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>If all the people holding bitcoins become multi-millionaires in real terms over 20 years I'm sure they'll manage to cope with the philosophical loss somehow.

Given when you entered, some did. Many spent it trying to build what we have today. The former may have given into your reasoning, the latter however did very little to change their behaviour and only their attention-seeking acts changed: look at Amir for example.

> There is still plenty of evidence that bitcoin is a bad long term investment...

Based on what, 2017's absurdly inflated ATH and the ICO scams that made no sense to anyone who actually understood this tech and instead cashed out only to buy back in? Yeah, perhaps to those not capable of seeing any of that it might be a bad position...

> The idea of it being digital gold isn't as far fetched as it was in 2016.

Gold is a relic and an arbitrary thing that has no significance when Money is not only fiat but digital, and can now be programmed to be be defacto finite. I was a PM guy before I got into BTC, and I can tell you right now had I the good sense to trust my gut to trade my metal for BTC back then I'd be in a much loftier position in Life, and yet... no regrets as it taught me many valuable lessons and have me greater insight into Life than people 2-3 times my age.

Specifically, that arguments about 'intrinsic worth' be it by Austrian economists (or there opponents) are really just rehashed fallacies and ideas only relevant to the clergy of Salamanca (who the Austrian's stole their ideas from) and their concepts of 16th Century thinking and Market dynamics.

The 21st Century requires far more nuanced thinking, tools and I just hope we have Fiat to carry us until we become multi-planetary. Modern Capitalism, which is to say State-corporate controlled, is doing away with many myths, and revealing some basic truths; not least of which that Money has and will always be an abstraction.

It's just so damn scary when you understand the implications of that statement and all that it entails when trust is lost in such a system.
> I find it interesting how over 20-30 years corporations have reprogrammed people to believe working from home (WFH) is a perk and not a burden. And, people are celebrating how progressive these companies are.

There are a million and one examples I can think of, of companies repackaging burdens as perks while cynically using progressive reasoning to convince people to go along with it. Unlimited PTO, for example. Unlimited PTO is not unlimited, it's limited by whatever your boss gives you permission for. So say it's de-facto limited at 3 weeks. If you had explicit PTO of 3 weeks per year:

* It's a lot harder for your boss to arbitrarily stop you from taking it, especially if the year is almost over and you haven't taken it yet
* If you don't take, it, they're legally obligated to pay it out

But when it's "unlimited"

* Boss mysteriously rejects it, or puts arbitrary constraints like "no more than 3 days contiguous"
* If you don't take it, it's gone
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I like this idea. Did you also archive the operating system the build was running on ?

If not, this should be trivial to replicate today using docker containers.
I'd be willing to give you pretty strong odds, if you were willing to bet on your 99%+ reduction forecast.
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> Somehow we've ended up with privately owned and founded rocket companies, which are higher entry in cost than airplanes.

Are you sure? There's a big difference between building single-purpose, unmanned rockets and commercial jets that carry hundreds of people, fly for 20 hours a day, and last two decades. According to Wikipedia Falcon development 9 cost $300-390 million [0]. The 787 program cost $32 billion [1]. Even the A320 neo, which is a refresh of the original A320, cost $1.3 billion [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_v1.0
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner#Market,_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A320neo_family
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If we're discussing what a divine being might write the universe in, my vote is not for direct code. Instead, imagine writing something as immense as the universe, you'd want the universe to emerge from simple rules such as basic IFS [1], L-Systems [2], or multi-dimensional cellular automata [3].

There is actually some preliminary research findings giving evidence to cellular automata underpinning the creation of the universe, as part of the Wolfram Physics Project [4].

[1] https://www.stsci.edu/~lbradley/seminar/ifs.html

[2] https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~matt/courses/cs563/talks/cbyrd/pres1...

[3] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.ht...

[4] https://www.wolframphysics.org/
Honestly, this headline seems so transparently clickbaity ("Whaaat? that's exactly what I want to do!") that I didn't click it.
You've reminded me of something. Office gear will become massively cheaper the following period. Especially second hand gear.
> self-signed was never trusted

The whole problem of a self-signed cert is unless you have a priori knowledge of the cert somehow, it then is trivial to MITM a self-signed cert. That is why it was never trusted. That is the point of a signed cert, you are inherently trusting a third party to tell you the cert a website is giving you is good.

It does bring up an idea of making an individual a CA (i.e. you know someone's PGP key and that PGP key signs a cert, and that is a way to trust it). But you still fallback on the same issues with PGP email, you ultimately need someway of trusting it in the first place.
I reckon part of the point is that a VM (in the JVM or CLR sense) might be a poor fit for the given use case, as might an automatic garbage collector, and thus that might dictate the use of languages which rely on neither (like C/C++ or Rust).
I know this is going to ruffle a lot of feathers, but raise the top marginal tax rates. Not a nominal raise, but something significant, like 20%. And the cap gains rate as well.

Basically move to a more redistributive system like Europe, which can afford to do this for a lot of their citizens.

That's how we've funded war-like efforts in the past, and if this is likened to a WWII style mobilization effort (which it has been by several politicians, then the well off citizens need to pitch in much more than they are now).
A tail recursive acronym!
I wonder why we see so many of these attempts at bringing html/css to native, while we (or at least I) see so few examples of the inverse.

I loved creating iOS apps with autolayout. Some parts of it were a bit frustrating, sure, but you could do things that were pretty hard with css. Why don't we see any lib for "make an app just as if you were making it for native, but now it runs on the web!"
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> poorly received planes like the 737 Max

Oh, they were received with open arms; they were just delivered with 2 crashes that led to their grounding.
It probably increases your chances of being evacuated to space should moon blow up without warning and for no apparent reason.
Obligatory xkcd reference:
https://xkcd.com/224/
Like what exactly? High powered skateboards? Or maybe rockets?
Both planes & fuel are dirt cheap right now. As long as there's demand for travel (which is the real blocker right now), supply will spring up to fill it.
Just to be clear, the problem I think we're trying to solve with a web of trust is the authentication one, not the encryption one. Several existing systems such as GPG demonstrate the viability of a web of trust solution in principle. What is currently missing is a practical method of scaling up.

Yes, any such method would inevitably require a different process to how things work today, most likely including some sort of administrative action to get a new domain recognised when setting up a new site. Still, if you'd suggested seven or even six years ago that anyone would be able to set up effective HTTPS hosting with relatively little effort and without paying for an expensive certificate from some big name CA, you'd probably have been laughed out of the building. Five years ago, Let's Encrypt was starting its rapid rise to dominance, and as the various limitations in the original scheme have been removed, that rise has shown no sign of slowing down.
I like lightweight and fresh too, but the JVM and Node both provide a tremendous amount of “batteries included” ecosystem value.
Is C++ context-free or context-sensitive?
This could bring a reckoning to higher education costs, especially at smaller private universities. If you are an entering freshman - junior, how could you rationalize paying the huge premium for an online experience?

Granted many don't pay full price but even 'reduced' rates at places like Duke are $50k / year. That math was already questionable. Now... ???
Excel.

Indeed.
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Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/312/
The NaN library is literally just testing if the value is a number with typeof v === 'number' then tests if v !== v. This is not something you need a library for at all, big or small.
The hyperloop is just a shittier more expensive train, I really don't see it ever taking off.
I guessed it was built in Svelte, I was correct.
You can have dysfunctional/well-functioning remote/in-office teams. And you're right it is the team that has to gel and make things work.

It just applies just as much to in-office as remote.
It's an American publication read mostly by Americans. While they passed up an opportunity to pander to the scientific community by using meters it is a wise choice to use typical American units since the numbers at play here are much larger than the quantities people deal with on a day to day basis. People have no intuitive way to understand depths of tens of thousands of feet so they need to relate it to things they know, airplane cruising altitudes, single digit numbers of miles, all of which are denominated in non-metric units, at least in the US. Adding a unit conversion just adds another step that makes it harder for your audience to relate. Picking the units that make conveying the message most efficient is an implied part of the jobs of the writer(s) and editor(s) who touched this article and they're paid to do it so it should come as no surprise that they did it. Obviously I don't speak for everyone but I don't think the scientific community is particularly peeved by a publication targeted at the general public using the units that it's audience uses.
> There are going to be all sorts of moral debates when an algorithm decides to drive over a child instead of turning into an oncoming car.

No. That's a trolley problem. It's an interesting intellectual exercise, you can maybe win a debate team trophy for your rousing defence of one choice or the other - but these moral decisions aren't actually what drivers do whether they're humans or a powerful AI.

People keep acting as though this is an unprecedented situation and invoking weird moral beliefs about thinking machines, when it's actually utterly routine. Let's try another exercise:

How many headlines have you read about a specific brand of elevator decapitating a child? Is it none? Do you see anybody pushing for the big elevator manufacturers to have to reveal how they "rank the value of different lives"? No?

That's not because nobody dies this way, it's because we say oh that's just a machine obviously if things go wrong you can get seriously injured and the machine doesn't know if you're a nun or a basketball champion it isn't trying to kill/ not kill anybody in particular it's just a machine.

Humans are often tempted to try "escape manoeuvres" and these almost invariably go wrong, we don't teach machines to try such manoeuvres because the machines are trained based on real performance data not someone's model of themselves as an immortal superhero.

One of the first Waymo crashes was somebody trying an escape manoeuvre. They found themselves in a potential collision so rather than the correct thing (brake to reduce speed, hit the thing you're colliding with because it's too close) they tried an abrupt swerve, lost control of course, crossed a median and smashed into the unrelated oncoming Waymo car at high speed writing off both vehicles. Humans do stuff like that, you can try training them not to but they won't listen. But the machines do not have that problem, so less "Should I kill the nun, the pregnant woman or the Olympic champion?" and more "Despite maximum braking effort a collision has become inevitable. Preparing safety systems for impact".
Skins like that don’t scale. Fine if you’re still using a 1366*768 laptop, but even 1080p let alone 4K makes everything tiny or blown up and blurry.

Doesn’t mean you need electron to fix it, it can be done with a native UI. But bitmapped skins are generally not used anymore for a reason.
I think the variety of companies that exist is greater than your breadth of experience. Within a narrow scope there may be cases where all-remote is clearly superior to partially-remote, but I strongly suspect in the vast world of business, many other models can work well.

The analogy also doesn't work.

Perhaps imagine a party where some people enjoy cramming onto sofas playing games, others stand around the kitchen retelling stories, some sit spaced around a fire staring into the flames, and yet others stand far out in the open yard, tossing a ball back and forth. Everyone is part of the party, interacting in the way that works best for them, and if it ever makes sense to move to another part of the party, they will do so.
> Somehow we've ended up with privately owned and founded rocket companies, which are higher entry in cost than airplanes.

Quick browsing for airliner unit costs shows a B737 max starting from ~$100M which is more expensive than a Falcon 9.

> I think a much bigger risk is that fact that I doubt many people will confidently fly like they did before for the next 10 years. I think airline travel will dramatically decline.

This is the real problem, airline travel won't recover for many years.
fwiw, I've been doing professional JS (mostly server, good amount of client) for about 5 years now and have never pulled in a single function package before as a direct dependency. Every team I've been on has used Lodash or Underscore in the capacity you describe.

https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.15
https://underscorejs.org/
Yes because then people aren't competing on price but the value of goods and services. Arguably transparency brings us closer to a true free market system as well - with the same other potential pitfalls if not managed for.
Have you heard about potatoes?
> Easy to get started: one click install, great website and concise docs.

Idunno, I read the whole homepage and I don't really know where to go to download it. Is "clone and run Meson" what you meant by "one click install"?

> No matter what some people say, getting started in Clojure is a nightmare.

On my distro I just do pacman -S clojure and I have a working clojure environment, on everything else it's usually available as one package. Not much of a "nightmare" to my eyes, at least when compared to Janet, which doesn't tell you how to install it anywhere on the website.
You are correct manufacturing cannot scale overnight. But it can scale up if orders are placed especially if capacity is already in place. The US just decided it did not need that extra capacity until very late in the game.

From the below article:

"The Post reports Mike Bowen, owner of the largest surgical face mask producer in the US — Prestige Ameritech in Texas — contacted top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services on January 22, the day after the first US coronavirus cases were identified.

His pitch: Provide the funds needed to dust off four dormant manufacturing lines, and his firm would produce 1.7 million N95 masks every week. According to Bowen, he’d been raising the alarm for years that the US was too dependent on foreign countries (where nearly 90 percent of masks used in the country come from) for production, and argued his manufacturing lines offered both a way around that, and to ensure the US would have the masks it needed.

Rick Bright — the former director of HHS’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (who was ousted in April, and later filed a whistleblower complaint alleging he was demoted for fighting for science-based preparations “over political expediency”) — pushed top HHS officials to accept Bowen’s offer, to no avail. Prestige Ameritech later exported a million masks to China."

... "The federal government went on to spend more than $600 million on contracts including mask production. Honeywell and 3M were given contracts worth more than $170 million to produce protective gear. And a tactical training company with no history of producing medical equipment was given $55 million to make N95 masks for $5.50 each — a price around seven to nine times greater than other suppliers, including Bowen’s company. Prestige Ameritech was eventually given a $9.5 million contract in early April to produce N95 masks for 79 cents each.

Bowen’s manufacturing lines, which could be making more than 7 million masks every month, remain unused."

https://www.vox.com/covid-19-coronavirus-us-response-trump/2...
Found this to be insightful. Maybe everyone is too use to being spoon fed a habit or quick trick. Which is the point of the message.

You need to find your own method as you better understand the problem. Ie., stop trying to make hard things easy...
It's your fault if you trade equities, or you do anything else in which milliseconds matter, with a software platform that is aggressively optimized for average performance and for server stability at the expense of hard real time guarantees and with a language that privileges enforcing constraints (both to ensure correctness and allow optimizations) over allowing the user explicit control. ("Your fault" at the organizational level, not personally, of course.)

Can you explain how Java was chosen for your trading application? Also, why were you unable to test it properly?
Analog TV had to be moved because it was taking up limited resources. Old websites aren't taking up valuable real estate. There's no benefit to shutting them down.
I use it for the same meals you could use rice or pasta for it just has more "bite" than either one of those. When cooked in a vegetable broth it has a very pleasant flavour too.
I'd say it's more likely that one of them will buy the rest.
Soon doctors will prescribe blunts for their nicotine [1] and MJ mix.

[1] https://www.qeios.com/read/WPP19W.3
First sentence of post you're replying to:

>I suspect there is a non-trivial amount of people who don't care about that
This explains it:

> GitHub Pages is not intended for or allowed to be used as a free web hosting service to run your online business, e-commerce site, or any other website that is primarily directed at either facilitating commercial transactions or providing commercial software as a service (SaaS).

https://help.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages/...
You clearly don't know much about the Hyperloop for such an ignorant comment.
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what is "ass culture"?
You missed MY point. If you rely on ANY software which is only available on Windows—whether it's published by Microsoft or say BandLab—you are locked into Windows just as surely as Apple software locks you to MacOS.

Your rationale is valid for avoiding Logic Pro, but not MacOS.

I agree about open source, of course.
I've written up some notes as I went on running Castor on macOS (which I'm guessing was not a target platform) in case anyone finds it useful or you need to point people to such: https://tcp.rip/text/misc/install-castor.txt.html

The settings used by `install` break on macOS, btw, where it's (annoyingly) -d instead of -D to create directories, so I've just been running it directly from the releases folder for now.

I am not used to using GTK on macOS but the performance is not good, but it does run and loads pages.
This is why the content should have been signed.

IMO: https is actually overhyped, it solves some problems but has plenty of its own
Supersonic travel in the Concorde era was never profitable due to expensive aircraft, insane fuel consumption, and sonic booms limiting possible routes. (Yes, BA/AF eventually figured out how to making operating them profitable simply by charging through the nose, but not at sufficient scale to build more planes, much less improve them.)

There are various startups like Boom who think a new generation of supersonics could be a profitable niche, but they were a long shot at best of times and much more so in these times. https://boomsupersonic.com/
Another approach to speeding up python imports I just found out about yesterday:
https://pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io/en/oxidized_importer-0.1/o...
Hand it over to Elon and Bezos.
They will take care of the boomer brigades inside, wasting everyone's time.
As far as I know it flies autonomously to within a certain range, then gets piloted by crew members on the ISS until it's close enough to be grabbed by the Canadarm for berthing to the station.
Here's the thing: I'm very aware of the fact that our climate is going to shit, and I try to conciously help however I can, but airplanes is one thing where I can't seem to figure out how to replace.

It is extremely practical and at times without alternative (e.g. long distance flights, think 12 hours). I am however not anywhere near the field, so I'm pretty sure I'm ignorant in regards to alternatives.

Do you happen to know any alternatives ? Or maybe some strategies, new fuels, or anything that can help with emissions in regards to airplanes ? I'd love to read more about that stuff.
Really? Chegg was like the first textbook source that existed for college students. That used to be (maybe it still is) it's number 1 business. You could rent books from them for cheap for courses you didn't need to keep the text.

Working in higher ed for a few decades, I've seen their reputation go from - hey, they're undercutting our bookstore - to hey, they're a super good resource for students - to hey, their 'homework help' is just cheating for a cost.

They're a garbage company right now, from the perspective of a higher ed professional. They've gone off the rails with what could be a good business model.
The New Yorker has done a lot to try, for good or ill, to make the digital experience as similar to the paper one as possible.

My guess is the enormous page is part of this effort.

I think it's pretty misguided in the browser -- or, at least, that they've pushed well past the point of diminishing returns on it -- but they are to be commended for the consistency and depth of availability.

Another factor is probably (again, I'm guessing) that their preferred method of digital consumption is their own apps, where issues are rendered digitally exactly like their paper counterparts, with ads and all. Given the primacy of text at the New Yorker, this actually works out really well. (It's probably worth noting that the New Yorker NEVER does that thing where an article is "continued on page 102" or whatever, which probably makes this work better.)

It's definitely cool that this whole-magazine rendering is available (for subscribers) not just for current issues, but for the entire archive going back 95 years. That's neat.
Duplicate / blogspam of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23156224
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