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bitcoin will not just replace other mechanism/means of paying without a state interfering.

And why?

Because our current finance market is regulated and we don't need bitcoin to free it.

Its not technology which is putting all those restrictions and systems onto the finance market therefore a technology like btc doesn't solve anything.

Companies for example are not allowed to do trade with North Korea by law. So if everyone starts to use btc to do exactly that, guess who will step in and regulate it?

I'm always lost on why people think btc will fix any issues we currently have. There is a reason why people invest in Euros and Dollars ('hard' currencies) and gold.
Ouch. It's interesting how they didn't go after the affiliates (who must have known that was a Ponzi).

Only the Fed is allowed to operate an anti-constitutional, fraudulent currency scheme with impunity.
Why should income tax be a substitute? Where is my subsidy for having gone into debt for a degree?
2 reasons I'd use HTML

1. I'm taking untrusted PDFs and running them on my machine. Using something like say puppeteer that PDF renderer runs in a sandbox. Ghostscript, not so much. PDFs can have code in them

2. Using HTML via puppeteer lets me render tons of other things I might want to render than just PDFs. Plenty if beautiful algorithmic art out there that runs in a browser.
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When the police came, what happened?
How can we monetize the Higgs boson?
And it was built in 2017. And battery prices have plunged since then. And it's not the only project mentioned.
Moving to github doesn't change anything fundamentally. It just moves infrastructure hosting to someone else (even though it may or may not be a more secure hosting).

Something like signing commits, and requiring all commits to be signed properly with a known key (and checking this on push and before release) would be an independent verification layer, and a more fundamental response to the compromise.
https://hckrnews.com/ provides top 10%, 20% and 50% of the news sorted for each day. I usually visit it at the end of busy days to catch up.
"Not reactive enough"
Is this sarcasm? Why wouldn't I still be outraged? Because they have "tax credits".

Okay can I as individual get tax credits by going into debt? If I can't "tax credits" then Zoom shouldn't get them. It's just common sense.

Seriously the current tax structure in the United States seems to be anti-human being. Humans have to pay up front in cash 100% each year, corporations can just claim they are writing off debt, apparently even in years they have no debt. Where does it stop? Why would someone defend this who pays taxes themselves?
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Maybe it's different with less sophisticated users, but I can't tell you the last time I went to a company for support on a commercial desktop product. I've either found the answer to a problem by searching or I figure the problem will be fixed (or not) at some point. In general dealing with support is going to take me a bunch of time without a useful result.
Do you really think that all cultures have the same focus on analytical and rational thinking? As an American that moved to the Netherlands, this is comical.
They did it to themselves. If the nyt was just giving us the straight truth then there wouldn’t have been any opening for Fox News to come in and do their thing. And now we are left with left news and right news and most people only listening to the side that confirms whatever biases they have while at the same time thinking the other side is crazy. Sad:(
InterfaceLift is my favorite for landscape photography:

https://interfacelift.com/

Grab images while you can though, this site does go down occasionally.
please also take into account that unlike theoretical systems the real world is a constantly moving target. the moment that I've formed an opinion it is probably already outdated within the nano-second an additional thought has entered my subconscious and is waiting to be integrated into what I think is my "truth".
Well but that's not such an outrageous concept, is it? Germany still pays war reparations, recognizing that due to their actions other countries have suffered. And yes, a young German nowadays might ask "well, why is my money going to foreign countries, for something that my grandparents did? How is that fair?".

And well, they aren't entirely wrong, but they aren't entirely right either. Society has obligations which can last longer than a single generation. If society has systematically oppressed and made one group poorer, then society has the obligation to make it right. So yes, squirrels have the societal obligation to make it right for the hamsters, even if none of the original opressing squirrels are even alive.
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congrats, i guess but not a fan of the VC route, we all know how this ends.
You are literally the first person I find who agrees with me. Hi there! :)

Just for the shake of discussion, let me put on the table some other extreme examples people bring up:

A) Apology of "something bad" (for example, "apology of terrorism"). Is it OK for someone to appear on TV and say that he is happy about all the people killed in 11-S and that others should repeat the attack?

B) Targeted attack. Back to the neighbor example: would it be OK if he not only published a newspaper ad against me every day but also appeared on TV shows, sent propaganda to other neighbors, hired a plane to draw my name on the sky, etc...?

C) Dangerous information. Example: someone discovers that by mixing two very easy to find (and accessible to everyone) chemicals, the whole atmosphere of the earth would be modified in hours in a way that all people from ethnicity X would immediately die. Is it OK for him to publish this information?

I still think all these cases are covered... but I would like to know how others reason about them :)
It reminds me of this [0]:

"Before March 2020, the country had no shortage of pandemic-preparation plans. Many stressed the importance of data-driven decision making. Yet these plans largely assumed that detailed and reliable data would simply . . . exist. They were less concerned with how those data would actually be made."

[0] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/03/21/whassup-wi...
I didn't neglect to read the article, and largely agree with its central plaint. I also agree there's a chilling effect.

I don't think it applies as much to coding practices, where you can provide specific and constructive advice and there's a concrete thing that can be debated (i.e., the changes to the code-base). What makes good business reasoning relies upon intangibles, like experience. But even here, one could point to examples of a strategy being used in the past and failing. You can't argue with the historical facts as being innately sexist. You could argue that the variables have changed, but then there's something concrete to talk about.

Edit: minor clarification
>and it's choice to build on top of a proprietary API. Had they gone with some HTML/js morass,
>it would have been easily dogged down and ground to dust on the interoperability battlefield.

Actually, initially Apple expected people to deploy apps as webapps and provide links on the homescreen. There was no ios SDK. Only after a lot of loud complaining by devs did Apple release any tools or an SDK for ios native apps.
"Have you tried to quantify the QoE?"
This "article" is just an ad.
That thing fits in your backyard?
Google gave me Python 2 results for every doc query for a looooooonnnnnngggg time, I just clicked to the newest version when I got there.
Ah maybe that's it.

If they were geared up for a single market with it's own units that would be fine but this site is also selling to global consumers too. You can select language and local currency.

It's like someone lifted the stuff from the US domestic website for a brand and started using it to sell worldwide without the brand knowing.

Seeing something priced in my currency but measured in Smoots. :) It just looks... funny.
> He didn't do anything criminal,

Not breaking the law is the bare knuckle minimum standard that we expect. Imagine going to a job interview and when asked about your achievements you say "well, I didn't break any laws".
Not sure which Ars Technica article. Please give a link and citation and explain why that shows Stallman is in favour of child abuse. I don't think you will be able to do that.
I really wanted to like this writing but it seems that the author doesn't know what's a decision graph.

It should have been better concluded and summarized by a decision graph.

:)
You assume the labor supply always growing. Eventually world population is supposed to peak and start shrinking. Then accepting more immigrants won't be an option anymore. What happens when most of a population are elderly and unable to do most kinds of work?
Probably because that's around the time he seemingly really pissed off one or more former employees who went digging for more information on him: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Romio-RVW2...
For many northern Europeans, Southern Europe is pretty much the same as Africa.
With all the same prejudice included. It is what it is.
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The whole part of signing commits is providing proof that you are who you say you are with the same level of trust provided by other systems built using Public Key Crypto.

You need people to properly secure their keys of course, but it makes life a lot harder for an attacker.
Oh, come on. I don't know anything about the context in which your parents met, how they got to know eachother, or how they got together.

But I do know that on this specific occasion RMS met somebody who was young enough to be his daughter and then some, and the first thing he did is hit on her. I'd bet that nine times out of ten the girl on the receiving end of that kind of attention will feel extremely uncomfortable. I make that bet both regretfully and confidently because I was a member of an organisation where this happened on multiple occasions and I saw exactly this play out. Girls were made to feel very uncomfortable and creeped out to the point that they were reluctant to be involved. Men were asked to leave because of it.

I understand where you're coming from, and I understand why you might be upset, but I wasn't attacking you or your parents, and I do not apologise for my point of view because the vast majority of the time the behaviour I've outlined is going to come off as creepy to the girl on the receiving end of it.
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That's why it's just a gimmick. Signing only works as protection against hosting compromise if the signing/verification is separate from the hosting itself.

Someone responsible for release would have to manually keep a list of keys of authorized comiters and check the repository against this list at the very least prior to a release.
I'm not sure how you can solve the "problem" you describe.

Freedom of speech means just that - you are free to say what you want/think.

Others don't have to agree with you. They might leave the room/not be your friend/unfollow you/fire you/stop buying your products.

If your opinion is against the majority in any situation, you're going to have a hard time - whether it's about something important, or just whether you think pineapple should go on a pizza.
Do not forget the possibility that no-code systems will result in a worse outcome but still technically get the job done, with a lot less sum total thinking required.

Most software is plumbing, not competitive advantage, so it doesn't really matter how good it is if it technically works.

If you doubt that, I point you to the world of enterprise software, where terrible software flourishes and thrives.

I will not be at all surprised if no-code systems eat the bottom of the software market, replacing many software developer jobs.
I met Bert in the StrongLoop days after the IBM acquisition. Good guy and good luck to him.

We were consultants scaling node to production for a major international bank, circa 2016.

Love the security improvements in deno, will have to give it a look.
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Robots won't try to unionize, neither will they piss in bottles and generate a lot of bad press for you.
Your meaning is perfectly clear (and I’d also like that article), but for some reason 25% of my brain is stuck reading “text” as “text message” and imagining someone banging out a critiquing response in T9 mode on some old Nokia phone.
If someone's a power user of Excel, I can understand them wanting to stay on Excel even if personally I pretty much just use Google Sheets as an easy to use and format table.

>I'd even venture to say that most users would rather have apps installed instead of Microsoft Office Online.

I dunno. Maybe if they rarely share documents? But, for me, online sharing and collaborative editing of documents has been a game changer.
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What even is the aesthetic proposition here? I'm not sure I even get it on the artists terms. Is it the feeling of aliveness/presence/perspective that the artist obtained by simulating the sun?

Or something to do with the duplicity of this sun being fake?

Or some interplay of these two propositions?

Something else entirely do you think?
How would enforcing a thing like this operate? Surely there would have to be a subsequent UK case if that's where he is resident, to solicit any enforcement
Would they not just be able to transport more feed? (At least for most)
It is? Yikes. If there's a paywall, I just end up reading the comments and never the article. Oh well.
That extensible conveyor looks pretty ghetto.

Surely production ones will be more robust and have automatic linkage.
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The US government could make transacting with, or trading in, Bitcoin anywhere in the world illegal for US citizens and then offer $75,000/coin domestic redemption exclusively for those citizens. Offering a premium like this is exactly what the US did with Gold in 1934.

To prevent inflows from outside of its borders it could simply require that anyone redeeming prove that they are 1) a US citizen, 2) purchased the coins prior to a certain date and 3) did so with their own capital/earnings.

Sure the Fed would have to print a lot of dollars, but the Gov could then sell any coins it reaped in foreign markets, crashing the price overseas and only losing the premium they paid. The crashing price would drive further domestic redemption.

The market cap may be $1T but the trading volumes are tiny ($80bn/day peak), so the US could easily take it down with a concerted effort, particularly if other major nations (like the EU) were also in the game.

You're naive if you think the US and the EU simultaneously banning Bitcoin (and other decentralized cryptocurrency) wouldn't render it an interesting historical footnote. It's a speculative asset that doesn't have enough real world utility for anyone to go to war over.
according to livecoinwatch[1] a $1.8 billion sell would have a 2% price impact on bitcoin

[1]https://www.livecoinwatch.com/price/Bitcoin-BTC
> That’s an interesting phrasing. Even you (who seems to support the policy) describe the convicted criminal as a convicted criminal, yet they’re able to get a piece of paper that says they aren’t one.

They can get that paper after they payed their dues to society (served their time).

> Does everyone have to produce such a paper routinely in life

Not routinely but I don't think anybody goes through their life without ever needing that paper. It is required for a vast variety of government programs and some jobs also require it. Working in IT I had to get it a few times when applying for jobs in private sector.
Why should china be held liable when it was the labs fails? Or even more specific someone in the lab? Would the USA be held liable when some lab fails? Is USA or even the company itself held liable for tech-companies fails on security or protecting privacy?

I doubt there is some legal paragraph which would work here, even in International Law.
Once AGI is realized, no human developer will ever be paid again.

I personally doubt AGI will ever come to exist, but if it does, that's an obvious result that will happen within a few years.
American Persimmons (Diospyros virginiana) actually respond well to a few freeze-thaw cycles. Despite myth, they don't require it for ripening, but they aren't hurt by it they way that Japanese kaki are.
FYI: you've been downvoted because you talk about downvotes, which is frowned upon here. Have you referenced the Gell-Mann effect only it would be ok. Also, don't worry about things "being downvoted": there are often large swings in up- and downvotes in the first few hours after posting. In most cases they even out and there's no need to go out of your way to support seemingly downvoted comment (unless you have something to add to the discussion, outside of discussing the voting).
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> Unless I'm missing something, the "or any later" clause means that a new GPL would cause further software releases to be dual licensed as GPL v2/3 and 4.

It also causes past releases to be immediately and retroactively available under the GPL v4 (in addition to the GPL v2/v3 it was already available under). As such the FSF has the power to make a large amount of software available under a new license.

> I can only imagine that causing problems if they say released a non copyleft v4, and it's hard to see that surviving a legal challenge.

A hypothetical GPLv4 has to be similar in spirit to the previous GPL licenses, but the devil's in the details -- just look at the prolonged debates about GPLv3. Depending on the exact details it might not be acceptable to parts of the free software community.
I must contradict this. Virgin Media (a large UK ISP), as well as other service providers, see running a web server on a residential Internet connection a violation of the Terms of Service.

(Unless I misunderstood your point.)

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/8cfwmi/any_uk_p...
Where I live (south of Europe) you can tell very easily what fruit or vegetables are in season:

1. They taste orders of magnitude better compared to when they are not in season (e.g. oranges when sourced from nearby Greece or Turkey, as opposed to ones shipped all the way from South Africa or Australia)

2. They are much cheaper to buy on local fruit and vegetable stands. Also, big chains like Lidl or Kaufland run good sales on them as well.
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This is anonymous, so I'll speak my mind. Maybe it's helpful to you.

They call it Dutch superiority because they are superior. I immigrated from the United States, and I would never go back at this point. People are still people here, but society functions, and that is because people are critical. Education is better, family relationships are better, infrastructure is better, treatment of the poor and less fortunate is better. And OP is right in that you clammed up, in precisely the way the article describes, at the slightest criticism of Anglo-Saxon culture, despite the fact that you have been describing just how much you dislike said culture in your voluminous comments.

My advice is to start being critical if you want your culture to survive. We really do see how silly you all are, and it is really more sad than anything. Fijne dag!
"That's the sad reality."

That's debatable, or incredible cynic imo. But even if so, losing your job is not comparable to losing reputation.
I’m impressed by this thing lifting cardboard boxes by sucking on the top of them. I’m surprised that it works at all, and that the top of the box doesn’t rip off
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Its still wrong what you are saying.

A battery stores PRODUCED ENERGY and gives out the SAME PRODUCED ENERGY with loss.

You might not care but the problem is ENERGY which would not be needed to be PRODUCED to save co2 and our planet.

And you can play around with the idea how Bitcoin can be useful on supporting this stuff but honestly? No one needs btc for sustainable energy investment. No one.

And about this excess energy garbage: Either its so much excess energy that the system ooptimizes itself and reduces the co2 output by shutting down or prices are so different than someone is building a REAL Battery to make money out of this. Bitcoin would just put that energy segment onto the global market by some arbitrary decoupled btc value.
In summary the source has lost only fortran II left ... really?!!
Which route on an independent MIT licensed project would you suggest?
I've always been very skeptical of the value-add of Deno over Node, and this only increased my skepticism. Good luck making money, I guess.
But pronunciation is very variable, even living languages have multiple different pronunciations in use at any given time (a.k.a. accents) and for a language like Latin that has been in use for thousands of years, the possibilities are endless.

Being able to establish one-to-one correspondences between Latin words and their descendants in modern languages can be helpful, but it doesn't matter much whether you're using the "correct" Latin pronunciation, so long as whatever pronunciation you do use maintains those correspondences.
The problem is that people still need something to do that gives some meaning to their existence and provides accomplishment, intrinsically and within their peer group.

There are only so many occupations that can do that.

There's art, but if ever fifth person is an artist, who is supposed to consume all of it?

Many are also not wired to be scientists.

With machine learning steadily becoming helpful in more domains and slow but steady improvements in robotics, we could be just 50-100 years away from a future where most manual labor and even a lot of the lower level intellectual labor of today becomes redundant or significanntly diminished.

I'm sure there are models that can provide a meaningful existence, but they won't be so easy to find. And that's ignoring the possible outcome of giant mega corporations that completely control the masses , since every aspect of live becomes dependant on what they provide.

We are headed for very interesting times.

Of course that assumes continued progress, and as history shows that is not at all a given. All we'd need is a serious global conflict with nuclear weapons or local revolutions for progress to be reverted or stalled for a long time.
Yeah, I agree with you for the most part. And this argument comes up a lot. The difference is we're not Amazon yet. We don't have the same levels of user engagement, loyalty and whatever metrics that makes Amazon a success. To the end users, we're not as popular, one slow page load translates to a lost potential customer which when aggregated to even a few 100 potential customers could make or break a startup.
I can’t find a definitive answer this morning on the status of this operation. Some articles say it’s floating, others say it’s only mostly floating but the bow is still stuck. All of them are short on details of what happens next, not even providing info on what the next necessary steps might be.
I signed the support rms letter with my real name.

I hope you do the same if you want to support him.

I was born in mainland China and these attacks on rms remind me of the Cultural Revolution.
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