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Although, Ethereum's "genesis block" was mined using PoW.

Miners and node operators had to generate the data for the Genesis Block by themselves by scraping the Bitcoin chain which contained the crowdsale transaction data. The Ethereum Foundation only provided a script for scraping the Bitcoin chain. See here: https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/07/27/final-steps/

(The genesis block contains all the ETH token allocations for each crowdsale account)

Another technicality is that Ether was sold as a commodity, for the purpose of using it for "gas" to use for computational resources. Ripple on the other hand is not used for gas, you don't pay for computing resources. You only pay a tiny fee in XRP per transaction.
Would this be because of the general anti-returns/exchanges culture in Japan?

I mean it sounds super sh!tty when you're accustomed to the extremely lenient returns / refunds policies of the west, while Japan (in specific) is on the polar opposite of that.
This article glosses over the historical mistreatment of dogs where millions were killed yearly, and then cherry picks and details a bunch of examples of Bad Things happening to dogs nowadays.

It ignores all the benefits of neutering just to make a point.

Also, my dog is neutered, and is not aggressive at all, EXCEPT towards un-neutered dogs. Where I live it's illegal to bring an un-neutered dog to the dog park, but some people do. When that happens I don't make a fuss about it, but I do leave the dog park early. So when I'm asking an owner of their dog is neutered it's not because I am pushing some bad societal norm, it's because I'm trying to prevent a preventable incident.
Elderly people die. That's what happens when you're elderly. For many reasons.
>Perhaps we need a linear meritocratic function.

So basically, some way to prevent wealth from being passed across generations?
Great advice! Developing an "external" mindset like you mentioned in your comment is something I should definitely start working on.
This is my experience in Reddit generally these days on mobile Safari
People floating potential alternate explanations is not a downplaying COVID. It's trying to better understand the issue through open-minded inquiry, and giving people like the OP an opportunity to help inform people by sharing their reasoning and personal experience.

Equating the consideration of different theories with the rejection of one particular theory will discourage the kind of free discourse that makes society more informed.
Around the time I was first starting out, I remember somebody saying "The fire service is 225 years of tradition, unimpeded by progress."

OK, that's a little bit of hyperbole, but one can see echoes of an underlying truth there. Just to illustrate one thing that I see a lot: watch Youtube videos of fire departments operating on calls today.. and I mean recent videos from this year, and including ones from FDNY, LAFD, and the other "world class" fire departments out there... and you'll see time and time again, firefighters doing active supression work, wearing their SCBA on their backs like ornaments, but not clipped in and breathing air. Everytime I see this I just want to scream "do you think just having that tank on your back is going to protect you from all the toxic shit you're breathing right now!!??!??"

I mean, how long have we known that firefighters experience cancer at a highly disproportionate rate? How long have we known about the connections between cancer and the various toxic by-products of combustion? And yet...
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OP doesn't really understand their situation or their rights; that's why the submission was created.
Also considering the OP's writing, they probably don't fully grok the legalese of their contracts.
I think, clearly, that there is a debate to be had about the value of lives that are nearly at an end no matter what, and lives that are just hitting their prime.
There is a huge definitional challenge here. For more on that see https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/25/wage-stagnation-much-m...

I seldom see addressed how they factor changes in group composition. If the 1% are a constantly changing bunch, the narrative is very different than if it's always the same group of people. I wonder if age composition also has something to do with it (I imagine retiree income differences are much more stark than at 30y)
I think you're talking about pop culture nostalgia.
It’s not that dank of a solo. But maybe I caught a bad section randomly. I prefer humans.
The going joke is that everything we know was true for 8 beagles. Veterinary studies are often small in scale and not made of representatives of the whole population.

I don't feel like digging through PubMed to back up an assertion like "unneutered dogs are more likely to roam and get hit by car." At best I'll be able to give you a records-review type of study and it's a low quality of evidence. Also, trends don't mean that your specific animal is going to be the same. I work with an unneutered labrador patient who is never going to get hit by a car, and I have definitely treated neutered ones who have. This association, though, does have a basis in animal behavior and is familiar to vets who work in emergency rooms.

The level of evidence that suggests that neutering is positively associated with cancer is extremely poor. Yet, there are people running with it like it's 100%. Meanwhile, we have stronger evidence that spaying prevents mammary cancer and castration prevents testicular cancer.

Good on you for jogging with your dog. Be mindful of their limits, because they will hide pain. Keep them in athletic trim and you should be fine, in my opinion.
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Half this country didn't care about drug addicts before. Now all of a sudden people care about drug addicts. They don't care though when it comes to cutting social programs or health care reform.

People didn't care when Wal-Mart decimated mainstreet and Amazon killed who was left. Now people are all about small business.

Sick of the hypocrisy. It's sad we can't take care of our own people in this country.
> The 80s were a crime paradise.--drug gangs, mafia, wall st white collar crime, informercial scams, televangelist and cult scams --you name it, it all thrived in the 80s.

All of which you saw in a 30 min episode of CHIPS, which aired in the 70s to the 80s, right? I'm not proud of these seedy days, in fact its something I think most of us are ashamed of entirely and would prefer to be solely known for tech, beaches and sunshine. But it isn't true, and it baffles me as a person who lived through that to see many people claiming this the worst CA has ever seen. It's definitely bad, and perhaps underscores why California should be its own Country in my opinion.

But we've been here and done that and to a much worse degree then proceeded to make a place for outsiders to come when it all went well, and they then jacked up the cost of living and made it a worst place to be and raise children only to flee in hard times so many times we should be used to it, but it still sucks to see California like this after all we did.

I've lived and worked all over the Western World, but California in the 90s was a magical place despite all the crazy stuff that actually would instill resilience and problem solving skills out of necessity in me since I was a child just to survive. Skills that I know I would have gotten if I grew up in Zurich, Vienna or Bavaria or some other placid place.

I just hope we get to see it once more as every time I go back it looks further and further away from the place I knew and loved.
I can't respond to the GP directly, but it is a very normal word in veterinary medicine when talking about a reproductive-age female dog.
expanding on that: people used to do stuff like pagerank etc. ahead of time and decorate their tabular data with the results: entities, events, whatever for social, fraud, security, customer journey, whatever. that meant a phase separation between graph analytic enrichments and learning. bringing the non-local graph reasoning to the learning phase in a way that isn't slow enables closing the loop.

The early graphsage stuff was, afaict, proven for generic social recommendors, but most gnn's I see seem pretty custom (e.g., deepmind's protein folding solution), esp. when not prohibitively slow. It sounds like more generic use is becoming practical w/ these libs, and esp. interesting to me, the latest NIPS had graph transformers papers, which brings another level of practically here. Not sure if DGL & friends have those yet..
I have both a ~1999 Mk 1 and 2018 Mk 2 100-400. The Mk 2 is waaay better in almost every way: focus accuracy, no push-pull, better bokeh (marginally) better contrast… just better results with less effort. Also a lot more expensive.

I have three different TCs which I got from a friend who switched to Sony. I haven't really used them much because they seem to drastically change the optic behavior in ways I don't like. Maybe I should give them another chance as they never come out of their cases.
“Things you’re allowed to do if you’re rich.”
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> If by surprisingly little, you mean 4 pages and 500mb of requirements for a "hello world" project with the "modern" web, then yes.

React is well under 20k.

FWIW when optimizing my SPA, my largest "oops" in regards to size were an unoptimized header image, and improperly specified web fonts.

There are some bloated Javascript libraries out there, yes. But if you dig into them you will often find that they are bloated because someone pulled in a bunch of binary (or SVG...) assets.
I have a 115 pound mixed breed dog that is unneutered. When it became clear he was going to be big it was recommended we hold off on neutering to improve his chances of having healthy joints later in life.

He has an excellent disposition and has never displayed aggression to people or other pet, so we decided neutering wasn’t going to be needed and our vet supported that decision. An added benefit for larger dogs is they tend to regulate their body weight better when unneutered. Again, good for long term join health.

I have noticed that other dogs are aggressive towards him. I have wondered if this has to do with him being unneutered and his size. He has been attacked quite a few times by other dogs. He tends turn his back and not fight back initially and then, if the attack continues, turns to face and give a low growl and warning snap. That usually ends it and the other dog calms down and acts friendly.

I find often the owners of the attacking dog fall into one of two categories and neutering usually doesn’t have much to do with it.

1. The owner is afraid. They are afraid to lose control of their dog. They have no confidence that they can control the dog and panic when the dog misbehaves.

2. The owner yells at and then hits their dog after the dog attacks my dog.

Some dogs are going to be naturally more aggressive, but, like people, environment and proper socializing when young tends to have an outweighted effect on how aggressive or not a dog is.
It doesn't need to be that complicated. Just increase taxes on the ultra wealthy to restore some semblance of equality.

it doesn't need to be communist russia. Just a little more money going around.
That conversation has been going on since long before COVID-19. For example age is one factor in allocating scarce transplant organs. Other countries with socialized healthcare systems sometimes explicitly use Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY) in deciding whether to pay for expensive treatments for elderly patients.
it's priced at enterprise prices. my actual hope/expectation is that eventually a lower tier enterprise switches emerge with 25gbit ports, & that becomes low priced enough that producer people start thinking of adopting. there's no point to relying on 10gbit, the total switching aggregate is tiny but prices for the switches are sky high.
"Engage a human productivity monitor
- I know two people who have hired people to sit next to them or frequently contact them to keep them on-task"

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"Choose your own adventure" :)
I've always found the additional fee/deposit a little odd. A flat fee feels like a money grab (if no damage would be done then the fee wasn't needed, and if damage would be done then a deposit would cover it), and the deposit is already more than sufficient to cover scratched floors from dirt being ground in by chairs or other non-pet sources.
Mathematicians are boycotting ICM 2022 in Russia
It walks back the significance of the title a bit, but that's different than addressing it. I'm not saying it's wrong, but I would expect far larger number of souls to die from one year to the next even if nothing significant occurred.
This is the sort of thing that moves the world forward, but Facebook don't seem to have built a tower to test this. They seem to have used pre-existing towers and modelling.

Telcos would have known this works but haven't done it because of why? Regulations on high towers? They don't want to be stuck managing these unique things? What's the catch.

The solution is probably not technology but some sort of process issue that you need to actually get dirty to find out about and fix. Facebook needs to invest in building towers. Go do it in Africa. If it's profitable they wont lose money and if not they've tried something great.
Voting System Examination of Election Systems and Software EVS 6.1.1.0 [pdf]
Whew! He's only got two heels, so we're in the clear now!
Traffic nowadays... ain't worth it no more.
I would not be surprised if this was a PR piece. However, as an AWS SDE, a lot of this felt incredibly accurate - especially the parts about company culture and employee attitudes. I can count on one hand the amount of non-work related, non-small talk conversations that I've had.
There's an old apocryphal story about the Chinese and the Japanese duking it out in the prelude to WWII that applies here, but there's also a poem far closer:

> That though all lances split on you,
> All swords be heaved in vain,
> We have more lust again to lose
> Than you to win again.

~ G. K. Chesterton - The Ballad of the White Horse - Book III
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1719/1719-h/1719-h.htm#link2...

The side that is willing to loose one more time than the "winning" side is willing to win ... they win in the end.
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>WiFi seems to exceed the price/performance of hard-wired?

Those are best case performance. i.e Standing next to the Router. In most cases you wont be getting 1Gbps from WiFi.

But having said that, WiFi is improving at the rate simply because there is a much larger market to drive its volume, and amortised R&D. WiFi is included in every laptop, tablet, Smartphones and many other applications. That is nearly 2 Billion devices a year. Compared to Ethernet, you are looking at Desktop PC, Servers and other much smaller niche like NAS.
Not to mention faster WiFI ( aka WiFi 6 ) is an easier sell to consumers than faster Ethernet which is really only aiming at prosumers.

First draft of WiFi 7 will arrive in a few months time.

>is Ethernet/wired still a sane choice

Always use wired if you have a choice.
Pump station hidden inside a house
I did something like that in college a couple times. $10 fine for parking in the wrong spot on campus, only risk was being unable to register for a parking permit the next term if you didn't pay it off. It (on the few occasions I did it) beat the alternative of a 20- to 30-minute walk due to conflicting schedules (like having a medical appointment that got me to campus after most others had arrived). They'd only ticket once as long as the car was only there for 2-3 hours. Perfect for a class, drive to lunch, park properly after. Certainly not something to do frequently, and it wasn't illegal parking, it was just not permitted parking.
Well, to be clear about the story, it's that they're suing to find out what the FBI is doing, and what methods/equipment they use.

They're not suing to stop it. (edit: yet)
Sounds interesting. Any good resources on this scene?
This point is explicitly addressed in the post:

I haven’t tried everything on this list, mainly due to cost. But you’d be surprised how cheap most of the things on this list are (especially the free ones).
> Just a point of clarification for those not familiar with the heist, the weapons used were -not- legal in CA or the US. It was also during the time of the Federal Assault Weapons ban. They were not owned nor able to be owned legally during that time.

Only semi-correct, they had full-auto AK47s and extended mags, all of which at the time could be purchased and legally owned with a special stamp by the ATF [0]. As a child a friend's father had one he would bring out on new years to only short lived amusement in the neighborhood as we all lived in a densely populated suburb near a major freeway.

But without them, yes, you couldn't just go to a store and buy one off the shelf.

0: https://legalbeagle.com/8731203-class-three-stamp-through-at...
Regardless of what one thinks of guns, it is technically is still legal to both keep and bear the arms that include a long barrel rifle as well as any amount of ammunition one wants, it is actually the state government in this case that is in gross violation of the Constitution’s law prohibiting the government infringing on the right to keep and bear arms. Just because an illegal law is passed does not nullify and superior law or right; for example, just because CA were to one day decide that freedom is illegal or, inversely, involuntary servitude is now legal, does not only not negate the God given right to freedom, nor does it even negate an inferior amendment to the Constitution barring such an abuse of freedom.
It’s really frustrating how simple and true this is yet difficult to brand and market correctly.
It's not just bank robbery. Every crime category is now much lower than it was in 1990, in every jurisdiction of the USA. Even if you take a city that people think is ridiculously dangerous, like Camden, New Jersey, the homicide rate was triple 25 years ago.
I like the way that's phrased -- it's the law to allow service animals, but they're only often allowed. Landlords have a lot of power, especially over anyone living paycheck to paycheck, and some of them will knowingly break laws if they think you're unable to fight back.
Game show host is arguably related to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barker_(occupation)
FWIW, I thought the nonchalance was a good thing. As you say, there’s no point getting emotional about it online when it’s just a part of your life that needs to be dealt with.
America’s largest (and arguably most problematic) voting machine vendor is ES&S
That's pretty amazing. I've been keeping my on this stuff since it seems one of the few simple PaaS that give you access to tcp sockets.

tons of PaaS providers are no help at all if you want to run an app that uses ZeroMQ or basically anything that isn't http.

One super small nitpick though, and maybe it's just me, but

> Technically, what we end up delegating to each instance is a /112, which is the IPv6 equivalent of an IPv4 Class B address

> WireGuard peers get /120 delegations (the equivalent of an IPv4 class C)

Should be

> Technically, what we end up delegating to each instance is a /112, which is the IPv6 equivalent of an IPv4 /16 network.

> WireGuard peers get /120 delegations (the equivalent of an IPv4 /24)

classes haven't really been a thing for almost 30 years.
CSIRO's Ngara aims to solve the same problem of rural access [1]. It was designed about 10 years ago, with a view to being the rural segment of Australia's National Broadband Network, but the NBN passed on the technology.

Ngara was designed to work in the vacated VHF/UHF TV bands (but will work in other bands). It uses MIMO with a large number (~32) of antennas to do spatial multiplexing rather than FB's "brute force" sectoring.

Sectoring is a disadvantage of FB's method, as the sectoring will limit the multipath and the ability to do spatial multiplexing via MIMO. With sectoring you will only get full capacity if your terminals are evenly distributed in azimuth. With MIMO you can get full capacity as long as the antenna has a big enough aperture to resolve each user, which will work better if you happen to have a small settlement in the cell. MIMO can also trade spatial multiplexing for diversity, which will allow longer range if there are fewer users.

FB could do a lot worse than just buying Ngara.

[1] https://research.csiro.au/wireless/888-2/
Ditto. And i find the shade thrown at short story writers particularly funny:

“But short story collections and works by little-known debut writers have been attacked as well, even though they would have no obvious value.”
I think this was at least partially a result of the high crime rate in the cities.
I don’t think it’s difficult to brand and market correctly, Bernie Sanders did a great job.

Edit: Hacker News, where even mentioning Bernie Sanders gets you downvoted.
One of my professors joked that they were so fast, they could run an infinite loop in 2.2 seconds.
Sure, but those are still very far behind software/support wise and you need to be really patient. People who believe in this, like me, have sent them my money, but my daily driver is a modern Android phone which was not only (much) cheaper, but miles ahead in stability and hardware. I send my money and bugreports in the hopes I will have a stable and open phone in my pocket before my death, but there are many years to go as it is.

If we manage to get something like the samsung a31, at a similar pricepoint, with all hardware working before 2025, I would be happy. But I am skeptical when installing yet a newer OS version on my pinephone and start writing bugreports for applications we consider trivial for a daily driver phone.

Edit; being able to performantly and robustly run Android applications in Linux could (sadly but it is a reality) help adoption a lot a well because of proprietary apps (it sucks but I need whatsapp for instance). That is not that close by either I think; anbox is slow and unreliable last I tried.
This seems to just about single-handly take my least favorite syntax feature from each of of the languages it cribs from... FS path based import, overly verbose types with too much &{}% noise, "let" noise, oh and it runs on JVM.

Edit: I'm not quite as negative as I sound, but given the headline (or the CTA on the homepage for that matter), I am much less than whelmed. This seems fine I guess, but just another "check all the boxes" language that doesn't really bring much of anything obvious new to the table.
I agree. I think its very likely 'import a ton of other block lists and then apply some sort of logic to whitelist potential problem domains', but I would love to be wrong.
Why should this knowledge be part of a system meant to squeeze efficiency from?
I thought about that, and just thought it read better the other way, but also I'm the oldest 40-something on Hacker News so "class C" and "class B" might just be more vivid for me than for normal people.

If there is something with a socket of any sort that you can't do on Fly, I'd like to know about it, so I can make Kurt write some BPF code for a change.
Holy crap. This sounds like a dystopian nightmare on Earth.

Just build up more high rise apartments and condominiums. Crash the damn housing market. Homes should be made for living, not for investment and speculation vehicles. Then interconnect everything with high speed rails and subway systems.

There is plenty of land and resources in America for everyone. The only thing stopping us from making this utopian future a reality for all, is sheer greed, from the billionaires at the top that wants to keep you poor and divided.