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So porn is good for the world and bitcoin bad?

Maybe think about that for a second.

https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/

Edit: Downvoted by porn addicts. Lol.
> I have an undergraduate degree in CS, but I got it 16 years ago and then went to law school, and there is not a serious place on earth that would let me touch their codebase

Interestingly, you might be wrong. There's a continuing push to get people in the industry who can code for startups wanting to disrupt the space. You'd probably be the lawyer who can code and any lawyer-adjacent tech company would love you.

When we think "programming", we think FAANG but in the real world, there are thousands of places that need basic code slung.
Doing that on my Debian rolling machine just now.

(Linux 5.7.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.7.6-1 (2020-06-24)

It installed flawlessly after satisfying the libnetfilter-queue1 dependency, currently I'm playing with it, I like the granularity that allows blocking/allowing different domains accesses from within a process, such as for example a tab in Firefox. I'm curious to test it in the next days with Windows closed software run under WINE to see what they do under the hood.
So far it seems really well made, I believe it would deserve a full HN article.
Ah, that makes more sense then. Thanks for correcting
The problem is that intentional carbon emissions (as opposed to incidental ones) have not even been a thing in the past.

Current policies and regulations seem to have a hard time addressing this problem.
Seems like there's a huge opportunity for someone to nail the greener meat market for pets.

Rat meat? Mouse meat? Crickets and other bugs?

The fact that we feed our cats need, pork and salmon, meat from beasts that they'd never have a hope of taking down in nature, is ridiculous.
Didn't this exact same story get posted earlier today that later got flagged as a [dupe]?!

Here's the link to the post made earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26460907

That said, this move -- if enacted into law -- will be an incredibly foolish act on the Indian government's part and will act as a catalyst in driving away the next generation of bright young Indian innovators and engineers from the country.
The mainstream media remains furious about Trump having won unexpectedly right under their noses in 2016 and couple with this their general disdain for social media platforms or anything at all that steals their power to impose their notion of authoritative opinion to get the current rage over the largely invented demon of misinformation. To make "misinformation" into an even bigger boogeyman, we have a large progressive, left, woke-oriented subset of the population that largely gets pandered to by the main media outlets increasingly polarizing towards absolute intolerance of anything against their cherished dogmas and being more than happy to have a convenient label for even very moderate divergent arguments. It's noteworthy that so much of the supposed issues around the misinformation debate focus entirely on painting all right-oriented opinion as part of the extremes, while visibly ignoring how much polarization in the other direction also exists towards its own extremes.
Hm still their logo is used in one of the model screenshots. I cannot imagine this will be tolerated.
The main reason is obviously that investing in other countries returns more rewards though. Like that's very clearly reason #1 by a long shot.
"that the government can legislate for better weather"

That's not what I meant at all!

I want that extra hour of light in the evenings - which makes a big difference here in April. The fact that this happens to occur at the time when the weather starts improving adds to the desire to actually get outside more in the evenings. Nobody thinks that the change to BST causes the better weather :-|

Edit: And anyway - I actually prefer the system as it currently is.
The answer seems too obvious to state. Companies with SW at the core need someone who knows what’s feasible. Same reason why Berkshire Hathaway (on their list) has a Financier at the core - they’re in the Capital allocation business. It’s why most law firms are run by a lawyer. And why most research universities presidents have a PhD.
No offense, but is this from the Koran?
I think economic incentives are misaligned when it comes to providing a valuable open platform. Everything is way too expensive on blockchain.
It's not so ugly when you use C on a computer with less than 64Kb of RAM.
Send me a copy of your resume, check the profile.

Although NL might be a place where there isn't a lot of programming market, I'd be willing to bet the resume needs a bit of work.
Mad was great before it became Mad Magazine.

The first 23 issues were insane stream-of-consciousness comic books. Anything you liked about the the tv show Police Squad or the movies Airplane!, The Naked Gun, etc., was basically just early Mad. Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Basil Wolverton at his manic best. Legends.

The stuff you're talking about, the pure gags, the Spy vs. Spy... some of it was great, most of it was mediocre, but the main thing it did was let them make every magazine a digest. You could have a mix of new content and old every month.

I vividly remember buying a copy of Mad Magazine in the early 90's that included one of their moronic movie spoofs. You know, carnival-style big head caricatures, everybody just has a new name that's a poop joke?

In 1992, that spoof was of the movie Love Story, released in 1970. Half the jokes in the Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions at that time were about key parties and leisure suits.

That's why you perceived it as "old hippie humor from people who didn't understand social currents that arose since the 1960s, like video games and hip-hop... and didn't want to."

They were just reprinting old content with a little new stuff sprinkled in.
http://www.hisutton.com/The%20Escape%20of%20Bernd%20Boettger...

This link from the article's footer was even more interesting – an escape from East germany using self-made "scuba scooter".
That's two people very angry at crypto energy consumption I see in the same week.

I find the emotion quite surprising.. I don't see the same amount toward other forms of pollution. Consumerism is also a bit absurd these days and global trade is a large producer of CO2 too.

Now I find the crypto world a bit absurd and surely if they could kill the energy requirements then good.. but climate change is certainly not a consequence of btc miners.
His plane has been intercepted and identified as a Yak-12, at which point the military erroneously redesignated him as a flight rules violator as opposed to cross-border intruder.

A slightly different situation, but within the general "the eagle doesn't catch flies" pattern.
I would imagine that in proportion to the amount of jobs in software engineering, the representation at CEO level is disproportionately small compared to other fields.
And that's one of the reasons why bitcoin is an utter failure.
In my country running a sports gym, a restaurant or a hotel is illegal.

So yeah, I won't be surprised if Bitcoin will suddenly become illegal.

Literally everything is becoming illegal as we speak.
But demonetization was a really really dumb idea. I feel like any other example might prove your case better. It's not like in another country it would have been a great success. The idea of surprise revoking a certain denomination of currency is idiotic.
perhaps that's what "propose" means?
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Add to the fact that the cartels don't really care too much about their drug mules.
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The Indian government is quite a bit more powerful than Nigeria, unfortunately. They are very efficient in enforcing laws that impede on citizens' liberties.

For example, the government will simply disallow any crypto exchanges from converting between ₹ and any crypto currencies. That will deter 99% of the potential users from ever trying it out.
> Did something recently happen to Eskom to make them incompetent?

The African National Congress.
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I don't think Mozilla has a clear vision of what they want to achieve. They've been randomly removing features, or even plain butchering their products (eg the recent Firefox mobile update) for several years, and all they probably achieved is to lose more and more users.

Yet with their tiny market share they aren't exactly in a position to lose users.
“Why are we punishing the guilty and letting the innocent go free? It’s hypocritical to treat different situations differently!” /s

Or to try and raise the level of discussion: “The HN community” is thousands of people who rarely agree 100% on anything. Pointing out that you can find examples on both sides of an issue isn’t a huge revelation.

(Personally I’m a fan of building an alternative to the google / apple duopoly, regardless of political affiliation :) )
How can you force someone else to not spend their money on electricity?
Video game mods. So much to do with Lua and the community will cherish anything they make.
The optimized Python code seems to have a number of bugs:

The loop ending condition might miss non-handled `remaining` (when there is no new-line at the end of the file). (The fix should be simple. Just move the check one line below.)

When there is no newline in some chunk, it would handle the word incorrectly at the chunk boundaries. (But ok, with the constraint that lines cannot be longer than the chunk size, this should not happen. But this could have been fixed easily anyway. Just `remaining = chunk; continue` + the other fix.)
Good, legit question.

I don't know much about Metakovan's allegations of wrongdoing; but even without looking at these, it's fair to say that there are several individuals who, by just being early in crypto, have amassed the equivalent of tens, or hundreds of millions of US dollars.

It wouldn't surprise me too much if Metakovan has a net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars, and therefore can afford to spend $70M in buying this NFT.
This is the worst counter argument I've read on HN yet. Bar none.

You seriously want to equate all these numerous example of entertainment, joy and satisfaction with some useless crypto "currency" that literally doesn't do anything and could be replaced by hundreds of other crypto currencies? Seriously?
Man, I didn't know about that - this is amazing!

Also this Proton redesign looks worse in every manner. Tabs are replaced by buttons at the top. Why would there be buttons? This is just strange. Also it is huge. I am not a child.
> Being judgmental about how others use energy they pay for reeks of hypocrisy, virtue signaling and holier-than-thou attitude.

No it's just a value judgement. We all have to be able to make them.

- Premise: Bitcoin is not important or useful

- Conclusion: It's a massive waste of energy

To give another example:

- Premise: Most activity on the internet is just people making themselves feel better about the nightmare of consciousness

- Conclusion: It's a massive waste of energy
The difference is that proof-of-work is intentional waste of energy, rather than incidental.

Take your favorite evil mega-corporation: If you can offer them a way to perform the same task using half the energy, they'd immediately jump at the opportunity.

Bitcoin miners, on the other hand, would just... mine twice as fast, consuming exactly the same energy as before.
This shouldn't compare unicode-aware 'tolower' with ASCII-tolower ... sends false signals. "Optimizing" by setting LC_ to "C" .. oh my.
> and there is not a serious place on earth that would let me touch their codebase.

You'd be surprised...
It's hard enough sometimes for normal companies to find the right resources. How many engineers are willing to work for cartels? Either they can do that by means of threat or fear, or finding the least ethically minded engineers that are looking for lots of money. I bet both cases are difficult to manage.
Not sure Facebook was primary but.. Did people really post about storming the capitol using their real names?
You're right that on the specific topic of government censorship they are not nearly the same. Very different legal structures and all that.

But from talking to people who were living in the USSR as adults through the 70s and 80s (and my own memories of the USSR in the 80s, though I was not an adult, and reading I have done, but I put more weight on the in-person conversations with people I know and who can give me direct first-hand comparisons), the US is certainly same-universe close at this point, and rapidly getting closer, in terms of things like public confessions, limiting acceptable points of view (in _parts_ of the US, segregated by culture) etc. In some aspect, "further along", heading for Cultural Revolution era China. The practical implications are unfortunately not as different as one might like.

Maybe a clearer way to describe it is that the "lived experience" (again, limited to certain professions or locations in the US) is unfortunately far too similar, even while the legal and social structures that produce it are quite different in their details.

And just make sure we're on the same page: the US now is nothing like _1930s_ USSR. We should make sure we mean the same thing when we say "life in the USSR", because it varied quite a bit over 70 years.
You should campaign for schools to start earlier, not for change to how we measure time. You could even campaign that in the part of the year known as "Daylight savings time" schools could open earlier still (there's nothing preventing schools starting at different times in different parts of the year).

Midday should be the hour when the sun is highest in your timezone, and should stay there all year round.
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Without fail I was always getting carrier “upgrades” before big protests and police sweeps. It became my warning signal.

Once the virus hit the news in Wuhan, and the protests started to dial down the updates got fewer and fewer. And with the closing of the border I haven’t gotten a carrier upgrade in months. As part of the 2 million + crowd I know I’m tracked like a rat. But that’s how cellphones work
>And that's just from 30 seconds of searching while out of the office.

So you google around for 10 mins, to cherry pick studies, that you didn't even bother to read, as a way to confirm your preconceived conclusion? You think that this is a valid way of argument? Uh huh. Cherry picking data to fit a preconceived conclusion is how science is done ... right?

Right now we're graduating functionally illiterate kids at incredible rates. Tell me the MECHANISM (not correlation) by which low-income equals to illiteracy in the context of our society which provides schools, school-buses, books, and teachers. By the way, every single school in America is good and is staffed by good quality teachers.

Having grown up in my city's immigrant ghetto (surrounded by Eastern European, Iranian, Filipino and Hong Kong immigrants), in a low-income (but loving) household with no English knowledge, and being an immigrant myself, I always like to see how those who grew up privileged see everyone else. I really do want to know your MECHANISM of how low-income translates to illiteracy (as an example). And on a slight tangent, in my personal experience, the most lectures on poverty and privilege I get are from people who were born in the country and grew up firmly in the upper middle class.

I can guarantee you're going to find low-income households with academically high performing children, and here we're talking about just literacy (not even high academic achievement). Quickly enough you'll find that income is not a good gauge and that other factors dominate.
not to be pedantic but drywall is screwed in not nailed. i happen to be a software engineer who has also built actual houses.
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> but people actually make use of Bitcoin as well

Absolutely.

It's very useful for facilitating money laundering (e.g. Tesla cars), drug dealing, child exploitation material etc.
I don't see it happening. Anyway with the amount of problems this country has to solve, the government should spend some energy on it.

Anyway, I'll probably will be out by then, I got tired at waiting for stuff to be fixed.
By that logic, processors should cost $5 because they are molten sand and coins.
QuteBrowser is the power-user choice.

Brave seems more like the "consumer disliking ads/google" choice.
No one owes anyone an audience. It was much harder for an author to get an audience before Amazon came around, and the internet has only lowered the barriers to entry for authors.

Just because a large portion of people choose to not patronize non Amazon website does not mean there is a problem of Amazon curating its inventory.

I choose to shop at Costco, and let them do some filtering for the products I buy. It’s the same thing with Amazon. If Amazon “snuffs” you out, then go advertise and do what you have to do raise awareness of your product.
Users, for the most part, don't want web apps and won't use them. It's an unrealistic stance.
We need to make it strategic to hide our communications. The day the CIA decides that [place any enemy] has routers all over the place in US territory and that their spying is bad, they will mandate the use of Tor instead of discouraging it. We don’t need to be at war, but we need a capable enemy.
Slots isn't a messaging system in the way Objective-C or Smalltalk define it. Slots are what GTK calls signals, if I recall correctly, and are more often called event handlers. They're ways to register a set of callbacks on a single emission point.

Don’t know about Windows but POSIX and Carbon were as OO as they needed to be - a function where the first parameter is a “file” or “context” is being object oriented.

Honestly I don't know of anyone, including the people who defined those APIs, who would call them object oriented. POSIX functions aren't even namespaced and routinely don't even take a struct as the first parameter. Implicit state is everywhere in POSIX, Win32 and I think also Carbon.

Cocoa succeeded by using messaging and composition instead like Alan Kay wanted.

Cocoa "succeeded" by being the official API of the first non-failed attempt at resurrecting macOS. On Windows, the API that "succeeded" was .NET which is a classical C++ type of OO. In practice, Objective-C caused a lot of problems for Apple. They would have junked it years earlier but Steve Jobs was wedded to it and couldn't understand why anyone wanted anything else. The moment Jobs died Swift was started as a project, and Swift does not have objc_msgSend at its centre, at least not if I understood the Swift ABI correctly.

The "messaging" concept caused problems in the following ways:

* Performance, despite objc message sending being heavily optimised.

* Bizarre semantics that led directly to horrible bugs, like sending a message to null being "valid" but returning junk if the return value was meant to be a struct.

* Difficult to optimise due to the dynamic language features, which are nonetheless hardly used (e.g. ability to redefine methods on the fly).

The latter problem is shared with languages like Ruby.
You can see them as a baseline
There are many things to like and not like about crypto and this is a biggie. The Bitcoin energy impact is huge compared to it's real-world utility, which plainly, is zero as other systems exist that can do the same things more efficiently. Any crypto enthusiast should dump bitcoin for any proof of stake coin. It has the brand recognition, but it cannot possibly last.
AFAIK, alternate currencies are not allowed in India. It could simply be a matter of extending that law to digital crypto currencies.
agreed, the utility does not justify this huge mining cost. And it is only going to get worse if kept unchecked.
> useless crypto "currency" that literally doesn't do anything

You are very disconnected from reality of millions of people. Can you not try to see that? Can you not respect their opinion and their values? Do you just consider your opinion of Bitcoin the valid and truthful one?

How exactly is that different from someone who hates porn and calls it "useless time waster that doesn't do anything"?
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DFW = David Foster Wallace. He committed suicide in 2008 [0].

I am not sure I follow you in associating NFT with the end of Infinite Jest. Not saying you're wrong... Could you elaborate?

[0]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/09/the-unfinished
Do they really need advertisers? I'm not sure why all these companies think the whatsapp route isn't possible. People are happy to pay a small yearly subscription for apps if they're truly doing something useful. While I don't personally use telegram, I'd argue it falls into the category of "useful enough to pay for".
We like the feeling because often, even if it's not explicitly said, there is a hidden way to obtain what you want.
In Europe, if an administration/company tell you no, there is often no negotiation, no way to get what you want.

In China, often, if you master social tricks, you will be able to obtain it.
Bitcoin mining uses purpose built ASICs now. Maybe start there?
Which country are you living in?
I came here to say what you just said so I am glad someone did it more eloquently. I find it interesting how many things recently were rationalized/pushed using environmentalism. I suppose it is a step forward from think of the children.
Isaac Newton would agree with you.
What the hell - what country?

You need to move ASAP.
What is your expiry date of 'never going to happen'?

1 decade, it can be taken seriously...

More than that and we're in pure speculation territory..

China is now much more powerful now than it was in the last century and seeking more power everyday.
The clock time that schools start and end at doesn't have to be fixed for the whole year. The clock time could stay at GMT, and schools could open earlier, maybe also slightly longer for some parts of the year. Businesses could follow school opening times.
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Right, Microsoft don't talk about COM anymore.

I haven't kept up much with Windows programming so lost track at some point of what their current-gen tech is and how it works. WinRT isn't just COM is it. It's custom languages, new app metadata formats and stuff. I don't see IUnknown in any modern Windows code samples.
I think rent and mortgage are different. We bought our first house in 1977. If you take a look at the graph that was just before inflation shot up to 15%. It was a hard time but wages did catch up and after a few years I had a mortgage which was proportionately much less than I started with. For those renting there was no plus side. I think the poorest suffer most, as usual.
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I think most of the uglynes in the c++ template case comes from the tool not resolving the standard types. Just replacing the std::string boilerplate reduces it by roughly half.

0.00 0.00 32187/32187 std::vector<std::pair<std::string,int> >::vector<std::__detail::_Node_iterator<std::pair<std::string const, int>, false, true>,void>
(
std::__detail::_Node_iterator<std::pair<std::string const, int>, false, true>,
std::__detail::_Node_iterator<std::pair<std::string const, int>, false, true> > const&
) [11]
0.0 0.00 0.00 32187 void std::string::_M_construct<char*>(char*, char\*, std::forward_iterator_tag) [8]

So that looks like a std::vector<pair<string,int> > constructor taking two map iterators as input and an internal string member taking char pointer based iterators as input.
At least USD only goes up. I don't want to sell my old laptop in BTC and have it be worth half as much the next day.