skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a straw man argument, you can't change the discussion of YouTube vs Bitcoin to rice fields vs private jets. If you have the freedom to view Bitcoin as an unnecessary luxury I can view YouTube in the same way. Why is no one talking about banning YouTube to save the environment? The price of Bitcoin is suggesting that people see merit in it's use and the hashing power is being used to keep the network safe. It can only be viewed as waste if the argument stands that Bitcoin is unnecessary and I would argue that it's very necessary and more efficient than the current financial system.
No thats literally part of the constitution. The prime minister can get fired by the queen legally and its happened iniving memory.
Who's left if you remove corporations? It's individuals, and more and more over time it's the middle strata of earners.
Debt is a promise. A promise you make is based on expectations about the future, including promises that others have made to you. The more promises we make to each other, the more likely we are to be in a chain where somebody cannot keep their promise, which means that we are vulnerable to a cascade of failed promises. When such promises pervade the economy, once we see that they have been broken, we have to reorganize ourselves. This happens by closing businesses, by liquidating assets, switching jobs and eating cat food because the pension is now worthless.

In financial terms, such cascades are typically mopped up by central banks through dilution of the money supply and/or taxpayer financed bailouts.

Long story short: more debt means more risk of a financial crisis.

p.s. I think it is not helpful to use terms such as "our own", "ourselves" when trying to understand these issues.
what burden of T-Bills ? T-Bills are a private sector asset(a good thing) and a public sector liability which doesn't matter since the treasury can just issue new T-Bills
in order to 'fund' debt service ad-infinitum. Never ever has funding(i.e. US treasury account balances) prevented government spending from occurring in the modern era. I think we spend 6 Trillion in 2020 on stimulus programs, etc. Where do you think that money came from ?
Caffeine, or coffee? They are very different substances: one is a pure alkaloid with well-defined effects, the other is a concoction of hundreds, possibly thousands of active ingredients.

Most relevantly, coffee contains a relatively large amount of Harmala alkaloids, which are a family of beta-carboline monoamine oxidase inhibitors commonly found in Ayahuasca brews (and named after one of its ingredients, Penganum harmala).
> the inventors did think about that and realized that mining can be done pretty much anywhere, using renewable resources

So where exactly did you read that in the Bitcoin whitepaper? Because everything else is just guessing.
Same here. I wanted to put together a computer for a friend and I just bumped into these *insane* prices.
Using percent to make the “bigger” number more dramatic is not helpful. Especially with the publics little knowledge about international trade.
There's also the security tradeoff.
If you put everything in a single process you save a ton of RAM at the expense of security.
As usual, it's worth going out of your way to read Matt Levine's column on the matter [0].

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-17/citi-c...
So ghazwa is a preferable alternative for economic growth. Gotcha. Let me know how taking potshots at NATO in Syria goes. How are you any better than Western colonialists then?
> There is no simple solution to the problem of privacy, because privacy itself is a solution to societal challenges that are in constant flux. Some are natural and beyond our control; others are technological and should be within our control but are shaped by a panoply of complex social and material forces with indeterminate effects. Privacy does not mean stopping the flow of data; it means channeling it wisely and justly to serve societal ends and values and the individuals who are its subjects, particularly the vulnerable and the disadvantaged. Innumerable customs, concepts, tools, laws, mechanisms, and protocols have evolved to achieve privacy, so conceived, and it is to that collection that we add obfuscation to sustain it — as an active conversation, a struggle, and a choice.

The author comes to the same conclusion I do. I just stated that making vivid images of what your loss of privacy looks like aren't really making a dent.

The author also says it best: there is no simple solution. Rather, the problem exists in people's behavior and belief systems. They feel justified in their beliefs for a cause, and once they are galvanized into that belief system they are no longer required to consider second and third order effects from their belief support. In fact, they're totally allowed to just dismiss people altogether as long as they are doing so in support of the cause.

This isn't anything new. Hot topics show that people just do this when they feel some type of way about a given topic. If you want to solve these problems I think the place to start is making vocal calls to people within your belief system that are encouraging a loss of privacy. This must be from within your belief system because people don't listen fully to people of polar belief systems and it must be vocal so that everyone sees the example.

More or less saying: privacy must be a common concern that is continually addressed and answered for in every discussion where we encourage change. It can no longer be an option.
(1) Many gamers are miners in their spare time!

(2) Big Mining operations actually write their own drivers

(3) Huge Mining operations even use custom boards

(4) I heard that that Nvidia has been selling silicon directly to the big boys (https://wccftech.com/nvidia-allegedly-sold-175-million-worth...)

(5) With this action I expect its only the little guys getting removed from the game here (1) a huge benefit for the big players (2)(3) benefitting the corporations biggest customers (4)
In my experience consumer rights in the UK isn't all that either. They basically just ignored all the EU consumer protection laws and never enforced them, so companies could do what they want, like add hidden surcharges for example.

Probably still better than US, but that's not saying much.
This really is an awesome example of a bad UI. These are exactly the kind of UIs you see in the enterprise all the time, with the article containing the totally crazy description of what was expected plus the screenshots to show that there was absolutely no way to get this, if not being the programmer who wrote it (and even then, no guarantee at all to get it right). To have a somewhat exact approach of detecting and fixing issues like this, that is what usability is all about.

So it's really the design of the software and not just the style of it that was wrong and had to be improved. A usability professional would have caught that immediately - and would have been way cheaper.
Of course human societies will still have issues. But the option of exiting will exist, as will the option of just going off on your own.
> You don’t take a 25 year loan to build a shopping center in the middle of a civil war.

I do... If my friends win the civil war, I'll have a great shopping center to make lots of profits... If my side loses the civil war and my city is bombed to the ground, then I doubt anyone will be coming after me for that debt.

It's the super low interests rates that are a sign of no ongoing civil war... And those interest rates are denominated in currencies backed by nothing, so aren't really tied to anything.
Wouldn't the easy money grab be to just set MSRP for all cards way higher ($5k?) while the demand is ~infinite?
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> This will saturate the replacement disk with writes while scattering seeks over the rest of the vdev. For 14 wide RAID-Z2 vdevs using 12TB spindles, rebuilds can take weeks.

Didn't sequential resilver already solve the read half of the problem? Because that would already cut it down from weeks.
You're right about steam. Monopoly isn't the right word.

Steam is the only one on that list that takes 30% that I know of. MS store went through a period where they would pay you to put your app there.
My understanding was that this person's normal job did not include working nights and weekends. It was the act of taking on the "company side project" that necessitated that extra work.

If the person's job includes working nights and weekend and compensates fairly for it, and they have the option of working on an official side project _instead_ of their normal work, then I agree with your analysis of the situation.

If the person's job does not normally include nights and weekends, and they are compensated based on that, and adding the official side project to their work adds this time with no added benefit, then the company is being exploitative.

At the high level...

- if the side project can be done instead of your normal work, all good

- if the side project is done in addition to your normal work, with no additional compensation, then it's exploitative.
It's not unheard of, but it's pretty rare in the history of government finance. I believe this occurred in the French Revolution, wherein the monarchy's finances were in tatters. Ministers of finance took out multiple loans to keep up revenue and hide the clusterfuck of debts, but eventually something had to give...the French simply didn't pay a lot of their debts back due to national emergency and revolutionary upheaval (which came before/during/after this financial move).

How the French govt got so indebted was partially exorbitant spending (like helping the US in its revolutionary war vs Britain), but also that they taxed their nobility at 0%. They couldn't change the laws because of a labyrinthine legal system and a power structure packed with 0% paying nobles. This is an extreme version of what we have today, where many rich people avoid taxes and pay effectively lower rates than poor people.
Apple stock was essentially a flat line until about 2004. At which point, a random person who put in $10,000 would today have $4,000,000 had they held.
I'll admit that is an insane amount that I wasn't expecting, but something about those numbers just feels off. Like 10 drinks a day? Many people don't even drink that much water

Maybe we're getting a very different view of the US from the UK, but despite all of America's flaws and how weak the beer is, it seems so unexpected to me that 1/10 of people are opening a new drink every 90 minutes and somehow managing to hold down a job to be able to afford such a habit.
I agree GP's argument is a bit exaggerated, but this would be more akin to Apple announcing "we will no longer let you play music from XXX". IANAL but maybe there's grounds for a lawsuit on that.
If you perceive reward for villains as twice as important, villains will be more likely to obtain the rewarded. The non-abusers will be less likely to get that reward. End result is that villains will be the ones more likely to be selected in whatever competition you are at.
Thats where Case #1 comes in. This wouldn't be such an issue for them if it weren't for the 30%. I think you could make a separate argument about consumer transparency in this arena, but I don't know how much that'd hold water, much the same as Safari being the default browser isn't anyone's complaint in these antitrust hearings.
Duh for some reason I already thought it was on the market. Yeah as long as it's clearly stated I imagine its fine. I guess the 3080 and 3070 will become even more premium.
To make this less personal and more specific for someone not enlightened on the topic, please point out how I am incorrect, specifically, or at least provide a source or point to such a discussion that shows how I am incorrect.

I am not a professional programmer, but I get a lot of work done very productively in Python (or at least I thought I was being productive; in light of how you speak to me, it sounds like I'm actually not being as productive as I thought I was, rather I'm in some world believing fake insinuations that what I'm doing is being productive...).
> American assets can be repossessed abroad if a judgement is served - look at what happened to Argentina in NY.

Yeah, that happened to Argentina, who is not America. I'm saying if that's the consequence, which you seem to agree it is for nonpayment, then America is immune from that consequence. If someone tried that shit on a US Naval ship, they would be bombed out of existence.

Mind you, this is brutally unfair to the Global South. That's my point. Global capitalism just exploits countries to small too play the game like we do, and the countries that do play said game, do so largely with stolen wealth from those same exploited countries.

If America owes money but the mechanisms to enforce that don't exist, then why do we owe it? We owe it exactly as long as we agree we owe it. And this is not to say America should just move on, this is to say the world should move on.

> Plus you want Americans to be free from money but everyone else use our currency at gunpoint?

Fuck no, I want no one to use money.
> His assertion the 70% of all drug users including alcohol and prescription users aren't addicted if anything seems extremely low to me. I'd say the vast majority of my friends drink alcohol and are more than likely on prescription drugs but I don't think any of them are addicts

> Which means that the other less common drugs must be a lot more addictive to bring the number down to 70%

I don't think your sample of friends is enough to support this kind of conclusion. n is small, there is likely selection bias at play, and you can't have perfect knowledge of what your friends do when you're not around. it's not uncommon for addicts to be able to keep it together for a few hours of socializing. I had a friend in college who would only have a single glass of wine when he was visiting family. for a while, they thought he was very responsible or just not that interested in drinking. the reality was if he had more than one, he wouldn't be able to stop. back at school, he got plastered every day and eventually failed out and had to go to rehab. addicts can be very good at hiding things until they hit the tipping point where their life falls apart completely.
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A product performs worse at some stuff than it might have in a hypothetical reality, and it says so on the box. What should be illegal about this, and why?
I would never do it, but there's some convincing evidence (the experience of eunuchs) that castration evens out the male/female longevity difference.
> Who in the holy F are you to tell me what to do with my product?

It is the same with hardware video encode, RTX cards are locked up to 2x streams at maximum while they are in most cases capable of many, many more (i.e. Plex transcodes). Not that this is an issue though, since it's a driver lock with a working fix.
Opinions are my own, but it’s basically a worst version of agile (safe = scaled agile framework) that removes all autonomy from teams and gives upper management/leadership more power in making decisions at the team level.

If you never heard of Allen Holub look him up on YouTube/Twitter. He’s one of the same voices when it comes to agile frameworks.
> However their poor business decision of ultra-high pricing

I work in the display industry and what I know for sure is that they can't make big 20", 32", 42" displays. Something about factory production issues so they're literally like hand making the big displays which to me seems like the reason why they cost so much. So I'm suspicious of your claim. Could you let us know which ultra-high prices you're referring to? What panel size? What DPI? What bin range and contrast range? Do you actually work in the industry and have knowledge of costs and pricing?

> Perhaps Amazon had a hand in preventing wide adoption of epaper, in order to more effectively squash Kindle competitors?

I'm sorry to be harsh but you sound ridiculous when you say that. And now I'm pretty certain you don't have industry knowledge. You do realize that Amazon spent hundreds of millions trying to scale up Liquavista to produce fast colour displays for the Kindle. It failed because again physics of electrowetting is complex especially when you go from handmaking 100 demo displays to trying to produce 1000 on a rolling production line. Maybe a billion and maybe then they could have succeeded but I guess Jeff had other cost issues or personal reasons that ended that.
Never.

They've been "moving to proof of stake" for something like three years.

The miners are making money off of them not moving to proof of stake. The miners stop making money when they move to proof of stake. The only people who can actually allow the chain to move to proof of stake are the miners.

Meanwhile, xtz and ada have been proof of stake since their inception, 3+ years already for both.
I’m of the opinion people like to massively overpay for their Internet and speeds paid for are underused. I’m on 25Mbps at $40/month. I was on 75Mbps for a bit and I don’t notice the difference except if I’m downloading a 90 GB game or something. My ISP could probably give me 200Mbps and neither of us would notice. Still waiting on the killer app for fast Internet.

Surprisingly TMobile’s 5G on the iPhone 12 is giving my dad 60Mbps download and he’s on a cheap unlimited data plan so I’m wondering if that’s what is going to put more pressure on existing ISPs. 5G adoption has probably been kind of low so those speeds may not hold.
I don't get why startups have such horrible security practices so often. It's much harder when you have to improve a legacy application, but these guys started from scratch! Does it really take that much more time to at least follow basic security practices? Even if one wants "to move and break things fast" I don't see how it would take that much more effort...
You're assuming this person would be thinking rationally about a crime they'd like to commit, when it's often a very specific urge that overcomes their fear of consequences.
This is from the company that previously brought you 'No GeForce in data centers'.
The RTX 3060 hasn't released yet, so if the cards ship with this limitation, there aren't any old drivers to use.
The 2007 mortgage crisis had many causes, but much of it comes back to bad debt being issued to people who couldn’t afford it, then the debt was repackaged into instruments that deliberately obscured the risk with good debt ratings.

At the time, real estate investing felt like Bitcoin or GameStop today: Everywhere you turned, it felt like everyone else was getting hilariously rich by investing in it and anyone who wasn’t speculating in real estate was going to be left out. Dinner party and online forum conversation was all about how real estate prices could only go up and how we were going to be destroyed by inflation if we didn’t put all of our money into real estate, the real store of value.

The difference was that anyone could walk into a bank and get a huge mortgage without much scrutiny. As strange as it sounds, lenders would give you a mortgage based on “stated income” without verifying paystubs or even checking if you had a job.

I remember realizing the frenzy was out of control when an unemployed acquaintance suddenly moved into a large new house and was talking about building her real estate rental empire. If money was free and house prices only go up, the only way to lose was to not play, right?

As we all know, it turns out house prices can go down and debt really does have to be paid back.

Low interest rates alone won’t cause this cycle to repeat without similar Mia pricing of risk, but it certainly increases the probability of bubbles popping as quickly as they inflated.

FWIW, the finance world seems keenly aware of the bubble-like nature of our current situation this time around, contrary to what I saw during the 2008 era.
That you cannot imagine an approach doesn't mean an approach doesn't exist. It may be possible to form a generalized understanding of an individuals predisposition based on testing with other substances, just as one example.
In Germany, NVIDIA quotes 519 € as the starting price for the RTX 3070 series. Unfortunately, the cards are sold out almost everywhere and the few sites that accept back-orders list them for almost 1.000 € now, which is crazy. So Kudos to them for doing this, as the crypto craze seems to heat up there's no end in sight for miners buying up GPUs and NVIDIA risks angering a lot of regular people that weren't able to buy a new graphics card for almost 6 months now.

That said I'm not sure how effective this measure will be as in my understanding all that miners need to do in order to circumvent this throttling is avoid downloading the newest NVIDIA drivers (?). In addition, I'm sure miners will quickly come up with a crack that renders the throttling moot, so not sure if this will fix the supply side. Offering specific hardware to miners that doesn't compete with that for gamers seems to be a better solution, but again if NVIDIA isn't able to satisfy the demand for such hardware miners will keep buying regular GPUs and try to circumvent the software throttling.
Warren Buffett, the renowned investor, famously dismissed gold in a speech given at Harvard in 1998. He said: “It gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or some place. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.”

It sucks that gold is so desired just for its look. If it were cheaper it would be used a lot more for technological devices.

I can't wait until asteroid mining crashes the gold price and hopefully puts an end to the ecological disaster that is gold mining.
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> who lends $10 to his mom

Poor mom, who needs to lend $10 from her son :-)
This is like the textbook overconfidence that addicts have. They all think they have a complete understanding of their body and the chemicals they use.
> Wouldn't the easy money grab be to just set MSRP for all cards way higher

But then how do they capture the "just gamers"? They would have to additionally sell a neutered card just for them, and that is exactly what they are doing here
A popular scam was “slamming”. A “bad” phone company would use pressure tactics or lie and get people to sign up for ridiculous long distance plans... $5/minute or something like that.

The “loophole” on the consumer side was that of you lived with 5 roommates, you’d transfer the phone service every couple of months and then switch the long distance plans with a legit company like AT&T, Sprint, etc.

There was a period of time in the 90s where you would get a check or credit for switching... as much as $200-300! Long distance costs were in free fall and telcos were swimming in cash, so they decided to buy market share.
E-Readers are single-purpose device. EInk are a screen technology. Comparison to phones only make sense if it was possible to purchase tablets, phones, laptops, monitors with eink screens. There exist some tablets (e.g. remarkable), but they are pretty expensive.
I remember that argument being made 2 years ago during the last mining craze.

Given the existing investment in Ethereum HW, it almost seems like it’s just a carrot to deflect criticism about power consumption, but not something that will actually happen.
Crime is down because lead was eliminated from automobile fuel.

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