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People keep saying that but electronic voting would be great! Set it up so the process is exactly like mail-in ballots except digital and you can’t have made it any worse. It’s not like emailing a PDF to be opened by an election official is any different than mailing a document to be opened by that same official.
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What "moat" does Bitcoin have protecting it from other crypto which may have more attractive features?

It seems to me that it's just the first one that everyone's grandma has heard the name of.

Some journalists will say BTC is just the "most stable" but the fact that it has the most miners is just a consequence of the high price, not the other way around.

As for the technology, what is actually maintaining BTC dominance in the crypto world other than general first mover sentiment?
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> from my reading like there are some incompatibilities with services that I use on the free tier.
Yea! Very true. and exactly as you say, CI/CD is going that way as well and we fit in there, so it would make sense for our pricing to fit that.
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I understand what you say. But maybe it's time to forget about that kind of time optimization and replace it by an optimization for fuel efficiency... Else we'll be stuck in the past...

(but I'm an idealist, for sure :-))
> Although you may have been unsatisfied with iMovie, it is in fact the free tier of Final Cut Pro, much as GarageBand is the free tier of Logic.

Are they though?

I think of a free version as having the same interface and core functionality with locked features. Does iMovie have the same interface/menus/workflow as Final Cut now?

These seem more like the "let's not dilute the product by repackaging some of the codebase into a mass market interface" versions.

Admittedly I haven't used them in years but I do recall learning about non linear editing in premiere pro years ago and ditching iMovie for adobe in a flash.

More recently I've gone the resolve route as well, even though I have active adobe subscriptions through with along with years of experience.

I just don't like cloud dependent software.
> Some politicians have worked very hard and have expended significant political capital on campaign finance reform.

They’ve no doubt received campaign contributions and remember those when they propose changes to the law.

> Setting an impossible standard and then decrying anybody who doesn't meet it is more about you than the system. Politics is the art of the possible.

I think the fact that you agree its impossible to elect someone who hasn’t already been bribed makes my point. I don’t trust people to take bribes and then betray the briber.
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I treated myself to a solo hackathon this weekend and built
https://next-season-of.com. The data is scrapped from IMDB and the website is generated using the hugo template engine. There's still a lot of optimization to be done but I'm planning to use this as a learning ground to try and get my pages to rank in Google. It would be really cool to search "next season of Ozark" and see a link to next-season-of.com.
Maybe it is time to stop advocating open source drivers as something that benefits everyone.

Apparently old models get dropped just as with binary blobs, or maybe not, given that the Windows drivers work today just as 10 years ago with GL 4.1 and DX 11.
Not influencing what is going on this way - not everything has to be standard and decided by a majority, multiple options can be done at the same time. Second thing is reducing the size of government - not everything has to be the same for literally millions of people and thousands of square kilometers, and especially not for hundreds of millions of people and entire continents. Some things shouldn't ever be voted about.
It depends on a lot of assumptions. How many shots per day--currently at about 1 million in the US but ramping up. One shot vs. two shot vaccine mix. If/when younger children get added to the pool. What percentage of the population wants a vaccine.

A lot of people should be vaccinated by the end of the summer. But that would require accelerating things a fair bit from the current pace--which would put the 90% mark around Thanksgiving.
Exactly. My first thought was of stupid things I did when I was angry as a teenager. Then I thought of a Gorilla having a similar burst of anger.
That doesn't contradict the previous notion that category theory is "empty" or adds nothing to the original understanding of the logic. At best, you've just changed how you describe precisely the same elements of the system. And once you start using categories to talk about categories you lose concrete referents entirely, describing description.

If the point was modelling linguistic syllogisms, or accounting for the stock of apples in your warehouse, why bother? These tasks are better served by analyzing the objects in question, rather than you, the describer.

> Please focus on the maths and stop struggling; you're only making things harder for yourself.

This is condescending – I could say the same thing and ask you to "stop struggling with philosophy". But neither of us should.
The military is pretty good at managing context. Currently no one is really deployed in a traditional combat sense and rules of engagement are very strict and each shot would be evaluated. if The U.S. were to invade Canada or vice versa the rules would obviously change.
Look, it's easy, regarding money supply ("ms"):

well administered flexible ms > fixed ms > badly administered flexible ms.

So, let central bankers do their job, unimpeded by politicians.

Case in point: the USD your father bought were fiat with a flexible money supply, administered by the Fed.
> As an attacker, you can also hire people in call centers to make phone calls at scale for you.

I think we may be talking about different things? I was just talking about a scaling problem of providing legal notifications of account suspensions and providing a means on getting them unsuspended. I wasn't talking about DoS attacks.

Lots of companies have call centers, so I'm not sure what you're envisioning here, or what financial gain there would be for spammers to DoS the call center. After all, their accounts are already getting suspended by the algorithms, regardless of whether innocent consumers have any appeal to this, and DoSing the call center won't help spammers get their accounts unsuspended.
I don't have direct proof, but groups like SRI have published results in IEEE.
It is solving the problem of scalability. For reference bitcoin can only handle like 5 transactions per second and ethereum like 20 transactions per second. In order to get global adoption of cryptocurrency we are going to need to scale to handle more transactions.
There seems to be so little critical thinking in the "army of HODLers" - and they often don't argue in good faith, simply telling you to shut up as one example. Most won't even acknowledge they're biased due to being financially incentivized, whereas those who speak up against the unavoidable pitfalls of Bitcoin arent' financially incentivized to spend time, effort, to respond critically - to speak up - and up against the growing "army of HODLers."
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> Bitcoin is a mystery to me.

Aka "I don't know what I'm talking about."

Time to do some research.

Here's the white paper: (pick your prefered language)

https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper

Read it over and over again. Then read and understand some commentary on Bitcoin:

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/crash-course/

Then get back to us.

> Getting rid of currency altogether.

Let's get rid of water while we're at it too.

Please, next time learn something before spouting off your ignorance, that's just plain tr0lling... Unless you ask direct questions!
Exactly. As long as things are still denominated in fiat (and they are...), payment with BTC is just a gimmick.
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> And lets be honest google could totally affort a human review process

This is the part I find baffling. Why can’t they take 10 Google engineer’s worth of salaries, and hire a small army of overseas customer reps to handle cases like this? I realize that no customer support has been in Google’s DNA since the beginning, but this is such a weird hill to die on.
This. People think stupid tests and ineffective recruitment stand for incompetence. They may actually signify a well-tuned process to identify compliant, mediocre individuals that don't produce results, stand out, nor are self-motivated, but rather aim to please the boss, without question, and to "fit in".

As an engineer, you want to increase your value contribution to the org and the org should see you the same way. This usually means look for software product companies with at least some meritocracy. It should be about software all the way down.

In any other scenario, it's about something else, usually pleasing the boss, you are a servant, and good luck with that.
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The more fundamental issue here is a lack of trust. Google has lost it due to years of this stuff, and it will take a lot more than “we actually do have support on GCP” to rebuild it.
+1. One of my clients got scratched on her wrist by a house cat she had nurtured for years. She ended up spending a significant amount of time in the hospital with a serious infection that nearly resulted in amputation.
You are 99.5% wrong. See Federal Arbitration Act and ATT v Concepcion.
You just need a Bitcoin ATM in every shanty town. Easy.
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Greetings HN,

I'm Nikita. I created a platform https://welovenocode.com where, at 1/10th of the cost, you can employ a no-code developer to create an MVP for your startup.

The idea came from my experience four years ago with outsourcing firms. I tried to order a few designs, but they still took far more time and money than I had ever expected.

Possibly because benefits have been messed up and agencies make more money for longer to suck up my project.

No-code tools such as Airtable, Webflow, and Bubble began showing up at that time. I played with them, but since both instruments and the group were small, I could not create something enough. There were people just making fun of us.

But I designed a few projects for a friend of mine at Bubble earlier this year and discovered two things. First, to validate a start-up concept, there is no need to create a fully functional product - a simple web app, marketplace, or mobile app with Glide is always appropriate (obvious, I know). And second, the instruments have changed a lot, and now everyone is excited about no-code.

I put two and two together and fixed a platform for a flat monthly fee where you can employ a no-code engineer. I think this will resolve the issue with the agency and help people not spend months creating things that no one wants.

I'd love to hear what you guys think of this.
Maybe it's time for Google to retire GAIA. Connecting identities between Youtube and Gmail and Stadia seems convenient at first, but in this case, it clearly led to a failure for a customer.
That the eyewitness account would be discarded, they make for terrible evidence anyway.
I've been using linux since around '99 and if I had a map of linux subsystems then audio would still fall right in 'Here be Dragons' territory for me. I knew enough to come up to the border and set up an outpost to get audio out but I dared not venture deeper.

To be fair besides getting audio out I never really needed to go deeper until I started an audio-heavy personal project a few weeks ago. This article certainly helped clarify quite a bit of the map.
Here's a clickable link, https://next-season-of.com
I swear everytime i click on a medium article there is a new way they have thought of to keep me from reading it. Is reading without an account not possible anymore? I didn't read anything on it in the last few weeks, so i should not have hit any limit.
Any application process is mostly luck after you meet a certain threshold IMO.
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How are they cashing bit coin to eat?

The conversion has occur somewhere or they whole world has to accept bit coin and participate in tax evasion schemes by being so called unbanked.

There is limit to bit coin usage and alike and they will eventually hit the limitation and regulation.

The unbanked people are not buying Tesla. They will pay the tax.
This always annoyed me, because it's almost certain those candidates were in some kind of order.

It'd be either based on the file-name when they were all printed, or the order they came in, or based on some weird method the printer uses, but they'd be some implicit order.

So the candiates were unlucky, it's just the hiring manager couldn't be bothered to think about the biases... oddly relevant when talking about managers out-sourcing their racism/classism/agism/sexism/elitism/whateverism to AI.
The transaction costs are variable depending on the speed with which you want your transaction processed. Miners have an incentive to include transactions with the highest fees in the next block, so when the network is congested with tons of unprocessed transactions, you'll be paying more.

And that's only looking at on-chain mechanics. Solutions exist to remedy issues with scalability of the underlying blockchain.
I'm not arguing that freeium doesn't help - I am arguing that freeium is not the only factor in the success of these companies and to say "freeium = unicorn killer" is an attribution mistake.
It absolutely IS about currency. They're printing money to pay for shit they can't afford. That is in ADDITION to the taxes that will be levied.

Big government spending is absolutely a waste of economic resources, and will make the situation worse. The REAL problem is that most americans don't have enough money saved to take care of themselves during hard times. Why might that be?

The FED's influence has resulted in our entire economic structure discouraging saving. This is specifically a problem bitcoin tries to solve (by having a specific and tapering inflation curve that results in deflationary pressures).
Yes, there are various cryptocurrencies that target this area, two examples are filecoin and sai.
I'm not that familiar with SC but assuming there isn't a native way, you could sign up with an exchange that has SC (the major ones like Binance, Kraken & Bittrex do). Then convert it to fiat there and withdraw. Most exchanges have API's so this could be automated.

There are also various decentralised exchanges that handle pegged-fiat crypto currencies for price-exposure.

But after a while you may regret doing that, as much of this tech is in very early stages, and as such the value of the coins are low versus their longterm potential. If you believed in Sia/SC longterm, it might be better to hold the SC and convert to dollars later.

For an example of why this may be the case, look up bitcoin pizza guy.

(And obviously none of this is intended as investment advice, always do your own research, etc.)
> There is not a single alternative service in the world that would have made this possible.

I work at TransferWise so I know that 34% of our transactions are now instant (less than 20 sec).
>170,000 lines of MATLAB code

This is a deep problem. Many scientists don't understand software engineering and more and more need to write bigger and bigger programs. And most of the time they don't open source their code.

Open source science.
And, what if they had demonstrated their cool raygun to you before offering to trade the 4d trinket for your house? Maybe you can at least trade the trinket for a smaller house in a worse school district, and that would be preferable to the indirect possibility of being disintegrated.

On the other hand the trinket might really be more valuable than your house as exposure to some technology that doesn't exist in the economy where you live. Or, trading coffee was equivalent to smuggling silkworms out of China. Or, you sold them the Brooklyn Bridge rather than coffee or your house.
I guess I should clarify that I mean scepticism relative to what early proponents of bitcoin were suggesting would happen. So by taken off I mean things like replacing fiat currency in everyday use for a large number of people.

Edit: Compare to that what Dropbox may have suggested at their launch, something like "we will replace USB thumb drives", which would have sounded very ambitious at the time but was in fact pretty much true, for a large number of people.
> A tool designed to find people guilty is biased to find people guilty.

I don't see those particular issues make it biased, just inaccurate - it could go either way.
It’s a matter of trust and credibility. Google has lost it for engineers, Amazon hasn’t. Trying to come up with arguments against an emotional position is pointless.
Sounds like something a lot of companies need. Could be a good lifestyle startup company.
I gotta say, while I appreciate the sentiment, and outside of all the valid criticism laid on this by other commenters, does anyone else not notice that their "after" picture is NO BETTER than the "before" picture...? They just made bigger black boxes over multiple meetings rather than on each individual meeting, and their "work time" was still scheduled over.

I feel like maybe they didn't do a great job on this, or should have like...at least faked a good result on their calendar...
Hi @ilkkal. Thank you for the note - I've corrected the directive!
In case you wanted a quick-and-dirty explanation of everything AWS has to offer

https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/
That'd be ideal
Yeah it seems to be a car freighter.

Under Cargo it simply says it is capable of carrying 7,000 cars in the cargo hold. It doesn't appear to be set up for shipping container cargo. It is possible that top-loaded shipping containers don't work well with the sails/airfoil that need to be above the ship.
Cool idea yeah but not really working in real life. You can't just block out your time every day. In a multinational organisation you're dealing with people in different timezones and many other constraints, leading to there simply not being much choice.

I try to get a big block of time booked too but it's usually just not possible to keep it.
Why is (1) true?
I think we agree on the facts. In the regular banking system, every transaction has to be approved by the authorities to happen.

With Bitcoin, just like cash, you can freely transfer it as you please.

The disagreement is if that is good or bad.
It’s honestly really sad / pathetic.

Big ass tech company been around for ages saying it’s gonna change the world.

All you do is coast. Like what. Could you imagine going back in time and saying that to folks? That their whole “I’m gonna change the world” routine is going to be given up on?
> unrelated to what philosophers talk about

Plenty of philosophers talk about how to live a full, meaningful and happy life. Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, St. Augustine, and plenty more.

It's not all metaphysics, qualia, or master-slave dialectics.
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Infinite canvases seem to offer a lot of potential for navigating information. I think there are many cases where it'd be easier to find some information based on its location in a visual space rather than its logical position in some hierarchy or other organizational system. Infinite canvases are a common feature of lots of drawing, diagramming, and note-taking applications, but I haven't come across anything which intends to serve as an information organization system.

Has anyone used an application where an infinite canvas is used as a navigational tool for a database of information?
Not right now, but in the next 6 months we may be hiring. We would prefer in the Houston area, but remote may be possible.
Perhaps you aspired to find a job that rewarded on merit. They perhaps aimed to form an orderly line of obedient sycophants. The test worked, to the benefit of both parties.
There is no excuse for the laziness/ambiguity surrounding bans like this. I have witnessed, in 1 degree of separation, 3 separate Facebook business account bans in the last 12 months alone - the only reason cited is "you violated our community policy" with a link to the entire community policy and 0 clarification before or after requesting review.

In 2 of those cases, they were high-6 & low-7 figure follower companies and were spending well into the 6 figures per year on facebook ads. They were both ultimately overturned after escalating via an "agency-only" facebook person who looked into it and found it to be automated violations (both the original and the appeal!). The excuse for why it wasn't overturned upon appeal was "Sorry we cannot disclose this since people would game the system if we did" yet a single person manually reviewed and overturned it in a matter of minutes.

I don't understand the (successful) business logic that gets Facebook into a scenario like this where you can't put 1 hour of human capital into reviewing a potentially million dollar contract.
Hi, I'm the author.

For those who haven't heard about the book yet: it is a practical description of the main data structures and algorithms in use today. The book is also featuring a presentation of the most important algorithm development techniques, as well a examples of the real-world use cases in each chapter. It uses Common Lisp as an implementation language, and also contains a crash course into the language if you are not yet familiar with it.

For those who have already seen or even read the previous version published on Leanpub, here is a summary of the updates: http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2021/02/programming-algori...

As usual, AMA.
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> That's actually false. You can do what javascript does on the front-end with web assembly.

True. My comment mutatis mutandis.

> my point has gone right over your head if you have to ask a question like this.

Indeed it has! I would appreciate it if you could tweak it down to the level of my head.
I am the person who said that :) I guess what I really meant was I agree with your original statement.

They're closer to analog computers than digital, but really they're neither and share some similarities of both. In the sense that the qubits usually only have 2 measurable states in computation, they're similar to digital computers, but that only goes for when you measure. On the other side, the 'programs' going in are not really digital information (though they can be represented as such), and because qubits are not only in one of 2 states (unlike bits) the way in which you interact/program them is definitely not digital, it is analog.

If you're interested in learning about writing quantum programs, I recommend checking out IBM's Qiskit toolkit[0]. I found the tutorials to be helpful for helping grasp the fundamentals of quantum programming.

[0]: https://qiskit.org/documentation/getting_started.html
> I use Google Cloud and the support has been pretty good. We have an account manager, engineering support contacts, all sorts. We also have SLAs so they can't just cut off our account.

That may be true, but many people won't even try it to find out because "Google" itself is synonymous with "customer service black hole". They should have given their cloud product a name other than "Google", similar to how Microsoft named their offering "Azure" and not "Microsoft Cloud" - if Microsoft (the name) has bad rep, they can just drop that moniker to preserve their cloud offering as simply "Azure".