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Dems Propose Legislation Requiring Stablecoin Issuers to Become Banks
> I understood it that if I keep the private key secure, nobody can take it away from me.

They can, though. All it takes is a majority of the miners deciding to do so. For example: https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/07/20/hard-fork-completed/
How do you know that? And even if it was true, what is the underlying point? I don't see the "hardly anybody uses Monero for anything other than crime (right now)" -> "cryptocurrency is useless" argument working.
we are literally discussing LaTeX which definitely has no relevant closed-source equivalent.
I suspect those are called hobbies :)
Convoluted market-based drivel. We need some degree of command and control to achieve climate security. Markets are too inefficient.
> A rational slave owner would sell all their slaves and buy stock in a company that didn't employ any - that it is going to make vastly more money. Slaves aren't an effective asset in this century. After a generation or two there'd be basically none left because nobody would want one.

[citation needed]

> Look at Apple, AWS, Google, etc, etc vs some slave-run plantation in wherever-they-have-slave-plantations. Which one would people rather invest in, just from a greedy capitalist perspective? All the money is in owning productive capital and businesses made up of motivated employees.

I'm having trouble taking this comparison seriously. There has always been employees aside of slavery, usually at different positions.

Look at Apple's production history in China, or Amazon warehouse workers or Google/Amazon turk work. If there was no regulation, and with unscrupulous C-levels, those positions would probably be slaves, from a "capitalist perspective".
Interesting, the speech to song illusion reminds me of a related visual effect ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaning_tower_illusion
If you look at your individual emissions then an SUV, frequent flights and fast fashion will dominate everything else. The only reason flying isn't a huge percentage of global emissions is because few people fly. Even in the US less than half the population fly in any one year.
How about ASML then?
Until, completely hypothetically, some sketchy company creates $20 billion out of thin air and uses it to pump the price of all Bitcoin (including yours) to insane speculative heights... and then the bubble pops.
That sounds weird, shouldn't the owner of the ship be responsible?

With this general average there is no incentive to the operator to operate safely. Spending time to properly securing containers, not overloading etc.
For the amount of petroleum products used in pharmaceuticals, they can easily be replaced by synthesis from bio-derived precursors. There's nothing special about hydrocarbons from oil.
Yea, but he gets other people to pay for them which is smart.
Adopted in a very successful manner? What does that mean? What a ridiculous standard. Technology exists, if you don't use it its not the fault of the tech.

Its not hard to understand: "if X has green and non-green options, and you choose non-green, that doesn't mean you can claim X is non-green."
The ending was total fiction.
I think the removal of agency and oversight from the public that is often coupled with "solutionism" - not lack of faith in technology - is a primary reason solutionism has met public resistance. People are willing to sacrifice efficiency for accountability & involvement, and they do not want to hand off priority-setting to technocrats.
I am personally hesitant to embrace a model where "governments have also found success in working together with the private sector to manage information flows during the pandemic", as the author describes Taiwan, especially when coupled with oversight by a bureaucratic cryptid like Marshall at the ONA. The current US versions of a misinformation "Fact Check Center" and "Meme Engineering Team" [0] have not inspired confidence. The list of top Marshall protégés may hint at tradeoffs associated with broader deployment of the ONA approach [1].

[0]https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/lesson...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Marshall_(foreign_polic...
Nope, the calling conventions are selectable, originally on the 16 bit days actually used Pascal calling convention, then with age there are several APIs whose public API is only available as either COM, .NET or both, regardless how the interface with the kernel is done.
why not start at $1500 n $10 less everyday afterwards?
> has admittedly some issues producing consumer facing products

Not just them. Open source community has issues with complex software that needs substantial amount of R&D, UI/UX design, manual QA, hardware design, or pretty much everything else that's not coding.

Multimedia codecs aren't user facing, yet only PNG was invented as open source, the rest of the wide spread ones (gif, jpeg, MP3, MPEG2, h264, h265, AAC, etc) - were made by companies. Open source developers made their Vorbis, Theora and others, were not good enough.
Sending a message may have some impact, but what he says doesn't matter in practice. This industry is dead in 30 years due to economic reasons. Offshore petroleum drilling is too expensive.
Wouldn't the "building your own" part involve using protocols like 2-5G, WiMax and others in order to have long range connectivity between meshnets?

We need devices that you can plug into the wall and immediately join a local meshnet. If it provided connectivity between remote meshnets with stuff like CJDNS, we'd be making a big step towards owning our infrastructure. But we'd still need the infra setup by our telcos. Is it even possible to get rid of them?
Any PoS crypto? There are thousands.
So a new state of the art CPU is a bit faster than a 5 year old design that Intel kept milking without any significant changes? I think that sounds reassuring that there are companies still capable of innovation although I am not a fan of Apple, I admire them for getting Intel on their toes. Finally.
I talked to Joe briefly on the phone about ten years ago. He has a very sharp mind for financial related startups and his insights truly impressed me. If he said this, it says something to me.
A small number of use cases, were pretty sure. So far the number of realized, actual extant use cases is between 0 and 1 depending on who you ask.
The (added?) report says,

> 54 of the DG containers carry fireworks whilst a further eight hold batteries, and two contain liquid ethanol.
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I remember it captured Newton’s nuttiness and strong interest in experiment and knowledge when Stephenson had a scene where Newton used knitting needles inserted under his own eyeballs to distort the shape of his eyeball and describe what he saw.
Yes, because that new SUV will probably remain on the market for another 20 years. The 1999 Opel Corsa has at most 5 years of useful life left. So "new SUV" vs "old car" is a false dichotomy, and the real comparison should be between "20 years of fuel-guzzling SUV" or "20 years of fuel-efficient minicar" (mildly exaggerating, but you get the point).
This is marvelous
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> That makes it a more natural fit for an actual computer-maker, such as HP and Dell.

What about XBox and Playstation?

I gather AMD makes equivalent integrated silicon for the leading game systems, so that might be the most interesting comparison.
Markets tend not to price in externalities they can avoid, sadly. They’re great at lots of things but sometimes they need a finger to help balance the scales.
Maybe not, but that's probably not a fair comparison. Given same age, length and width, an SUV will be a bit heavier and have more air resistance than a vehicle with less height, so the energy use (and emissions) will be maybe 20% higher than a comparable station wagon.
For sure haha
React – The Rise of the JavaScript Powerhouse
Kinda... developing UIs is around 10x easier and faster, but you can get in trouble when you want to integrate with device APIs like Camera, Location, etc.

You also don't have such a rich ecosystem of third party libraries. For example, I think there's still no implementation of native ads for major ad networks, which can be a deal-breaker if you're working on a large consumer-facing app.

Regarding native C/C++ interop (thank God I no longer have to deal with this!), Flutter has dart:ffi. I'm not sure how it compares to JNI, but it can't be worse. In practice, you'd still end up dealing with the horrible NDK toolchain on Android, though.
> Yeah, it would. Countries should have some faith in their people to figure out what a mistake looks like without the police arresting people. I'd applaud any government that can get to that level of enlightenment.

The problem with heroin (not from personal experience) is that you only realize that it was a mistake after you're already addicted, and then it's incredibly hard to stop. But seeing how much damage the "war on drugs" and the cartels producing them are doing, maybe a number of addicts (and deaths) more would be acceptable in the grand scheme of things...
> are you sure every programmer on Chromium is a genius? Google has a hard Interview process, but does it filter out every bad engineer?

I suspect that yes, it filters out all candidates who are outright bad. I don't think this point really matters though. If even Google aren't able to produce a large C++ codebase free of buffer-overflows, even when it really matters, it suggests that no-one can. edit This doesn't need to be an argument drawn from a single sample, either. Buffer overflows happen to just about all major C/C++ codebases. OpenSSL, the Linux kernel, Windows, the Apache Web Server, nginx, etc.

We could quibble about the way they don't use the sort of methodology used in avionics software development, but I don't think there's much value in exploring that. If Google consider that to be too slow/costly for Chromium, it highlights how rarely those methodologies can practically be used.

I don't think there are any individual C++ programmers who are too smart to ever introduce undefined behaviour, but even if there were it wouldn't matter. As you indicate, real large-scale software development happens with teams, not lone geniuses.

> I think even current Rust would be much safer than MISRA C++.

I agree that the language might be a reasonable choice, but I don't think the Sealed Rust project is anywhere near delivering a Rust compiler that can be trusted with your life. Even mature C compilers can have serious bugs, [0] and compiling Rust is far more challenging than compiling C.

[0] [PDF] Finding and Understanding Bugs in C Compilers, Regehr et al, 2011, https://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/pldi11-preprint.pdf
It's not exactly a secret, is it. Come on, you're not that naïve.
> Nobody of the hundreds of people I share groups with on Telegram does it for security.

That's bubble fallacy. Just because your bubble is more educated about this doesn't make this a general truth about the whole world. Basically anyone you will find on this site has exceptional high knowledge about certain things, which the majority of people do not have.

But I also have strong doubts whether this crafty claim is even true. Quite unlikely that you know the state of knowledge of so many people for this specific topic.

> Articles like these make it sound like Telegram is somehow uniquely messed up while it is in fact a lot more secure than email (which can be accessed by at least your provider and sender/recipients provider).

Very manipuilative and misleading argument. The article does not recomment email or whatsapp as an alternative, but signal and threema. Actually the article is quite obvious in saying that Telegram is as unsafe as Whatsapp.aaaa
I have lost and gained back 80% of my net worth multiple times at this point...I don't care...I mean of course it's a bad feeling, but it's a part of life that I can weather much better than my friends. I'm still more scared of bank accounts, as the banks don't have the same transparency.
From the site which is selling it:

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/english-literat...

Newton "left behind vast manuscript writings on biblical exegesis and other theological subjects, presumably in the hope that his secret knowledge would reach a select and receptive readership in future generations. The true range of Newton's writings has only become apparent remarkably recently. Such was Newton's reputation as the exemplar of the Enlightenment scientist that for generations there was little willingness to publish material that might seem to undermine that status. It was only with the sale of Newton's papers by the Earl of Portsmouth in these rooms in 1936 that the scale of his interest in alchemy, in particular, became generally recognised, and it is even more recently that the extent of his theological writing has been acknowledged."

The pages now being on sale

"are likely to have been part of a larger lot sold in the 1936 auction of the Newton papers, but they cannot be positively identified in the sale catalogue."

You can browse a lot (or all?) of papers which were bought then and ended in the National Library of Israel:

https://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/collections/Humanit...

"The manuscripts found at the National Library are from the collection of Abraham Shalom Yehuda (1877-1951), an expert in Middle Eastern affairs. Professor Yehuda purchased the manuscripts at a public auction at Sotheby’s of London in 1936. Other manuscripts in the collection, dealing mostly with the topic of alchemy, were purchased by the well-known economist, John Maynard Keynes, and are located at King’s College in Cambridge University."

Also, Isaac Newton’s Works, University of Oxford, (mostly or all?) donated by Keynes, should be somewhere here, among the works from other collections:

http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/texts/newtons-works/all

and the background behind that:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.1952.000...

In "1872" "the purely scientific papers were generously given to the University of Cambridge." (Note: Newton studied there).

"The event which stimulated Keynes to his greatest effort in bookcollecting was the dispersal at Sotheby’s on 13 and 14 July 1936 of the Newton papers of Viscount Lymington, to whom they had descended from Catherine Conduitt, Viscountess Lymington, Newton’s great-niece. The relentless pressure of death-duties made it necessary to sell this great collection."
> a year or two behind the times

How exactly?

I agree with you that use of blockchain on its own is not fully secure, but that can be mitigated for the most part through the same sorts of proof-of-work and proof-of-stake mechanisms and entities that Etherium, etc. use. with adjustments.

This might be exactly the time for Woz and co. to get into this given that there are others handling those problems, right?
> immense reluctance of clients to deal with the upfront cost or uncertainty

This is why human society invented regulations.
I'm with you. Plant some trees, no need to prove it. Look into fast growing trees for your agricultural zone. Look into pruning techniques like pollarding to keep trees small. Use pruned dried material to make charcoal (has many uses in fish farming) and then charge it up with goodies to make biochar and finally bury it into your garden for a slow release fertilizer which lasts for hundreds or potentially thousands of years.
It is guided by hardware changes and changed over the last 70 years a lot.

GPUs spawned shader languages and network cards spawned html and javascript.
Gelopia takes form of large microbes with tails made of hundreds of cells and they keep moving around.

Saldy, It doesn't work on chrome desktop though
>"Crystals are usually good at conducting heat. By definition, their atomic structure is highly organized, which allows atomic vibrations—heat—to flow through them as a wave.

Glasses, on the other hand, are terrible at conducting heat. Their internal structure is disordered and random, which means that vibrations instead hop from atom to atom as they pass through.

[...]

The team discovered that BaTiS3, along with several other crystalline solids, possessed "glass-like" thermal conductivity.

Not only is its thermal conductivity comparable to those of disordered glasses, it actually gets worse as temperature goes down, which is the opposite of most materials."

PDS: Sounds like it would be a great material to use in the lining of a future spacecraft... Also, could be used in future clothing, if someone could figure out how to make fabric out of it...

>"In fact, its thermal conductivity at cryogenic temperatures is among the worst ever observed in any fully dense (nonporous) solid.

[...]

The team found that the titanium atom in each BaTiS3 crystal exists in what is known as a double-well potential—that is, there are two spatial locations in the atomic structure where the atom wants to be. The titanium atom existing in two places at the same time gives rise to what is known as a "two-level system." In this case, the titanium atom has two states: a ground state and an excited state. Passing atomic vibrations are absorbed by the titanium atom, which goes from the ground to the excited state, then quickly decays back to ground state. The absorbed energy is emitted in the form of a vibration and in a random direction."

PDS: How is this effect different than heat/thermal noise/electronic impedance/radiation, but at the appropriate scale?

Or, to reverse the question, how are those phenomena different than this?

>"The overall effect of this absorption and emission of vibrations is that energy is scattered rather than cleanly transferred. An analogy would be shining a light through a frosted glass, with the titanium atoms as the frost; incoming waves deflect off of the titanium, and only a portion make their way through the material."
> (1) the whitepaper is too thin on tech details

I read a little bit and it seems critical. EFFORCE is dedicated to energy saving, but it mentions "mining" without any algorithm details. Assuming it is Proof-of-Work like Bitcoin (since it does "mining"), then why would they use the absolutely energy inefficient algorithm to save energy?

How an energy saving platform not mention any efforts to save energy in their tech itself?
It's a matter of specificity. Yes, it's a particle simulator, but given the Conway's Life feel to some of the examples, it at least seems like a high-speed, high-resolution cellular automata.
You can get around it with multi-methods.
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> command and control

That's a very strange phrasing.
I mean you publish all Bitcoin transactions on a global ledger so I suspect in this metaphor you’re the one with the stall door open. My bank doesnt share my transactions except as required by law in the event of suspicious activity.

But if we’re going to play this game, if everyone walking into the bathroom came out with a renewed sense of self esteem, a nose bleed and a sudden urge to dance, yes, I think you would be looked at sideways for closing the door. What’s lacking from your rhetorical question is context.
Because it wasn't just the manager, but also the engineers that implemented the fraudulent system and the people doing QC that turned a blind eye and did not speak up.

The manager is the one with most skin in the game and should go to jail, does not mean that anyone else is free from fault. By working for a company that kept an unfair advantage they also benefited from the fraud, they should also face some of the consequences.
As a sort of microcosm, my undergrad CS started off with a top end dual-VAX, and ended with Sequent Symmetry 386 multi-processor systems that had vastly more processing power and memory.
i think he definitely contributed to the success of apple in a big way, and it's hard to argue otherwise, but not really due to his entrepreneurial expertise
Even new systems have them, probably because the radio on the chip is something SDR-ish; also, there is equipment that still transmits analog signal, just not over the air (think CCTV et al.).

So yeah, the receivers are still shipped, just ~nobody tunes into their ranges anymore.
v2 and v3 specs are merged as of September apparently, so either set of options works in the current version. (See cousin comments above)
I can substantiate it with Libya - it had one of the highest GDP per capita in the world for a bit (same wiki page). But they couldn't sustain that because they have the sort of economy where slavery makes sense. The Saudis and Qatarians will be the same when the oil runs out.

An economy with slaves does not, fundamentally, make sense. It isn't going to be the least bit competitive with a modern capitalist economy with wages without wealth literally bubbling up from the ground in the form of oil. Everyone in such an economy will be less wealthy than their peers in a free market.
I have used Apple products for years and like them. I've tried competing products and they never worked as well as a complete package. Sure, they might have had a feature or two that was better by some metric, but overall Apple stuff works well for my use case. Does this mean I'm in love with Apple? I don't think so, but for now they work.

Love and hate are also pretty similar emotions. I find both the people who love Apple and hate Apple to be...odd. I really don't understand either. It's a company, either use their products or don't.
wouldnt you just build different binaries for different versions of android you want to support? Why is it even a requirement that one binary works on all versions?

You can just gate the upgrade of the app, so that customers on the older version can't upgrade.
Hard fork is very different from double spend attack that miners can try. As long as I run my full node when accepting Bitcoin, I can choose which node I run (I guess I don't give away a big a secret if I tell you that I run Bitcoin Core).

The DAO hard fork happened because most people with economic power who run nodes in Ethereum accept Vitaly's decision. With Bitcoin there's a concensus at this point that only bug fix hard forks are accepted.
Then the port mysteriously loses your cargo, and compensates you the full $500 you said it was worth.
Well, factor in a slow extinction event and let it run for a few billion ticks. That way they have ample warning, and they might have even offed themselves within that timeframe.