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> Ethereum is not Bitcoin because Ethereum doesn't want to be Bitcoin, otherwise Ethereum wouldn't have existed in the first place

This isn't exactly true. Vitalik only created Ethereum because the new core devs ( Blockstream ) were actively limiting what types of things could be done with Bitcoin. They were moving away from programmable money in favor of "digital gold".

Source: https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/929805462052229120...

Here's a more detailed telling of the events by one of the Decred developers: https://old.reddit.com/r/decred/comments/6wxueo/your_best_pi...

TLDR: Ethereum actually does want to be Bitcoin but that's only because Bitcoin doesn't really want to be Bitcoin anymore. They've dumbed down their protocol. They've dumbed down their infrastructure. Hell, they've even managed to dumb down their users. Ethereum will make a fine Bitcoin.
Someone needs to read up on both the definition of charity and the definition of 'essentially'
Is the admin password “emet”?
I would really love to see you get funding for developing an open platform for TTS that can offer commercial options that fuel growth. I really want to see your work scale. Easy TTS from custom data needs to be a thing.

Good job with the stuff you've built, and good luck!
Who uses funnels besides marketers?
This work Joga Pradipika by Jayatarama(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joga_Prad%C4%ABpik%C4%81) is different from the well known Hatha Yoga Pradipika by Svatmarama(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatha_Yoga_Pradipika)

Modern day "Hatha Yoga" traces its origin to the "Natha Yogis"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nath). It is also quite interesting to note that "Patanjali Ashtanga Yoga" had nothing to do with the above. Due to historical reasons, a subset of the Asanas (with his own modifications) were popularized by T. Krishnamacharya who also used the text "Patanjali Yoga Sutras" as a larger framework within which to seat his practice. This was then exported to the West by his students which has now come to be known as the de-facto Yoga.
Wow buddy really signed up for the Amazon cult, didn't you? You must love capitalism and wealth disparity to a very unhealthy degree to be this much of a shill.
They focus only on prediction markets. I just meant that insurance and prediction markets are two sides of the same coin. Thanks for sharing those links though -- I will check them out.
> and I find it hard to engage that

Fair enough. If Firefox and Chrome enabled DNT by default, do you think the outcome would have been different? Ie, do you think that advertisers rebelled specifically because they thought Microsoft was hypocritical about tracking?

I don't. I don't think there's evidence that advertisers were mad at Microsoft, and the reasoning I have for that is that they stopped respecting DNT across the entire browser ecosystem, not just on IE. The other point of evidence I have is that advertisers are similarly angry about every other privacy-mechanism that gives users choice, even in browsers like Safari and on platforms like iOS.

I think my theory is a pretty consistently reasonable explanation for all of those scenarios. Why are advertisers mad about iOS privacy changes? Is it because Apple is hypocritical? Or is it because a lot of people use iOS, and advertisers don't want to see widespread adoption of any privacy tools? You can find a consistent correlation between how angry advertisers get about any privacy-enhancing proposal and the number of people it would impact.

> so let's enjoy the situation we have, because change in the right direction that doesn't get us 100% of the way is bad

I don't think that's what anyone at all is saying. I disagree that FLoC is a change in the right direction, and I disagree that it will make any legislation any more likely.

I could just as easily make the same point back to you. You're arguing that we should embrace a new tracking standard that makes privacy worse just because an arms race where browsers try to stop tracking entirely on their own isn't a perfect solution.

But an arms race where browsers close tracking vectors where they find them is better than a legal status quo where browsers add new tracking vectors of their own volition. And I don't see any evidence that adding FLoC is going to make US Senators feel better about privacy bills, or that it's going to change how advertisers lobby those Senators.
In no world where there is a "duty" to provide value am I going to be found happily providing value. In this world, in my experience, your statement is simply false. If I happen to provide some form of value it is from my choosing to, not to satisfy the demands of some formless "duty".
What does Fitness+ have that Nike Training Club, which is free, doesn’t?

Both of them let you workout with a trainer via video and track the workout in the Activity app. It’s just that for NTC you need a separate app to start workouts, but the data is still aggregated in the same Health app.
AFAIK India doesn’t have refund policies for defective goods that are widely applicable.

What OP must clarify though is that apples authorised resellers in India do actually perform a good job of replacing defective goods under warranty, which makes getting extended care for apple products in India of paramount importance. Outside of warranty you are so screwed!
> Stories they have been fed by the media and have accepted without thinking

Seems like you would rather drink the kool aid given to you in press releases by companies! Good going!

> Tech companies are the only inspiring institutions

Yes, I do feel inspired to hire vulnerable people and squash all their rights, make them work to the bone, violate all their privacy, and make them pee in bottles.
>I really don't understand this sentiment, as if a professional gambler would not gladly gamble with novices...

The existence of a financial elite hinges on the existence of a non-elite that actually does the work. If workers are putting 25% of their paychecks in an index fund and retire a few years earlier, instead of paying off their too-expensive car loan or something, it will be bad for the current financial elite.

In the end money is just an abstraction to determine who has to do back-breaking work all day, and who doesn't.
"Proposes" has strong connotations for what amounts to throwing out a pile of ideas and seeking feedback. Website blocking is listed as one of several possible actions.

https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/693.nsf/eng/00191.html
> they work just as well as they always do

Objectively, no. They don't. You can't capture the intangible capital of a country through invasion. The greater the ratio of intangible capital (skills, trust, institutions, et cetera) to tangible capital, the less effective classical empires become.

Resource-rich countries, on the other hand, are still subject to imperial dynamics.
> it's the rare place that won't take at least a few other alternative payments, including cash.

Yes, and when you pay with an alternative, that’s when you get hit with the 2% credit card tax. Because you and the credit card user both pay the same price, but the merchant has to raise prices by 2% to cover fees caused by the latter. The credit card user is reimbursed for the fees they created via cash-back programs, while the cash user has to just swallow them.
Except that's not going to happen. Nearly every relative, friend and acquaintance of mine was a paying subscriber of the news before, but all have since moved to free digital, even though all of them can easily afford to pay for the rounding error. Expecting that whole set of people to go back to paying for news after more than a decade though, is going to be hard. People don't feel that news should be a paid commodity, simply because it's a commodity now. If they Google a topic and arrive at a pay walled site, they'll simply move onto another site that gives it for free. And this is in a world where 50%+ of the audience gets their news third party from social media, and not even news websites in the first place.
Intel, Nvidia, TSMC execs agree: Chip shortage could last into 2023
Can't stop it, and there is some reasonable use cases. So why not prohibit missuse by other legislation? Defamation laws already exist.
That would be really cool. Never got around to trying it, but I'm really curious about the subjective quality on the 12bit A/D conversion looping back to PWM D/A.

LoFi effects pedals could be fun.
Exactly. This is such an awful take that it makes me think maybe Bezos has time to spend on HN.
It makes sense for them to want to keep their customers happy, considering how goddamn expensive those little bits of plastic are
They're complementary.

#2: Just because there are charities or companies that do bad things, doesn't mean the concepts of charities and companies, or philanthropy and markets, are fundamentally broken. There are good and bad charities/companies, even though it may be hard to tell which is which.

#3: You can make your donations more effective if you get better at telling which charity is good (same for investments and companies). There are diminishing returns on effort here - particularly if you aren't planning to specialize in charity evaluation. In that case, you can convert this problem into an easier problem of finding trustworthy specialists in charity evaluation, and donating to places they consider good/effective.
You mean commenting out a line of code, bumping the version and building a firmware image would cost a lot?
I believe that the real intention behind the statement is that not all users of their product are going to have 5 working fingers if they've had some sort of accident or similar.
In the examples they provide at the bottom of the article - my instant reaction is - these tunnels can replace ngrok tunnels.
The hulu stuff in disney+ is super brand new. Generally there is a lot of content not accessible here.
Ya, it seems like someone really wanted a gif and threw it in a free video -> gif converter. Gifs can have over 256 colors (with some tricks) or they could have used `video autoplay loop muted` and achieved the same effect.
I mean marijuana is more addicting to me than cocaine so....
Docker Desktop for Mac [Apple Silicon]
How should a search engine make money? What are some other models they can try?
Object Detection Implementation in Python – Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain pollution.
That's interesting - I hate wasting food, I have never complained about my order (and not planning too, unless the food is spoiled I guess). If I don't like the food, I'll just never order again from the same place. I would definitely appreciate a company that offers money refund on food "no questions asked" even if I was never going to use it - it shows respect.
There you go "some" of the value. So either the store or the manufacturer eats the rest of the lost value, in either case the person using the policy at face value is taking value. In a lot of cases taking value would be stealing, but this is one of those cases where there's only a social contract and a set of norms that guard it and it's not seen as such. Think of a complementary offering of some kind based on an honor system, some treat or trinket in a bowl. Sure you can take just one or take them all. If you take them all you can argue that they're free but you're still a that guy that helps bring about a tragedy of the commons.

Culturally in the states and Latin America that makes you jerk and people will hate you for it. So there is social pressure in place to help regulate those events, but it may not always be the case everywhere.
Reuters has maintained a very neutral facts-based reporting style compared to other similar wire sources such as Bloomberg and AP.
Using live biometric data to adapt a mood and enhance the player experience
The optimistic view is that there is a market for unbiased reporting and someone will step in to service that demand.

But who know.
From the HN Guidelines

>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

This type of tone only reduces the quality of HN. :(
That's basically what an ORM is. In fact Django uses SQLite out of the box and their ORM overrides lots of Python's operators so there we are!
Google has bailed on VR apps (for the most part, Owlchemy is still there), so I imagine not. It'd be cool if Google Earth VR was opensource like Tiltbrush. Like Tiltbrush it was one of the foundational early VR apps that people demoed, it's fun to imagine a world where Google continued to put money into VR, but I'm actually not sure how that fits into their business outside of just another platform for Android.
Yea setting up Actions is a pretty awful experience. I had to constantly git add, commit --amend, force push and retrigger the run and look at print statements.
Did I say no science happened?

I said it was blocked a lot.

Because when every research that you do, has to align to the literal words of a big book, under the explicit threat of burning at the stake - it is surprising, how much progress was possible despite of it.
Professionals have more money and experience. They should be winning really. Or at least know when to cut losses and move to other side...
> Tech companies are the only inspiring institutions that remain in America today. Everything else - government, media, academia, military - is in decay and has lost all of its legitimacy.

you will only find this level of slavish devotion to tech on HN and in the valley. Normal people do not think like this!
Others have, but most are not nearly as user friendly as CB.
Not that you don't make a point with this, I do have to say that Winrar hasn't changed how they handle their licensing/usage to combat this. I suspect they're "okay" with it so to speak as a result.

The fact that businesses change their policies as a result of abuse should tell you whether these actions are within the spirit of what they intended or whether it's outside of it.
Age of Empires II. After 20 years, and a few rereleases, the entire series is currently seeing a renaissance. Lots of strategy, developed meta, and still evolving balance.
How long until device and social media networks are linked?
I bought both from Apple's own online store.
I've played with and it is highly accurate and I like that it keeps the data "on the device" and doesn't send it to any 3rd party server. To query the data you actually need an iOS app running on the device. You can look at your data offline too when you're on a mountain with no cell service.

However this kills half their market because of people like me who are invested in the Android eco-system so much that having an iPhone is a non-starter.

The Galaxy watches from Samsung are equivalent though and I'd say about the same accuracy for things like step count, calories, distance.
Outstanding!! now we can have a look at how we all were blessed with our planet (history) and what we have had done to it. Hopefully we all contribute to restore it for better future...
You can't take nothing for granted. My mac mini started having issues just before end of warranty. Now after the end of warranty to fix it would cost me about 1/2 its original price. My pro which is out of warranty also has issues again fixing would cost me the same as buying a new pc laptop. Apple devices are very good when they are under warranty at least in India.
The title is "On Life, Liberty, and Stock Markets" (h2.. most prominent on page), or "Unusual Whales" (html.head.title). While this title might be a synopsis, it doesn't exactly hit the guidelines[https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html]
Most Mysterious Natural Phenomena in the World (Part 2)
AOE2 (Age of Empires 2) is _still_ going strong some twenty years later. Active reddit, youtube, and twitch communities. Still releasing new civ expansions on Steam. I think it's success is due to just how balanced the game is. It's like a really fast moving chess game.

I like factorio as well, but honestly it started to feel like work after I got the hang of it (needing to refactor etc).
Protected Mode Basics
Semantically, would 'haircut' be a preferable term to describe what's occurring? Visa isn't some government-mandated thing, so I agree that 'tax' is overloaded, but it isn't meant literally. Given the nearly omniscient use of plastic payment methods, that's why "tax" is used: everybody pays taxes.
It's not as bad in US and reason is purely economics of fraud.

Very large fraction of US population is paid $30 an hour compared to Indian population which makes scamming not worth the trouble

I live in India and I've worked in the US I know Indians just have too much time at their hand, so even schemes which take a lot of your time with little payoff are worth it here.

And the reason people don't use their time to achieve something more productive like starting companies etc...is because government procedures are very hard to understand, and you get penalties left and right, even starting a micro industry like machining shop is hard, power is not available continuously even at top industrial zones in India, fixed cost of electricity connection is high in industrial area and government is very insensitive to business owners so only very large and the ones close to policies are able to navigate.

The biggest problem isn't even market in India which has lot of demand, it's the costs you didn't plan for which seem low on surface the deeper you dig, the costs just keep increasing untill you are left with nothing and in debt so starting a business isn't very popular here and people limit the size of their success to not get in trouble.
How is this stereotyping? I can say with 100% confidence that 100% of the malicious scam calls that I get are from India.
Accounting Service Providers and Their Important Strategies
The companies can easily outsource the accounting work to such firms as professionalism is the first important thing in any business. Most of the accounting services in East London are famous for highly professional relationships with clients and this is how it goes smoothly.
Tonal and Zwift are also trying to build the same sort of fitness ecosystems as Peleton. Tonal has a wall mounted display for weight training with instructors. Zwift is designing their own smart bike (and maybe a treadmill too). Too early to say if they'll succeed.
Ah makes sense now. Similar to people buying tv’s for the Super Bowl and then return it. Just never thought of that with phones.
He does not work the returns desk, he is primarily a forklift driver. I find it interesting to hear about the seasonal variations though.

A couple random things - the first stack of shelves that face the front of the store are managed to give a good impression. They always keep those shelves full of pallets and try to have a lot of only a few items to give a clean look. If the warehouse has empty space they try to keep it so you can't see from the center of the store.
it's not just ecosystem => network effects => winner take all. apple is trying to skim the cream off the top with fitness+ like they did with music and itunes, but the market characteristics are different here.

first, the market opportunity is much smaller. everyone listens to music (and has a phone nowadays). that's a huge reachable market. only the well-off will pay for fitness+, so you're looking at <20% of everyone to start.

second, music was already in the transition from physical (cd's) to digital (mp3's) to streaming (just waiting for high-speed internet penetration). the fitness market is not in that same transition. it's still constrained by the physical world, no matter how 'social' it gets.

third, peloton's hardware is what makes the ecosystem, not the other way around (which is apple's strategy). it creates a halo of influence around the purchaser through price and product that apple simply can't replicate with just an apple tv, a watch, and a subscription. (i don't like peloton personally, but the market dynamics here are recognizable)

i'd be surprised if fitness+ really takes off. it has narrow appeal, a relatively high price, and little cachet or differentiation. zooming out, apple's "plus" strategy overall strays away from their strength in hardware-based consumer products, and i'm skeptical they can differentiate enough to retain that business long term, whereas homekit, carkit, and the like couch very neatly into that strength, and likely represents durable future expansion.
"non-profit" would be at least appropriate for your point, "charity" definitely not. Those two terms are not actually synonyms.

But even with non-charity non-profit, Bezos wouldn't be so wealthy. Still, that's not your point. Your point is that it operates in a way to advance its business activities rather than to distribute profits, and that's largely true.
A DEX is perfectly possible in fact many of them exits. They however don't work with fiat directly because you need a digital fiat with some properties of crypto. So you cant use you bank notes or the number on you bank account unless your bank decided to issue a digital token.

There are other entities that do this for example gatehub issues IOUs for different currencies and tokens https://gatehub.net/legal/xrpl-addresses
So you can own gatehub USD on the XRPLedger and exchange it on the DEX for gatehub BTC. The DEX isnt controlled by gatehub or anyone so its guaranteed fair and whoever sells you the gatehub BTC can not cheat you. However both the gatehub USD and the gatehub BTC are IOUs (debts) you can withdrawn form gatehub so you have to trust gatehub to actually own the "backing" and allow you to withdrawn.
If you dont trust gatehub you may find another issuer. In theory your bank could be such an issuer and then you wound not need to trust any additional party.

Needless to say that no matter what, at the point where your fiat (from your bank) goes "in" or where fiat comes "out" (to your bank) you will need to identify yourself.
A few deaths out of 6 million defies any confident statistical pronouncements. It is rounding error. That we are so cautious as to halt rollout because of rounding error only speaks to how very cautious and rigorous we’re being with the rollout. People without the background to understand what 6/6,000,000 means in a medical research context will hear these fud statements and opt not to get the vaccine. Some of the people will die because they read smart peoples comments in web forums and thought they would be safer not getting vaccinated. You are throwing the switch in the trolley problem if you are telling people to ignore the scientific consensus and spreading anti vax fud. People need to accept the responsibility that entails.
> But as a culture, Italians might also not feel any need to leave home as soon as other people.

I agree with your points. This familial habit is a blessing for Italians, given the direction their economy is taking. It is indeed another positive cultural value that, in this case, may even reinforce societal cohesion.
Oxford Dictionary has a second definition of "democratize" as "make (something) accessible to everyone", which is the sense in which this word is being used.
I don't think Apple knew for a fact that the speaker was defective.
Yep in the exact same boat as you. Went with the M3i and pair it with the Peloton standalone app for classes. Have been meaning to try out Zwift but I've started running more due to the nicer weather. Eventually!

Many of my friends went with the Peloton and swear by it. If you're fine being platform-locked for $39/mo it's a great option. The bike is quality, the classes are amazing, and the peer competition is motivating. All that wasn't for me though.
> gifted clip-on amazon mic if they have an awful microphone

Which one do you buy? I’m in the market for a good clip on mic
I want to participate in a market where businesses typically offer refunds. When too many people use refund policies in that way, businesses stop offering them. That makes things worse for me, so I wish they wouldn't do that.

I don't know if that rises to definition of abuse, but that's why I don't want people to use refunds that way.