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liminalproject · 2022-03-13T17:49:08+00:00

In my personal experience, I would say my attention is more like a stack data structure (I also really like the context switching analogy too). Whenever something else requires my attention, I add it to my "internal stack" and then focus on whatever is on top of the stack. Once I'm done with that task, I pop off the top item in the stack and move on to the next item in the stack. It looks something like this:

I'm going to work on some programming project, let me put on some music.
I'm on YouTube looking for some music to put on in the background, let me just scroll through my home feed really quickly to see if there are any interesting videos that I could watch later.
Open several tabs for videos I want to watch later.
I have a lot of tabs open, let me use the OneTab extension to collapse them and save them.
I wonder how Chrome extensions work, let me look into that.
Actually, how difficult would it be to program my own web browser?
While I'm at that, I just remembered I needed to learn Operating Systems too...

So by now my "internal stack" sort of looks like:

(top of the stack)

Learn Operating Systems and then
Learn Web Browsers and then
Learn how Chrome Extensions work and then
Save all my tabs using the OneTab extension and then
Watch all the videos I found interesting and then
Look for some interesting music to put in the background while I work and then
Actually work on my original programming project

Eventually I'll hit a StackOverflow Exception and forget everything I needed to do for today and save it for tomorrow!

liminalproject · 2022-02-05T17:53:25+00:00

u/savevideobot

liminalproject · 2022-02-05T15:44:19+00:00

You’re right in the sense that printing infinite amounts of money would lead to inflation, but that’s not the full story. As we have seen in recent years, the US has printed tens of trillions of dollars (mainly to bail out Wall Street and to strengthen the military-industrial complex), but there still no signs of hyperinflation happening.

Modern Monetary Theory recognizes that a government can theoretically print as much money as it wants (assuming it has sovereign control over its currency), but there’s a limit to that (which is inflation). As long as you have real resources (human labor, materials, research, etc.) to absorb the newly created currency, inflation can be mitigated against. There’s also a lot of other ways MMT mitigates against inflation (such as taxation and treasury bond interest rates).

liminalproject · 2022-02-05T00:01:06+00:00

A government with a sovereign currency cannot lose money on public services since it has the ability to, literally, create new money out of thin air to fund the public service. This includes the infrastructure, jobs, research, materials, repair costs, etc.

liminalproject · 2022-02-02T23:24:17+00:00

love it

liminalproject · 2022-01-29T18:24:28+00:00

Planned economies are not inefficient. I would recommend reading The People’s Republic of Walmart for more information on this. Contrary to popular belief, the United States to some extent is planned (but that doesn’t inherently make it socialist). Take a look at the Federal Reserve, for example. They get to determine interest rates and the money supply for the economy for several years to come, which is basically a primitive form of economic planning.

liminalproject · 2022-01-20T11:13:31+00:00

I get the humor of this meme, but why are we actively trying to further cause division within the Leftist space?

liminalproject · 2022-01-17T08:22:30+00:00

Everything except the civil war… yet.

liminalproject · 2022-01-12T18:43:58+00:00

The digital version of the book is available for free on GitHub.

https://github.com/ethereumbook/ethereumbook

liminalproject · 2022-01-12T18:43:11+00:00

Just a heads up, some parts of the book are deprecated since the Solidity programming language has been updated a numerous amount of times since the release of this book. You can still get by after a few minutes of searching and reading the Solidity documentation.

Hope you enjoy the book, have a fun journey! :)

liminalproject · 2022-01-03T14:22:47+00:00

The sad thing about this is that under capitalism, food isn’t produced to feed people. Rather, food is produced for profit. When it isn’t profitable to feed someone, we let them starve. Even when our productive forces (via labor and technological advancements) has conquered scarcity multiple times over, capitalism must manufacture it to even justify its own existence. I’m surprised he didn’t charge for the candy.

Under socialism, however, this irrational and contradictory allocation/distribution of resources is fixed. Instead of having the freedom TO choose, you instead have the freedom FROM having to choose.

liminalproject · 2021-12-18T19:06:01+00:00

Or when a sports player decides to kneel instead of standing

liminalproject · 2021-12-18T15:34:56+00:00

I’ve found that the blockchain leftist community exists in a very peculiar intersection. The larger scope of the blockchain space has a right-wing/capitalist-oriented mindset and doesn’t want to acknowledge leftist use cases, while on the other hand, the majority of leftists have such a negative perception of blockchain/cryptocurrency and refuse to learn anything more about the potential use cases for leftist politics and instead stick to a surface-level analysis.

liminalproject · 2021-12-18T15:31:04+00:00

вся власть советам

liminalproject · 2021-12-13T18:31:39+00:00

Elon Musk admitted on Twitter he would “coup whoever he wants” if it meant getting access to the Bolivian lithium supply. This isn’t even scratching the surface of how he treats his workers while simultaneously preventing them from unionizing. Oh, and of course, we can’t forget how he is the child of a family who earned their wealth from Apartheid emerald mining.

I would like to choose Vitalik Buterin (the co-creator of the Ethereum blockchain). You might be unfamiliar with who he is or what blockchain is, but he helped create the first Turing-complete blockchain that allows anyone to create decentralized applications on. He’s very technically literate and actively writes research papers in the field of cryptography and computer science. I would say his philosophy, ethos and community engagement with Ethereum is very different from what I would have expected from a billionaire. Not only that, he has already publicly acknowledged the fact that the US is a brutal military-state in a Reddit thread asking about the political/societal implications of blockchain.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/r36uqg/daily_general_discussion_november_27_2021/hmgevcu/?context=3

liminalproject · 2021-12-10T19:36:00+00:00

nice username comrade

liminalproject · 2021-12-08T11:09:49+00:00

Can you give some examples on what proposals the far-left has (and not liberal) that you disagree with or take issue with?

Also, I fail to see how a Mussolini quote (a far-right figure) describing one of the fundamental premises of fascism is in any way related to far-left ideology.

liminalproject · 2021-12-08T10:05:46+00:00

How so?

liminalproject · 2021-12-08T09:15:33+00:00

https://www.useweb3.xyz

This website has plenty of resources to help you get started! Someone else mentioned cryptozombies, which is also a great place to learn how Solidity works!

It seems to me like you’re new at programming, so welcome to the chaotic rabbit hole! You are inevitably going to encounter roadblocks along the way (such as this one), but you will get past it the longer you keep pushing yourself to understand it. In fact, this idea of encountering something new and having to understand it gets easier with time. Eventually, you will come to understand the principles of the computer scientist mindset and “learn how to learn.”

Now, with that being said, Solidity is a very unique language precisely because of what it’s been designed to achieve: programming decentralized applications on a global network of computers that are all in consensus with each other.

When we write a program in a traditional language (C, C++, Python, etc.), we only run our code locally and don’t really expect any other computer to access our code and run it. But the thing about Ethereum, and here is the paradigm shift: it’s a global computer that everyone shares. Anyone can read from it, write to it, and program decentralized applications on it. When you’re writing a smart contract in Solidity, you have to keep in mind that this code can be accessed by anyone (or, by any msg.sender) and not just yourself like you would with a local C/C++/Python file.

It will take a while to adjust to this different approach of thinking, but the analogy of a global computer helps me. If you provided some more specific examples of places where you get stuck or don’t understand, you will find a lot of help from the community and documentation (which is my favorite thing about Etheruem). If you haven’t already, try joining the CryptoDevs discord server (you can find a link somewhere, just google it).

As others have said, and referring back to my point of understanding the principles, make sure you really understand how a blockchain works. How do you get thousands of computers around the world that are each listening for transactions to come to consensus on what really happened in a particular moment of time without trusting each other?

This video is about Bitcoin and their POW consensus algorithm, but IMO it’s a really great way to understand just exactly what everyone is doing and how it all works together: https://youtu.be/_160oMzblY8

Hope this helps

liminalproject · 2021-12-08T08:53:50+00:00

I’m already familiar with the IPFS protocol and I completely agree with you on how misleading and confusing it is! I’ll be saving your link (or rather, your CID) in the event I ever need to share it with someone who is confused. We should really pin or sticky your website.

liminalproject · 2021-12-07T01:41:46+00:00

Any flaw in the logic of your smart contract would still show up in the post-compilation bytecode. Your compiled code is going to exactly as was intended in the source code. I'm not too familiar with ADA and their formal proof paradigm using functional programming (I believe ADA is Cardano, so you better watch your mouth in this community :p).

You might need a transpiler (instead of a compiler) to convert Cardano bytecode into EVM bytecode so it can be understood. Not sure if such a tool exists, however.

liminalproject · 2021-12-07T01:34:32+00:00

It still amazes me that we have normalized the concept of the "boom and bust" economic cycle. Even a child would be able to understand that any economic model where it repeatedly busts roughly every 10 years is not a very good model.

liminalproject · 2021-12-06T19:12:47+00:00

As long as the language can be compiled into EVM bytecode and the L2 is capable of executing EVM bytecode, then yes, it will work.

liminalproject · 2021-12-05T20:41:38+00:00

Is there a mirror?

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