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>Often, it’s due to simple misunderstandings (such as confusing truth with belief or knowledge), but sometimes it’s due rather to wilful obscurity

Sorry, but the pseudophilosopher here is the author of the article.

He can't disambiguate between truth as some property of the universe/time-space/actual historical occurence, and truth as it matters to us, and thinks that just because Foucault doesn't spell the distinction out, as if he spoke to 10 year olds, he himself confuses the too.

For those actually reading continental philosophy, Foucault's meaning is perfectly clear, and no, he doesn't mean truth in the sense of "this table is wooden" or "the sun is hot". Foucault doesn't do philosophy of truth in the way some analytical philosopher would.

It's the century plus old distinction between analytical and continental philosophy, and this is a tired, trite, post.

As for the quote from Foucault he gives as an exercize to the reader, it's trivial to parse. Here's my take, with extra examples to make it even clearer:

"The definition of what is true (and thus what is not) is based on power relations. We're speaking about social and political truths, here, dummy author, the kind people actually disagree about, not whether fire is hot or Australia exists.

Truth, contrary to myth (whose workings will be worth it to examine some other time), is not some higher ideal that you achieve when you free your spirit, or something that you arrive at in quiet contemplation in solitude, or a privilege of those free from social constraints.

It's something that is manufactured in this world, and it is produced following many different constraints. (e.g. truth in the medieval world followed religious constraints)."
To be honest, I see those even less in modern SPAs. Usual suspects are sites which load every possible js lib in the universe until some integration works and they can display all the ads.

There seems to be a confusion here.
Maybe a way to avoid the duplicate filter, as I'm sure this URL has been submitted before.
I feel like this is something that shouldn’t need to be said but based on the numerous identical posts like this I feel gobsmacked to not say it.

He’s a businessman not a philanthropist. His sales pitch was using the thing millennials care about to get them invested (both emotionally and with capital) in his company. We got played by Elon.
Bloomberg just published an article on how some Russian company broke AES encryption.

How about we try to deal with facts rather than google search proofs

A huge amount of mining is located around Sichuan province, China or Pacific NW United States, all of it hydro-powered and excess electricity. Others players in the field are chasing wasted flaring from oil/gas fields and using that to power shipping containers full of ASIC's.

This argument gets tiring because at this point if there a large amount of wasted energy anywhere on Earth someone will eventually realise they could mine crypto with it instead. Heat, gas, you name it, everything is on the table.

Meanwhile we all lament not being able to take international flights for a year.
Here's a real-world example: I sign and give you a transaction that, if you relay within the next 1000 blocks, will give you some BTC. You can choose relay it, to let it expire, or to resell it to someone else by signing another transaction that consumes my transaction's UTXO to you and grants up to the same amount to your buyer.
For those interested in this kind of thing, there are two fun resources I would recommend. First, LowEndBox (https://lowendbox.com/) which documents where you can get VPS hosting for as little as $1/month or even cheaper in some instances. Second, Super Dimensional Fortress (http://sdf.org/) where for a $1 you can get lifetime low level hosting and for $25 you can get access to a much beefier server. A community of old school *nix nerds comes as a bonus.
It will take time for people to realize because Ethereum is so much more complex that Bitcoin. But it will happen eventually and inevitably imo.
"there's a chance" that "new bitcoins mined" "will"

The opening statement is in a completely different tense than yours, AND hypothetical.
> I would be in favor of such regulations, and yet I'm also not against the project here, so i don't see your point

The point is that FAANG companies are smart enough to elude a simple Hanlon's razor analysis.

Put more explicitly:
1. Your critique of OP's argument is fundamentally correct. Pointing out that Google could solve the problem if they wanted to is missing the point. Google doesn't want to solve the problem
2. Therefore, we either have to live with the status quo, or we have to change the incentive structure.

It might seem trivial to you, but I think it's an important point. Many members of the hn crowd exhibit this cognitive dissonance where on the one hand, they have a strong moral intuition that a particularly policy of tech giants is wrong (in this case, their choice not to put money in support), but on the other hand, an equally strong knee-jerk resistance to regulation of our industry.

Recognition that Google (or any other giant) are just doing what's best for them (as per their definition of "best") is an important step.
It’s certainly easy to see why small businesses are increasingly giving up on websites and just using Facebook.

No cost, good discoverability, easy updates...just sucks for those of us who won’t use the platform.
Who is solving it, and how ?

"proof of work", is by definition waste.

They will have to do something than increasing difficulty and and an ever increasing transaction log, as both are unsustainable.
Tesla could have legitimized one of them by choosing one of them instead. I don't think Tesla investing into BTC really helps the alternative PoS chains all that much.
Just price it like Microsoft. $499 per incident.
They're also treating it like an MLM - where they know if any significant amount of people sell before regulatory capture occurs - then their Ponzi-Pyramid scheme will crash; the ones with the most to lose are the later adopters who buy high, and ones with the most to gain are the earlier adopters as gains are weighted towards earlier adopters. It's quite the clusterfuck.
"There were significant changes to cPanel licensing not long ago which caused some consternation as it would result in some hosts needing to pay more."

That's interesting. And it would have hit those providers that were grossly oversubscribing the hardest. Guessing this service was in that bucket.
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Lenient policies around supporting people or incarcerating people?
Is that only me who finds Latinated sentences easier to read? I think so because "pure English" sentences contain phrasal verbs which are harder for me, also in sentences with short words information flows so fast that I cannot follow. Additionally, when speaking, long words are easier to recognize and short words are more prone to miss when mispronounced.
$ sudo philosophy
If your Kindle 4 NT is not broken it's actually pretty easy to root it and use as a dashboard.

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The cover letter is essential for me as a hiring manager. When I have a pool of ~100 applicants for a graduate role, I need something to differentiate between the candidates beyond the list of courses they've undertaken and summer jobs they've had. I'll filter first on only those applications that have cover letters attached.

Any cover letter shows that they're willing to put the effort into applying rather than just spraying the same CV to lots of employers, but a good one shows that they've researched my company and are motivated to work there. Doesn't need to be in great depth, but a line talking about one of our products and how its use in a specific industry is interesting to the applicant speaks volumes.

There are bad cover letters too, including those written for a different company but carelessly sent to mine...
Elon Musk has single-handedly made hundreds of millions of people into passive crypto investors.

Tesla stock is 1.9% of the S&P500 by weight, and Tesla's Bitcoin holdings makes up ~0.2% of Tesla's market cap. This means for every $100k that is invested into the S&P500, $3.50 goes into BTC.
>In the review, Mr Waymouth alleged: "I paid upfront for a legal assessment of my case. "But what I got was just the information I sent them, reworded and sent back to me."

That does kind of sound like a scam to me.
There's nothing about the way Bitcoin is created (via massive energy draw) that makes it especially useful as an alternative form of currency. It was just there first.
Curious if anyone has any recommendations for interactive developer security training?
My theory with Reddit is this:

1. The value of the _content_ goes up as the community gets bigger. r/BetterEveryLoop is great because of the content, not the silly comments.

2. The value of the _community_ goes up when the community is smaller. I'm into board games, and the various subreddits for specific games are useful and interesting. Same with some of the cooking subreddits. (This assumes the community is good intentioned)

Of course, that's a rule of thumb, and there are lots of exceptions in both directions. But in general, active and small communities tend to be the most truly useful parts of reddit.
Companies overhire devs after raising money so it looks like they're doing a lot of interesting stuff. PMs and managers need to find stuff for these devs to do, hence they come up with overcomplicating their existing tech, redesigns, etc.
Reposting a comment I made yesterday:

"Bitcoin is almost as bs as fiat money" - Elon Musk, https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1340588909974200321
E.g. it's still not the ideal, final solution - but Tesla seemingly aligning to being on the side of the "army of HODLers" makes business sense; you don't want that army that's financially incentivized via the MLM/pyramid scheme that it is to start rallying against you and your products/services.
What disgrace if a math program would use 3 as an estimate for pi? Not even 22/7?!
As much as I completely agree with your attitude, and try to live it myself, software engineers don't get to make their own tooling choices. That is the fundamental problem here.

We don't get to choose the technology(framework) that will result in the least amount of hassle and easiest to maintain software artifact. Instead, we get stuck using what someone else chose for us.
My take? It was a savvy PR move to cushion the China news. Tesla had to kowtow Beijing in a way that could have lit real political fires. Politicians are distracted. The Bitcoin announcement took care of the base.

Also, it’s a good economic move. $1.5bn bought $8bn of market cap appreciation, which Musk can likely turn into more than $1.5bn of new cash. Tesla scaling faster does more for the environment than some bubs buying Bitcoin.
Can you share a link? The only videos I’ve ever seen are either a short clip or not translated. Maybe a written transcript would be best.
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For some applications, yes. I believe Stellar (XLM) is the future for transferring money across borders.
A good slogan should say something. If the inverse of your slogan is invalid or the same as your slogan, then your (original) slogan is probably not saying anything.

If you aren't giving something else up, then you aren't saying anything. It's just platitudes.

"Do not be evil" is basically meaningless as a lot of evil is done with the intention of doing good. With that level of ambiguity, it is entirely down to individual interpretation.
I mean; the article even states that you should be skeptical of that statement: "it’s mostly powered by renewables. Be skeptical"
Their financials have nothing to do with private launches. They are doing them at a loss funded by government contracts. The satellite internet project is a piggyback on government contracts. Starlink is only viable if SpaceX exists, and SpaceX can only exist as long as the NASA billions are flowing in. They don't have the money to invent the SpaceX to make the Starlink, and Starlink won't be so profitable as to be able to shoulder the cost of inventing private space flight, so they need the government funding to create the private space flight foundation that could make Starlink some day profitable without having to fund that foundation.

I'm not against the government creating new markets like this, NASA has been doing it for a long time.
On the other hand, in metalworking and precision machining, decimals are used again - a common resolution is 1/1000th of an inch (0.001"), or a "thou".
Wrong. Market cap and price are the same thing.
Bitcoin is risky enough, you want them to store a billion dollars in a currency that is much much more risky?
> As the technology improves

It can't improve unless you change the underlying physics. Electrophoretic displays like E Ink's use particles in a solvent. They can't move fast because fast moving particles are not going to be stay in a stable position. Have a look at those displays from 2008 and compare it to 2020. The quality of the display has changed, contrast is better, but timing is still about half a second. Modes like A2 which is used by Dasung are just hacks that tradeoff speed for stability and perhaps even panel life / reliability.

The startups doing fast displays typically use a different underlying physics. But no one wants to invest the necessary billions in them so they keep dying out like Liquavista, Mirasol and many others.
I strongly agree - a lot of the "protections" have become a privilege for the rich and educated, and I say that as someone who doesn't eat organic locally-sourced Kale, drink lattes, read Marx at a hipster coffee shop, etc.

For example - brokerages keep you from trading on margin unless you have x money and y experience trading on margin and/or options.

You CANNOT invest into SpaceX (not pioneering SpaceX here, just an example) unless you are an accredited investor, that is, if you aren't RICH. Google does though.

These are serious disadvantages.

The real question is whether you want to be babied and coddled by people in power.

Edit: Deleted "controversial" topic sentence.
the repo looks pretty dead https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/graphs/contributors
And exactly all that energy cannot be used for other purposes.
I started back the days of CASE and RAD developing Windows apps against a database then eventually am middle tier. You could build something useful, stable, and production ready in a couple of days or weeks depending on the complexity.
> One side he wants to save the planet

In what way would Elon Musk save the planet ?

edit:
no but really, do you think replacing 1.4B ICE cars with 1.4B electric cars powered by non recyclable rare earth batteries will "save the planet" ?

Or maybe migrating to Mars while we can't even sustain life on Earth which is the perfect eco system we evolved to strive on ?

Or is it starlink that will "save the planet" by providing facebook, instagram and 4k netflix to the world ?

People believing in these pipe dreams are so disconnected from reality... I don't even know what to tell them. Musk is a brilliant business man, engineer, visionary maybe, but he won't save the planet more than Amazon or Apple would
gotta admit, I cheated and copied the list from Wikipedia.

Anyway, they managed to get rid of the two largest threats to their business model (jailbait w/ all the issues that come with hosting borderline pedophilia content, and the entire t_d clusterfuck with the threat of an unhinged President looming) without any major issues other than a couple conservative talkshow people whining.

As long as Reddit flows with the "zeitgeist", there isn't much that can threaten them.
I'm trying to wrap my head around it and I have a genuine question: I see on these DeFi platforms coins that have APY's well in excess of 10%. Who's borrowing at these rates, and why?
Your mom might have another family in the Greater Toronto Area now, just so you are aware!
This should be obvious to anyone who has kids or works with kids. But they're all functional illiterates too, and mistake kids' greater determination to fight through the unknown as competence.

And they're soaking in a culture that makes them make terrible choices with tech. It's so unfashionable to use a laptop instead of a phone that many are steadfast in their desire to do schoolwork by typing on their phones. Suggest that it'd be faster, easier and more comfortable if they just used a computer and you're a grandpa. I was in a classroom where CAD was being taught and some students kept trying to switch to using OnShape on their phones until they were forced to use the computers.
> Here's the thing: not every member company is completely beholden to an authoritarian government. Only one is.

If you think this is an objectively a bad thing, you should probably compare the per capita excess mortality of China vs the US for 2020...

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The Rust community is very diverse and include people from all around the world, including a huge number of Chinese developers.

Not giving China a voice means that "negotiation" is not an option that China can choose when there is a dispute, forcing them to pick some other option instead.

If you really believe that China is super dangerous, forcing them out of the negotiation table is probably the single worst decision you can actually make.

I really hope you are not in favor of expelling China and all other countries you disagree with from the United Nations and similar policies, because that's how World War 3 starts...
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Ya I am also not sure what OP is talking about, I've got nothing but great support from Amazon.
They still have a huge amount of your attention...that has to be valuable somehow. Maybe only in nefarious ways.
Why not use a 'proper' VM system like xen?
The problem is this energy could be used to replace other “dirty” energy. Energy supply is limited.
I found it suspicious when I read the part about cutting the rope. Hard to imagine that being cost effective in such poverty.
I'm the other way around. The backend is both getting more complicated and getting replaced with standardized solutions. It seems its easier now for front end developer to write a whole solution with a standard back end like firebase than it is for a dev to write both back and front.
That article literally says to be skeptical of that claim. Anyways, it's still consuming electricity on grids that include non-renewables. The more "renewable" power wasted on Bitcoin, the less can be used for everything else, and the more non-renewable power needed for everything else. No?
Tesla made a (paper) profit of $642M on that announcement.

Can you imagine this CFO? First, Reddit ceaselessly pumps his stock. Then, he makes more revenue overnight than most full companies do in a year through bitcoin.

Kind of convenient that we, in the US, have such blind faith in the only major EV manufacturer, come to think of it.
Thank you, I will dig through his studies and see if I can find one that does not use filtering.
Website of malicious developer: https://peninsulasoftware.co/

Hit me up so we can investigate this together further. I want them to rot in prison.

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Yes. Its a full fledged android device with play store. I use kindle android app on it to read kindle books.
Thank you! I was actually wondering if him leaving his company in the comments was good for us?

We use 3rd party fleets as our providers so we automatically get massive coverage and scale. Competitors have traditionally built their own by hiring drivers which is an expensive process and requires a "chicken and the egg" solution.

Of course, there are many downsides to relying on 3rd parties- what we can send, the difficulty in enforcing rigid standards etc. So these are the problems we tend to try to solve.
I feel like I'm misunderstanding your question, because there's tons of other work when it comes to programming. Desktop UI programs of many different types (ex, web browser, chat, games, etc), command line utilities, compilers, operating systems, data bases... the list is long.
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Come to the backend with python, it's cosy and the update cycle is at a human speed.
First thing I think of seeing just the headline: something to do with ML datasets?

Now that I've read it: Hmm, never heard of phabricator.
It doesn't actually matter; it uses energy, increasing the total energy demand of the world. Other uses (like charging up EV's) also need energy.

It seems like the effort to turn energy production towards renewables (that is, replace carbon emitting means with renewables) is undone by increased energy demand. So instead of replacing the one with the other, we have to keep the old methods around just to meet demand.
>That is false. The suppression on Twitter was based on the argument that the data was allegedly hacked, was not verified and they were being cautious. You are also ignoring the fact that even conservative leanings sites like Wall Street journal passed on the story.

So the "Collateral Murder" video, by that standard, would be suppressed too? And any mentions of it, even in private messages, would also be suppressed?

And then comes the double standards - "allegedly hacked" - Trump's tax returns and his wife's phone conversations were published and not suppressed shortly before the story on HB broke. And to be clear, because I'm sure your programmed knee-jerk reaction here will be to default to team politics, Trump's tax returns absolutely deserved to be published.

Whatever your stripe of politics, you're eventually (and painfully) going to realize that you're being systematically fed a wave of lies. WMDs (no one jailed), GFC (no recovery, no one jailed), Guantanamo (still open), drone strikes in 75+ countries (still going), NSA spying (still going), Snowden (still innocent, still a political refugee), Epstein (didn't kill himself). Crickets from the media, zero accountability. Wake up.
My attitude has always been that I don't have competitors, my customers simply have other choices. Even if the businesses are in competition, my relationship with the people who provide those other choices is not adversarial - if anything, we are potential future partners. If my customers aren't sticking with my product, then I don't blame competitors... I acknowledge that I have missed a need, and someone else is doing it better.

In this case, when someone is being aggressive, I'd just ignore it. Let the market have their say on which product is the better solution without getting into public conflict over it.
One could also argue that the power used by the vehicles themselves contributes to increased emissions.

I think the only way forward here is to generate electricity as cleanly as possible. That way we won't get bogged down in arguments about amazon's terawatt-hours being more worthwhile than those of facebook or bitcoin.
market cap = price * units outstanding.

For bitcoin, the change in units outstanding is negligible, so price is directly tied to market cap.
The parent link also says "A new report claims it’s mostly powered by renewables. Be skeptical."

I don't try to say it is true or false. I give an alternative point of view.
Many/most? people don't like UI development, in particular UI state management. Including smart developers. "Front end complexity" complaints are frequently that, but misattributed to the code/tools/etc. I miss the simplicity of the static web too.
It seems I will never afford a GPU to play some games..
I wish someone would just go make an eink boardgame company.