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If bitcoin is the dominant currency, another option exists:

51% attack, double-spend to get free electricity.

This is useful even when it makes an apparent loss by damaging trust in the currency: If you are, say, the USA president and you’re at war with Iraq, and Iraq uses bitcoin, you can outspend on energy until they surrender.

Unless the whole world uses bitcoin, but then the first few nations individually face the same problem, regardless of who else actually uses bitcoin — gotta keep the USA and China happy at the same time! (The EU isn’t integrated enough to do that sort of thing yet, but is a similar sized group).

Right now, 51% needs the cost of one very large power station from when you start until when you win — large nations, the sort with global ambitions, can spare a lot more. In the previous example, that’s close to all the power Iraq produces, but 5.4% of the USA’s output.

Then there’s the fact that most countries like being in charge of their own currencies as the ability to create or destroy units is a useful economic lever.

> The fact that miners are now mining, means it's currently most rational to do that, given what society (users, participants) are willing to pay for the services.

Or it’s speculation, like so many other things before and probably yet to come.
There is excellent TypeScript lib called fp-ts
No, you have to do it at runtime, which is why curses exist. (Ncurses and pdcurses especially.)
No. The point isn't that Mozilla shouldn't worry about privacy issues regarding Facebook, it's that they should AND should worry about them regarding Google in a similar fashion.
Yeah that's why I added analog in brackets haha. But I believe you're correct
As light is travelling within the expanding universe does the wavelength of distant light change over long time periods or does it appear the same because our observations are expanding too(my head hurts)>
People would take anthropology more seriously if it at least aspired to be a science, instead of having explicitly disavowed that aim. From 2010.

https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/anthropology-ass...

> The weekend before Thanksgiving, at the closing of the annual convention held this year in New Orleans, the Executive Board of the AAA discussed a new long-range plan that alters the AAA’s mission statement. The new mission statement deletes the idea that anthropology is a science. It also blurs the intellectual boundaries of the discipline and, ironically, inserts a stronger warrant for using anthropology to engage in public advocacy.

> The proposal has already prompted a strong dissent by, so far, at least one section of the AAA, i.e. the Society for Anthropological Sciences, which is objecting on several grounds. The Society’s listserve, SASci, reflects the widespread distress. One prominent anthropologist observed that the proposal makes the “mission exclusively educational rather than [focusing] on the discovery of knowledge.” Another sees the move as the latest attempt of cultural anthropologists “to rid” the profession of archaeologists, biological anthropologists, and perhaps even linguists. Another complains, “Those of us in applied anthropology are hired because of the scientific nature of our work,” a status that the proposed mission statement would undermine. Another anthropologist wonders what will happen to the flow of federal research funds predicated on anthropology’s contributions to science.
Is Apple the only big tech that’s using AI on device in a privacy protecting way?

I appreciate their approach to user functionality that doesn’t dump all my data into a near infinite number of collectors.

I also think it’s a neat way of distributed computing to use the cpus of all these phones sleeping at night to crunch stuff is actually cheaper than cloud. I think because the phones are sunk cost that is idle a few hours a day.

I miss the BOINC/Folding/SETI at Home clients that used to run as my screensaver and try to do good.
What about in between small and large scales? Medium scales? Is there an in-between?
> Apart from my code, even most of my todos are simple step-by-step instructions to achieve something.

> [...]

> This could be why OOP/Imperative was often preferred over FP.

Though this doesn't really explain why OOP is preferred over imperative (since the former doesn't really correspond to a set of step-by-step instructions).
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You have full local admin access, right? And a dedicated workstation that's powerful enough for the job?

I'm not in the target market for this, but I can absolutely see a class of people for whom this style works completely.
So many times this argument comes up and every time I am amazed at how ignorant it seems to me. But it is very hard to discuss...

Can't we all just agree that what is a valuable use of someones watts or petahashes per second is a subjective choice? That people are free to value their resources as they see fit? You personally might not value securing Bitcoin network, but many other people find it valueable and it is perfectly fine in a free country to allow them do what they please if you are similarly allowed to do what you please (no one forces you to buy Bitcoin miners)?
I agree, but for different reasons: I think the terms "dark matter" and "dark energy", like "black holes" and "wormholes", have assumed certain semantic qualities that are out of proportion to their physics meanings simply because they sound cool and edgy, like something from sci-fi.

The popularization of physics is a ultimately a significant source of funding for physics, along various vectors, and so terms like this are incredibly valuable to the field, regardless of how poorly descriptive they are.

In any case, physicists working in the field know what the terms mean: a huge bag of observations that are inconsistent with basic theories that we know to be incomplete.
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As a Threadripper user, this makes me happy. I don't care about the TDP too much, as long as I can compile large C++ codebases as fast as possible (for which short-term, all-core boosts is very useful).
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I'd be interested in hearing more about this. I'm keen on learning Elixir, but have fallen back to Rails at least 2 times when starting something fresh, because I'm very comfortable with Rails ops. It's simple enough for my case and rails console is just a blessing to dig around when something weird is going on.
The control structure that takes the different functions/values and glue them together is what makes your code imperative or descriptive. While there is a lot of overlap between descriptive style and fp, it is not always the case.

In haskell, for instance, the do notation lets you write imperative code:

f article = do
x <- getPrices article
y <- book article
finishDeal article x y

...and then the compiler desugars it to a more descriptive form.
Perhaps not a satisfactory response but when I start drifting towards thinking FP is fundamentally not as performant as _whatever_else_, I remember that Jane Street uses OCaml basically from top to bottom, and they certainly can't be too slow... Some black magic going on there.
"if we can't profit from you, you can't use our services" seems like a fairly reasonable justification from a business' perspective
> The fingerprints of twins are not more similar to one another than that of two random people.

That’s not accurate. Family members have more similarity in their prints than among random people, twins even more similarity, and identical yet more.

I can’t immediately find authoritative references for family and fraternal twins, but here’s a reference for identical twins:

“Identical twins have the same chromosomes and similar physical characteristics and, therefore, they have a high class/type similarity in their fingerprints.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3338710/
The ones who aren't _yet_ editing videos aren't.
They're an easy way to donate to people in places where it is hard to transfer money. What exactly is the argument you are making here? Presumably the people running those things are definitely paying for their power one way or the other.
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> qutebrowser via webengine

So you're an edge case?

Modern chrome/ium has ever improving GPU acceleration.

And this isn't for people who spend hours, it's for those who want some editing power better than adding a star wipe and filter, but don't need full blown color grading and multichannel layering.
Does that script even work for you? When I run it, I'm prompted for my Yahoo! password, but after typing it in the program just spits out a "Login failed" message. The problem has been reported on the issue tracker but there's been no activity on it since February.
Yes, have you? And more importantly do you read the news? If so then perhaps we have different ideas of what authoritarian means.
And the museum on Ellis Island says that only a small fraction of immigrants were sent back. So thinks hardly changed.
Personally I trust much more the authoritative root servers than public resolver. The root servers economic model is being the backbone of the Internet, they are not advertisement companies, they have a long history of working as an infrastructure, and there is very little incentive to monetize that data. The risk of a fork in the DNS system has always been the sword that kept the authoritative root servers honest.

If authoritative root servers started to support DoT/DoH/DNSCurve then clients could do secure end-to-end communication with simple two hops in the vast majority of cases. In the case of news.ycombinator.com it would ask .com for ycombinator without informing the TLD server of the remaining parts of the domain, and then ask ycombinator.com for news. Simple end-to-end communication without giving out unnecessary information to any party.
I genuinely can’t tell if “misogyny” means “sexual harassment” or “men having mildly nonconforming political views” a la Damore. If the former, no one would object to said “cleanup”, so that’s pretty clearly not what we’re discussing.
Seems like a good summary of the state of the law.

This below, however, seems like very poor reasoning on ESRB's part.

Similarly, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), a self-regulatory organization responsible for flagging games for mature content and providing content descriptors, refuses to classify loot boxes as gambling.[15]An ESRB spokesperson recently stated, “While there’s an element of chance in these mechanics, the player is always guaranteed to receive in-game content (even if the player unfortunately receives something they don’t want).”

This argument differentiates loot boxes from slot machines and lotteries where the participant is not always guaranteed a prize. Additionally, some foreign governments, such as the United Kingdom and New Zealand, have declared that loot boxes are in fact not gambling.

The guarantee of 'any' prize really isn't substantive given the vast differences in rarity/value placed on on the range of reward
> So even though we have a great growing company, it is possible YC does not think we will be a billion dollar company.

And that's perfectly fine. Not every company needs to be a billion dollar unicorn. Not every founder needs to strive for that.

Continue to grow the company organically. You have clearly already found a path to success without YC. YC is great, but is not essential to your startup. Not getting in is not the end of the world.
> I wanted to try the google podcasts but it was a brick because I had disabled "youtube & web activity"

This is the worst. I have all the privacy settings turned up. In Google Maps on my phone, when I try to set my "Home" location, it tells me I need to turn on "Web and App Activity". What? Why? How are these two things related? Why do you have to track what apps I use and upload this info to Google in order to remember where my house is?

It's a bit like a psycho ex; "You want to have my phone number in your phone even though we broke up? Ok, but that means I get to install this camera in your bedroom."

The worst part is, it's all lies. If I open up Android Auto it says "12 mins to Home", so maps in Android Auto still knows where "Home" is, even though the Google Maps app claims it can't set home anymore.
Jane Street is OCaml basically from top to bottom. They seem pretty fast.
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Lately I’ve been thinking that a lot of code style debates center around an explicit versus implicit axis. Imperative is more explicit, and, in one sense, easier to see what’s going on since it lays everything out step by step. On the other hand, those same steps are a mix of essential steps (that deal with the problem being solved) and accidental steps (that deal with computer and code in order to get the job done.)

It seems to me that OOP, Functional, and Relational programming models try to abstract away the accidental steps, but like all abstractions there are limitations.

I suspect that once familiar with one of these models, imperative seems awfully tedious, however now the code is more obscure to those not well versed in the paradigm, thus we have a trade off between ease of use for many and optimal for some.
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I would not sweat it. I was an early employee in a startup that got rejected twice from YC (because it was from Mexico) and nowadays is one of the fastest growing FinTech companies in LatAm and just raised their series B.

You know, lots of VCs maintain a good list of anti-portfolio, the most famous being the BVP one (https://www.bvp.com/anti-portfolio/ ).
I've heard from a VC recently that YC is usually associated with teams of very young entrepreneurs and some VCs avoid this team profile. Not sure if this is a widespread stereotype.
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I read a study done some time after the deaths at a Pearl Jam concert in Roskilde, Denmark. If I recall correctly (I can't seem to find the paper now) they posited that crowds could be simulated by way of particles in a fluid dynamics system, and that a common property of concert accidents such as Roskilde was the lack of pressure release "valves" for lack of a better word. If you only have one exit from the mosh pit, then pressure will mount at that choke point, possibly causing further accidents, and making it harder for emergency services to reach the injured parties. With multiple exits acting as release valves this problem is alleviated, and they used simulations of particles to prove this. Or something like that.

Point is, your comment on particle flows dug this reference up from somewhere deep in the back of my mind. It was a really interesting study, I'll try to find a link.
Can anyone elaborate on [3] or at least copypaste it?

Twitter links seem to rarely work without having the app on mobile, it's disgustingly blatant dark pattern stuff.
Hopefully somebody else will reply to you because it's been a while for me and I forget the details. There are settings in the Google App itself, settings in your Google Account in general and also I denied the relevant recording permissions for various google apps.

I'm using Lineage at the moment. I'd like to ditch Android entirely but I'm not sure ubports is where it needs to be yet. Unfortunately the open non-Android mobile OS's seem to die before they reach maturity. Obviously it's tough on them if they're competing with an existing app ecosystem, as they are.
I mean England gets to be as independent as they want, but so does Scotland.
True, but what if you never wanted bread?
You know what very famous city is completely car-free? Venice.

That's no joke. Venice has canals and all the vehicle traffic is restricted to the canals, but, well, that's exactly it. Vehicle traffic and pedestrian traffic never have to cross each other's path, in fact they physically can't [1]. There are large areas, especially in the interior of the main island, that are naturally only for pedestrians, areas where only small canals reach that are not accessible by motorboat, areas where you don't hear a vehicle for hours on end.

And just to answer the concerns of people who wonder how commerce would continue if delivery trucks are not allowed to enter a pedestrianised city- Venice is a huge commercial zone where everyone sells everything to everyone else. Free trade doesn't need cars, people.

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[1] Unless a pedestrian falls into a canal; or someone like Ottobre Nero, an infamous gondoliero, manages to get their vessel on land which is not impossible with a bit of motivation.
When USA government deems undemocratic countries problematic enough, it issues a ban on deals with them: https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/06/trump-executive-order-emb...
How does Dapr (or the Actors in Dapr) relate to Microsoft Orleans?
Yeah, also a Moravian (ancient nation united with the Czechs more than 1000 years ago) person will speak English differently than a Czech (as in nation, not state) person even though we all speak the Czech language.
I'm having the same experience with the 3XL that I recently bought. My 6P that I upgraded from was much more reliable.
From a position of power it is easy to do without, because you derive no security or finances from this solution. After all, the status quo is paying you just fine. Why is what you say relevant for most people, who to varying degrees definitely don't have all the things that you apparently take for granted?
Has anybody tried this with the older in-button fingerprint scanners?
If your workplace ever has a big pizza lunch, take a few boxes and just walk somewhere else to open them. Turn an O(n) problem into O(1) with just a few people helping.
That kind of user-hostile bullshit is why I avoid anything and everything associated with Google. Still use search, but trying to break that habit.
looking at how they manage windows update and all their app ecosystem including their store

i wouldn't want to trust them, they are the kings of the enterprise bloatware
I’m using iOS safari with AdGuard. It’s probably AdGuard.
So if we make it easier for criminals to take the things we spent our life working to obtain. We are better off ?

You do realize theft is essentially stealing the part of your life you spent working for that thing ?
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I'm not sure that's universally true. Even where it is, that doesn't mean the recording will be admissable as evidence in a legal proceeding.
Hashing solved a problem of limiting supply and spreading the work in a dynamic way to prevent takeovers.

Energy consumption would be dramatically less if ASICs weren't a thing. In hindsight it is obvious they would be built but give me a break.

What they accomplished was a decentralized balancing of power based on economics, crypto, and distributed computing. It is beyond remarkable.

So tell me, what is the carbon footprint of FedNet and all of the banks clearing the 3,000 tx/s demands and their collective datacenters...

What, you thought what we had today was free?

Are you aware that these numbers shared are not even 1% of the worlds consumption of energy or a quarter of what the us alone uses in merely datacenter costs!

I hate these fud charged articles with no balance, basis, or actual science.
You can be friends with people you disagree with, sure. I have friends who think that the Stargate series was good, and that don't like the taste of fish.

But being friends with people who are setting out to destroy the only planet we have to live on is a very different thing.
I never understood the point of Ramda. It's like it's trying to replace the core functionality of JS with something that's completely orthogonal to what the language actually is, but it's just a bolted on library.

I've worked on codebases where people ignore all built-in JS functions (like Array.map/filter) and write Ramda spaghetti instead with multiple nested pipes and lens and what not to show off their FP purism.

Most of the time, you don't need any of this, it just makes the codebase unreadable, and hard for new people to join the project and be productive in a timely fashion.
What if you don't want to put it on YouTube?
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I think most software devs are going to say they do not track time.

What kind of team are you running, and what benefit does time tracking offer you?
That could fit as a cultural symbolic concept if grain threshing was considered work for women. If that was something actually believed the anthropologist would have done their job properly regardless if the superstition is complete bunk or not.

Unless it was meant as "actually makes women more fertile".
Jane Street wrote a compiler that converts Ocaml to Verilog which they run on FPGAs. The OCaml you write in that case is pretty different than what you write for CPUs.
serialization is explicitly not the problem being discussed. JSON also sucks at serialization but much less than YAML or XML both. i don't care that much about serialization.

what i care about is writing yaml for the purpose of configuration and not have any feedback about whether the data i've prepared by hand is actually a valid configuration. not having to have a schema is a bug in the spec for this use case in all those nice acronyms and shortcuts you've listed above and they're all guilty of it. i'd like my configs strongly typed and well documented and none of the above helps developers do that - and that's where my confusion comes from.
Why would anyone come back to a home after such a warning?

Think back 20 years. Would you come back to a home after the resident switched on audio and video recorders and said "you're being recorded."

Now come back to the present, and add the word "thermostat." Does it make any difference?
Apple Pay draws EU antitrust scrutiny
Try this unrolled version:

https://threader.app/thread/1165858896176660480
I'm a true believer that with C++ and lots of scary templates you can do FP that maps exactly on what you want it to be doing.
I understand your point but countries like The Netherlands and Denmark are totally different animals. They build their bike infrastructure for decades and never adopted a car culture.

The rest of mainland Europe is totally different. Getting people now to bike everywhere isn't easy when all the jobs and homes have been built around driving distances for decades.
This seems like a straw-man argument. I'm simply recommending that doing something that increases density and reduces commute time and sprawl while also accounting for environmental factors is strictly better than doing nothing and waiting for people to just stop moving toward the Bay Area.

Rehabilitation of wetlands is a very important goal in itself. Now that 99% is already gone and fucked up (virtually beyond repair) ... well, it means it's almost irrelevant what happens to the remaining 1% if the other 99% will be "restored" somewhere else, then that 1% can be "moved" too.

Not to mention that it the fugly plain of endless mansions sitting where the wetlands were would be replaced with a few high rises, there would be ample space to recultivate a big chunk of it.
I highly recommend Chouinard's book Let My People Go Surfing. It's part autobiography, part a history of Patagonia, part an explanation of his business and management philosophy.