> In 2004 we solved the types for JS with ECMAScript 4 (or ActionScript 2.0).
> Unfortunately this was in the middle of browser wars, so no one cared about the standards and all of that work was lost like tears in rain.
> Around that time I attended MS conference where they introduced IntelliSense and it was a forming experience for myself. You could do actual programming basically with <space>, <dot>, arrow keys and <enter>.
I think you’re off by at least 6-7 years. Visual Studio had autocomplete since at least version 6. And yes it was magical the first time you experienced it.
> Fines should really be about "what size fine will be a deterrent for this company?"
To a degree. But it also has to be commensurate to the actual market size and impact. If an Amazon releases a defective dog toy that is bought by 10 people, it’d be unreasonable to fine them $100 billion dollars just because they’re a huge company.
Some will surely exist. We already have public funding for things that are not particularly profitable. The question is if it will net a better system overall.
Even with the current system everything older than X years is public. That means we should have better care options available then anything X years ago. And that keeps increasing.
> Our entire small team thumbs up a PR before it's merged unless there's a big rush on it, and this gives everyone on the team a rough idea of the state of the codebase at any given time.
For non trivial or chore updates a second pair of eyes is always a good idea. But it’s not possible to scale out “everybody reads everything” to a large N. The problem is that nobody could keep up with that ad the reader when there are some huge number of things to read. That’s why we delegate, create docs, and have overview sessions.
> You'd need to find subjects that are provably capable of sustaining intense exercise as a habit if they wanted to but never did, and won't either for the years you'll be following them.
With modern 24/7 health tracking we’ll have tons of data in the next 50-100 years. Problem is we need that much time to see the net effect and will probably be too late for most of you reading this.
I wouldn’t wait for the results though. Best to start moving now assuming it’s probably good for you.
Some of us are old enough to remember smoking sections on planes. (And yes it works out exactly as bad as you’d expect it … great way to past time on a transatlantic flight though!)
Most cities already have strict rules for removing existing trees. Usually anything over 6 inch diameter at shoulder level is off limits without getting specific approval.
Each $1 of stable coin is supposed to be backed by $1 of dollar or short term equivalent. So the issuer is making money by collecting interest on it.
3-4% of billions (USDC alone is $80 billion) would itself be billions of dollars of annual interest. Easily covering the operating cost of these companies.
However, they don’t keep it all. Nobody is going to let you hold their cash in size without getting a slice of the interest. All the big players (like an exchange holding USDC of its patrons) cut deals with the stable coin issuers for a revenue split of that interest.
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