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>Billions have been poured in this technology for almost no actual return technologically wise.

This is just ignorance. There are plenty of projects out there that are building off each other, improving, and trying new things. Later in your post you mention several projects yet there you are claiming there is no new technology being done?

>It really seems like nobody actually care about advancing the state of art, except actual researcher who work in universities and not in crypto startups...

So researchers are doing research as opposed to startups. I am falling to see the problem with your statement. Yes, people intentionally trying to find new solutions to problems cryptocurrency offers will be the ones finding solutions.

>This is proven by btc being one of the most traded and valuable crypto even though it is one of the crypto with the less feature.

I am sure you can find plenty of companies that had better technology but are doing worse than their competitors whether it be because of bad marketing, first mover advantage / network effects, etc.

>And because crypto are seen as an investment, everybody is holding, and nobody is using it

Oh please. You can go to any block explore and see tons of transactions going on. People are using smart contracts all the time.

>And no, "stable coin" is not an answer since the only thing they have been used for is to trade between crypto...

This is short sighted. There is a desire for being able to know that your money isn't going to crash before you have to pay your bills. It will be easier to onboard people to using crypto if it is just using something like dollars. It also gets lid of problems like buying crypto to buy something then the price crashes and you can no longer afford what you wanted to bought. Or the opposite where you buy something and then the crypto doubles and you get mad for "overpaying."

>you get thousand of startup coming out of nowhere proposing new crypto that are literally clone of other crypto

So what? If you don't want to use a fork, then don't use it. This is how open source works. Anyone can take your code and create a company around it.

>Tell me, what is the difference between Polkadot and Kusama ? Or is there even a significant technological difference between Litecoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dogecoin, etc ?

How about you look up the differences yourself. Not everyone agrees with what design decisions get made so forks are created that are free to make different decisions.
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Over the past 10 years the btc and tor project have been doing wonderful with profits and clientele , I am not a fan abuse is up 1500% and well as and father of 4 girls and a son it concerns me you see research has shown that BtC is the main currency used on the tor project and well something about allow this violation of our children has gotten under my eyelids and well we create a team a platform and now a product to combat it head on. The violence and the trafficking of young children mainly from latin america that I can tell end up in asia and surround areas. 2010 13 17 and this here in march the cdc came out with the number 1500% above normal and that pissed me off. I started checking a little inside of facebook and other sites and the stuff the info they are sharing is harmful to us because they are letting the world know when we are at work or home and much more which is leaving the children at risk; a 13 year old boy came to see my son and told me about tor project and that some of his friend got into trouble because they got caught surfing it Now what the heck a 13 year wanted on i don't know But he told my wife and i about a few sites he was right, we spent the past year searching and just absolutely disgusted by what we found, They are monsters to allow this we aim to fight it so we started contacting victims of violence to start building our army to combat them through live entertainment and a social media platform ourselves that will protect children and women online not sale their info to the highest bidder we want to know how you feel about it. We have a great mix of team member from world series poker winner to some of the biggest consultants in the united states and Mexico our blockchain professional ended up going back with the team he was working with and we lost him we are in need of another you can find our wp on keybase under ohcheesy thanks sorry i hope this is allowed it to me is a problem that the world needs to know bout
This only works if the internal client doesn't take the savings as margin, _and_ the communication and project management is good enough to overcome the issues that come with outsourcing.

In this case you've now got 3 levels of project management (Canadian govt, IBM CA, IBM India), 2 countries, 2+ languages, and 2 layers of a company who are banned from government contracts in parts of the world for over spending and under delivering.
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The burden of proof is on the one who makes the claim. You made the claim, you have to provide proof. That is what "Citation please" says.
> To make a concrete example, imagine writing an application where requirements changed unpredictably every day, and where the scope of those changes is unbounded.

I don't have to imagine it, I'm employed in the software industry.

Seriously, nothing you describe sounds any different from normal software development.
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It works surprisingly well, however it quickly falls apart if nonstandard controls are introduced. If you have a custom control that does not behave at all like a standard control would, you'll quickly see its limits. It's OCR is also pretty good, but errors do still happen which make apps unusable. Don't get me wrong, it is actually amazing and works much better than I expected, but it's obviously no match for a proper implementation.
> Linux desktop isn’t dead because big companies and VCs are chasing ROI. Linux on the desktop is dead because most current Linux desktop developers don’t want or use software the same way as the average person. So they don’t build what the average person wants. So the average person doesn’t want to use it.

That's not necessarily a failure mode though. If Linux developers are producing the desktop they want to use then that's fine. They don't owe the "average" person anything, whoever that is.

(BTW, I don't think the situation is quite so dire. From experience, dropping non-technical users into a modern Ubuntu is not really all that hard. The fact that most custom software these days is web based makes that much easier)
aka "People used what we offered under the license we granted them and they're successful and I want more in return than I'm entitled to"
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Well, if you take facebook's bart-large, and ask it to label the tweet on categories such as conservative, progressive, etc., you get these scores:

critical 0.887
conservative 0.387
radical 0.325
progressive 0.003

If it can do that, it can generated a "biased" evaluation.
premature attribution is as much a fallacy and problem as ignoring risks that lead to a breach in the first place.
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It seems that the people who need it the most are least likely to gain utility from it.
There was a time when the clergy was Catholic, but might various "scientific experts" be filling that role today?
Intel should be scared of its own failures. Apple is merely a competitor that didn't fall asleep.
> In many labs the 'thinkers' get far more credit and are more valued than the 'doers'

In terms of software this never made much sense to me. I would understand if we where talking chemistry or some other discipline where a "new idea" has to be investigated/verified by some "lab-rat" doing mundane tasks for 2 years. In that case the lab-rat would probably get less credit than the person with the actual idea, but this just does not apply to software. Developers are not doing mundane tasks on behalf of some great thinker.
Not really. It means Bitcoin _currently_ scales negatively on market cap rather than transactions. Considering that bitcoin seems to be advertised primarily as a store of value and that there is little effort to push adoption for transactions, that is a very bad thing : it means that, in case of success, bitcoin performance per transaction will become worse.

In the long term, if transactions count doesn't rise fast, we will also see significant issues, either with transaction fees going to absurd amounts, effectively banning btc as a payment medium, or with the miner pool decreasing to counts where decentralization becomes inexistent.
Do yourself a favour and never watch the BBC Movie from the 80s called Threads about a nuclear war breaking out. Incredible movie but by far the most depressing thing I've ever watched. I felt down for days after watching it during college one time. Never been so effected by a movie. Quite a remarkable piece of work.
>> UX showing an in increasingingly long bar

I have driven car where the pictogram meant "amount of rain", the longer bar meaning more rain and therefore a shorter interval.
How anybody could treat Twitter as anything but a read-only medium is beyond me. Twitter technically has (even if programmed) editors and what you get to see is what editors did not whitelist, but what they did not blacklist. The latter is only an accommodation of its size. If they could, they would choose a whitelist model.
That means you are not able to interrupt your state machine easily, or to serialise its state. That might be OK in a lot of cases, but not all.
The Isle of Man has an interesting Viking history including monuments/ship burials as well as Viking artefacts and treasure including this one announced a few days ago:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/02/viking-treasure-hoard-...
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So a sufficiently compelling headline goes one step beyond intriguing your curiosity into clicking, it substitutes for the author's entire argument?

Amazing bit of self-justification you have there.

If you want to argue against what the author wrote, by all means. If you intend to argue against a straw man you have concocted out of a three word title, then you will seem a fool.
That seems like a complicated way to sell airplanes - why is that ???.

It is like me buying a car from Ford and saying I don't want the Ecoboost turbo 4 but rather that V8 from the Raptor.
I have a hard time lumping in swathes of people into these tiny slivers of beliefs. How is it not obvious that one side did a better job of demonizing the other? I'm pretty sure I can comment 'And would like to be able to eat babies' and I will be seeing it on similar posts as yours by tomorrow.

The media did one hell of a job this past election cycle, I wonder what batshitinsane things we will be allowed to talk about on the next one. I doubt much.

Now that we haved moved censorship officially online as well, I can only hope some wonderful people are busy building the next workaround medium.
A part of the tis that the standards committee decided to do a multi phase rollout. They created the core language parts and will hopefully in a future version add the library support making it easier to approach. (And then hopefully find that the design works with the library design ...)
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A counterpoint to developers who thinks writing readable code is primarily about having long descriptive variables names and functions.
One of the philosophical issues I have with a lot of IF--which I've actually discussed with the author of this game--is that I feel you should, at least in principle, be able to complete a run through in a game in one try rather than having to make essentially random trial and error choices. Unsurprisingly, he didn't really agree. (Which there are a lot of in Hitchhiker's. Although I didn't really complete that many Infocom games in general.)
I hope you're right as I much prefer ruby syntax too!

I just think that maybe rubyists overstate the attractions of the 'programmer friendly' nature of ruby a bit as outside of rails it's lost out vs Python for example. And Rails is popular because of the web app DSL that it provides (and so relies on Ruby Metaprogramming which crystal doesn't have).
Threads makes The Day After look like a Disney Movie. It’s much more disturbing.
I've read some detailed discussions from people in the industry explaining how blockchains don't help. And I've read some very high level, breezy assertions from people outside the industry asserting that blockchains can help (although they never spell out how, exactly).

As far as I can tell:

1. There's a pretty big issue with containers having the wrong contents (eg, counterfeit items loaded initially, or contraband added during transit). Current solutions are focused around physical security, seals, locks, etc., but it's fairly easy to bypass and forge these physical measures.

2. There's no real issue with tracking containers. We don't always know what's actually in them, but we know really well where they are and what's meant to be in them.

3. There's some efforts to try and replace the electronic systems for tracking where they are and what should be in them with blockchains. But as above, that's the bit that's currently working fine.

Not needing to trust middlemen is a good goal, I just don't see how tracking containers on blockchains reduces my need to trust middlemen. When Customs seizes the container at the border and finds someone has added 100kg of cocaine to the container, how does the blockchain prove who jimmied the lock open and then replaced the tamper seals?
Micropayments to prevent spam has been attempted a number of times in the past and it has never really worked.
In my world, it does sound different, I work with HIPAA data that takes months to get access to. So sharing your code is borderline unacceptable to some orgs, even if it itself doesn't have any privacy data, there's a mass paranoia that you'll accidentally leak patient data, which can lead to fines of 2 million USD.
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Or his wife told hom she's divorcing him that morning and he flies you into a mountain.

Flying is terrifying.
What makes them reusable is dependent on how you implement them.

A state machine that is the simple relation:

(state, event) => [state', actions]

has a very reusable interface, as long as it doesn't execute the actions (effects, commands, etc.) itself. It's just a pure function that can be used anywhere to get the next state and the actions to execute as a result of receiving an event.

Then you can do exactly what you're describing: connect the wires, style the components according to state, etc.
> Thanks for listing out the points you disagree with!

> The main requirement is performance (a missing point in your list)

The points I listed are not selected by me! I listed all the points in the project README verbatim. Other than the 2nd-to-last point (slow binary mod detect), performance wasn't otherwise listed in the README, so I don't know why you're calling me out for omitting it.

> If Git would be a good candidate as a versioning system for DCC software packages, it would have been picked up by now

You seem to be implying something else was picked up instead of Git? Other than SnowFS (which you say is in early alpha), what else has surpassed Git in this space? If nothing else has yet been picked up in place of Git, this argument isn't applicable.

> The commit hash integrity is a problem in CG/VFX productions, so is the 4GB limitation, as well as the I/O performance for large binary files

You seem to be again comparing SnowFS to Git-without-Git-LFS (other than the 4GB limitation which I already addressed in my comment). This is, as I said, disingenuous. Why keep making this selective comparison?

> P.S. Certain features and technical solutions will be feature-proposed to libgit2

That's cool, and I wish them the best of luck with developing these solutions. As I said, I've no issue with SnowFS; new approaches are always cool. I just think their listed justification is disingenuous; they'd be better of simply stating they want to develop something new and leave it at that.
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Yeah, I'm on board with the idea that expensive or not-recommended operations should be more verbose to discourage them.

But you'll find other expensive operations (eg prepending an element to a slice) are much less verbose. At a certain point (of verbosity), you're just adding the potential for bugs.
We could do that without bitcoin. Lot of things we can do, like make democracy more direct by allowing people to vote on issues from an app on their phone. The technology is there.
I adored the Muppet Show as a kid. Tried watching it with my daughters this weekend, since it just became available.

"Dad, this is weird. This is really weird. It's not even a show! Just weird little scenes!"

["not even a show" = no connective plot]

These kids have all kinds of precision-engineered laser-guided entertainment aimed squarely at their cerebral cortex. They don't need the Muppet Show like I did, I guess.
Most of the time. I draft outlines for my comments. If it's not worth outlining or the outline doesn't add anything, it's not worth writing (or reading).
Are there any options, besides Qt, that are accessibility friendly? I don't consider anything but Qt for this very reason (GTK on Windows/MacOS is not accessibility-aware or whatever you want to call it, to my knowledge.)

And I generally like Qt, but I can see how you might consider it heavy and a bit unwieldy.
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> And no cameras in the voting booth.

Even with cameras in the voting booth, voters still have plausible deniability because they can spoil their marked ballot (that they may have photographed) and request a fresh blank one.

In-person paper voting is pretty much the best voting method we have in terms of privacy, usability, scrutability, and reliability.
Dogecoin is, and always was, a meme; a joke cryptocurrency. But it developed a life of its own and, unfortunately, opportunists have been putting Doge on fish hooks and, surprisingly, catching a helluva lot of fish.

It is not, and never will be, a serious investment. The problem is, there are still fish that will believe it is a serious "opportunity" if they're shown the right kind of profit figures, truthful or otherwise.
Here's the HN discussion of it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26192025
The manager almost never has time to do these things properly.

... and has the power to pick and choose what they work on. My present manager does this and only does the fun/interesting stuff leaving the grunt work to the team. Sometimes he does half a ticket, gets bored, and “delegates” the rest.
This might be due to a car being a more common retail purchase compared to a plane. Airlines might want to customize their plane for the usage and different engines might provide different benefits.
The people who got the initial bitcoin and held onto it still have the majority of it. I don't see that changing. It's not healthy for the monetary system having most people try to just get rich by holding onto the currency.
Open Source is what you make of it. I think that's what makes it so hard. I make some software, share it with the world... and then what? That's the question. Most open source projects end up in one of three buckets:

* Minimally maintained. Could be because it's good software and feature complete. Could be any number of other things (i.e. lost interest, no users)

* Original author and contributors stay highly involved and guide the project. See Fossil for a great example. Python, too.

* Users drive development by contributing. A lot of times, this looks like companies contributing code and money for specific features. It's not bad, but sometimes these projects evolve in bad directions for my specific use case. Sometimes these projects wouldn't exist (many of the Apache projects are of little utility to individuals, but great utility to organizations).

The one thing that is certain is that the choice of a license has less to do with adoption than the quality and functionality of the software being adopted. I'll take on my own or my customer's legal department (who often makes rules that are not nearly as well thought out as one would expect) for good software.
That’d be true if the BCH people won, but btc as a mechanism to evade oppressive governments doesn’t work for the masses when transaction costs are so high.
Just checked and the names are now gone for me too. Seems like they removed them (again?)
how does it put them on the same scale? nukes are online 80%+ of the time.
But points against what? The very idea that a hyperintelligent being is _possible_ very much lingers in the land of science fiction. Yes, even today.

Anyone with a little education in artificial intelligence knows that it's either impossible or somewhat possible but not likely. We truly are no closer to artificial consciousness that we were 500 years ago, it's all still smoke and mirrors.

The thing that's actually a dangerous scenario is the dumb artificial intelligence we can build to start misbehaving, due to human programming errors or statistical bias: self-driving cars running over people; military systems confusing friends from foe; this stupid predictor keyboard not predicting correctly what I'm trying to type. This is the stuff of real, possible and demonstrable fears. Anything grandeur has no basis in reality.

I haven't read Bostrom's book yet, but from what I've read from others about the book, it's all about this nonsense that we can create a new kind of intelligence who will instantly destroys us.
This is cool for people ignorant of the basic tenets of what A.I. is (so far) but for people who actually know or understand the current state, they should know better.

Worrying about an hyperintelligent A.I is like worrying about ghosts while living in a neighborhood filled with serial killers.

edit: grammar.
Disney? Probably not. But there are plenty of people who would.
Let's be fair to them: their first musical number was a cover of a song from an Italian "pornumentary" movie about Sweden.

In a children-oriented program.

In the 70's.
The offending tweet was arguing against all forms of suicide, assisted or otherwise. I'm trying to understand your point charitably, but it escapes me how arguing against suicide could be interpreted as arguing for suicide. I understand that there's a consequentialist argument ("it is going to happen anyway"), but that seems to accept something as inevitable which is not.
thats why i use feature phone..
It is probably yeah.
I don't understand that system. I drop off a sealed ballot in a ballot box and then that's it. I just have to trust that the system works. I have to way to prove that my vote was counted. I have no way to count the votes for. I don't understand the process behind how my votes get counted and it would be fine if people didn't understand how blockchains work.
You mean that's not actually Swedish?! ;-)
Great point. This can be applied to any type of "revealed wisdom" which is not obvious to the layperson. We are expected to accept their conclusions not question them.
Of course it's not perfect.

If there was perfect proxy for good people then $BIG_TECH would pay barrow of money for this.

10 years of experience says that person probably have seen a lot of software / projects / decisions and stuff.

Of course you could maintain one system for 10 years and struggle in new environment, but also there's difference between maintaining CRUD app for 10 years vs maintaining Linux kernel