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It is not necessary to write two comments. Your comments have a link that says "edit" during some time (1 hour?).

If you make a major edit, it's usual to mark that in the comment, specially if someone has replied to your comment.

(Some people also mark typos correction. I think it's not necessary, unless the fix makes some replies nonsensical.)

EDIT: Totally unnecessary edit to post an image of the "edit" link https://imgur.com/a/GASexeh
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What are the most important properties/goals of Bitcoin, in your view? I am genuinely interested in your view.

The attitude on this forum towards Bitcoin literally boggles my mind, at most maybe 5% truly understand it.
The observation that regulation usually ends up helping the incumbents is not new.

That said, I find the "meshed society" concept useful. It highlights the radical level of collaboration possible between individuals, enabled by the internet.
Some authority could just demand your bitcoin on some gimmicky pretext (USA) or draft laws largely stymying its use (China). Also I've yet to find a reason to transfer $30k in one go for any reason - I've yet to fall victim to some kidnapper or blackmailer who wants cash by the evening without raising any alarms on my part.
Or if Hillary Clinton could decide to run again.
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Because corporate interests are hell bent on stopping the people's will. Immigration gives employers a huge amount of power over workers and they will call normal people of all ethnicities racist in order to shut us up.
> This is all funded by printing money - inflating its supply.

> By creating Bitcoin, Satoshi took gold to the internet, and we can now trade in a currency which no one can inflate to fund wars, or to in essence steal productivity from every earner.

Utter bullshit. The power of the US government doesn't stem from its ability to print money. Rather, it's the other way around essentially: its ability to print money stems from its power. The US government controls the most successful economy and army in the world's history, by far.

If it had a reason to, the US government could, with resources it entirely owns, out-mine the entire bitcoin network and print its own bitcoin as well, in violation of the protocol. What's more, assuming it were done publicly and with a commitment to maintain it, people all over the world would use the newly printed US-bitcoin.

More realistically, it could easily lend bitcoin that don't exist yet and create a fractional-reserve system right on top of bitcoin.

The problems of today's economy stem much more from "free market" systems like the officially-sanctioned speculation happening every second on Wall Street. Workers are hurt much more by so-called "free trade" agreements that allow US companies to own other parts of the world and exploit those for cheap labor at the cost of both US workers and the foreign economy. And wars get started not because the US has money, but because the US doesn't allow enough democratic control of its workings.
> I'm not of the opinion they're eyesores - the nyc Skyline was stagnant for decades until these needles came in.

This is just consumption for consumption's sake. You shouldn't throw away a building in ten or twenty years just beecause you get tired of it!

Humans have to get over the obsessive consumption if we are to survive the twenty first century.
obviously you would only be paying them 2X if there was a 2X burger flipper, once you have automated burger flipping and you need half as many you have twice the people on the market with the easy to learn skill you require. Why would you increase their wages, unless it was because of human decency?
Maybe because "machine learning" isn't all that interesting, and instead "proper AI" has been taken for granted in science fiction? A sentient AI is much more interesting than a "dumb" ML algorithm that can recognize cat pictures on the internet.

Stanislaw Lem wrote a few really good short stories about machine AIs at the brink of being sentient (e.g. robots that should be dumb machines, but show signs of self-awareness and human traits).
The energy is a pure waste. The "difficulty" of bitcoin blocks is continually increasing but the utility of being able to transact in bitcoin is not greater today than it was in 2015 (arguably less, since fewer merchants will sell goods in bitcoin)
When I was in China, this was the most often said statement in bars, in private. "We don't want to be treated like children ". .
That's actually wonderful to hear! Is there some way to assist with that work? Doing something with a human impact is appealing.

(To be clear, my argument wasn't that ML isn't useful -- but rather that individual lone hackers are less likely to be using ML to achieve superman-type powers than I originally thought. Supermen do exist, but they are firmly in the ranks of DeepMind et al, and must pursue projects collectively rather than individually.)
A while back while learning a foreign language I stumbled across https://www.wattpad.com/

Note that I've only used it for reading and not for tracking my reads, finding recommendations, etc.
definitely, that's what I meant too! I would not expect every consumer to learn how to do this, I would expect, in a sane world, you would take it to a shop or back to the producer.

It's about the design of the devices, they need to be designed to be repairable affordably. There should be tax or subsidy bonuses/penalties for this.

(The simplest effective way would be to require all manufacturers to take broken or obsolete electronics back at no charge, responsible for repair, recycling, or disposal themselves, so that there is incentive to reduce costs of such).
Can you expand on how you create that synthetic data and how the evaluation (increased accuracy in diagnosis) works?
The implication is that regulators would never approve a design that is actually possible to build. That we're in a state where you have to lie to the regulators if you want them to approve your building.
Increasing supply and reducing demand lowers the price. Thats why everyone who opposes immigration and offshoring is called a racist by corporate media.
Fortran has had array operations since the 1990 standard, but I believe that programmers who are familiar with that functionality still often use loops involving array elements. I do. Not all calculations conveniently map to array operations, and sometimes you can exit the loop if a condition is met. It's a benefit of a compiled, statically typed language to use loops without suffering a speed penalty.
Re-read my last sentence. Public opinion, ours included, can go hang.
Moderna: 0 severe cases in the vaccinated group, 11 in the placebo group: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/peer-reviewed-...

Pfizer/BioNTech: 1 severe case in the vaccinated vs 9 placebo group (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33301246/)

Oxford: 10 hospitalisations all in the control group (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...)
Even ignoring the cost (which isn't that bad for an occasional thing if you don't buy a table, which I've never done), I've never had that much fun at a nightclub. I feel on edge the entire time. It's something about the overall atmosphere of the place that raises your stress levels. I can't quite put a finger on it.

Now a slightly more laid back live music venue I love. Can't tell you how many times I went to Brooklyn Bowl and Rockwood pre-pandemic.
Actually, OpenSSH has built-in TUN/TAP support using -w<local-tun-number>:<remote-tun-number>. You can create a layer 3/point-to-point/ TUN tunnel or layer 2/ethernet/TAP tunnel.

I used to run a site-to-site VPN between two sites a couple of decades ago with a simple script doing just this. These days we'd use OpenVPN or strongSwan for such use-cases but despite the 'hackiness' of the former approach, it worked reliably for years.
Not sure that's a relevant comparison, the class of people that will put a 12000 down payment for this decently sized house are not the same class of people that will splash 2k on a nightclub table in NYC
The fundamental issue with the second type of club is that they’re usually not making money on the drugs. This was true for the Hacienda and its true for most of the clubs now.

I strongly suspect that it’s not the case for the mega-clubs in Ibiza, and that they get their cut somehow
"The Linux Foundation is working in partnership with the Covid-19 Credentials Initiative, a collective of more than 300 people from five continents to help develop universal standards for vaccine credential apps that make them accessible and equitable."
It has affected a small number of fields for sure. Imaging based diagnosis might be better off due to ML, but imaging based diagnosis isn't going to cure cancer or be helpful for every single disease. Glad it's helping but the authors point is only reinforced. Unless you can make a case that we will cure basically everything with ML that is.
I didn't realise how many fake quotes he had attributed to him. Reminds me a bit of the many fake Buddha quotes that do the rounds. Some are obviously just the sort of guff you'd read on Instagram hovering over a naff picture of a sunset. Others are harder to detect and may be a subtle distortion or sloppy transcription rather than a total fabrication.

Goes to show how sceptical we must be when reading things online, even when they sound plausible. As the late great Abraham Lincoln once said according to something I read recently... "The problem with quotes found on the internet is that many simply are not true".
Khuyen Tran has a nice collection of bite-sized tricks and tips for learning Pandas on her blog:
https://mathdatasimplified.com/page/1/?s=pandas
https://mathdatasimplified.com/page/2/?s=pandas
https://mathdatasimplified.com/page/3/?s=pandas

It's not like I'll remember all the syntax, but good to know what tools/tricks exist.
Judge people by their overall actions.

The top richest Americans have sucked out all the extra value created in society for the last two generations, while offloading a great deal of risk onto individuals, who are the least likely to be able to bear it.

Overall, we are in the process of destroying our ecosystem, and again, the richest people on the planet consume and waste literally _orders of magnitude_ more than the poorest.

You having met some rich people who are also nice is just an anecdote.
It would be ‘meat like’ but it doesn’t make much sense for the marketing. And meat also refers to the edible part of fruits or something consistent. I’d give it a pass as its not really deceiving advertising.
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I refer to long symbol names a lot more often than I subtract things. If I could have it in Python or Java I'd be happy, using - is just nicer than _ or camelCase. Using spaces in pipes |like this| is nifty sometimes too. I'd be willing to accept warnings/compiler errors on the seemingly never-in-practice occasion when the compiler notices that all 3 of 'a-b, 'a, and 'b are bound symbols and I need to use a more explicit expression (like the escaped '- in lispm's example, which is how the cmu-infix library solves the problem).

On the other hand, some advice from Chuck Moore (found in Thinking Forth) that I think about sometimes:

"There are diverging programming styles in the Forth community. One uses hyphenated words that express in English what the word is doing. You string these big long words together and you get something that is quite readable.

But I immediately suspect that the programmer didn’t think out the words carefully enough, that the hyphen should be broken and the words defined separately. That isn’t always possible, and it isn’t always advantageous. But I suspect a hyphenated word of mixing two concepts."
When I first saw this project, I was confused as to how it wasn't any different than this feature. To me it seems like they just wrapped youtube-dl to only extract subtitles, made it a webpage, and called it a service.
Relative percentages can also quite easily be inverted, if one look at the complement.

The alternative way to look at it is that 89.3% vs. 88.7% don't divorce, which makes it a relative difference of 0.7%.

The do-divorce is a 5.6% increase, and the don't-divorce is a 0.7%; both are derived from the very same numbers.
Minor nitpick:

> McDonalds made $11 billion in 2019. They employed 210,000 people. They therefore made ~$52,400 per worker in profit.

Don’t forget that McDonalds is mostly a franchise business. They could have 0 people flipping burgers and still make 10 billion profit
Is ~ a literal ~ character? Or notation for some modifier key? I only knew about ^ to mean "control".
I actually think there is an expectation that increased trust/acceptance in Bitcoin will help the success of future improved cryptocurrency technologies.

Bitcoin gives users a trustworthy decentralized store of value today that they could easily move to another cryptocurrency in future using some kind of decentralized exchange based on smart contracts. It provides liquidity for all future cryptocurrencies.
I'm sure Apple wants to do the right thing but they've set themselves up badly from the top down in this case: Tim Cook has been promising (and delivering) services revenue and subscriber count growth since 2016. If your employer says services revenue growth is the most important thing, people do respond to incentives even if they're aware of it or not.

I'm also sure they're aware of this and hopefully we'll see improvements soon. (no insider knowledge, just good old hopeful thinking)
Would “Epoxy coated wood” be more appropriate?

Honestly, the manufacturing process sounds much simpler than other “wood” I’ve seen that has much more engineering / chemicals involved.
Works better if you say "...isn't suffering on a level the rest of us need to worry about", I think.
A girl I went to high school with went on to apply machine learning to identify human trafficking victims and ads for law enforcement.

My perception of machine learning as a mere dabbler myself is that "machine learning" is just a sci-fi name for what's essentially applied statistics. In places where that is useful (e.g. clustering ads by feature similarity to highlight unclassified ads that appear similar to known trafficking ads), then machine learning is useful. It's not necessarily as one-size-fits-all as, say, networking or operating systems are, but in cases where you can identify a useful application of statistics, machine learning can be a useful tool.
My original claim is that new technology is not getting funded by dumping energy into bitcoin mining. Proof-of-stake was proposed as a counter example, but as discussed it may actually predate bitcoin's adoption. It may be true that dumping energy into bitcoin can fund the adoption of a proof-of-stake coin, but that is no longer a new technology, it is simply adoption.

So I stand by my original point - the resources going into bitcoin are not fueling technology research.

They may be fueling PoS Ethereum adoption, but that is another argument entirely.
> "Not just not biodegradable as the name suggests, but also not recyclable."

As long as a significant portion of the material is from plants, rather than fossil origin, it's probably still an improvement.

Plastic used in long-life consumer goods is generally not recycled anyway (as opposed to the single-use PETE, HDPE, etc, plastics used in packaging).
According to the article it has all the structural properties of wood.
VW is a market leader for EVs in Europe. I would like to know what VW couldn't handle because it's not obvious from your comment. You left a lot of ambiguity.
The externalized cost of carbon released into the atmosphere is an interesting problem in that we need to define where and when it should be paid. As an illustrated early sample of this, the burning of biomass is considered carbon neutral because all the carbon released was once absorbed by the plant when it grew.

In agricultural, we have added carbon which starts out as natural gas. It then get used to create synthetic fertilizer. The fertilizer is used to grow feed crops, which then the animals eat. The manure is then either dumped or kept for creating new bio gas or sold to organic farms that uses it as an alternative to synthetic fertilizer. The organic farms can then sell feed to more farms, but at lower and lower yields given the same input carbon from the first synthetic fertilizer, or crops that people eat.

One alternative is that each instance pay for carbon it handles, in which case we don't care if carbon is added or not. We could also tax the first instance where the carbon is introduced to the system. A different system could attempt to tax what we find to be the incentive for the system.

Personally I would tax the externalities of synthetic fertilizer because that is instance where extra carbon get added, and it solves part of the controversial issue of biomass production being labeled as carbon neutral when using fertilizer. It will also make animal feed more expensive for factory farms, while grazing animals farms in low population areas can benefit from being more ecological to the environment.
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Regina Barzilay has done some work in this area; I posted slides from a great talk she gave years back a few years ago. The slides seem to be gone and not on Internet Archive sadly...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20019355

This Twitter thread also has a lot of good stuff.

https://twitter.com/maite_taboada/status/1086415051127308288
The README mentions that you have a list of technical talks you are meaning to watch. Would you mind sharing that list? I'm curious!
I think that's exactly the author's point. All science-fiction radically overshoots where we are now. Nobody imagined the weird combination of capabilities and impossibilities that we find ourselves in.
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Agreed.

https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/issues/46
OK, people didn't watch the same program 10 times in a row, but they did watch 6 hours a night of brainrot TV (2 hours of which were commercials), from returning from their job to going to bed.

The TV dinner was popular over 50 years ago -- people didn't have time to actually eat without consuming fiction
I don't think we should do that. I don't want to wade through the posts of adolescents, which is what reddit mostly is now.
It's funny that the article ends up describing Pratchett's L-space almost to a tee. Perhaps he's just reading the wrong genre and that any discussion about the humanities is not best served by leaning to science only.
What does it mean to short a stock?
You're right that the cost moves to the consumer and that it hurts those most in need. Maybe UBI, maybe tax on consumers can be nonlinear and be higher when the usage is higher ("fake accounts" are not that simple in the real world). I don't know. I'd like to think that punishing those who produce energy from non-renewable resources should be enough to make those renewable ones become more popular and cost efficient, but it's true that in the real world there are some difficult problems to solve.

The last point would be beautiful if it only was true. I would be somewhat ok with banks and funds stealing poor people money through FED if it was the case. But it is not. We are not cold and hungry, but many people are. Even if you are not thinking globally, just US only, just look at COVID-19 and the overall state of healthcare.

But the last point brings one valid criticism of Bitcoin that I don't see mentioned practically ever. Money is a positive feedback loop. Bringing real money to the world, one that cannot be easily taken by force, can be scary (don't xkcd wrench me, I mean scenario that's much further, there were many entities throughout human history that acquired a lot of wealth giving them a lot of power, at some point other people become fed up enough that they just took it by force. But in this case, it would not be in any physical place, not necessarily associated with specific individuals). Fiat currencies system is rigged, but the problem is that money itself is somewhat rigged. When you don't have enough of it, you just sell your time and sell it cheap and you don't have enough of it left to find how you could sell it better. With enough money, it just works like a magnet. Better lawyers, research done for you, being able to take high risk bets etc.

I'd love to have a state of world that you described in your last paragraph. I wouldn't care much about Bitcoin in such scenario.
This is the true answer - as per basic economics, the price of labour in a free market is set by demand and supply.
Why are people obsessed with AGI? I agree that it’s an exciting scientific challenge, but I don’t think it’ll solve all of our problems.

Additionally, I’m not sure we must necessarily strive for machines that think like humans. It could be useful for some use cases but I would argue that you can still take advantage of purely data-driven models.
I'd be happy with AI taking my responsibilities and myself taking up my cats day job.
Lots of sun naps and very little stress about food or resources.
Holding medical AI trials to a higher standard
> "meat is already plant-based due to the animals eating plants which then get concentrated down into dense nutrients and calories"

Sure. But it's much more environmentally efficient in terms of water use, carbon emissions, etc if we can make sufficiently tasty and nutritious foods directly from plants rather than going through the inefficient animal step. Many people also have ethical objections to consuming animals.
Here’s machine learning in Sci-fi. Take the film Her by Spike Jonez. From the point the main character turns on Scarjoe, it would be another 5 seconds until she “leaves” and the film is over.
There are examples of AI in sci-fi that are not bound to a single humanoid-robot type base. Just to pick some popular movies: The Matrix, Her, Transcendence
> But if you don't know what bl—ch— in the third paragraph refers to

It took me longer than it should (pre-caffine) to parse this part of the article, so I'll supply a hint.

The article describes it as a "distributed cryptographic ledger," and Bitcoin is another instantiation of this idea.
That's a fair point, but also remember the franchisees also make a profit (an average of $1.8 million per restaurant apparently), which is not counted in the above figures either. McDonalds also have a lot of non franchised restaurants, which complicates the calculations because it's hard to see who is taking profits and where.

I'll try recalculating for Starbucks, since not having franchisees makes the calculations easier:

Starbucks in 2019:

* Made $26.5 billion dollars

* Employed 346,000

* Average barista wage ~$12 / hour = ~$25,000 per year

* Average profit per employee = $76,589
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>correlation between wealth and ruthlessness

Any numbers to support this? Or you just believe so?
Excellent point.

There's also the dubious assumption that increasing the divorce rate is a bad thing. Kids can sometimes suffer more from an unhappy marriage than from divorce. Especially older kids who are more aware of the situation.
My definition of blogspam is when the post is a copy or almost copy of the content of something else. Do you have a link to the original?

See for example https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blogspam