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Bill has said a lot of things over the years. Watch him at all things digital next to jobs, the only reason for his success was his cut-throat practices. Not a visionary.
Fifty something years of more or less the same type of international efforts didn't really work, that's why I think something extraordinary is needed.

Trump is not here anymore, but I don't think his efforts actually made the situation harder to solve, this is a misconception, they did push the Palestinians to a corner and they lost some Arab support, but it could have led to new negotiations where the Palestinians are pushed by this reduced support and Israel is pushed by behind the scenes threats from Trump to lose support.

The Palestinians nothing more than a play tool for other Arab nations, not just the Gulf states. Even their close neighbors, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Egypt, are not big fans
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With the current C# compiler and JIT, using generics to avoid a virtual function call works if the dependencies are structs, but not if they are classes.

That said, in my experience it's very hard to get performance gains through inlining in C# because the compiler is very conservative about what it will inline, even if you instruct it to aggressively inline a method (there is no way to force inlining in C#). IIRC this was a conscious decision by the C# team after they did some experiments and found that the benefit of fewer function calls from inlining was outweighed by the negative impact of increased code size on the instruction cache hit rate in all but the most trivial functions.

That decision makes it very hard to get some of the huge inlining wins that you see sometimes in C++ where essentially the compiler can recognize that once you recursively inline a few layers of abstraction you're in a special case that is known at compile time and a ton of code can be eliminated.

With that kind of situation off the table, a virtual method call that always goes to the same implementation will not cost you very much compared to directly calling the implementation method. It amounts to the difference between a branch and an indirect branch in machine code, and modern hardware has indirect branch predictors that will do a very good job when the indirect branch always goes to the same implementation.
> Seriously, don't use this tool.

Horrible take.

I use the tool for all of my blog posts. It’s a stellar tool with a couple of killer features. I 100% promise if you the tool it will improve the quality of your writing.

That said, it does not identify “good writing” or “bad writing”. It is not sacrosanct. And it definitely can’t write for you.

It’s perfectly valid to leave in yellow or red sentences. But the tool helps make it a conscious decision when to do so.
If I want to learn blockchain, would these two be good projects to start with?
Nano uses a voting consensus algorithm. There’s no staking, no transaction fees, and a fixed supply.
Bill Gates and other government lobbyists are bad for the planet. You are con, Bill, and we all know it.
I don't think it's a good measure of overall quality. But if the writing became less crisp (as the article claims) I'd expect the score to change.
Except credit card transaction isn't settlement, it's a temporary transfer until it settles, more akin to lightning network. Lightning network barely uses any energy fwiw.
Bank holiday?
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Lebanon could join in the future as could other countries, if this project goes through
In short, "validators" (which replace miners) put up some crypto, and in return get to validate transactions.

If a validator approves a fraudulent transaction (as determined by other validators), they lose their stake.
Oh wow it's almost completely okay with Hemingway. I pasted some of his work in and it had almost no complaint at all. Good point.
That is an advantage, because?

Venezuela, please. Bitcoin is never going to replace the ability of a sovereign state from issuing its own obligations. And as always it is the credibility of that sovereign state that will determine the value of those obligations.
What usage? Isn't bitcoin used only for speculation, and a bit of crime on the side? I'm not aware of any usage for bitcoin that isn't purely commodity trading (with zero actual underlying value) or scams.
What defines a currency being "better" than another? Is it number of transactions? Is it acceptance among merchants? Is it low fees? Is it stability in purchasing power? Is it likelihood that there will be a fatal flaw in the system that causes financial loss?

Every project has its own strengths and weaknesses, but it's hard to argue that Bitcoin isn't the best on many of those measures. It's all about which of them you as an individual value most.
Yep :/ Nothing is going to improve when none of the people who want things to improve can bear to stay.
So I don't know anything about this app really or its evaluations but I think applying it to acclaimed fiction is not a criticism of applying it to a newspaper article per se.

News articles are meant to convey concrete information relatively concisely. So metrics like sentence length and complexity and adverb count are at least in theory valid things for it to measure and aim to reduce.

Now whether it effectively measures those things I have no idea or opinion about. I didn't know it existed until ten minutes ago but if I had I definitely would have predicted that most highly respected fiction would break its rules all over the place.
That's still equating technological deflation with (absence of) money-induced inflation, and it still assumes that the more powerful computer can displace the effects of food price inflation (or that the out-of-date computer can keep up with the same present needs).

Also, Dudley said:

>>“Today you can buy an iPad 2 that costs the same as an iPad 1 that is twice as powerful,”
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Populism here is unbearable.

The energy consumption of BTC is 'very bad' , full stop.

It has nothing to do with Gates or the fact that he said it.
Yes but the Very Smart Very Intellectual Hacker News is a boon for humanity.
Why is it weird to be critical of MS or Gates? They've definitely earned the suspicion with their own actions.

Gates has nothing to do with Bitcoin, his opinion here is worthless.
Is there a reason we should appeal to Bill Gates on this discussion?
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Yes, the tool isn't great. But it provides a sanity check to confusing run on sentences or use of adverbs and passive voice.

I also pasted the first page of The Lottery, and it scored it a Grade of 11, Readability: OK, compared to a 14 on the Times article.

Do you find the times article mentioned easy to read or well written?
Yes it is published to IPFS and Hypercore. The footer has the ipns:// and hyper:// links, and they "<a href>"-linked to IPFS and Hypercore gateways. You can access them directly on the DWeb networks with browsers like Brave (for IPFS), more on that here:

https://one.compost.digital/about/#a-distributed-press

On Beaker you'll have to use the hyperdrive key until DNS support is added:

hyper://dcbc7c15c1682caf55a9ea6287d13a36b064164aa5b1e86f0961f89eb18e1d5f

Apologies for the missing context. We also wrote a bit here about why we are publishing to the Decentralized Web:

https://github.com/hyphacoop/distributed-press-organizing/wi...
Proof of stake crypto currencies are just as secure.
>They even fail at all attempts to expand up the value chain around services or refining of their oil.

What are you talking about? Saudi Aramco has extensive refining capabilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco#Refining_and_chem...

They got into exploration, and shipping as well.

So they ABSOLUTELY build successes around the cash cow, just like google.
these people had fiduciary duties to make money for their investors. they've only lived in that world their entire life. It doesn't matter what they say about things. Read, learn and make your own conclusions if you will.

and as Linus Torvalds simply put it decades ago: that these people are out there to make money and not make world a better place even if they pretend .
Ethereum is already transitioning to proof-of-stake which has a number of benefits including much lower power usage. I'm so tired of people equating bitcoin with all cryptocurrencies.
Bingo. That is the other corollary we can derive. Any product that can give google reams of data on its users that it does not already have will enjoy a long tenure in its stable of products.

Reams of data means both depth and scale. Missing either one would mean an early death.
You have five dependents, stock up.

In a crisis bad enough that your prudence and foresight significantly affects other people by depriving them of food you can give them some of your food.

But in that situation you're probably done for already, and should have gone up in the hills, eh?

John Titor said something that scared the shit out of me. Paraphrasing, it was something like, "If you want to survive, move to a place three days further out than a starving person can walk."

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor "John Titor is a name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be an American military time traveler from 2036." )

If you're worried about the collapse of civilization then, no, stocking up is not going to help as much as just getting way the hell out there in the woods and being self-sufficient. You'll be rolled by starving people. ("People always raid before they starve." https://spaswell.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/dr-gwynne-dyer-geo... )

For disasters less severe than that, then YES! Stocking up is the responsible thing to do and we should all do it as a matter of course, virus or no virus.
For kicks, I threw a few paragraphs from The old man and the sea to see if the editor displayed any deference to its namesake. Red all over, "very hard to read", "use of the passive voice".
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That clarifies things, thanks!
True, yes. Functional, eh?

What # election are they on? Four in the last 2 years?
If you want to bash Crypto please offer an alternative to the issues around fiat. If the USD were tied to gold again I would sell all my Bitcoin and I'd say most other would too. Bitcoin is just an escape hatch from mismanaged monetary policy.
Excel just works so well, almost too well. Wanna share some formulas? Excel. Finance calculator? Excel. A small (<2000 lines) database? Excel. Even with Python for Google Sheets, I sometimes want to rip my hair out when I use Google Sheets compared to Excel (though the Google Python is pretty useful for autogenerated sheets).
If Excel can handle >1m rows, all these "Big Data" analysis will just mean a bigger spreadsheet.
The only reason proof of work is working for Bitcoin is because of the amount of hashing power put into it.

Nearly every other bitcoin fork can suffer a 50% attack because the network is sufficiently small that one can rent enough hashing power to attack it (see Bitcoin Gold).

Alternate coins absolutely need some other mechanism to secure their chain that doesn't require a critical mass.
His status as rich tech billionaire doesn't make a difference unless he is making arguments that are new or interesting. And he isn't. We've all been hearing the environment argument for years now.

Plus, there is obviously an argument to be made that he has had a negative overall influence on the world & therefore shouldn't be trusted.
His comment still does not make sense as a reply. I'll admit my response was poor as well.
And his private jets, etc.
Yup, any kind of automatic quality assessment tool is made with the assumption that quality is even something that can be measured objectively.

Zoe Bee recently made a pretty good video about why this falls completely flat for grammar (rather than just appealing to "X is good, Y disagrees, Y must be wrong"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5rB9jDbTPU
I've just read the chapters on VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3 in "Founders at Work". It looks like VisiCalc made the Apple II take off back in the early days. And Lotus 1-2-3 addressed all the pain points people had with it a few years later on a more powerful platform (PC). Interesting stuff for sure. Why do I discover this book 12 years after it was published?
Probably because twice the amount of transactions do require as much energy as half of the amount of transactions or as much energy as no transactions at all, i.e. Bitcoin's energy usage depends on the difficulty of mining a block which is not affected by the number of transactions in a block.
There is no colonisation to justify or otherwise, there was a continuous use of the land by Jewish people since this time. The name 'Palestinea' only came about as a punishment by the Romans for Simon bar Kokhba.

Not that Wikipedia itself is a good source, but thi has a bunch of references:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_bar_Kokhba

> In the aftermath of the war, Hadrian consolidated the older political units of Judaea, Galilee and Samaria into the new province of Syria Palaestina, which is commonly interpreted as an attempt to complete the disassociation with Judaea.
Bitcoin is bad for the environment, for now. There is no way to value Bitcoin. It has no intrinsic value. Its valuation is a narrative. The higher the price goes, the more energy we'd spend on mining it. I call this the Bitcoin Price Paradox [1]. But it's not all hopeless. We can find a way to ground Bitcoin to reality by develop non-speculative use-cases. Then we can develop a valuation model. I believe the key to solving this paradox is to have an inflationary crypto. It can drive payment adoption. I'm involved with Bitflate, a crypto with 7% inflation [2]. Once we have payment adoption, we can create valuation models and control energy spend on mining.

[1] https://bitflate.org/post/2021/02/05/the-bitcoin-price-parad...

[2] https://bitflate.org/bitflate.pdf
> From a finance perspective there's no difference between a house and a share in a corporation. They're both productive assets that provide returns. In the case of a house, it provides shelter as a service, which can either be consumed by the owner (by living it it), or by selling it (renting it out). The only difference is that with a house, the relation to you is more direct, as opposed to a tiny fraction of a multinational entity.

From a finance perspective, theres no difference between food and a share in a corporation. They're both productive assets that provide returns. In the case of food, it provides sustenance as a service, which can either be consumed by the owner (by eating it), or by selling it (on the side of the road, or in a restaurant.) The only difference is that with food, the relation to you is more direct, as opposed to a tiny fraction of a multinational entity, and it depreciates much faster.

/s/

when you have a hammer, everything is a nail. When you see the world through finance, everything is a series of cashflows. The ability of a worldview to be applied to many things does not mean it is applied well to those things.

The primary purpose of a house is to, well, house people. Shelter is a necessity. People who are most vulnerable to inflation are the poor, who mostly rent, and thus pay current market prices. They also pay the most for healthcare on a per care instance basis, and often pay for college with expensive debt (5%) if they go to college.

If CPI, etc, are not measuring these price changes, perhaps we should use another measure that does.
>Right, but in most markets rent prices track property values. The long-term upward trend in housing prices is inflation to approximately everyone who doesn't own a house. Which, significantly, includes approximately everyone under the age of 20 or not yet born.

and that's fine, because rents are tracked directly in the CPI.

>But most people are not buying housing primarily as an investment. Most people are buying housing primarily as a way to shelter themselves from the elements.

That's what they tell themselves, but from an analytical perspective there's no difference between buying a $1M house that provides you $5000/month return in the form of imputed rent, and buying $1M in stocks/bonds that provides you $5000/month return in cash, which you can use to pay rent.
Lately I use OvermindJS for state management in React. From devs perspective it is as simple as Mobx, but better, promotes nice separation of concerns and has good typescript support (improvers in the @next tag to be released soon)
Redux has its uses but 95% of projects are better without it.
In linguistics, these kinds of implicatures (e.g. Can you pass the salt?) are called pragmatics. Sometimes people like to play dumb but with rare exception they do understand what is being implied. This can be irritating.
Kind of funny the goal of crypto was a total new, decentralized, democratic system, and what we end up (to solve the scale issue), is yet another class system where you can vote only in proportion to your wealth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_qualification
It, and any kind of infrastructure, would be a prime target - assuming that is what they want. But infrastructure represents value, destroying a country's powergrid and connections like that is only a thing if your aim is complete destruction.

Ideally, in war, you destroy their military, or at least damage it enough for the other party to concede and discuss peace terms, and leave the rest alone.

WW2 was, I believe, the last war where they went for complete destruction of infrastructure, industry, and civilians. The Allies firebombed Dresden and nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is estimated that 50-55 million civilians died in WW2, of which part due to disease and famine. No conflict since has had that high a civilian casualty rate.
Since you asked: nano is the only _pure_ cryptocurrency using a variant of PoS called Open Representative Voting. Other projects are piling on features to chase trends (defi, smart contracts).
The inherent problem with having multiple functions, is that it inevitably takes away from the primary purpose of pure store and transfer of value. Cash for example, can only be cash and has no utility except that of being stored, or switched for a good or service, or another form of cash from another country. If cash suddenly had a "feature" (such as fees, rewards, etc), the feature in itself will suddenly take priority over cash's original purpose of being a means of exchange and store of value. Transfer and store of value can't be separated. In order for something to be a good store of value, it needs to be a good transfer of value.

Taken from a Q&A with nano's creator[1] around a question of why doesn't nano implement smart contracts:

> Smart contracts can’t cause side effects to happen. They can’t move property and they can’t negotiate unforeseen disputes. When you carefully look at it, all smart contracts take the form of a prepayment and slow release of locked-up funds. People haven’t and won’t use this for multiple reasons. Economically the opportunity cost of locked-up funds means they can’t be used elsewhere while locked up. From a practical standpoint, something simple like a rental smart contract could mean you’d have to lock up your year’s rent to slowly trickle out to your landlord. People simply don’t have this much money to lock up. Smart contracts can’t sample unforeseen circumstances, something like a judge ruling in contradiction to a smart contract means it will continue to operate incorrectly given the new situation. Oracles in smart contracts will very quickly become infeasible. Consider writing a contract about a building in a remote town, who is the person that’s going to go on location, make the determination, and feed the input into the system? How are we sure they aren’t coerced to lie?

[1] https://changenow-io.medium.com/ama-with-nanos-founder-colin...
A warning for what? Apple Watch doesn’t have a charging port
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The type of person hackernews respects the most - a billionaire - told them that their favourite toy is bad.
> There's a big difference between scraping and posting.

We do not know what the 3rd party software does or how it does it.

> Then we used a program to analyze our followers

This suggests it does way more than post.
How so? Seems correct to me. Just this morning I had the choice of paying for groceries either with Bitcoin or by launching a violent invasion of the store.
I have a suspicion that this might have something to do with the large Leviathan Gas field find off the coast of Israel along with some recent finds.

https://www.haaretz.com/largest-natural-gas-reserve-discover...

The reserve, Leviathon, is the largest amount of natural gas discovered in the world in the last decade and is located in approximately 5,400 feet (1,645 meters) of water, about 130 kilometers offshore of Haifa and 29 miles (47 kilometers) southwest of the Tamar discovery.

It would certainly make sense for Israel to get into the generation business and sell power to others. The country is too small to otherwise make use of 16 trillion cubic feet of NatGas for personal consumption. I was also under the assumption they were building a gas pipeline to Europe.
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1700km underwater?
I started with a combination of crypto basics + bitcoin and Cardano. The combination was great imo.
Your government can force you to do or give them anything, don't think math will stop them from trying. If they fail, they'll just lock you up.
This, I find, to be the biggest flaw with crypto in general.
That's discussed in the article.
It's odd to me that people think Bitcoin can be free of "force" long term. Bad guys can point a gun at your head and demand you login into Coinbase to transfer coins to them. What happens if the government makes Microsoft give them admin accounts to the Bitcoin repo? What happens if there is a fork and China doesn't like it and prohibits miners from adopting it? BTC is way more susceptible to traditional military and government might then people make it out to be.