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If you want to be reductionist, you can argue that since almost all of the world's land, people, resources, and equipment are under the control of some government, it's hard for anything to be independent of them.
> There's additional benefits as mentioned earlier like not needing to comply with KYC laws.

In many situations lack of KYC is a bug, not a feature.
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No, this is the incorrect way of thinking of it.

It's more like TCP/IP than businesses built on top of the protocol.
That makes sense, and my comment feels silly to me now in hindsight.
How do you explain gold though? It certainly hasn’t kept up with bitcoin.
Indeed... Steam says I've played 450 hours this year.
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The kind of problems you have are not solved with crypto currency, let’s be real about this.
Well a crypto currency can only fall 100%, so it's not unlimited. Moreover, some stocks do actually have a P/B ratio below one, for example Deutsche Banks PB is currently around 0.3.

You could instead look at downside deviation instead of volatility, but in my experience standard volatility and upside/downside deviation look very similar for most securities. This is somewhat paradoxical for me personally, but it is what it is.
Bitcoin is more accurately referred to as Bitcoin Core. The philosophical successor to the original Bitcoin is Bitcoin Cash. You can see the difference for yourself here: https://bitcoinfees.cash/

Bitcoin, at least according to Satoshi's original white paper, is supposed to be a peer to peer electronic cash system.

Let's pay for a Bay Area cup of coffee with Bitcoin. That'll be $13 ($5 + $8 in network fees). If we use Bitcoin Cash, its $5. As you can see, Bitcoin is no longer useful. That's because Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin, and Bitcoin is...well, something else.

Like all nice ideas that happen to rock the boat, Bitcoin was subverted, controlled, and is no longer Bitcoin, but that's a story for another day.
Bill Gates also said that 640kb ought to be enough for anybody.

As long as electricity generation, transportation, and space heating are carbon intensive, there is just no point in worrying about steel and cement.
I’ll call BS on this - are you actively selling it to buy things online? And you buying BTC when you have spare money in checking accounts? Is your turnover like 10-20%? I’m guessing you’re a buy and hold person with BTC, which makes you an investor in it.
To a first order approximation, nobody uses bitcoin as a currency. There are a handful of enthusiasts who might use it such as yourself, but you are in the absolute minority of bitcoin holders.

HODL would not be the meme it was if the goal was to actually use bitcoin in day to day transactions.
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HN makes me a tiny bit smarter at least once a week and I am very grateful to all of you for that.
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I don't think that's reductionist. I think that's a reasonable statement. It is indeed hard for anything to be independent of government control, except perhaps in failed states. Which is sort-of the definition of a failed state.
He's probably talking about the horror stories of people getting their cash/assets seized via civil forfeiture. eg. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/09/01/police-seiz...
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Yeah, Coinbase changed the other year, only for US citizens, where a passport is insufficient, you need to prove state residency (i.e. for most people, a driver's license).

But one of my points here is that, while I'm sure some people here are chomping at the bit to nail me with a gleeful "see? ironic!", I simply don't have to use Coinbase. I can, for example, exchange Bitcoin locally the same way I can trade USD for pesos with my roommate. I was SOL at one point when I was simultaneously banned from Paypal while my bank at the time spontaneously rejected further access to my own account, the two institutions I was depending on to operate abroad. It's what made me turn to Bitcoin, and I began considering how ridiculous the state of our financial status quo where I have precarious access to my own money.

I can appreciate that my outlier needs make it hard for people to relate to me the same way most people don't understand why an HNer cares about Linux when Windows works for them, but I think most people here are disappointingly eager to reject any possible upside of "digital cash". Even if its upsides are exceedingly niche for most people, that's not reason to dismiss them.

To me it's like reading an HN thread where everyone dismisses Purism's smartphone because Android and iPhone do the job for 99.9999% of people, and who the hell could possibly care about separating the CPU from cellular baseband? Or maybe they're claiming that only criminals would care about that. Well, that very few people are in a position to appreciate it has no basis on whether we deserve the option.

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It doesn't though. The GP comment is about (mis)attributing causation.

"Women can't do science" and "bell curve arguments about some races being less intellectually capable than others" are both causal arguments. "The SAT exhibits racial bias" is an observational statement. You took the GP's argument about causal misattribution and turned it into one about hiding observational conclusions, but that wasn't present in the original comment.
Deeply hurts knowing I'd specifically checked twice to see if there's info on anything new in the works while he's been dead.

MF DOOM created great music that I'm sure a decent bit of HN users who haven't heard of him would enjoy.
what the hell are SIM cards for?

SIM cards are for binding IMSI/MSISDN/IMEI, to authenticate you to the mobile network and update the HLR with your location. This data also traverses the SS7 network but does contain some authentication data specific to the wireless provider. The landline telcos have no knowledge of what this data means beyond the ability to route it. The mobile switches will route your MSISDN to the other SS7 networks.

accurate caller ID attached by the carrier

This goes back to the suggested shaken/stir method of authentication. There is really no other way to determine what is valid and what is not. The carrier can attach nearly any number and that number can be entirely valid.
So buying drugs in 2010 makes it a currency, gotcha.
I don’t, but it is one of the core reasons why Bitcoin is attractive to anyone.

Asset prices are up across the board.
Sure it does. It means you don’t need to backport fixes to an infinite number of builds.
rootless.h has never been made available to the public as far as I know.
Yeah I guess so, it still seems like it could be a major pain. Especially if somebody, say, transferred money between wallets and didn't keep good records. Or messed up the cost basis somehow. Or didn't think to set aside the necessary taxes every time, and then finds themselves with an unexpectedly large tax bill at the end of the year.

It's another reason why using a cryptocurrency is still a gigantic hassle in comparison to fiat.
Googling is great, but I'd like to highlight that two distinct examples weren't necessarily Google at all. Sure - The Wirecutter appears in the first page of Google search for "best dishwasher" but you could also simply start on The Wirecutter page. Same for the humidifier.

The Wirecutter is great, and as the article points out, not just because of the review, but because of all the detail about what went into it, and the meta-information (eg: dishwashers need to be cleaned! Who knew? You can pre-clean your dishes too much for the dishwasher to work right? Humidifiers can over humidify!?)

For a specific subset of The Stuff in the article, starting at The Wirecutter would be a fine thing as it would be very difficult to find that info and metainfo through Google!

It is also worth noting and well worth the purchase price (or often free online through your local library) to look at Consumer Reports. The OG consumer product reviews, and, unlike The Wirecutter, funded entirely by subscriptions, versus referrals. Depending on the specific product, The Wirecutter or Consumer Reports much be more up to date, have better coverage, a different take, or coverage at all.

One small difference between CR and The Wirecutter? CR has created a formal standard, and is trying to actively review for, and push for additional security and privacy in consumer devices: https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/consumer-reports-to-...
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That’s completely wrong. You would never say “the US dollar has crashed compared to Microsoft stock“. That’s a dumb comparison to compare a currency to an investment. The dollar has been mostly stable the past 10 years. A gallon of milk is still around $3.50
Certainly the pandemic has made the problem of overwork worse for many people, but it's existed for decades (centuries?) prior. The pandemic has been pushing more people then usual past their breaking point... which I think makes the idea of setting boundaries even more important than usual.
Miners have no ability to retract or redirect transactions. And to exclude them would require 100% collusion. Miners as "middlemen" doesn't make sense.

Edit: Your comment was edited after I made this one. I see no relation between the quote from the article and how miners are supposed to be middlemen.
Not in any meaningful sense. It's not like the tapes of Nixon sitting in the Oval Office ordering some crimes were faked, and that wasn't at all related to activities carried out against activists, it was Nixon seeking political advantage.
Any VPN service offers the option to pay in bitcoin, as do many other sites. There are entire marketplaces on Tor where bitcoin is the primary currency.
It's already 2021 here, thank God.
In a former life, I would take 3-4 week vacations at a time when being away really meant being away and people would be flabbergasted that I could do this. But things were just fine.

I admit I haven't really done this for a while--though I came close last year. But TBH, I'll keep vaguely in touch these days when I conveniently can and deal with anything that's urgent or really can't wait. (Like I did an interview from a B&B room that really needed to be done--an then wasn't used of course.)

IMO, a lot of people put way too much pressure on themselves to be available 24/7/365 who don't need to. And if that really is the expectation maybe they should look someplace else unless it's their company or something something really special to them.
It's the same assessment level but may or may not be the same exposure level.

While Microsoft does not assume that attackers haven't seen the source code, we cannot say how many people who are capable of spotting security issues have reviewed the code.

That being said, it's worth also saying it's a hard comparison to make overall; it's possible there are important parts of the Linux code base that have in fact had less eyes on them than Microsoft has had on theirs; without numbers it's hard to be certain.
When I was a student, I remember listing to his collaboration with Madlib, 'Madvilliany' and loving it.

Here it is if anyone is interested.

https://youtu.be/zQ0yXh_ADlQ
I think we agreed that time doesn't exist and we live in a spacetime continuum?
It does mean that working for minimum wage is enough to require government assistance, and maybe we should rethink that minimum.
They both want to scale transactions, they just disagree about how. Bitcoin Cash wants much higher transaction throughput at the base layer (i.e. the actual blockchain). While Bitcoin wants the high throughput lower value transactions to happen at layers built on top of the base chain, e.g. Lightning
By that logic, Tide is now a currency.
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Ponzi schemes give an INCOME RETURN

Bitcoin gives a PRICE APPRECIATION RETURN

One could call this then a “greater fool” play except it has algorithmic reduction in supply which repairs “greater fool” aspect.
I think the point is human biology. To date humans have not figured out a society that avoids such barnacles.

These technologies are style and no substance to the masses. Propped up by fetishists and speculators.
“Also what makes you think it is only Google who can fund Firefox? This is a pretty shallow (and lazy) reasoning, pardon my language.”

Setting the insult aside - this is the basic question I’ve been asking you.

Who do you think is going to fund the alternative, and why does Mozilla have to die before that can happen?
I didn’t know this is the case. Source?
They ship multiple JITs, so I don’t really understand your comment.
>They make a new type of content that is available on the internet searchable.

How is hijacking a website's search feature and putting it in front of "google.com" new type of content?
I prefer "The US dollar without democratic institutions"
These are some really good points. It is reminding me a lot of one of my favorite John Cleese videos[0].

One of the things that I think makes this so difficult is that language has a lot of limits that people don't realize. Since we often don't run into issues with communication (or rather don't notice since the errors are small) it is difficult to realize when we're in boundary cases. For example there's priming[1]. Many may learn that this is a useful way to influence people and many are aware of the psychological experiments, but it is also a fundamental part of how we communicate. We try to communicate the most information with the least amount of words. But this same factor is why good faith arguments are so important but also difficult to maintain. We could not easily converse if we didn't make certain assumptions about another person's views. This is normally fine but we run into problems in heated topics where we often act like someone can only hold an extreme opinion (and of course, mine is not extreme and just common sense). It's the "oh, I've heard this argument before" and while one person may have subtext another may not (why it is difficult to identify dog whistling). Removing nuance from a topic makes it easy, and we like easy things. But that's not beneficial to resolving issues and like you say "leads to a wilderness of mirrors".

But it is impossible to tell if priming like this is actively being pushed or naturally happening, since we do have a natural predisposition to form tribes and groups. We're nuanced and thoughtful with our arguments while they are overly simplifying and idiotic. They just want a win while we want to actually fix things. And since this kind of talk is natural it is also almost impossible to figure out if I'm doing the thing I'm actively complaining about or not.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLNhPMQnWu4

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/priming
This argument has been had many times. It's easy to pervasively debunk flat eartherism, or anti-vax conspiracies. Yet those ideas continue to be pervasive in particular subpopulations.

When people want to hold a view, out-sciencing them won't work.

Ultimately

> Will use a smidgeon of an expert's time and help a lot of people.

Yes, if you have to spend all your time responding to cranks, you'll have no time to be productive, and you'll embolden the cranks. Bullshit is produce to spew than to refute, so trying to counter bullshit with intellectual honesty is a loosing proposition. At some point you have to set a bar for bullshit, and ignore anything below the bar. The bullshit-artists call that "censorship", because at that point they've lost and the only way they can continue to spew bullshit is to find popular support with contrarians or free-speech absolutists who don't actually have a deep knowledge or care about scientific discourse.
Because the fact that it's (in theory) anonymous means that most people think that it also cannot be regulated by laws. People just don't outright say that though because it might sound like enabling fraud, tax evasion, and other unsavory activities was the point.
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The current pricing of gold has nothing, repeat after me, nothing to do with its industrial use.
This is an extremely tiring response. Just because you're a pyscho doesn't mean bitcoin makes sense as a currency. The vast majority of institutions will not accept bitcoin as payment because they realize it's a horrible currency.
AFAIK, the only notable difference is with arguments spilled on the stack being packed on macOS (except variadic arguments). If all your arguments are int or larger, that means essentially no difference. (source: I worked on making Firefox work on M1. We didn't need changes to XPCOM, for instance, although theoretically, we'd need some. I don't think the JIT needed changes either. Funnily enough, I had to fix libffi for variadic arguments, and the libffi shipped in macOS is broken)
The dollar also lost a lot of value when compared to the stock market, or compared to land prices, or to gold.
Quite interesting, given that the anti-trust case against google stems from them doing these types of aggregations for other content.
Marginal revenue is relative though. For the developer, if it makes $500k over the product's lifetime, it can be worthwhile. For Facebook, if it only makes $500k, it's a waste of resources.
How does getting paid in BTC work? Are you set a rate of bitcoin you get paid that amount or do you have a salary in dollars and you get paid whatever btc satisfies that?
> It feels like the sky-high valuations of technology companies and Bitcoin are "shock absorbers" of sorts, or early signals of inflation-yet-to-come. If we assume the market is efficiently pricing these assets (like AirBnB's IPO) then it could very well be that the actual value of a fiat dollar has dropped dramatically -- making sky-high valuations more reasonable

To me, the most reasonable interpretation of these valuations is a savings glut. People are being given extra income, but instead of going out and spending it on more impulse purchases (such as fine dining or an exotic vacation), they're shoveling that into savings accounts. And assets that reflect a long-term saving mindset--real estate, stocks--are going up in price, while more immediate consumptive assets (e.g., food) are staying stable.

> wouldn't be surprised to see the price of things like groceries, beer and travel double or triple what they were in 2019.

That would be an effective inflation rate of 100-200%. If you're assuming that would happen within a year, the number of countries right now with that high of an inflation rate is 3: Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and Iran. Even the developing world doesn't regularly see inflation quite that high, you'd expect more like 10-30% annual inflation for those countries.
You shouldn't have to 'motivate' people to work under penalty of death and starvation in the richest, most modern economy to ever exist.

The idea that we can't afford to feed and shelter our people is patently absurd.
Yeah, that's different from carrying cash being illegal.
I used to buy things with bitcoin, but every time I have regretted it. It would've been better to use cash and keep holding.
> And you can say what you want, the thing is damn snappy.

It's horribly slow on my computer, animations and scrolling happen at like 5fps. It also sends my cpu usage through the roof.
Except Trump is not a dictator, no matter how much the TV tells you so.

What you should realize you are defending the current two party system in the US. The same cabal of people that have been in power forever. Communism fell and new people took over. But these US politicians predate that. They're so old and corrupt, they are literally crapping their pants on live TV.
Enjoy the Biden administration. Its all you deserve.

https://youtu.be/7l04Xovebuc?t=32
>"The president and his allies are playing with fire," he wrote. "They have been asking -- first the courts, then state legislatures, now the Congress -- to overturn the results of a presidential election. They have unsuccessfully called on judges and are now calling on federal officeholders to invalidate millions and millions of votes. If you make big claims, you had better have the evidence. But the president doesn't and neither do the institutional arsonist members of Congress who will object to the Electoral College vote."

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HN hate that Google gets has almost zero impact on Google’s mission to organize worlds information. It’s doing exactly that.

Usual complains about customer service, search ranking, etc are taken into account.
My new Mac mini was doing kernel panics at every shutdown for about a year.

The 4th "security update" somehow made that disappear?!
> Governments can't print more of it.

I never really understood that line of reasoning. Why would one person want to reduce the ability to apply economic policy in their country?

Certainly, you could use Gold instead of Bitcoin as a similar investment tool, right?
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You know I thought about doing some type of crypto, but after finding out you have to pay to even establish a certificate and everything else. Shit your right back to being controlled by your balls to be recognized as a legitimate digital coin system. Just like SSL certs, yes you can create one, but will your browser say its authenticated, nope! Done with the entire system. Live in a tent and live off the land.
that site looks suspiciously like a scam!
How are they destroying the planet?
Wait, I thought large companies did not count. Large companies have loads of users who rely on their applications; they are much more conservative than small developers, and have longer procedures for testing and validation before each release. Some lag is expected, and their applications are useable in the meantime, anyway.

You’ve got things completely backwards. Virtual machines running on M1 Macs at the moment are ARM, they don’t emulate x86_64 (yeah, I know, there are experimental versions of some emulators; none of them are ready yet). So a virtual machine is not going to help you running Intel binaries.

Rosetta 2 is a translator (takes binary, spits out binary once, which is then run), and has nothing to do with a virtual machine.

Besides, what matters is that the resulting executable work, and with more than adequate performance. You install programs to make them run and do useful things, not just for the intellectual pleasure of having done it The One True Way, which is bullshit anyway. Do you also go trolling that Linux is terrible because Python scripts are interpreted?
I just wanted to point out that stocks have had price to book multiples less than one, per various comments by Buffett and Benjamin Graham. Also, for another example, there are funds that sell at a discount to the total value of shares held by the fund.
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>Ridiculous budget constraints?

>Washington DC public schools get more money per student than anywhere else in US.

NYC public schools are #1; DC isn't in the top ten (https://www.silive.com/news/2019/06/how-much-does-new-york-c...). Baltimore is #3, though, and four DC suburbs are also in the top ten, all no doubt offering much better education than the Baltimore (or DC) schools.

>My son's private school tuition is half what the average public school system in the US gets from taxpayers (local, state, and federal combined).

Private schools pay teachers less money than public schools, too.
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> overwhelming trend has been upwards

You’re cherry picking your price analysis time period. Last year I could have said “BTC has trended down tremendously the last 2 years” and I’d have been right as well.
A follow-up to this article has more explanation about those instructions:

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/curious-instructions/

This is also the post about the ZALLOC instruction that it mentions, where apparently someone who worked on the original P6 describes it:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.arch/-/h6uCzd3QQwUJ?hl=...
How does that answer the question? If anything it reinforces the point.
I'm confused by how much I agree with you