can not.

The fact you think that rescuing a business with money stolen from the population is a positive is absolutely dystopian.

Re:Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC on Thursday January 11, 2024 @05:17AM (#38950230)
I use Bitcoin almost every day. Using fiat rails is painful.
Re:How crypto goes to zero on Thursday November 24, 2022 @04:45PM (#33736580)
Not exactly. Credit creation creates an asset and a liability. The creation of credit facilitates the ability to create liabilities in excess of the underlying asset (e.g fractional reserve banking).

By introducing the ability to transfer a scarce asset globally you resolve the requirement for credit, as no one ever needs to redeem.

Credit is a hack, Bitcoin is the fix.

Re:How crypto goes to zero on Thursday November 24, 2022 @07:44AM (#33730672)
I argue that it's the best value exchange that humans have found since turning wood in to fire.
Re:How crypto goes to zero on Thursday November 24, 2022 @07:42AM (#33730657)
Western Union doesn't transfer value, it creates and settles credit.
Re:Mainnet Merge Announcement on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @12:07PM (#32581355)
Signalling is not consensus I’m afraid…
Re:Mainnet Merge Announcement on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @11:20AM (#32580572)
The rules of the Bitcoin network are not validated by miners, they are validated by nodes. The miners have no control over nodes and unless their mining work is accepted by the consensus rules of the nodes they receive no mining reward.
Re:El Salvador's Bitcoin Buys Tracker on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @11:38AM (#31741075)
That's just untrue.
Re:El Salvador's Bitcoin Buys Tracker on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @08:02AM (#31737867)
Given that my statement is factually true and the other is factually false, I'd suggest you are imposing your own bias on that.
Re:El Salvador's Bitcoin Buys Tracker on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:59AM (#31737844)
No one is implying, or actually discussing personal debt or likeness to personal debt but you.

Of those with Debt:GDP higher than the US, who exactly are you aspiring to in terms of quality of life? https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/debt-to-g...

Re:El Salvador's Bitcoin Buys Tracker on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @06:58AM (#31737148)
The Federal Reserve is the currency issuer, not the US Government.
Re:El Salvador's Bitcoin Buys Tracker on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @06:57AM (#31737129)
I'm exclusively talking about sovereign debt, I am not talking about personal debt at all.

The problem the US has is that it is one of the largest creditors of its own liabilities. The US prints its own money to issue itself debt with it. History's biggest ponzi.

Re:El Salvador's Bitcoin Buys Tracker on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @05:38AM (#31736580)
That's not true, it might not be close to being used as much as the dollar, but you are being intellectually dishonest.
Re:El Salvador's Bitcoin Buys Tracker on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @05:37AM (#31736571)
The US currently has $30,395,962,543,534.33 in debt and a GDP of ~$20,953,030,000,000.00 coupled with rising interest rates and record inflation. I think that's the "leader's gamble" to be really concerned about.
Re:El Salvador's Bitcoin Buys Tracker on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @05:31AM (#31736537)
The important thing to note about El Salvador's Bitcoin buying strategy is that it is not a "Buy and Hodl" strategy. Bitcoin in El Salvador is used as a currency, and just in the same way the Salvadorian government needs to procure dollars for their citizens to use in the country, they do the same for Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin that El Salvador is buying is used as liquidity and is interchanged to and from dollars with it citizens on a daily basis. They are constantly making BTC/USD trades with their citizens, so it's not quite as straight-forward as "Bought at price X, today's price is Y, therefore loss is X-Y".

Energy and food based inflation was already a huge problem before Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

There is no monetary phenomenon. It's clear as day on the Fed's balance sheet the reason for inflation. https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

If one can't understand why the value of their money goes down as the government buys trillions of dollars of their own debt with non-existent money, I'm not sure how to help.

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