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Whatever the cause may be, that counts as "partisan".

It infuriates many of the workers. They start off angry from being forced to pay an undesired membership fee, essentially a private income tax, and then the union pours salt in their wounds by lobbying to maintain the forced relationship and by supporting politicians that anger the workers.

Imagine being forced to fund your most hated politician. That is the reality for millions of American workers.

Unions represent the interests of unions. Workers would be better served by class-action lawsuits, which sadly are being suppressed due to a supreme court decision that allowed forced arbitration. That supreme court decision was not based on constitutionality, and thus could be undone with a simple ordinary act of congress. Unions could also be wiped out by congress. Doing both at the same time would make sense. Class action lawsuits are a far less corrupt way to address worker abuse.
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Free market could have done the same for people in Europe.

Instead they got the euro and a shitty customs union in which deadbeat governments owe over $1 tn to a handful of countries.

Does anyone think that has not increased the probability of intra-European conflict?
If you want performance, you need to refactor your code into a small performance-critical unsafe core (that has higher test coverage and audit standards), while keeping the rest of the business logic in the safe domain, and relying on the CLR to do the heavy lifting and guarantee memory consistency.

Bonus point: you can write the core in C++ and use COM-like marshaling for absolutely unbeatable performance (no actual COM runtime is needed).
I can’t tell if your post is jest or serious, given the article.
Slide side track but I never get the complaints about power usage. It’d be great if crypto used less energy obviously but doesn’t fiat also use a ridiculously high amount of energy?
Certainly but the implication was they preferred living most of their lives away from their families.

And for certain ages of children quantity may be even more important than curated, moment-to-moment quality.
A great series to play if you haven’t enjoyed them yet is the Metal Gear Solid series of games by Hideo Kojima.

So damn good.
Hopefully those protesters won't start throwing bricks through windows and setting fires to businesses.
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It looks like you may be out of touch with the global market
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I don’t think it’s deceiving at all. If you don’t think it would lead to them to make less money, can you explain how?

It seems to me that if the consoles cost 1/3 more they would sell fewer of them (Lots of empirical evidence for this), and therefore sell fewer games and make less revenue on services to their smaller customer base, who now can by games from other publishers without the console vendor making a penny. After all isn’t the point of this to cut off their other revenue streams at the knees? I may well be missing something though.
When will they be world changing? I have a client who insists on paying me in crypto and the whole thing is dramatically more expensive and complicated than using TransferWise with a 10,000x increased risk that someone fat fingers something and the money disappears into the ether forever
Can you explain it then, because when I dig into it I don’t see much?
No. Proof of work is insane and uses too much energy by design.
French states are not easy to conquer, they are easy to enter, for the reasons you’ve stated.

Otherwise, we are saying the same thing.
This article is misinformed. The past two years have seen a Cambrian explosion of apps on ethereum.

financial apps on ethereum
- https://defipulse.com/
- https://uniswap.info/home
- https://compound.finance/
- https://nexusmutual.io/
- https://bloom.co/
- https://baseline-protocol.org
- https://augur2.eth.link/

non-financial apps on ethereum
- https://audius.org/
- https://ens.domains/
- https://decentraland.org/

popular newsletter - https://weekinethereumnews.com/
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Interesting discussions here about the actual costs and value of finding the bugs that enable these problems. There's basically very little cost to the companies in most cases that have vulnerabilities.

It's absolutely crucial, in my opinion, that we pass laws making paying off criminals illegal.

There are arguments here that paying off via insurance or other 'secondary means' are somehow shielding the institutions. It's morally wrong, and I suspect in reality it's technically wrong to make these payments. It's just wrong. There is the problem that at least some of these ransomware groups are in countries like Russia that don't care to really prosecute them. We need to stop this, make it clear it's not acceptable, fight with our usual means against money laundering. Pretty much every company company in the western world is vulnerable to these problems, every public school, and behind the scenes lots of people are vulnerable.
Can you explain why you think fiat also use a ridiculously high amount of energy?
According to this article:

Blockchain, big data, cloud computing, AI, and magic are roughly equivalent.

Don't waste your time reading it even if blockchain is weak.
But he's clearly on the cutting edge of something, or so he thinks.
Disclaimer: didn't read the article, am responding in general to the title. Also, I am in no way trying to discount the possibility that activists are being surveilled.

What I recently have started to think about is how these sorts of stories COULD be used as a tool to further their cause if the "victim" wanted it to be.

What better way to shine a light on a cause than to manufacture a story that shows they have real enemies who are actively trying to disrupt their cause?

Again, not saying this case is such, but only here to say the future is going to be hard to get right. Everyone will be an expert (if they want to be) at stirring up dissonance.
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I remember that one, too. Frightening.
> Right now the official install instructions want you to trust Microsoft keys and I'm not really a fan of that.

Why?
Referring to Hotspot as a “feature” of the JVM is a gross mischaracterization.

A JVM is not Hotspot, and Hotspot is not a part of “the” JVM.
Maybe, but I question the idea that ambitious people shouldn’t have children if they don’t want to spend large amounts of time with them. It’s bad for society if the top performers don’t have families.

It’s also not remotely the case historically, where men would be gone working for weeks or months in order to provide for their families. Instead, I’d suggest that this obsession with maximizing time is of the same cultural source as ‘helicopter parenting’ and the ‘more = better, always’ mentality of modernity.
And the cost of bitcoin has naturally been inflating to the cost of the power needed to do the mining ... so the whole thing looks a lot like a bubble, great if you got in and out early, bad news for everyone else.
You seem to imply that the activist/article is lying. Apart from the video and that there being no good reason for him to lie (too easily exposed)
This is not the first time that these high voltage boxes show up in the news about surveillance. So if you're someone aware of theses issues you would certainly not fear opening up a high voltage box (also what would be in the box if it actually was something high voltage, they don't appear overnight).

Your assertion that this is likely a skycop seems to however not based on any evidence.
I just wish they'd use better switches in their mice. I'm on my second one, and they suffer from a widespread double click issue. It's an excellent gaming mouse otherwise.
That would change the dopamine cycle of content consumption. I really don't see that happening. And its not like this couldn't have happened without bitcoin.
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This has nothing to do with a company's ability to price differently on other platforms or their website, and there is significant evidence that shows apps allowed onto the app store with more expensive purchase price, subscription price, and IAP price.
Only going to recess on Fridays, if you have been good all week, that's kind of stupid and unbelievable. It's not the experience of having kids in the last 20 years, at least in the US.
This is really ghetto. Why does Debian allow it on their domain?
Besides JSON, what's the main differentiator between Matrix and XMPP?
Bitcoin has lots of uses:

- Getting money out of China. Buy into a mining consortium with yuan, get a fraction of the bitcoins, sell outside China for dollars or euros. You're manufacturing and exporting, which the government of China likes.

- Extortion. The ransomware extortion business depends on Bitcoin.

- Drugs. Delivered to your door in a plain wrapper.
> And most people don't care about latency. Bandwidth is far more important.

Nobody who has ever used existing satellite says this. Latency becomes a huge issue at 500ms.
This is literally not true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24239143
A centralised system built around reputational trust will always use less energy than one where trust is derived from compute time.
Depending on the scale and speed it probably would register as something "off", but not necessarily dangerous. As in out-of-context, does not compute. I mean, just look at the videos of the tsunami in Thailand, 26 December, 2004. Most don't get it. How should they, if they have never experienced it before?

Maybe OT, but to demonstrate a similar thing I once experienced: Been bicycling in the forest like ever so often, and something was off. Stopped.
Thought someone suddenly built a large, long wall or building there within a few days, because it wasn't there before. Went about 100 to 150 meters into the forest to investigate what it was. A massive wall of whitegrey smoke, with many nests of flames between 50cm and one meter high. Didn't recognize it as such until I saw the flames shining through. Really thought of it as a wall until then.
> Anyone else find the constant badgering of dings and vibrations

Aside from the obvious issues with the annoying by default clients this is an unfortunate regression in desktop/mobile environments, they offer very little in the way of passive notifications. Silence and changes to the system tray icon used to handle this with a minimum of annoyance but now everything has to play a sound, flash the window or send a notification.
Unions bring far more good to society than bad to society.

They have given the non-landed class of people a life that even a century ago was unheard of.

Countries that have decent levels of union involvement have much better working conditions and standard of living than countries that don't.

Blaming unions for failed companies is incredibly flimsy argument against unions as a whole.

Sure there are unions that contributed to the collapse of some companies, people make mistakes.

Bad management is a far more leading cause of business collapse than unions.
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For real time games, yes, for the vast majority of traffic, no. Streaming and web browsing are plenty interactive enough for this to matter. Even VoIP does perfectly fine if it's tuned properly.
Sovereign immunity is a courtesy granted to other nations under common law

Sovereign immunity is recognized in the US (and all Western countries). However, the gov't has intentionally waived that immunity in most circumstances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity#United_Stat...
Could you elaborate on what problems Ethereum has solve? Genuinely curious, as I shared this article’s preconceptions.
Because people in the SV/HN bubble hate Microsoft. Purely for cultural reasons of course (while running Facebook's Pytorch, Google's browser, Apple's laptop, etc.).
There's a discussion up the page.
you mean just like Amazon?
These are the machines USPS removed that would handle mail and election ballots
Yeah thanks to COVID there is a ton of new interest in defi as a form of unregulated gambling.
Yet another link to click on? I don't come to HN to work!
And Amazon
Facebook's entire backend is built on a graph database.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/tao-the-...
One solution could be to target 100% employment and have the risk state subsidised (Through a guaranteed government wage). If the government is forced to spend money to employ people (The military could be argued to be a weak form of this), irrespective of need, I’m sure someone would figure out a solution to the government’s labor surplus. Pretty easy to implement too — just conscription - with the ability to opt in and out as you choose other jobs instead or leave those jobs.

Overall, this means individuals are free to attempt different employment at market rates. That could even be below the guaranteed government wage, just there’ll be no subsidies that if individual can’t make the economics work out.

Hard to argue that the 1.2% employment rate in 1944 wasn’t helping drive the economy forward.
So how to do that on a PS4? Yet no lawsuit rather happy marketing demos on how well Unreal will do on PS5.
If the DNC and the RNC decided that they really wanted it to be passed, they have to power to solely elect judges to the Supreme Court which would uphold it.

Considering most judicial positions (with some exceptions where they are locally elected) are life time positions, yes, theoretically the gov't could nominate judges that are aligned with their view, that would be almost impossible to execute.

In addition, they are nominated by the party in power, but need to be approved by a committee comprised of both parties.
Fiat also uses crazy amount of energy in absolute terms. But per-transaction costs are much lower for fiat.
Why? In recent years w3schools has been a valuable resource...
Transporting physical currency requires a tremendous amount of infrastructure.
My proposed mitigation is being deployed in every modern browser, and completely eliminates the ISP-spoofed NXDOMAIN problem. Yours asks users to install their own DNS server, and still doesn't eliminate the problem. I'm comfortable saying that my advice is correct, and the advice to use DNSSEC to solve this problem is malpractice.
Epic dictates what goes on there.
More discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/id8m9w/welltyped_u...
The reporting is confusing. The legal filing linked didn’t mention special deal. Page 7 details Apple’s argument on this point, which seems fairly factual. You can search text for “special deal”. Nothing turns up.

The special deal language instead comes from an unlinked declaration from Phil Schiller. It is unclear if this is actually a court filing. It may simply be a document Apple distributed to the media. If anyone can source that quote to an original document I’d appreciate it.

The court filing: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.364265...
I always thought that was one reason for the death of the adventure-game genre. Ultima at least had parts to it besides the exploration and puzzles, but adventure games that might take 100s of hours without a guide can often be completed in a few hours with a guide.
I looked through a few of those, and I struggle to see how those are superior to traditional solutions to the same problems. Care to enlighten me?
That's a long article itself but this might be a good starting point: https://consensys.net/blockchain-use-cases/ Consensys is run by an Ethereum co-founder and one of the most prestigious organizations in this space, so that page might seem intimidating but it's good, factual information.

Ethereum allows for the usage of unique and real items in the digital world. Money was obvious as it's impossible to have internet money if you can just ctrl+c and ctrl+v it to make copies. A bit of money is unique and can't be copied and thus is real and useful in ways previously digital information wasn't.

You can own a digital object or digital representation of a real object and use it on the internet. God's Unchained is a collectible card game like Magic the Gathering where the cards are digital, the rare cards are provably rare, and the players can trade the cards on any market out there or even take out loans on their valuable extra rare cards. This concept applies to many things including cars, houses, collectible fashion apparel, and anything else that there needs to be only one of.

DeFi is already re-creating all of the capabilities of the existing financial system but built on neutral and fair rules where no one person or company can arbitrarily change them and you always keep fully control of your assets.

There's too much to write but there is something here and it's worth reading about it with an open mind as it's very likely going to be important in a decade or so.
If we look at IRL, governments pay for infrastructure from taxes charged on citizens on non-voluntary basis.

Maybe Mozilla Foundation is one of those infrastructures inherently unprofitable, unattractive, not price competent on individual level?
I am thoroughly impressed with you what your team has accomplished. Roughly 7-8 years ago, the company I work with switched away from .NET (to Go) largely because our performance with IIS for HTTP traffic running .NET was...poor by comparison to other available options. I wrote a blog post[1] on the subject.

It's been exciting to watch the hard work you and your team are investing to make .NET (Core/Framework/etc) faster. In fact, virtually every single issue or point I raised in my blog post has been addressed to my sanctification and then some. The Techempower benchmarks show the massive strides you've all made and now I'm delighted to see .NET consistently performing at or near the top of the benchmark even without heavy customization/modification. To this day, I still really love C# as a language and there are a number of significant things in C# that I wish the Go ecosystem would adopt. If/when bootstrap a technology stack again, you can bet that C#/.NET will be the top contender on the list of options.

Thanks again for all of your effort. It is very much appreciated and admired, even if I'm not using that tech stack at this point.

[1] https://blog.jonathanoliver.com/why-i-left-dot-net/
While Linux might not be as unstable as everyone makes it out to be, your argument doesn’t support that at all. The point is Valve maintains Proton so that everyone and their mum doesn’t need to maintain their own Linux fork that’ll bitrot. Without an entity maintaining Proton it could stop working in a few months for all we know.
Do you really think this is a net negative? On balance, that having to open a couple of launchers to find your game is a greater hardship than the benefits of a competitive ecosystem resulting in better prices, a better deal for developers and ultimately more games to play?
Goodness, YouTube is a network now.
and they've done... what?
I wrote this below but copying here as it's hard to write a huge comment twice.

That's a long article itself but this might be a good starting point: https://consensys.net/blockchain-use-cases/ Consensys is run by an Ethereum co-founder and one of the most prestigious organizations in this space, so that page might seem intimidating but it's good, factual information.

Ethereum allows for the usage of unique and real items in the digital world. Money was obvious as it's impossible to have internet money if you can just ctrl+c and ctrl+v it to make copies. A bit of money is unique and can't be copied and thus is real and useful in ways previously digital information wasn't.

You can own a digital object or digital representation of a real object and use it on the internet. God's Unchained is a collectible card game like Magic the Gathering where the cards are digital, the rare cards are provably rare, and the players can trade the cards on any market out there or even take out loans on their valuable extra rare cards. This concept applies to many things including cars, houses, collectible fashion apparel, and anything else that there needs to be only one of.

DeFi is already re-creating all of the capabilities of the existing financial system but built on neutral and fair rules where no one person or company can arbitrarily change them and you always keep fully control of your assets.

There's too much to write but there is something here and it's worth reading about it with an open mind as it's very likely going to be important in a decade or so.
The same physical infrastructure that is also used for transporting just about everything else? Anyway, most currency transfer these days is digital, so even that doesn't hold much water.
I don't know if you've seen the stock market lately... clearly the largest casino in the world is on Wall Street.

But anyways, DeFi has tons of use cases including automated crop insurance based on weather events, decentralized money markets for car loans, tokenized rental real estate, synthetic derivatives, standard savings and loans utilizing stablecoins, etc etc. The notion that blockchain hasn't found product market fit in 2020 is laughably outdated.
Blockchain is easy to criticize. Hell, I've done it plenty and I worked in the space full time for a good year and a half. But the problems that they're trying to solve, decentralization, censorship resistance, sound money, true democratic governance, etc. are hard ones to solve. Maybe it turns out that they are inherently unsolvable for the foreseeable future. I think the promise that a solution to some of these problems may exist is what drives curious developers to keep pushing the envelope, because, much like fusion power, if we eventually "get it", it'll change the world. Blockchain innovation is a lot like that. Keep pushing.
Good point, I would just wait for ps5 now.
This is straight up false, at least in my jurisdiction. When I buy apps or in app purchases I get charged a separate 13% HST (Ontario sales tax) on top of the listed price.
(However, I did also find this severely disappointing)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/358025-thousands-atten...
BTC will never be currency, I think it’s more a store of value like gold. But there is a certainly a crypto economy, where employees are paid in a variety of cryptos - stablecoins and others. It’s difficult to understand until you enter this universe. But it’s real!
You just described most subsites under the Debian domain.
We've been hearing this same story about various blockchain technologies for a decade.
Does the US control Russia? No.

It's not about control, it's about national security. Allowing a company to operate in the US that is practically under control by a hostile authoritarian system is a national security risk.
The request was that Apple dismantle its app store and security model and allow 3rd party app stores and sideloading. This is in point two of Epic’s email.

It would be a completely radical shift. Google declined as well.

See letter here. The demands were much more than separate in app payment. https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/129691854162779341...
So this is this solution they’re offering after purchasing Nanobox? I wish it had more feature parity because this is a bit of let down after a year of waiting for what they with do with the Nanobox tech.