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> It was made to be able to do digital transactions without any trusted 3rd party.

Which is what makes it even more absurd that people are claiming that adding centralized layers on top of Bitcoin is a valid solution to the cost and speed of transactions.

They're devoted to Bitcoin itself above any of the reasons why the technology was built in the first place. But if people don't actually care about having distributed payments, and if they're perfectly willing to buy into payment processors that are only using Bitcoin as a store-of-value in the backend, then Proof of Work doesn't matter.

Proof of Work/Stake only matter if Bitcoin is actually being used as a trustless and anonymous payment system for regular transactions, which is ironically the task that (among most other cryptocurrencies on the market) it's perhaps least suited for technologically.

I'm not saying there's no innovation here. I am saying that I don't see any evidence that Bitcoin's largest proponents care about that innovation. I don't see any evidence that any of this matters beyond giving them an excuse to hype a speculative asset. If they did care, they would have abandoned Bitcoin and moved to basically any other coin -- anything at all that did Proof of Stake to reduce transaction fees and environmental costs, or that fixed its price to the dollar, or that had better privacy.

I firmly believe at this point that the technology of Bitcoin matters to the majority of its investors about as much as the technology of Beanie Babies mattered to its investors. That's not to say the technology isn't interesting or that it can't be used in useful ways, but most of the time that people talk about Bitcoin's success, they're not talking about technology.
You should cite the original
Fingering patterns are 'work in progress', we have some interesting ideas about this.
That's aaaalmost down to vaguely-affordable, though. Used to be that eInk Corp. wouldn't even pick up the phone for less than at least $10k+
As a tangent, I found it fascinating that Double Commander is developed with Free Pascal and Lazarus.

https://github.com/doublecmd/doublecmd/wiki/Development

https://freepascal.org/

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
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I honestly can't agree with either article. Bitcoin's shortcomings are becoming apparent because it has hit an impossible edge case: after years of latent nerdspeak referencing cryptocurrency, one good rally got Wall Street to take notice. Now, everyone seems to have their own ideas about what Bitcoin should be: it's a store of value, it's a securities investment, it's a money laundering machine, or it's an alternative to the stock market. I don't blame Satoshi for staying hidden, because this is such a bastardization of what his vision of cryptocurrency really was. Bitcoin was free software, with the same purpose as the GNU coreutils or the Linux kernel: it was intended to empower the world indiscriminately, and provide opportunities and solutions to people who otherwise wouldn't have access to them. Bitcoin was a way to easily pay someone for a side job, or a private tip jar for your website. The current paradigm around what people perceive Bitcoin as is going to come crashing down, eventually. When it does, no nation will ever trust a digital currency again, thanks to an impending media shitstorm about how dangerous Bitcoin was.
Did your electricity provider accept Bitcoin?
My point exactly, so we're better of figuring out how to survive it asap.

Remains to be proven, it's never a linear process, once certain critical masses are reached it will happen more or less instantly. We're about due for an ice age, and from what I understand this is possibly how they start.
That's what they said about 4G, and 3G. We've seen this movie before.
And ruined Spain's economy after the initial boom.
What are the properties of Nickel? Would we have Nickel pipes and faucets, and Nickel covered cars?
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Marvin Minsky was quite a surprise.
There are many articles that detail the kind of things Epstein would tell these people and how he'd behave around them:

* https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/jeffrey-epstein-science...

* https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/08/jeffrey-ep...

* https://newrepublic.com/article/154826/jeffrey-epsteins-inte...

He always had girls around him. I don't believe that one could associate with Epstein and be ignorant of who he was.
I don't know if this feature got dropped or if it's just not very well covered, but...

There's a feature that allows devices to go into a low power mode. The tower can then "wake up" a device remotely. It's designed for a variety of IOT usecases.
It's weird seeing consistent replies by people who have not read the post.
There was a lot of inflation in Spain during the 16th century because of all of the gold and silver mined from the Americas. Some estimate prices rose by 300% in a century.

The rise in prices made Spanish exports uncompetitive, forcing Spain to spend its bullion to buy finished imports from other countries.
It's just not the same. At one point I moved away from the city where my teacher lived. We tried it over skype, with me changing the camera angle a bunch so he could observe properly, but it was slow, frustrating, and he missed so many things that came to light when I went to visit for an in-person lesson.

Music teachers are cheap to hire. Even 1 hour a week for 6 months would do WONDERS, and not cost much. Plus, your teacher will likely be a student as well, or attempting to supplement their music career. Taking lessons is supporting the arts directly.
Gold is a useful metal over and and above its currency value. Bitcoin is not useful except as a currency.
All the numbers he worked are far within the strength limits, the imperfect measurement of wood strength doesn't matter.

What he showed is the crane is plenty strong enough to hold the engine--the failure mode is tipping, not strength.
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/our-solar-system/72-our-sol...

Infrared spectrometers.
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It's like the "smell of marijuana" for cops. I'm convinced that the reason (right-wing) law enforcement is against pot legalization is because it removes this excuse, along with "the dog alerted" for arbitrary searches.
Alas, good awareness of social justice issues does not automatically go hand-in-hand with good technical ability. The unpleasant neckbeards are often surprisingly good at actually writing code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox

One reason why in less free countries, women and girls choose STEM in a higher proportion is that choosing STEM fields was a better economical decision compared to other jobs, rather than being forced into it for ideological reasons by their states.
Damn, that's really cool!

Also, thanks for showing me that YT channel.
That soothing voice and the clean style alone makes it worth a subscribe, heh.
have a look at hercules and look on pirate bay for zos 1.10 adcd, ill say no more :eyes
The best value adds are the worst value captures.
Karma? It doesn't get more valuable after you have enough to get you past the "you didn't register your account yesterday" type automod filters. Anyone buying accounts for "huge karma" didn't fully research how Reddit works. If you have low karma in one specific sub (because you are trolling or spamming), no amount of shameless repost karma in r/funny will protect from the "you are posting too frequently" message you'll only get in the sub you are getting downvoted in.

Accounts that will likely get big offers will have a large number of followers, mod large subreddits or targeted subreddits.

Having an active account before the 2016 Russia thing is also worth something. When you want to spread misinformation or do shill marketing, it helps a lot to see any of the following when checking a user's Reddit profile:

- the user didn't register a month ago.

- the user didn't register just to talk exclusively on this subject/product.

- the user registered before Russia's IRA became active on Reddit.

- the user didn't stop exclusively participating in porn or sports subreddits just to make this comment.

- the user is writing enough quality comments that they don't feel compelled to delete most, if not all, of them.

- the user is not making contradictory claims (there is a famous example of someone claiming to be a cis woman in computers who had clearly cis male comments in several cis male oriented subreddits, one of them called something like "semen rentension". They were called out.

- the user posts in subreddits that are on good terms with the subreddit we found their suspicious comment in.

Source: I'm a Reddit moderator and work at a marketing startup.
>This kind of thinking has infected corporate America, which is optimizing return based measures--typically IRR--rather than profit based measures.

In uni, this difference was explicitly used to differentiate investors and financiers.

Investors are picky where they put their money and want profit.

Financiers want every dollar always working and covet IRR.

... of course, out in the real world it isn't so cut and dry.
If you go to the software in the link (https://pianojacq.com/), "settings", "repertoire", "Bach: Prelude C", you will see it.
Let's take an example: a lot of states in Australia have recently embarked on a war against speeding. Speed is a really important factor in safety: it's imperative that drivers drive on roads at an appropriate speed.

If the purpose was harm reduction, an appropriate thing would be to concentrate on what really is a safe speed on individual roads, updating speed limits (they are currently set by very stupid rules and are often very inappropriate), and concentrating on those with actually excessive speed (which they do to some extent).

However, the majority of the effort these governments have put into it is to get really picky about anybody driving 3km/h over the limit and giving them insane fines for it. This causes people to just stare at the speedo instead of concentrating on defensive driving or paying attention to their surroundings.
Epstein was up to young women, but few thought he was pimping underage girls as your source mentions.

There is nothing wrong with having two young girls with you all times.
Leonard Cohen did that to his 70s. Some may find it disgusting, but disgust is not good reason for judging others.
The function that Bitcoin serves can be fulfilled by other systems that don't use energy inefficient POW.

It is incredibly clear.
Millions of kWhs go in, hashes are computed, a couple of bits of information are stored. Nevertheless BTC holders go to extraordinary lengths to justify the status quo.

Bitcoin gets exactly the treatment it deserves.
Not really, it still works exactly as you should expect: writes are handled atomically, using a separate file, so if you copy the database file "mid-write" you're not actually copying a database in flux, you're copying the database before the write operation gets applied, and SQLite applies the write after the copy lock is gone.

The main issue here is time: because copying temporarily locks the db out of further changes, it will be "out of sync" if you naively believe that performing a write means your next call will see that data, and you bake that assumption into your code. While there's a wait, on modern hardware using SQLite for its intended purposes (any volume of reads, but low volume of writes), that's just not an issue.

There are other problems associated with file-based backup, of course, such as missing out on in-memory data, or corruptions caused by power outages, but those problems only exist if we were to copy a db once. Backups run regularly, and any data we miss out on the current pass, we'll get on the next pass.

Basically: when used for the purpose that SQLite was created for, file copies are a perfectly fine backup strategy that really only shows its limitations when you start to push your project into "SQLite isn't really appropriate here anymore" territory.

(having said that: the fact that VACUUM can be run into a new file is super nice, and everyone should know that it exists)
The problem I’ve seen with trying to add non-static contracts to performance-sensitive languages has been ideological rather than technical.

Specifically, do the language semantics allow a mode where these checks can be turned off? Leaving them on all the time can be a huge performance burden, both directly and in the barriers they add to optimization (while there are potential optimization benefits to exploiting the guarantees of contracts, I don’t think as a practical matter they balance out).

But allowing them to be turned off in “release mode” eliminates much of the benefit in all modes: Developers can no longer assume that their code always runs in a context where the contractual guarantees are met, so they have to guard data integrity or safety critical operations dynamically anyway.
Here’s their launch video: https://youtu.be/VrlY-aPOW7E

Aside from the fact that this presenter and presentation is almost a stereotype of mac vs pc, it is interesting to see how touch was used. There are elements that now look very familiar — PAM being much like the Home Screen of smart phones, selecting text, direct manipulation of individual elements... but of course it would have been a not super great touch experience in both technical capacity to recognize the touch, inability to drag (?), and most importantly, gravity working against you here. The mouse would soon replace their vision for touch and fix all these fundamental problems. Still cool to see what they thought was important then: business.
I would add that music theory and sight-reading are orthogonal. My partner learned piano at a young age, and she can follow a sheet but won't know what chords she's playing. I learned guitar by ear but I'm always thinking about intervals/chords/modes. Obviously having both of these skills would be great.
Boeing 777 flies on 99.9% Ada

Used in aviation extensively where toy and aspirational languages don't do the job.
http://archive.adaic.com/projects/atwork/boeing.html
"vulnerabilities"
This is basically a rip off the previously discussed (and much more well-written) original here: https://onezero.medium.com/the-morning-paper-revisited-35b40...

It was previously discussed at length - I actually assumed someone had rediscovered it and posted it here again. Interesting that TFM doesn’t cite the very relevant prior art.
Tinfoil hat would be mentioning Les Wexner’s ties to Southern Air Transport (notorious CIA front company).

My guess: he blackmailed rich people and then funneled money to intelligence services under the guise of “giving tax advice”.
None of those things are lying, tho.
One of the important realisations about this topic for me was that humans didn't really evolve a lot during recorded history and a lot of our progress that actually made a difference is based on knowledge and hands-on experience that doesn't get recorded in written form.

Ancient philosophers already had many profound ideas about the world, experts in ancient egypt fixed teeth with tools comparable to those of a today's dentist, engineers had enough experience and insight to build bridges that endured longer than many nations.

It took one ship to block an important canal, one power outage in Texas to take out multiple factories for months, one pandemic(which was not unforeseeable) to completely shift the rules on how many things are done. I don't think it would even take a loss of electricity to see a lot of systems implode. We joked about the toilet paper shortage last year, but it was only funny because it was a relatively unimportant, long-lasting and easy to produce product. It could have been a lot worse.
It's the individual's choice to turn their personal Twitter (or email list or blog) into a billboard. Similarly it is the user's choice to unfollow said individual if they dislike billboards.

I myself have had to do this for numerous art accounts as sometime in 2021 they all started shilling NFTs.
I would argue those types of rules would eliminate most historical outfits, because they’d either have been the oppressed or the oppressors.
> There is no set amount of electricity needed to move Bitcoin.

This is simply untrue. We're not talking about simply moving your wallet on a pendrive.

In this context moving bitcoin means changing ownership and this simply cannot happen without electricity.
That's funny -- I just did the same thing! We both must have read that same earlier post about using Visionect to display the NYT and ran out and ordered one.

I didn't get a chance to write it up yet but here's my software https://github.com/elidickinson/newsvision

I skipped the HTML renderer and used the python library to push image data right to the display's frame buffer. Seems simpler if you're doing the hard work of turning it into an image yourself anyway. I also grabbed the full list of newspapers and used imagemagick to annotate each image with the paper name and location. It's a little hacky, but seems to work.

It's admittedly an expensive display, but it really is very well made piece of hardware.
90% of Unicorn startups, valued at $1B+, losing money in 2019 or 2020
More helpful would be if both lists highlighted people who actually worked closely with RMS / occupied official positions within FSF / GNU / etc.

For example, I will absolutely defer to Matthew Garrett and Benjamin Mako Hill and Bradley Kuhn over... uh, "agentOfChaos."
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By going after RMS they want to demonstrate they can cancel anyone if they please.
> Human organisations don't run on energy and resources. They run on money.

You are talking nonsense here. Money is just an abstraction of energy and resources used by a human organization. Remove the money and the organization can still function. Remove energy and resources and the organization can't function.
> The math is quite simple

I know this happens in some contexts (eg environmental protections), but with regard to employee treatment in huge workforces, no, it really isn’t so simple, and you again provide no backing for the claim, just hand-waves.

And you haven’t demonstrated your bigger claim: that there is a literally unlimited supply of people who would, at once, make good Amazon workers, and be so desperate for work and without any other work options that they will tolerate any level of mistreatment.
Yeah, I don't know if you have been watching Disney's moves for the last few decades, but we have been at that place for a while now!
> A bad union is just like a bad employer.

> There is nothing stopping a workplace from having more than one union, its quite common in the UK.

I really hope I’m misinformed here, but I don’t think that’s the case in the US and I think it might even be illegal to do it that way here :( It does sound a lot better that way.
I don't agree with him on this.

50% of gold is used as an asset to store value. This half is just a more cumbersome store of value than Bitcoin. It costs more money to store and move gold than to store and move Bitcoin.
I think we're saying the same thing. People manipulate one another through communication, not only in a criminal-justice setting, but also in business and relationships. Using "false-confidence" as a metric is simply reminding us that deception has no connection with objective truth. You can lie even while communicating something that is objectively true. You can also lie while intentionally displaying outrageously high false-confidence (i.e., jokes). It is easier to reason about this topic if we choose the right name.
Thanks for the feedback! Releasing a “core” version of this library sounds like a good idea: as you said, it’s mostly about normalizing the variations in how NFT data is being stored, and the different utility functions are already isolated from React anyway.

And yes the only fetcher is the Ethers.js one at the moment, but more will be added soon [1][2].

[1] https://github.com/spectrexyz/use-nft/issues/2

[2] https://github.com/spectrexyz/use-nft/issues/3
I am quite sure the witch hunt is the actual goal of the woke crowd. Not much good to say about them.

This morning I was listening to a radio program about a black woman making theater and podcasts and such things about the history of slavery. Of course, as such this is a topic worthy of attention. But the whole victim mentality in it was quite disgusting. She never quite went as far as literally saying that she hated white people but the implication was there multiple times.
I'd argue that it's less pretentious and more helpful to non-native speakers, as it indicates pronunciation. It's a marker that the word is pronounced "co-op-er-ate" and not "coop-er-ate". The diaeresis works much like vowel markers in Hebrew to make the words easier to pronounce for people reading a word they might not have heard pronounced.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...
> Without electricity, Bitcoin would collapse.

I'm curious about this: What portion of the electricity used for mining is needed to prevent the collapse of bitcoin? My understanding is that the answer looks something like "however much is required to make a 51% attack impractical." If that's right, how should we go about estimating it? Should we understand "practical" to mean "profitable", or should we be thinking more about unprofitable, terroristical attacks?
Wow, I feel dense. I didn't know James McMurtry was related to Larry McMurtry. Ruby and Carlos rules. For some odd reason I woke up with it stuck in my head a couple weeks ago, and it stayed stuck for a few days. Hey, there it is again!
Going to jail for not using USD doesn't sound like a compelling argument for me to use BTC.
I'm sure DJI will send him a new one as a thanks for the advertising.
and if you crop it, you get a random size every time and it is easier to prove that you have the original.
The analogy makes no sense. The mining reward for BTC is fixed (6.25 BTC every 10 minutes) regardless of how much electricity is burned in the process.
> Telos isn't strictly linked to religion.

Right, I didn't mean to imply that it was. It's just an explanation (a hypothesis at this point) for how otherwise reasonable people end up with radically different worldviews.
There is no reason in my mind why bitcoin would crash. Gold has not (and no gold's price is not majorly driven by its industrial uses). If anything it is more like gold than ever before. Expensive, and difficult to find, transport, and spend.
To be honest I think being cared for by a robot would would be pretty dehumanizing.
These direct-sales eInk products are essentially SDKs for their tech, so it makes sense that they’ve always been low-volume B2B products with high per-unit prices.

Nevertheless, there has been a recent decrease in price of this SDK hardware. I believe it’s been driven by eInk having created a modular substrate (all the stuff in a display, minus the panel) allowing cheaper iteration on their panel technology. So people can buy the SDK substrate component once; and then buy a new SDK panel component each time eInk reformulates it. Lower manufacturing costs + cheaper logistics for eInk Corp. = cheaper costs for everyone else, even when buying the whole kit together.

(Sort of the same reason that essentially the same cube-shelf design is cheaper from IKEA — IKEA just packs wood tightly into a flat box, and then piles those flat boxes up in a shipping container; and when you buy it and get it delivered, it’s still flat right up until it’s in your house. Other manufacturers, meanwhile, assemble the thing at some point — whether at the factory or at the story — and then ship it at least once in assembled form, where it’s taking up a huge amount of space in the container / on the truck.)
> Where was Sumana when Jeffrey Epstein funded all sorts of centers at MIT?

Uh, you mean when Joi Ito was intentionally obfuscating the source of funds because he knew the university wasn't supposed to accept donations from Epstein?