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I see Bitcoin as a hedge against the USD and EUR as I feel the currencies will be in trouble in the coming years.

I see Bitcoin as a store of value. Keeping some of my assets in Bitcoin keeps some of my assets out of the hands of governments and banks and will not be affected by devaluation. There's no risk of a bail-in [0] for example.

I don't invest all my assets in Bitcoin, currently perhaps 10% of my net worth. I do feel Bitcoin will rise to 100.000 USD in the next few years and possibly even 1.000.000 USD in 10+ years, my aim is to gain a total of at least 3 BTC or so in the next year. I just hope Bitcoin doesn't rise too quick in value in that time period, since I can only afford to buy for maybe 1.000 USD per month.

I might sell a bit of my Bitcoin assets after my total Bitcoin asset value reach around 500.000 USD, since at that point I should be able to take things slow. At that point I would diversify a bit more into ETFs or stocks.

Perhaps this video [1] by Raoul Pal can give you some insight in my point of view, as I agree with him on most points.

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[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanlewis/2013/05/03/the-cypr...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL2LfVRl3J0
> In our view, we should be able to maintain every view either in linear time wrt the number of updates or sublinear time with respect to the overall dataset, and every case that doesn't do so is a bug.

This is awesome and I believe that should be technically possible for any query given the right data structure. The reduction tree works for min/max but is it a general solution or are there other data structures for other purposes - n per x and top subqueries come to mind. Is it all handled already or are there some limitations and a roadmap?
So is it a jack of all trades and master of none sort of thing? I still see it as a speculation tool and it's grabbing a lot of momentum. But I don't see what's so fundamentally useful about the technology unless you're interested in laundering money and/or buying illegal stuff.
Being able to read the words doesn't mean the comment makes sense. Reading it over and over again, yeah sure I can understand it, but I don't see any "point" or relation to the original comment.

Some people just seem to feel "smart" by wording things as convoluted as possible, using fancy words and references. The truth is, it is much harder to express thoughts clearly with simple, yet elegant words. Mostly because that makes everyone understand it, and everyone able to see through the facade. Meaning that whatever you say will need to hold up to much more scrutiny and you can't hide behind a facade of "fancyness" that scares off readers.

It's similar to coding. Writing simple code for complex programs is much much harder than writing complex code for complex problems, or even worse complex code for simple problems, which many people like to do.
People really need to be taught about prepared statements. I once worked on a code base (mainly PHP and Java, with a bit of Perl here and there) where someone had built their own SQL parameter escaping. It still didn't work some percentage of the time.
I stopped shopping at Wal-Mart around 2009 and haven't bought anything of Amazon's website since 2016 (I still bought Whole Foods and Woot for a bit, but I've cut those out too).

Newegg is a better place for parts, why use the Amazon stores for B&H and Adorama when you can .. just go to the websites for B&H and Adorama?!

I wrote this a while back. Amazon's has turned into a platform that's basically killed all the other parts sites and competition we use to have:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-death-of-the-mom-and-pop-...
Being a decentralized application, certainly the core devs could attempt to make such a change but I guarantee that would cause a fork and the community would decide which fork they want to put their mining effort into.
Anyone can create a Craigslist clone, but somehow they still make 100s of millions of dollars per year.
Elizabeth Holmes founded a startup a while back to solve this problem...

It seems like it’s just tough because you generally need a fair amount of blood for each test. We could lose some of the bureaucracy but it seems hard to get away from human phlebotomists and lab techs.
Thanks, that summarizes my thoughts on the article as well. Also, the article says that even in Colombia people will be able to buy cocaine only if their doctor feels that they meet the requirements for pain relief. How many recreational cocaine users are taking it for pain relief?
In most of the USA cannabis is much more allowed than in The Netherlands nowadays!
You had it with 'we can make infinite coin types' - who cares about what is adopted today? People change platforms every few years. What happened to MySpace? What's happening to Facebook even now? Where did TikTok come from? There is turnover.
A few years ago I saw a video about a side of hate tattoos that I had not considered: there are tattoo artists who do charity by covering up hate tattoos of people who legitimately want to turn over a new leaf (but who cannot afford to have tattoo fixup done at regular price).

While it may be callous to bring the hippocratic oath card to "uphold medical standards" in such stressful times, it may be of consolation that there's a small chance that a tattoo no longer necessarily represents the views of the wearer. If this tattooed man survived, hopefully he will take the experience of having his life saved as a hint to re-evaluate his beliefs.
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I went to university at 14 to study math, no problems. I had a good experience. I wish I went earlier, because years are worth more when you're young. The university environment was far superior, both socially and academically.
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He's just seeking a different niche :troll:
You've been slandered by whom?
https://web.archive.org/web/20200511234503/https://stjepang....

The first blog mentioned in the article appears to be down now, last snapshot I found is this one.
If you want to hedge against inflation, I suggest TIPS and maybe a bit of gold.

I would also point out that the market expectation clearly isn't aligned with currencies being 'in trouble' - very low inflation in general right now.
I meant the other view, the one the person I replied to was hinting at. The one that doesn't make it seen like a horrible thing for society.
Wow, another article about this study that points out "flaws" that the study's own authors identified as its limitations.

Scientific journalism is the worst: it presents studies as aiming to provide "answers" (in this case wrong answers) when in reality most studies are collections of data that pose questions.
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We're not sure why, but suddenly everyone is Colombia is very productive!
Versus the other two, I'd say it's much less of a functional programming language; you have arrays, mutation, and powerful loop syntax (that expands to gotos!). My experience (writing CL at work and for personal projects) is that CL is the perfected form of Python, whereas when I used Racket in the past it felt more like a cousin of ML.
Yeah, once those customers have a set up they can just price them into only using AWS Cloud

Deals already signed, thing are already integrated
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Damore kept his memo internal and did not circulate it widely. (It was leaked to the public in a calculated attempt to pressure Google into firing Damore.)

As recently as last week, while she was still a Google employee, Gebru publicly accused her “privileged White men” bosses of racial bias:

>Nothing like a bunch of privileged White men trying to squash research by marginalized communities for marginalized communities by ordering them to STOP with ZERO conversation. The amount of disrespect is incredible. Every time I think about it my blood starts boiling again.

https://mobile.twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/13317576299961...

>But they are doing exactly the job of squashing marginalized people's voices which is their job. I at least hope no one tries to talk DEI and other things

https://mobile.twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/13317729006936...

“Opinions my own” in her Twitter bio or not, as a manager, she should know better than to publicly accuse coworkers of bias against members of a protected class, particularly if she’s unwilling to make those same accusations in court. Public statements like that can lead to serious legal consequences for the company, not to mention repetutational damage for the accused, and should not be made lightly or without evidence.
Security fail by Apple allowed total remote control of iPhones via WiFi
> diversity OKRs

These really exist? How do you know when you've reached perfect diversity? I'm honestly curious.

Is it based on population distributions? What would be an example diversity OKR
Let’s make everything legal!!
> Choose.

If I must. Not yet - not quite yet.

"Whoever thinks I'm with them or against them, I'm against them."
Comparing Colombia to the Netherlands is not appropriate. The results will be completely different.
Is there an average number for the distraction threshold or is each person pretty different?
But this is true of every industry and having to compete with above-board drug prices makes their product less valuable. The risk of dealing with a black market seller has to come with a deep discount to make it worth it. When they’re the only game in town that risk is just part of the normal cost.
I find it a curiosity that John Carmack is perpetually touted as the whiz kid even though Tim Sweeney has done far, far more from both a technological standpoint and a business standpoint. But then again I'll never understand the fawning to begin with so there's that.
You can't print gold, and BTC is appreciating much faster than gold (or any commodity or store of value or even other cryptocurrencies).

It is not appreciating because fiat money is being devalued. That can account for -- at max -- 20% of the price increase.

It's appreciating because of speculation.
There's a huge difference between "argue against" and "actively try to sabotage".

Here (Italy) unionization is a constitutionally protected right. My employer can try to persuade me not to join one, but is absolutely not allowed to retaliate against me if I do, discriminate basing on union membership, etc.
Maybe they know what prosciutto is but don’t know that in USA we use that term to only refer to prosciutto crudo?
Yes but it is effectively legal. Legalisation is a range from black to white. It's not fully white but 'gray'. In the Netherlands this is a very typical thing, it basically means it's legal but the government don't want to admit it to avoid causing international incidents or making a legal statement.

I'm pretty sure it would have been fully legal if other states (Belgium, Germany) hadn't objected to their citizens crossing the border to get their drugs.

But the coffee shops operate legally, their supply chain does not. It still means you can check for quality at the shops (and there have been no real issues there). As it's a commodity it drives down the price and thus the profits of the cartels.

Some municipalities were even considering growing their own, using unemployed people working there on employment schemes. But it was shut down by the current government I believe.
My takeaway is that the widespread measure of serum 25(OH)D represents the total Vitamin D reserve store while the rarely measured 1,25(OH)2D [2 in 2D should be subscript] represents the actual active level. It is low 1,25(OH)2D or a reduced ability to convert storage to active that is associated with a less diverse gut microbiome.

We may be over supplementing. To use a car analogy, our gas tank is overflowing and we are obsessed with the gauge reading Full while the gauge reading Empty is the critical measure.

What we need is a measure of how fast our 25(OH)D is depleted and what level represents an empty tank.
I would assume that there isn't a 'Google Brain Men and Allies' affinity group. "Google Brain" does likely have its own general distro where standard work-related topics are discussed.

At the hazard of becoming 'political' and triggering people, affinity groups are typically created for groups that have traditionally been underserved, marginalized, or have special considerations.

As a cis male, I don't really see the need for a 'Google Brain Men and Allies' distro list because the issues that men face in the workplace are generally the same issues everyone faces. Women (and nonbinary people) can be confronted with issues that men simply aren't.

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At Amazon, there are groups for Black employees, Latinx employees, LGBTQA+ employees, transgender employees, women, disabled employees, etc.

Sometimes these groups talk about work; but sometimes they talk about just life things. For example, often cisgendered employees will have children that come out as trans. So they'll reach out to the transgender community for help and support as to how to be the best advocate for their child.

Or, as a personal example, I moved to a new city to take the job at Amazon. I was looking for a therapist, and it was important that the therapist be supportive of LGBTQA+ issues and ethical non-monogamy. So I reached out to the LGBTQA+ group for therapist recommendations.
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Whoops. And HN won't let me change it now.
Yeah Mercury and some other startup banks looks great, but at least Mercury appears to be business-only. I need something that works for business & personal.

(And I have no doubt they'll all expand to handle both personal & business, but I'm impatient ;)
So is the Declaration of Independence. So is Matthew 5. What's your point?
My first job in IT was back in 2005 and I was only making $25k/yr ($30k by the end). That did grow to the point where I can make six figures now though. But it took a lot of experience building.

What tracks are available for Amazon warehouse workers who want to move up?
Right now there is nothing available CPU or GPU wise.
Did you wiggle the mouse while measuring? ;)
Well, nothing besides a bunch of R&D since AMD doesn't provide any reference design with Thunderbolt.
Amazingly, the USG never asked those questions about disbanding the Iraqi army and we got ISIS.
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Thanks for the additional detail, but those all still boil down to dataset eventually, right? Those sound more like "yes, and" additions than the "no, you're racist" shitfight we saw.
it would be more accurate that they both conform to the OCI runtime spec, right?
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If Google workers organized/became a union shop, compensation would probably be unbelievably high.* They are the source of most of the profits and Google is very profitable.

*assuming the union only represented SWEs and not PMs/etc.
You don't see any power disparity here?
It really just comes down to the idea that blockchain networks are cheaper, more secure, more reliable and more scalable than traditional server arrangements. That’s not just my opinion; most of the top tech companies are ploughing huge amounts of money into it. market investors will do what they always do, but all I know is that I would rather have a crypto wallet with some stored value than an old, inefficient server sitting in the corner.
The Dutch government makes a difference between soft drugs (e.g. Cannabis) and hard drugs (e.g. Cocaine), and for good reason.
While most people don't get into trouble from using Cannabis, cocaine usage can wreck people's life. Unfortunately I have had to witness this a couple of times in my circle of friends.

While criminalising hard drugs is not ideal, legalising them and thereby making them more easily available will have a devastating impact and destroy too many lifes.
My point is that it is a societal sickness that we calibrate our reaction to a non-sentient virus based on what some person is doing. A sibling comment talks about the mayor of Austin being in Cabo. The choices that the president, the mayor of Austin, or a councilperson in San Fransisco has no bearing on the mortality and morbidity rates of this disease, how transmissible it is, or how many hospital beds are available to treat the very ill.

It's unproductive and distracting to focus on a few people, even if they are leaders, making poor personal decisions in a crisis. It is not about them, it's about sars-covid-19 and the thousands of people dying from it every day, and the hundreds of thousands that will die if we don't get our collective act together.
Wait, $800 million is almost a third of $2.7 billion. That doesn't seem like a drop in the bucket. That seems like a third of a bucket which is a large amount of a bucket.
No the US has no credibility in this area with weed becoming legalized state by state, picking up pace, and becoming increasingly bipartisan.

Colombia can call our bluff, and the aid will continue anyways because we don't want to loose leverage in other matters.
It's not a point release. The '26' can be thought of as the major version number, and point releases will be like 4.26.1

Think of 4.26.1 as "Unreal Engine 4, version 26, revision 1"
This. A lot of people seem to be missing the forest for the trees. General point I took away was if you're starting on a new project and you're thinking about which tools (language, framework, db, etc) to use before you've taken time to understand the problem and articulate a solution (UX), you're not really setting yourself up for success. That seems pretty reasonable to me.
Coscreen has come a long way. I've been using it for several months and have seen lots of improvements. I like the idea that it's many-to-many versus normal one-to-one pairing. It makes it useful for things like daily team standups in addition normal collaboration.
If you mean the conspiracy theory, then some proof would be in order. That happening, and most people believing that to happen, are both outlandish claims.

Spoiler: it actually does not happen. As the other person commented, snooping like this in scale would leak.
I think hardware architects might hate hearing this but their work enables lower skill engineers to enable more functionality in less time. This wasn't quite mentioned in the article. Having faster hardware means you can run automated more security checks and more functional checks, in the same functions that run on less powerful hardware. The performance of your program can also survive some useless checks you've thrown in or some slow algorithm like a bubble sort. This slows down the end program but means that it was much easier to program in the first place. We want to imagine that the extra processing power we're building hardware for will be used to do awesome things like machine learning or PQC. But in reality it just lets some lazy idiot like me finish their project faster, which isn't a bad thing! Computer technology is expanding like crazy and it's almost impossible to keep up with it. Easing the transition from idea to code is worth wasting a bunch of cycles imo.
The thing I don't get (and I have the same skepticism about gold ETFs) is that if one is trying to hedge extreme scenarios (e.g. high inflation or even monetary collapse) ETFs being 'protected' could easily fall through. I sort of understand holding one's own gold or Bitcoin, but through and ETF just seems like all the speculation with none of the crisis portability.
Right, I think the point is that while things have improved since then, workers are still exploited. The only way to change that is for people to band together. Large, diverse, unified groups can bring about change.

The coal miners were mostly Irish and German immigrants and African Americans. They all joined together and brought about changes that workers still benefit from today. People in 2020 can do the same.
They'll get there, be patient.
Pay might be high, but it has not kept up with the increases in cost of living and inflation over the last 20 years, especially in big cities like SF or NYC.

Also, Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay all colluded with one another to keep tech worker compensation below its market value[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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Like Alcohol?

I haven't looked at the stats but I'm assuming alcohol has way more addiction than any other drug.

I think the original posters point was that people are doing the drugs anyway, making it illegal may put a slight dent in usage, but it doesn't stop people from doing the drugs.

And the number of lives ruined, the cartels, the massive police required, and the side effects from the war of drugs are much worse than if all drugs were decriminalized.

The cartels are destabilizing entire governments in Latin America murdering police and journalists making entire regions inaccessible.

It's real bad.
cryptos just like tesla stock are roller coasters. the sp500 is an indicator of stability used by most of investors to jauge the health of the markets.
add tesla to the sp500 (day after day spiking up and down like no other stock) and you create instability.
the crypto has always been instable so managing indices on it...
and at the same time you see that many people lost their jobs, went into loans they re not able to refund. not even talking about the fall of the dollar.

I think all added its gonna be bad.
If you're typing into a Slack window, I think you can multiply all that by 10.
Yeah, I've been trying to buy components for a build for the past two weeks.

No 5600x (or even 3600).
No nvidia cards at decent prices.

I'm guessing the etherium 2 launch just drained the whole supply chain.
Kenneth Lay died on holiday at a resort before he was sentenced. The conviction was vacated:

Lay, who at age 64 succumbed to a massive heart attack at a rented Colorado vacation home, was found guilty by a federal jury in May along with former Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey K. Skilling of conspiracy and fraud. The two were star defendants in the notorious business scandal, which vaporized more than 4,000 jobs and billions of dollars in stockholders’ investments.

But when a defendant who pleaded not guilty dies before sentencing, as Lay did, in most cases the conviction is wiped out on the grounds that the defendant did not have the opportunity to appeal, legal experts said....

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-06-fi-lay6-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Lay
I think the main points are:

1. Their own struggles aren't new: companies have been trying to fuck workers over since time immemorial, and
2. There is a well-known solution to these problems: unions.

Are you working 16 hours a day, barely able to afford rent + food + utilities, and slipping further into debt every day? It doesn't have to be that way, and we have a really good idea, based on historical facts, about how to fix it.
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