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> I mean that no one gets to decide what is a need or a want.

If you mean that, for example, no one can "decide" that they don't need food, yes, I agree. But that sense of "need" is irrelevant to the question of how food gets allocated to people, which was the original subject of this subthread. The fact that food is a need, not a want, does not mean a free market in food is not possible or that it does not allocate food better than regulation would. Many countries over the course of human history have run the experiment of having a central authority regulate food allocation instead of letting a free market do it. All of those experiments failed--they resulted in famine, mass starvation and death.

Some people confuse a free market in food with subsidizing food purchases for the poor, as, for example, food stamps do in the US. They're not the same thing. People on food stamps effectively get a certain amount of money each month that they can spend on food. It's true that "food" is, strictly speaking, a regulation of a sort, since, for example, gas stations or car repair shops or drugstores don't accept food stamps, so they're not exactly equivalent to money. But it still leaves a very wide scope for free choice; people on food stamps are purchasing food in a free market, even though their purchases are being subsidized by the government. They are able to choose what items they buy at the grocery store and thereby are sending price signals into the market about their preferences, just like everyone else.
This is wild and ridiculous and I am genuinely excited to try it in a project.
What if the central database gets hacked? What if someone does a double-spend? What if the person in charge of the central database decides to redistribute everyone's money or decides to revalue it? What if a transaction fails or someone makes a mistake? How do we know we can trust the owner of said database? What if the central database gets wiped or corrupted?

These are some of the problems with centralization that decentralization solves. The original Satoshi white paper calls out many of these use cases. Part of the reason bitcoin is exploding in value again is because the US government is inflating everyone's money.

This is before even getting into applications of smart contracts...

Congratulations on your successful investment (that's not something I would recommend publicizing though)...
Re fireplace - check out a ventless system. They can change existing burner and logs with ventless which gives you lots of heat that a vented system won't. Can get a decent one for 600-1200 bucks.
A tongue-in-cheek observation: Over the past 2 years, NVDA is up 290% but BTC is up 1160%.
Going to need you to walk me through that calculation you came up with.
I really don't blame the author, here. It's uncanny how many negative experiences I've had with Stack Overflow. There are occasionally posts where I notice they have this heavy-handed brand of authoritarian moderation and adversarial approach to problem-solving that I find really frustrating. I've since stopped using it. I generally find more value in first-party documentation, the source, and GitHub issues, anyway.
Just an FYI, you seem to have a strong bias and it's coming through. Sometimes a duck is just a duck.
Yes, the role of bitcoin has been gradually changing from "revolutionary" to mundane financial asset class with a novel method of purchasing it.
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm opposed to. I know the in-line environment variable syntax, and I actually use it, but somehow I feel uneasy whenever I need to do that. Possibly related to my own aesthetic preference, I don't know. I just like "bolted-on" flags more.
Nice strawman. I'm just saying, science doesn't tell you what policies you should make, ever. That's not what it is about. There are a few countries who "believed in science" and believing "things should be as nature is", that didn't end very well.
Viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2 have been circulating for decades
How would you suggest hedging against the death of fiat currency without buying a non fiat currency?
Mexico is smart though because they have LNG import terminals. There is an incoming LNG carrier coming in less than 24 hours which will restore their power.
There's many stories on why Bitcoin should have value. Most of them don't make sense. Nevertheless, Bitcoin clearly is valuable, despite being used by few.

Of course people have trouble pricing Bitcoin, but the same is true for many other assets. If literally the only use for Bitcoin would be to speculate on all the cryptocurrencies, that would be enough to make it valuable.
I've fallen into the same trap with sites before. Discovering that your arcane knowledge is useful to others is fun and you enjoy helping random strangers with their questions. It seems like you are contributing to a public benefit and you are happy to continue giving away your time because it's helping people. But ultimately you are giving away your time so some 3rd party can make money off of your effort. But you're ok with this as it's still a pubic benefit right? But this company is in control of the "public benefit" and as they are doing this to make money, eventually you will find yourself running afoul of their rules because your goal is to help people, not to make the company money. Then you discover that your posts are not just getting deleted, they are getting moved to the a private part of the site for paying customers to see. Nope.

So once you've found that you're coloring outside the lines too much or getting used in secret you start to author your own articles hosted on your own site. No reason to give away your IP, it's the best of both worlds as users trapped in the corporate portal get access to your insight and your IP stays your property. Then you discover that your sites URL (and others) are getting search-n-replace null-routed. Nope.

The only way to ensure you have the freedom to fully help people is to setup a quick site, CMS, forums, etc. And before you know it you're hosting a few sites for various reasons which get a small amount of traffic. But hey you're free of the man and that's not nothing. Time goes by and you have less and less time to help your small flock of users. Eventually your sites are taken over by spam bots and they all get de-platformed by google to reduce the spread of the new malware your sites are hosting. Some day you take the sites down, usually just as your trim down your neckbeard.

Helping people is fun, but all things must happen in moderation. There's nothing wrong with spending a few hours helping an internet stranger once in a while, but you need to avoid making it your main free-time activity for this exact reason. If you're doing it through someone else's site then you are generating revenue for someone. I don't work for free, and neither should you. Most of us have a shit ton of other projects always on the back-burner, go work on one of those instead.
Companies involved in bad faith dealing often have this kind of NewSpeak.
Not for batteries since a battery that can deliver 17 GW for an hour is much smaller than one that can deliver 17 GW for a week. Usually grid connections are measured in power since you could use it at 100% indefinitely - not so with a battery , so hours matter.
I meant not very smart, but narcissistic and populist. Trump is also quite a psychopath, but he held a lot of power, we won't know if AOC would be like that or not until she has that kind of power (like a billionaire or president) exhibit A for narcissism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uTH0iprVQ
Has there been any research on how to prevent what you might call the “volunteer-power-hunger” that occurs in communities where there’s emphasis on community moderation?

It would be interesting to get an economist’s take on how to improve these sites.

In particular I’ve found it strange that the karma community on various sites doesn’t “charge” you to do more things. For example on this site it would make sense if it costed you karma to up vote and downvote - this would create an emphasis to not spend too much so to speak.
> Python has a great type checker. Several, actually. They're not compile time, because Python doesn't exactly have a compile time.

Python does exactly have a compiler time, since it actually compiles things.

The typecheckers are run before that (but I think that's usually true of “compile time” checkers, too, they just don't break between checking and compilation; the analysis I would imagine almost invariably comes before actually generating compiled code; especially for languages where, unlike Python, typing effects what code gets generated rather than only whether the typechecker passes or fails.)
Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic'
> physical CPUs do use registers

This. Imagine you didn't have to transform a program
into a thousand permutations to execute on 1D registers. Imagine
just loading the program into 2D/3D registers and having it
compute the result in a single cycle.

AFAIK no one has ever built these higher dimensional registers before
(done some searching, asked Vinod once, and a number of other cpu folks
but no one gets it), but I'm very confident (10%) they will work and be
better than quantum, but I don't have the money to fire at a rocket pace
so this will take time. I've pitched it to DARPA, and do expect them at some point to take it up.

> I searched for this proof

Sorry, I thought I made a latex version of this somewhere. I found
some old notes that I uploaded:

https://github.com/treenotation/research/blob/master/lisp/re...

> Or even better, is there a sample code which demonstrates the advantages
> of isomorphism?

One of the more recent ones that starts to hint at the benefits of a 2-D
syntax and the isomorphism is this video: ("If Spreadsheets and Programming
Languages had a baby")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn2aJA5ANUc
It's difficult for email not to suck. And in recent years it's been made worse by webmail which I steadfastly refuse to use. Like the author I use K9 on Android. I use Thunderbird on the PC.

I dislike both K9 and Thunderbird but they're the best of a horrible lot. Thunderbird is diabolically bad in many ways, it is slow, buggy, unintuitive and cannot be easily tailored to my needs. I use about a dozen add-ons and plugins just to get it serviceable.

(I use plugins just to add the missing bits that Mozilla forgot to include, not add fancy stuff. Moreover, the ergonomics of programs like Thunderbird are so bad that I can only conclude its programmers either never use the program thus don't know how bad it is, or they're completely disinterested - it's just a job. Thunderbird, has to be one of the quintessential examples of this. Oh, and I forgot, Thunderbird's editor also sucks big-time.)

Before Thunderbird, I used Eudora and it was by far the best of a bad lot. Trouble was Qualcomm was more interested in other things than Eudora and killed it off.

The problems with email really began when Microsoft made its Outlook Express free in Windows. This killed off the incentive of the developers of the paid-for products such as Eudora, so email never really developed past a certain point.

Similarly, email protocols are decades out of date but there seems little interest in revising them, unfortunately.

As for sending/using email, I've almost stopped using it altogether it now sucks so much. I don't use Google products because of their spyware, likewise I no longer reply to or send email to people who hold Google Gmail accounts as Google violates my privacy even in this way.

Moreover, if I send an email to party A and then to party B Google can then link A and B through me even though A or B may not want to have been linked this way. As I see it, it is not my peroggerative to violate either party's privacy without their permission.

As so many are forced to use Gmail, it narrows the options to who I can communicate with by email.

My solution is to just use other methods. A Google-free telephone for instance, so that normally means one's limited to communicating with people who've only old-fashioned POTS phone numbers.

(P.S.: It's also high time governments reclaimed our telephone services back from the interloping carpetbaggers such as Google who stole it from us. We could then get our telephone privacy back to the way that we took for granted 20 or more years ago.)
Telix was my DOS terminal program of choice, and still is when I'm using a retro computer. Lots of features, good zmodem running.
i think it is called "cult of personality", "great man theory" or "hero worship"

and it is probably related to medieval kings and queens, religious prophets and why some monkeys are more equal than others.
My guess, noting that I am not a doctor or medically trained, merely have a BSc Biology.

The study has only been done on rats, which are a good model species but not perfect. The next logical step would be investigating pigs perhaps.

The mechanism of heart damage here is probably that the process for maintaining cardiac tissue requires material that is not available on a ketogenic diet, thus unmaintained cardiac tissue is replaced with scar tissue (mostly collagen)

The problem with scar tissue in the heart is that it doesn't contribute to fibrilation/pumping blood.

Article mentions nothing about intermittent fasting.

Again, just guessing.
Dudes and dudettes let me tell you about this sweet technology called Oracle Forms.
But if it's off chain, why use Bitcoin at all?

If you never actually use the blockchain, then you don't really know if those BTC you 'bought' even exist.
> How would you suggest hedging against the death of fiat currency without buying a non fiat currency?

We’re aware there are non-U.S. dollar currencies out there? And non-currency assets one can buy?
Ask HN: Why should we learn Lisp?
What did you achieve by learning Lisp? What insight about programming/life did you get out of Lisp?
What's wrong with him being a Tory? And he is not responsible for what his brother or sister is doing.
This is the sick American University style social justice he is fighting against and more power to him, things are changing in the EU also because liberal or conservative, everyone's sick and tired of it.
Most comments here are asking guarantees from type checkers that actually belong to semantic analysis and static analysis in general but not necessarily related to type checking.
Definition of snarky: critical or mocking in an indirect or sarcastic way.

What you said. The 3rd sentence in particular: I guess when enough people say something it becomes a "fact"

So that was just simply asking a question? No mocking or sarcasm? Without the last sentence you would have just been asking a question. With it, you are being snarky.
I guess that’s true. But the alarm on our septic starts screaming after about six hours of a trickling toilet. The alarm is pretty much there for that specific condition and the installer really hammered on the need to fix a leaking toilet
Immediately. I guess in the grand scheme of things a new grinder pump and a visit from the honey wagon are cheaper than a condemned house, though...
Today, most operating systems accept programs expressed in an unsafe and opaque programming language (such as x86 machine code) so they're stuck using low-level, hardware-supported features to recover a modicum of safety.

However, this isn't a necessary design. An operating system could instead accept programs in a 'safe' higher-level language. The OS would include a trusted compiler. Then safety can be achieved by construction instead of by hardware support.

Compiled binaries could be cached so we don't need to recompile every time. It is also feasible to configure the OS to use a trusted remote cache, i.e. fetch signed binaries specific to hardware architecture based on a secure hash of the program and a set of parameters.

Existing programming languages would simply treat the OS's chosen language as yet another compilation target.

This approach has a lot of potential for performance because a lot of indirection can be avoided, and even inter-process communication can potentially be reduced to objects talking. However, I've only seen a few aborted attempts. I think the biggest problem is the huge heaping amount of work required just to get back to where we are today.
The challenge for Tesla and Elon is that I don't see the exit strategy? If Elon sells off his Tesla shares in any sizable quantity, it seems the stock would drop massively. If Elon steps down his involvement or passed away, same thing. So it seems it needs to keep on the show until Tesla can actually sustain its value somehow through normal business operations.
Similar to gasoline?

1.9 kWh per liter (6.84 megajoules): https://www.zess.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ikts/zess/documen...

Gasoline energy density per liter, 34.2 mega joules: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

6.84 mj compares to 34.2 mj? Look, I want fossil fuels gone as the next cat. Overhype and lying through your rotten teeth doesn't help. Just adds fuel to big oil's rhetoric.

Closing the gap to gasoline's energy density? Absolutely and awesome. Similar... no. I just want alt energy to be honest and level headed. That way no one can take things out of context. That's all.
Let's give engineers more credit, here. The majority of desktop applications have the same capabilities, including writing all over your filesystem and executing code from remote sources. Electron gives those same capabilities to apps written in JavaScript.
I know you don't control who upvotes your comment, but I find it funny this is the top rated comment.

It has become a total HN cliché that the top comment is a negative takedown of the tech or startup in question. From Dropbox, to Coinbase, to Ethereum, and now to Bitcoin at 50k.

Not refuting anything you're saying here. Just find it amusing to have seen this pattern play out so many times here on HN.
I think most would rather pay an e.g. +10% premium for the plants to handle more extreme conditions once a decade than think about what has to be plugged in all day every day.
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Yep, that's fair. I use fzf along with z. I use z usually to switch projects (and I work in Go, so many are in GOPATH and annoying to CD to manually) but I use fzf both inside and outside of vim to open individual files.
Texas style capitalism.
No, you're reading it wrong.

It's so ordinary, it's extra ordinary! :D
> In soviet russia SUSTANTIVE VERBs YOU!

This joke form is apparently as old as 1938: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Soviet_Russia
Visa can't replace Bitcoin because Visa has to obey US and international laws
That's a different can of worms. They might claim their search results are good because they moderate a lot to remove noise, and maybe that's true, but it's this weird moderation that discourages good answers, and I think there are better ways of doing SEO so that you can have your cake and eat it too.

I mean, a guy who spent hours on every answer just left the site. That should give you a clue.
I dug through this dudes post history out of pure morbid curiosity and 9 months ago he claimed that COVID-19 was blown out of proportion because, and I quote, “there haven’t been millions of deaths.”

9 months later and there have been millions of deaths. So, take that how you will.
This is such a classic HN moment.

The post is about SO, the top comment is complaining that the moderation is too strict and draconian, and the second comment is this one complaining that the moderation isn't enough.

So is always walking a tightrope. Moderation of so much content and trying to make sure only the good stuff sticks is hard, and it burns people out having to deal with the same annoying low-effort things all the time, which leads to them being harsh when people make genuine errors.
Triggers for Prefetching, Prerendering, etc.
> I hope someone enjoyed this cold medicine fuled aside.

I very much did, thank you. I hadn't heard the term "repeal by implication" and now you've got my curiosity peaked and have a new wikipedia hole to go down.

FWIW, my argument is a loser. Never in a hundred years do I think it would win in court, and I think a new clear amendment will be necessary, but that's where I'd make my stand given the current laws. (I'm resigned to think this might not be a hypothetical b/c I can only espouse SciHub so many times before some angry bear comes after me—though luckily there are a lot braver souls out there peacefully doing a lot more than mme leaving forum comments). :)
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Does doing that "walk into shop and pay" thing mean you also have to do that old "talk face to face with another human being" thing? Good lord, what would you have us do next? Go to market to buy some fresh meat & veg and prepare an actual home cooked meal?? /s
I still sometimes find useful information on Stack Overlflow, but I, too, am done answering questions, commenting, or even upvoting correct answers for very similar reasons to the author of this blog post.
You probably didn't read the memo. It clearly stated non-bank financial institutions as well. This includes mobile money and other digital money forms which are under regulation by the central bank.

In any case, given this direction, it is clear the Nigerian government is intent on banning use of money to trade with Bitcoin.

My argument holds.
Its got momentum as a crypto, in theory it could update itself to whatever would start being more valuable if needed.

Also, I don't know if all investment need to make sense based on economic fundamentals, bitcoin makes sense at a psychological level why it is a good investment for now, as more and more people slowly decide they need to dip their toes in it as well.
All currencies are volatile against other currencies.

Volatility of currency goes away (or rather, gets abstracted) within the context of locales where that currency is used as a unit of account and goods and services are directly priced in it. So far, this hasn't happened yet for bitcoin, because there is no central authority forcing it upon people.

Nobody knows if, when, where, or how this unit of account transition will happen. Maybe Tesla prices the new roadster or cybertruck in bitcoin as a publicity stunt that starts a cascade. Maybe some country with a failing currency decides to issue a new currency backed with bitcoin, or their people start using it without permission and pricing emerges organically. Maybe Iran, Turkey, Venezuela, North Korea, Syria, and Cuba start using it as their currency for international trade.

Or maybe it never will become a unit of account, and bitcoin will just find a role as an inflation hedge and long term store of value like gold, which is currently 10x as valuable as bitcoin.
This is fascinating. Do you have a link with more info?
Golang is OOP, regardless of what some people may claim. It's just missing inheritance, which golang's implementation of composition mimics it close enough.
I ended up paring down my diet to almost nothing but chicken and honey for a while, then slowly adding things back. I had the most problems with grains. Since I've been diagnosed with celiac, which is in my family, I still have to stay strictly gluten-free. To my knowledge, it's not reversible. definitely could be related to nutrient malabsorption, which is common with celiac.

Following the hospitalization, I got liquid electrolytes and added them to water, along with potassium citrate. That seem to help a lot. When I was hospitalized with diabetic ketoacidosis a year or two later, the ICU had a lot of problems getting my electrolytes back into balance.
> The sentiment in Python has been trending toward using "classes" (either with dataclass or attrs [1]) as essentially namespaced logicless containers, and away from dicts (or TypedDicts [2]) and namedtuples/NamedTuples [3]) for that purpose.

But...TypedDicts and NamedTuples are classes (that is, the thing returned from those callable is a class and can be subclassed or have methods added just like any other class), so it's kind of odd to say you are using classes instead of...classes.