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> I'm sympathetic to the argument that Ponzi schemes inherently have a small group propagating the fraud while presenting the illusion of a real business, so describing Bitcoin as a Ponzi scheme may be technically inaccurate.

Have you heard about the miracle of decentralization? :)
> On the other hand, for btc to keep value, you need people to mine it from to the moment you buy it to the moment you sell it.

That's not correct. Once you receive your transaction within a block, they are there forever assuming you keep a copy of that blockchain. If miners stop mining, you'll be able to mine yourself within 14 days with a regular computer.
Yes, the atrocities in Xinjiang constitute a genocide
Not really, I don't follow people that make me angry and specifically wanted to check on the latest updates of 2 projects at the time which I couldn't do as easily.

If it seems brighter to you now and you are not just meme-ing, I'd recommend changing who you follow.
Athenian field workers were not quite peasants from later ages, and a lot of trade was ran in kind. Early units of money were weights - usually of grain and equivalent. Money only made the exchanges a bit simpler.
Fusion is mostly a certain amount of funding away. We're quite sure that ITER and DEMO will work if we put enough money in. If we had more funding we could simultaneously also pursue other approaches, like Stellarators, to increase success changes more.
Let me introduce you to PTECH and see if you still think Solarwinds was worse. Warning, a conspiracy rabbit hole lies this way, proceed with caution, lest your view of the world be challenged.

A start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuZRMpt_Tas&t=195
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The reality is even worse. The article depicts the operators as middle-men piggybacking on the tech expertise of vendors like Ericsson or Nokia. Unfortunately, the vendors are subject to exactly the same pressures.

The whole industry is in a deepening downward spiral. Outsourcing and subcontracting is rampant, layoffs left, right and center. The combination of non-functional requirements that would make even senior FAANG fellows dizzy - left to be done by stressed out graying veterans or naive greenhorns, who leave the industry after 2-3 years for 50-100% raises elsewhere for the same skillset. Due to the monopsony power of the large operators, the vendors barely break even on their deliveries. There's no institutional knowledge buildup, nobody to take up the baton after the veterans retire, the vendors gave up pretending they care about being a nice place to work. If you're a techie, stay away from the telecom industry.
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So perhaps the better question is, why is The Pentagon encouraging the speculation by "confirming" the videos exist? Surely they've concluded the same as the linked OP. I can only assume that The Pentagon is either incompetent or being intentionally misleading.
Just because you've outsourced some function to another contractor or telecom doesn't make the physical stuff go away. It just abstracts it away to someone else's responsibility.
Talk about 'governance' and 'enforcement' is a huge red flag. Free Software is a collaborative process, not a governed one.

This attempt at subversion of the GNU Project is pathetic, and will go nowhere. Most (sensible) developers aren't going to get involved with an 'Assembly' where they can be dragged into a Star Chamber to be tried for supposed thought or speech crimes.
Good thing there's a lockdown! I'll get started.
the equipment was provided by public access tv which the cable companies were required to offer, so it was a professional setup that anyone who wanted to make a show could use after some training.

a great opportunity to get experience without needing to find a job/internship with a tv studio
Preach! Love to see this perspective here :)
We have plenty of ways to spend money: housing, food, healthcare, infrastructure, public transportation, even jobs.
Providing the above for free could be a thing.

Every penny is useful.
It's part of the reason the gold standard was removed. Currency deflation made loans expensive, for two reasons: the time value of money was higher in 1933 than it was any point since; and since loans are in nominal dollars, deflation causes loans to be more expensive in real dollars, even disregarding interest. 1932 had -10.3% inflation -- this added an additional 10% interest to every loan, on top of the 17% prime rate (because why lend money?). A 27% effective loan rate is ruinous for business, especially agriculture. The gold standard was removed in 1933, interest rates dropped to 12%, inflation increased wildly to 0.3%, and people could borrow money again.
Every time I read one of these reviews it makes me so glad to be using a desktop PC with Manjaro. Things I need to do just all work for me, no surprise limitations, no worrying about how long an irreplaceable battery or SSD will last and no constant battle with some corporation over who controls my computer.

I don't get people who would want to optimize for working on a train or a plane or in a meeting either. My desktop is in a quiet room where I do work stuff and I easily get more compute per dollar too.
All my VPNs work fine on Bell. I've had trouble with some VPNs on Rogers though.
Consider the MNT Reform as well for such a purpose.
i think anything boxy is antiquated. you can always swivel your monitor for more vertical real estate. being able to look at two windows side by side i think is more valuable than increasing vert at the expense of horz.

all this 1x1 and 4:3 business just sounds like hipster nostalgia to me. granted I'm not a programmer, but we're not all programmers either. it's almost as if there's some virtue signaling going on there. oh the desire to be different in a mass produced world.
Technically, we’re all stuck in the solar system.
Title is misleading.

But, maybe we should talk about outsourcing! Most people do not know how awful is their trusted brand at managing its contractors. Often there is no technical team to lead and control. They only hire a bunch of incompetence product managers with power point skills that have no clue about what is going on.
@xiii1408 - just to add to this. I've went and bought the mic that you and others in this thread recommended. I've used it for a few hours now and compared it with BoseQ35 mic and of course it's amazing.

For anyone else reading: do it. Buy it. You'll sound more real on teleconference calls and.

As for (1), I'm not bothered about video too much so use 720p webcam.

Either way, thanks again!
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Your definition of design here is limited to graphic design.

For many, design also refers to how a product solves a people problem, how does it affect people’s lives, what’s it worth ...

People who practice (product) design spend time looking at usage data, talking to people and understanding what the impact of a design change is.

I think most will agree those are essential things for a product to be successful.
If you couldn’t exchange gold for fiat it would still have value. Bitcoin would plummet in value.
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You’re wrong, insulin is inflammatory hormone, google it.
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Ah ok. Would be functional for the Lenovo presumably.

Another possibility is a device that merges monitors' and then presents as one to the computer intended for video walls.. I know of the ones that Matrox makes but might need windows to setup.

https://www.matrox.com/en/video/products/video-walls/quadhea...
Plaintext transport doesn't matter if at least one part of the payload chain is cryptographically protected/verified.

If you have a machine that's air-gapped and its only IO is strictly humans (read: keyboard/screen, not USB or other electronic means) then your weak point is the human, so center your security around that. You can look at security of lottery machines to get a good idea how that's handled.

But if you're updating the machine with updates, then it doesn't really fit that criteria, soooo....
Price spike as measured in USD or price spike as measured in USDT?
As well as colonialism and puppet governments in Latin America.
Why? There are other stablecoins, with better reputation. Could people just switch to them?
I don't hear regularly about people's public reputations and careers being destroyed because of something posted on Reddit.
I thought his honesty was heartwarming, and also the ability to accurately retrospect on his emotions.
Good find. I was a lot more focused on PPC back then. After Apple switched to Intel, I didn’t really see the reason for PA Semi’s acquisition.

The iPhone’s magic was all about the software to me.
You can’t live inside a Bitcoin.
If it is that difficult to check the updates, perhaps they need another mechanism for updating people...

I am not on Twitter and (whatever its undoubted positive potential) the overwhelming perception I have on it from various other media is negative.

Feeling brighter is a very fair reaction.
By failed you mean the government was couped, right? And it being called socialist is a bit of a funny thing, with encouraging private investment and high degree of authoritarianism, even totalitarianism.

This is not the same thing at all.
The value of Bitcoin is not just the blockchain. It is the distributed consensus on it being the correct blockchain. So, Bitcoin relies on others believing that this version of the blockchain is authoritative.

Nothing like this in gold. It is an atom which does not require any extra belief from the society.
Your beliefs are uninformed and selfish. The Chinese government wont use its control over networks to target people like you. It will use them to target human rights activists and Chinese dissidents along with stealing technology from your country.
There were multiple UN resolutions on Armenia withdrawing from Azerbaijani lands illegally occupied. The author clearly has not done their homework by conveniently omitting the biggest elephant in the room. On a scale of fake news this is a 10.

https://www.un.org/press/en/2008/ga10693.doc.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_Securit...
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The fact that von Neumann, a polyglot fluent in English, kept writing in German while at Princeton and left translation to his assistants, makes me wonder how much productivity is lost to Europe not having a lingua franca native to all citizens. Personally English isn't my native language. I write English with greater fluency than my native language at this point, but reaching this level took thousands of hours that could have been spent solving problems and building things.
Plus, the US is literally printing its own money with abandon.
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It's the sign that no crypto has really found the right value-add yet.

They are all struggling with poor transaction throughput/high fees, huge bandwidth for nodes, deflationary money supply, etc...
> Currencies have to be less valuable over time, otherwise no one would ever spend the currency.

I don't have an opinion on BTC (or gold for that matter) but this widely-distributed meme is simply untrue.

1) If I have a bar of gold, and it will buy me 1% more bread loaves in a year's time, but I can invest it in something that will trade for 2% more bread loaves next year, then I will spend it because despite appreciation it is not my best source of appreciation.

2) I have living/operating expenses that I consider to supersede my need for financial return. If I don't pay for shelter and food, I won't be around in a year to enjoy the 1% more bread loaves I would get from appreciation.

3) Empirically/historically, over long time frames, gold appreciates in real terms (slowly). And yet people spent gold coins and gold-backed notes regularly.

Now, if a currency is appreciating much faster than anything else in the economy I agree you can have a deflationary spiral and a liquidity problem. But this is because the economy is collapsing — ordinary sources of growth have disappeared or reversed. This is a very special situation, and is not a general argument that currencies must depreciate.
I understand being angry if your favorite author switches style. I've had several of my favorites go off the political deep end. Other than that, however, why be bothered? Are you hurting for reading material? My book backlog is as massive as my Steam backlog.
> Few people to no person here would be comfortable purchasing a phone knowing people where exploited or harmed in its production.

Millions of people are aware of the exploitative conditions endemic in smartphone factories thanks to the volume of reporting done on the issue over the last decade. If sales are any indication, said millions are quite comfortable in their purchasing decisions.
>Free Software is a collaborative process, not a governed one.

And odd statement to make on behalf a movement that kneels and swears fealty to Richard Stallman.
There are no distributions that do security testing of all packages. And even if they did, it wouldn't be a guarantee that all software are actually free of security bugs.

The solution is to simply not trust the software at all. This is the approach Qubes OS takes, and works really well. Most regular users don't really need to go as far as Qubes OS does though, and application level isolation that Flatpak is trying to achieve is enough.

I don't see how anyone can accept that any random piece of software is allowed to access all your personal files is acceptable. We certainly don't accept it on mobile platforms (how many posts do we see here about applications that scrape user's contacts?) so why should we accept it on the desktops?
Growth is optimizing for future dividends. If you know a stock will never issue a dividend, buyback, etc the it’s value is 0. That’s why people talk about future cash flows.
Just installed Zorin's lite version to an Aspire One with Atom CPU and 1gb of ram. Works like a dream for a machine that's ancient for our standards.
Some aspire specific tweaks were required but all in all replacing the mechanical disk with a SSD made it live again. The fact that it looks very similar to Windows makes it usable for non-Linux people.

So seeing on HN was a shock to me. Recommended for old hardware nonetheless!
Who? The greater fool. Why? For the hopes of being able to sell to an even bigger fool eventually.

Crypto currencies do no business, and will never pay dividends, do stock buybacks, deliver interest, or perform any other function of actually generating yield.
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It was to turn the ringer on/off. Do not disturb is a bit more drastic as it takes away (almost) all notifications.
I've used cursor pagination on daemons doing large batch processing. It worked fine.

If you're using a cursor, you should be iterating the entire (or at least most of) the result set over the course of the connection. I wouldn't think they're appropriate to API's, because maintaining the cursor state between requests sounds painful.

Offset is the only way to paginate arbitrarily sorted data sets, unless you plan on going hard on indexing. The performance falls off as the offset grows. You'll also have issues with apparent 'duplicates' between pages.

Keyset pagination is preferred if the data is usually sorted in one way. Most infinite scrolling falls into this category. Each row has a unique 'counter', which is (usually) monotonic. To skip pages, filter rows whose counter is later than the last row in the current page. This is fast and has no duplicates. However, your sorting options are constrained, as you must have an index for each sort option.

Keyset and offset can be combined to eliminate the duplication defect of offset alone. The performance issue will still be there. This becomes an engineering decision - in most use cases, the large offset perf hits don't really happen (aside from abuse, which almost always happens).
> Is that true?

> (1) The U.S. generates about 2,000 metric tons of used fuel each year. This number may sound like a lot, but it’s actually quite small. In fact, the U.S. has produced roughly 83,000 metrics tons of used fuel since the 1950s—and all of it could fit on a single football field at a depth of less than 10 yards.
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-....

When compared to coal, the a single coal plant produces nearly as much toxic (and radioactive) ash in an hour
http://energyforhumanity.org/en/nuclear/what-do-we-do-with-a...

And this ignores recycling (that the U.S. doesn't have, but the French are notorious for (modern reactor technology) that reduces waste to 10%.
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Actually, I have come to believe that Nassim Taleb is the ponzi scheme charlatan.

Let's see

1. It's not clear what this guy achievements are; apart from stating the obvious using very good writing (black swan).

2. He doesn't have any real credentials or achievements. He brags about having traded lots of options and making a bunch of money. But he fails to deliver any proof of that.

3. He sells a mini-certificate (whatever that means) for $3.000 -> https://www.realworldrisk.com/details.html

4. He actually accepts Bitcoin for his program "Note that we accept bitcoins!"

5. Requirements for his mini-certificate are the same, practically, to buy Bitcoin

> What are the requirements to enroll? Simply, some experience with risk and, being a typical reader of, say, Antifragile or similar books.

6. You should trust him with his program because the Feedback shows considerable name recognition.

> The Mini-certificate is priced at about 40% less than an executive MBA, and requires a tenth of the time and financial commitment, so we believe that the payoff will be quite generous. Feedback shows there is considerable name recognition.

tl;dr: Taleb is a snake-oil sales man. His good writing style made you fell for it.
That's bonkers, I love it!

I've never actually owned a motorcycle with a turbo before. It kind of scares me. I've been caught off guard by hitting the power band on a small 2-stroke many times, I can only speculate about the turbo lag on a bigger motor and it sounds kind of scary.
I'll give you that is has Ponzi scheme like aspects to it.
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Someone still holds all of the CryptoKitties. It doesn't mean they've got any value left.
Same reason tech companies go to Silicon Valley. Go where the money is; network effects. Also the US dollar allows unlimited debt to be issued.
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> Does Musk have authority over a whole planet

Of course not. Anyone is free to make a settlement on Mars and choose their own currency.
Not only that but companies keep buying back their own stock to make the price go higher. If this isn’t Ponzi I don’t know what is. The companies realized they don’t even have to wait for an investor to pump the price they can just do it themselves. Spend the money that should have been spent on keeping planes from falling out of the sky on the stock. Genius! Goodhardt’s Law in full effect.

>Boeing, which has been struggling for the past year with the safety of its 737 Max jet, has spent over $43 billion buying back stock over the past decade. The six airlines—Southwest Airlines, Alaska Air, Delta Airlines, United Airlines, American Airlines and JetBlue—have spent about $47 billion over the same period.

https://www.newsweek.com/boeing-airlines-under-fire-90-billi...
For whatever reason, having not heard of DOI before only to see it referred to as "DOI®" is massively off-putting.
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Listening to laser eyes talk = full of biases
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"All that glitters is not gold" ~~ William Shakespeare ~~
Not Mac user but here is my experience with multi-monitor. I used to have 2 32" 4K monitors at full resolution. One was pivoted to vertical specifically for coding. My main desk resembles an airfield so space wise it was ok. However recently I found myself tired to turn my head and body when shifting attention between two. I am back to just a single 32" 4K. The other monitor went to a different computer.
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Oh yea, super secure, their outsourced security team is all over it.
Almost every prison facility prohibits inmates from managing a business from inside. Even if he was allowed to, he couldn't be the kind of energizing and driving force he is now.
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Google Analytics and Logs are bad /o\ (as in compliance stuff).

If you have readers in the EU and/or you are living in the EU, you are required to have a privacy policy.

This (https://www.iubenda.com/en/help/8385-gdpr-for-bloggers) article and this (https://adventurebagging.co.uk/2018/05/gdpr-guide-for-blogge...) is looking like a good read.

You could also be required to have data processing contracts.

Some local privacy protection offices have good information about GDPR for small blogs and sometimes you can even ask them directly.

no legal advice
He is no longer exposed to BTC, and thus no longer assumes any risk from the advice he gives on it.

Like, if he wanted me to pay attention, he'd be shorting BTC right now.
Hacker News is the fallback platform for discussion for a few communities like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook.

(Or at least our slice of it)
If he really believes BTC has failed, he'd be shorting it.
I've written this tool to test example code in markdown documents using user-specified shell commands: https://github.com/anko/txm I have had great success using it in my own projects, so perhaps others might find it useful too.
These sonification efforts are cool. Especially the recent spider web one.

I wonder what it would sound like to sonify selected aspects of human range sound data: voice, wind, road noise, breathing, digestion, birds, crowds, ...
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I am not necessarily say people does this with clear purpose. Even though the specific professor I have in mind, probably did. But unconsciously, I'd say people do this a lot in general.

I sometimes do it, when I am angry at a person, not on par with me intellectual. Then out of bad old habit I speak a very high language to underline my competence and lower the other person for not understanding it. I witnessed that behavior quite some times with other persons, too and thats probably why I aquired it myself at some point. But I try to get rid of it, as it is not at all helping with communication.
And I think the high lecturing is in the same category. To boost oneself.

But agreed, most too high lectures are probably just happening out of lazyness or unawareness, to get down on the level of the students.
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Perhaps the damage is just not visible yet. The sand has not been tossed in the gear box. The blue prints have not been built. Maybe it’s a precursor event to a longer decline.
Huge. A look through RetroRGB.com or Speedrun.com's most played games list will give a glimpse into the modern retro gaming community.