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Best article on NFTs is this introductory article by Linda Xie https://linda.mirror.xyz/df649d61efb92c910464a4e74ae213c4cab...

TL;DR
- NFTs help prove ownership without needing a central authority (which is a big deal) e.g. have you ever been misled and bought a fake concert ticket? It's also huge for the collectibles market which is plagued with high-levels of fraud (which is a billion dollar industry).

- NFTs can also make fractionalized ownership more accessible.
So using your analogy, as an artist I release a song but I sell fractions of my song as NFTs to my audience and when I receive royalties it automatically gets distributed to all the nft song owners.

There will be meme NFTs of course (the cat that got sold for $600k), it is a speculative asset that people are experimenting with but I think eventually things will reset and the useful NFTs will remain. They can have real utility whether for a virtual or physical world.
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This makes perfect sense to me. I don't know what it is about talking on the phone, but it's an extremely anxiety inducing experience for me. I'm generally fine with people, but if I have a choice of walking down the street to talk with them in person or call them on the phone, I will make the walk every time.

Best I can figure out it stems from being verbally abused as a teenager when I had a job making cold calls. People are vicious on the phone in a way they never are in person. Some people seem to use strangers on the phone as an opportunity to safely vent whatever pent-up rage they have. And even though people are just as vicious online, it just doesn't have the same bite as it does when it's a human voice filled with rage.
> The only messages being given are that if you've made it to the top you can go to your death bed having done anything without seeing a prison cell

In the case of Christine Lagarde this was actually made explicit. She was found guilty but not punished, because she was too important: "but given the circumstances, given the responsibilities that Ms. Lagarde had at the time — in 2008, we were in a major economic crisis — the court decided that it would not sentence Ms. Lagarde to anything" [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/business/imf-trial-christ...
Population growth hasn’t been exponential for half a century. Get your facts straight.
To avoid confusion around semantics, I'll try to draw up a more stripped down version of the argument.

Cultural shifts linked to specific left-wing ideas underway in various parts of society → concern based on the idea of the foundations of society being weakened or changed too quickly as a result → public figure comments against the former shift in an accessible and engaging way → fanbase forms around public figure, who is then held in high esteem for their work → criticism of the figure is primarily interpreted as censorship and deplatforming

The above would be the simplified and idealized description of Peterson or another such figure from one of their supporters. The following is what I believe is happening instead:

breakdown in discourse over time for various factors → ideologies spring up based on their online marketability and accessibility instead of their depth → the change oriented/left-wing version turns into intensified identity politics that moves away from economic concerns → the conservative oriented version turns into a decaf, pretend version of what it used to be → media personalities from each camp do battle online with debates that are essentially entertainment only but are interpreted as discourse by fans on either side

From this we can see that a supporter of Peterson would see the Newman interview as an example of bravery and intellectual strength, whereas from the second framework it would look like another addition to the huge frothing pile of low-quality infotainment.
This is what I meant by using a flamethrower on a flaming house. Peterson himself and others like him contribute to the alteration of traditional norms instead of defending them. Or to be more precise, the fact that they are the figures being listened to is the mechanism that accelerates this decline. This is what I meant with the Fizz Buzz analogy: Peterson and co. would have been laughed out of the room by earlier generations of conservatives for not having basic knowledge of the issues they argue about, and these would in turn have been horrified by the idea that a speaker's accessibility and popularity would be seen as a justification of their worth.

In the end, you have people who nod in appreciation when Peterson "destroys" a reporter/student/heckler in a meme-worthy contest, but don't actually know much at all about the Western canon or the traditional values they claim allegiance to or even the ideas that they claim to oppose. They repeat the words but don't actually live these values, and this is a direct consequence of decaf intellectualism taking up all of that mental space. The conservatism is then ironically no longer conservative, in the sense that it no longer conserves the norms it references.
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But what is Marxist about its philosophy? What particular beliefs make it Marxist?
urrghh... i was "thinking" of writing "i will be devouring this book as fast as possible" because wink wink torrents but changed the wording because i didn't want to write the "t" word but yeah
If it came down to hundreds of decisions along the way, not just one or two, that isn't luck. She's a good decision maker.
> ignition doesn’t matter for an internal combustion engine

You said ‘indeed’ which makes it look like you are saying this is true?

I think you may be confusing the ignition switch or key, with the ignition of fuel in the engine.

The ignition of fuel is absolutely necessary for internal combustion engines, just as a full file system was always necessary for iOS.
Climate change definitely is the next one. It is most surely happening, and probably faster than we want or expect, but if you listen to scientific consensus (eg. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report), it is pretty clear that, while serious and troublesome issue, it most definitely is not an existential threat.
What's your side project (if you don't mind sharing)? Would love to see other projects in this space!
Better CFD, better knowledge of engine design, limited scope of requirements/capabilities, better material science.
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Class solidarity between criminals and would-be criminals.
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Yes, scanf is almost completely useless, and sscanf a little less so. sscanf is useful if you need a pattern-based breakdown of some string datum, and the patterns are not out of sscanf's league. It will work "anywhere"; it's been in C since before 1989 ANSI C.

In the entire TXR project, I used sscanf in one function: a floating to integer conversion routine. The context is that integers can be bignums, so we can't just rely on ordinary conversion, except in the fixnum range.

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/arith.c?h=txr-252#n2912

The approach taken is to sprintf the double value into a generous buffer, with a generous precision, using the %g format which will automatically use the e notation if necessary.

We detect whether the e notation was produced, and other characteristics, and then proceed accordingly.

I see that an impossible case is being tested for; since values with a small magnitude are handled via the fixnum route, we will never hit the case where we can short-circuit to zero.

Can anyone see a bug here, by the way? :)
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I’m surprised the line-number references don’t auto-adjust when inserting/splitting/joining lines. That’s not very practical.
> But then digital happened and both lenses and sensors outgrew anything analog.

maybe if you can afford an 80MP digital back with MF lenses? i still prefer 35mm compared to full-frame sensors but i'm more after latitude and colour rendition than sharpness.
I read the book:

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and it was really amazing.

Did you know the first open-heart surgeries were performed by stitching two people's circulatory systems together, to keep the person getting the operation from dying?

Given that I think "getting things done" in the medical field will always be a huge challenge that regular people on the outside may never understand.
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Nothing to disagree with there-- but in terms of what's actually possible with animation / 3d graphics, this looks like it was done in paint (and I'm questioning why anyone would pay money for that standard of work)
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They are transacted digtially with the force/power of lawyers. With NFTs, you can "theoretically" transact without the need for lawyers.
As a side note, very nice glitch CSS.
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Tesla monitors battery degradation based on miles driven. If you use your battery as a stationary power source, it messes up their ability to anticipate degradation. So it makes sense.

This is, from the warranty's point of view, the same as manipulating the odometer on an ICE car to make it appear to have driven fewer miles than it actually has.
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So by your analysis, the EU will be full electric within the next decade or so?
If I sell BTC for $1m, the IRS/InsertGovAgencyHere will want to know where I got the $1m in BTC from. If I can point to an NFT that I 'sold' (after a dramatic rise in value) then I have a plausible source of that income.

That's the purpose of money laundering - to bring ill-gotten gains into the light so they can be used.
politicians don't get elected based on solid data sets showing how they made their voters lives better. They won't make policy based on solid assumptions
> Imagine if some of the politicians who supported Rosa Parks were indicted as co-conspirators in bus rule evasion.

It so happens that not using buses was legal. In fact, even Rosa Parks was technically in the legal right to stay sit there - not that anyone cared (including her).

But, back then, being arrested or beaten was pretty normal for blacks when sitting in wrong place or refusing to stand. Black political players included - like Rosa Parks herself.
> And in this industry, nobody is comfortable talking about it. Most of the people I work with graduated from school as guaranteed millionaires.

This is surprising to me. I’m also a former poor. A lot of people I work with in tech come from generally “normal” backgrounds. Middle to lower class (in excluding h1b and green card holders). It just turned out for them that their passion and hobby (computers) ended up being a great career.

Now things are probably different for younger generations now that the secret is out about P90 software salaries.

Good thing I got in while they were still taking nobodies.
> On the low end you're going to hit 300 to 500 dollars a month for the privilege of driving.

How is maintaining a car costing you so much?
Gold is a material used in productive assets. But if it sits in your vault it won't do anything. Stocks do, even if they sit in your vault.
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Just to use the actual values, Telsa IPO was $17USD in 2010

Its closer to $715USD right now, after a 5:1 split last year, so $17->$3575 in 10 years.
It has been traded on the public markets since.

10 years ago you could not buy a pizza for 10k btc.
Laszlo choose to trade 10k BTC for a pizza, bootstrapping a value exchange on an experimental p2p software network. It was an adhoc tx, not done on a public market (which did not exist at the time).

I don't think it upside down. Assets can gain value over time, especially when you have inflation of the monetary base feeding into these assets, and a growing audience participating. Makes sense!
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i often try to keep my language as close to british english but very sometimes there is a slip up. I try to avoid this though
I remember being at work when we turned off Xbox 1 support for LIVE. We had one last Xbox console and we watched it start to be able to not connect. The end of an era.
Thank you for your story
I can relate. I grew up with out enough, and now I am terrified of spending money.
While there are technical differences with transforming the data within it's storage location/database, I've interacted with my former employer's board of directors enough to know there's a bigger, rather obnoxious reason for this:

VC valuations in Silicon Valley for traditional "ETL" tools isn't great. The term "ETL" has baggage of Talend and other big enterprise tools that have an aura of "not being user friendly".

"ELT" is intended to signal that a tool is trying really hard to not be like those sad, difficult to use, dirty "ETL" tools.

That's the real reason. There really isn't an actual difference in how the tools work. Traditional ETL tools are perfectly capable of loading the data and initiating the transform in the database it's being stored in. This has been done for decades.

I have been repeatedly lectured by senior strategy team executives about using the proper vernacular to ensure perception of value is maximized in the trendy, buzzword driven VC world. So fucking stupid.
> If you take synthetic longs out of the equation, the number drops to well below 100%:

"If you don't count the shares shorted over 100%, there are no shares shorted over 100%!"

I really feel like you don't know what you're talking about.
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A certificate that says "thanks for donating your money to support the creator". Or in this case, the person who bought the certificate off the creator.
You can get the board for $750, but it says 8 weeks shipping: https://shop.solid-run.com/product/SRLX216S00D00GE064H08CH/

It's mini-ITX, so there's a pile of cases you can use for it if you want.
edit: Dont worry I found out:

Assuming the Winklvoss Twins ONLY kept the initial 11,000 BTC they purchased - Those coins are worth 497MM today.
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> along the way, there were hundreds of decisions made that could have gone the wrong way.

And probably and equal amount of decisions that could have turned out better.

So rather than being the result of one or two lucky or unlucky events, the final outcome is more likely to be the average of the quality of all the decisions over time.
A quick web search shows that a lot of everyday users are interested in turning off mitigations on their machine “to test performance” - both on Linux and Windows 10.

In the wild exploits are almost certainly hitting vulnerable machines.
>The latter is good for individual decision-making, but it isn't very good for accurately compensating value contributed

Why not? How could an economy function if it were based on real value as opposed to relative value? Farmers and water treatment engineers would all be billionaires and everyone would waste a lot of resources trying to become farmers and learning about water treatment. If you drive a truck of medical supplies, you'd make millions, but if you drive a truck of consumer goods, you'd make very little, despite doing the same work.
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Ah, sorry about that! Was trying to keep it on the dark mode side, but I may have gone too far in that direction ha - let me see if I can change the color scheme really quickly to be at least white for the text!
I noticed this after spending time in developing countries. They are set up much better for being poor. Trivial example: you can go into a pharmacy and buy two aspirin. Some people can't afford 100 at a time, and don't need that many anyway.

Or rent: you can get a place to live for only $60/month. There's no running water, but it's clean and dry and it has a lock on the door. The cheapest place you can find in the US is a lot nicer, but also much more expensive.

Buses have no route maps, no shelters and no doors. They might not come to a complete stop when they pick you up. But you can ride for 25¢.

The US has a kind of minimum standard of living, but it comes with a minimum cost of living. If you can't afford that, you end up with nothing.
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OpenCL and various other solutions basically require that one writes kernels in C/C++. This is an unfortunate limitation, and can make it hard for less experienced users (researchers especially) to write correct and performant GPU code, since neither language lends itself to writing many mathematical and scientific models in a clean, maintainable manner (in my opinion).

What oneAPI (the runtime), and also AMD's ROCm (specifically the ROCR runtime), do that is new is that they enable packages like oneAPI.jl [1] and AMDGPU.jl [2] to exist (both Julia packages), without having to go through OpenCL or C++ transpilation (which we've tried out before, and it's quite painful). This is a great thing, because now users of an entirely different language can still utilize their GPUs effectively and with near-optimal performance (optimal w.r.t what the device can reasonably attain).

[1] https://github.com/JuliaGPU/oneAPI.jl
[2] https://github.com/JuliaGPU/AMDGPU.jl
That's odd. bash and zsh had leagues better vi bindings the last time I tried. fish had tons of weird errors, most notably that things like `d2w` simply don't work. I actually had to stop using fish and go back to zsh because I couldn't get past the lack of vi support.

Apparently, https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/4019 still has not been fixed. There's no similar issue in bash/zsh.
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Agreed, the Kiev 88 isn't reliable. A number of years back I ordered a Hartblei - they take new Kiev 88s and fix the obvious shortcomings, before applying any modifications you require.

My Hartblei is configured for Hasselblad backs and hoods, and takes Pentacon six lenses.

I use this with an Arsat 35mm fisheye lens as the hasselblad equivalent is very expensive by comparison. The result is a strange mixture of multiple parts, but it's kind of fun!