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Yeah, that's pretty much working as intended. The first priority of Rust's safety is crashes and security. Any other bugs that get squashed are a bonus, and you can't expect it to get all of them (whatever any overly enthusiastic evangelists might say).
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pyDal has been around for ages. Wonder if you have seen it?
Inflation-proof store of value.
pip has hashing signatures and i don't know why people don't use it. it's quite easy too.

https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip_hash/

https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip_install/#hash-ch...
I hope that Amazon and MS will not represent the majority of investment in Rust's development. The incentive structure for an independent foundation is favorable for a variety of reasons.
What about Cardano? Isn't it already rolled out with >70% of ADA staked?
Follow the big money.

Michael Saylor from Microstrategies: $1B.

Elon Musk from Tesla: $1.5B.

GrayScale: not sure how many dollars, but they own >550,000 bitcoins.

Big money is of the opinion that bitcoin is an excellent store of value.

Only a matter of time before it becomes a medium of exchange.

And later on, a unit of account.

By that time, you won't be asking yourself what 1 bitcoin is worth anymore.

Things will be priced in bitcoin. And those who have it, have it good.
But the point is, it's not an exclusive choice. BTC will coexist with other commodities. It won't be the be-all-end-all of financial transactions, but it will probably endure.
Hyperoptic is lightyears ahead of anyone else, because they offer 1 Gbps synchronous broadband. Synchronous is the key here, because absolute majority of other providers usually only offer upload speed that is 10-20% of download speed.
Yep, as expected, the WHO bought the Chinese version hook, line, and sinker. Bet the Chinese even furnished them call girls coming to their rooms as well . . .
There's levels of usefulness. Not dissing your argument but gold is still way more useful. There's has to be better ways to solve the problem you mention. Like they say, Bitcoin is a solution looking for a problem.
Pretty neat. What are some intended uses case for something like this?

I've created similar content for a hero image before, but outside of that or perhaps as part of a video I am not sure how I would use this.
(1) power is not free, even green energy. It has production, labor, and material costs.

(2) using the term 'excess' green energy is a false statement. There is no such thing as excess green energy while a bulk of the grid is still coal/gas/etc.

(3) Bitcoin has led to a drain on GPU availability and in turn on the finite capacity of our semiconductor fabs. Arguably for nothing.
IE use DST also fyi.

> The EU decided to chicken out and let the members decide for themselves

There are reasons the EU doesn't just enforce timeZones across its members.. So this is a 'strange' comment that bothered me.
> the best chance to get rich is gone

The second best time to plant a tree is today.
A bitcoin transaction never settles. If a longer chain is created without that transaction it will become the current state and that transaction will be effectively rolled back.
Do you understand what the purpose of money is? It allows you to abstract your work into a (near) universally acceptable intermediary.

For instance: I am great at writing web APIs in golang, but unfortunately for me the people coming to my house today to deliver a dumpster (we're doing some spring cleaning) do not accept "golang apis" as a method of payment.

So I find somebody wants "golang APIs", agree to exchange with them for some money, and then use that money to pay the dumpster guys.

Money is a hugely innovative concept which has obviously driven a huge amount of innovation (now you can do work like "write golang APIs" instead of only doing things like "grow potatoes").

Does that help you understand what the point of bitcoin is?
Gold is not much useful to millions of Nigerians while Bitcoin is praised daily there. I think if there was another solution, we would be using it already.
I'm sure for some uses it would be fine. But typically the concern is garbage collection. Manual memory allocation and the ability to deal directly with pointers etc. is important for driver and OS development, as well as embedded systems work.
In what way is Trump unusual? He picked up the torch from Ronald Reagan and Trump currently has many people in both branches of Congress who support him and his ideas.
I wonder if we'll see a comeback of the EPA. In the last few years it was a mockery of the name, doing exactly the opposite.
If I were a billionaire, I'd finance a project where this kind of technology is used on witnesses of historical events (WWII battles, marching with MLK, lost rock concerts, etc). Ask them to visualize the event, and record their visualizations. Obviously any individual witness would be unreliable, but data recorded from multiple witnesses could be valuable.

Time is running out. I don't know how many WWII veterans will still be alive by the time I'm a billionaire.
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By trading inflation for volatility?
Some of us ask ourselves the same thing. NANO, for instance, has no fees and is basically instantaneous (<1s). But unlike Bitcoin, Elon Musk isn't hyping it, and you can't make money by using computer farms, so most people don't know about it.
FCKGW or something else?

I also don't remember this one, but I have a Soldier of Fortune CD key committed to long term memory for some inexplicable reason!
Godot receives 120k$ grant from game dev. studio Kefir
I suppose the question is what problems is rust aiming to solve in game development. From my experience languages are rarely the issue in game dev.
Nope. There really isn't much reason to. The winters are mild, and Arizona is far enough south that there's still a good amount of daylight in the afternoons, at least compared to the northern parts of the US.
I see a huge potential in cryptocurrencies, just not in Bitcoin per se. I can totally see the European Central Bank controlling some kind of CryptoEuro that is tied to the real euro and allows individuals to make transactions without banks.

Banks would become an optional frontend on this transaction system, with security features built-in, etc.
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You have to take into account that we are at the birth of a new asset class which means volatility is part of it. Look at the birth of the stock market, for example, the birth of industry or real estate, the list goes on.

Gold has been used as a store of wealth since at least ancient times. So it’s not quite a fair comparison.

And the whole economy doesn’t need to collapse for an asset to be valuable. The reason Bitcoin is up is because people looking to maintain wealth are looking to broaden portfolios. S&P is overvalued for some, the US dollar is weak for some. Fed rates are still low, bond yields are low. If you take into account inflation those CDs and Money Markets you mention lose money. An extremely good CD will currently earn you 1% interest, meanwhile inflation will remove 2%.

So it doesn’t need to be nonvolatile for it to be seen as part of a portfolio of wealth management, and it definitely doesn’t need to only be a last resort against complete economic failure since almost nothing qualifies.

If you don’t already have a fully balanced and diversified portfolio, you may not need or be ready for Bitcoin yet... but that doesn’t mean there’s not trillions of dollars that are ready for it.
I really enjoyed what EU did with GDPR and secure EU citizens data protection, with regulators that everyone can access. It seems to be working well (it could be working better, but it's still a relative new thing).

This has companies make an effort to comply, or other companies refusing to comply and they exit the market not providing products/services to EU citizens, and that's fine!

That's why I believe regulation would do wonders here. Imagine Youtube, or Amazon, have to make up for the loss of revenue of someone they mismanaged and refused customer support? Sprinkle that with fines, and it would start to shift the whole "AI for customer support", which simply doesn't work.

Regarding the cutting into pieces, as long as the user base is cut into manageable size. Amazon has several user bases: AWS users, Amazon Buyers, Amazon Sellers, etc.

In this case, Amazon Sellers are treated like shit, literally. So maybe Amazon Seller platform should be spinned off and have an independent structure dedicated to it. Because currently there's contrafaction, fraud, and a lot of illegal things happening while they give no proper recourse to the damaged parties - unless you're Nike, or Nintendo.

>Remember that lobbying for antitrust splits will be pursued by someone with enough political ambition to offset the pressure in a long run. What would be their benefit?

In this case, for the whole European Union project to start to walk the talk, they have to start to make visible changes. Else the credibility of the union will start to crumble.
That's the funny part, my second PSC is probably going to be less than the minimum time due to paternity leave so really it'll wind up being my third PSC because I joined just prior to this half.
You don't need it :)
The password must include a capital city, but it can also include other characters to make it a palindrome :)
Another reason you should be using water filters at home.
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I've kept reading through the article to find out who that Italian was, but all I found was Jakob Fugger, I guess the clickbait title did its job ;)

It might make more sense to change the title to "European", because there were no nation states in the modern sense (like "Italy" or "Germany") in the 15th century.
When the time cost of getting it right and _keeping_ it right exceeds the amount of time actually available in a day, the result is equivalent to "the language is not up to the task".

I mean, you can implement anything you want in assembly, in theory. In practice, the cost of iteration tends to be high enough that implementing things with somewhat rapidly changing requirements (which includes CSS, to be clear!) pretty much requires a language in which iteration and refactoring can be done more quickly than in assembly.

Maybe the confusion on your part is that you think "CSS" is a static set of requirements, so if you put in enough effort to implement it once you're then done? Unfortunately, that's not how it works in practice.
Hmm, I wonder when this policy started. I did not have to prove ownership of the domains for the coordinates I use, though I do happen to own them.
It can't actually be that bad because if it was, the free market would punish Du Pont, right?
Sure, but any crypto coin could do that, and I doubt we would be using a currency as "mainstream" as bitcoin at this point to do it at that point because we could not afford the transaction costs. Probably be some privately issued Zaibatsu coin or something, with bitcoin use being reserved for the upper classes that had made it out. (OK I guess I've been reading too much Gibson lately)
My last name (see username) is similar to one of the cities.

Many people spell my name wrong because they know the city and write it the way the city is spelled.

Hinloopen (my name) vs Hindeloopen (the city)
Doesn't help if the response was "closed, I don't care about this project anymore".
How far are we from mind reading and its possible abuses?
Not to mention that simply building more carbon-dependent infrastructure over those 10 years means there is that much more to unbuild in order to transition.

There are a lot of ways this number is just so inadequate. It is easily a gross underestimate. The effects are exponential. The lost potential of all the lives and ecosystems that would be destroyed by inaction, not just in those ten years but for the decades or even centuries of carried over effects, just can't be covered with a number like this.

Making it comparable in magnitude to something like the pandemic relief is just plain bad research and irresponsible journalism. One more example of downplaying just how catastrophic this issue is and thereby doing the opposite of helping.
The whole monarchy thing is BS. We/Canada can easily do without it. And remember we have to pledge allegiance to the "King/Queen and Her Hiers" when taking the citizenship pledge - which includes the wonderful Prince Andrew. Such bullshit to genuflect to such people. And the British empire doesn't exactly have a shining past with all their colonialism and what not. Why not just pledge allegiance to the Canadian flag or the Charter?

But every time we bring it up for removal there are excuses why it cannot be done. The Governor General et all are a cost center - not just federally but in each province. Or worse two factions aligned to removing the monarchy don't disagree on how it should be done and the measure fails (Australia). At least the Australians managed to remove 'Queen/Heirs' from the citizenship pledge and acknowledged that many immigrants who want citizenship came from countries in Africa and Asia that were colonized, whose people were treated like shit, and had their natural resources stolen.

Cute and hoky to some... but others are being asked to pledge to an institution that subjugated many of their ancestors. For no good reason. Even if you have not been subjugated, there is no reason to pledge allegiance to her.
This comment made me laugh! Filing paperwork to send bitcoin? You are in outer space!
There are many, many things other than Bitcoin which are also guaranteed to be finite in supply (more so in the case of physical goods, since they cannot be forked). BCash, most shitcoins and inactive ICO tokens, for example, are limited in supply in exactly the same way. Share certificates of bust companies are fixed in supply, and yet rarely worth more than the paper they're printed on. The creative output of every dead person is fixed in supply, and yet some dead people's work appreciates massively in value whilst others' is near worthless.

Price is the interaction of supply and demand, and there is no particular reason to believe that people will be more willing to pay over $45k to update ledgers to indicate possession of a particular alphanumeric string in a couple of decades' time than they are now.
OP here! Dang it! What OS and version of Firefox are you on, if you don't mind my asking?
I hear ya about the scroll, and that's valuable feedback. Are you using an actual mouse or a trackpad?
With 401k, healthcare, I have heard that a million bucks gets you 3 engineers. Or in the case of layoffs you get a million dollars worth of savings per year per 3 engineers laid off.
If it was likely the other person has a gun, I would think twice before doing something. It makes more sense to me to be more wary when I assume that the person I may be thinking of robbing has a gun on them, vs. knowing it is extremely unlikely that the person is not going to have a gun on them.

Are you sure the problem is guns? What makes you so sure? I am genuinely interested, because Serbia is known for having lots of guns, too, but firearm-related death rate is low, vs. Honduras, which has much less guns per 100 inhabitants and extremely high firearm-related death rate that is homicide.

In any case, here is the table:

| Country | Homicide | Guns per 100 inhabitants |
| US | 4.46 | 120.5 |
| Serbia | 0.72 | 37.82 |
| Honduras | 28.65 | 9.9-11.24 |

Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r....

What do you think explains this? Curious to explore.
> I've never known anyone (in coding) to be paid > £100k (~$140k) - but then maybe I move in the wrong circles!

In London, >£100k is easy for contractors but I think you'd have to have some managerial responsibilities to get that as a perm (team lead or upwards.) But I may also be moving in the wrong circles...
People have made languages to address these issues (including me), and even put them in critical systems, but it is very difficult to get people to sign on to a new language.
I appreciate an honest question. The negative sentiment around crypto is a bit extreme imo. Bitcoin does have intrinsic value. A trustless P2P payment network has value. Is POW flawed, yes. This is a big reason why I prefer and hold Ethereum. Eth is moving to POS which is vastly more efficient. It also has additional programability in the form of smart contracts that bitcoin does not have. Look into the DeFi space for further use cases.
I had a concept that used crop futures as a virtual currency, deforming a "cloth" with "root growth" to generate randomness.
The money would go to finance food production and the currency would accrue an actual dividend once it reaches the market.
Dissipating heat into space is very challenging (vacuum makes a great insulator). On Earth the solar energy is arriving here already, so converting it to electricity and using it to perform calculations won't directly contribute to global warming.
Bitcoin will never become a standard currency, it's slow, it has zero privacy (if I send you money once you can see ALL my transactions), it is EXTREMELY energy inefficient. Even if you believe crypto will one day become the standard (which I dont), it won't be bitcoin because there are better alternatives; proof of work is dumb, bitcoin has a finite supply of bitcoins, etc.
It could very much be from the second system effect though. A rewrite in C++ from a competing team would provide a control for that.

As many others have mentioned though, the real kicker is that they did attempt a rewrite twice in C++ aiming for the features of the rust one; those didn't work out.
I do not understand the motivation behind the alarm of BTC mining energy utilization. In terms of pollution there are much easier targets with obvious net negatives for civilization. I'll give you one example, Teflon is a fantastic product but it does not need to coat every piece of cookware. PFOA's are likely in the blood of every American.

What motivations must one have to not see freeing billions of humans from the control of central banks as something good for humanity? Could the energy consumption of bitcoin mining be merely an engineering problem or are we being asked to eschew bitcoin mining (an cryptocurrencies) for the oh-so energy efficient global financial system?

Something smells...
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I think you’re getting downvoted because your point is obscured by the confrontational tone. Argument by authority is especially unconvincing when you aren’t using common terms correctly. In normal usage, “typosquatting” refers to someone registering common misspellings in a shared namespace. As clearly described in the post this is not that but rather exploiting non-obvious differences in the order in which different namespaces are checked.

Using terms correctly is especially important in security: someone who read your comment might incorrectly believe that this did not affect them because they are using the correct names for all of their dependencies.
what does this have to do with cryptocurrency?

You already do that now. its called a job.
Every transaction requires at least one block (typically several) to be added to the block chain, and the block size limit means that, in fact, energy consumption in Bitcoin is proportional to the number of transactions. Beyond technical details, there is also the economic incentive: miners are paid to include transactions in new blocks, and if there are more transactions (thus higher demand) the fee will rise and miners will consume more power in order to collect the higher fees.
The most used programming language is dead? Please stop the FUD. Python is doing great. Calling it a new language is insane. There's way less difference than in early Cpp versus late Cpp.
Nobody actually wants fully decentralised irreversible consensus between arbitrary participants on a public ledger because it is slow, costly and doesn’t solve real-word problems of identity verification, trust, reversible transactions, private transactions etc etc. People have tried and failed for years to find a compelling use for it.

It’s a very interesting experiment in social engineering but I find it difficult to find a concrete example of bitcoin being useful. Making some people very rich at the cost of others is not sufficient justification. If anything fewer people are actually using bitcoin now for real transactions not involving speculation on prices than in 2015 say.
Maven is ubiquitous in the Java world and the de-facto package/dependency management system out there. Has been since the mid-2000's and as of 2018 when I last did Java development (Scala really), it is still widely in use. Getting jar files manually would have me running from whatever company that was doing that. Let me guess, they wrote all their code in Notepad because IDE's are a "fucking mess" too right?
The belt itself is rather neat! Perhaps you could just use a large velcro cable tie to try it out, although it probably wouldn't be as robust.
OCaml is a GC language. It does have a fairly direct translation into assembly though, and is not a pure functional language.
>I would not call that a 100% efficiency.

That's the definition of efficiency for home heating.
It has built in LSP, but I still need a few plugins to get additional functionality like auto complete, auto import (thanks nvim-compe!), definition preview (lsp-saga) etc.

I love nvim too and the direction its going, but the parent comment is correct. Its a lot more painful to set up compared to VSCode.
> There is no such thing as excess green energy while a bulk of the grid is still coal/gas/etc.

Are you saying transporting and storing electricity is free or easy? Can you source that please? As far as I know many megawatts of electricity go to literal waste every day because it's actually extremely hard to store or transfer.

> power is not free, even green energy. It has production, labor, and material costs

Indeed. And thanks to Bitcoin powerplants can be paid for
electricity that will be generated anyways but would go to waste, thus making green energy cheaper.

> Arguably for nothing.

For trustless, quick and reliable transfers of money, which are for example improving the life of many Nigerians.
> Determining fully decentralized consensus

But this only solves a problem specific to bitcoin that no one else has, because no one else keeps a centralised database with every transaction, so I'm not sure it counts as an advantage.
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Are you suggesting the government could set the value of their currency by using force?
Why do they have to mine bitcoins at this point? There are enough in the market just transact and trade with them.
Infrastructure as code is much easier to handle than full backups of the configuration of your mutable machines, even for 1 machine.

The only problem it has (and why I don't use stuff like kubernetes at home) is that the configuration formats aren't stable and thus require a lot of ongoing maintenance.
So how do we explain international use of the Euro and Swiss franc?
I find using the Olson DB names works in real life too--everybody understands "9AM Chicago" vs. "9AM Shanghai". Major international city names have fewer hash collisions than TZ abbreviations.
AMDs "nice to have"-tooling is almost nonexistent compared to Intel - vTune is a few gigabytes, uProf is about 10MB for example.
Big money can write it off as a business expense on their taxes if it goes down. The average individual doesn't have that upside.
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So basically, "don't move, the t-rex can't see you if you don't move" type of situation. I guess there was some truth to that after all.