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I'm getting Mimikyu vibes from it.

Things can always be worse. It could be PHP, for example.

Facebook runs in it, so I think the language itself is probably a fine choice.

It's almost like other factors than language choice are more important :)

> doesn't let you remove coins from someones wallet it allows you to change which transaction history is considered the real one

Potato potahto.

“You’ve got it all wrong officer, I wasn’t talking money from his wallet, I was changing history such that the money was transferred to my wallet instead.”


It's not about if one is wrong or not it's about what you can do with it. With a 51% attack you need to have a recent transaction to the wallet you want to attack and have received economic benefit from the transaction already.

It allows you do to a refund it doesn't allow you to take random bitcoins from a wallet.


If Advent of Code has taught me anything it’s that interval ranges can be really useful for this kind of thing. I mean at least twice in ten years. We just need to figure out how to coordinate individuals attempts to make it storage efficient.

Not with that attitude it won’t

Yeah, people really have no faith.

99% of gamblers quit before they win big. In this case, really big. I am going to be the 1%. Or should that be the 1.9e-71%.

You either win or you don’t, it’s 50:50

Choosing red is choosing to survive knowing that there will always be people who choose blue, potentially an amount that would mean you don't survive if you didn't take explicit action against it.

The people who chose blue in no way contributed to the peril you are in, thus you aren't justified in killing them in self defense.

They didn't cause the peril, but knowing that their choice is possibility, if I don't make a decision to protect myself now their decisions may then be the cause of my continued not-survival.

> That little indentation is your Ph.D.

Illustrated nicely by https://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/


Lol. That one. I wish I had seen that before I began my PhD. It describes the anti-climactic and exhilarating feeling you have simultaneously at your thesis defense.

No mention of Snakebird in the comments. So here it is.

Snakebird is my vote for best puzzle game of all time

I'd say it's either an action-adventure game with some mystery, or a mystery game with some action-adventure, depending on the player.

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