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Shouldn't an accounting database service (specifically, the ledger) be immutable and double-entry in any case?

> To address consistency, we picked a well-established, public-domain, battle-tested approach to modeling financials that enables all of our properties ...

I think doing anything other than double-entry leads to reinventing the wheel. When a ledger system is implemented correctly, the main remaining issue becomes scalability.
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The point, as I understand it, is that we've found cases of galaxies that look like they should be about the same mass as each other based on the light they're putting out themselves, but gravitational lensing measurements indicate a significant mass discrepancy. That's what's hard to explain without "maybe there's a bunch of matter we can't see" - if it was more of a "maybe gravity just works differently at galactic scales" situation, that scenario would be impossible.
> they would have actually pressed charges

HE ESCAPED SO THAT THEY COULD NOT REACH HIM

You can't press charges if you can't notify them.

The same thing could be said about U.S., why didn't they press charges?

Because he was out of reach.

Or, to put it in another way: according to your line of thinking, if he really thought he was innocent, he could have stayed in Sweden and face the trial.

He's still alive after all, isn't he?

I guess we can say his fear of being deported to U.S. and killed was just paranoia of a paranoid man.
For me, great news, because of the End-Of-Life plan for ACME v1 for LetsEncrypt: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/end-of-life-plan-for-acm...

> In November of 2019 we will stop allowing new account registrations through our ACMEv1 API endpoint. Existing accounts will continue to function normally.

> In June of 2020 we will stop allowing new domains to validate via ACMEv1.
Most of the examples would indicate that, if anyone was doing it, it would be other parties(Chinese, Iranian/houthi rebels) erc
That's why I said politically its not true. The political left is for the most part not against war. If you want to call all those people not of the 'true' left then whatever.

The reality is both right and the left have a strong anti-war movment and neither has political power.
The speed of expansion depends on the size of the object. Human-scale things aren't expanding at the speed of light; you need to get to larger-than-galaxy-cluster scales for that to happen.

(In fact space inside galaxies isn't expanding at all, only space between galaxies. But I digress.)
Through my career, it was dependent on how much transparency my boss would like to have. When the choice was mine, we didn't track due to cost and to avoid the feeling of being watched. In my last company I did this for invoicing the customers and it was few hours a month. Quite expensive since I was high up in the hierarchy.
>I don't wan't some git hosting startup to be the arbiter of morality for society.

Me either! The point is everyone should be the arbiter of morality for society. Abstaining from moral judgements because it's "inefficient" is just alibistic, and leaves society worse as a whole. Tech companies are participating in society just as any other company, there's no reason they should be exempt from ethical considerations.

Technology is not neutral, never was, and pretending it is isn't going to change it - it's just going to pave the way for "inevitable" unethical programs and moral lapses (see: mass surveillance, Amazon->Ring cooperation, ICE cooperation...)
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VW thinks EVs give the brand an opportunity for a new 'magic moment'
It still does health exam for Green Card still works like that +/-
> if anyone has better use of that electricity, they are welcome to use it, which will make mining cryptocurrency unprofitable

I'm sorry, but you got this backwards. If bitcoin becomes a relevant part of the world economy, then it HAS to use a relevant part of the world energy, because consuming energy for PoW is the only limiting factor against a 51% attack. So, either Bitcoin is irrelevant - and thus its power usage is a literal waste - or it's relevant, and then its power usage has to become relevant in terms of global warming.
Because use of private transport has to decrease. It is neither sustainable nor healthy. Even if it's a Tesla.
Yeah I tried restoring, non of the common tools or tricks I found online at that time helped me. If this particlar video would have made the difference then that's still a shitty situation.

If you want to use btrfs go ahead, I will not do so again.
In any nontrivial application, doing this for many of your types, does this not bloat your API considerably, which adds to the cognitive load?
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The Mandelbulb is a 3-dimensional fractal
Yeah, that may have something to do with Hawaii as an island location, and what can easily be preserved, shipped, and stockpiled.
In most cases, only one of them maters and the other is negligible: at very small scales QM rules, while at very large scales only GR is important. But in special situations, such as black holes and big bangs, nothing can be neglected and there is no boundary. (AFAIU, IANAP)
look at this scrub who's never heard of venmo

yes, there are a lot of fungible ways to transfer hard currency over the internet... once you acquire it.

again: acquiring it is the hard part, because nobody wants to trade a zimbabwe dollar for a USD.

Bitcoin does nothing to help your zimbabwe dollars be less worthless than they are in USD, therefore they don't help the currency conversion process at all.
> To this day they still let First Class passengers off the airplane first so they get to be the first in line at customs.

Doesn't really help at large airports as that just means you're first in the queue behind the previous 5 planes.

Some airports do have a faster immigration line for first/business passengers though. I don't recall any in the U.S, but Heathrow does for example.
> And Marxists would tell you that socialism is inherently Marxian

But they would be wrong, it's the other way around.

> and Xi Jinping would tell you that the PRC is socialist (with Chinese characteristics!),

It is, economically speaking, at least until it entered the WTO it was 100% a socialist country.

You're conflating politics and economics, China is a socialist country, Sweden is mostly a socialist country, Italy is mostly a socialist country, the state has a lot of economic power in these countries.

It is simply true.

What the U.S. take wrong (among many other things) is that it is not bad for the citizens. I live in Italy and would never change it for Silicon Valley. I don't want to live where homeless are homeless because the staste cares more about selling more guns, so that another mass shooting in a school can happen, than helping poor people.
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Capitalism predates advanced financial constructs like corporations. The trade networks of medieval and early-modern-age Europe enabled far higher levels of productivity than would otherwise be possible, which gave monarchs and churches the resources necessary to build and support the first universities.

As the economy became more advanced, societies were able to allocate even more resources to tertiary sectors like advanced education, and universities became more numerous and sophisticated.

Productivity levels are critically important to the production of public goods like universities, and secure private property rights with contract law enables more rapid gains in productivity levels.

And all this doesn't even touch on my other point: higher productivity increases consumer power, which directly enhances the standard of living. It's not enough for some technology/knowledge to just exist. It has to be deployed, and that takes resources that more productive societies are more capable of providing.
What's good in immutability? If you have found that you have entered too much income and want to lower it, what do you do?
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for processing/validating transactions? couple hundred MWH. How much do you think the Nasdaq/NYSE mainframes really eat?

bitcoin numbers don't include the off-chain stuff either, lol.

Bitcoin energy is literally expended on a massive, inefficient mainframe that processes a couple hundred transactions a second. That's all - everything else is additional to that.
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Why isn’t it a waste? You say it like it is a fact ... what’s the logic there?
Could you elaborate which points would differ between cultures?

If one is choosing to live in a city, they are willing to be surrounded by other people in their daily life.

I don't think anyone is advocating banning/reducing cars in suburbia.
The slim plug is available on adapters from 45w to monster 230w (that RTX 5000 in the P53 alone eats 110W, the CPU is nominally 45W but in reality it's oh-my-god then there's a screen to power, typically 4K and we didn't even start charging our battery, previously only the 17" laptops needed 230W at full config, the basic adapter is "only" 170W). The plug center leg is for wattage detection, there's a resistor to ground and the size of the resistor tells the laptop how many watts can it draw safely.
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Actually, where it can work, London may restrict a new development to having a certain proportion of its materials delivered by rail or water.

This might require restoring or even constructing a jetty or small siding. Any cost is balanced against the disruption and danger of taking many large vehicles through residential areas.
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But how many useful transactions? Isn’t the vast majority of that trading and not economically useful activity?
True.

This seems related to the general decline in fitness of the American population, assuming OP is American. Grip strength has declined massively since the 1980s.

A short walk with bags shouldn't be hard or even unpleasant for the typical adult.
Gitlab falls into both - what you are referring to is the cloud offering, the self-serve one.

I doubt anyone (employee or otherwise) would bat an eye if ICE or the U.S. military would open a private repository on Gitlab cloud.

But Gitlab also does enterprise sales (I assume it does enterprise sales at least since they have enterprise software) - which usually means customized integration, bizdev and account management. More often than not organizations like Gitlab approach the companies to sell to them.
In the case of government agencies they often can't even approach legally, Gitlab would have to apply into an open bid contract.
yeah but you'd get consistent results whether is actual mass or a wrong value somewhere in a fundamental constant, the fact that the dark matter proportions comes out always in the same ballpark, alone, tells us not very much.
Countries disarmed criminals with introducing gun control. It's not hard.

Criminals are rational beings - if there's minimal chance that the victim has a gun, and doing the same crime with a gun means much longer sentence, and you don't need the gun anyway - then criminals won't take guns with them, it would be stupid for them to continue using guns.
> it’s users have to pay for the tremendous energy expense.

They are. How else do you think miners pay for their electricity? And so far it seems like the users are happy to pay what it costs. The fact that you don't see the benefit doesn't mean there isn't any for them.
So does this mean speed faster than light is possible?
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You generate a new item altogether ( I’m talking about immutability). The positives are you’ll have an ability to keep proper records and changes done to your table which will show a different snapshots as it contained different values.

Another plus is that you won’t run into an issue like race conditions where two threads are attempting to change the same thing.
You reverse it with an adjusting entry.

What happens if you've transferred too much from your savings account into your current/cheque account? You make another transaction to adjust the initial one.
>energy consumption of VISA offices isn’t included
I have systematically re-submitted all the solutions several times. All are judged solved.

Look at your leaderboard. Is that a plausible distribution of scores?
To be fair I'm very okay with that.
A little late to the party, but here are my two cents.

First of all I also want to mention "Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index" (https://www.cbeci.org). In my opinion it makes better comparisons (https://www.cbeci.org/comparisons/).

The strongest hypothetical argument against the consumption is that Bitcoin incentivizes green energy. The mining operation is mostly interested in one thing: access to the cheapest electricity possible. Currently China is still subsidizing electricity, which has attracted a lot of Chinese miners and apparently is tolerated by the state.

But in the longer run I believe that Bitcoin will be the thing that will allow investments into green energy on a big scale. This is currently only happening by e.g. governments guaranteeing a minimum electricity price with other horrible consequences (see Germany: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...).

Bitcoin however provides the incentive by itself to invest into green energy. This also is regardless of the fact that where there are optimal conditions for green energy often no infrastructure is available to add it to the grid. Bitcoin only needs an internet connection and consumes energy on-site.

Regarding arguments that compare transactions with energy spent (comparing apples-to-banana...), I will make a counter-comparison: "The amount of electricity consumed every year by always-on but inactive home devices in the USA alone" spends three times the energy of the Bitcoin network (see "Fun Facts" at https://www.cbeci.org/comparison).

Comparing the energy consumption of a transaction is meaningless, because this transaction may enable thousands of off-chain transactions (see Lightning network) and vary in actually block-spent-size depending on if it aggregates many actual transactions or not. It also shouldn't be a surprise that a lot of energy went into it in the first place, since otherwise the whole point of Bitcoin, namely being open, borderless, censorship-resistant and neutral, wouldn't be possible.

It's like saying that all the many maintenance checks of airplanes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_maintenance_checks) wastes so and so many hours and energy of engineers' work-time, just because you don't see that they make air travel safer.
From experience, I think he just means he doesn't want to work on operations tasks. I don't think he has anything against people doing ops.
This work is landing in parallel with development of eSNI, encrypted SNI.

If you have a Firefox with this stuff switched on (so it uses TLS 1.3, eSNI and uses CloudFlare's DoH server), and you go to a site that's proxied by CloudFlare, only CloudFlare [and the site] know which site that was, an ISP sees only that you connected to CloudFlare (duh) and did some HTTPS transactions.

There will be SNI in the ClientHello, but it's generic, it doesn't say which CloudFlare service you wanted so it doesn't help an ISP to log that. The IP belongs to CloudFlare so they learn that, but the rest is a mystery.

All the stuff that makes this go lives in DNS. For privacy you should use DoH to go fetch it. For authenticity you should use DNSSEC to verify it. Proposals are under development for how to land the final DNS changes with HTTP/3 in there as well, so that a single query protected by DoH + DNSSEC can tell a browser "For HTTPS speak QUIC on this IP address and send this fake SNI, then use this eSNI encryption key to hide the real hostname".

But already the prototype with boring TLS 1.3 and HTTP/2 works just fine in Firefox builds with it enabled.
I like that page but really not a fan of the font. It looks... dirty? Like writing with ink on wet paper.
In the worst case, you might have to treat different accents as different, but related languages. The current trend for low-resource languages seems to be about using one giant model for all languages to make use of shared features (e.g. for translation [1]), so adding even more languages might not be that expensive in terms of training data required.

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/exploring-massively-multil...
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There are hundreds of VPN services that accept Bitcoin. It's easier to list ones that don't: HideMyAss.

Many server, VPS and web hosting services accept Bitcoin.

You can buy giftcards for many sellers with Bitcoin.

And there are Bitcoin-funded debit cards.
I agree, it's not like we need computers to make it worse.. but they sure can help. Humans can be pretty callous as is, and we are awesome at rationalizations where we can't muster the required callousness; but in the long run, even the worst bureaucrat in the history of the world will be a fountain of compassion and insight compared to the worst computer algorithm, of that I have no doubt.

> These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the forms of government as the rule of man over man—of one or the few in monarchy and oligarchy, of the best or the many in aristocracy and democracy, to which today we ought to add the latest and perhaps most formidable form of such dominion, bureaucracy, or the rule by an intricate system of bureaux in which no men, neither one nor the best, neither the few nor the many, can be held responsible, and which could be properly called the rule by Nobody. Indeed, if we identify tyranny as the government that is not held to give account of itself, rule by Nobody is clearly the most tyrannical of all, since there is no one left who could even be asked to answer for what is being done. It is this state of affairs which is among the most potent causes for the current world-wide rebellious unrest.

-- Hannah Arendt, "On Violence" (1970)
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Maybe we need a new blueprint for devices and run away from the existing bloated blobby drivers.
I hate that.

Dotfiles that I didn't create myself are bad enough, but now they become even worse because they are harder to get to.

XDG_CONFIG_HOME is just putting the trash under the rug and claiming you cleaned the house.

Of course, because now dotfiles are harder to get to, it encourages software to create even more spam.

One possible useful function of the XDG variables would be to set XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR to $HOME. That never seems to work for me.

It's bizarre to me that other people like these hierarchies. I prefer everything to be as flat as possible. I used to keep all my source code in $HOME/src (everything, C code, Go code, GCC, the Linux kernel, etc) and I wish I could have kept it in $HOME. I couldn't do that because of GOPATH, but now with Go modules I finally can!
A quick search gives me numbers around 10-15% of the total food energy. But if you remove processing, some of the packaging and some of the retail energy consumption, that are in large part consequences of not having access to fresh food, this number is much larger.

The benefit of building smaller cities is that you can afford to have lettuce that comes from a couple kilometers away. If you build small cities, but still keep a distribution network that spans across continents, things will indeed not improve.

Also you compare dense cities to (american?) suburbs. Dense cities are indeed better. My point is that they are a local optimum, and one that is not good enough to offset the effects of climate change.

The model I would promote is cities small enough to rely on a short-distance farm network for most of their needs.
...providing a nice echo chamber for people who aren't ready to understand even what's already experimentally established (and it's much more than the echo chamber believes).

The author published a book with the same "we're wrong" narration, so she has certain motivation to repeat herself.
We're reaching a point where two groups of people, rather than one, is required to wake up in the middle of the night. Previously just the operations people needed to get up, now developers need to be on-call as well.

Operations teams are scaling down their monitoring to just infrastructure, because the applications are more opaque than ever. Incidents at the application level are no longer fixable by Ops, because they have no idea what the developers deployed or how it's configured.

Developers now need to take responsibility for application monitoring, patch management and incident management. Meaning that we're shifting more work to a group of people that where already in short supply.

I don't think we're necessarily moving in the right direction. There's certainly benefits to development and operations working in tandem, but currently we're just moving operations to developers without much consideration for the people that needs to do the actual work.

In my opinion your company/solution needs to be somewhat limited for "DevOps" to make sense. For everyone else, it's two separate roles.
To be fair no one asked them to go to the UK. I can't vote in the country I live in because i am a foreigner, but it is my choice to be there, and I prefer it to my home country.
Bitcoin's energy consumption is also by design self balancing - increase the price of electricity, less electricity will be used. With the same benefits for the network.
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Hossenfelder is refering to the ongoing discussion in the physicist community on this topic. Some of the giants of the field (Wald, Ellis) semi-regularly exchange papers on this.

It's not a hunch.

Green and Wald tried to proof that the inhomogeneities don't matter, others disagree that they proofed anything of the sort. It's a fairly robust debate, and I am not qualified to summarize the state of play. Here are some slides:

https://cosmoback.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Ostrowski.pd...

Edit: The rebuttal paper to Green-Wald from three years ago already has 100 citations... https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07800

It's possible that the question will be settled in the next years through numerical simulations:

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.11...

Edit 2: All of this is for dark energy, for dark matter I don't know if there is a similar discussion on the role of the post-newtonian approximation that is used there.
"Waste" is when there is no benefit. But here the benefit is decentralized, trustless, robust digital currency.
> Proof-of-stake doesn't work. It isn't robust. Eg. PoS cryptocurrencies can't resolved which chain is correct after a network split.

Where can I get best details on this? Which papers? Thank you!