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Scrolling through that NFT page made me weirdly nauseous.

BrissyCoderon Podcasts are my new Wikipedia

Anyone else here had podcasts destroy there brain?

BrissyCoderon An update of 455 new words

Thought the same thing wrt "vaccine passport".

BrissyCoderon Mathematically, you should not invest in crypto

> Disclaimer - I have invested 1% of my savings into stable cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum etc.

Lol... okay the "STABLE" ones huh? *closes browser tab

BrissyCoderon Monads are monoids in the category of endofunctors

I meant in a professional capacity. But appreciate the use-case examples.

BrissyCoderon Monads are monoids in the category of endofunctors

Which parts in particular? Genuinely curious.

BrissyCoderon Monads are monoids in the category of endofunctors

Hands up if you've never actually seen FP out in the wild doing something.

Not saying it's not out there or useful - just saying that after 20 years I'm yet to come across it once.

BrissyCoderon Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

The replies to you seem a bit off to me. $1000 a day is plenty to live on in Brisbane.

I do fear that housing here is going to end up like the other major Aus cities though. I think Brisbane house prices are rising at like $500 a day or something. An amount I couldn't have fathomed paying in rent weekly when I first moved to Sydney.

BrissyCoderon Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

> But, more importantly, Big Tech senior engineer total comp is rapidly pushing to $US500K+.

Is it really though? I'm looking on glassdoor and it's saying average is $130k with high at $180k. And yes I realise that just salary not total comp.

BrissyCoderon Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

Ahhh right... I didn't realise Sydney got so unnaffordable that long ago which is what I think threw me off.

BrissyCoderon Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

Cannabis laws as well...

BrissyCoderon Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

I mostly agree with everything here but will point out that SE salaries have risen quite dramatically over the past 10 years in Aus. If you are a (genuinely) senior engineer you should be on $170k+. In a place like Brisbane (if you can handle the summers) that's a reasonably liveable salary. But yeah - I fear it's going to end up like the rest of the country fairly quickly...

One of my major gripes is that education here is not at all egalitarian.

> Property in Australia is like a game of musical chairs but the music stopped in Sydney in 1978

Can you explain this analogy?

BrissyCoderon What if Bitcoin went to zero?

Works a treat: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

BrissyCoderon Ask HN: I have a $1.1M crypto portfolio. How do I sell without incurring taxes?

Pay the tax you greedy prick.

BrissyCoderon Ask HN: Where do you find out about emerging technology?

/biz/ and r/cryptocurrency

BrissyCoderon I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple

Not going to put much heed in the opinion of someone who used Apple operating systems for 15 years.

BrissyCoderon Coinbase plans to add $500M worth of crypto to its balance sheet

Poker chips don't have earnings or pay dividends.

BrissyCoderon What can be learned from studying long gone development practices?

Third this. Process doesn't really matter. Just hire good programmers and let them program.

BrissyCoderon Sea snakes are washing up on New Zealand’s shores

Live Australia (where I think the snakes are probably much more venomous than NE US?). Have young children so any snake I see on my property other than a green tree snake will be executed.

BrissyCoderon Sea snakes are washing up on New Zealand’s shores

The only good snake is a dead snake.

BrissyCoderon Poly Network Offers $500K Reward to Hacker Who Stole and Returned $611M Crypto

There's no way I'd spend ten years incarcerated for half a billion dollars.

BrissyCoderon For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm

Tend to agree. I'm not looking to move but for what it's worth whenever a recruiter HR messages me on LinkedIn I make it very clear that I won't consider jobs that aren't fully remote - just putting that energy out into the universe.

BrissyCoderon For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm

I don't get your reasoning on why you expect that people will have to take a pay cut for working remotely. Would have thought it would be the opposite. Office space, hardware and energy cost a bit.

BrissyCoderon New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN

No not at all. Keep reading.

BrissyCoderon New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN

TIL google translate doesn't do ROT13.

BrissyCoderon 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee

Welcome to Hell World.

BrissyCoderon 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee

Sounds like he did due-diligence on reviews.

BrissyCoderon Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings

This seems like the last place that that view would be considered controversial.

BrissyCoderon I created a crypto price alert app. Apple rejected it for nonsense

Wow you come off as incredibly arrogant and myopic.

Why should anyone need to sign in at all for this functionality?