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Marriage rates are substantially higher in the cheap housing Southeast, Midwest and Texas than they are in the Northeast and West Coast.
This is a term thrown around a lot. "Deflationary" has different meanings in different contexts.

Conventional economists use "deflation" to mean "price deflation" -- that is, the price of goods, on average, decreases over time, as denominated in the currency in question.

Austrian (heterodox) economists often use the term "deflation" and "inflation" to refer to changes in the money supply, rather than prices.

In the crypto space, people often use the term "deflationary" to refer to currencies that do not increase exponentially in supply; or more specifically whether the marginal change in supply is decreasing.

For 1, no -- saying "Ethereum is deflationary" is equivalent to saying "the value of Ethereum will always go up", which is clearly nonsensical, because it's saying that Ethereum is a risk-free investment.

For 2, no, Ethereum is not deflationary, the supply increases linearly, so the supply is always increasing.

For 3, yes, Ethereum is deflationary, because the supply increases linearly, which means the marginal change in supply tends to zero.

Your question about investments seems to be following the implication that if 3 is true, then 1 must be true, since they both use the word "deflationary". That may be the case, but I would hesitate to think that a mechanical system can guarantee an increase in value.
> Most "Fancy" PC laptops have cellular

what

just checked one of the biggest laptop retailer in my country, and out of 651 laptops referenced, only 10 have 3G/4G support. I don't see any with a GPS.
How does this tool fight the natural tendency towards answer herding?
There are basically two big things in Ethereum's scaling roadmap. One is sharding, so each node only has to process a fraction of all transactions. Initially there will be 64 shards, but it's designed to allow up to 1024. As individual nodes get more powerful, both the number of shards and the amount processed by each shard increases, for quadratic scaling.

The other part, which is on Ethereum mainnet already, is a layer-2 idea called rollups, which store transactions on chain in a very compressed format without losing security guarantees. There are several rollup systems, capable on today's Ethereum of doing 1000 to 9000 simple tx/sec.

Once both systems are live, total capacity will be 20K to 100K tx/sec, not counting the quadratic improvements.

On the research side, there's also work to make data validation more efficient by replacing merkle trees with something more compact, like polynomial commitments. That would add another 10X factor to rollup scaling.

Regarding footguns, people are working on more rigorous languages than Solidity that still compile to the EVM. So far their compilers aren't as solid so they don't get much production use yet.
fwiw not quite but we are on the right track

"The vote means that the European Commission now has the full support of the Parliament in moving forward with the development of laws [...]"
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Well, there was a bit of incompetence. The auxiliary cable was almost certainly installed incorrectly and the failure mode that occurred (cable slipped out of its socket) would not have happened if best practices were followed.

But it was installed on the cheap: if they'd had more money they would likely have paid for more diligent engineers. After all, they built it pretty well the first time round. So at some level, yeah, the root cause is a lack of funds.
I like you and I think your posts are generally high quality, so I am going to say that an elitist "screw people who cant afford an overpriced mac" is not a good thing imo.

Will we get some lower quality apps, sure, do those already exist? yeah. It just sounds like gatekeeping for not much benefit.
As a way of breaking this cycle, I've recently been considering going to bed earlier (e.g. 9-10pm), and then getting up at 5-6am, BUT with the proviso I can do whatever I want between 5 and 8, with no pressure to be productive (e.g. binge on Netflix for 3 hours). I just need to convince my wife to do the same :) Has anyone tried something like this?
> In the case of Ethereum, digital scarcity secured by a blockchain enables a turing complete state machine that the world can use

This sentence is completely opaque to me. I have no idea what you are trying to say.

> In the most basic terms, this will remove clearing houses for transactions of asset

So I will be able to go to Starbucks, buy a cup of coffee, pay for it with Ethereum and not involve my bank?

> Imagine building a stream of passive income based on the shares you've earned in projects you've worked on throughout your life.

I can currently buy shares in companies I work for. Why is Ethereum different (other than I don't understand it)?
We need to adopt similar strategies for getting e.g. green energy production off the ground. Thinking of things like solar panel production.
I grew up in the C64 days - I still can't get my head around the fact that you need 3gb of RAM because 2gb is not enough to run a webbrowser these days.

I know that what's going on on a typical website these days requires an enormous amount of computational power, but I mean, come on. That shouldn't be the explanation, it's part of the problem.
I'm the absolute opposite. Mornings are for endless procrastination, what can be done in 10 minutes before sleep can be done in an hour in the morning, even if I drink a lot of coffee. This is a really unhealthy habit as sometimes if the activity proves engaging, it keeps me from sleeping, obviously.

What's weird is psychoactive substance rarely seem to change this productivity dynamic. Even if I'm well rested and drink coffee in the morning, I'm still inclined to procrastinate, whereas in the evening even after drinking alcohol or smoking weed, I can be productive even for intellectual tasks. Obviously I do not condone working while under influence, but if it's a friday and I have literally nothing to do (e.g. during lockdown) drinking a few beers, smoking some pot and programming for my side-projects or playing chess around midnight is really fun for me. In the mornings, I just infinite-scroll reddit for at least an hour before I can even leave the bed.
Ya, weekly builds on Monday morning for a gaming company with multiple teams makes sense. They could slice it up across their teams even for better TCO
Maybe I wasn't totally clear, but I think we actually agree.

To me, a focus on 'credit-based' system is about acknowledging that the boundaries of those domains are growing and changing. Gaining knowledge and expertise in one area can inform your work in another. The idea would be to broaden abilities, not focus on being 'exclusively prepared'.

> the biggest value of a university degree is teaching someone how to think and learn in combination with some domain knowledge.

I would add also: 'how to work', 'how to learn' and 'who to know'. By 'certs' I didn't just mean tech specializations. Courses can be about broader topics. A course on politics can be absolutely beneficial to an engineer. A more modular approach could also encourage lifelong learning rather than the "checkbox" that a degree satisfies.

>We have accreditation boards to determine what is required for a common base.

That's the problem. Those boards/requirements vary based on Universities and available instructors and resources. Yet, everyone comes out with the same degree.
Apple, Facebook must create level playing field for payment services
Canada. And sure, I could ask my doctor and he’d say “sure, if you pay for it”.

So just like the US.
Imagine somehow a single party gets 66% of all ETH, enough for them to execute the equivalent of a "51% attack".

The community will notice and can decide to do a hard fork of the network where they "delete" the attackers coins.

So the network would have experience a hickup, but the hacker has lost billions of dollars worth of ETH and can't attack anymore.

This is different from Proof of Work & Bitcoin. If an attacker gets 51% of the "mining power" (physical hardware), there's nothing the community can do to "delete" their hardware.
Yes, I’m quite aware that Mozilla used to have a crappy HTML editor strapped on as an afterthought. Treating editing as a second-/third-class citizen and not as a first- is exactly what led to this mess in the first place.

Again, see Tim Berners-Lee and the first, second, and third web browsers ever released, and notice what changed along the way.

If you cannot edit and save a web document as easily as you can read it, the system has already failed. If you have to switch mental or environment modes to do so, the system has already failed. If you have to switch to a different tool to complete the write operation (e.g. FTP client), the system has already failed. If you have to fiddle with individual files instead of discrete documents, the system has already failed. If you have to manage local copies vs remote copies of your documents, the system has already failed. And so on.

It doesn’t matter how important something is, if you make it hard (or even just harder) to do, 99% of people will not do it. That’s not on them as the users; it’s on you as the product developers.

Making a read-write web work as a mass end-user product means eliminating ALL the user-facing distinctions between web-browsing for reading and web-browsing for writing. Those distinctions are completely contrived and unnecessary—not to mention ultimately harmful—and the only reason it ever existed in the first place is ’cos Tim Berners-Lee was a lazy ass who couldn’t be bothered to port the authoring part of WorldWideWeb to Windows, and in doing so destroyed the very Open Web that he himself invented.

Talk about Laws of Unintended Consequences.

Like I say, think of MS Word (not an ideal example in terms of ease of use, but it is ubiquitous and an interaction model everyone understands), only instead of reading and writing to file paths reads and writes to URLs. That is the basic UX an open web requires. Anything else is just the geeks playing with themselves (again), which the marketers and money men will make into their own (again).

..

I mean, it should not be hard to grasp (I am a BoVLB, so if I can see it…), yet so many dyed-in-the-wool geeks utterly fail to grasp it. Maybe that’s because they’re so inured to the current imbalanced system that they cannot imagine it being any other way? Perhaps because they themselves are a deeply integrated part of that system and, on the inside looking out, cannot see what all the fuss is about when that imbalance already works in their favor.

Alas, we do seem to be two cultures separated by a common language here, so help me understand how to explain it in a way y’all can understand.
AWS needs to buy a lot more mac machines from apple. Without the limit everybody would start a vm for a few minutes to run a ci job and stop the machine. So there is no „sharing“ of a machine within a 24 hour window if you only need the machine shortly.
Not directly ICBM related, but the Arecibo telescope detected an ionospheric anomaly in the 1979 Vela incident [0], believed to be an undeclared nuclear weapons test.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident
I think you meant "iteration", not "irritation".
...you really want to be on call 24 hours a day? Because that is what you are asking for.

The shifts are good for you, because they limit the times when work can command your presence and force businesses to hire multiple people to staff the day. Remote work is already showing the flaws of the reverse, because now people have issues separating work and real life since there is no clearly modeled time delineation any more.
The NBA’s social justice efforts have been a slam dunk
After reading this I think the most impressive piece is how productive Sah and Sawhney have been in their partnership just as undergrads!

For those reading, the work on graph theory they have done is impressive but yes...not about to change our understanding of how the world works or unlock some new technology. What is impressive is how young they are to be pursuing this level of rigor and work. It means there is a potentially really high ceiling of what COULD be produced by these minds.

I find it important to recognize great work like this to encourage people to do research, even if the initial result feels incredibly niche or irrelevant. Great research seems to be a combo of time and persistence so this is a relevant first step!
I remember spending quality time with coredumps and gdb back in 2012/2013, when a prototype supercar dashboard we were building crashed on certain CSS animations.[ß]

The call chain went through GTKWebkit, Wayland and all the way to Pango and Cairo. Getting that part untangled took a long afternoon. Figuring out the root cause was another two full days.

The topmost parts of the stack above could be dealt with breakpoints, but even with pango/cairo libs from a debug build it was painful. The failing function could only be single-stepped, trying to place breakpoints inside it would not work. In the end it was an unhandled divide-by-zero deep inside the rendering library.

ß: story for another time.
Doesn't it depend on what you eat too though? I'm inside a lot but also consume daily lots of stuff that contains high daily value of Vitamin D.
It doesn't solve the fundamental cost problem with Proof of Work:

- If people pay high effective tx fees, it's shit because, well, it's expensive.

- If people pay low effective tx fees (through lightning or block size increase or whatever) then, as soon as inflation ends, the money won't be enough to pay for a sufficient hash rate.
Nah... that sucks if you're trying to actually do something.

When i finish everything (work, home, cook food, eat, cleanup, random household tasks,...) it's usually 8 in the evening, maybe 9. If i want to do something (hobby, personal project....), I start at 9, and work until "too late".

If you go to sleep early, and wake up at (eg.) 5 in the morning, start work at 8, you have (eg.) 1 hour to get ready and commute + 2 hours of free time.

If anything "goes wrong" in my project, i have to debug, retry, fix, cut and cut again (and it's still too short),... doing this in the morning,it means, that you interrupt your pleasure-work at the moment where you're most productive (and where the thing you're doing is most "fun"/fulfiling). I can always go to sleep an hour later, or two, or five... most people are not that flexible with their jobs.

This is just my personal experience and opinion though.
What did you get? I went through five different keyboards before ending up with a Durgod Taurus K320 with silent red switches. It was recommended as a good shared-space mechanical keyboard, and I ended up liking it better than all my louder keyboards even when no one else is home.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, thanks for sharing it.
Ooo, thanks for the recommendation! Can you play Journey with a partner live or is it best left to two individual playthroughs?
> So it's basically irrelevant for the USA and Europe. Then why is it such a hot topic on Hacker News?

This is just plain racist. HN is not just for US and Europe people.
I think it's high time for Puerto Rico to become a US state. Puerto Rico has twice the population of the two Dakotas combined and the only way they'll receive more-equitable treatment is if they become a state. I think the will is there locally but there has been resistance from established political factions in the US who fear a place that might tip the balance of power one way or the other.
If this thread is any indication, most investors don't understand nuances of cryptocurrencies, just Bitcoin and "not-bitcoin".

As projects like Ethereum continue to develop, I imagine it will diverge from Bitcoin more.

It should also be noted that Bitcoin has been highly correlated to the SP500 this year, despite being a completely different asset class.
I'm not a Bitcoin advocate, I just recognize the value the invention provided and I recognize that this whole cryptocurrency space relies on it being successful for long enough for anything else usurp it. If Bitcoin got hacked right now, everything crashes with it.

Compared to Bitcoin, there are consensus mechanisms that are a lot faster (3 orders of magnitude), cheaper (almost free transaction cost), near instant finality (seconds, not 1 hour) and leave almost zero carbon footprint. They just haven't been proven out at scale yet.
My bad! I missed the one sentence where he says that. And I even read it twice... need more caffeine.
> The problem (partly) is that the F-35 program puts money into 307 congressional districts in 45 states [1]. These insanely expensive defense projects are wealth transfer programs that make contractors like Lockhead and their many sub-contractors rich, and also create jobs in these communities.

I agree with this. I've been saying for years that our military programs are giant socialist jobs programs in disguise (that unfortunately have the side effect of propping up the military industrial complex). If we were honest with ourselves and re-allocated that money to actual jobs programs we would get a much better ROI. Given the obscene amount of resources wasted we could reallocate a significant chunk of it without hurting our military preparedness one bit.
I finished OMSCS in April. I was surprised to find that I just oscillated between trying to start the 10 different projects that had been waiting for me to finish, and doing absolutely nothing because I finally didn’t have to.

I ended up going through some material and building a trading bot because I never got a chance to take ML4T.

My wife was incredulous that I was doing more coursework after graduating.
> You might be surprised to learn that what you think is giving you energy, is actually taking it away.

I feel like you are confusing physical energy with spiritual energy. The stuff that makes you feel motivated and driven and excited, versus just capable of doing work.
Yeah, no. I've had an HP Elitebook that had a 3G modem, but that was very much an enterprise spec, I don't recall a single high end consumer laptop with a cellular modem. I think you could get the XPS with one years ago, but that option is long gone now.
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Yours is a convincing argument. How do we get better optics on this for the public at large, so as to better present arguments for funding science?
This is tangential, but I came across an interesting paper from 2012 on the usage of face masks in Japan. I had preconceived notions that the prevalence of mask use in Japan was solely driven by collectivist culture. If nothing else, this was a good reminder that even groups that appear to be homogenous to an outside observer have diversity in their views.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9566...
The way that camera was shaking around, it must have been a windy day up there.
The map is not the territory; all abstractions are false.

Exploring without a map or map-making is futile, and fraught with danger.

Both these things can be true.
> - Someone lives somewhere that the U.S refuses to bank with

We are already starting to see this with Venezuela. The easiest way to get USD equivalents to certain people there is via USDC, which is being worked on with the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve.

"According to the company’s blog post, the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve deposit funds seized by the U.S. into a bank account in the U.S. tied to the Guaidó government, which converts the funds into USDC that Circle then sends to Airtm." - https://www.coindesk.com/circle-usdc-venezuela-airtm
Similar to that forcing a finish habit, I've started to avoid trying to "min/max" games in an effort to just slow down and discover. I definitely had way more fun in Stardew Valley with my partner doing this.
Is that $1 trillion only ETH transactions, or it is counting the huge number of other "coins" (tokens) or assets implemented as ETH smart contracts that act like mini-ledgers? (I'm assuming the latter.)
Why do I need to submit an email address and agree to terms for the demo?
>I would guess ARM Windows has as much x86 legacy code as Windows 10 has since Windows 95 and before and maybe Apples advantage for intel code just swallows a Surface X.

Say what? It all boils down to M1 processor being leaps and bounds better than anything Qualcomm offers.

Edit://Windows 10 like every Windows version offered since Windows XP is built on Windows NT(not Windows 95/9x) which supported MIPS, Power PC and DEC Alpha.
More modern versions of Windows(up to server 2008) was also available for the itanium.
Microsoft knows how to make an OS just fine. The UX is a different story as of late but then again I a very happy I moved off MacOS.
Microsoft simply doesn't do what you are saying.

Windows 10 hosting is not confined to azure services, you can even bring your own license to AWS, or host your own terminal services, or run your own virtual apps, or literally anything.
But until now nobody was able to build an ARM cpu as fast as apples cou. Every server arm cpu in the past was still a lot slower than intel cpus, despite packing a lot of cores on a chip.
I do this (allocate more unproductive time in the mornings) and it's great. I tend to wake up at about 7 and wake up slowly, browse the news and/or play a game until I start working at about 10. I've operated that way since I was a kid (with some exceptions), and find that every day is much better when the mornings contain no stress.
I wonder the degree to which this is about apple trying to reduce their services crypto workload? When developers say they "want a mac instance" they often "want a mac instance that can talk to apple services like a normal mac instance" in order to sign apps and such. I'm not sure but I think arranging for that capability probably involves round trips with apple services to get required key signing artifacts into place ...

If instances are totally ephemeral in the same way as we are used to with linux vm's maybe that runs the risk of creating a real problem for apple services?
There’s an interesting discussion on why giving every citizen a federal account makes sense on the latest episode of deconstructed.

“ Basically, the Fed functions at the moment as a sort of bank for the banks. And then the hope is that all Americans have their own banks. And so there’s a kind of one-step removal between us and the Fed. What we’re advocating here is cutting out that middleman to the private sector banking institution. And in a sense what the Fed would do is offer digital wallets to all small businesses and citizens and approved residents of the United States in the way that it currently does for banks, right?

I mean, what it offers to the banks right now are Fed accounts. Right? Accounts with the Fed, they’re called reserve accounts. And what we’re saying is that the reserve accounts that are only for banks should be replaced by digital wallets for all citizens, small businesses, and again, legal writ.”

https://theintercept.com/2020/11/20/decon-biden-senate/
Because validators target their expected time slot and multiple random factors impact latency.
Are you sure it wasn’t methanol?
Lockheed
I cannot argue with your points of what the CIA’s role is. But who is the boss? Seems to me it should be The Commander-in-Chief of the US Military, not a network of Federal Employees.
It does all the time, when I run anything that taxing the CPU. Switching app doesn't feel instant and I can always hear the fan noise going in the background.
Thank fuck some countries have had workers' revolutions that limit working hours and days - and make employers pay dearly for overtime.

I mean there's workarounds like the gig economy, but for most people things are still pretty good.