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>> "Bitcoin is the textbook speculative mania for our time"

This misses the point of bitcoin entirely. People need to understand Bitcoin solves a problem: a very big problem. This problem was caused by the gov and fed defaulting on it's obligation to maintain a stable currency. As a result, cash can no longer be used as a store of value. And by artificially suppressing interest rates, the fed/gov has eliminated yet another class of investement: fixed income. So with two major asset classes eliminated: cash and fixed income, it doesn't leave much else.

The only asset classes we have remaining are equities, real estate and commodities. Real estate, there's no easy way to invest in it in a scalable way. So, what are you going to do put ALL your money in Equities? with no diversification. People desperately need a store of value, they can't just work until their 120 year old.

Bitcoin solves this problem: it's a store of value. For a lot of people, bitcoin is NOT speculation, it's a long term buy and hold asset that you hold for a long time. And the tax rules encourage such buy and hold behavior. those that are selling the moment it goes up, are going to pay dearly in capital gains taxes 30, 40, 50%+ in some states.
Especially since a lot of the arguments are very personal rather than general. He claims that testing will degrade the sort of flow state that devs want to achieve. But that sounds like something that just affects him personally. Testing can help that state for some people.
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> The world is in a dire period of greater global instability and conflict, with threats and challenges from Southeast Asia to Syria to borderless crime syndicates. In this environment, America needs more credible, analytic, insightful, accessible, high level and grassroots deep intelligence.

We need more CIA to solve all these problems the CIA keeps causing!

For a bit less rose-colored view of Steinem and what she was doing at The Agency: http://www.whale.to/b/how7.html
It kinda is...

1) dont play with what you don't understand
2) dont expect others to make your decisions for you
3) dont expect authorities to bail you out when you mess up

This deference to authority to protect your money is exactly the world that bitcoin was made to avoid. It is exactly why your bank money is not in your control, and self-custodian bitcoin IS money you control.
It is a feature, it is desirable.
("But I can spend the money in the bank however I like..." Not quite. You are only allowed to do what the bank will let you do.)

Theft, Loss and Fraud are not good things, for sure, but their existence is not an excuse to ignore personal responsibility.
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With no smart contracts or actual usable functionality. Its just a chain with staking and nothing useful
It's really not an issue of testing.

It's much worse - it's written on the box that there is graphene in it.
There's a lot of talk about building a fair system to replace the current we have, and there's a lot of good arguments to why the current system is corrupt and serves an elite. That said, all the talk about inequality and how crypto currency solves this is real rich coming from people that was already extremely privileged and would benefit almost immeasurably from it.
This is such an underappreciated point.

U.S. dollars are backed by violence. Bitcoin is backed by math.

I don't know what you want backing your money in the world you hope to leave for future generations, but I know what I want backing mine.
How is cryptocurrency different than all the other non-real digital goods that have become valuable over the years?

Games like second life and Eve did the digital currency thing way before bitcoin. How is a pretend coin you can trade for money different than a pretend game currency you can trade for money?

Because one is traded on the stock market and increasingly accepted in real world transactions?

There was and likely still is, people making livings off earning digital video game currency, selling digital assets and converting it to real money. Not to mention every person that made actual money off mmorpg marketplaces.

Seems like cryptocurrencies just remove the game part and cut right to the economic part. With games, it's the people creating the currency through their actions and time, farming gold, working in Eve, etc. With cryptocurrency it's GPUs and stuff...though I guess technically, your GPU's doing the work for the game currency too.

The concept doesn't seem to have changed, buy make-believe thing that exists only on a computer everybody agrees is worth money and the value of said make believe thing changes based on how many people have or want the make-believe thing.
You are either confused in several different ways or intentionally spreading misinformation.

Please stop.
> Since the entire premise of cryptocurrency is as a speculative investment to redeem for Dollars or Euros,

True of:
- Stocks
- Housing
- Commodities (precious or otherwise)
That's really not a solid argument. Bitcoin doesn't depend on drugs to have value, anymore than the US dollar does.
I still find it buggy on my iPhone 12 Pro, as a user at least. Often says 'connected' to my headphones (Sony WH-100XM3's) when it's not, connecting to Alexa devices to stream audio often fails and requires a reboot to connect properly.

I can't believe Bluetooth is still such a pain in the bum in 2021.
While I agree on there being environmental costs and NFTs seemingly terribly wasteful (since it's a digital file) have you considered the costs of what people buy in their day to day? I would love to see what the environmental comparison of an NBA NFT is compared to producing a souvenir basketball. My guess would be that it's lower and more renewable but I could be wrong.
I can see some uses for fandom.

* If the tickets to concerts were NFTs, you could limit forum access to concert attendees as proven by their NFTs.
* If purchase of a digital album was connected to NFTs, a band could offer a special perk to their original fans.

Personally, I don't get the art thing. Good art is inherently valuable because viewer of the art (my eyes) are built directly into my body. In 1,000 years it is entirely possible no one is going to be able to view a jpeg, or the host of the image has disappeared off the internet. Even URLs that don't disappear are problematic, you want a URL the connected to the hash of the file contents so you can be assured that the file is never changed.
Yes, all great points that I've been thinking about. Thanks for checking it out and the link to Obsidian Portal (I hadn't heard of it before and it looks really cool).
I share your view partially. As you said, code generation is difficult and it can get messy pretty fast, but this is the beauty of Zig, you have these features tightly packed, there is a capped number of ways for doing things. In Zig you learn how to use the wand properly, instead of being distracted by trying different sizes and colors of wands. While many languages focus on the breadth of ways of doing things, Zig is all about the depth of a small set.
The argument that local people have the right to determine what government they should have is true but a bit irrelevant in cases when they do not have the practical ability to do so. For example, Hong Kong; for example, another comment above who responded to a Russian's comment with "As a Russian you could try to change your government." which is laughable knowing the fate of opposition organizers. Asserting that "the people of X alone have the right to determine what government they should have" implies "the current government of X is what X should have" if and only if that government was democratically elected in fair elections.

As you say, "no-one else gets to decide that for them" - which also includes all the non-democratic regimes currently clinging to power after losing the consent of the governed. For example, look at Belarus - other countries don't have the right to unilaterally determine what government Belarusians should have, but, crucially, Lukashenka also does not have that right, he does not get to decide that for them.
I don't do this no. I have passions but I have no desire to make money from them. Writing code in my free time is very far from what I experience or want in life.
FWIW, the first question unlocks certain things, like how welcome you would be at certain domain registrars known for privacy (like ultra-far-right US ones that generally only like you if you align with the Gab/Parler crowd) vs how welcome you would be at certain "ultra-liberal copyleft-supporting" registrars.

I was not meaning to ask that for the sake of asking, as there are a few privacy-minded registrars that simultaneously also do the whole "we do not support hate speech" in PR, which changes the customer base or what you would want to host there.

A very common concept in these is picking the other side instead; like if you were posting negative sentiments against Russia/etc, the US would probably be happy to host your "free speech", while same for the opposite.

> North America, though I would probably pick a non-specific TLD anyways.

Be very careful on this, because ccTLDs do not have any/all the protections some gTLDs do.

For your curiosity, my reason for asking the country is that some will allow trolls to do things like file false DMCAs, for example, while this concept would not exist in others.
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This is under the control of the site with hCaptcha, so you'll tend to see more variety in difficulty levels depending on their settings.

There will always be some individual variance, but when we've tested this people always solve hCaptcha faster than reCAPTCHA on average.

(disclosure: work there)
I'm not sure I understand the root of your complaint. You're saying that because the developers changed the license from a permissive license to a strong copyleft license, they're not supporting open source? I think that using a license like the AGPL is much better for the open source community in the long run, because it makes it more likely that the code will stay free and accessible no matter what company wants to adapt it
Agreed with only a single sticking point:

If the font designer's vision is for the character baseline to be above or below other font's baselines 'within the em', I want to override that vision.

As well: I feel like this type of standardization could actually free designers to make more interesting typographical layouts as they could freely mix fonts and sizes without cascade effects on the rest of the text.
That makes real estate investments a good defense against inflation. A good defense against inflation are assets whose price increases at a rate higher than the rate of inflation. A bad defense would be an asset whose price increases at a rate lower than that of inflation.
I'm going to give it a go with the old pencil / paper. Hopefully, if it works and then fizzles away, it'll fizzle because i've gained the benefit. Six months tho - might be tough.
The MaxwellHill account is NOT Ghislaine Maxwell, that's just a straight up far fetched conspiracy theory.
Agree it might be workable, although Tobin taxes like this haven't had a lot of support in the past. Also, enforcement is likely to be a bit of a nightmare!

It would raise some money you could use to mitigate environmental impact, but I'm not sure that a reasonable tax level would actually disuade anyone from putting their money in so less helpful from that point of view.
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around it, too, but I think the idea is that there's ostensibly value in "legitimately" owning a work, as opposed to making your own copy. That is: it's proof that the work is "for" you.

Currently it seems to just be a status symbol, but I feel like it could evolve into a newfangled version of license keys - i.e. proof that you're authorized to have a copy at all, or that you're licensed to incorporate a work in your own work (e.g. songs in videos, or photos on websites, or what have you).
I mean, if they really only work when not running at the same time, they do something really really shady, so I would not really use them on production systems even in serial unless I figure out what exactly is wrong with them. It may very well be the case that they are buggy even in serial, it just not as obvious/doesn’t happen that often that way.

Nonetheless, parallelism is an additional feature (in my opinion, greatly appreciated), but it can be turned off. Additional functionality is rarely bad over not having it.
> [Bitcoin is] the only thing on that list of inflation hedges that has a fixed supply.

Aha! That brings me to my next question. In what sense does bitcoin actually have a fixed supply? Sure, a loose coalition of people agree for it to have a fixed supply at the moment, but if enough of the miners, core developers, etc. agree they can change the rules arbitrarily, viz. hard forks.

Why should we believe that bitcoin really has a fixed supply, just because everyone has roughly stuck to the rules so far?
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Your comment breaks several of the site guidelines. Would you mind reviewing them and sticking to the rules? This is exactly the kind of thing they ask you not to post here.

Everyone needs to follow the rules regardless of: (1) how right they are; (2) how right they feel they are; (3) how wrong someone is; (4) how wrong they feel someone is; and/or (5) how provocative something was.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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that demographic is huge. most people under 40 today have grown up watching the surveillance industry establish itself, and those with any consciousness of their own vulnerability want to take action to minimize their surface area. until recently that's been extremely difficult and technical, but now firefox with container extensions, adblockers, and a VPN are all easily approachable for the average person, and they're all under one brand.
I will push back and say that the current wave of hype is gambling, not ponzi schemes. Some of it is pump and dump but generally there are cryptocurrencies which aren’t. The gambling aspect came to light with many of the new DeFi apps.

DeFi kinda started as decentralized exchanges but seemingly changed into apps which allow you to leverage tokens. This is like gambling for tech geeks. Probably this will die and be replaced by gambling for non-tech savvy individuals.

The more interesting side, for me personally, is powering financial assets on the blockchain. There is still work that needs to be done here.

I’m particularly worried about how easy theft of tokens can be, but I think that is a solvable problem. Perhaps through technical means or perhaps through banks holding your assets and covering you with something similar to FDIC or insurance.

So all-in-all I don’t think it’s fair to call this one big fraud or pump-and-dump schemes. Some are yes but many aren’t. Like the dotcom bubble many will lose all invested money however the general promise and tech will deliver something world changing.
The argument that the article is, essentially, trying to make is that some such correspondence obviously does exist visually - i.e. that you can write e.g. English and Arabic text in the same line, sized such that they look the same size.
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There is speculative trading in stocks and bonds, but not as frequently. It is a choice that a trader can make, though and hasn't been regulated away. I have no problem with government regulation on Cryptocurrency for speculation if the same laws effect the trading of stacks and bonds.

The "green" issue of Crypto mining is a harder regulatory issue for our government to get involved in, though. While on the one hand, I applaud their pro action, on the other hand, the hypocrisy is on a scale almost never seen. A government which has simultaneously rolled back environmental regulation, wildlife areas and expanded oil pipelines, shale extractions, fracking and offshore drilling while continuing a war on "terrorism", which is an ideal, not an enemy. A forever war, if you will. This is a polluter much bigger than crypto miners, so you'll excuse me if I have to take the concern about the environmental impact concern from the Senate all that seriously...... sorry. Went off the track. Either way, there are larger polluters to tackle than Crypto that take less control away from people.
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Hannah Fry is mathematics communicator working in quite a few other media. She's been on a couple of BBC documentaries, and on a few videos on the Numberphile YouTube channel (which is also very good regardless of who's on it)
I've been using The Five Minute Journal [1] (on paper) for a while (definitely not every day) and it has a gratitude component. I do enjoy how it helps prompt me to change my perspective :)

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Maybe because the article actually covered this:

> Apple acknowledged that it has discovered other cryptocurrency scams on the App Store , but did not provide specific details on numbers nor whether there had been fake Trezor apps in the past. Trezor does not offer an iOS app at all, and Trezor spokesperson said that it had been notifying Apple and Google about fake Trezor apps "for years."
Haha I was wrong, I see what you were saying now. I thought you were saying that resistance == unaffected. But you were saying that the price of real estate rises when inflation occurs, so buy it before inflation happens. My bad. :)
Not to defend the system, but I don't think they were trying to fraudulently get her 48 hour payment. Rather, if they accepted advance bookings (which was, after all, the old system) then almost nobody would be seen in 48 hours. They could have offered advance bookings for follow-ups, but since most appointments are taken by the sickest people, many of them will be follow-ups, so this probably wouldn't have helped.

If you want to reduce the queuing time in a system you need to reduce the processing time (i.e. the duration of an appointment) or increase the number of servers (i.e. doctors). You can't do it by edict.
Why not have a global agency to regulate social media?
Fascinating, can you share which song(s) he "made it" with?
Huh... really adds deeper meaning to the motto "If you build it, they will come".
NOT TRUE!

You are doing it wrong If you are manually managing memory on Modern C++.

C++ has RAII built in even before Rust came to the scene.

I've never had a situation where I had to manage memory manually during my professional career in C++

If your students face seg faults, please show them Valgrind. Valgrind is better than GDB when it comes to seg faults. It can show you where exactly error occurred.

Edit: Oh I got downvoted for saying truth. I now know what they are really up to.
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WHO and CDC are sources of misinformation? What are you talking about?
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`new` is basically syntactic sugar (and I personally rarely use it), but `make` is the only way to dynamically allocate or to pre-allocate slices and maps.
What's a virtual cursor ?
The government didn't force anyone to use these masks in particular, they were just given for free. Hospitals sometimes forced you to use their own masks when entering the premise but even private hospitals did that on their own, but in daycares and schools these just happened to be free so people use them to save money.
Ah yes, the root of all evil in the world, the CIA. Because there isn't a single other entity in the entire world that could possibly gain from a bad thing happening. So the CIA has to create all these problems so they can keep their funding or whatever. This is a very logical way to look at the world.
Any plans to improve Find In Project? I constantly have to add -node_modules/ to my search paths and it's irritating.

I switched back to ST3 once I could get Language Server to work. Go and Typescript work great there, and are so fast fast fast.
They're asking contributors to sign a CLA which assigns copyright for your changes to them. Quick reminder: do not sign this kind of agreement. It's deliberately designed for them to pull the rug out from under you and make this proprietary again after a period of enjoying the benefits of community contributions. Shame on them for asking in the first place.
Stocks are not coupled to fiat, fiat is just the common medium of exchange for them. Nobody will stop me from trading my GOOG share for a goat, or a baseball card, if I so choose.

Stocks are coupled to the productive output of the firm the stock is issued by, which is coupled to it's real world productivity - which, again, for convenience is measured in a fiat currency.
Well that wasn't my intention at all, just a problem i encountered a few hours before I read your comment so it was fresh on my mind.
This. 100%.

Bitcoin (like gold since the gold standard ended) is just a "check" on Fiat currencies and can act as insulation from central banks that issue too much money too quickly.

Fiats will continue to exist alongside bitcoin/cryptos, they'll just eventually have to "compete" a bit more (i.e., not be printed so readily by gov'ts) or else they'll become significantly less relevant.
No, neither inflation-adjusted bonds nor stocks are "coupled" to fiat currencies. You may argue that RPI is not a true measure of inflation. OK, sure. You may argue it's hard to persuade people to buy a hamburger for $2 when it was $1 last year. But the same applies to cryptocurrency (when it's not in a mass speculative bubble)!
I'd love if someone could point me in the direction of WHY this Next.js setup "just works". This was a great article, and the author described the sensation of getting traffic very well. I've been on the other side of the coin where my apache server crashed or 50* error'd out. It would be interesting to know more about what makes this stack or this server architecture "just work" under the hug of death.
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