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Disclaimer: im finance uninitiated

What is this a chart of? bitcoin nearly tripled from jan to nov, and has had daily volatility, both pos and neg, that doesnt seem representable by a flat line.
Why? States have known since this summer that a vaccine was coming, likely by the end of the year, and somehow they have all neglected to prepare.

We've got what is by all measures a modern miracle, an answer to the most horrifying global event of the last century, given to us by a bunch of scientists who have been working nonstop for the last year to give it to us, and state health workers are doing things like taking weekends off and only opening a single vaccine site.

And then they also seem to concerned about fairness WRT to the vaccine distribution that they are willing to simply let this literal miracle go to waste on a shelf, rather than accidentally give it to somebody who didn't deserve it.

The way that almost every state seems to be treating these vaccines are not in any way in alignment with what I would expect from the worst pandemic in the last 100 years. It is infuriating.
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If I'm understanding correctly, what you are saying is that Bitcoin is fundamentally different than say a share of Amazon because inflationary activity could actually damage Amazon as a company and therefore lower the price of Amazon shares long term whereas Bitcoin cannot be damaged in such a way because it's value is not based on any real economic activity?
It says in the title of the paper, Digital CASH. But, ever since Blockstream (Adam Back and Greg Maxwell) hijacked the GitHub repo years ago Bitcoin (BTC) has purposefully failed at this central use case. However, the project and White Paper live on in projects like Monero, Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum.
on what charges is he being held in the UK?
This is like the first time in a year I need slack, call that bad luck.

I hope matrix/element will rise more.
> Turns out, my mental health is much better when I have an office to go to. 1h20 in commute (round-trip), no privacy, tons of distractions, and still I'm happier when I get to leave the house to go to work.

This is very important to me. It helps me forget about work when heading home and vice versa. I also like talking to people in person at the office more than relying on Zoom watercooler rooms.
Also that brand satisfaction is related to how it performs relative to other offerings. If you just dropped $44k on a new vehicle, they want to make sure that you're seeing fancy cars, thinking about how nice and luxurious they are, etc.
did you actually read more than the first paragraph of this terribly long article? If yes, would you or could you disprove many of the long list of arguments that are very solid?
Long time YAML practitioners know this as the Norway problem[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17359376
Is this a security problem? Depends on who you ask - but I'm willing to bet it would fall into the "accepted risk" category for the Facebook security team if they had to evaluate this.

The reality is that phone number lookup services are available all over the web which provide even more information (first+last name, address, zip code, social media profile links, etc etc etc) for free (https://www.bestfreephonelookup.com/phone-number/ as an example) - these services get their info from data aggregators and usually - your carrier! I don't see how Facebook exposing (in _limited_, very specific circumstances) the first name of a persons phone number being a security issue.

All the people in this thread screaming GDPR violation don't understand that if someone decides to stop using Facebook and delete their account, this method to lookup someone will not work. Sidenote: If you're really paranoid about having your phone number expose your real name when you're using any type of service online, just sign up for a Google Voice (voice.google.com) account and link it to your cell phone - I use this whenever I sign up for anything online and it saves me a ton of spam and scam calls.

EDIT: Facebook removed the ability to use the in-app search box in Facebook to find people based on just a phone number, this has been removed for at least 2 years.
Of course it's gambling... just like putting money in Tesla, Zoom or any other stock that made cash during Covid.

Bitcoin's price is irrelevant if you're planning on using it as a deflation countering method but if you're looking at pricing, you're basically gambling on you not being the bigger fool.
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Yep. Response to protests in the US is greeted with rubber bullets, lost eyesight, and maybe broken bones.

Response to protests in China leads to people being crushed into literal chutney, and deaths in the 10s of thousands. That was the nature of deaths in tiananmen square, the photos of which often do not get shown in western media.[1]

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The US has a lot to work on, but comparing it to China is a false equivalency.

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Appointment to senior judicial roles in the UK is done through a process that's kept at quite some distance from politics precisely because people aren't keen on having SCOTUS-style politicking. It isn't perfect, but it is a hell of a lot better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Appointments_Commissi...

(The JAC handles judicial appointments for England and Wales. There are JAC equivalents for Scotland and Northern Ireland. When there's a Supreme Court vacancy, a process starts up where members of the three JACs appoint people to a committee to recommend new SC justices.)

There are Supreme Court justices in the UK who have discernible political views (the retired Lady Hale was left of the average, and the retired Lord Sumption is more to the right) but their political affiliation has a comparatively small role in deciding whether they get a senior judicial appointment.

Nobody talks about justices having been appointed by a particular prime minister, for instance, because it is irrelevant. Nor does their political affiliation give you much of a clue how they are going to decide cases. This is also because in most cases, the Supreme Court sits as panels—unlike in the US, most cases are decided by a panel of five of the twelve judges, usually picked based on subject matter expertise (those with, say, family law experience will get picked for family cases, while those with more commercial experience are likely to be picked for commercial or financial disputes).
> relatively open to people without degrees

The best programmer on the last team I worked on didn't have a high-school diploma, the second best was a waiter. I'm not sure how much more open you can get.
> we have to stop being like them.

Except the US is not. That's the point s/he was trying to make. Exaggeration only pushes the discussion to the most radical corners and ignores nuance.
I've adopted Bitcoin as my preferred money and use it for savings. I noticed that usd and all other currencies are very volatile, but 1btc is always equal to 1btc. For me, Bitcoin is the least volatile option.
I've been waiting for inflation since 2011, when all the bailouts and money printing was supposed to happen, but never really did.
Conspiracy theory conversations are fascinating to me. One the one side you have conspiracy theorists who have a rather loose practice of epistemology, relying heavily on heuristic intuition and a few "facts" in the formation of their beliefs. And then you have their detractors who seem to consider themselves intellectually superior, yet use essentially the same reasoning methodology (as it relates specifically to conspiracy theories).
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Your frame of reference is the number of times a T1 made a bad call.

Apple's frame of reference is the number of times a T1 made any call.

So let's say they've made hundreds of bad calls. Is that out of thousands of decisions, or millions? Or tens of millions?

If tens of thousands of apps are banned, but only hundreds are banned incorrectly, that doesn't suggest the same thing as if a large percentage of bans are later reversed.
Why does cuddle get an exemption? Why shouldn't we have s separate cuddle space so we can sleep soundly after?
That was an episode in The Gulag Archipelago. (I'm not sure how factual that makes it. I don't doubt it illustrates a real dynamic.)
Good thing I'm using Google less and less, because unions turn everything they touch to shit.
Could this be some sort of data corruption? I find it hard to believe that Slack could be down for this long without something that is exceedingly hard to rollback. Even if some services are completely overwhelmed with traffic, they could block a certain percentage of traffic to decrease load, and then force servers up across their datacenters and then unblock traffic. It has the hallmarks to me of some sort of datastore is down, but obviously just a random guess.
>you can print an infinite amount of different coins/systems to duplicate that function

But what does it take to bootstrap trust? The idea of conjuring instruments to move money has a long history. I found value in knowing that such a system already exists: Hawala[0] which means "transfer" or "trust". Its existence clamps, in my mind, the possibilities of the "how do we make value transfer systems" question. The Bitcoin network with its proof of work clamps the other side of that question. In some way, the altcoins and other various systems of payments exist somewhere between these two systems.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
The federal government effectively controls things like highways speed limits in all the states. The department of education does a whole lot of wealth redistribution and exerts a ton of control over every single public school in the country. Just some examples. The federal government is also the largest employer in the country.

> The fed can not force states to take the grants, or perform operations in the state without approval.

Fine. States that don't want the vaccine are free to refuse it. Do you think they won't play ball if the fed says "we will deliver and distribute the vaccines and you don't have to pay for them"? In what universe will this be something a state refuses saying "we want to pay for this ourselves"?

If it helps your mental model, you are the CEO of Alphabet, and Google is California, yet the worm is affecting all your subsidiaries.
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The paper does analyze a real conspiracy: Bridgegate.
> whereas Bitcoin cannot be damaged in such a way because it is not based on any real economic activity

No, Bitcoin has economic activity from transactions on the Blockchain (peer-peer) and mining activity (system-miner). This activity cannot often by disrupted by another currency minting a lot of other currency.
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When it went down fully and I had the Windows client open, it went to a page that basically said "Slack is down, we don't know why, try restarting and see if that fixes it. Here's the status page."

It would be nice if they could fix it so that a fresh start also goes to that page, at the very least.
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It probably won't stop until Bitcoin adoption rate gets over 50%. Right now it's closer to 0.1%-1% (maybe more in the US).
For sure, have heard this a few times now.
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Yup, I get "buy it again" prompts on nearly all of my recent purchases, even when they are all durable goods that don't expire or require restocking, like say a tablet case.
Working from bed is great? What? Who at the NYT thought this was worth publishing?

This is a great way to increase mental health issues, decrease physical health and hygiene and generally make everything worse.

Maybe in the future when morbidly obese humans float around in hover beds and purchase things only from Buy-N-Large this will be "great" - but this reeks of a strange "pro COVID lockdown" narrative I've been seeing lately.
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My bro does this. I'm not convinced it works as intended. But does give him another dopamine hit.

To give you a sense of his motivations: He's a former debate captain, coach, judge. Pendants about grammar, punctuation, pronunciation. Still believes logic and facts are persuasive. Especially said louder, with more sarcasm and derision.

I'm trying to be less like that. Old habits are hard to change.
Nice tip, I just realized spotlight has currency and unit conversions that I typically get from google.
The "Reply All" podcast episode #166 ("Country of Liars"), has a pretty good analysis of the history of the Q-anon conspiracy theory. fwiw
David Graeber (the late...) is the most vocal opponent of the idea that "barter economies" existed and he's very compelling.
Does that actually extend to Slack/slack-like things though?

Since I would see Slack more of a replacement for phone calls or hallway discussions.
Neither of which typically has any logs or recordings (and I wouldn't want to work somewhere that did keep such logs).
rgbsync.com is another alternative. Not affiliated, just have it as one to look into in future also.
Notion is always slow. So I stopped using it.
A once-dismissed idea became a leading technology in the Covid vaccine race
My point was really that it's GitLab's own product. "GitLab Mattermost" [https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/gitlab-mattermost/]

I'm amazed they use Slack at all. Let alone as a fallback.
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So 'black start' is a program to start over from scratch? The scale required for it itself would be amazing.
In this particular case the mRNA technology Moderna (and Pfizer) is completely new, these are the first two vaccines approved. Yes they spent a lot (including OWS money) to ramp production, all previous mRNA vaccine production was <1M doses per year in 2019 and before. So between Moderna and Pfizer, we are looking at probably 1.8 billion - 3 billion doses produced.

There are many genuine complaints about the vaccine ramp up, but this is one of the few cases where these numbers are a "good job".

This is why its so important for the FDA to give EUA to Astrazeneca now, that is a technology that can be scaled quickly. They should also encourage a readout now of J&J, which is almost certainly over the efficacy threshold and can also be scaled. With these two approvals, we can have enough vaccine for a 1st dose for everyone within the next 60 days.
In other words, you were trading Tether OTC for cash and other assets, not redeeming it: https://tether.to/redeem-tethers-to-bank-account/
Bitcoin (capital B) still is! The Bitcoin Core project (BTC) was hijacked years ago by corporate interests (Adam Back's Blockstream) and crippled to push their "second layer" solutions to the problem they themselves created.

The Bitcoin project lives on and most real users and developers moved to other projects like Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Monero the same time Blockstream wrestled control of the Bitcoin Core GitHub repo.
It's working fine for us and we just hired 6 new clojure devs. Code base is quite significant yet easy to make meaningful changes to.

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I'm not familiar with stock market, but looking at a daily AMZN stock price [1], I honestly can't see a huge difference with Bitcoin. Could it be that BTC is slightly more volatile because of the nature of the market? a) it's open 24/7 b) it's much more accessible.

[1] https://ibb.co/N9y7yxB
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Personally I find it more dangerous not to claim the right of way. People try to pass you in all sorts of weird and precarious positions.
Seriously?[1]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/oct/07/covid-19-cr...
It's not, though. They're all spiking because everyone got back from the weekend. Just look at the comments.

H&R Block's page there has this as the most recent comment, from an hour ago:

> My sister was able to have a bank pull money off her card yes her old card dunno which bank ill find out in bit

Two hours ago:

> I went to atm and thought I was crazy my pin wasnt working.

These reports are entirely useless.
Todoist reports that is down as well [0]
I wonder if it would be connected in any way shape or form

https://status.todoist.net
This article discusses DNA and mRNA in terms of source code--which it is.
NYT "lifestyle" articles are (usually young) writers on deadline filling space with apps from their friends.
My point is that fighters are obsolete. Sensor platforms get you the target, long range ordinance kills the target. Dog fights are dead like the SR71, which was obsoleted by orbital surveillance. See from afar, kill from afar, and stop trying to put a human onboard.
> Yes that can occur. Lots of things can and do occur.

so, what's your solution to the problem of fallible unions?

> Or ... have both, since like any human institution, both are fallible.

You are yet to prove that unions solve anything in the setting that you outlined.

How about just having corporations and a small government that doesn't prevent new players entering the market by restrictive laws and quotas, in place of those that fall prey to corruption, fraud, and short-sighted destructive practices? There's more than two options to consider.
When I was researching this subject, what I found out is that the path was:

1. Gift based economy. Where people aren't really giving gifts... this still exists in some parts of the world, basically if you accept the "gift", you are now in debt, and is expected to do something in return, not necessarily immediately. In small villages it makes sense, for example the hunter "gifts" everyone with the meat he hunted, increasing his social standing, so when he needs medical attention, the medic will take care of him, because he is socially in debt to the hunter. In a modern economy this instead can be disastrous, for example I have a cousin that visited France, and was horrified when african immigrants kept following him and his wife, hugging him forcefully, and trying to put random crap (it was some beads to wear around the wrist) on his hands and saying it is a gift, meanwhile when a nearby tourist did take the object, they demanded a 50 euro "gift" back.

2. When society is too big to be "social standing based", currency shows up rather quickly, when you can't remember everyone or use everyone's fame as currency, you need something easier to track, can be objects (rocks, salt, gold, whatever) or a ledger (numbers on a piece of clay, bank account, bitcoin, whatever), or both.

3. Barter shows up AFTER currency, because people use the currency to know the value of what they are bartering, for example a guy wants to buy a house, and doesn't have 3 tons of salt required, so he says he will offer you this gold bar worth 1 ton of salt, his horses worth the other ton of salt, and 5 years of his work worth the last ton of salt.

Here is a reasonable article on the subject, I remember vaguely it was one of my sources at the time, it is not the best source, but is the one that pointed me in the right direction.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-...
> Bitcoin's price is irrelevant if you're planning on using it as a deflation countering

How does bitcoin function as a "deflation countering method"?
If you don't trust a coin to operate according to your expectations (e.g. a 21M limit), you can verify the source code and/or run a node yourself. This way you can yourself guarantee that all transactions happening on the network (that your node is part of) operate according to rules that you agree with.

There are already multiple forks of Bitcoin, yet it doesn't seem to change market's perception and valuation of the original Bitcoin.
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