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Monero. Its designed to be far less tracable than BTC and many exchanges exist online that trade XMR for BTC. I am surprised BTC still has this large presence in the blackmarket.
I don't think this is a great way to post stories. It is really hard to read.
Can you give an example of some of the services you are using where you are seeing these problems?

Perhaps you shouldn't be purchasing a 12 month advanced contract, instead of going month to month which would solve many of your issues.

Or perhaps you don't need all the shiny-newness of every new services?

Maybe your business is different than ours, (or any business I've worked at in the past), but from my experience, we pick a tool - MailChimp for example. Does it have every feature of every other mail service? No. Does it do 90% of what we need? Yes. What about the other 10%? Well, does some feature that MailChimp doesn't have provide a significant improvement to our business? If so, then you need to have it. Do you build it yourself? Find another supplier? Or, more likely, it doesn't have a HUGE impact, and you can figure out how to make things work.

I'd be curious to understand what is so unique about how your business is using these services that you are experiencing this problem.

Or, are you looking for a problem to solve and this is how you posed the question?
I've tried multiple times, including contacting the corporate branch of the automaker and talking to multiple dealers, scouring the forums, and everything else in an attempt to disconnect my car from their online services (in theory, depending on the automaker, the hackers can completely brick your car).

My car isn't from Kia, but this is not unique to Kia. I eventually personally found the microcontroller and shorted the modem myself, after doing extensive work to figure out how to do it without breaking anything else.
The day I stop static linking is the day I can compile on one distro and ship to many without worrying about users reporting loader errors. That day is not today.

Maybe do the trendy thing and link your whole distro together with your app (a.k.a containers)?
> Neither will redux (it's already pointless) and all the convoluted bullshit like redux-saga.

I can’t speak to your own use case, but redux and saga absolutely save our bacon when working on a huge enterprise app.

I don’t even want to think about the crazy kinds of stuff we’d have to do without them.

Maybe someone will come up with a better abstraction, but I really think these are fairly good ones.
>just email the admins

If this were any other website, it'd be decried as a dark pattern
Don't you have to if you use cloudflare to protect your domain?
robotic manipulation in unstructured spaces is probably not so hard anymore. when it comes to hardware, the hardware has often been the problem and very flaky, I believe we are at a stage where the software is ready and waiting for the hardware to catch up.
Gold can be used to make jewelry which is a big cultural thing in most of the Old World. It's still "ooh shiny" but it has value in being a tangible "shiny" good used to keep up appearances and show status.

I don't know how you can show status with Bitcoin though. Maybe show your server farm or something.
>I'd say they're bad investors.

No argument from me there.
Yes! That's precisely how I got on to them too... I can't listen to music with vocals while programming. I like various sub genres of electronic music, but even a lot of pure electronic music is a little too jarring sometimes (some is not of course). But, without spending too much time curating, movie scores are almost always a safe choice.
XMR has too little plausible deniability at the onramp and offramp, and is getting delisted from exchanges. Like any money laundering business the process relies on plausible deniability. Think Los Pollos Hermanos.

Monero markets itself to criminals. Bitcoin to speculators and ancaps. You can hide your BTC gains by saying you made some leveraged trades in Malta. You can’t hide your Monero gains. Ironically it’s what makes it better at its job that makes it less useful.

You really want to toe the line.
One problem with Singularity is that you either A) have to be first, or B) have to contend with other beings at least as intelligent as you are.

How can you be sure you're first?
How is this different than using the window manager in Linux?
This paragraph in that article is an incomplete sentence that ends hanging. Any idea what it intended to say?

> “Monster” is a term introduced in [Lakatos 1976] for a mathematical construct that introduces inconsistencies and paradoxes. Since the very beginning, monsters have been endemic in foundations. They can lurk long undiscovered. For example, that "theorems are provably computational enumerable" [Euclid approximately 300 BC] is a monster was only discovered after millennia when [Church 1934] used it to identify fundamental
A significant part of the cost issues come with how the market is structured. If consumers can buy power on a hourly basis, nuclear plants can not be more expensive than gas/coal (and even with some carbon tax, this is not going to be sky high prices), and can not make a profit during abundant renewable availability, because renewables drive prices close to zero.

If you structured markets by selling kW rather than kWh, renewables would have to bear the cost of low wind/sun availability, either by building storage or by pairing with fossil power producers. This would price the stability of production, which is simply not priced today.
Afaik, nuclear energy is more expensive only because it is regulated far beyond what any other form of energy for the same level of risk.

Disposal of nuclear waste is a huge expense, but the main waste product generated by natural gas (CO2) gets away scot free despite literally being the cause of what might be our generation's biggest problem.

The end-of-life expenses of nuclear plants are included in the cost sheets, but dams get away scot free.

Material procurement is justifiably expensive, since security measures for handling nuke-fuel are far more stringent. But, that is more a virtue of global politics than the actual cost of nuclear energy.

Another cold-start problem is that the USA does not have the same experience with frequently building nuclear plants, vs say a country like France has. Thus, any new contractor spends extra money to be the first to wade through bureaucratic / training related challenges that would otherwise have been resolved if building nuclear plants was more common place.

Just saying, the numbers for energy source comparison aren't always as fair as they look.

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> Attaching four hours of storage to a solar generation farm, just enough to get through the duck curve, is now slightly cheaper than coal.

Wow, I didn't know we were that close to dealing with the storage/temporal variability problem. If we can solve that problem with money to spare, then I can see the adoption of solar + wind going up through the roof.
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I'd disagree that the problem of large organizations are different from the problems of the FOSS ecosystem. Organizations just have a financial incentive to fix them, the FOSS ecosystem does not. If mutually incompatible dependencies and security updates breaking software weren't problems for both corporate and FOSS ecoystems, these new technologies wouldn't have needed to exist. They'd just use the existing platforms.

And mind you, this is not a corporate/open source split. The burgeoning ecosystems are also full of FOSS technologies doing new and exciting things, they just don't break when a dependency updates!

>Anything I install with a package manager just works, 100% of the time

I run into issues with packages weekly. So much so I've spent engineer days purging references to system packages. It's universal too - yum, apt, pacman, brew, macports, I have to make sure nothing tries to reference packages installed outside a local working directory for an application because of mutual incompatibilities. Maybe it's because I'm trying to write software that runs on multiple targets and not use software where someone else has already spent the time and money to resolve these issues.

> I know you know this, but just to be clear, that's not a solution to the problem of "making things easier for maintainers to distribute", that's cutting maintainers out of the loop. The whole point of my focus on ecosystems is that this is something that I, as a user, don't want to happen.

They should be cut out of the loop. Maintainers don't have a right to dictate what design decisions I put into my applications because they don't think it adds value (the value is, it doesn't just run on their distro!). Another comment in this thread put it better, maintainers shouldn't place themselves in the development process.
This is not sufficient. Wind doesn't have to not increase at all, it just has to be down somewhat, or be too high.
Internet anonymity won't last forever. When it proves impossible to prevent escalating economic damage, the pressure to identify culprits and hold them criminally responsible will prove inexorable.
Luckily we already have a working fusion reactor. It's 92M miles away, but it's a big one. All that is required are some solar panels and wind turbines to harness its power.
Ask HN: How much money has been invested *into* Bitcoin, in total?
Need help thinking this through. I can google answers for market cap, but that’s not what I want. I want to know how many $$ have actually been put into the asset, in order to know how much liquidity is there if people try to sell.

I totalled number of bitcoins mined each year, and average price each year. I assumed each coin was sold in the year it was mined, at the average price.

Result, lifetime inflows into Bitcoin of $21 billion.

How reasonable are my assumptions? Are there better approximating methods? Clearly not every miner sold, making my estimate too high. Or some may have waited to sell into the boom, making my estimate too low.

I’m counting the inflow as the first sale of a coin, as that is when it moved onto the market and became a traded commodity. That represents capital flowing into the bitcoin ecosystem.

I am asking this in light of Tether and Defi. Tether printed about $30 billion tokens in the past year, falsely claiming they are backed by dollars. If my numbers are right, this fraudulent $30 billion inflow dwarfs the lifetime inflow of hard currency into bitcoin.

Similarly, in the past six months Defi has exploded from almost nothing to having $40 billion in loans denominated in crypto, with crypto as collateral. This total also dwarfs hard currency investments.

Centralized crypto finance has seen similar growth. From nothing two years ago, now likely over $40 billion in loans. Both Cefi and Defi pay 8-12% interest on deposits, which is a higher interest rate than junk bonds pay.

So:

1. Are my estimates back of the envelope plausible?

2. Am I right in thinking that is it extremely worrisome that hard currency investments into bitcoin are 5x smaller than fraud and crypto debt inflows? And that the bulk of the latter happened in the past year?

I worry there is a Lehman like situation brewing where the assets everyone treats as valuable for collateral are worth much much less and could collapse at once.
It's also much easier to die in 15+ years old car.
You are vastly overstating the mineral requirements.

Wind power can share land with other uses.

There is a staggering amount of land out there that's not suitable for even grazing but will support utility scale solar.
> Cost is the impediment to nuclear, not any sort of safety concerns.

Safety systems and regulations greatly inflate costs. Any reasonable, safe measures that can be taken to reduce them will make nuclear more profitable.

A good example of this is small modular reactors. Current nuclear plants need to be approved by regulators on a case by case basis. Nuscale, a SMR company, is the first to get their module design signed off by the nuclear regulatory commission. This means that they can build them at volume and skip most of the red tape.

Analysts expect Nuscale's systems to be 1/4 to 1/3 cheaper than current nuclear plants. Imagine the price reduction of a SMR with half the complexity.
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I agree, so are terrorists - more power to them, right!
Platforms do protect themselves from being affected by these practices, but that can only go so far. It's an arms race between attackers and defenders that will never end because at the end of the day, the sites need to be easily available to the majority of end users.
> The two main characters, Vashti and her son Kuno, live on opposite sides of the world. Vashti is content with her life, which, like most inhabitants of the world, she spends producing and endlessly discussing secondhand 'ideas'.

Woah. I'm literally doing that right now...

> Those who do not accept the deity of the Machine are viewed as 'unmechanical' and threatened with Homelessness.

What!? This is insane. Thanks for sharing.
I think your product is a great idea, good luck! Only feedback, as others have said, the frame isn't quite my style, maybe a non-wood or a thinner frame would be nice. And personally I'd like to have the option to not have Saturday and Sunday on there (since I'm imagining using this at my work desk) and the font size maybe a little bigger/bolder for legibility.
They're obviously not, but they're the ones that package managers can help mitigate automatically. The rest is going to be up to the developers to patch.
It definitely depends on what you are building and what you are trying to validate. I use this sort of board to do product validation with early customers. It’s much easier than producing the full DFMed board, and sometimes it’s much faster & reliable than something soldered together. For reference, on my Thermostat project the green hand wired project board took probably 2 hours to assemble, the PCB motherboard takes about 10 minutes.

It’s also great for producing a couple boards when working with other engineers, I can more easily guarantee that we are working with the same hardware setup because all of the connections are made on PCB.
So, is that like 1 bitcoin now?
One of the main reasons why optics obeys the 2nd law of thermodynamics is because as the temperature of the earth approaches that of the sun, the earth starts emitting radiation approaching the same intensity, and the net influx of energy goes down towards zero.

That temperature should still be enough to make a fair dent though.
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As we noted previously, it means that many Kia owners may be unable to remotely unlock their vehicles or warm them up during an especially nasty winter storm hitting much of the country this week.

Cars had remote unlock and start decades ago (if not OEM, then aftermarket systems were and still are widely available), with zero dependence on what appears to be the company's servers. The only advantage I can fathom for being able to unlock and start a car over the Internet instead of only by being within radio range seems more oriented towards attackers and other user-hostile scenarios ("your car has now become a subscription, please pay to unlock it"). Have we gone backwards...?
> Oh, DNS is full of these kinds of “not in a RFC but needed to resolve names” corner cases.

What? It's in RFC 1035, and that's noted in the article. There is lots of corner cases in the DNS. This is not one.
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I agree. I think the difference has been that until recently "the land of CI/CD" and so on has been certain segments of the corporate world, and not how typical open source developers did things*. So when the former developed new technologies and new languages, they created build tools for them that anticipated being used in the ways that they usually produce software.

The "problem", in the sense that it's a problem, is that these languages and related technologies are all pretty good! And so it's understandable that many developers who would traditionally be in the open source ecosystem want to use them. As a result they end up creating software that can't easily be shipped in traditional distributions. Ecosystem fragmentation is the unavoidable result.

* By typical open source developers, I mean the sort of developers (and their development practices) that produced most of the software on my computer. I don't mean Firefox: Mozilla and Google have much more standard corporate development practices despite both producing quite a bit of open source software.
Nuclear reactors never completely turn off. They have generators that can supply the necessary power to run baseline systems and to restart them at any time.
> for instance if you decrease unit cost

That doesn't diminish the hashing power of the equipment you already bought though (and the topic was obsolete equipment).

> so a relatively small improvement in hashes / watt makes a big difference to overall profitability

Yeah, that's a fair point.

> I just get sceptical if someone says this is as good as it is going to get

And I'm skeptical if people blindly extrapolate past trends, assuming that they will continue to hold. I wasn't saying that it won't get better from here on out, just that the extreme growth that was mostly fueled by quickly going through the existing nm process steps can't be sustained, and that from now on it will follow the same slowish pace as all chip miniaturization.
The capability of performing a 51% attack and sustaining a 51% attack are very different. Performing a 51% attack by mining a single gets you nowhere (at most you can revert some transactions, that block will eventually be orphaned).

Today i believe, most usage of Bitcoin is for legitimate purposes. There is always lots of illegal use cases for anything with value, if it has value, people will do illegal s** to get it and will use as payment. Human nature.

The energy used since the inception of the network is what makes the network valuable.
Think of it this way: to create a cryptocurrency you need some "value" attached to it, Bitcoin does this by converting energy->work->bitcoin, you add "value" to the network in the form of energy and get bitcoin back (you get your "value" back in the form of money when you sell the mined BTC). Ethereum took a different approach (token sale + PoW) and now are moving to PoS.

Pure PoW seems the only way to launch a completely anonymous and decentralized crypto
Honest question, is it a big deal not being able to start your car remotely?
Blockchain analysis makes it extremely difficult to hide bitcoin. Not only that, but bitcoin in general can be blacklisted/tainted.
If you do sprints, schedule a 15 minutes meeting at the end of the sprint called Sprint Review. That's when everyone is able to say what went good and what went bad.

It's a good time to have everyone's voice heard. We write it all down in succinct phrases and compare to previous sprint review.
That's not legally shady, that is just plain illegal

Now personally I dont pay attention or care about copyright infringement. I commit plenty myself and gave done so for decades. I also pay plenty on services and such for content

I'll continue to commit copyright infring and purchasing media. But I am not going to pretend it's just legally shady, it's illegal, I know it and just don't care
Perhaps, but animals do not seem to understand abstract concepts as well as us. This may be linked to language too. Without the ability to make analogies in their brain, no crocodile will figure out the worlds made of atoms or if you rub sticks really quickly they make fire.
The frame fit and finish is not adequate, hire someone who is able to cut and assemble frame miters that do not have gaps. Offer a three wood options, Maple (light) Oak (Medium) and Walnut (dark).
You feel that way, but its not a complete reality.

For more than half a decade many bitcoin invoices have actually been paid with Monero and we don't have a way to quantify that except to participate in forums where people talk about what they do. The merchants wouldn't even know if thats what happened.

For every XMR.to that shuts down, another has already risen and is just waiting for marketshare.

There are also trusted bridges between blockchains.

And people are still working on trustless bridges compatible with Monero, which will really unlock its value and make exchanges completely ignorable.

Ultimately the state will never accomplish its goal of strongarming the intermediary.
My six years of digital nomading experience says no. Hotels are set up for sleeping and showering, not for working. Some have nice business centers. I can’t recall any with standing desks or ergonomic chairs. In less developed countries where hotels/resorts cater to tourists (rather than business travelers) you can expect even less. Feel lucky if the wifi works.

Working while traveling is fun but you can’t expect to take your fancy work setup with you. I got used to sitting at cafes and bars and crappy hotel room desks with my laptop.
Perhaps the original article on bleeping computer would be better?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kia-motors-am...
Those doesn't look like facts at all but your opinions but feel free to prove otherwise.

Let's start with a simple one:

>solar and wind have huge land-use requirements compared to nuclear

Can you build nuclear in the oceans, safely, like offshore wind turbines? Or on hillsides and in desert hundreds of kilometres from the nearest town (and get people to work there without disrupting the local ecology with local housing etc.) using only land no one wants? Land is not something we have unlimited amounts of and in many places it is only better if it is somewhere else or smaller than what is there now.

Can we build a nuclear plant that is safe? Not according to you or a talking head but to the people who have to live close to it. If you won't you clearly don't believe in it your self so, would you rather live close beside its perimeters with your children in an earthquake, tsunami or hurricane compared to windmills?

>global warming is not the only environmental problem we are dealing with

No, one of the big ones is that the rich countries who have polluted for decades wants everyone to now live up to their rules today which is not going to happen. So before anything else all of us that live in the richest parts of the world have to pay for everyone who doesn't to get environmentally friendly electricity. The problem is global and the people who are being lifted out of poverty today have as much right to use old coal technicology today as we had 50 years ago unless we pay the difference in cost for them.

Will you help pay for electricity in places that need it more than you to save the planet? Because that is the biggest problem we need to solve - not if Sweden use nuclear or Texas upgrade its grid. Those are close to irrelevant unlike the costs of environmentally safe power plants in India, Africa, China, etc.
> Notably, according to the respective RFC 1035 the MX record must contain a domain name and may not directly point to an IP address.

Why?
> I don't really buy that dynamic linking all the things is such a boon to security.

Agreed. It's really not a panacea. When you upgrade a library, you probably want to restart the running applications that depend upon this. Dynamic linking won't save you.

The solution is having a graph of your dependencies! IIRC, NixOS gets this right. I don't think Debian's apt did?
That sounds like a good argument for using package managers with automatic security updates. The user doesn't need to be an expert, just reboot when the system tells them to.
Wonder how much it would cost to hire an engineer with required skills to solve this issue :) . Seems like demand is here...
> Am I missing something?

One of its main competitors hasn't exactly been up to Turbo Pascal levels with their own compiliation performance.