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> It demonstrates the hypocrisy of Washington et al. It doesn’t demonstrate inescapability of anything.

P’raps. But at least it's a case study from history.

> Feel free to include the definition when you substantiate your assertion.

It is difficult to agree on a definition, because once you suggest that any law with punitive measures is invalid, no matter how light the punishment is or how innocuous the law is, you can denounce anything from taxation to property rights to jaywalking as built on coercion.

> Are you able to do so?

It's not my opinion, it's Proudhon's, and we've already discussed it. If you wish to continue to engage this point then I will go dredge up his writing in more detail.

> The common thread being the fact that a person extracts a payment through threat of violence.

> Those are also unilateral coercive claims on a nonconsenti g person’s labor.

Why is payment any more a concern- or an outrage- than punitive laws that force people to conform to public morality? Or prevent business owners from treating their labor as they see fit? Is it any more robbery to force a factory owner to pay a tax, than it is to forbid them from conducting business free of government regulations? Or any other law? Why are coercive claims on labor less valid than coercive claims on capital?

> Neither are necessarily coercive except insofar as calling them taxes implies that they are coerced.

Okay, then rebrand taxes as citizenship fees or community funding and this entire discussion is rendered moot.

> Its possible to have voluntary citizenship and voluntary dispute resolution.

Again, you seem to have a singleminded conception of taxes as something that is inherently coercive, possibly because of real-world oppressive and opaque tax regimes, rather than considering that people might actually voluntarily pay taxes, because they do want the public services and functions of government that their tax money is funding. And if you argue that there's a lot that you never agreed to funding, then I agree with you, but that's an implementation issue, not an argument from first principles conjured from pure logic in Plato's world of forms.

> Use of the word taxation implies that they’re coerced but the anthropological literature suggests that this is voluntary.

So really that's what it all boils down to. Taxation is oppressive language. We should call them public donations instead.
> Elon Musk went on Twitter and called Bitcoin "BS" to drive the price down so they could buy at a discount. They then announced their Bitcoin purchase with fanfare that drove the price up, marking a quick return on their investment. They used Elon's influence to make a quick profit on the frenzy.

I don't see an inherent problem with this. People who were too gullible to believe influencer crap and caused bitcoin's price to go down by panic selling are now gone from the market, and the believers stayed in and made money. That's a good thing, and weeds out gullible people from the system. This isn't the stock market where fundamentals matter.
IoT programming on the ESP8266 is really fun. The Arduino library ecosystem abstracts away the details of WiFi, HTTP servers, etc. The Arduino IDE abstracts away the details of getting your program onto the microcontroller. You can set up a web server to control a GPIO output pin from your phone in about a page of code. From there, it's a short leap to something practically useful.

Arduino is already a common choice for fun-oriented programming, but adding onboard WiFi takes it to another level. Using a web server for the UI also makes it more accessible, because you don't need to build an assembly of switches and indicators to get information to/from the user.
The article is about The Great Suspender.

Kinda off-topic: with enough eyes all bugs are shallow, but does that really help when Google prefers playing whack-a-mole to doing the right thing?
Go write C at a HFT hedge fund for 10x that salary.
There's a haskell project called Clash[1] that produces VHDL/Verilog that gets pretty close to this for FPGA development.
[1]https://clash-lang.org/
I do care about categorization though. Here’s an identifier parsing library of mine (https://github.com/smasher164/xid) where I can’t test that codepoints are in some category without knowing the version.

If unicode was an external library, it would be my responsibility to update this identifier parsing library.
The GC is precise where it matters but has no interest in memory you allocate yourself (exceptions to this rule exist but they're fairly obvious). You don't need to worry about it nearly always.
This whole episode also reminds us how far we are from going 100% renewable.

In winter all renewables are inhibited and at risk. Wind: frozen/disabled turbines. Water: low water levels, small hydro plants often have to shut down. Solar is obvious.

I'm not a fan of nuclear - externalities that last thousands of years are horrible. But until fusion arrives (if ever), nuclear and gas sadly are the baseline providers we have to rely on for the foreseeable future.
Moved to his personal: https://github.com/kmcquade/endgame
Did the utility companies ask for voluntary reduction in power consumption ahead of time?

We had a situation here where extreme weather and a natural gas pumping station that exploded caused real problems in our natural gas supply. The utility asked everyone to lower their consumption by turning their heat down to 65.

Luckily, that was the extent of the rationing.
/s?

That's a nonsensical statement. Use BTC to buy a car today, and then use it to buy the same value car in a year. BTC is, fundamentally, unstable at this point in time. Even when all BTC is mined and it is distributed across the globe to every human being and sentient AI and animal, it will likely continue to be highly unstable as a currency.

Compare to the, relatively, stable USD as a currency. Prices for goods and services in USD fluctuate, but typically only changing once a year or so. Your milk price doesn't, in USD, shoot up by 500% in a week.
NIMBYs are not an impediment to building nuclear. The first impediment is finding a funding for a project of a class that has a huge chance of being a multi-billion dollar economic disaster. If you can find the money, the problem is actually completing it, and continuing to find new funding as build times go to 2-3x initial estimates, and costs balloon to 2-5x initial estimates.

There are plenty of sites that welcome new nuclear, usually any existing nuclear site would welcome more as its an economic engine for towns. The issue is it's just really poor and overly complicated technology, requiring miles of precision welds, the failure of any of which could cause big problems, and which must last for 50 years. It shouldn't be a surprise that this is hard to do well.
Well, having a gruesome headache and unable to think straight or function is certainly a stressor.

As I mentioned, I practice stress reduction techniques on a daily basis. I have studied and practiced them for years, from older traditions and today's teachers. I even teach them to others. People often comment on my calm and peaceful state and demeanor.

Stress is not the culprit here. The culprit is chemical poisoning.
I just got hired for more than my parents earn off the back of an email to the right people and I'm 20 - D is small but we have a lot of money per capita as far as I can tell.
Just because you use a camera to snap pictures without careful consideration to light composition or subject doesn't mean that's how everyone else does it.
500GB is a big collection.
What is "proper winterizing" for a state where the 99th percentile design temperature is mostly 25-30ºF? Properly sized heating systems should run 24 hours a day when the temps are well below the design temp.

If almost all of those systems are electric (because they are simple and cheap to install and don't get a ton of use), you get a lot of constant demand for electricity. Smart load-shedding (to dump large 240VAC loads in rotation) would allow the grid to survive these periods, while keeping houses livable but chilly.

I agree the wind excuse is (almost entirely) BS. Some amount of production is offline all the time, at least enough that you have to design for that.
Pets.com was a business that could actually grow so it could still be considered an investment. Bitcoin is purely based on speculation. Gold is pretty much the same thing except it has some intrinsic value. The value of gold and bitcoin only moves because of peoples' feelings.
Trying to create a physical product with software component
Hey guys,

I am trying to develop an application with customizable data that would then be displayed on the screen of a physical product. I have a programmer who can design the app and I have a manufacturer who can 3D print the product but I am struggling to understand how the data from an app actually pops up on a physical screen of a product?

Any help is appreciated

Thank you!
There's a lot of that. Why are the Kardashians in the news? Why are movies in the news? Fast food restaurants? Vacation spots? The weather?

People are interested in various things. News is whatever people find interesting that shows up when you diff today vs yesterday.
Hey :) Interesting observation and question. When I initially posted the question it was without the quotes :) but then I realized that this "something good" was probably not a very clear term (I might be wrong) so I edited the question and inserted the quotes. As far as I'm concerned it's better without them.
The result was "an electrical island in the United States," Bill Magness, CEO of ERCOT, said. "That independence has been jealously guarded, I think both by policy makers and the industry."

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/02/16/texas-power-...

Maybe it’s time to rethink that.
HaI has an interesting take on something similar: Japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo88zA5nq4Q

Running your own grid seems cool Texas style, until you have a regional problem and have no where to turn.
How exactly does it show that? From my understanding Texas has an awful(below 20%) percentage of renewable sources.
Dallas suburb here (Las Colinas). No power since Monday 6am. I had to get room at holiday inn. I actually got the room yesterday, but the hotel lost power after an hour, so I had to go back home and sleep in 5 degree apartment.

Don't believe anything you read about "rolling outages". It's only rolling, if you define that as "out until it's not freezing anymore".
I have only done it in a home oven or a regular commercial kitchen without a fancy super hot oven.

I like the idea of learning to launch it though, I'm already sad that I can't toss the dough without dropping it so that seems like a just slightly easier skill that depends more on getting the dough to the right consistency. Seems like it will be fun to do anyway.
It is true that at my level of understanding I would intuitively prefer hidden variables. But that's not my point.

My point is that the notion of "measurement" or "wave function collapse" simply don't seem to explain anything. Instead they are just different words for what we observe. So yes, that is certainly useful but it also seems to be limiting.

A simple question would be: What is "measurement", i.e. what is the fundamental thing that forces a probability distribution to yield a concrete value? And why does it exist separately from said probability distribution?

Edit: to make things even clearer: I am not lamenting that there is no one working on mathematically consistent interpretations of QM. I know people are doing that and I know that this is difficult. Instead I am asking what would be a clearly visible limit of QM. Where would we, as a society, encounter a situation where we say: "We really need to explain the reasons behind QM or we won't get that problem here solved."
Good. There's enormous value in the walled garden for the people who want it. Some people reasonably want the ability to install any app they want on their devices, and while I wholeheartedly support them and their wishes, I'm not addressing them here.

As an end user, I know knowing that stuff in Apple's App Store is reasonably vetted. It's not perfect, and when mistakes are made we ready about them here. But for the most part if I install an app that says it'll do X, it'll do X while generally not being to upload unrelated data to North Korea. I'm at a stage in life where I'd rather pay someone to make those investigations and decisions for me than invest the time to do it myself. Again, other people strongly feel otherwise, but that's OK!

As a family member, I have to worry a little less about what apps my kids are running, and have to spend a little less time fixing my older relatives' phones when I go home to visit. This gives me more time to do stuff I actually want to be doing.

As a security person, I have to worry a little less about what apps my coworkers are running, and I know there's a reasonably good sandbox keeping one app's data away from another's. If there were, say, a Facebook-encapsulated app store, I might have zero confidence that the game app they installed through it can't access data in the "add cat pics to your presentation!" app that they also installed through it.

I totally get why people want to have multiple app stores on their phone, and I can't say they're wrong. Still, I'm perfectly happy with the current state of affairs, and have no desire to have Epic and Facebook app stores on my kids' or coworkers' phones that I'm at least a little bit responsible for.
That would require transferring the renewable energy to the areas where non-renewable energy is consumed.

Energy transmission is expensive, and this would only be economically feasible within certain geographic limits. Otherwise they are both independent economies; a rural hydroelectric dam that serves miners isn't taking anything away from population centers, given the appropriate distance.
Dunno, I just like the idea that it's a smell designed to emulate a potentially harmful manufacturing byproduct that people just happen to like. It would be like making cigarette car smell or something.
Did people really disappear from the market, or did they temporarily refuse to buy above a certain price?
This piece feels very long and navel-gazey and sorely in need of an editor. I miss the essays where Paul Graham gets to the point.
Well you can visualize them well enough for basic chemistry if you just view them as spheres with a certain fixed number of lines (bonds) sticking in or out of them. I don't think anyone would call this model real, but it's arguably more relevant to daily life than more fundamental descriptions.
That's pretty much what Jamulus does: sound is mixed server-side, so you have a single point of reference (can be click track, can be drummer, can be sequencer...). You can even get a multi-track recording saved on the server so you can then adjust timings and give it a proper mix afterwards.
Addiction by Design by Dow Schull is an interesting book on this.
Similar experience here, extremely rapid turnaround time on my request for extended symlink support https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/781

This project is a prototypical example of the power of open source. An incredible contribution to the JavaScript ecosystem.
The article clearly states that many natural gas plants were knocked out due to the cold.

So why aren't you asking "maybe having more nuclear instead of natural gas would have helped?"

Since nuclear uses water, which freezes, the reason why the gas plants were knocked out, maybe the problem isn't the power source itself but the lack of weatherization?!
> and then goes viral multinationally

Maybe if we could (somehow) create some kind of cultural norm against that?

Maybe the real solution to the problem you raise is cultural rather than legal?

Maybe sometimes journalists and editors need to stop and say "no, we're not running this story, we are going to ignore it, some random nobody doing some offensive thing in some small town that nobody has ever heard of – that isn't news"

A lot of these social media viral things get greatly amplified by the traditional media. Indeed, sometimes the two seem to act in a mutually reinforcing loop – traditional media coverage produces more social media which in turn encourages more coverage from the traditional media
https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics
It's already possible: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/203220/sqlite-what-i...
When people tell me they're cold, I remind them that 1 degree celsius = 1 degree celsius.
Sorta it does make me slight more bitter about bitcoin in general, and if I made millions of dollars off of it I would likely thing it's the best thing in the world.

However, I do try to self adjust for that bias. When I mined the coins it was a neat concept, but bitcoin wasn't at all practical then and it isn't at all practical now.

I sold it all back then for a few reasons.

- I believed other tech nerds would come to the same conclusion.

- It would never reach main stream adoption because of how utterly impractical it actually is.

- I thought that governments would crack down on it pretty hard, pushing it further into the fringe communities.

I was definitely wrong about governments cracking down and the novelty of bitcoin has definitely caught the interest of many and that has caused many chain reactions of the price going up.

I still think bitcoin is basically useless, but I severely didn't properly estimate that just it being interesting would make it so valuable.

Bitcoin truly is extremely interesting, and the vast majority don't try to understand it at all. So while it may in fact be useless, that does not actually matter for the price to go up.

In the end the only thing I kick myself for was looking at it objectively. Bitcoin wasting untold amount of energy, low transaction rate, high wait times for confirmation, high transaction fees, ever growing public transaction history, long cryptographic identifiers for receiving and sending, and so on do not actually matter.

Not rebuying is because I still have hope that people will come to their senses. But my stubbornness has not made me rich.
The way that Lastpass and Bitwarden (which seems to have followed most of the security architecture of LP) is designed, it makes it very resistant to attacks.

The passwords and all data are encrypted on the client side and the server has no way to decode your passwords so even if Bitwarden's password was stolen, the passwords within the accounts are as secure as the Master password you chose.

Also the fact that the server side is fully open-source (and not just the client) means you could switch to using your own servers at any time.
Isn’t that sort of the million dollar question here though? Would winterization of the turbines and solar panels have mitigated or even solved this?
39% of mining is renewable energy

https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternati...
I find it really weird that everyone is jumping to blame wind here, but totally ignoring all the natural gas plants that are turned off.
Right. I'm currently undergoing allergy immunotherapy, so back in October I had a battery of allergy tests.

Turns out I'm allergic to some trees, some grasses, pollen, mold, dust mites, and a bunch of other things. And yet my childhood from a very young age was filled with playing outside in the yard and and in the woods.

Also my family had (indoor-only) cats since before I was born. My parents were allergic to them, and my sister and I are also allergic. (Wanting to get a cat is what prompted me to start the allergy shots.) So I've been exposed to cat dander since I was an infant. And yet: allergic. Some things are just hereditary, I guess.

I'm sure there are some cases where not being exposed to something when young can cause you to develop allergies, but that's definitely not the only cause. Seems like there is definitely a genetic component that can moot any amount of childhood exposure.
Which components are these? Everything seems to be easy to come by.
May I introduce the concepts of the Consumer Price Index and of wanting to use money to buy things other than units of itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_basket
I believe Bitcoin is the experimental precursor to proper distributed money.

For some reason, even though BTC was meant to be "money", it is now being treated as an asset (at a basic level, an asset is something you hold onto, as it produces additional value, unlike money, which tends to devalue if not put to work).

It's almost as if the next big idea in distributed money will be around disincentivising "asset" like behaviour.

Assets are terrible things to use for everyday transactions, which is why I don't quite consider Bitcoin "money" just yet.
similar situation in california, too.
Cutting costs on the cold-proofing of wind turbines in Texas is somewhat understandable. But as far as under-investment due to lack of profit goes, nuclear isn't much better off.

The economics of building a traditional nuclear plant right now don't work out: they are incredibly expensive to build and tear down, take a decade to plan and another decade to build. In the time until a new nuclear plant is built and has paid back the investment you could have built a wind park, made back the investment, made a profit, decommissioned it, built a new one and made back the investment for that one.

Maybe small-scale nuclear will help somewhat, but properly weather proofed wind and gas would work just fine too.
I am not an investor myself but in the long run you would probably still win. In the short run people expect it to pull back a bit from the current (~$50K) value.
> People who were too gullible to believe influencer crap and caused bitcoin's price to go down are now gone from the market

That's a part of the crowd. Another part is in for speculation and sold on negative message then bought in the dip. We don't know the proportions. The first part could be close to 0.
There was a comedy of sorts loosely based on the idea. The Men Who Stare At Goats [1] I promise it's worth watching, if for no other reason than to be entirely taken aback as to how they got A-list actors to play the parts.

[1] - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234548/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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TFA says it’s grid is mostly natural gas and wind. There seems to be lots of misconceptions in this thread and not a lot of information.

Nuclear would have been fine throughout this.
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I guess I am judging the intentions of those passing it, not reflecting how they would judge their own intentions.

There is a whole philosophical bent about what "good" intentions might be which is way off topic.
There have been calls from our utility company asking people to conserve energy and a lot of messaging on the local news.
Better Perl: More on signatures and types
Or the wallet got cracked. Most online wallets were. Or the HDD died..
I believe this is the "Argument to Moderation" logical fallacy [0].

> Argument to moderation is the fallacy that the truth is a compromise between two opposing positions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation
Best advice in this entire thread: balanced, rational, apolitical.

But unfortunately fails to take into account the anti-crypto fanaticism that seems to be a common ailment on HN.

Put another away: some folks here would not be able to sleep at night if they followed your advice, because it'd be too much of a blow to either their moral system or to their ego because it'd be admitting they were wrong on 200 past HN posts.
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You can't be more wrong about your statement regarding washing machine.

Please take 12 minutes of you life to watch this Hans Rosling talk, may he rest in peace.

Hans Rosling: The magic washing machine
https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_magic_washing_mac...