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Isn't this that thing Bill Gates is doing? Doesn't it already come with the Covid vaccine?
Don't give the HN crowd any insight on what Bitcoin really is.

They have been bashing Bitcoin for a long time, and they still don't get it. They downvote and fight whoever tries to bring some different perspectives to the discussion.

HN people are the types who believe they're "saving the planet", and they're fixated on the idea that Bitcoin is evil due to its energy consumption.

Let them learn the hard way. If they get any clue on what Bitcoin is, there's the risk they may get rich and attain some power in the future, which will only make matters worse.
Near misses make for amazing stories. If you are thinking of telling a near miss story, do it!
Life is pretty great here. The low salaries are a bit disappointing, but other aspects of life (including vacation time and work/life balance) is far superior. Sometimes the money is just not a good enough reason to leave.

However, if the money can increase here, and we can stay here, then yes please!
Brian Christian on the Alignment Problem
How about taking explicit consent before tracking users and not tracking them everywhere they go (both digitally and physically)? Users should expect a right to privacy and control over their own data.
1. The current BLS weights for Education is 3.033%, for Tobacco and smoking products 0.608%, that's 20%, not >50% [1].

2. There are around 20mln Americans in college, versus around 34mln adult smokers. Be careful about peer-group bias: how many of your friends smoke, how many went to college?

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2020.htm
Hmm I don't know it might be wrong. But a few people from different circles commented on my hand gestures, one said I have very expressive hand gestures, the other said I "talk like an Italian". None of this is bad of course, they were not pejorative remarks, but it made me think my hand gestures are probably too expressive for sn average American? I don't know. Who knows maybe these comments were biased too, or maybe my hand gestures are too extreme even for my own culture. Anyway, all I know is, "talking with your hands" is definitely an integral component of how I speak.
It's probably all construction crews and heavy machinery operators at Boca Chica. Any engineers, or other high maintenance types, likely fly in for test launches and then fly right back out.
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> This is demand-pull inflation

This is not demand-pull inflation. People are not eating more than they were a few months ago.

This is supply constraints making their way up the chain, constraints in the supply of shipping and in the supply of produce.
In FairEmail, the "preview" is to show you exactly what URL is about to be opened, and give you the chance to force it to HTTPS, or remove known tracking parameters from it.

It also warns you prominently if the link's text differs from the target address, and allows you to pick which you actually want to visit (good for newsletters that mangle links for click tracking, but which show the raw link in the text).

Tapping a link will pop this box up, without the site being alerted, giving you the chance to decide whether you want to actually visit it or not.
what a waste of intellect
>I am originally from Zimbabwe and have much to say about trusting the government with insuring the value of cash...

Have you ever thought about how to boost the economy and thus the ability to exchange zimbabwean dollars for more services and goods? Because that is what is necessary to get the zimbabwean dollar back in order.

Anything whose price is going up is scare and its domestic production must be expanded.
In principle, people participate in the IETF as individuals, though in practice it matters who they are employed by.
Did you try throwing any Hemingway in there? :)

I agree, Hemingway is a useful tool for editing, but it's not any kind of authority on what "good" or "bad" writing is. It's great for reducing your word count during final edit, but that's about it.
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It's a fair question, but the whole point of Axelrod /The Selfish Gene / Cooperative Games is to call out how much a game theory approach would support strategies which are anti-Objectivist. Where contributing to the commons, investing in public good, cooperating, radically grows the pie to the point where it's in everyone's self interest to cooperate.

Basically, times in life where it's a 'positive sum' as opposed to 'zero-sum' game.

Non-zero by Robert Wright, is probably the best synthesis on this topic.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9526993-nonzero
I'm a fan of having some lacto fermented foods in my diet on the regular. seems to help with promoting a nice gut biome but that's just an anecdote. worst case kombucha and kimchi are tasty.
diversifying is not bad idea period. you should talk to a financial advisor about a good way to diversify. and if you get some kind push back you can just blame it on them.

if your an insider and you need to worry about signaling or legality. again probably need a financial planner.
ISO standards are often discussed at PostgreSQL conferences, and whenever possible they try to follow the standards. Sometimes standards are written after PostgreSQL implements a feature, and it some cases it seems like they are even written to accomodate PostgreSQL (eg. the SQL/JSON standard seems to take into consideration that a database might have multiple JSON types just like PostgreSQL)

But whenever the topic of standards comes up, someone immediately mentions the high price of the standards, and I think only some of the developers actually have a copy of the SQL standards.
> In theory if all btc miners used only renewables, the price of renewables would drop, and become more affordable for others, and the net impact on the environment would be positive.

No. If demand rises, so do prices. Not the other way round.
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Yeah I'm well aware. Despite not being a fan of bitcoin I'm sure many can claim entertainment value from it as well. Either tech or gambling.
So I guess its a matter of taste and for me they are both useless industries.
It gets even worse, the metric can harm. As suggested in the OP, if the number of lines of code you wrote was supposed to show your productivity, programmers will start optimizing for maximizing lines of code, which will make their code worse.

Goodhart's law rephrased by Marilyn Strathern: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

Campbell's law: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law
Maybe the Libertarian in me is coming out when I look at that chart, but it sure seems that the sectors of the economy that increased in price the most are also the most regulated and subsidized.
HelloKitty Ransomware Lacks Stealth, but Still Strikes Home
The data presented is still interesting and makes it more likely that we'll hear about how Brave is or isn't good from other sources doing similar analysis.
> There was enough time to switch to an alternative. You could easily export all the passwords and just import them into KeePassX and then either use that or shop around for an alternative.

You could, because you’re aware of alternatives and (presumably) have some prior knowledge of how they compare.

But plenty of people were already accustomed to the current deal and had no reason to shop for alternatives. Now they feel forced to and maybe don’t have the time or patience to deal with it in the given timeframe. Worse yet if they are the family’s support person who now has to find, understand, test, implement, and explain the new system to the relatives.

It’s annoying. At least with pre-paid software (or “perpetual fallback licenses”, like IntelliJ and Sketch), you know the thing will keep working in a certain configuration.
Well, yeah, the Beacon chain is running but shards is not live nor is the docking of Ethereum mainnet and Eth 2.0, so of course people are not really interested in building on it yet, it's barely in production. Once the two chains work together, I'm sure there will be an explosion of activity.

But until then, we can't really say that Ethereum is 100% PoS, although one pre-alpha project is.
Developing an underwater robot to save people from drowning
> ever mention the fact that you might even consider this to be a not-entirely-terrible thing

If I'm parsing this correctly, you mean that nuclear power is unpopular in France?
Tracking for improvement of a product or service etc. is different from tracking for exploitation.

Also the risks associated with are different since it would require different length of data preservation and anonymity.
Agreed that people don't understand that documentaries are still narrative. My cinema studies professor emphasized that it's impossible to make an unbiased documentary. You could take security cam footage and it'd still have some bias from where the camera was placed and which footage you decided to show.
So far Bitcoin mining is getting increasingly decentralized in practice - from China to Iran to US to Venezuela.
The Streetlight effect [0]. Just because you think that it is the only place that you can see anything doesn’t mean that it is meaningful to look there. A number with high precision doesn’t mean it will tell you anything meaningful. Some problems just don’t have any easy solutions.

So in your example, you just have to rely on the judgement of all your professional project leaders and architects and what they tell you.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect
"Position" implies you're salaried. A long term freelance career is more like a one-person consulting shop.
Miners access to change the code is the same as you and I. Bitcoin is open source and code changes are reviewed by layers and layers of developers and approvers. Take a look here: https://bitcoin.org/en/development#code-review

Not to mention, they literally have $ millions in vested interest in the success of BTC by virtue of setup and mining costs. Such a move, even hypothetically, unless it is justified somehow, will cause loss of faith in the value of BTC and the fall in the value of BTC will make them lose value in mining as they earn these in BTC as well.
The issue however is that demand for software engineers in continental europe is much lower than in the uk / london area. Maybe that changed with brexit and more companies relocating to europe, but unless eu countries invest in / stimulate tech companies not much will change.
When I took statistics in college, we started with a rather basic definition, something to the effect of: "A statistic is a function performed on a set." Statistics studies what you can infer when you know something about a set, but not everything about it, namely its precise contents. Often, what you are told about a set is something about its probability distribution, thus linking probability and statistics together.

A useful parallel can be drawn with situations involving measurements and data, since data often have the same feature of telling us something but not everything. This is what I believe makes statistics so useful for science.
Technically no. Prices rising, or falling are a byproduct of the inflation/deflation caused by the actions of a central bank.
They start with a 6/9/12 months contracts, but they extend the contract often in my experience. Freelancing is just charging your employer per hour with limited employee rights, but the period of the contract doesn't determine if something is a freelance job or not. Also the Dutch tax service isn't strict in checking freelance developers because they earn enough, but there is more discussion in the Netherlands for people that are being pushed into a freelancer position (Dutch people call this a `zzp'er`) for companies to lower the costs of the employer while the rights for the employee suffer.
Because that was what the main developer and founder Jeff Atwood was familiar with. And he really liked the stack.

> Atwood: We are not personally going to be language agnostic, because we need to actually build the site. And in terms of people actually working on it, Joel's in an advisory role, I'm gonna be writing code, and then a friend of mine, Jarrod, I'll be working very closely with. So it's sort of like 1.5 developers, so I need to actually get things done. In order to do that, I'm gonna fall back on what I know, and what I know is essentially ASP.NET. So ASP.NET is gonna be the platform. And I actually really like ASP.NET.

Episode 003 April 29, 2008, from the StackOverflow podcast.

https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W56

Analysis from 2008 about Scaling Up / Out. Electricity also is something you can't ignore.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/scaling-up-vs-scaling-out-hidd...

Ah, sorry, this is a discussion about SQL Server being expensive rather than .NET stack.
Out of interest, do you use a phone with a custom OEM firmware that has battery-saving features. I've seen issue with FairEmail (and other well-behaved foreground-service using apps) on some OEMs' firmwares. Heck, sometimes even big-name OEMs like Samsung cause issues.

On "pure" Android (thinking Pixel, and the relatively pure Motorola devices, etc.) there's no delays at all - it's really impressive. I'll get the notification on my phone consistently before on my PC.
It already is – in national constitutions, and both the EU and UN definitions of human rights.

The issue is with enforcement.
Lots of today's data collection, sale and use is illegal (often patently so).
Related :) https://twitter.com/tregoning/status/1286329086176976896
Aside: Oh Hitchens! There'l never be another like him. Every time I go back and read him, I get another take on the man and his messages; all not short enough, I'm afraid.

Each revision tends to oscillate wildly for me. I loathe him and I love him, rarely not at the same time.

Death, the artist, very slow; but you've heard that before.

His nom de guerre (l'auteur?) still rings true: A drink-sodden ex-Trotskyist popinjay. Rest well.
What library contains copies of ISO standards?
Are you guys depleting host or enriching microbial? Are you analyzing the data as a composition via log contrasts? Are you using available pipelines (kraken, metaphlan, etc) or something custom? Any plans on doing a functional pathway analysis (ie. humann pipeline) on top of the microbial analysis?
It's Hot Dog/Not Hot Dog but for creative writing.
Nope, it's still distributed consensus rather than centralized. If one banker stops being nice, he'll loose all his funds. The current system either ignores people not-being-nice or ejects them, but they'll never lose what they made.

Compared to PoS where the biggest incentive is to be nice.
1. You know how to program.

2. How does the UX for your R solution to the "DND Character Generation" problem compare to the screenshot from grandparent comment, for users not familiar with either R or Google Sheets?
Throwing out diversity because you don't see any immediate benefit is a great way to not have it when a different problem does show up.

I don't know about unique way, but MIPS certainly was good at embedded; there's plenty of networking gear using it.
Ex-finance guy here, though I went against the grain and didn't go for financial companies, trying to stay close to where you came from is a solid strategy. Especially if you have some sort of business experience and a level of maturity about you, a lot of companies will be quite eager to take you on because you know the field.
I doubt its that easy - immigrating to the us is pretty difficult compared to other countries. Take canada and their express entry program - although salaries are pretty low there.
>Depose the leaders, have a free election, and many of those complaints go away.

I love when people oversimplify things like that.
Interesting, but the author murdered his father over a minor disagreement and stole his car and a large sum of cash.

It does't concern me that he does't have a chess set.
Twitter has just not removed stuff as well so I don't think that is actually a difference between them.
Society is a system not a collection of individuals. You are talking about some idealistic system that does not exist anywhere. People are easily mislead by corrupt media spreading lies and doubt about anyone.

Powerful interests can derail any threat to them. This is why things seldom change in any real way. Take US presidential candidates Andrew Yang or Tulsi Gabbard. Completely reasonable politicians who had to deal with constant lies about them being spread by the media.
Here's a good summary of the stock option backdating scandal.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/options-b...

It was because the paperwork for the option grants were being written at the end of the month with a date based on the lowest price during the preceding month, a common practice at the time, but one that misrepresented when the options were actually granted, thereby enriching grantees at the expense of shareholders.
Ah, the old fallacy of "If they charge money for it, it must be good!"

Meanwhile, Oracle out here laughing their way to the bank.
When I overlay the population density map, on top of the elevation map. I think there aren’t many opportunities in Texas for grid scale pumped hydro storage. Although pumped hydro has huge potential it is not homogeneously distributed all over the world according to this map. https://www.hydroreview.com/world-regions/22-million-gwh-of-...
They might also pull out some krypton for Starlink and Xenon for ion thrusters on other satellites.

AFAICT, thescriptkiddie is talking about an electrolysis plant to create hydrogen, and then a Sabatier plant to create methane from that hydrogen and atmospheric CO2 from the air liquidation stack.

This would not make sense economically, but they have two good reasons for doing this.

1: using a carbon-neutral fuel would be on-message for Elon Musk and would mitigate a major criticism of frequent spaceflight.

2: They're going to have to do something similar on Mars to create fuel for the return flight home. So doing it at scale on Earth first may help them debug the process before trying to do it on Mars.
The whole article is about this study if anyone wants to skip to the source: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3368089.3409712

tldr; More students solved the problem when there was no proctor in the room. The effect was especially pronounced with women.
All the arguments I've read from cost to where the get them apply to Europe as well?
I'm sure homeless people here as well tend to not have renewed documents if you talk about class.
At least you could try a quick googling before you write a comment.
Cardano is still being ran by the company/foundation behind it. It is yet to transition to actual PoS.
This is fantastic news. As a reference point, in Denmark the highest software engineering salary I've seen is €120.000, which was at a large Danish corp. I'd love more data points.
> All this talk about simplicity but still many AWS services are way more complicated than they should be.

Agree. It isn't that AWS hasn't gotten anything wrong. There's plenty services languishing in mediocrity or worse (Ever see anyone recommend Flexible Payment Service over Stripe, or CloudFormation over Terraform?)

For services that are popular, it so happens that AWS favours iteration: There's always a tension between what to leave out and what to build, but as Werner explains, AWS prefers its customers drive the roadmap rather than having to invent everything all at once which makes it too difficult to later change course (see: SimpleDB vs DynamoDB) in an industry that changes very fast.

Also, simple and easy don't quite mean the same things :) but I get your gripe. That's why I believe platforms like Cloudflare Workers, Firebase, Heroku, Fly.io, StackPath EdgeEngine will thrive despite the existence of larger cloud providers.
This is a great idea.

You mention:
"We noticed that the people we admired used plain lists on their personal websites"

Any way to collect book reccomendations from public sources and preload it? I imagine this maybe some manual work but the utility will be great.

For e.g.:
Gates - https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Summer-Books-202...
Collision : https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf
Andreessen - https://www.goodbooks.io/people/marc-andreessen

Btw - I just noticed while googling that this may be what GoodBooks.io is attempting
Right. We changed the URL from https://tuxphones.com/mips-joins-risc-v-open-hardware-standa..., which points to that. Thanks!
Yes, mankind got advance enough to study it, but ended up spending all its money on celebrities and building stuff that nobody really need.

I wonder how anyone is able to study them while making skin care products that never work are more profitable than vaccine research.

You read history and wonder why many emperors wasted their resources on building palaces with gold, but we're even more inefficient today if you compare our resources and population. It's more attractive for kids to become an influencer than a scientist today and probably it always has been just like this.
By stopped, I meant a situation where they don't just wave you through the checkpoint.

The dog they use around the car is to let them harass certain people based on what the dog handler thinks of them. https://health.ucdavis.edu/welcome/features/2010-2011/02/201...
This is neither projection, nor a deflection due to myself not being trustworthy and I find it strange that one would jump first to this. No, it's situational due to life experience lived. People can and do take advantage of systems, which is more to the point of what drew libertarians to Bitcoin. Now move along.
True, but you missed the underlying concept of this statement.

The trend of innovation is increasingly becoming grassroots-driven.

In part, that's because our fundamental research advancement has stagnated, i.e., the nation states can no longer steadily produces ground breaking tech that leaves the industry to adopt. As a result the adopt of standards become more relevant to SMBs and individuals.

On the other hand, Internet has driven down the knowledge acquisition cost to probably bare minimal. I.e., modern days, one who has good understanding of English can learn pretty much any highest-level of knowledge almost for free. The SMBs and individuals are becoming more and more sophisticated, making them gradually become competent to be involved in the standardization process.

In short, ISO's practice is fine looking from a perspective of 10 years ago, but it's now wrong.
Not really the point. Also he wasn't the ban was on the entire prison with a hundreds or thousands of others.
I would add that "How the Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk" should be a core part of Infosec literature.
Actually, laws are kind of hidden behind paywalls! For most laws, I wouldn't trust my own judgement on their interpretation and would have to pay a lawyer.
A smaller currency would be at risk but the upside would also be smaller. Generally speaking there doesn't seem to be an incentive large enough to justify the enormous costs associated with a 51% attack.
Is Bitcoin king on security and decentralization because of anything in the protocol, or because it has the most miners?
to be fair, they are making this change somewhat. on PS5, Ps Plus members have access to the “PS Plus Collection” which is I believe 15-20 of the best PS4 games, and one free PS5 game a month in addition to the usual PS Plus offerings.
To satisfy a DFW style it'd need to understand 2 page long sentences with multiple footnotes per sentence. Haha. It would be a fun one to do though! (I say that loving DFW)