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>Before Craig Wright came into the scene, has anyone heard of Kleiman?

The salient part of my argument is that the individual behind the 'Satoshi' persona has most likely died in early 2010s. I have no idea if either Kleiman or Finney (or both or others) were Satoshi, but both fit the profile of Satoshi, and both have died in that time-frame. If not them, then it would be some individual or individuals like them. If you are sure it couldn't have been Kleiman, I won't argue and I will defer to you.

I have followed Craig Wright's claims and he does strike me as a bullshitter (for one thing, he promised 'irrefutable' proof and never delivered). So I'm OK with writing his claims off as a total fabrication. I could also see him trying to take credit for the work of the deceased person behind Satoshi IF he was somehow connected to early bitcoin development and knew who Satoshi was.
Ask HN: Is there a DNA/genealogy site you trust?
I’m really interested in 23 and me and the general building-a-family-tree-via-DNA service, but, like a lot of people, are concerned about my genetic info being later resold.

Is there a service HNers could recommend for the privacy conscious?
Well sure; but isn't editing the hosts file easy as well? Unless you lock yourself out of root and would have to boot from a live image. :D

LeechBlock has been enough for me, because I mostly just need a reminder to get in the way of my autopilot, not something that strongly prevents access. If my autopilot gets smarter, I can turn up the friction. LeechBlock has an option that requires you to enter a password to override it or get into the settings; either a user-specified password, or even worse/better, a 32/64/128 character random password.
Thanks, that's the one I was thinking of.

Your suggestion was part of the process through which I taught myself computer programming. I think it has merit.
He posts more frequently on lobsters.

https://lobste.rs/u/technomancy
being white is not only about skin colour.
many jews look white but they certainly don't feel white.
Also co-opted by Henkel as Loctite Kintsuglue™ [1] ; which itself is a knockoff of the crowdfunded Sugru™ [2]

[1] https://www.henkel.com/press-and-media/press-releases-and-ki...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17292710
The most interesting thing that happened to me was that I looked at my hands — they were my hands but I was seeing them as they appeared when I was a kid. Hard to explain. But I was looking right at them with my own eyes and seeing my hands as I remember them from around 4 years old. I realized how much of my perception is filtered through memories and preconception, rather than just raw visuals from my eyes.
When you put it like that I understand why Indians worship cows.
Noita was yet another tech-demo/game-engine looking for a gameplay idea. The outcome is usually a good-enough but unremarkable game.
Henry Wiencek wrote a book about it. That particular work received intense criticism from other respected Jefferson scholars. It's a debate worth reading.
Very true. I had detailed monitoring on my power too the house, and noticed each device and bulb has a distinct drain. Each "10W" bulb is slightly different. I could see exactly what light was on.

With good analysis the amount of information that can be derived from one single figure of total power consumption is much higher than I ever expected.

Very bad idea to share this with a company like Amazon.
This would not be good.

This is essentially what a nonprofit does. Then what ends up funded is what's whimsical. For example, people donate to save cute polar bears instead of saving the ugly worm that fixes the soil problems.
Milk is nutritious though. Besides calories it also provides amino acids. For non first world communities it thus formed an essential part of a healthy diet.
The more I hear other engineers discuss this type of thing on HN the more I realize how unique apple is.

They look at their products as a whole. So in the apple model, hardware and software run together. Seeing this with my parents and when I resell stuff you see the payoff. The apple products are usable FAR longer then competitors and sell for more even after a year or two.

You are not "subject" to buying an apple product. Apple has obviously chosen to optimize for a different user group than you are in. The market seems to appreciate that, their margins are nuts (they sell $100 worth of stuff for $200).

I say this has someone who used to by batteries for my laptop and other devices online, who did the ifixit stuff. The problem, the quality is wildly variable when you order online - so I at least can see that for the VAST majority of folks, apple's approach results in a pretty reliable / high quality result. And they charge and get paid a remarkable premium for the trust users have in them as a result of this.
> The other is "if you stop people from earning bazillions you won't get innovation.

A lot of innovation comes from someone precisely because they have no money. Sure funding helps do a lot of research, but necessity is the mother of all invention.
Startup Funding: August 2020
> your friend said they don't want your help.

I am saying that if my friend "rejected society", but also asked for my help, then I would continue to give them the help that they asked for.

It would not be an asshole move if they have asked for my help, but also have "rejected society" at the same time. Because they asked for my help.

My support for my close friends and family is almost unconditional.

And I am talking about the individuals who both "reject society", and also want to live in that society, in a house or something, or they want to be able to eat, and these specific individuals are asking me for help, while also "rejecting society" at the same time.

I would provide them that housing or food that they asked from me, even if they "reject society".

> That is not analogous to what is being discussed. A closer example would be a family having an argument about where to celebrate Christmas, until finally someone breaks off and holds their own celebration.

Yes it is analogous. If my friends or family did what ever it is that you are saying that they are doing, I would still continue to give them unconditional support that they ask from me.

> until finally someone breaks off

And if they "break off" but still ask me for my help, then I would still give them my help.
I haven’t read Slashdot frequently in a long time but I was shocked that they’re now using back-button hijacking on mobile. Also disappointed that the top comment of the article is accusing Slashdot of fascism for supposedly agreeing that Facebook should push back against right-wing extremism.

I hate to be That Guy, but wow... in just a decade the Internet has become a much worse place.
> where I have been able to use the right hemisphere of my brain to visualize concepts rather than subvocalizing the words

Would you provide any references or documentation on how someone else might learn to successfully do that?

Taking your sphere question literally, you might first consider a 1-dimensional world and all the points in that world that are a distance of 1 from the origin. After that consider a 2-dimensional world and all the points that are a distance of 1 from the origin. Then a 3-dimensional world. After that you mastered that you might do a Google search for wiki 3-sphere and see what you find.
We need to separate the location of the tax and how progressive the tax is. They are orthogonal.

Any tax can be made more progressive in implementation (high deductions, tiered rates, etc). Impact on poor vs wealthy shouldn't be a consideration when deciding what we want to tax.
The data is indeed pretty thin. I should know, I have looked for it when I was doing my own research on colour use in art. One interesting point... the utility of complementary pairs has a long history. Leonardo Da Vinci was writing about them 600 years ago, and this was before the colour wheel was defined by Isaac Newton.
As far as I know there’s also Luxembourg: https://www.afar.com/magazine/luxembourg-launches-worlds-fir...
Poland definitely could be a lot better, but these are some odd points.

VAT is higher than in Germany, but lower than in Sweden. Nothing that gets anyone going really. Real estate is quite cheap (dollar to dollar, not exactly for Poles) for a European country, though Warsaw does stand out as the capital.

There isn't anything "bastardized" or "inferior" about either the Polish or Belarusian alphabet, or really any alphabet for that matter. They just come from different backgrounds.

Poland is also largely south of Belarus, including Warsaw being south of Minsk, so not sure about cold or darkness.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2 5G: The best foldable phone
So we basically have no argument. All I was saying was that as the West is demographically changing, visible minorities will have an easier time. Your examples just demonstrate my point. Maybe in 60 years the whole notion of visible minority won't even exist in the West.
Now all that is just demographics. If some crazy fascist leader rises to power, which doesn't seem so far fetched nowadays, minorities may suffer again.
You don't really need a new kind of license for that; you can just AGPL now, and release MIT later (assuming you're assigned the copyright for all the code).
probably because of famine periods during those thousands of years, more people survived who could digest milk, thus selecting for that gene
The article is right: Zuckerberg is the dictator of a government-like entity. There is no check on his power. At some point, the people will have to wake up and demand better. Of course, the platform will steer them away from this opinion, but I still have hope.
"Sort-by-price" is "sort-by-price minus whatever arbitrary "shipping" fee the seller put in to cheat the sort, with paid placements mixed in at the top, bottom, and middle of every page".
Can you name a single one of these tablet makers that you can go into any town repair shop to get repaired?
They asked for thin and water-resistant. Apple removed the head-phone jack to achieve that. People were initially surprised but Apple was right that really they didn't need it anyway and they're fine about it now. So much so that other manufacturers copied it. People got what they wanted!
As a side note, LSD is a product of western medicine, psylocybin an DMT, while both present in nature have been characterized by western medicine and you are linking to western medicine papers.

Western medicine, which I would rather call scientific medicine is not against psychedelics and natural remedies, but instead of telling you to eat the funny shaped mushroom, it will study what exactly is in that mushroom, extract the good stuff, remove the bad, maybe try to improve it. It will then test it, with accurate dosing and if everything goes well, produce a treatment that is similar to what the shaman did but better.

I'd say the only thing the shaman has over a registered doctor is that he can spend more time with you, and hopefully have a positive influence on your lifestyle. But it is not a shortcoming of scientific medicine, in fact, it recognizes it. It is more about doctors being too few and overworked.
"White" in the US Census means someone who ticked the "White" box on the census form. A "White Hispanic" is someone who chooses to tick both the "White" box and the "Hispanic" box. Anyone can tick any box they like, out of the boxes available (and if they don't agree with the choice of boxes, they can write in whatever they like, and the Census Bureau will make its best effort to shoehorn their written response into its categories, or just put them in the "Other" bucket if it can't work it out). If they don't view themselves as "White", why are they putting themselves down as that on the Census?

> 90%+ of all U.S. Hispanics feel like they are part of a white majority?

I feel very hesitant in speculating about the feelings of tens of millions of people whom I don't know–and who of course are not all going to think or feel the same way, but who are going to have a very diverse range of feelings and opinions. Rather than speculating about their feelings, why not just go by what they voluntarily choose to put on their US Census forms?

> The vast majority of Hispanics in it fully realize and are made to feel like they are part of a minority in the U.S.

There are white minorities, so identifying as "white" doesn't necessarily make white-identified Hispanics non-minority. If an (ethnic majority) German or Russian or Finn moves to New York City, they are going to be an immigrant minority in their new home, but they and everyone else will see them as "white". A European-descended person who moves to New York City from Buenos Aires has Spanish as their native language instead of German or Russian or Finnish, but why would their experience be fundamentally different? The Spanish-speaking immigrant will be officially classified as "Hispanic", the German/Russian/Finnish-speaking immigrants wouldn't be, but they are all equally white ethnic minorities.
Relative to other jobs, not in absolute terms (which isn't very meaningful to compare). Lots of specialized jobs start out well paid and then spread out over time as more enter the profession. Airline pilots, for example, used to be a lucrative job but isn't now. School teachers used to be paid well. Engineering is a bit of a mixed bag, but there are plenty of examples there too. Medical doctors is the common exception to this.
Or don’t buy gold at all. Except for electronics, it’s useless at its price.
I suspect many people buy from Amazon because they can't find what they want anywhere else, or don't want to be stuck with shipping and restocking fees if something is wrong with it, or both.

Sadly, there aren't many vendors with a wide selection and a hassle-free return policy. On Amazon, even third-party sellers often have a return policy that matches Amazon's.
I feel we need the manufacturers to provide a design lifespan for each device, and that should mean that at least half the devices sold must reach or exceed that age without significant degradation -> like a half-life.

Nobody wants to buy a laptop that will only last 2 years, so the manufacturers would either have answer some tough questions, or design things to last, and to be repairable (because that's one way of making them last).

Obviously careful through is needed towards the fine print - one should allow some parts to be replaced, like batteries, but not accept that a device lasts 10 years if you spend more on repairs than the device has cost in the first place.
>It was the third loan that upended his life. He needed it to top up his rent, because by then a vicious cycle had begun, wherein he would pay off his loan then borrow again to fill the hole that the last
payment had left in his finances.

So this is just a Payday lender that thinks the potential for a shamed and disgruntled foreign national to clean out it's office with a machete is just too far removed...
Anti-trust.
A futuristic data policing program is harassing Pasco County families
Nothing about FB is surprising anymore. These are not accidents but signs of systemic problem.
Russia isn't drastically freer, but the lack of visa or work permit requirement with almost the same employment process as Russian citizens is a good bonus, although local employers might lower the salaries for immigrants.
Even Target has completely fraudulent bait-and-switch 3rd-partty listings, of the sort Covid-19 made popular (paper towels and cleaners, buy a 24-pack but only 1 shows up), mixed in with legit 1st-party listings.
What is a monoid? I googled to no avail. Lots of articles, but none tell what the heck it actually is.
There are no spectator fees because it's not a spectator sport.

3 hours of traffic and waiting ...

And then the anticipation ...

The 'zoom ... zoom zoom zoom' - in 1 minute it's over. That's it.

On the last leg in Paris, you get 5x that, but still.

It's nice to see once but 'paying' for so many reasons is out of the question.

Nice to see a newspaper find a way out of the scourge ...
Enzyme Github repo was hit by a DMCA takedown notice
> The implication was that if you have a decent job and live at home you will generally be able to arrange something because of your access to cash. So you can bankroll whatever solution will work with your s/o or casual encounter.

I think this answer still implies you're having sex maybe once or twice a month. Hotels aren't cheap and if you're paying for them more than a few times a month, why even live at home?

For many American couples - having sex anywhere from once a week to multiple times a day are all fairly common.
Does PG have a t-shirt line?
Show HN: Read posts from development blogs from your terminal
That's my reading as well. It's actually kind of funny to me: the term of copyright has grown so long that folks are essentially looking for ways to reimplement reasonable copyright term length inside of the construct of copyright protection itself.
This seems somehow relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNTp4kELkSY
"I think the reason programmers love to tinker with their vim or emacs configs is because it's simply satisfying."

I spent a ton (no, really a metric ton) of time tweaking my vim and emacs configs, and have thousands of lines of code in each, but I haven't touched either in years, and I'm pretty happy with that.

Yes, tweaking editor configs is fun, but I have other interests too, and those other interests have taken priority for a long time now.

Incidentally, I consider all that time tweaking my configs very well spent -- not because it was fun, but because my editors are enormously useful to me now, and I wouldn't dream of ever going back to more primitive editor.
Please don't use "Karen" as a slur like that. It makes your writing lose credibility.
Future Shock has a mixed reputation, but as I've worked my way through it this year (the 50th since its publication), I've been impressed by both its hits and misses.

The cautionary notes seem more enduring than its optimistic ones, and the commentary on cultural shifts and psychology more accurate than those on specific technical or scientific advances. Even Toffler seems to have underappreciated the scope and impact of infotech change, though that's balanced by overoptimism on other technology fronts.

Summing up his successful prognostications generally, they are "unintended consequences and side effects".

Thanks for the link to the obit discussion.
There is an option you can click so it doesn't show up in menu bar.
Please write a review and report that.
You keep changing the narrative to one that favors your Apple advocacy. You can think of no reason why I might strongly prefer this Samsung over your Apple? Not one? I have seen hundreds of your comments on this site on Apple threads and you never seem interested in seeing the opposing parties point of view. Why? Before you accuse me of the same, know that I have a MBP 2020/16, an iPhone 6s, and other Apple devices. I have recommended Apple to people to whom I felt it would be a fit. I ask you again: can you think of any reasons why I would prefer this particular Samsung?
I don't know the particulars, so hard to say. You're probably wanting me to say intent has bearing. Madoff intended to scam anybody as long as it helped his situation along. Don't know what Stewart's intent was.

You buying positive reviews is intended to make more money for yourself by getting as many sales as possible including if it means another seller doesn't get that sale. The person buying negative reviews is intending to take sales from others so they get the sales instead. Either way, the intent in both situations is to increase one's own position at the expense of others in a fraudulent manner. You're both just as guilty.
>Not necessarily. Satoshi obviously planned his pseudonymity from the start. The decision to leave the project may very well have been taken long before it was carried out.

I don't think so. I can't disprove your claim, but people aren't very good at that kind of planning and execution. Too many things can go wrong for them to either maintain anonymity or prevent others from maintaining this anonymity.

It comes off as a bad Hollywood movie. I think the person behind Satoshi has died.

>In hindsight, having no real creator has served Bitcoin well.

We'll see. It's too early to tell. One thing's for sure, I see a lot of less places that take bitcoin as currency then I did a few years ago. Also, the community is much more divided, and there are massive structural issues with bitcoin, from technical issues around the protocol itself, to lack of unified vision leading to forks and arguments, to massive amount of illegal behaviour.

>People would have listened too much to the creator for a decentralized decision process by consensus to form.

Is the leadership decentralized though? At the end of the day, someone needs to hold the keys for the code the runs the bitcoin protocol. Ultimately that individual or group has the power to do anything they want with bitcoin.
Steermouse has high CPU usage (up to 5%) when moving the mouse.
The web portal isn't the only way on to a hotel network, just the most convenient. The Nintendo Switch console doesn't support captive portals either, so I've gotten in the habit of dialing the front desk any time I stay at a hotel and asking to be transferred to the network team. You tell them you need a device whitelisted and provide your room number, duration of stay, and the MAC of any devices.
That's a side issue where a lot of good hardware companies never made a successful jump to software-integrated products.
Right, as I said, I never had a disagreement with your fundamental point, I just think your way of putting it was flawed
I share that obsession(at the times). Nowadays I wish I'd have the space for a room with at least a half dome, to project something like this at the walls like in a planetarium, to be immersed in. If I were to build a house, it would have this.

My very own eternal lava lamp! :-)
Search for "monoid category" on google. A monoid is a mathematical object in cathegory theory.
Elixir Is Erlang, not Ruby
They'll still happily ship you commingled or counterfeit product in the remaining 20%.
The Programmer's CAD: OpenSCAD
I look forward to reading this, because I'm currently unconvinced it is possible.
Advanced Propulsion Study – Air Force Research Laboratory [pdf]
Usually, that would be stereotyping via judging by the name / surname of an individual which is just as bad as any sort of racial prejudice in an interview which I have to be frank, really is despicable and unnecessary in the hiring process.

They don't give a follow up reason or a response because it would be worse on them as it would be proof that they 'actually' rejected you because of these reasons, or just no reason at all. But the response would be there as proof. Thus, the standard no response (Or what I call, Cowards response) is safer for them.

> So, I am wondering if I should report this? Go public with the name of the founder and startup? Contact their investors and let them know?

I agree with your claim and reporting this, however you need to prove that it happened. The thing is, it would only be better to do that if you have recorded the interview yourself and then you can prove that this happened and attach a name to it. Otherwise, its quite difficult to do this, I'm afraid.

I don't think the investors would care if you brought this to their attention. I am not a lawyer, but if you want to bring this forward speak to a legal professional about this.
You could have a large personal deduction.

You could tax everything at the lowest rate at the point of sale but make people do the accounting and pay their real rate if they are in a higher rate. The "tax" at the point of sale would act like income withholdings do now.

You could categorize good so that yatchs have a much higher rate than groceries.

You could also come up with an average price for good so that really expensive e.g. clothes and cars are taxed at a higher rate than they are for "normal" goods.

All it takes is some creativity.