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Absolutely. Excel is a workhorse. It would be like asking if, since I got my bulldozer, do I ever still use a shovel. Yes. All the time. It has massive casual utility on a day-to-day basis. Add to that a lot of your business partners communicate information in Excel. When I was a young programmer I intentionally developed good excel skills because it was the idiom my customers knew. I felt like they would think less of me if I wasn’t competent on such a basic tool of business. And I think that instinct was correct. I look at someone in the corporate world who’s unable to sling a good spreadsheet as developmentally disabled. Like if you walked in saying you don’t know how to use a word processor. Spreadsheets are a way of exchanging data between humans in the same that word processors facilitate this, but for structured data sets. Time spent learning basic Excel functions (math stuff and xlookup for example) and how to build pivot tables will pay you dividends over the years.
Related (oral related to gut that is)?

Over 140k virus species in the human gut, half of which are new to science

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You don't understand Bitcoin. Bitcoin is being monetized now. It will be volatile until it reaches a value much much much higher than the value that it is now. It provides a refuge for everyone in the world to escape their inflationary fiat currency. Maybe you live in an area like the US that hasn't had rapid inflation. Many people do not, and Bitcoin provides a way to escape losing all of your wealth. Nevertheless, someday hyperinflation will come to the US, and those who bought Bitcoin will be safe.
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>> without charging non-users a flat fee for the electricity grid

With hookup cost to a new property often measuring in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, the non-connection fee/penalty would have to be very high.

In pacific northwest, estimate 10-15k per electrical pole. Plus any necessary upgrades to the system. Plus easements. Plus maintenance costs. Plus cutting the trees. Plus then paying for power. ... A kickass solar rig and backup generator is very cheap by comparison.
> Is MIPS still a big enough name to make this much of a coup for RISC-V? Or is this the last ditch effort of a fallen star of the semi market?

Mips has seemingly been on life support sine the late 90's. I kind of think the SGI buyout and later spin-off doomed them as they were focused on building high performance workstation processors while Arm was busy focusing on low power and embedded systems. Guess who was better prepared for the mobile revolution of the 00's?
Medical Doctors are members of a rich and powerful guild. Admission to the guild requires getting into medical schools. That in turn requires entering at least university (really high school) knowing how the pre-med game is played. For this reason, membership in the profession is more hereditary than most and is especially hard to achieve without knowing a doctor through family friends who can talk you through the process.

Also, in the USA, churches were historically important social institutions.

In a country of powerful religious institutions, members of a powerful guild with significant barriers to entry and therefore strong hereditary lines are often religious. That's not really at all surprising. At least to me.
Having worked with them in the past (when Patrick was a newly "on paper" millionaire and not a widely known billionaire visionary), I feel the same way.

They're smart, sure, and have great ideas and execution, sure, but they're also just really, really great people, and fun guys to hang out with.
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To put it in perspective, a single bitcoin transaction can power the average american's household electricity needs for... an entire month.
As a person holding a certain amount of currency, the last thing you want is the govt to print more. That is essentially the govt putting a hand in your pocket and taking away cash by diluting what you already have.

Is land a bad thing to buy because they are not making more of it?

I'm sure you know you can exchange those numbers for other numbers that show up in your bank if you're inclined..
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> No, I won't share my use case with you. You have to find it for yourself.

I agree. Bitcoin is basically a religion. It relies on your faith and the faith of others.
Some times yes, other times Excel will replace the format you set with what it guesses from the data. I have no idea what triggers each behavior.

What's more interesting is reading those dates by the COM interface. Depending on how the user input the data, you'll get formated dates as text or seconds since the epoch as number.
This is great news for RV/van life people who can work remotely. Moving from cell to cell (although using it while actually moving would be pretty nifty, too!) and more coverage in the south is really the missing link for me to take a few years off and travel extensively.
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This makes me think of something that's intrigued me for a while: what's the productivity of a yacht racer? The better they are, the less time they spend actually racing in competitions.

Doesn't this mean that by your professor's metric they are becoming less productive?
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Why wouldn't he?

The idea here seems to be that Gates cannot be trusted on BTC because BTC would somehow harm him and he has a large interest in the failure of BTC. But this seems to make no sense to me.

BTC won't change the structure of wealth, even if it is wildly
successful.
I'm sorry that you feel that way. But "apartheid" is the nomenclature adopted by well-known human rights organizations, (https://www.btselem.org/publications/fulltext/202101_this_is...), by the Palestinians themselves (https://bdsmovement.net/apartheid-free-zones), and by one of my personal heroes, Desmond Tutu (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1957644.stm) to describe Israel. I have also visited the West Bank many times and what I saw with my own eyes suggests to me that the apartheid-label absolutely fits.

The point of calling Israel an apartheid state is of course not to claim that Israel is identical to what South Africa was. The point is to emphasize that it is the same racist and supremacist ideology that permeates both systems. In South Africa, you had white people (Boers) dominating and oppressing colored people. In Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, you have Jews dominating and oppressing Palestinians.
> If you push a "you own nothing" WEF approved dystopian tech oligarch reality don't be surprised when people adopt an asset that cannot be confiscated by the government.

Completely agree. It's like something straight out of cyberpunk. Governments everywhere are just printing money like it's nothing and we're supposed to just accept this. Cryptocurrency doesn't systematically rob people via inflation.
The worst example of sex in film has to be the sex scene in the Matrix trilogy. Easily the most boring two minutes of the whole thing. They didn't even show it going in so what's the point
Using excel for learning NN. Multi input on a node would be a bit wonky (but doable) and layers could just be sheets in the workbook. It even already has a bunch of nice built in tools to import/export data. That is one of those 'why did I not think of that' things!
Arguably in app purchases have already corrupted a lot of the game space into slot machines.

Tokens take that a step further and make it worse.

Incentives create the world. On one side you have Apple Arcade trying to align incentives for a better global outcome/end state. On the other you have in-app purchases, loot boxes, and NFTs - trying to maximize profit for the house.
Is this really per transaction or per block?
In addition to technical difference between cryptocurrencies, there’s also a difference in financial properties of the token itself, e.g. liquidity. Liquidity refers to how much the price moves when buying from or selling into the market.

For example, you can sell roughly 5 million USD worth of litecoin on the Bitfinex exchange until you push down the price by 0.5%, but for Bitcoin this figure is roughly 500 million USD (~100 times greater).

The greater the liquidity of a currency the less value is lost when exchanging back and forth between it and e.g. USD.

[1] https://www.bitfinex.com/order-book/?pair=BTCUSD

[2] https://www.bitfinex.com/order-book/?pair=LTCUSD
It costs about 16 cents to make a $20 bill. https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12771.htm

In truth, if I factor in the establishment of the United States and several hundred years of money policy, it'll be higher. But for a fair comparison with Bitcoin, that'd be unfair, right? Because the US's money policy is obviously historically tied to Britain's, so I should include that too. And Britain was adapting the system that was established in feudal times. A lot of work went into making fiat currency real.

So a fair comparison would be Bitcoin versus the cost to print money, plus the history of the US currency system, UK, and all of monetary history before that. This is starting to look pretty bad!
The amount of electricity used for transactions is just a lower bound on the amount of resources used overall for btc. For example, Coinbase has servers which use electricity. And, this lower bound is /very/ high. So this comment comes off as pro-crypto FUD.
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If you want a hipper, 21st-century term all the yutes love, cash is peer-to-peer.

Crypto-currencies don't provide a way to transfer value peer-to-peer, online, just a third party that is (hopefully) neutral.
What is the economic (hence energy cost) impact of maintaining the financial infrastructure where VISA is only a tiny part of?

While the traditional financial infrastructure is under doing rapid modernization, my layman eye still see lots of manual intervention for compliance, enforcement, etc...
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Every piece of code you rely on is a dependency.

You may not be able to count lines of win32 code, and its awfully hard to make a patch, but if it's broken and you depend on it, your product is broken.

There's also a multiplier that should be attached though. Most products don't have developer time or skills to write their own OS, so there's value in using someone else's even if it's probably more code than a custom built one that only satisfies the needs of the product.
It 100% is a toxic sector.

Hawaii's education suffers dramatically because the work is all in tourism - this is firsthand knowledge from teachers I know over there.
I'm hoping this is satire. Project Veritas is infamous for amateurish hitjobs and misleading editing that quite frankly only fools would fall for. Ben Shapiro is not a good example of pretending to not be biased. He'll conveniently forget to disclose that he's funded by fracking billionaires while dunking on environmentalists.
> Sure, it's not "code"

I utterly reject this assertion.
Of questionable ethics, at one office there was no reward for finishing a large number of tasks. But there was an implicit penalty for delays and the tasks were not properly segregated by effort. One of the testers had something like 300-400 test cases he was automating. The majority were simple, minutes to an hour of work, and easily sharing common code. 50 or so were large, taking several days or even a couple weeks of effort. Even though he, technically, could have finished the majority of test cases in a couple weeks, he knew that they'd expect that pace to continue. Consequently, he left all those small cases for later. It was simpler this way than fighting the misperception that all the work was of similar effort. If he ever seemed to be falling behind, he'd churn out 20+ test cases on Friday and the reports for the week looked good to management.

I've never done this myself, but I've seen developers do similar things rather than fight management. Measuring and rewarding the right things is important.
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> you only get stopped if you have brown skin

Maybe, though I think it's fair to point out a large number of CPB agents on the border also have brown skin, if for no other reason than they need a huge percentage of native Spanish speakers.
Even in normal times you always need a month supply of everything. During pandemic or any other major crisis event it's probably best to keep 3 months supply of everything. That's not panic buying. That's planning for your and your dependants safety and wellbeing. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
A OS that need's a Antivirus on every machine is bad for the planet too ;)
This isn't true. You don't understand Bitcoin. Proof of work is the only way to secure a decentralized system like Bitcoin's. Proof of stake requires trust in a group of validators. An oligopoly of sorts. A proof of stake system is unfit for a decentralized store of value. Alternatives to Bitcoin enriched a central group of people. Bitcoin's distribution was "fair". There is no replicating it.

Picture bitcoin in its final state, where central banks trade in and out of Bitcoin to weaken or strengthen their respective currencies. Bitcoin is the only solution, and other cryptocurrency is fit for the task.
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> Not sure why you are downvoted

Probably because I'm advocating for government owned or at least heavily regulated infrastructure.

> The risk is that the monopoly gets fat and lazy, but there are many examples of failures from both approaches.

Agreed (and California is a perfect example)... with a monopoly situation (and in "captive market" situations such as housing where people can't go without the services of the market) regulation agencys need teeth. Basically you want pitbulls, not poodles.
It's about culture, and this kind of miscommunication occurs in any cross-cultural talk. Even within a culture, men and women speak differently, as do old/young, rich/poor, and other discriminators.

So yes, it does happen in gay relationships. Perhaps not quite as frequently in straight ones, because one dimension of difference has been removed, but there are lots of others.

The book cited above is far more scholarly and insightful than the usual run of "Men are like X/Women are like Y" pop-culture books. Dr. Tannen is a linguist at Georgetown specializing in cross-cultural communication. This particular one is targeted at a general audience rather than an academic one, but it avoids a lot of the chauvinist pitfalls that similar books run into.

So it doesn't make sweeping generalizations along the lines of "Women are like that". It does point out that in many white American cultures women are taught to speak more indirectly, as in the example cited above, but it's not trying to impart the lesson that all women speak that way. Rather, it's about recognizing that everybody has different conventions and you need to be looking out for them, because what seems obvious to you will be very different from what seems obvious to them. Gender lines are just one dimension of that.

Dr. Tannen has written a number of books on various cultural speech differences, though this one about men and women in the US was particularly helpful to me.
"relative" I think John was on some sort of an ad on all the transit signs in SF, maybe during Dreamforce a few years back.
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We will keep complaining about BTC, since it continues to cause a huge number of unnecessary CO2 emissions.
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Makes sense. Abstract math and physics are very... platonic. I can understand why someone who believes in a Divine Order would be attracted to abstract mathematics or theoretical physics.

Also makes sense that messy experimentalism would be less allured by the idea of especially Abrahamic God.
> mostly american concept

True. It is an American experience.

Different admins have harassed different Americans at different points in time. Jews, Blacks, Chinese, Indians (India) and so on. Donald Trump showed us just how much evil US admin can get on matters of paperwork. Since he could not legally stop legal immigrants from working, he changed rules and created such a long backlog that it takes now 24 months to renew some work permits which use to take 15 days 4 years ago. Immigrants were deeply hurt. He also adopted several tactics which can be called "voter suppression". He used ridiculous logic such as "extreme vetting" to deny visa approvals for 4 year old children of an already approved immigrant.

Trump admin harassed a lot of Hispanics born in border towns of USA, refusing to use their birth certificates as evidence of citizenship.

>it feels really weird to see people describing what a dystopian future American would become if it did that thing we do right now.

USA is much much larger and far diverse than France. It also does not have the groups who hate each other as Americans have. I highly doubt if there are any French politicians who bear certain hatred for specific groups.

I am not at all denying that centralized IDs are bad for everyone, but for Americans it is going to be pretty bad.
While I applaud any effort to make email more usable and secure, I can't escape the feeling that email is quickly becoming the new snail mail. It seems most people only use it for very "official" communication, or communication with more or less autonomous services, while using other channels for almost everything else.

For me at least, email is moving into the same space as a phone number: something you know you need to reliably have, but you'd throw out in a minute if you could get away with it.
Perhaps the people saying is pow is bad want to see the transition to pos?
>this is the fractional reserve banking system

Seems like we may need a new technical term to replace "fractional reserve banking", because the Fed reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent a year ago.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
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"Explicitly jewish" could be a democratic state with jewish majority.
And it could be a jewish minority ruling over a non jewish majority.

Most Israel want the former. A hard core minority wants the latter.
The last few decades the latter set the tone because the dovish side of the map hadn't propose a viable course of action to change the status quo. The moderate majority is too scared and it lost faith in trying to reach a peace agreement again after the violence the last try brought, And the "death to israel" rhetoric of palestinian leaders.

So while the majority is pretty moderate, the perceived lack of partner basically put in power an extreme right minority. This might change as there's an undercurrent of population change, where the new majority might be less preoccupied with western values of democracy and citizen rights.
I'm not super hip to how BTC works, but doesn't a coin get created in the process of verifying a transaction? Like mining bitcoins involves finding constants that will produce so many zeros when appended to the record of the transaction and hashed, and you earn a bitcoin when you find such a constant
What kind of last ditch attempt of an argument is this to make crypto look better. By that logic we're going to need to incorporate the energy required to dig the ore out of the ground to make crypto rigs and the entire history of computing into the equation.

All that's relevant is what it costs now or else we're going back to the beginning of the universe
I don't know, it seems to me that if you are a paying customer of IG/FB (OP argues they've paid 1000s of $ in ads) you should at least be able to call somebody and get off with a slap on the wrist.

Especially when the "crime" is downloading an excel with your followers -- that IG should provide on the first place.
Who provided this data ? We used WAY WAY WAY less energy in Brazil. Maybe the US is indeed the new third world country.
I was working at an influencer marketing company just after the CA. They lost their API access and mostly it seemed like it was teh fallout from CA. But the CEO talked to the guy in charge of Instagram for Europe and he said the main issue Facebook has with it is that they're not part of the value chain. Basically, you're competing with us for marketing on our platform we're going to hinder your ability to do so. To me, how they lock people out of Insta is not about what CA did, it's about stopping competitors.
There are two pieces of TLA+ and formal modeling that I don't get. (And I'm pretty sure all the authors and documenters have tried their best at explaining it again and again, but maybe asking the question again is not useless.)

1. Given you have to learn the language, and, at first, you don't know it - how do you even trust that you're writing a proof right, and that you're not simply writing gibberish ? TDD has code execution as an "arbiter of peace". If, when calling a function, you get an unexpected result, then... you did something wrong.

If my TLA+ set of rules holds, how do I get confidence that I wrote the right set of rules ?

2. Once I've got a set of rule that I decided to trust, when I implement it and I get bugs (as demonstrated by executable code) ; how do I decide if the most plausible cause is a bug in my code, or a bug in the spec ?

Maybe it becomes obvious once you've done it, and I'm sorry to be the million'th to say such nonsense. Sorry.
Monero will hopefully make it hard enough that governments can't discover the information without significant effort. They'll probably still be able to target specific individuals but perhaps we can stop dragnet surveillance of everyone.
Not sure why Visa is a relevant comparison.

I can setup a dozen nodes on AWS and build a crypto with a million times the transaction capacity of Bitcoin. Obviously the downside to this is centralization; someone can be banned or censoredfor any reason.

Blockchains are first decentralized, permissionless, censorship resistant solutions.
So another story about Bitcoin‘s energy consumption. Sigh. What we should really be interested in is its actual carbon foot print. You can’t just translate energy usage into CO2 emissions. These are a function of geolocation and energy efficiency of the underlying hardware. It’s actually pretty tricky to calculate that.

If anybody's interested, here is a careful analysis of Bitcoin's carbon foot print (2019): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243511...

TL;DR: While there is this "energy consumption of Argentina" number in circulation implying Bitcoin's carbon emissions equates that of a whole developed country, in reality this number is closer to that of Kansas City.
That it's still useless.
Arm isn't TSO. As long as the internal instruction stream maintains dependency information independent pieces of code could be completed and written back to memory at any time.

Basically the whole, "put it back in order" bits only have to happen around memory barriers because the visibility of writes isn't guaranteed otherwise.

Whether this matters given large write combining/writeback buffering that queues up early writes until the later writes have completed is one of those decade+ long arguments.
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How much does it cost to run the US treasury though?