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I'd like to use fish regularly, but I feel really attacked by the over-the-top usage of color and unrequested auto-completion. Even a "monochrome" theme I tried was shoveling many different shades of gray into my terminal. It does not seem to honor the NO_COLOR variable either. Is there any way to obtain a default configuration with everything disabled?
I see more amorality with supposedly highly religious people. I got screwed super hard by a group of bible thumping midwest business people. There's always excuses that can be made like Jesus hates Californians therefore trying to kill and rob one will get you into heaven.
You can assign a value to both that says we should not harm these things.
Tech has created a culture of attracting this type. They aren’t here to solve problems, they’re here to be the next Zuck and anything else is failure.
This is just money laundering.
Just to make sure everyone is on the same page.

Beeple is a cult digital artist who has been making digital art, releasing an asset per day, for 13 years straight. Yes, you read that right. One asset per day for 13 years. Most of his works were free. So, $6.6M is not just an overnight luck. It's the return for what he has been investing in for 13 years.
Yeah, in the last few years there was a big permanent ad at the footer of the contact list, plenty of ads in the web client and I think at one point there were sidebar ads in chat (that last one could have been msn)
With caveats. While my UID and password still work, I am unable to change my (horrendously insecure, attackable) password without first providing a phone number.

Given that ICQ's ownership and cooperation with governments both raise questions, I don't think I'm going to be offering up any further information just to preserve a piece of my internet history.
And one of the funny things I've noticed over the years is that often, the technology that was stolen (or sometimes legitimately transferred) from the west often more-or-less failed, or was superseded, in western markets. In the railway sphere, Alco and Fairbanks-Morse diesel engine designs dominated, long after they disappeared from American rails. Turning to home computers, many 1980s Soviet home computers were PDP-11 clones. Modern Ural motorcycles are a result of technology transfer from BMW dating to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
Yeah, with 7tps
Buy $100,000,000 worth of a stably increasing stock and sell when it goes up ~1%
That was the analog version; this is digital.
It's really interesting to read this and think about public policy. As someone on the left of center axis, I often imagine what an efficient government intervention would be. (I suppose a more right-wing person might imagine a charity-based solution? I'm not sure.) In this case, the author (who clearly is skilled as a writer and communicator) indirectly identifies a few "public goods" that I think are worth highlighting:

(1) Efficient public transportation that enables commutes on par with driving
(2) Health and dental care
(3) Improved policing/security (in the case of the neighborhoods that he describes as scary)

What else?
If it were as easy now as getting paid to go to college and get a decent job it wouldn't be so bad - but prices have increased exponentially due to that federal aid. Instructor quality has significantly decreased, and administrative bloat has skyrocketed (these people can't get Jobs in the private sector either and government money is free). Jobs in technical fields are not in demand in the manner higher education advertises. As I've said before here I still have friends with bachelor CS degrees turned down from entry positions because the majority of companies are experience siphoners. There's entire youtube channels exampling the level of exploit companies can do because CS grads don't have the choice.

Sure, overcoming poverty is possible, but it's a shifting scale over time thats heading in much worse directions due to inflation in basic living costs and companies and individuals breaking the ladder that got them on the surface.
My reaction too. Even "beeple" the name reminds me of some (fake) names on a semi-famous pic https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/445926596143095809

I periodically have the need to find that picture every now and again, and I usually find it by searching "Curbes Lurb" or "Mmm...mlurp"
Here it's "let my cow die, just if two of neighbours' die"

But yeah... we earn relatively little (compared to you), and have better cars than most of the northern europe... most of them on long year loans... It's not rare to see an (eg.) BMW X7 owner at a gas station pump 9.85eur of gas, than slowly fondle the pump handle, because he only has 10eur for gas. The neighbors see the car, not the amount of gas inside :)

Also a lot of "not in my back yard" behaviour.
Insurance policies. Land deeds. Preferential equity. IP. Domain names. Really, any sort of value that is in nature non-fungible that you may want to represent and transact digitally.
>win it from the Bitcoin slot machine

Jealous much
It's true in a no-true-Scotsman way. There aren't vast tracts of land that are fertile and have been prepared for farming, but are being neglected, because human economic activity easily expands to fill the space available. So with the exception of some parks, sports facilities, etc, most fields in the world are being used for farming.

On the other hand, there's plenty of land that is nearly suitable for growing sustenance crops but just needs a little preparation. We don't always favour converting that land to agricultural use, e.g. in the Amazon rain forest.

However, the claim misses the point for a different reason. Even if all arable land is being farmed, it's very far from being exploited to its maximum capacity. In terms of calories per hectare per year, much of that land could be improved tenfold or more with a switch of crops or farming methods, if the economics demanded it and potatoes became as expensive as steak.
We're working on an SDK[0] for building taps that should make it much easier to build to the Singer spec with all of the features out of the box. In theory if you can write some python against whatever you're pulling data out of, then it can work within the Singer ecosystem and Meltano. It's nearly ready to go but we'd love feedback if you decide to test it out!

[0] https://gitlab.com/meltano/singer-sdk
Translation - If it is not possible to identify enough "vulnerable group" geniuses, then it is assumed that all children are not geniuses. I think this kind of stupidity can only occur in developing countries. Unexpectedly, the nearly 30 years of brainwashing education in the United States has produced so many brain-disabled officials from all walks of life who cannot think normally. sorrow!
How can a currency that is so volatile be used for actually buying and selling stuff? If you were going to put your car up for sale today and you had to set a price in bitcoin how could you possibly choose a number? Will bitcoin ever settle down to a stable currency?
Oh look, AEI cherry picking.
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The fact that you know people who are legitimately buying that stuff makes it a great money laundering scheme. If only people laundering were buying them, it would be obvious, but the fact that it's picking up steam makes high sales prices seem legitimate.

Say, you have a bunch of money made from selling cocaine and you want to buy a house. It's really hard, because people will want to know how you made the money without a job. So you buy some NFT for about 10k with your clean money. Two months later, you sell the NFT for 500k to an anonymous buyer online, who pays through crypto. The buyer is you, buy nobody knows that, because they're anonymous.

You now have 500k cash, you will need to pay some taxes over your gains, but then the money is clean and when you buy the house you say you got the money through an investment in NFT.

Meanwhile, some random people read about how you made 10k into 500k in two months by trading NFT. So people will start investing in it, making your money laundering less obvious.

This is a bit of a simplification of what could be happening, but it does seem feasible.
Regular Expressions & Repique

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Of course luck plays a factor in everything everybody does. The question isn't whether luck plays a role; it's how much salience it deserves. This person made hundreds of good choices across decades to achieve the success they have, so it seems a bit perverse to focus instead on the hundreds of things outside their control.
In your analogy, where the grid corresponds to roads and railways, the equivalent of the supermarket or farm is a wholesale electricity provider or power plant, right?

In Massachusetts you can absolutely comparison shop for specific power plants or sets thereof as an individual, at least to the extent of explicitly picking which generation company your money goes to by default. Of course in the end the way the grid works these companies end up effectively buying electricity from each other as needed... So this analogy only goes so far; supermarkets do not usually buy food from each other, I'd think.
I'm sorry, what? Ask anyone in the trades if a 'mentally demanding' job is worse than a physically demanding one. People in tech really are out of touch if they think being a coder is somehow more grueling than being a roofer.
It's not so much that the US needs Saudi Arabian oil as it is that the United States needs oil to be sold using US Dollars. Saudi Arabia exclusively accepts US Dollars, so every nation wishing to buy oil needs to exchange their own currency for our dollar bills in order to do so. This gives the US a tremendous advantage in the world stage and is such a large part of why the US Dollar is worth so much overseas.

If Saudi Arabia wanted to, they could start accepting Chinese Yuan, Russian Rubles, or even Japanese Yen and that would deal a serious blow to the US Monetary system. There would be nothing particularly special about the US Dollar and that would severely impact the US Economy. Actually decoupling from the US Dollar like this is highly unlikely, but it is a risk nonetheless. I suspect no US President wants to be the one in power when Saudi Arabia chooses to do so.
A few large holders commonly referred to as whales continue to own most Bitcoin. About 2% of the anonymous ownership accounts that can be tracked on the cryptocurrency’s blockchain control 95% of the digital asset, according to researcher Flipside Crypto.
Sorry, it was an hyperbole I guess :)

What I meant is that they are just speculating about NFTs and that what was actually sold is of no importance. They could as well have sold a 1x1 pixel image, nobody really cares about the digital asset itself...
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Should specify that this is a PDF file.
Good point, but surely a 6/7 hours every day at gaming is less stressing for the card
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Can a deflational currency really be the preferred method for trade? Not only limited amount for a theoretically increasing demand, but existing amounts being locked in inaccessible wallets. I have doubts.

As long as bitcoin can't be a currency (and it certainly can't), it's fate is doomed. A more suited criptocurrency still yet to come.
>Any agency/landlord will always ask for references from your current landlord

Give them your buddies contact information.
Maybe (maybe) volatility will die after this cycle. It's one theory thrown on the web.

Other than that news regarding cryptos these days should be avoided.
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> Is this any different than the certificate I got for my tenth birthday that says I own a star?

Very real. The Zircon Confederacy on the fourth planet of my star system immediately submitted to my hegemony on account of my $10 certificate, and now I earn a steady income of 4 billion quadrooons of gold in tribute per annum.

However, due to the difficulty in transport across interstellar space, they've helpfully represented my ownership interest in the tribute using NFTs.
> I see more amorality with supposedly highly religious people.

I think two separate processes account for this appearance:

(1) The prominence of religion in our society makes religion a very useful cover for amoral manipulators to prey on people, but also:

(2) There is very little percieved difference between a strong moral system which disregards the things the observer thinks are central to proper morality and amorality.
hitting $1 trillion in market capitalization in February 2021

Multiplying the price of 1 BTC by the number of BTC to get a "market cap" is pretty wishful thinking. Significant selling would tank the price.
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Similar story I'm now late 30s; father left when i was 2 died of aids when I was 6

Mother washed dishes then was unemployed from age 12-now and we bounced around her boyfriends houses

My metric (edit: for myself) "have you been poor" is gathering extra condiments from a gas station and having mustard on bread for a meal. We had food stamps, and a small social security check. I always had a bed, and food, but barely and i was aware how close we were as we midnight moved at least once.

I got my college degrees through federal grants and employer sponsorship; now making north of 200k I reflect on how privileged I am to get here. My mother kept me in an upper middle class public school system using a po box, I'm a white man who loved computers in the 90s. I ended up with a social network and a background that looks upper middle class.

I don't subscribe to that "I made it and so can you" I see my story as a I had privilege, how can we make privilege into equity.
Enough to be the first settlement layer of the whole finacial system. On top of that layer, you can have country fiat coins, centralized exchanges and others.
yes, but only in a rough sense. the ratio of maintenance cost to purchase price is much higher for a yacht (or really any boat) than for a mass produced car like a corvette. if you can afford to buy/finance a corvette, you can usually afford to drive it too. the same is not true for any boat larger than a canoe. there is a reason for the old joke about a boat being merely "a hole in the water that you throw money into".
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BTC's main purpose is as a store of value not as a currency. Volatility will eventually go down, think 30+ years.
I really hate compiler errors that could be warnings.

Or at least have two modes, "prototyping" vs "production".
meh, bundled, off-chain transactions. Examples:

https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-rolls-out-bitcoin-transac...

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Off-Chain_Transactions
Just another example of the old adage "whatever problem you're facing someone on the internet has already seen it and solved it". We just need to get better at searching
> A counterpoint - You then get jerry built high rises built to minimum standards and smaller rooms which leads to tragedy's like Grenfell tower.

The old socialist buildings are made form reinforced (rebar) concrete... even the inside walls... and outside walls.. and sometimes even balcony ledges. Even occasional gas explosions usually just blow out some windows.
Except it can’t handle the transaction volume. Who writes these things?
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Reminds me of the transaction speed of gold back in the days they called it a gold standard.
Bitcoin is terrible as a currency. It's OK as commodity but these are two separate things.
Say I have $1m in dirty money. I buy an NFT for $1, then use the dirty money to ‘buy’ the NFT from myself for $1m (through an anonymous cutout, like a crypto bank), and now I have a clean $1m.

Bonus points, as now a lot of people think the NFT that my dirty hand still holds is worth $1m!
Hmm.. interesting.. i was and still am excited about the type inheritance. Alas I code with python for a living.. :-(
During a bull market you could sell the car at a discount, and during the bear market, at a markup.

FYI, every single time I have sold bitcoin or ethereum (even at historical peaks) it has a been a "mistake" in the sense that 2-3 years later it was worth more than before.
Dynamics, like income mobility dynamics are a complicated thing. We tend to think in stories, and that is useful, but it makes it easy to reach overly general conclusions.

The old republics (US & France, mostly) tend to overlook class... to some extent intentionally. My country (ireland) has the opposite problem: too much class consciousness. To much telling of class-sentric stories.

But, class dynamics do exist in the US & France too.

Class mobility exists too, but it's nowhere near as mobile as income mobility. Class is stickier by definition. You can just as easily colour in a class stickiness story with statistics. The likelihood at birth of someone graduating high school, going to prison, being poor, rich etc. It is true that where you start is a pretty good predictor, statistically, of where you will end up.

It's important to keep both perspectives in mind, simultaneously. There are real opportunities to escape poverty. The ovarian lottery is also very important, so are other "lotteries." It's also a mistake to see yourself as a statistic.
Can you explain what your comment has to do with the parent comment you replied to?
That event horizon is shifting: "K-shaped recovery" -- you're either moving on up or moving on down.
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I'm willing to use my real account, not a throwaway, to say that the original article is correct and YOU are wrong.

For one thing, in a country the size of the US with tens of thousands of jurisdiction/utility-provider combos, there's no possible way you can authoritatively declare what happens "in practice," as you acknowledge in the next sentence.

Here's another: I have had this happen to me, 30 days after a missed payment. Multiple times. So has the author, apparently.

Just wanted to make sure the HN readership, which skews anti-poor and anti-empathy, doesn't use your post as more ammo without at least SOME counter.
That is a great question. There are already people that are selling airplanes for bitcoin. See here: http://cubcrafters.com/carboncub/ex/configure
what university was this where there was an obligation to respond to letters from cranks??

how did that policy get put into place, that’s fascinating.
Common Lisp has functions first, second, last, etc. It has rest too.

(first '(a b c d)) returns 'a
(rest '(a b c d)) returns '(b c d)
(third '(a b c d)) returns 'c
(nth 0 '(a b c d)) returns 'a
(nth 1 '(a b c d)) returns 'b
(last '(a b c d) 2) returns '(c d)

I find these quite intuitive, and after a bit of use one gets accustomed to Lisp's three ancient functions: car, cdr, and cons. car is the same as first and cdr is the same as rest.

In comparison to handling lists in more modern languages, Lisp seems overly verbose and a bit cumbersome. To be fair, there has been over half a century of evolution in programming languages since Lisp was originally designed.

Early Lisp was an alternative to programming in Fortran II, Fortran IV, or Algol 60. These are very primitive languages with significant hurdles for programmers trying to do non-numeric computations (e.g. AI programs). Lisp's underlying memory model of garbage collected cons cells gave it so much flexibility compared to Fortran's fixed length arrays containing only numbers. Fortran had no dynamic lists, no dynamic vectors or slices, no dictionary/hashmap types, no records or structs, no variable length strings, no sets, no tuples. Assembly language often appeared as a reasonable alternative.

Here are a few Fortran if statements appearing in a popular programming book of the 60's (I still have it on my bookshelf):

IF (x - 2.1) 40, 40, 30

This if will always jump to either line labeled 40 or line labeled 30 of the program.

Here's another:

IF(I.GE.20.AND.I.LE.42.AND.J.GE.20.AND.J.LE.42) GO TO 702

Lisp's cond (the special form used like if) may seem odd now, but compared to the other languages of the time it was so much more expressive.

Because I'm an Emacs user, I use Lisp frequently just to keep my configuration tweaked the way I like it, but if I was creating an editor like Emacs today I think it would be better to use Python, Javascript, or Lua for the underlying programmable part of the editor.

Perhaps Haskell is heading for the same kind of niche that Common Lisp occupies today, remaining important for the ideas it explored and of historical interest but never becoming more popular than it is today.
Isn't that how you calculate a company's market cap?

That will also tank with significant selling.

A bigger issue to me, would be we don't know how much BTC is lost due to wallets being inaccessible.
> Any money you come into is spent immediately, often on gifts to build status within your social network.

Rather, for immediate survival and whatever bill is the most urgent to make even a tiny partial payment to avoid cut-off and the occasional comfort food as a treat if you can afford it somehow.

Source: had a rough patch in my life a couple years ago (thankfully over now).
That's how market cap is defined, and that criticism that selling would tank it applies to everything...
Agricultural land use only went up ~10% as the world went from from ~4 billion to ~8 billion people. It has been almost entirely offset by increased agricultural productivity.
Optimally positioned, as most mining happens in China and the only other candidate is the Yuan? :)

I wonder if the Citi analysts knew of the mining farms installed in Iran by Chinese businesses in order to access cheap electricity. If Bitcoin's value is derived solely from narrative, it's going to be great to see how the world reacts to that story finally turning up in the mainstream press.
Someone who just put their life savings into it and is looking to make a buck.
> BTC's main purpose is as a store of value not as a currency.

Not if you read Satoshi’s original paper on the topic!
True for all securities.
It's a strange article. Portable languages have rendered "general purpose CPUs" moot and allowed for incredible innovation at the chip level. Some may recall that making software run on different chips was a huge deal. Now, you use a portable language and potentially portable APIs that are specific to the purpose at hand.

The article ignores that vast access to general capabilities are now available through the internet. With an even higher abstraction that again renders the underlying CPU type irrelevant.

Who knows or cares what CPU is serving this page.
For sure, I think directors simply didn't understand how online communities worked. Facebook must have been the first company to fully realise this, buying both Instagram and WhatsApp but not attempting to internalize their communities under the Facebook brand. It would've been pure capital destruction if they had done that.

I'm pretty sure they're going to have to write off the whatsapp investment. At least Instagram has a viable standalone business model. They'll lose the Whatsapp userbase at the drop of a hat, and it's already hard to monetize to begin with.
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It also doesn’t account for all the locked btc due to theft, fraud or just the owner losing the key. I’d put it at half that, most btc never moves.
> That aside - no one tells you to study for the SAT

This is so true. When you are truly poor, nobody is grooming you to succeed in a competitive environment. Actually the people in your life don't even know how to prepare you, even if they wanted to. When I see people on HN talk about IQ this and GPA that, superior this and inferior that, I can tell they are in a bubble.