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HN is full of blockchain haters, but the only thing you need to know as a technologist is this:

Cryptocurrency is programmable money.

Is it that hard to understand why this is special? Of course there are all the other unique features like independence from the state / banks and smart contracts, and whether you think those are good or bad those are certainly unique features.

But the number one thing is that Bitcoin is a native internet currency, and that’s an incredible innovation.
In other words, you can mitigate your exposure any given pollution type to some degree. The air and plastic pollution measures you list are not perfect either. It's cheaper and easier to address noise pollution than air pollution: a pair of foam earplugs is a lot cheaper than an indoor air purifier.

> Try sleeping in an area where road noise occurs 24/7.

I admit I've never done that, but this seems like an unfairly extreme comparison. The same challenge can be posed for air pollution: try sleeping in an area where the air is bad enough to impact your sleep quality.
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What determined which API owns a resource when the same resource is exposed in mutlipe apis (e.g you have a REST API and a AMQP feed)? In some cases it is obvious but in other cases it is far from clear.

I feel using urls as ids create more problems than it solves, especially if you use absolute urls. I have worked with cases where the same ID was used in 3 or 4 different APIs. None of them clearly the master.
We directly consume quite a lot more energy than we discard in manufactured products. I think what it comes down to is that we collectively don't actually care.
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I should be clear, more of what I was saying was aimed at the other HN comment you linked. So when I say "you say", I am more likely referring to what the other user said.

Either way, ok there are some biological differences between the genders and reality can be sexist, but neither of those points support or justify what you are saying about men and woman.

Can you be more specific on what in the link is suppose to support your point?

And the "80/20 rule" is a bad argument because it isn't supported by actual studies or whatever as far as I know, its more of a gross misuse of the Pareto rule by right-wing incels, Redpillers, or whoever to how woman date.
Not terribly surprising that 16 weeks of training doesn't make you ready for a coding job. The only way I see that working is a pretty aggressive pre-test that washes out most of the candidates. You'd need some related experience and programming aptitude for 16 weeks to make you employable.
Registration plates matter a lot too. If you are from certain countries, you'd be checked much more often.
And if you're going to read Toffler, dive deeper and read Herbert A. Simon's underlying works. He was an exceptionally unorthodox polymath genius.

Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American economist, political scientist and cognitive psychologist, whose primary research interest was decision-making within organizations and is best known for the theories of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing".[5] He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978 and the Turing Award in 1975. His research was noted for its interdisciplinary nature and spanned across the fields of cognitive science, computer science, public administration, management, and political science.[6] He was at Carnegie Mellon University for most of his career, from 1949 to 2001.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_A._Simon
Anyone who has maintained a database such as a customer database knows that it needs to be constantly tested and updated to track changes in e.g., telephone, email, billing, or delivery addresses.

What's different about this proposal? It would seem to acknowledge and support that type of activity directly, rather than through ad-hoc and kludge type mechanisms that typically include paying somewhat shady 3rd-party services.
I long for much more detail about the engineering of this project, in particular the traffic engineering and routing aspects. Theres so many interesting possibilities there.
I always hear people warn about these things, but haven't seen it in practice at all, as long as those who write the systems are also responsible for operating them and not subjected to inappropriate external interference.

Of course, letting someone write whatever and then move on and leave it to someone else is a problem, but that's a problem regardless of whether they used bleeding edge tech or not.

For example, I've personally seen more tech-debt sins in more traditional monolithic Java + rdbms applications than I have an any of the Go based micro-services + nosql/etc I've seen over the years. I'm not trying to prove that "bleeding edge" is therefore better because it's not. I'm saying it's irrelevant.

The problem of leaving behind unmaintainable crap isn't about the tech, it's about the management, the team processes, the prioritisation process etc.
The talking heads point is deeper than that. Not only are they paid to be interesting.

The very ability of being good at talking might be co-related with other base attributes.

For instance being good at talking might be co-related with tunnel vision, not having a bigger perspective, being able to connect things which shouldnt be, naivety, empathy and so on.

So if your process of conferring the title of expertise involves going through the university system, or performing well in debates or on a podium, you will get experts who are all wrong in exactly the same way and there is no one to offer them a different perspective.
`readlink -f` while not POSIX proper, works on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and most Linux distros. If you really need to support a wider range than that, reality says you will likely have conditional OS checks in your script anyway, so I’m not sure your point other than being pedantic?
> Adults get used to being competent and have stupid counterproductive identity issues around learning.

Learning to put my ego aside was one of the many great lessons I've learned from training Jiu Jitsu as an adult.
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Just a reminder of the key things related to Starlink (since I had to go look them up - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_(satellite_constellat...):

* Total deployed size will be ~12K satellites and take a decade or so. Will be operational in a reduced capacity as early as next year.

* Since they're in low earth orbit, latency could be in the 35ms range.
The perfect place to start would be support in LLVM backends, maybe they are already working on this.
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Well, I for one, never even knew the backstory. I wouldn't assume most do.

Could be a few that have grievances against you or something.

I've noticed that some people, on online forums, get an obsession with another they had a dispute with (and felt wronged or whatever), and follow them from post to post, gather intelligence, and act like stalkers. Then again, some people are cuckoo with no personal lives and compensate in all kinds of bizarro ways online. Best to ignore those kind of people...
Nobody really argues that Bitcoin isn't a neat invention, a nice solution to a mathematical puzzle.

But it has far too many disadvantages compared to existing electronic payments to be practical.
True, and trying to optimise for everything won't work, but we can try.
Have we hit ‘peak beef’?
I'd invert this: why would a man-only team ever be a desirable situation? Normally if you have enough people, you should get fairly close to common ratio in numbers. If you end up with men only (or any X-only), it may be an indicator that there's something unhealthy about the company culture.

Following from that, it may be in your interest as a hiring person to bootstrap some diversity to remove that "unhealthy" idea early on.
Telstra does this (depending on which countries you're in, but it's a pretty solid set). Pricing is exorbitant though ($200 Aussie/mo) and international data is low (10GB/mo).

Still, it's an option, particularly if you're not paying your own phone usage and need to maintain a consistent number.
I know I'll catch flak for this, but where did this idea that "anyone can learn to code" come from? Coding requires a certain drive and curiosity, without delving into the capability side. What makes anyone think that they can take a bunch of people who never or barely passed highschool and have been working in a mine for a decade+ and teach them this?

By all means subsidize a laptop and point them at some great online (free) resources, but beyond that if they won't/can't help themselves...
> Cryptocurrency is programmable money.

That's such a vague expression that it's almost meaningless. I could imagine "programmable money" to mean all kinds of stuff, much of which Bitcoin isn't.
It’s not just doctors though. It’s doctors, nurses, PAs, hospital admins, etc. Everyone in that chain is going to have to take a pay cut* to get prices down to where the rest of the American public feels it’s fair. We’re also going to have to change the way we design hospitals and remodel current ones: US hospitals are built and staffed for private rooms. That’s going to have to give way to wards, with private rooms being reserved for medical necessity.

*The staff that manages insurance payments etc. will lose their jobs.

I’m not making a value judgment, just stating facts. This is going to be a tough row to hoe once politically attractive groups start mobilizing members to fight the change.
Feminism is a broad church. The point being made is that there isn't a consensus on the idea that "any gender imbalance in the workplace must be the result of discrimination". Many of the louder voices within the movement express this view but it's not a consensus.
Turning away patients and accepting payment are two different things
I always enjoy this article from 2017 about how to version complex large old APIs.

https://stripe.com/blog/api-versioning
Why would someone who reveled in having the option to break older Linux desktops, be scared off by having to mess with config files to customize Gnome 3? There are utilities out there that put a GUI over them if that's the issue.
Interesting how illicit filming during intercourse is one of the reasons young people don't want to enter an intimate relationship. There must be quite the horror stories floating around.
I'm not going to fly on any 737, just in case the MAX bit gets truncated. Everyone I've talked to has expressed the same fear. I don't care if it's irrational or not - it's my life, and I'm not risking it on one of these stupid, cost-cutting planes.
Many fish (Tuna being a prime example) can't be farmed. There's also a notable decrease in health and nutritional content of farmed fish.
I think your last line goes to far in the other direction. You do not need to able to self-teach from zero to become a useful programmer, teaching can be very useful (but, as you rightly say, is no guarantee of success. Especially if done incredibly badly like the article suggests)
Online dating is the only dating for many young people nowadays. Alcohol used to be a major factor in finding a partner but young people are drinking less and less by the year.

The social skills of the youth are also getting worse due to smartphones, leading to less interaction in schools at workplaces etc
Non profit hospitals are for-profit for administrators and their friends who run a construction company or similar. A lot of them are very corrupt.
I wonder what OP thinks about this: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Also, readlink (the function anyway) is in the POSIX[0] spec.

[0] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
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But... You really don't need a degree for most programming work I've seen at my day job?

It's basically just creating various APIs in order to wrap them into some service you can sell. You can do most of that with maybe 1 year of coding at home. Though code review should be done at least in the beginning to make sure the produced code is maintainable
Agreed. Train noises can be soothing at a distance -- except, of course, any horn blasts. Road traffic is way more stressful, thanks to honking, revving, beeping, and occasional skidding.

Also, road sounds remind me of the stresses of driving in traffic, whereas the train rides I've taken in my life have been a lot more peaceful.
What about the virtue of not shadow banning people? Or censoring their speech using undisclosed algorithms?

I don't see that listed anywhere?
>Collaborative editing is not something you can just bolt on after the fact if you want it to actually work well.

Yes, but my comment also alludes to the opinion that "well working collaborative editing" is not a real problem people have, and a much easier (and easier to bolt on) use case, of consecutive (serialized with "locks") collaborative editing should cover most people's needs...
You could say this about mining any other commodity. Modern mining is literally converting fuel into some metal or mineral.

For instance: There's only a finite amount of gold, and until recently (electronics), it had no real applications aside from looking nice. Yet gold has been mined for millennia, historically with slaves (sadly this is still the case in parts of the world) and now with machines. The economic use stems from this, and as gold has always been sort-after, it's desire (value) probably won't change anytime soon. While you can't wear bitcoin, I don't see it disappearing either.
Yes, I'm a little curious too. Presumably Africans had lead available (right?) so does the choice of glass imply that it was superior to lead? Or, since Europeans also had glass, is it vice-versa (maybe lead requires better furnaces to be workable or some other technical requirement)?
I have the csr and the private key of the administrator but I don't know how to sign it on behalf of the root certificate, any idea?
The asset itself is represented purely in code. Fintech companies like Stripe are building value-added features on top of the same banking system that everyone uses, essentially integrations on top of integrations.

A digital asset like Bitcoin is a completely different thing and requires no licenses, permissions, or anything whatsoever to write software that manipulates it.
Currently, perhaps, but many advances are being made.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-future-of-fis...
Totally makes sense. I will keep this in my mind. Right now I am planning to stay at least 2 years at Facebook.

Thank you for your guidance :)
Classical music is fine as it is, no need to change.

Why should being based on improvisation and unique personal expression be the be-all-and-end-all of analysis? Not everybody wants to play / hear improvised music.
Prepare for the new hype cycle.
You think fiat currencies carry zero cost and zero energy footprint?
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> However, given the inflation South Korea, Iran, Venezuela, and numerous countries in Africa, I find Bitcoin has a real use.

South Korea doesn't belong in this list at all.

> I'm sure many of those citizens do not want to be dependent on a foreign countries central bank for a steady currency.

What makes you so sure about this? Have you surveyed any of them? Given the amount of US dollars in circulation overseas, the evidence would seem to indicate that US currency is actually viewed as a highly desirable alternative to many domestic ones.
>But the number one thing is that Bitcoin is a native internet currency

Yes but we live in the real world and we are real people. I dont like bugs, hacks or clerical mistakes wiping me out.
> Cryptocurrency is programmable money. Is it that hard to understand why this is special? [...] the number one thing is that Bitcoin is a native internet currency, and that’s an incredible innovation.

The hate, for me at least, comes directly from that expectation (being a native internet currency), and from the fact that bitcoin completely fails at it - instead it's become an unregulated stock exchange / gambling / get rich quick scheme.
Civilizational states. For all of the throwbacks who would rather see the world regress 300 years than enjoy the progress and peace brought by globalization.

To Balkanize the planet? To let Trump, Putin, and Xi run the world?
To bloody hell with the three of them. This is the kind of bullshit that makes really big wars.

Get the nukes ready, all of them.
First, programmable money is not equal to blockchain. What Bitcoin innovation added is being completely open (permissionless) and trustless (under certain assumptions) all this and more but cons like being extremely slow.
`readlink -f` on GNU canonicalises the path.
`readlink -f` on a *BSD is for formatting the output
`readlink -f` on macOS throws an error because it's an supported option.
I agree with your sentiment. Unfortunately, exhortations to "do the right thing" never, ever seem to work.

And efforts to ban or control the trading of a liquid, globally used asset also never seem work. (It would be like trying to ban the buying and selling of, say, US dollars.)

Perhaps the best way to address the very real environmental issues you raise will be with the development and adoption of more cost-efficient, less polluting, more environmentally-sustainable energy production technologies?
South Korea does not have a high inflation rate. They are averaging like 1.5% [0].

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-economy-inflat...
I’ve seen many super-talented self-taught programmers who never received any formal education, and I’ve seen college graduates who can’t get FizzBuzz working. Of course the code camps are scams, but a degree isn’t much better for many people who have very little internal motivation to learn.
Which is irrelevant to a shell script. But thanks for playing.
Are they going to use Falcon Heavy for this launch?
It’s weird. No one says anyone can be a basketball pro, here’s a play basketball boot camp to get you into the NBA.

But clearly there is demand for a lot more programmers than NBA players. The kind of people who make good programmers are competing with people going into law and finance. More programmers means less lawyers and less business people. Which I guess is fine, but it is weird to just assume anyone can do it.
This usually happens when you pay upfront. If they bill an uninsured person retroactively, they try to capture as much cost as possible expecting that they will not get the entire amount. It's an awful system.
I'm not assuming most do.

I would thank you to stop trying to police my participation here. You have something of a history of treating me like an idiot.

If you want to engage some point I've made in a good faith manner: awesome.

If you want to continue your pattern of talking at me like I have no fucking clue how public discourse on HN works, please stop doing that. I view it as a form of harassment.

If you are not consciously aware of doing that, well, consider yourself notified that I have noticed a pattern of behavior here and it's something I don't like and don't want done to me.

And if you are suggesting I simply "ignore" jacquesm, I assure you I've tried. He's impossible to ignore. He's extremely influential here.
The only thing you need to know about Bitcoin is that it uses twice as much power as Ireland and maxes out at four transactions per second.

Any benefits are purely theoretical. It is literally unusable at scale.
No. Feynman Lectures was an experimental set of lecture notes (not a textbook!) for presentation to elite Caltech students (who already studied a lot of physics in high school) who would find an introduction to physics far too easy and boring, and Feynman himself was pessimistic about how effective the course was.

It's famous for being Feynman, not for being a great textbook.
> at least in recent history

That's precisely the weak point of your argument. Give it another 20-30 years and let's then count again how many currencies are still as strong as they were or merely still exist. The USD is in a special place since it's the default currency for worldwide exchanges, so what matters is all other currencies out there.
We can discuss code camp pro/cons all day, but the article spells out that there was little coding being taught here.

Instructors with little tech experience, high rate of firing and stuff turnover, students being told to "google it", operating without licenses, all while the founder has fancy offices in Chicago with rapacious and alcoholic parties.

Amanda Laucher, the founder, essentially stole funds from governments and made false promises and is now going to Law School in Chicago. Meanwhile, these people quit their jobs on false hope and now are unemployed or have to rejoin at the bottom of the rung.

Assuming the article is fair, this is a sad situation and Laucher should be prosecuted.
Even with the world's largest dataset, I don't think you will experience an "off-by-one" error with the UUID4 standard.
That's a ship-of-Theseus fallacy.

The pound sterling of 2019 is more related to the American dollar of 2019 than it is to the pound sterling of even WWII, nonetheless 800CE.
If we're being real about the choice, then you also have to include the reality that many airlines would go under if they suddenly had to retire their MAX 8 fleet and weren't immediately able to replace them with other aircraft. A great many more people would have their lives severely impacted by the closure of a major airline than by a plane crash.
The FCC filing has a lot of good technical details on the deployment and frequency usage. Additionally, Mark Handley has a good primer on it. It may kill actual east-west terrestrial traffic due to latency improvements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEIUdMiColU

North-South will still be terrestrial.
>Start by redoing everything that the mature alternatives do is an advice for creating neither successful not useful things.

It's the best advice in order to see any update.

There are plenty of programs that do some unique things very well, but fail on doing "everything that the mature alternatives do", so they fail to ever get mainstream traction themselves.

People want a complete solution that ALSO does X unique thing, if they are to drop their existing editors. Not something that they'll have to use alongside them for that special case.

(Joel on Software has written some nice posts about this idea, and why "minimal" competitors, who don't do "everything that the mature alternatives do" frequently fail, though I can't find the link right now)
Nope, regular falcon 9. However, this is predicted to be one of they heaviest loads they have ever done (15-16 tons) considering how far down range the drone ship is going.
There's two aspects to blockchain: 1) How the technology can be applied in useful innovative ways to improve people's lives. 2) How the technology can be used as a speculative commodity for people seeking to make easy money.

I think the hatred here is primarily towards the latter aspect.
Yeah, I use whatever is cheapest form taxi whether it is uber, viavan or the tube ;)
Healthcare is a for profit business in the US.

Why does everyone freak out when regular business strategy is applied?
They have substantially less, especially on a per-transaction or total value basis.
There are other things people in developed countries like US don't see. For example in Argentina (beyond the inflation issues) when you receive payments from foreign customers banks use an unfair USD/ARS rate while doing it via other services using Bitcoin you receive a fair exchange. All this in a legal/regulated way.
The answer might be a mix, if video conference involves more than trivial amount of participants.
This is part of it , but physician salaries are 10% of the spending. This could be fixed by laxing licensing laws, allowing doctor immigration and reducing the cost of education.

But only one of many reforms needed.