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Hi Everyone! I am hiring at TaxFix in Berlin,Germany Or Madrid, Spain. Remote - can be anywhere in Europe.

TaxFix is a very successful FinTech startup in Europe and was named one of the most attractive place to work in Germany in 2019. https://angel.co/company/taxfix

We offer a competitive salary with benefits like Virtual shares of the company for every permanent employee.
To be honest, with visa situation during corona it has been easier for someone already in Europe but are willing to relocate for the right talent!

I am hiring for our Data Analytics team - https://taxfix.de/en/careers/open-position/4945007002/

A Sr.Data Analyst for Product. Must have substantial amount of experience with Product analysis, A/B testing, B2C experience. Someone who can deliver insights to a variety of stakeholders.

Also hiring a Mid level Data Analyst - https://taxfix.de/en/careers/open-position/4998209002/

IT Support Engineer - https://taxfix.de/en/careers/open-position/4979062002/

More positions coming in the next weeks as we are set to grow after receiving a Series C for Funding of 65Million Euros.

Please reach out directly with your resume and a bit about you: tiffany.anderjaska@taxfix.de
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffany-anderjaska-57a316120/
Bitcoin is fiat. It's not backed by a commodity.
I don't follow the day to day, and it has been years since I contributed any code, but a quick peek at the lightning network stats makes me think that everything is fine. Good organic growth, with over 1000 BTC presently in flight. A lot of people seemed to be under the impression that the off chain networks would take center stage, and the blockchain would quietly power it from behind the scenes - but I'm pretty sure the direct opposite will occur. As far as why there hasn't been an explosion in network activity: I guess there isn't enough pressure. Every so often there is a spike that gets people up in arms, then it quiets down and they forget. Larger wallets will eventually start moving transactions off chain, but they've obviously got as much enthusiasm about it as they did in updating their backends to take advantage of space saving changes in the protocol. But once its done, its done.

https://bitcoinvisuals.com/ln-capacity
That’s ignoring the middlemen who run the mining network, who you pay for every transaction, and the middlemen on both ends who convert to and from the real current which you use to buy and sell the things you actually use.

Similarly, any government which wants to can block the network entirely or require everyone exchanging into real currency to avoid transactions involving people who’ve violated local laws. Since Bitcoin by design helpfully gives them a full list of your past activities anyone considering ignoring those demands has to consider the risk of consequences for their participation at any point in the future.
I 100% believe that legacy finance is a massive hindrance to the sustainability of our species,

Could you please expand on that? Why?
> What would you imagine that oversight looking like, who decides who gets the name `yaml`, and how do they verify it, and who pays for that time?

Just use name spaces. foo.com/yaml instead of yaml. NPM way of doing things is/was just insane, with no regard for trust or security. No wonder NPM corp then went into the business of selling namespaces, AKA selling trust...
Changeset Evolution [1], which allows me to amend and rebase shared commits without co-workers hating me, even when they are building on top of the mutated commits.

[1]: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ChangesetEvolution

combined with a large set of tools to tweak commits (i mostly use absorb, amend, split, fold, uncommit, pick), it is very nice to work with if you value a clean history.

there is also the very powerful revset DSL for finding revisions and/or files.
AI detects 1210 new potential gravitational lenses in the search for dark matter
Ask for a Windows Machine so you can run Windows Subsytem for Linux. If you have to stay on a Mac, get Alfred.
https://www.alfredapp.com/
Approximately 25,000 of just over 30,000 source packages are now reproducible builds - generating over 80,000 binary packages. See the graphic on the page you linked to:

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/unstable/amd64/...
In my case as well this is true. ISPs ( especially when they have monopolies) don't care about this. I live in a town with 8K people and the whole town is sharing an uplink of 300Mbit/s. And we complained a lot but due to how only one single ( governmental) provider have the rights to install cable internet, we're stuck with what we have.
I was going to mention them. Some members of the US military were given them as part of a study on COVID detection. Basically any wearable sensors covering the right metrics can be used for this. The question, really, was less about "Can wearable health monitoring equipment detect early signs of <disease>?" than "What are the early signs which wearables can detect and use for prediction once we know them?"
Heat pumps move heat around, that has to come from somewhere. Their performance is not measured in efficiency but the performance coefficient, which simply measures in Watt per Watt how much energy is moved.
The public know that USDT is not fully collateralised with real life assets. This has been publicly stated on Tether page as well. So can we please stop parroting this USDT bullshit, nobody cares how tether is backed and with all the alternatives to USDT there is no reason to use it but from a perspective of ease-of-use and wider offering of trading pairs. You have DAI, USDC, TUSD, BUSD.... You can check which one is audited (USDC and TUSD) and will credit you fully if you need so. You can also work directly with USD at various reputable crypto exchanges (eg Bitstamp, Coinbase, Kraken).

This tether FUD always resurfaces as price goes up as people are butthurt that they did not buy the last dip. No worries, history will repeat itself. This year we'll see BTC hit 100k+ and end the massive bull run in 250k teritory by 2022. After that we'll see everybody dumping their cash in BTC and the bubble will burst on the wings of massive FUD & regulatory bullshit. Bitcoin willl drop to ~20k and cycle will repeat.

For those that weren't watching, this repeats itself every ~3 years for past 10 years. Keep watching the news... USDT stories will become more regular, next will be China bans, Russia bans... then we'll continue with EU regulation push, US regulation push, new tax laws....

The only smart thing you can do is start investing a small amount every week and forgetting about it. Cancel two lattes (or lottery cards, donuts) per week and buy BTC and ETH instead. Imagine starting doing this in 2016, when ETH was launched. You bought ETH for 1 USD. Today it's hitting ~1700 USD. You would retire easily.

Too bad you're so hard at work telling the world that crypto is a scam.
So, what about refunds when corporations rip us off?

And what about losing 100% of my funds when my key is lost or stolen? All keys are lost/stolen - it doesn't take a rocket degree to have observed that from human behavior.

Who enforces splitting of equity when some rich dick beats his wife into submission? The courts don't control any bitcoin keys.

The problems of bitcoin are proportionately larger than then problems with fiat. The only people saying otherwise are those that are profiting from the opposite perspective.

If we are not a bitcoin miner, then how will we get the funds to begin with? Right now I can trade fiat for it, but in the future my children would not be able to trade fiat for it (assuming it's as good as you say it is). So, they will become indentured servants to the bitcoin miners.
My biggest struggles are fatigue, depression, executive function, and my codependent relationship with my girlfriend.
> I simply can't answer what BTCs and other crypto coins are actually good for.

Everybody here is missing out why Bitcoin was made in the first place: the 2008 crash.

The benefits of a globally liquid asset (not USD) will only be appreciated if you're living from a country that has a weak Central Bank.

- Nigerians use it to import goods from China. This guy can't source USD to purchase imports for his mobile phone business, so he uses BTC [0]

- Venezuela remote workers getting paid in BTC, because their central bank clamped down on USD inflow. They also didn't want to be paid in the worthless local currency. [1]

- Remittance shops in Hongkong are using BTC to settle remittances by batch. Buy and sell to the last mile instantly, no exposure to volatility. This gives them way better FX fees and faster settlement (30mins vs. 1-3 business days). They pass the savings down to their customers as marketing spend, or they pocket the change to increase profit [2]

- Argentina Central Bank is hoarding USD due to dwindling reserves. So they imposed a $200USD/month cap on individuals transacting with USD. People are flocking to BTC for remote settlement. [3]

- Iran hit with sanctions cant use USD. So they're working on laws to use BTC for settling imports with China. They even issued BTC mining licenses for private companies. [4]

I come from a country, where if you remit more than $10K outbound you'd have to: pay big fees ($200+), suffer bad FX rates, wait for 2-3 days, do a physical appearance at the branch for and pay documents/notarial stamps, sign forms, present and print out government ID's, just to say: "This is my money, I just want to send money to my dad overseas for medical purposes".

December 2020, my mom had received USD in her dollar account. She wanted to withdraw and convert it to help build float for the family business, the local bank didn't have enough USD. They told her it was a 6-week wait, lots of people lined up. Lol.

People from first-world countries have it good.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currencies-africa-...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47553048

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currencies-remitta...

[3] https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-is-booming-in-economically-c...

[4] https://asiatimes.com/2020/10/iran-to-use-bitcoin-to-fund-im...
Bitcoin consumes 'more electricity than Argentina'
Teflon? Teflon the polymer isn’t toxic. The monomer is a gas. Teflon is used in medical implants. It’s a massive technological gain, massive positive externalities.
> It seems dumb that they don’t have per repo tokens.

Technically you can create one new GitHub account per repo and generate a token for that... But that is highly annoying :)

They need to support IAM / RBAC style policies and tie every authn+z method to those policies, but my guess is they have different auth methods strung all throughout their codebase so implementing it will take a few years. Then of course they have to make it "user friendly" as we all know how painful IAM can be...
Yes, none of that.

This is just picking up the imprint of a direct perception; it is essentially equivalent to just photographing the reflection of the TV in your eye.

This isn't "decoding" any internal information actually present anywhere in the brain. It is showing, at best, that visual input "lands somewhere" in the brain -- but is not showing any of the brain's processing, nor any of the impact of the visual.

It's just, essentially, looking at the terminal node of the eye.
What a weird comment. There's tons of fraud within the bitcoin ecosystem, and it's also used in a lot of fraud too.
That exact question is addressed almost word-for-word in TFA:

You are probably now thinking something along the lines of "My couch is 10' away from my TV, which according to the chart means I need a 75 inch TV. This is insane!". Yes, if you want to take advantage of the full capacity of higher resolutions, this is the ideal size. This brings us to the main limitation for most people: the budget.

The price of a TV is exponential to its size, as shown in the chart. The chart shows the price range of 2016 LED TVs by their size. As you can see, the jump to a 70 inch TV is quite a big one. For example, check out the price of our picks for the best 70"-75" TVs and the best 80-82-85" TVs.
Conclusion

We recommend an angle of vision of 30 degrees for a mixed usage. In general, we also recommend getting a 4k TV since 1080p choices have become quite limited and lack modern features such as HDR. To easily find out what size you should buy, you can divide your TV viewing distance (in inches) by 1.6 (or use our TV size calculator above) which roughly equals to a 30 degrees angle. If the best size is outside your budget, just get the biggest TV you can afford.
Her talk is basically "Introduction to Entity Component Systems for Rust Programmers," and it has an implicit secondary thesis that implementing the ECS in Rust adds value vs implementing it in e.g. C++.

He seems to disagree with that secondary thesis. He thinks she did a good job implementing a toy ECS, but that Rust itself wasn't particularly helpful to her.
Good luck with that. The bitcoin core folks can't even agree to change blocksizes to increase transaction throughput. Switching to PoS is highly unlikely.
Is it inconsiderate to post English-language articles at all, given that the majority of the world's population doesn't understand English, and it's chauvinistic to assume our own language is "the default" ?
I think BST, CST and IST are the only triple overlaps. I live in one and I'm adjacent to another.
At that rate and assuming 4tx per second a single Bitcoin transaction consumes 165kWh. A Tesla battery is bit over 50kWh. So let's round that to 3 full charges of Tesla battery.

That's 350km/220 miles of range per charge. In total 1050km or 660 miles of driving.

So basically if you want to transfer money and the recipient is closer than 660 miles from you it's more efficient to just get a bunch of bills, drive there with a Tesla rather than send a Bitcoin transaction. Or alternatively 330 miles roundtrip. For each single transaction.

It is hilariously inefficient system. It is literally better to drive a full car and give things physically than use Bitcoin.

A small addenum: Visa apparently uses 146kWh for 100000 transactions. Coming at 1.46wH per transaction. That can drive a Tesla for 9 meters (0.4 seconds of driving at 80km/h) or alternatively keep a nice led lamp lit for an hour. And that includes everything the company does, not just the actual transaction but the upkeep of their offices etc divided by the amount of transactions they perform per year.

EDIT:

Apparently on 2020 it was 741kWh per transaction in practice and/or I made a tiny error in my calculation. Either way it's even better!

https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-co...

That simply increases the ranges so that it becomes a 3600 mile trip. Or 1800 mile roundtrip.
About a week ago I heard about NextGen TV for the first time (ASTC 3.0). They're starting to roll out across the country will bring 4k content over the air. Not sure how compressed it will be, but I remember how revolutionary it was to switch to the digital OTA channels with a converter box many years ago.

www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/watch-free-4k-tv-broadcasts-with-an-antenna-nextgen-tv-comes-to-more-cities-in-2021-atsc-3-0/
Cloudera Spark – Paywall Expansion Update Effective Jan 31
Even more directly - How much energy does all the world's "legacy" Fintech use?

Banks, exchanges, government tax agencies, accountants, money printing, retail cash machines (ATM, registers, etc) and all the way to gold mining.
Nixon created the EPA.
It sounds like these translations are included in git and merged with a pull request like anything else right?

In that case require a code review from someone who speaks the language.
PoS lacks fairness.

To participate in PoS, you need an existing stash of coins, which is inaccessible for many individuals from countries where cryptocurrencies are outlawed. Not forgetting to mention that participation in consensus would indirectly require going through KYC.

PoW, on the other hand, is akin to buying Bitcoin with electricity - a borderless natural resource.
Sorry for the off-topic comment, but since you are here and we are talking about names... Do you know why did John Gilmore name his server "toad.com"? Is there any special meaning in the name? In the past it was used to host many projects like the Cypherpunk mailing list, and its domain name is a question that has been puzzling me for many years, I'd love the know the answer. Thanks.
It's not (just) that. Gold has an intrinsic value because you can actually do something with it; it's used in semiconductor manufacturing, jewelry, etc. When you buy a gold bar as a store of wealth/value, even though your specific gold bar is probably not going to be used for anything, it holds value because there are other bars of gold just like it that are being used for something.

The same holds true for Bitcoin. The one (and only one) use case for Bitcoin is censorship resistant transactions. There will always be some subset of people that use Bitcoin as a legitimate way to transact; black market trading, drugs, people that live in countries that have unstable currencies, etc. This isn't a significant number of people, but it's non-zero. As long as there exists that set of people that legitimately use Bitcoin, Bitcoin has some intrinsic worth.
Set `ESNext` as the value for `module` under `compilerOptions` in your TSConfig will output an ES module every time. What it doesn't support currently is changing the output file extension, if thats what you meant

https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig#module
Why are they wrong? People who consider Bitcoin important are not a homogeneous mass — are you saying all those people are wrong, or some portion of it?
Tip: if you type "pi 100 digits" in DuckDuckGo you'll get a quick answer.
Ah yeah, you're right, all of those legally sounding words invalidate actual use.

Yes, I buy things with bitcoin, and no, you can't find it on the blockchain.

(Or do I? :))
Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla's carrying Bitcoin's dirty baggage
Zen and the Art of Puzzle Solving
Like some other commenters, I too initially balked at the apparent misuse of "supply chain attack" but the linked paper provides a good definition,

A software supply chain attack is characterized by the injection of malicious code into a software package in order to compromise dependent systems further down the chain.

Backstabber’s Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Software Supply Chain Attacks

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-52683-...

To be clear, just calling this a "supply chain attack" and omitting "software" is going to cause confusion with traditional supply chains.

The analogy is not quite apt: in a software build system you have complete visibility into the dependency tree, so this attack is less useful, whereas with hardware suppliers you are relying on the security of your vendor.
> The chart also shows that a 4k upgrade is not worth it if you are sitting more than 6' away and have a 50" TV. Your eyes won't be able to tell the difference.

Doesn't the chart say exact opposite, the threshold for 50" 1080p is 6.3', so if your view distance is less than that (like 6.0') then 4k is worth it?
the only reason the dollar has any value at all is that it is issued within the context of a society full of people who have agreed to treat it as though it has value. Without that faith, every major currency on Earth would be as useful as small pieces of paper generally are
Yup: https://docs.rs/typed_arena
Bitcoin isn’t religion (although it has many religious-like followers), so there aren’t dogmas you cannot question.

Energy usage of it is ridiculously high and people are totally allowed to question how wasteful it is, no matter if you allow them to.
Reactive load is dissipated as heat, it does actually do what is intended here.
This has been on my mind a lot with the whole '4k gaming' push from the most recent consoles.

4k gaming just doesn't make sense for a lot of people. I have a 55" tv and sit 8.5' away from it. This TV is huge and dominates the room. I cannot reasonably have a larger tv or sit closer without ruining the usability of my livingroom.

Most people simply sit too far away from to small of a TV to be able to tell 4k from 1080p. When people protest they can absolutely see a difference, what they're usually seeing is better color and contrast of newer tvs, not resolution.

Even when it comes to PC gaming, 4k is often not all it's cracked up to be. According to OSHA, most people sit about 30" away from their monitor. This lines up nicely with the visual acuity distance for a 27" 1440p monitor. To reach the visual acuity limit for 4k, you'd have to sit 20" away. That's a lot closer than most people are comfortable with. Even a 32" model only expands it out to 25". That's within the realm of plausibility but another thing to keep in mind is viewing angles. The main theatre certification companies recommend anywhere from a 35-55 degree viewing angle. The visual acuity distance for 4k puts you at a whopping 60 degrees which is considered high for just consuming content, much less playing a game where you're expected to see everything happening on screen and react to it.

TLDR: The hype of 4k for gaming is mostly just that. Most people would be far better served going for lower resolutions and higher refresh rates. The only people who really benefit from 4k are using it for productivity, coding, video editing, etc.
I agree but amazon has still the best policy on returns. Everyone claims they have a no-quibble return policy but only amazon does. Must suck for the sellers.
But Google is more or less an exception in this regard, from hiring their own offensive penetration testing teams to having a lot of paranoia in general about anything from outside. They had adopted a lot of good practices early on. Even most big companies are not as thorough as them.

I wonder how they built this culture and if it is even realistic for smaller companies to aim for it.
> .. yet

Well, I mean, it's possible that the detailed information that has come out about the GG trying to get assurances that, if the PM advices that he be removed to forestall a dismissal, the monarch would disregard that advice and receiving a communique from the Queen’s private secretary that, in that event, she would be obliged to follow the PM’s advice has managed to miss another layer of secret communication directly with the monarch directing the action, with the other private communication being a cover. But, I mean, secret backchannels and influences are always possible whatever the former arrangement of power is: the conspiracy theory that the dismissal was directed by the Queen has far less support compared to the theory that it was directed by the CIA, which has no formal role in Australia’s government.
That would be great but I have a hard time believing it'll stay like that. Maintaining two code bases instead of making the "native macOS application" a Electron wrapper around their other code base doesn't seem scalable in the long run.
I think the EPA, and most executive agencies should not be allowed to write policy. They should be broken up into an independent advisory group, and an enforcement group which would be part of the FBI. The advisory group would advise congress on environmental concerns, and congress should write laws accordingly, balancing all other concerns. Before you come at me for being for deregulation, I think punishments should be extreme for breaking environmental laws. In my world C-Level/Board members of a company willfully polluting to save money would be executed. I just don't think its ok to have bureaucrats writing detailed policies that have the same power as law.
It's a fun book and it accurately describes some of the flaws with fiat money, at least as it is used now.

But the part where it tries to explain why Bitcoin is the answer is laughable.

Almost as laughable as the part where he blames every societal ill from the degeneration of art and onwards on fiat currencies.