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> Assets are items that generate cash flow.

I would disagree with that. Stocks that don't pay dividends don't generate cash flow either. Assets are items that are bought with the intention for them to generate value. That value might be cash flow, or it might be an increase in value so that you can sell it later. Not all assets generate cash in real time (most don't).

A house is an asset because a) it allows you to pay your liabilities for housing into an equity generating account, and b) people generally expect them to increase in value.

To put it another way, if they weren't an asset, people wouldn't care if they depreciated. I don't care that my car depreciates because it isn't an asset; I don't expect it to increase its value or hold its value.
We had a HN thread a few weeks back on the K-9 Donations blog, basically the K-9 Play version is still the old client UI (but the betas are not 100% feature complete); you can opt-in to the K-9 beta on Play or F-Droid and get the new UI experience if some features like IMAP IDLE are not that important to you. (side comment, the new K-9 betas allow export/import of settings but not sure about the older version you're currently using)
Indeed, and the most common use case most people will have a tactile connection to is Fedex envelopes.
How about the energy footprint of all the people that work for Visa ?
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That's assuming that these species won't just be eventually reintroduced through food, air, human interaction etc.
Can you launch over the great lakes? Or a desert? Also, what about the east coast? Sure, there was Sandy, but it was nothing compared to what happens in the gulf with regularity. Part of my hunch is that the regulatory environment is favorable in nowhere, TX to bring in potentially polluting industry. No chance Elon could have had a launch site built on the tip of Montauk, for example, although he probably would have loved the press of him self driving from the city to there.
Safes exist. There's no reason to have $4000 in a till.

Besides, even without cash, you're still going to get robbed. They'll just take merchandise instead of cash.
I bet you'll get bored of project manager too. Will probably be novel for a year or so but then get boring.

Are there jobs that hire machine learning professionals without PhDs? I think the field is pretty specialized and not something you can just 'get into'. Could be wrong on that.

Going backend would really bump up your skill. I'm back end and you can go super deep into the stack i.e. all the way to the hard ware.

There's IoT, robotics, data science, cloud engineering, back end web dev, etc.

And it's a good combination with front end.

Or go hard core front end and get in 3d animation, interactive media, and make super cool and advanced front end shit.

I have the opposite problem, I have too much stuff I want to do.
Reporters were never good at writing. Now that all the editors are gone we can see the difference.
Yeah, but does this compare the cost of creation of the currency? Isn't that what's (fallaciously) being compared here?

How much does it cost to create a US dollar, to be able to have transactions with it? Did it take 100 years of faith in the US credit to establish that? How much energy was that?
EEZ: Exclusive Economic Zone

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

(new acronym for me, and I imagine a few others too)
> Do they have 1000s of office all around the world with 100s of thousands working in offices and branches like banking industry?

Banking does a lot more than payments. Most people working at banks do not work on payments.
As a Canadian that is also a US permanent resident, yes, ICE and CBP have broad authority to set up checkpoints pretty much wherever they please. "100 miles" includes the coastline. They also can do warrant-free detention, and there have been cases of US citizens detained, sometimes for over a week IIRC, over nothing more than suspicion on the part of the ICE officer than the person in question wasn't actually a citizen.

Where it gets dicey is that they can stop you, but constitutionally they can't force you to produce documentation or detain you. But not many people actually know that, or can stomach saying no to federal officers, and so in practice they can.

It is a part of US law that has a great deal of grey area. The policy was retained under Obama and Trump expanded it although not really by very much. In general the abuses seem to be limited but that's not a great deal of consolation.
Based off of current GPU availability (which isnt mining bitcoin per se but is) does cover coins which are comparable) I would say no, Bitcoin probably has more physical locations and more people involved
I mean, I know people are commenting on whether the comparison is valid, but regardless, the BTC energy cost at at 741 kWh for a single transaction is pretty close to the average monthly household energy usage in the US of 867 kWh [1]. That seems pretty nuts on its face to me.

[1] https://electricityplans.com/kwh-kilowatt-hour-can-power/
VISA (or Mastercard) do not 'run on top of' SWIFT. The net position of each VISA/MC institution will be transferred with SWIFT, but this is one payment with potentially millions of underlying card transactions.
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My main problem with most journalism today is the overuse of loaded adjectives specifically, but loaded language in general.

It's rare to find a news story at all these days that reports something as

'X happened on this day. A and B parties were involved. Y was the consequence of X.'

Instead news.is always reported more like.

'&adjective, &adjective X was the most &loaded_descriptor event ever. The &negative_adjective, &dehumanizing_term A's, &negative_adjective &negative_verb the &positive_adjective B's. Everybody should hate the &negative_adjective A's.'
The progression of headlines is funny:

1) MIPS Strikes Back: 64-bit Warrior I6400 Arrives https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8258092

We are still in the game

2) Linux-running MIPS CPU available for free to universities – full Verilog code https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9444567

Okay, we are not doing so great, maybe we can get young kids hooked?

3) MIPS Goes Open Source https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18701145

Open Source is so hip and pop these days, lets do that!

4) Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19460470

Yeah, sure, that'll happen

5) Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving and More https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22950848

Whoops

6) Loose Lips Sink MIPS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24402107

And there is the answer to the question from previous headline

And now we are here.
There are 8000+ cryptocurrencies, some (or a lot?) of them are bitcoin clones. Most of them issue millions and billions of those digital items. It's not scarce at all.
What is the SPARC64 use case in Japan? Supercomputing?
They have to be careful because they won't be able to collect taxes. There are 2 types of taxes. Direct and Inflationary.

The second one is gone because control of money supply is gone and as far as the first one the govt can trace funds in your bank accounts but it's going to have a really hard time if someone holds crypto currency and is intent on not disclosing their real wealth.
What all of these analyses fail to realize is that the network is just used for clearing most of trading and payments are actually done off network.
Think of the difference between energy used to buy gold (just buy GLD) vs energy used to move physical gold. (Fuel + Security etc)
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> However, I want to understand why using banks or FinTech companies for money transfer is so bad?

I've never done it, but when I lived abroad and I had to transfer money, I got fleeced by banks and then (a few years ago) there weren't really any alternatives. I don't have any skin in the game with Bitcoin, but I guess that left a foul taste in my mouth.

There've been other comments about Bitcoin that are a bit more nuanced and interesting, in one case there was a gentleman from Argentina making an impassioned case for the use over and against the polices of his government.

I think there's an element of institutional mistrust that Bitcoin claims - maybe wrongly, given how centralized it is - to solve.
>> "Then, like a lot of Microsoft products, leaves you hanging when it's time to get serious."

This is like a moving company saying their small moving vans "left them hanging" once they outgrew them and started doing national vs. local moves. A tool that proves useful at one stage is not useless because it can't be as useful at ALL stages.

The great thing about Excel as it enables you to do the one thing that kills most start-ups, projects, etc., which is simple to start.
Depends where you look. Hard to see IBM's z/Architecture dying out in that timeframe (the latest branding for S/360-derived mainframes), for example, and the embedded space is likely to remain an odd bestiary for quite some time.
Yes, but I figured MS compensation is more similar to other FAANG companies than non FAANG companies for the purposes of someone looking for a higher paying job.
https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson as an example that fits in the "outside-of-a-conventional-SIMD-workload" mold.
Like Washington, Oregon, Michigan or NY?

Isn't the latitude the most important characteristic?
After newspapers got rid of "rewrite".

Back when newspaper content came mostly from reporters who went out into the real world, newspapers had "Rewrite". Reporters would phone in stories, and Rewrite would rewrite them. They'd rewrite the copy in house style, and maybe look up some file info to add to the story. Then stories were passed to editors, who would edit them, putting copy-editing marks on them. Finally they went to the composing room, where typesetters typing on Linotypes would apply the editing corrections and often catch spelling errors. The copy of each story was tweaked by at least three people.

Now, it's direct from author's keyboard to publication. The only intervention is spell check.
Blockchain is a technology in search of a problem.

Maybe as a storage of wealth it produces fewer emissions than mining gold but it's not the solution to the money problem.

Why it's still no 1 cryptocurrency? First mover advantage, a few die hard believers, many speculators and lots of FOMO.

Even I am reluctant to sell my 0.01 share of a bitcoin. What if...

When a much better solution comes people will sell it but for now the fiat-alternative market is too crowded with not much differentiation - to my best knowledge.
It's a service that requires constant server support for users beyond the initial purchase, unless they price it to cover indefinite usage every sale eventually starts losing them money. What is their alternative?
There will always be moaning philistines and there will always be people who regard them with the contempt they deserve, so don’t despair.
If they factored in the other-bank transaction costs, there'd be something else to "what-about." What about the company's energy costs in its non-payment processing? How about all the plastic they use to make those credit cards? The silicon in the card swipe machine?

None of these things will bridge that gap, unveiling a missing data point that somehow makes VISA less efficient by six magnitudes that somehow researchers were missing all this time. But constantly asking for more detail is a good way to stay in denial about Bitcoin's terrible numbers.
No idea how accurate this is, but it apparently shows all the cells, https://sebsebmc.github.io/starlink-coverage/index.html
Thank you, that makes your position quite clear. I appreciate your continued engagement with this conversation and the fact that I think we managed to keep it reasonably polite...
Ah. My bad. Will edit. :: pinches self ::
You don't understand Bitcoin. It is a system to remove human greed from the equation. However, currently we are in the monetization stage. People will get rich. Greed will prevail and it jump starts the system.

The beauty of Bitcoin is that no human can increase supply to address short-term interests, like central banks can. The energy is not wasted. To the contrary, it is used to ensure that the supply is distributed in the prescribed manner and that it is capped. There is no other way of creating a decentralized system that has this feature.
I would say that the answer is something like "who cares as long the SEO check pass and it
s being well monetized?"
I'd like to wager that the "environment" is any set of conditions that favors some attributes in the actors within it.

So, it can be hierarchically defined and potentially spans any number of sub-environments.

Time is a universal concept that spans across all environments. Over time, actors with attributes will flourish in the environments where those attributes are favored.

So example:
Political environment (in a democracy)
Politicians with higher popularity will flourish.

Academic environment:
Students with higher grades will flourish.

The universal environment:
Whatever is most able to survive will flourish.
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What is the correct block size for a PoW cryptocurrency?
Great!

Also, you should promote your startup without shame here, but I appreciate the discretion
Wow. Even with such a basic analogy, there are still more useful metrics you could pick... contracts closed, cases won, client files completed, cigars smoked.
So it's code for saying that Eastern Europeans work hard and Westerners are lazy...

Look, I came from Brazil, working 10-12h/day was common for most of my 10 years career there. It doesn't bring prosperity, it doesn't get rewarded, working hard and not taking breaks is no measure of success. As much as you think this is the way to emulate because of US's wealth I'd say to think again about this bold assumption, you are being extremely reductionist and topping it off with some xenophobia. I don't like it.
> will be transferred with SWIFT

Nitpick: nothing gets transferred with SWIFT. SWIFT is a messaging service. Settlement happens on separate rails.
Sure, but Starship wasn't going to be orbital in 2020 even without the pandemic.

It was a wildly unrealistic estimate to begin with that characterizes "Elon time" as a concept. Starship development has been blindly fast, and even still is a maybe on getting to orbit this year.

I just don't think the pandemic pushed their timeline back significantly. I could be wrong, but that's my take from the outside looking in
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I totally agree that this makes sense for certain types of Excel work -- the data analysis, report generating workflows. You can see my comment above about how we're addressing some of these issues with Mito.

However, not sure that these three points hold for the type of financial modelling work that is done in Excel today. There isn't a great unbundling of Excel for the LBO, etc world (yet), so the inability to save or have columns with multiple data types/formulas seems quite limiting for that world.
Banning cutting edge fintech from Europe is basically choosing to go back into the dark ages... This talent/capital will relocate quite easily.

Bonus, Bitcoin makes capital flight and regulatory arbitrage much easier. Hostile governments will pay a large penalty.
For the love of god, we get it. What are no-coiners going to complain about when ethereum moves to proof of stake?
Launching closer to the equator is easier.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/36283/negative-imp...
Eventually this degenerates into "always signal outright hostility to strangers of the opposite sex", as that's the "only way to be safe".

And so ends civility in 50% of your social interactions.
I'm sure it's a factor, but they are also situated at the lowest possible latitude in the lower 48 states (it's right on the Mexican border), which is important for orbital launch efficiency.
I puzzled about that for years and concluded that tests are a completely different kind of system, best thought of as executable requirements or executable documentation. For tests, you don't want a well-factored graph of abstractions—you want a flat set of concrete examples, each independently understandable. Duplication helps with that, and since the tests are executable, the downsides of duplication don't bite as hard.

A test suite with a lot of factored-out common bits makes the tests harder to understand. It's similar to the worked examples in a math textbook. If half a dozen similar examples factored out all the common bits (a la "now go do sub-example 3.3 and come back here", and so on), they would be harder to understand than repeating the similar steps each time. They would also start to use up the brain's capacity for abstraction, which is needed for understanding the math that the exercises illustrate.

These are two different cognitive styles: the top-down abstract approach of definitions and proofs, and the bottom-up concrete approach of examples and specific data. The brain handles these differently and they complement one another nicely as long as you keep them distinct. Most of us secretly 'really' learn the abstractions via the examples. Something clicks in your head as you grok each example, which gives you a mental model for 'free', which then allows you to understand the abstract description as you read it. Good tests do something like this for complex software.

Years ago when I used to consult for software teams, I would sometimes see test systems that had been abstracted into monstrosities that were as complicated as the production systems they were trying to test, and even harder to understand, because they weren't the focus of anybody's main attention. No one really cares about it, and customers don't depend on it working, so it becomes a twilight zone. Bugs in such test layers were hard to track down because no one was fresh on how they worked. Sometimes it would turn out that the production system wasn't even being tested—only the magic in the monster middle layer.

An example would be factory code to initialize objects for testing, which gradually turns into a complex network of different sorts of factory routines, each of which contribute some bit and not others. Then one day there's a problem because object A needs something from both factory B and factory C, but other bits aren't compatible, so let's make a stub bit instead and pass that in... All of this builds up ad hoc into one of those AI-generated paintings that look sort of like reality but also like a nightmare or a bad trip. The solution in such cases was to gradually dissolve the middle layer by making the tests as 'naked' as possible, and the best technique we had for that was to shamelessly duplicate whatever data and even code we needed to into each concrete test. But the same technique would be disastrous in the production system.
I doubt the US oil wars would have happened if Bitcoin was the de facto global currency and we had decentralised renewable energy grids deployed.
I'll believe that when the lightning network is usable.
I’ve always wanted to see this + I would love to see two Versions of this, one for a 25th percentile earner, and another for 75th percentile. E.g a) what it costs to rent a modest apartment, drive a Honda Civic, shop at Walmart, have 2.5 kids in public school etc. and B) own a home in a metro area, drive an entry level luxury car, shop at Whole Foods, send kids to private college etc.

It’s my perception that there is not much inflation in some areas of the market (chicken thighs at Kroger) and tons for the “keeping up with the Jones’s” set (organic produce, private school education etc)

My point being that inflation can be quite different based on different baskets of goods / consumption patterns
This is what institutional decay often looks like! They can still carry out a set of procedures allowing them to do the same thing they've been doing for a long time -- but they get less efficient, less flexible, more ossified. They are no longer the FAA that figured out how to oversee airline operations; they're the FAA that follows the script left to them by their predecessors. Collison gives a nice example:

> The avionics you see in cockpits are bafflingly primitive because it's so hard, slow, and expensive to get the FAA to approve new technology. As a result, pretty much every pilot flies with an iPad running sophisticated flight planning software -- their connection to a world that the FAA doesn't encumber.

There was a time when the FAA was much better at dealing with new technology. There was a time when all the technology in their purview was new. Something changed.
Nature often seems idyllic, when it has reached a stable equilibrium. But what it really is, is a ruthless and absolute class system, where each species "knows" its place, and has settled in to make the best of its lot.

The disruptions to equilibrium that we witness are almost always man-made. But there have been others, caused by new species, ice ages, asteriods, the Great Oxygenation Event, etc.

Alien civilization might be at equilibrium. Or, if we meet them, they may more likely be in an expansionist phase.

But I think a civilization that harnesses its conflicts - as we try to, with competing businesses, scientists, olitical parties, sporting teams - will have greater long-term success than a destructive, exploutative culture, by definition. It's not that competition is "good", but they we have aggressive aspects seeking dominance, and we are better off shaping them than having tribal warfare, raiding parties, etc which is more our natural state. And something like it is part of the nature of life itself.
> Atmel

Microchip these days, Atmel got acquired few years back..

The packaging looks cool of those https://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/AT697F
They're even changing the name of the company to MIPS, just like RIM → Blackberry (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26389870

One big difference is most consumers, and I think even many companies using the chips, don't really care what architecture they are using, unlike with an end-user OS/"ecosystem". So if they can use their abilities and experience from MIPS to make RISC-V chips with good price to performance, they could do OK.
Didn't the Trump administration declare that the settlements were not illegal? Palestine is not even fully recognized as an independent state.

Besides the comparaison with Crimea, the point was that borders throughout history have been shaped by colonizations and invasions but that cannot be used to justify colonization itself.
> payments are actually done off network

Fine, add 0.00000000000001% for the energy a wire transfer takes to net out hundreds of millions of credit card transactions.