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Every buyers including me just try to make some USD from something that claims to replace USD...
Thank you.

I took the decision because given my financial situation at the time, it made sense to cash out and put it into a safer investment that was not so volatile.

I saw my ETH investment grow to 200k at its peak and go all the way down. When the crash happened, I could not predict ETH going back up.

I could predict the stock market recovering, and I have done well with that recovery so far.
How do you know not many people actually want it?
he was reassigned and essentially demoted and given the opportunity (along with the cocreator, who is still at the times) to basically do remedial “how not to lie to everyone” and he decided he was not interested.
This reminds me: One of the best books about a long walk is Patrick Leigh Fermor's "Time of Gifts" (and the subsequent books). Memoirs of his time before WW2 literally walking from one side of Europe to the other.

His cultural insights, historical perspective, and witty language are all exquisite.
Instead of just saying “op is wrong” can you provide more examples?

Other than a drug / money laundering tool, I have never see a use case for it.
Great for her, amazing that she was working at the type of organization that actually wants to keep people around. This coming from someone who recently had my work praised for 6 months then was let go just before my probation period ended.
Currently: C, C++, Python, Go, JS, C#, Java, Lua (if that counts), Kotlin, Julia, Scala. I've dabbled in a bunch of other ones but haven't made anything noteworthy with them.

You may notice a lack of other modern compiled languages like Zig, so take that bias in mind :)
> Well you only need to find a solution, you don't need to find all solutions

You're right! It doesn't matter that I don't know your actual password. Any text that hashes to the same value will work in the "password" input field.
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To be fair the article is from 1995. I'm guessing it was considered fairly original back then.
> presenting an attitude that your time is more important than anything else going on in the entire company

Technically, it is all your company's time since you are getting paid.

Now it is up to your company to decide if they want you to attend meetings or if they want you to do the job effectively.

So my approach is:

If the one scheduling the meeting is my boss, then I tell him I may not deliver in time if I accept his meeting, making it clear that I won't work overtime to catch up. It usually goes well, and he makes the necessary arrangement depending on how important he thinks the meeting is relative to my other tasks.

If the one scheduling the meeting is not my boss, I ask him to refer to my boss, or I do it myself.

If the boss is not here, and it is outside my boundaries, I generally refuse unless I know that my presence is essential and that it can't be delayed.
Put you retirement funds in something like Vanguard. Vanguard is customer owned but any low load broad based index fund will work.

https://ritholtz.com/2014/02/the-best-investment-advice-youl...
Here are some things that people miss when having arguments like these.

* Blockchain is not Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the first (and quiet primitive) PoC implementation of the technology.

* Blockchain is not "cryptocurrency". Blockchain is just numbers and an ability to trustlessly and safely flip those numbers. What those numbers mean to people is secondary.

* To build on the previous point. Blockchain is being used to record much more than monetary value. The Baseline protocol for example aims to use blockchain as a protocol for inter-business communication. So basically offload paperwork onto blockchain. This hasn't happened with more traditional technology because it makes the middlemen too powerful. (Here's a presentation by Paul Brody of EY on the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAmNjJRtLGo)

* Blockchain is a technology in it's infancy and is experiencing a lot of research on all fronts: scalability, anonymity, UX, decentralization, resilience, etc. For example ZK Rollups, which would cover a few of those nice-to-haves, are just being investigated.

Now, on to money. If this is an emerging and potentially revolutionary technology how do you capitalize on it? Or should you? Well, it is up to you to figure those out, that is beyond the point. The argument I (and many other people) want to make is that blockchain right now is like internet in the 80s - usable mostly by the power user but will alter the tech and social landscape tremendously. And people cannot hear that argument over stories of pump-and-dump schemes.
There are so many alternatives to email -- Outlook, Yahoo Mail, Proton, iCloud, etc. How can you argue with a straight face that Google has a monopoly on email?
The video's actual title "Ham radio is doomed" is a rather different and more reasonable claim than the post title "ham radio is dead."

Likely the old ham culture is doomed. Perhaps a new one will arise. I am studying to get an amateur radio license, and so are a number of my friends. The group we're studying with are all a bunch of lefty radical types in their 20s and 30s; at 44, I am one of the older folks involved. I've been connected to the Internet and previously BBS culture for effectively my entire life, and I've worked on a couple of mesh network projects and a bit of low-power radio hackery (zigbee walkie-talkies with store-and-forward text messaging, woohoo).

I had no idea that ham radio could be related to the kinds of decentralized communication networks I've enjoyed playing with over the years. I thought it was all just a bunch of cranky old right-wing dudes chatting with each other, CB style. I got interested last year after seeing how VHF walkie-talkies could be useful for coordinating large group activities, where FRS is too limited. Now I'm learning about repeaters, DMR, Echolink, APRS...
They do have a right to "seek" they don't have a right to live in the country in question.
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Sure, that's absolutely true. But the margin would be eroded if they provided much better customer service for unpaid Gmail. At some service level, the margin would be negative.
The Soviet Union is a perfect example of this. They had set up a proper republic. It had a constitution, elections, there were government posts etc. The problem was that the Party came first. The official that held the government post might've had the legal power, but in reality they were rubber stamps for the Party.
> And what is the magical reason why we need to keep the economy going?

His article starts talking about his investment portofolio, so I think we can safely conclude his opinions are predicated on there being economic growth.
Now all you need is the proper amount of collusion/corruption between the certifying agency and the manufacturer to have a magic box that does whatever the one paying the bills want. Might seem far fetched in a developped country, until you read about the Boeing/FAA thing happened.
Ironic coming from someone who has never carried a weapon.

A Soldier is responsible for every round they fire. Yes, suppressive fire is a thing, and it has nothing to do with what you're talking about.

You don't randomly "suppressive fire" on things you can't identify.

You don't randomly shoot at things someone "orders" you to shoot.

You don't get to say "oh but LT dumbfuck told me to shoot that civilian" when you shoot a non combatant. In fact, by law you MUST refuse that order as it violates the LOAC. Go google that because I know you don't know what it means.

You are responsible for every round you fire. There are plenty of former Soldiers in prison for not believing that.
thanks for the feedback, re-reading that makes me want to take a breath. :)
A quote from an article[1] about the latest research about a "vegetarian gene":

"Furthermore, before the advent of farming, pre-Neolithic hunter–gatherers throughout Europe had been subsisting on animal-based diets with a substantial aquatic contribution, in contrast to the plant-heavy diets of recent European farmers."

Temperate climate means 4 distinct seasons and plants rest from autumn to spring. Which makes it impossible find and eat fruits of plants for 6 months. Sure you could store some nuts, but that will not cover you dietary needs for long.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0167.epdf?author_...
Do no evil was it?

They have to fight a lot of fraudsters and scammers, and do so successfully every day. It is easy to say that they cannot possibly monitor everything properly because they are so big, but they earn billions because they are so big.

This shouldn't come for free, every company has costs and proper customer care and monitoring is a cost for these kind of businesses.

The other argument is that you shouldn't use these services if you don't like them, but these companies are simply too big to avoid.
Well, for voting, you just don't use machines. Counting by hand is an easy algorithm to audit, and literally any adult that can count is able to audit the process themselves.
Can we just break them up? If the problem is monopolistic behaviour, just end their monopoly by chopping them up into pieces. There's plenty of historical precedent.

IMHO trust busting would be lot more effective and free-market friendly than having some bureaucrats trying to write regulations for what counts as "adequate" customer service or not.
I mean can you find the bit adder figures for, say, TSMC N7 or N5? I poked around google scholar and wikipedia for a few minutes before giving up and hoping that someone up with the times would know exactly where to look.
What's the issue with Java? It empowers teams consisting of many heterogeneous people to get work done easier and limits the scope to logical errors only.
Do you remember the online creationism debates in the early 2000s? A lot of people just legitimately find these kinds of arguments to be a fun recreational activity.
> So in practice an application that needs some basic audio playback can just use ALSA and it'll work everywhere.

"In practice" doesn't mean what you think it means.

The behavior I described was with a Pinebook Pro which only came out about a year ago. That was running whatever version of Debian they shipped-- either stretch or buster, can't remember now. And there was no fancy or custom audio setup-- it was just an XFCE desktop environment with Pulse running however it's configured to run by default.

Also, as a maintainer of realtime audio FOSS software I can tell you users have reported these exact problems on other Linux distros. Over at least the last year and a half.

It appears that in Debian testing the configuration of Pulse "just works" as you describe. I would rankly speculate that Ubuntu 20.04 probably has a similar default setup. But to turn that rank speculation into "in practice" we'd need to actually test and see, and it sounds like neither of us have done that yet.
Yeah, managers higher up have a strong incentive to create compensation structures where managers are paid more the more people they manage. But like, being a manager doesn't say much at all about what you do. A non technical manager who managers engineers doesn't add much value and instead the engineers will be mostly self organizing, as such they are mostly there to provide administrative support. Your average office worker can do that, there is no reason such managers should be well compensated unless they also do other work like product management or similar.
Don't follow trends and hype, health and fitness is key, the sooner the better, find someone who makes you want to be better for youself, them and the world.
Spend less and save more.

And the great Kardnial Offishal has imprinted the following quote in my head for life.

"Half the bullshit I thought, I'm glad I never said it"
Well there there were the Opium wars, the English & French invasions followed by the Japanese invasions.
Sounds like "Let them eat cake" to me. Only bosses could follow this advise
My current dream is to be "demoted" from senior SWE at a non-tech company to a mid level (or even junior! if possible) SWE at a mid to top tech company.
Google has not done that in many years.

"These ads are shown to you based on your online activity while you're signed into Google. We will not scan or read your Gmail messages to show you ads." https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en
I switched careers 4 years after I graduated college. It wasn't as much a demotion and more of a lateral move, but it is never too late to change careers.

That isn't to say there is no risk involved. Taking a new position has risks, and just like investing (which we've all heard too much about lately), you want to hedge your risks.

Make sure you've got a good buffer in the bank, potentially a fall back position if it's a pay-cut, talk to your partner (if you have one), check out how to decrease your budget if needed, or supplement for a while if possible.

I love these stories, I love seeing streamers make it, people move from a corporate job to starting their own thing, it's awesome. Most people who were successful had a safety net. They didn't jump without knowing the risks and being able to take the lower pay for a while. They also had a plan to make money. This is really important because I've also seen a ton of people who have been forced to switch careers due to not having a plan to make money.

I'm not a researcher/etc. This is all anecdotal evidence I've seen, just sharing my thoughts and opinions.

Anyway, congrats to anyone who does makes this kind of quality of life change!
This is a very "HN bubble" perspective. No, most people do not know their time zone's offset from GMT and go through a timezone converter. When they have to set a timezone, they click a spot on a map or look up, "What timezone is Pittsburgh?" For most, it's faster to search "12:00 GMT to EST" or whatever than it is to remember it and do the arithmetic.
I understand both side's perspective here. I've been a contributor just waiting around for my changes to get merged. But I've also been on the other side maintaining a project which is no small feat. There's a lot that goes on that isn't obvious.

Overall a really unfortunate turn of events there. On a personal note I've been watching that space for awhile and was looking forward to Pali's great work on bluetooth.
Cloudflares automatic TTL is 5 minutes. Web browsers will look up your records and try to connect to one of the returned ips, if that one doesn't work it'll use another one. The fact that the client does this for us means we can keep the TTL quite high (5 minutes) without 5 minutes downtime if we lose connectivity to one IP.

This is also used to load balance, a single load balancer can't handle a trillion connections, so we round robin DNS for load balancing before the load balancers. There's also anycasting which is something cloudflare uses a lot. Which means you're announcing the same IP block from many locations, and with how BGP works (which is the defacto protocol for exchanging route information on the internet) the "closer" you are the more likely the route is to be chosen (AS path distance). Meaning sites behind Cloudflare is protected by thousands of servers listening to the two same addresses you see if you're behind a Cloudflare protected site and behind these thousands of servers are even more thousands of servers.

This means if i were to launch a 10Gbps DoS from my server, it would hit the Cloudflare datacenter closest to me, and there's nothing i can do about it, meaning the rest of the world is unaffected.

No, I'm not afiliated with CF. It's just an approachable example, i believe (but don't know) that Fastly has the same featureset (that I've mentioned above)
Yes, but if we want to go for "firsts", the Alaskan bronzes [1] predate even that. The academically interesting part of this isn't the Bering Strait connection, but instead what it tells us about the extent of Eurasian trade networks.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.04.021
Without knowing anything about your personal situation, my specific advice will have little value. A better exercise would be this:

Imagine you could have a half-hour conversation with yourself 10 years from now. Once you're done with the "what stock is about to blow up?" and "who will win the world series?" questions, what advice would you seek? What do you think Older You would say in response? Bonus points for journaling it out.[1]

I've found this exercise especially valuable for certain problems and goals. You can draw some pretty remarkable insights by separating from the emotions of the current moment and reframing your perspective.

[1] derived from this discussion: https://tim.blog/2020/02/27/josh-waitzkin-beginners-mind-sel...
The problem with crypto in general is that there's no valuable mainstream execution yet. I do believe in the intellectual merits of crypto currencies but when you buy a particular currency is a speculative guess on whether or not that particular coin will achieve mainstream status.

It's as simple as that. Bitcoin itself is a foundational coin so it only will cross the non-speculative line / fad bubble until at least one other crypto coin becomes mainstream (it's capable to completely supersede a FIAT currency use case like remittances)
> What's pretty nice about these rules is that they don't rely on a Docker daemon.

Neither do Cloud Native Buildpacks. The lifecycle can run as a regular process inside a container. The `pack` CLI tool uses docker as a convenient way to run those containers on a local environment. But if something else creates the containers, that's fine, the lifecycle works exactly the same.

FWIW there is a lot of cross-pollination of ideas between ko, Jib, rules_docker and CNB folks.
Also, setup automatic funding every month and never sell anything. Buying is easy, selling is easy, holding is hard but you'll be glad you did during every dip.
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my friend at Google reported almost exactly that: it's an amazing technical achievement, really pushes the cutting edge of what's possible. And the sales and marketing have no idea how to do anything with it.
I mean, Cuban made all his money with radio on the internet, sounds reasonable he'd do radio talk shows next. He has the talent pull to make it happen too.
A monopoly does not require 100% market share. It requires a majority market share and using that position against its competitors (which can be argued for, given how easily non-google emails end up in spam folders).
Seems to be hugged to death at the moment: here's google's cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:t7suQm...

Yes I used google's cache deliberately and ironically.
Plenty of things that make money for Apple get banned though, so that's clearly not the criterion
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Your response is as rhetoric as the rhetoric opinions you are mocking.

It is not trivial to think that a $600B asset that cannot be touched or used to buy daily groceries for majority of population is "useful" or taken seriously. This has never happened in our history, people will take time to adjust.

Also, some of the questions being raised are absolutely worth listening to and responding by either an explanation or changing the blockchain logic. High energy consumption, taxation, inflationary vs deflationary crypto, block sizes, abysmal transacction rates, Central bank crypto, moving BTC on Ethereum, etc are all questions worth thinking about.
Three words:

Buy Nokia 3310.

These types of things literally never happen.

Or maybe people have a lot of reasons for why they chose what they chose and this isn't productive.
Oh no, women have one advantage over men (if it were true) in a male dominated field.

How do you not see how contradictory that statement is?
When assessing risks one way to look at them is to consider both the chance of occurrence as well as impact if it occurs. With many google services (esp email), the impact if it occurs is high. So the risk is still serious even if odds are low.
> Can you switch mode once the executable's already been launched, though?

Yes, apps can change terminal mode at any time. The solution the author went with is to have a list of "visual program" names, and when a visual program name is detected, launch it in an external terminal (xterm or Emacs vterm). That is making no attempt to handle mode switches during program execution, it is making a permanent decision before the program starts based on its name.

I think the solution here is to have a visual terminal "widget" that can be embedded into the graphical REPL, and the REPL constantly monitors the output and terminal mode of the subprocess, and when the REPL detects initiation of visual mode, start an embedded visual terminal widget, and then stop the visual terminal widget when it detects visual mode is completed.

On Linux, it is possible for the pty master to be immediately notified of any mode changes in the slave [0], using packet mode and EXTPROC. I don't think that facility exists in most other operating systems.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21641754/when-pty-pseudo...
Yes crypto is still cashed out for fiat currency. However Visa cards that instantly convert crypto to fiat are very interesting.

To me this is the most positive thing that has happened to crypto in the last 10 years.

Even though it’s being converted to fiat. The user still feels like they are spending crypto.

I see a future where crypto is used more prevalently than fiat. And fiat returns to the gold standard. And fiat is used during power outages and in disconnected areas
This. So many things are enabled by blockchain which is just the beginning of what will probably be a Cambrian explosion of new decentralized ecosystems - eg. look at Zora, Foundation, NBA TopShot, GRT, Chainlink, etc.
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The inconvenience of existing services boils down mainly to issues such as ensuring that fraud and terrorism and such are prevented. Society intentionally added those hurdles.

A new technology that has ignored the regulatory structure is not apples to apples. Someone could ignore regulations with current tech and be just as "convenient."
The author seems to use the terms Bitcoin and blockchain interchangeably.
I like how this is considered a bad thing. Like we can’t let this guy point out that he’s being convicted by an unauditable black box that suddenly isn’t worth using if it has to stand up to scrutiny because then everyone would want to. The horror.

Like I’m actually kinda shocked this is the reality. I would have assumed that DNA evidence would have some blessed methodologies and tools/algorithms, with a strict definition of what constitutes a match or partial match specifically so this wouldn’t happen.
No. Those are subject to NDA, but are broadly similar in fmax and prop time under reasonable voltages.

I think it's exciting here that they're dicking around with new technologies in their infancy, and in a few coarse design changes of cells went from 60% of CMOS leading edge to about the same numbers.

Of course, total system power, etc, is atrocious, considering that this is cryogenic, etc. You need a lot of logic before this could come ahead in efficiency.
> they would be spending billions on customer support

Having supported tens of thousands employees on G Suite I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to call support. Admins know the support is poor, the agents aren't capable of providing more than basic break-fix support. Generally, calls are just to get official confirmation of an outage before notices hit the official dashboard. This isn't a service that requires a ton of support. Operate your business on a free account at your own risk.