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>Financial elites have been gambling for decades. They seem to be really upset that the plebs now can also do it.

I really don't understand this sentiment, as if a professional gambler would not gladly gamble with novices...but putting that aside...

I think the emphasis is more about how there's no other game in town that can compete, not that gambling is new.

Interest rates are so low that there isn't a simple/safe investment entity to pull out a reliable 10%. We're all stuck gambling whether we want to or not.
> * Steam has already shown how to "best" piracy to the extent that a business can. It's not via copyright laws. Everyone thought rampant piracy would mean Steam won't work in Russia. That aged well.

What's ironic to me is that, movie piracy was steadily falling and effectively dead after Netflix launched their streaming-video platform, very similar to how video game piracy started to taper off as Steam gained traction. For a single low monthly fee you got access to movies from all the major networks, and a good selection of TV shows as a bonus. The networks started getting greedy - HBO Max, Paramount+, Disney+, Peacock, Discovery+, the list goes on - all wanting their own $5-$15/month cut on the action. It's a wonder why piracy has been back on the rise[0].

I agree that the quasi-monopolies of early Netflix or Steam through most of it's history are arguably bad, but the irony is that they're the most consumer-friendly ways to distribute media while effectively curbing piracy. The fragmentation of services; managing potentially a dozen subscriptions and the apps the accompany them, gets tiring for users who just want to sit down and watch Star Trek without hunting for it.

I'll throw in my two cents, that my personal experiences line up with this 100%. Before ~2010 when I was introduced to Steam I pirated virtually every game I played, but since then have only done so in very extreme circumstances. Similarly with music, as soon as Spotify, then Tidal were introduced to Canada, I haven't pirated a song since. Movies on the other hand, there was a several-year period where I didn't pirate a single movie- nobody I knew did anymore. In the past ~2-3 years I've been having people ask me about torrenting movies again, and I've caught myself doing it a lot more often than I would like to, but I just can't bring myself to spend $15/month on Netflix, $12/month for Disney+, $10/month for Crave, $6/month for Paramount+... While you can setup Radarr/Sonarr and Emby to accomplish the same for $0 (you could argue the cost of storage, but the $43/month saved on services gets you 3 brand new 4TB hard drives each year with money to spare).

[0] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/piracy-is-back.html
Even without capitalism, you have a duty to create value for the people around you, and you might expect the same of them. There are exceptions for the young, old, and infirm.
People have more time than money.

If you had a Star Trek replicator in your home that could replicate a brand new iPhone for you for free that lasts a week then poofs out of existence, you'd go ahead and use it, probably more than once.

If you don't mind the hassle and the ethical, er, annoyance of going to a store, waiting in queues, having $1000+ temporarily blocked off from your savings, a bunch of back and forth with the sales people, etc, then that's equivalent to replicating yourself an iPhone for a week for free.
In BTC, the wise guidance of Satoshi is also regularly ignored.

Here are a few examples

Satoshi's Guidance: Bitcoin should function as cash

Source: https://bitcoin.com/bitcoin.pdf ( See the title )

Satoshi's Guidance: We shouldn't be limiting transaction capacity to accommodate low performance client hardware

Source: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=532.msg6306#msg6306

Satoshi's Guidance: The blocksize limit should be removed to maximize network capacity. The limit was only meant to be temporary.

Source: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.msg15366#msg153...

EDIT: formatting
> you'd be better off with a higher number than a lower number.

A small proportion of a big pie can be much more filling than a large proportion of a small pie.

But yes, whether running a whole economy on a deflationary currency is a good idea is an entirely separate question to whether some use of bitcoin makes sense.

Having said that, and speaking for at least myself, the (in my opinion) misguided narrative around deflation and 'store of value' that is common in bitcoin core world makes me much more interested in bitcoin cash and ethereum commmunities where niche economic philosophies I don't agree with are not as common as in bitcoin core.

There are so many interesting things we can do with smart contracts and a widespread settlement system that doesn't have gatekeepers. Creating value is much more interesting than storing it.
Thank you, I'll have a look!
One of my friends works at Costco. He says that before the holidays they sell a lot of furniture and after the holidays they see a lot of furniture returns.
I knew of a guy who "bought" Apple Laptops from Amazon and used it as his DJ laptop and worked some gigs where the Apple laptop was a status symbol of how big a deal he is. He used to perform in small town and rural India and organizers paid him ₹3k-30k per night. He returned his laptop after doing 3-4 such gigs in the "marriage season" in India. He did this 7-8 times from different addresses and different accounts.
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Thank you. Do you also happen to have recommendations for those of us happy to spend a little more on a "podcasting" or any similar higher quality microphone?
This is why I joined a gym. The cost of one of these fancy home bikes will pay for several years of membership (edit: if Peloton costs $39/mo for services, that alone will almost completely pay for my membership indefinitely), and I don't have to worry about maintaining equipment or having it take up space in my living room. I have access to not only stationary bikes but also treadmills, rowing machines, and all manner of strength training machines and free weights. There's also a sauna which I don't have at home either.

And if I lose motivation and stop, I just cancel the membership. I don't have to dispose of equipment or have it sitting around reminding me of my failure.
I really feel that Zoom and other audio conferencing software should give you a "you sound bad" message every once in a while. You otherwise have no feedback about this unless someone tells you.
Fix merged: https://github.com/openethereum/openethereum/pull/366#event-...
It was instructor-led workouts for me where I could also measure my progress.

I've loathed working out. I'm not a gym sort of person. I tried watching Netflix and YouTube, and listening to Spotify, etc on the treadmill and always had poor results.

I use an iPad to watch the Fitness+ instruction and tying that to my Watch is just what I need.
Yes words can have any meaning at all. Also War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.

Edit: this is a 1984 reference for those who aren’t familiar with that book or haven’t read it.
So what's the story behind the return abuse in India?
Passive income is rarely passive.
wearing it for some special occasion like a date or meeting and then returning it, so that's why it doesn't work in low income countries
I have severe disagreements with your assessment particularly the part below:

“ There is no risk of "WW3". No one is about to try to invade the entirety of Europe and kill 150+ million people, enslaving a billion.
These are all fairly self-limiting conflicts. China is interested in Taiwan (maybe) and a defensible path to the Pacific and Indian oceans. Russia is interested in having a buffer state against NATO.”

It both severely overplays the expectations people had in the early 1930’s, hindsight is 2020. And underplays the goals of China and Russia. And it doesn’t acknowledge what’s already happened like invasions and labor camps.
This was back when the 32gb iPhone 7 was much slower than the 128Gb one. But that was more of a performance problem this is straight up problematic.
You could stream money in both direction starting with very small amount then if the other side delivers you can speed up but keep it so low that if the other would stop he could only steal a tiny amount.

Here is an old tool that this this https://github.com/Kava-Labs/switch
Not sure if this is still functional

BTC on its own obviously cant do this as Tx are slow and expensive.
There are a couple main issues that people will have that demand different levels of solution:

- Multiple-speakers (like a call): The key here is to wear headphones. Otherwise you are subject to whatever noise-cancellation the platform offers, and any noise that other participants make will destroy your audio quality temporarily as it plays though your speaker and into your mic.

- Background noise or echo: In this case you want a directional mic. You want something that gets close to your face and cuts out the each or background noise.

If you don't have any of these problems (For example you are giving monologues in a quiet non-echoey room) than any decent mic will do the job. Many higher-end laptops even have sufficient mics on them (for example Macs will pick up everything in your house, but they will pick it up at fairly good quality)
Would you have a recommendation for a good English language translation for Yog Darshan by Patanjali?
Yes? That is abusing the policy. Sounds like he was trying to start a business and wanted to do QA. Then you need to pay for that.

This is clearly unethical, but maybe not illegal.
We have so much uranium that we can do Bitcoin AND everything else.
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That looks like an interesting place to visit. I'll definitely add it to our prospective post-pandemic day-trip list. Our family gets a kick out of just that kind of place.

The crow in the recording lives at Brukner Nature Center[1] near Troy, OH.

[1] http://www.bruknernaturecenter.com/
Yes, super-strange but the subbing of "playlist" worked for me as well.
Well, the fact that all of the sudden there are all these new versions is surprising. That makes the title of the article confusing, because one doesnt expect that v8 is considered super obsolete.
I'd be more interested to see methods of playing notes like this asynchronously; without having it block the main loop while the notes play.

If you've got multiple cores it's no problem: Just run the note-playing code on a different core. However, if you've only got one core you'll need some method to play those notes without disrupting the main loop.
This isn't surprising, its just consumer culture in other countries. I remember buying computer components in Taiwan, and having the merchant open the box and testing it in front of me as there were refunds and to prove I wasn't getting a fake product.
Yes, he was abusing it. The refund policy is for if you're really unsatisfied with the product. If you buy a product with the intent to return it for refund, that's abuse.
I believe sooner or later it will be fixed by bundling subscriptions. Just like TV channels are bundled today.

My guess is that it has not taken off yet because everyone wants to be the top dog in that kind of business.
Super-strange but the "playlist" trick worked for me, thx.
I think it's meant as "or", rather than "and"
I have a totally different experience. I accidentally submerged my iPhone X in the sea as I got off a boat[1]. The phone although supposedly considered waterproof went mental and basically stopped working. I was flying back via Singapore (a week later) and went into the apple store at the airport. They replaced the phone and got me back up and running before my flight back to London. I live and had bought the phone in the UK. They even had special versions of the UK phone for this scenario.

[1] I was in the Philippines and I was getting off a boat in shallow sea water. My phone was in the bottom pocket of my beach shorts, and I walked through the sea water for maybe two to three metres distance up to waist height depth. This should have been ok for the depth I went.

Their suspicion was that the outer seal had failed (even though it had always been in a case).
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He often did pay for that. That's the point of the 10% restocking fee.
"Change the world"

Surely this is a case where if CB hadn't provided a centralized exchange someone else would have? If CB didn't exist people would buy cryptocurrency with a different app and there lives would be the same.
The reason why FLOC was invented, is to a oid lawmakers getting involved.
There's an option at the bottom of the Workout settings on the watch to disable automatically adding the time-to-walk workouts to the watch. I think if you delete the current one (by swiping) and disable that setting, they won't be added again unless you manually trigger it from the "add workout" button in the Workouts app?
If 1-2 times per day is "casual", one can only conclude the hardcore users sleep on the damn thing!
That may be wrong. I use the ruby gem and the email says that would not be affected but at the same time the email says I was affected. I'm re-rolling to be sure, but it would help not having conflicting information in the same email.
As long as it syncs to Strava, it's good.
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https://portableac.medium.com/blast-auxiliary-portable-ac-re...

https://rongpurpialvai.medium.com/blast-auxiliary-classic-ac...

https://note.com/blastaux/n/n0c3134ae43c4

https://blog.goo.ne.jp/blastportable/e/0c55b726c4d882ddcb6d1...
Japan style housing, just like British, is "dense" in the sense of buildings being physically close. It's not what the post is about - it's about building buildings with higher number of storeys.
I really like Apple Fitness+

It offers enough variety which is perfect to slot in as cross training cardio to supplement my training.

I wouldn't get it on it's own; but as part of Apple One, I will definitely use it.
Thanks to fees, professionals can also keep a portion if they loose. If they under-perform, they also win as long as their clients aren't calling them on it.
Largely the same reasons that genuine call centers, IT support and other technical functions are often outsourced to India: a large pool of reasonably well educated, relatively cheap resources who mainly speak English sufficiently well to talk to "customers". Plus for scam purposes, it's obviously easier to evade US and other target country law enforcement by being thousands of miles away and with a local police force that may be unable or unwilling to take action against them.
Let's see:

- A - yes, update HEAD/branch text file is the key atomic update

- C - not sure how to apply this in the context of git, because commited files' content is kinda free form by design, no schema, no consistency problems

- I - there should not be concurrent use of commands, so no. practically this is mostly important for pushing to remote repository, and there it's handled by rejecting the push that comes second, if you make two commits from the same base and push them at the same time

- D - yes
I would love to use such app but I don't trust where my data will land and I also disagree with Apple anti-competitive behaviour and practices of exploiting customers.
That being said, I wonder if someone is working on an open-source alternative to Apple Watch and its fitness features?
I would totally buy such product if I could self-host the data.
I realize that macOS has been significantly developed from the point where it was "forked from FreeBSD" but if Docker Desktop works on macOS, why can't it work on FreeBSD?
Small world! There's another rising cryptocurrency startup founded by someone from that town. Something in the water maybe?

Message me on Twitter (same username) if you want to know more. (I'm being cryptic in public just to be polite to the other parties.)
Again, why? It's tautology to say "That's abuse because it's abuse." The business offers a policy. You're simply using it.

We can agree to disagree, but it's not X just because someone says it is.
Overpopulation isn't really a problem currently.
do they mean that the Docker image at https://github.com/codecov/codecov-action contained a secret allowing someone to modify the script served by https://codecov.io/bash ?
> It baffles me that some people don't seem to care about their audio quality on calls. The most obnoxious are those who use speakers and you get echo on all your talking, and despite telling them, they still never bother to get a decent mic.

I see comments along these lines here all the time, and I don't get it. I'm on zoom a majority of my day, and have maybe two colleagues that don't just use the laptop mic/speakers and have a headset. I almost never have trouble hearing or understanding or listening to background garbage. In fact, those with headsets will sometimes be worse because they're making a lot of mouth sounds close to the mic.

Maybe it's just that Zoom is good at this? TBH, when we used to use Webex on dedicated phones I felt like I couldn't ever hear or understand anything. Maybe that's where this microphone feedback comes from?
Haha, yup. And if you sign an Android app in CI, Codecov might have had access to your signing keys. Good luck changing those.
Any headset that can use SteamVR, so like, damn near all of them
That is fucking abuse. Wtf
> Cocaine, Heroin, Meth, and Fentanyl should never be legal. They are too addicting.

Maybe for you, but why should you be the arbiter of what other people do? Make it legal and tax substances to the point that the revenue offsets the potential negatives.
Ask HN: Why aren't tech apprenticeships more popular?
The modern model of work expects some type of certificate, degree, work experience or self-motivated portfolio of work to get a job in tech as an engineer or product developer.

While this is totally fine, I think there are many individuals/companies, who can benefit from guided development via a sponsored apprenticeship.

Not only is it useful for the individual but the business now has a moldable mind they can develop for future use.

Apologies if anything isn't clear or if I speak from ignorance but I think this model of skill development versus college, certificate programs, and other forms is much better for both company and individual.

As the title says, why aren't tech apprenticeships more popular?
Warning, bitcoin.com is non-authoritative on bitcoin. They went a little mad a few years ago with the big block agenda. They do not speak for bitcoin, and want to push their big block bcash fork.

Satoshi proposed 1MB blocks in 2010 as an anti-spam mechanism. He was not against raising it, but it had to be done sensibly. RV and Bitcoin.com forced a non-sensible fork and fell off a cliff.
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Indeed, some companies are highly speculative. But in the ETF are also J&J (ketamine nose spray for drug-resistant depression) and AbbVie (acquired Allergan).
I agree that we're doing things that harm the planet, but I downvoted you because it's more complicated than just "there are too many people", and "We're cutting down forests".

If you look at the advanced countries, they are often the ones who exploited their resources and grew in size early. Britain, for instance, slashed their forests generations ago to get ahead. The US used to shoot herds of bison from trains. Now Britain and the US wag a finger at less developed countries for consuming the forests and ecosystems in their countries.

Similar with population growth and the concept of 'overpopulation'. If you assert we have overpopulation, you have to assert how you'll address it, and there's no way to do that without saying, "Some group of people doesn't get to have kids." That seems like a really bad thing to say.

I'm incredibly lefty, a self described socialist and eco-socialist, but I believe that we need to think differently than just "those people over there are destroying their environments and having too many babies!" We could start at home, transforming our own economy and society to live less exploitatively. We could reduce our own use of meat and dairy, for instance. We could ensure we had adequate housing for everyone, and medical care for everyone, both of which would lead to less waste. We could strictly limit single use plastics, remove older dams to improve fish stocks, set aside more land for forests, etc.
30k/night is about $400 - that’s decent enough money to afford to buy a fully-loaded MacBook Pro after only a handful of gigs.
IIRC, once you've proven that you can reliably run a registry (which Google does anyway for their other TLDs), the application and fees for an additional TLD is much cheaper than you would expect (5-low 6 figures/year)
I was at the Pike Place Market Starbucks in Seattle and picked up a mug special to that shop for my (native Italian) wife. I took it home in DC and found it had a hairline fracture. No problem, I told her, and promptly called the Pike Place Market Starbucks and explained the situation. They immediately mailed me a new one at no cost and apologized.

She remarked that this would NEVER have happened in Italy: no shop would ship something like that, as it would be ripe for abuse. And she's right, there is a big difference in the culture of trust which makes such a thing possible in the USA.
I am surprised they look at you like a moron. Myself and all my friends have fitbits. The reason we all have and use fitbits is because that is what we're all connected on. If one friend got a functionally better but cheaper watch off Amazon they wouldn't be able to join us in our group challenges and comparisons. This has actually happened a few times but after a while that person got what the group had.

That being said there are apps that bring this up a level and let you connect multiple products and devices. If one of these apps becomes popular then it's less dependent on what device you own.
Now you can create an API where it’s not enough to pass in an object that has all the properties the API requires, it has to have some special inscrutable magic that you can’t programmatically observe. I can only imagine the sort of confusion and horror an API that relies on this would generate in novice developers.
While we are discussing service, I have fond memories of IBM's service for Thinkpad. I moved from US to India. Before I left, I had sent a Thinkpad for repair. They told me a repair vendor (Selectron I think) needs a replacement motherboard from Japan (no idea why so!). They promised it will be sent to India to me. I doubted that. They not only shipped it to India but also paid customs duty as Indian customs won't accept it as repair but levied duty as a new laptop!
Really miss the great IBM service.
> Money is stored wealth

This is sort of a tautology. I like the explanation better that money is a "call option on goods and services."
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That is a very anti consumer move, especially considering many people bought their new bikes with expectations about integration with apple’s gym kit.
The fact that this fund is expected to be profitable as well as restorative sounds counterproductive.
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People are probably more embarrassed to ask for their money back on something they have partially or entirely eaten. I can barely muster up the courage to tell my waiter that my dinner order wasn't quite right but I have zero problem with buying a couple different versions of a product and returning the ones I don't like.
So it appears that the only way to get Fitness+ with Apple One is to go with the most expensive (Premier) option? That means you're also getting Music, TV, Arcade, News+, and iCloud. It's awfully presumptuous to think one would necessarily want all of those things. They really need an a la carte, bundle option that gives you a discount with multiple services.
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