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Many high-profile departures from Google seem to involve an incident like this, in my experience. When I was there most of the high-profile departures I saw were related to internal strife (in some cases with widely shared complaint posts on internal G+ or internal gdocs), management misconduct, or things like the company's health insurer refusing to cover surgeries. Then occasionally you have the departures where notorious abusers or sex pests are sent off with a severance package, like ("allegedly") Andy Rubin's $90m farewell gift.

In my direct personal experience, I went on medical leave near the end of my stay there and when I came back over half of my team had quit and bailed for other companies or other orgs (largely over complaints with management).
I am not saying Elon Musk is perfect. Also I am not saying he can control things he definitely doesn't have control over. I am also not an investor in Tesla or BTC. But he does have an ability to make things happen, things that seem impossible, when he is in a position of influence.
Maybe in theory but not in practice. Just look at the past 10 years, btc &co are 100% driven by hype and speculation and still have 0 real world usage besides being a (semi)rich people toy and a good way to launder money / buy illegal shit online.
Every post about dogecoin should include that its an 'inflationary token' so people don't get duped to invest in it as asset(it has unlimited token mining,which eventually reduces any meme prices).
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/dogecoin-no-mining-limit-infi...
Software bugs in practice are rarely caused by fundamental problems. Sloppiness, incompetence and, in this case, different priorities are much more likely. Removing data is not a priority for Facebook.

People like to invoke all those theorems from computer science. That gives them an air of being knowledgeable. But at the end of the day, it's much more common that the program malfunctions not because of the halting problem, but because the language it was written in doesn't do bounds-checking on arrays, someone made an off-by-one error, or someone copy-pasted some code and the objective of the system was data collection, not data deletion, so the task of reviewing and testing the code was deprioritized in favour of something more profitable.

But talking about how you struggle daily with the fundamental problems of the universe sounds so much cooler.
Regarding the environmental concerns raised in other threads:

Energy production can cause emissions, energy consumption typically does not. We should be producing energy cleanly.

There is an argument that more energy consumption causes more energy production, which typically uses dirty sources. Again: we should be producing energy cleanly.

We should be consuming as much green, clean, energy as possible.

Bitcoin mined in Iceland is emission free.
Can you show those actual sources?
have you read their privacy policy? They layout they can spy on everything and share with anyone they want.

You'd think if they were serious about privacy their privacy policy would just say "we spy on nothing and collect nothing and share with no one". 1password effectively has that privacy policy, lastpass does not.

https://www.logmeininc.com/legal/privacy/us

https://1password.com/jp/legal/privacy/
The cost/loss idea is bad enough, but that person is a business partner and this situation might be the final nail on stadia's coffin.

Would be interesting if this stadia fiasco would lead to Google rethinking their customer support (ie actually start treating their users as customers).
Here is the key paragraph from todays 10k. It also mentions gold related assets.
(https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000156459021...):

"In January 2021, we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity. As part of the policy, which was duly approved by the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors, we may invest a portion of such cash in certain alternative reserve assets including digital assets, gold bullion, gold exchange-traded funds and other assets as specified in the future. Thereafter, we invested an aggregate $1.50 billion in bitcoin under this policy and may acquire and hold digital assets from time to time or long-term. Moreover, we expect to begin accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in the near future, subject to applicable laws and initially on a limited basis, which we may or may not liquidate upon receipt."
Their docs say they do:
https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_txt

They do say that they ignore robots.txt for user-initiated actions eg. Google Translate, which makes sense in my opinion.
This is an interesting post that puts more thought and words into something I would consider doing but don't have any depth of understanding. I may not agree with all the points and certain cases may be counterexamples but I very much appreciate having it clearly presented to be discussed or evaluated for a purpose. For my own reference, quote:

> How Freemium really works [...]

> In reality, there are a number of different ingredients in the recipe you need to nail before you can actually execute a freemium strategy effectively. You don’t need a team of hundreds of people, but it does help to lay out the strategy ahead of time.

> Let's break out the different factors involved in setting up a freemium plan.

- Pricing that scales with usage
- Shareable content
- In-app upsells
- Massive market opportunity
- Pricing innovation on the primary value

> First, if you are missing even one of these, it might not be the pricing strategy for you. Each part is key in building out a converting freemium funnel.
The security of the US financial systems is maintained in part by the US military which is not exactly free either
Too many holes in Apple's self-driving car strategy
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I like software version numbers too. The names blur (is lion before or after leopard...)

But Genes and Stars are different In my mind because they are names pointing to separate things. Though they are numbered in order of discovery....
No I don't. I unfortunately don't have a solution to offer and certainly don't think I am qualified to rule a country, or any part of it. But we need to ensure the technologies which enable this kind of mass manipulation are not taken advantage of, because we've seen the result.
This is a very generic statement. It depends on where the energy used comes from.
There is no lack of demand for energy. The world is absolutely ravenous for energy. The reason we don't have more renewable energy is absolutely not, in any way, because of there not being a big enough demand for energy.

No, what Tesla has done here will instead wipe out all the gains in reducing carbon emissions it has managed so far, out of pure greed.

This is a disaster.
i just trimmed my friends to actual friends, i'm not sure of my other settings. Maybe i'm just lucky but i don't have any issues with my account.
Am I missing something? The author seems like they just don't want devs to maintain their build, so why not "just use someone else's fit-for-purpose container image"? Whether that someone else is an external entity equivalent to buildpack maintainers, or your devops team, which should know Docker.
The first didn't cause any user issues as I'm reading it except extra data usage. I don't think it even did it in the background but only when the app was running. So I wouldn't even call it malware. Unlike this Android app which showed ads to users outside the app.

The second is Mac not iOS which had a much more relaxed security model.
This is not a problem we need to solve.

"I'm being bullied!" claims are what everyone immediately says when their ideas aren't picked up by everyone else and then they decide to step right around the peer review process for their field.
That's conjecture though. You don't know which team decided to ban him. You don't know whether he pays for a G Suites, or expanded Drive storage.
The energy usage of Bitcoin is directly related to the revenue available to BTC miners. As mining rewards decline, so does energy expenditure to mine BTC.
I think this talk actually came up in a thread on the guile mailing list about adding powershell as a guile language.
I made a bet with a friend based on that same reasoning two years ago, i know owe him.

I believe the problem with market price in general is that there's no way to correctly evaluate if a price is "rational" or not. There are so many things plain wrong with the current state of the economy (from central banks monetary policies, to inflation, to interest rates) that i don't even consider bitcoin to be anything special anymore.

It all looks like a degenerate monster agonizing, making all kind of weird sounds and shapes while going down.
Doesn't this argument imply that the way to stop climate change is to use as much energy as possible in order to subsidize renewable energy production?

If a miner's power source is on the grid, it doesn't really matter all that much if they own a hydro plant, a solar plant, a coal plant, or are just buying power off the market. Either way, they are increasing the total energy consumption of the grid and their environmental footprint is determined by the grid average emissions and the amount of power the miner uses.

If they've built an off-grid renewable power station, you might argue it would otherwise not been built and is therefore relatively neutral, emission-wise. I think that argument would be wrong, because of the scale of large mining operations.

If you can build new renewable energy capacity at a competitive price and at sufficient scale to power a large mining operation, that's one thing and has nothing to do with whether or not you mine crypto with that energy. Deciding to not sell to the grid at that scale seems irrational, and honestly I doubt miners also operate power stations except maybe at a hobbyist level.
The thing I've learned investing so far: never sell anything. It really only ever makes sense to sell if doing so will positively change your lifestyle, or you have no alternative.

Examples of when selling might be a good idea are buying a house, retiring, going through hard times, loss of a job etc. Rebalancing is fine too, but I'd personally only bother to do that if your portfolio is massively distorted (like it goes from 5% to 50% bitcoin in dollar terms).

Like you, I've sold Bitcoin before this year for no real reason other than I got bored. I've also partially sold shares in a company that went up 10x in value and reduced by TR to about 3x... again, no real reason.

If you want to speculate on the future just change where your new investments/contributions go.
100 times? Name a few please. Exclude all stock price forecats.
Nice brevity.
Lighting is dead on arrival, and can not possibly scale. It will never amount to anything. It is relying on people finding solutions to routing problems that nobody even knows how to begin tackling.
Without bitcoin the problem wouldn't be to be fixed as it wouldn't be a problem.

Its also not the responsibility of the world to create unlimited carbon neutral power source for bitcoin.

Bitcoin needs to solve a real issue worth solving, which it doesn't.
I don't know how it is now, but I remember a lot of generic/no-name Androids using the Mediatek platform would have random MAC addresses (which change every time you re-enable WiFi) because the manufacturer didn't bother writing a fixed one, so the firmware automatically generates a random one to use.
Pretty disappointing to see the reaction this has received in this thread.
I don't think that Bitcoin or any other crypto asset needs to become the main currency of any country. They can live as tertiary assets with valuable properties, that can facilitate trade or act as collateral for certain contracts, without being declared a currency in any geographical jurisdiction.
This is what analysts and institutional investors appearing on TV have been doing.
No, but Binance being a US based business is required to abide by us law. A basic Google search will tell you they are based in San Francisco.
> Countries have millions of people in them, which are doing many things with that energy. It illustrates the waste.

But Bitcoin is something that people are doing with energy in countries. It is 1/2000th of the average person's footprint.

Is doesn't seem reasonable to call, say, people flying around in airplanes doing something with energy while calling Bitcoin "waste".
agreed, I lived through those times, TCP/IP was not a thing, until it was. There was no reason for it to be in the OS until it actually became popular and therefor useful

I used various competing systems before that in Windows/DOS
So when he insulted someone he was having a dispute with, you decided to discount his life’s work?
It's because 98% of the people on here haven't actually used DeFi. The most they've done is bought and sold a little btc or eth on coinbase. The ah-ha moments come from real use.
It will make a noticeable difference but “big” is a ultimately a value judgement. Cars are small potatoes compared to industrial polluters. Huge companies that are actually meaningfully responsible for waste have been trying to put the blame on individuals for decades. Like in a tiny sense they have a point because they’re delivering products and services to individuals but they’re also pushing all the externalities of their waste onto individuals who have very little power to make systematic change while making sure that we can’t act collectively through government.

Non-energy example: trash. Jesus lord I am swimming in trash. Not because I consume in excess but because the everyday things I need come with stupid amounts of packaging that I can’t give back to them and isn’t recyclable or reusable.
Typically deals like this are about a mixture of cash and access. The platform holder will often partially or fully fund development, sometimes they pay an advance on sales up-front. For one project I worked on Sony provided an up-front advance that fully covered the port in addition to some sales (and it took a while to recoup for reasons mostly under their control.)

My guess for this is that given Terraria's large fanbase and high profile, Google probably handed them an advance for this and promised some promotion once the title launched on Stadia. Stadia also potentially provides access to users who can't play it on PC (it has a client for phones and some TVs, etc)
What exactly is the bull case for bitcoin? I have not seen it clearly explained. I’ve got an open mind.

In more specific terms you mentioned the unbanked. How does crypto solve the problems that leave them unbanked?
Yeah it's of course a balance. It depends on the difficulty, reward, and cost. The reward is constantly going down. I guess I just think there will eventually be a balance where it's only possible to mine with free/wasted electricity, but maybe not.
Genuine question: Is it the case that Bitcoin has a precisely determined supply because the difficulty schedule is informally agreed on by all participants? What would happen if some large number of participants, say 75%, decided to change that? They simply could, couldn't they?
That’s most likely a cache bug.
> The biggest piece that is broken in our country is our Justice system.

I completely disagree. SA faces the same problems that other countries do, just more of them at the same time. Corruption networks are hard to penetrate if it's the government itself that's corrupt. Our institutions aren't as strong as most developed countries.

> Our democracy/gov is a sham

Our democracy works very well. There is a lot of faith in the process and we haven't had an armed group storm the parliament (yet). The electorate is satisfied with the country being run by a corrupt party (57.5% voted ANC). This is unfortunate, but it's also the definition of democracy. People get what they vote for. That process is working very well. You (and I for that matter) don't like the outcome, but we don't represent the majority.
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I have no idea what kind of nation would decide to put their national currency in the hands of Chinese miners and the bitcoin dev team.

Also, if a serious bug ever was found in the bitcoin code / algorithms (increasingly unlikely, I'll admit), you could completely wipe the currency out overnight.
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Can not withstand, sorry: Bitcoin is a store of value nowadays. If you want to compare it in an environmental-impact way then compare it e.g. against gold mining.
He is not perfect. Can you give me examples of people who have changed the world as much as Musk who do not have flaws? Who are your heros?
For sure, I have experienced the same thing - and yet, the Italian diet is revered globally and considered to contribute to longevity.

Something about their approach appears to be working.

It strikes me that creating pseudo-science rules might remind you and help you to also follow the really useful rules, through dedicated practice and having multiple fall-backs.

For example, the rule "Eat green bell peppers not red bell peppers" reminds you to always be consciously aware that bell peppers and then vegetables in general are an extremely important part of your nutrition. If you don't have superstitions about bell peppers, maybe you just aren't thinking about them often enough.
why is nebulo not on fdroid?
Well, DNA matching is crapshoot and hazardous toward the innocents. We can still find unrelated folks with partial match by the virtue of segmentation.

https://dna-explained.com/2017/01/19/concepts-segment-size-l...
People who are only in for the money would have likely rode their golden parachute out of those companies a long time ago when things first got tough.

If someone isn't in it for the money, that doesn't therefore mean they're trying to be just generally 'charitable'. Elon clearly wants to be known for facilitating in bringing humanity to the next step (or steps) of its technological future. Pretty much every venture he's done (electric cars, mars colonization, high-speed people movers, chips in brains) have been towards that goal.

There aren't charities he can donate to that would do these things, or if there are, they aren't moving as fast as he has been by tackling it himself.

Probably at best he could donate to cure some disease like Bill Gates is doing, which, while worthwhile and great, is clearly not something Elon cares about all that much (especially with his kind of shitty views about the Coronavirus pandemic, which I'm sure is mainly because it did its best to put the brakes on all of his ventures).
I think the OP just used this figure of speech to illustrate the amount of energy that goes IN, not to say that you can get it easily out again.

But then there is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%E2%80%93air_battery so who knows.
Not sure how "cheap indie games" comes into the picture here, Terraria is a wildly successful and sophisticated game that's sold over 30m copies lifetime and is available on a bunch of platforms. We're not talking about a Flappy Bird clone.
Now if this can become precedent for all evidence derived from automated systems. There have been some past battles about BAC machines in this regard.
Why don't they just redo the analysis with a few other software packages?
What do you mean by discounting?
Ethereum, but it still relies primarily on Proof of Work, with Ethereum's Proof of Stake Beacon Chain currently in the first phase of its launch, and not being used to secure transactions.
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Curious what percentage of bitcoin's energy use is from surplus energy that otherwise no use?
>None of those are "designed" to be unprovable, and many make predictions, they just don't currently make predictions within the measurement capabilities of existing instruments or near-future instruments.

It's worse than that. The obvious and natural theoretical predictions have already been ruled out by experimental discoveries like a positive cosmological constant, and lack of discovery of super-symmetric particles at the LHC. But those theories tend to be infinitely fine-tunable, so you can always find a way to make them 'fit' whatever you want. Also, I'm not sure if there is ANY experimental guidance that suggests something like string theory is actually worth pursuing as a description of reality ... but I hear the math beautiful.
The issue with Elon Musk is that he has a lot of money and applies it to all kinds of bullshit. He doesn't have a reality distortion field. His fans have one. They think this guy is smart. Read his Twitter and name three smart things he wrote. I can't find a single one.
Further, it seemed that Musk was actually talking to other members of the team out there who were more positive about the submarine idea. So it seemed valid to pursue it. And then as you say an argument started and Musk was an asshat. So, he has flaws, he can be an asshat to people.
> But the second most likely is that everyone's religious myths are true... I've never actually seen anyone advocate for the second position before.

You have to expand your understanding of "truth" when it comes to religious myths to make that work, because of course some contradict on their face.

But yeah, I have seen it advocated in several ways. From the sort of liberal platitude "all religions are just different paths to the same underlying diety", to a certain kind of neo-pagan constructivist "We make religions true by believing in them." I lean toward the latter.
Have my multimedia in browsers, kde recognizes it and media controls work within taskbar preview, notification area and - most important - with the media keys.

Plus: Browsers are more secure and no need for other applications.
Anyone can send or receive cryptocurrency without third party authorization.
You know it’s funny that lots of the basic functions of business with consumers (eg, ability to return items) were set and codified in the US as the Uniform Commercial Code [0] that was established in 1952. Before then it was wild and variable.

What’s really interesting is that it seems like of hacker-like in how it was implemented. It was published as a guide and then states passed laws to implement.

Reminds me of a de facto standard that is then implemented by vendors.

I suppose we could start up some form of Uniform Consumer Commercial Code (UC3) that set up practices that are good that could then be passed by states.

I shudder to think through all the arguments about how it would specify some “don’t be evil on social cause X” that it almost smarts my conspiracy brain that the “corporations” started this trend to bikeshed/scissor statement society so they can’t make meaningful economic and commercial policy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Commercial_Code
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Yeah, there's Nanocurrency. No fees, instant transactions and delegated proof of stake consensus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_(cryptocurrency)

https://content.nano.org/whitepaper/Nano_Whitepaper_en.pdf

The whitepaper specifically addresses BTC's energy consumption on page one.
That is certainly how it should work, and in many cases it does.

We've had a couple on the dark side though. Perhaps because we are "too helpful" and actually, respond instead of forwarding on the support procedures documentation or pointing at the contract and coughing! Give 'em an inch, they'll take a foot, and before you know it you won't have a leg to stand on...
and surprisingly all of the code is of equal importance so you really need to review each line sequentially! Instead of finding stuff that you think is most likely to relate to what you're trying to figure out and debug from there. Wow I would like to see this marvel of engineering myself!
I also cant image anyone thinking that would be a winning legal argument... "This software is too complex to look at so just trust us" Really... that is what they went with...