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I agree, consumer banks (and general financial technologies/innovations offered by private equity firms, private trading companies, financial engineers, etc on the whole) offer a greater breadth of services than crypto-asset financial innovations at present. This is obvious - I'm not sure anyone would argue against the validity of that statement.

The largest single asset within the category is bitcoin + the majority of crypto-assets (in market cap terms, in aggregate) are currently PoW based systems (exception of Eth2 if you're just looking at top 5 but the bridge isn't live yet to my knowledge) so it makes sense to take a step back and really try to understand whether we are measuring the same things across both systems - the terms (in a linguistic sense) need to be defined for any serious discussion/analysis can be undertaken. Basically the Fed Reserve system's budget (some % of their budget) + cost of operating basic banking operations across all banks needs to be part of the calculation, at a minimum. Any other terms (in the equation that represents the relative spend across the two systems) could add greater accuracy, but the record keeping seems like the biggest cost that needs to be factored in to accurately reflect the energy consumption differences between the two systems.
Reading Russian fairy tales is one of the fondest memories of my childhood. So many beautiful, lively pictures, and unique stories made my slow and hot Indian afternoons enjoyable.

Such books had very good Bengali translations printed on very expensive papers with expensive ink which Indian publishers could only dream of even 10 years ago.

My state (WB, IN) was ruled by Communists for 34 years and we got book printed in Russia in extremely low prices (subsided by USSR).

Here's some pictures from one of such a book sitting in my shelf right now-

https://imgur.com/a/keTNqAc
A bank transaction would not reveal what product you bought whereas a receipt would.

If prices were unique you could deduce something from a few items bought together though.

In the business of advertisements the user pays for clicks. However, it would be much more reliable for the user to pay for ads that led to actual transactions instead of just clicks.

Is there some reason for why this hasn't happened so far? (Or has it already happened?)
IIRC this is the most probable cause. Not to be a conspiracy nut but it probably didn't help if you spoke of it out loud either
That is why I've changed to Hugo (from Hexo & Gatsby). It does exactly what is supposed to, it doesn't import any dependencies and it is quite fast. Besides, no runtime is required.

I thought about plain HTML, but writing blog articles with it is a bit of a pain. Hugo was quite the right balance.
I think it's the opposite, productivity is the GDP output over worked hours, in USA they work a lot more than in Europe on average, so their productivity is actually similar, not higher.

More hours = more productivity it's a myth

https://time.com/4621185/worker-productivity-countries/
Very good question. Where does waste come from? There's individual waste ("i bought too much cheese") and there's mutualized waste ("the supermarket is throwing away 20-40% of what comes in").

The former is incentivized by individual lifestyles. In a capitalist system, everyone needs their own fridge and food. You need to be pretty rich to employ other people to cook for you (go to the restaurant), or cook for yourself which requires more infrastructure (therefore more pollution). Maybe popular canteens would help? https://dinnerdocument.com/2019/04/30/i-dream-of-canteens/

About mutualized waste, some loss is due to food traveling incredible lengths to reach supermarkets. Strongly incentivizing local production could help for that.

The biggest waste generation machine is competition between supermarkets. All supermarkets need all of their alleys full of food. If supermarkets were a public service (without competition), they wouldn't need to overflow with food that will end up in the trash. If you have never worked in a supermarket, you'll be SHOCKED by the amount of meat and dairy products ending up in the trash every week.

Third kind of mutualized trash is due to financial incentives. When markets decide that your product is worthless, you'll just throw it away. The fact that capitalism even makes "negative prices" possible is fucked up. When producers destroy TONS of food/milk because selling it would make them loose even more money, how is that even a thing?

So there's plenty of room for improvement on food waste, and all of them have more or less to do with abolishing the capitalist system.
There is a simple test to decide whether deafness is "just a difference", and whether causing people to not become sign language natives is good or bad. That test is to consider the reverse of corrective surgeries. How many people would undergo it or would apply it to their children? The count so far is zero, so eliminating deafness is unequivocally good, and "surgeries aren't bad in themselves, but they're bad insofar ..." argument is illogical and dishonest.

This is an important thing to understand, because this is the first of the series of discussions we are going to have as we learn to modify more and more things about ourselves. From things like colorblindness, to things that are currently considered as variation of the norm, to radical changes to the brain that would make people undergoing it effectively a different species.

In all cases the criterion should be everyone making decisions for themselves and for their own children, not trying to shame others into staying with your group, or banning others from creating children with or without features you want.
Relatively new, on the scale of human settled history. The Greek had city states and feudal Europe had feudal kingdoms.

I agree that security can probably best be provided at a level of states, but does a kid in the Ghetto really receive a comparative level of protection, service or education as another kid in the US, chosen at random?

And also the flip side of security is that oppression can also best be delivered at the state level. North Koreans would be strictly better of if NK was a bunch of warring states.
Early in my career I witnessed a our company’s founder being able to literally convince anyone in their vision.

It was very subtle and masterful, you would see people trying to tell him of their problems, and an hour later leave believing they got their way, only to have agreed on the exact opposite, and being happy about it.

I was too young then to fully appreciate and learn from it. It was probably something like what people were saying about Steve Jobs’ “distortion field”.

He would sit and listen quietly, try to figure out what you were passionate about. He would himself get excited about _that_ too, and then slowly move the direction to seeing the world from his point of view.

After a while I got to know the guy pretty well, and I am sure he was not a sociopath and there was no malice in it. He was genuinely interested in people’s opinions and wanted to help them, he just had a grand vision and managed to find purpose for people in it. He was something like the embodiment of what the book “How to win friends and influence people” was about.

What I believe now is that there is a way to talk to almost anyone about their issues and help them overcome them. Every time I have trouble resolving issues like that I would try to go back and think “what would this person do”. Usually helps.
But paying off debt doesn't reduce your taxable income and why would the government care if you avoid a corporate taxes by giving money to an individual who pays 32% tax on it.
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Don't you use an adblocker? I could be being targeted with all sorts of stuff but I'd never know.
Agreed, sweating and needing to take a shower afterward is annoying, and I also tend to push myself to near limit when running so I'm just completely out of breath the entire time and miserable. And my knees get pretty annoyed with me if I do it too often or for too much at a time.

Weighted or incline walking is a great compromise to increase effort, but I do enough strenuous activity with weight training that I would rather take it easy and enjoy the walk instead most of the time.
Some payment providers, like WorldPay, have both online and real-world payment systems so you can imagine they could be passing back that type of targeting info.
Greenhouse effect reflects back to us a small fraction of energy, most of reflected light will go into space.
For something like that I would be more concerned about the tests than the language. In other words, I'd trust my own code not at all, in any language.
That's exactly what it is. BotGuard isn't designed for identifying individual users, that's what cookies are for. It's designed to detect programs that are pretending to be normal web browsers being used but which aren't (because they're scripts, or rendering engines being automated, etc).
As someone who had to walk 10km daily in the past for years, if you live somewhere with a hot weather be careful sweaty clothes are the perfect environment for fungus to grow on your skin.
Perhaps the issue here is that Autopilot and active safety features are more likely to be activated in highway driving rather than city driving which is messier.

These stats might look quite different if the metric was accidents per hour of driving rather than accidents per mile of driving.

In addition, most people's safety concerns are more about how safe the car is when it's in an accident. A car accident you walk away from unhurt is an inconvenience whereas an accident in which you're injured can have lasting quality of life implications.
Well, he said he can't recommend reading in general on a phone, which I can absolutely relate to. I can't even read anything longer than a normal article on my pc screen. It's just not enjoyable, for some reason, so I print out most papers I read.
The user never consented to "emotional manipulation". If anything, the user consented to usage of an algorithmic newsfeed that ranks posts based on unknown criteria, but always with "relevance" as the overall goal. There is nothing about emotional manipulation in this.

Emotional manipulation is also clearly not in the user's self interest, so there is no reason why they ever should give consent. (As opposed to an AI newsfeed, which could be a useful feature if it worked in the user's interest)
I don't see where's that even relevant? You just see the transaction, until they mesh it. You don't know who and there is no accountability if there's abuse.

It's the preferred method of payment for scammers, so visibility means absolutely nothing.

Reminder that 51% were even possible in the past. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHash.io

Seeing the transactions weren't a solution then and aren't a solution now.
Because they don't have a boss. They are the master of their domain.
I assumed we were talking about software development, not influencing. Why are you so interested in chiming in on products you haven't used in 8 years?
The original claim was about knowledge workers.

In repetitive work of course more time is always gonna be more productive, with diminishing returns. Until the worker/slave mind or body breaks at least.

Mind you, I'm not saying the same doesn't apply for knowledge workers. Just that this specific articles doesn't provide evidence for knowledge workers.

I imagine that there will be more science being done for productivity on knowledge workers once there's some decent way of measuring productivity for knowledge workers.
This is an employer-employee power relationship. In general the employer has the power, but it cuts both ways, to some extent.

Pulling a resignation notice shows that relationship to have broken down, probably irrevocably, I agree. But, the employer initially broke the relationship, by not keeping their promise regarding the bonus.

The employer (perhaps here the boss's boss) knows they have treated the employee unfairly to an extent that could become legal, which would have an associated cost, and also could impact upon the other employees' motivation (and how employees evaluate the promise of future bonuses).

If the employee is essential and their replacement cost is high, then there's an significant additional cost to firing them fast.

The employer might have to weigh up the costs, and could reason that it's cheaper or otherwise better for the business to pay the bonus.
After Watergate in the 1970s a huge debate broke out in the US about spying and surveillance. The compromise they reached is that non US citizens are not covered by the Constitution.
I think you're giving the US and it's people too much credit. Ultimately America will do whatever it must to maintain it's superpower status.

Any country that is serious about cyber security needs to develop and maintain its own communication network.
For sure there were countless jokes by Soviet students at the expense of his last name (for king Herod's).
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It's also important to modify your whole lifestyle. For example, taking stairs, it's so beneficial, using a bicyle or walking to get some food/shopping, see someone, or do any commuting - making exercise actually useful
Can you name popular children's books with communist propaganda in them? I don't remember any.
IMHO having this as a rule that keys in dictionaries are sorted alphabetically can be a valid rule.
But this should be enforced in tooling, not "rules", and not through micromanagement.
Much like using opinionated code formatters - like `prettier` you mention. It makes lives of everyone easier down the line.

Sometimes this comes from years of experience (mostly pain ;)). Some leaders, while coming from a good place - I want to help you, and others, avoid pain in the future - communicate it very badly - do it like that... because I say so!
It's based on anecdata but I think a non-fiction book - on average - still has a better ROI than a fiction book. While the outliers may make more money with fiction, the average writer will never make 10-20k from a fiction book. Probably an order of magnitude less.
I didn't mean to infer it was slimey, sorry if it sounded that way.
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Would they really notice? You can have reproducible builds, but unless someone explicitly checks checksums of local builds, it won't be noticed.
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> I can listen to new music and podcasts

That's exactly what I started doing last year when covid hit. Before then, I used to do decent running / stepper cardio in the gym. When covid hit, I cancelled my bus pass membership and have been walking everywhere since then. I do all my groceries, buying pet food etc walking. It takes about 40 minutes and I get to listen to podcasts during then. I have even started to "plan" my groceries - so I only buy around 2-3 days worth of meat and that ends up forcing me to leave the house at least every couple days. I sometimes plan things like buying larger items like toilet paper on separate days so I can walk with all my items without having to do uber or something else.
10-15k steps is (relatively) easily achievable simply by not driving. Walking to the office, walking to the shop, walking over to a friend's house for dinner, etc. It takes a little more time than driving, but not as much as one might fear (I'm guessing, I've never owned a car). It keeps you fit(ish). It helps you sober up after getting drunk in a bar. It helps you unwind from a shitty day at the office. Throw in the occasional random walk and you'll reach 10k+ easily.

I basically do everything on foot that is within a 5k step radius. I make allowances for when I'm carrying heavy stuff (once made the mistake of walking 7km with a 10liter bucket of paint). It's not something I would recommend to everyone, but I would recommend it to almost everyone.
Amazing work. This is why the internet is great.
I've been using https://github.com/brodie/cram for this. It's a neat little shell testing tool that can be told to check that every 4-space indented markdown code block output what it says it outputs, so I just cram my README.md.

An example of this in action: https://github.com/liskin/liscopridge/blame/68a656b7beb10a5c..., https://github.com/liskin/liscopridge/blob/68a656b7beb10a5cd...
I remember those books and I'll always regret that I misplaced them.

Do you happen to know a collector who's selling them?
I see the point that unicode_literal being quite important, but what about print_function? How does it make coding more difficult or awkward?
It's credit card purchasing data, which is sold and cross linked to your identity for advertising re-targeting.

It is deeply invasive and should be blocked.

It works like this. You go to a store and buy, say, a sexual wellness product. You then get targeted with ads online (search result ads, facebook ads, news media ads, amazon sponsored results etc) for the same product, or something related (let's say something embarrassing that you might not want other people to see). Other users on your same network or IP may also be re-targeted with the same ads.

Credit card data tracking is a levelling up of surveillance capitalism. It is deeply intrusive. Not all card providers participate, but it is a significant source of revenue for them [1]

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90490923/credit-card-companies-a...

[Edit: Removed specific reference to a medication as it likely triggered anti-spam]
It's been a few times now where I've talked with my wife about some new product (physically, in the room) and she starts seeing ads about it. I thought that was the explanation too, but it's happened too many times for comfort.

I know my devices are (probably) not listening, but I can't explain it either. Neither of us searched for the product or saw it online or anything, we just discussed something and got ads about it a few minutes to hours later.
Knee-jerk reaction: this is a strange/unfair comparison of two datastores.

Slightly more considered reaction: ok, this is a microbenchmark comparison across two different datastores.

Acceptance: sure, in scenarios where request volume is particularly large and/or performance constraints are tight, this could be valuable to refer to.

Reflection: benchmarking and time spent evaluating technical systems: how much work do we (as an industry) collectively duplicate reacting to articles, systems and concepts that we haven't put in the work to read and understand? And do we learn effectively after-the-fact?
First 2019.

Second although people critize the comparision, I do think many people would use PG with an ORM and a JSONB data type, not with a TEXT and async direct SQL query. But this also means it is not comparing Redis to PG but people.
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> Nobody does slow speed on treadmill.

Anecdata: People with bad knees (like me) do.

> climbers are heaven comparing to treadmills.

Anecdata: Not if you've got bad knees (like me).
This is what I also think Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince was after.

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up your men to collect wood and give orders and distribute the work,” he said. “Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

Heard that recently in Julia Galef’s TED talk which I think was awesome.

But I also struggle with that last one myself too. At least now I know inspiration is more about emotions than rational arguments.
I use the Redirector extension to mitigate the problem of "getting into the habit" by automation: https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/

It redirects all my googling to Startpage so I don't have to change my habits at all.

I recently discovered Privacy Redirect which apparently took the idea a step further by providing presets that redirect visits to popular web services to their privacy friendly alternatives by default and thus mitigates the need to set up a redirector extension yourself:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...
Gaslighting in the Information Age: You just imagined that ad started following you around.
You might have “googled” the term or a related term subconsciously some time before you’ve made the purchase. I do this all the time even when I’m purchasing things offline.
There's little performance advantage to SSDs over hard-disks
since the proof of space only requires a few blocks to be read every (on avg) 5 minutes. This leaves them unable to compete against the much cheaper hard-disks.

Furthermore, the ROI on hard-disks bought just to mine this may be decades as there is already a glut of unused hard disk space. So there's no hard disk shortage to be expected.

As downsides to chia I see

1) the huge premine.

2) the large complexity of the proof of time + proof of space system.

3) the fact that the mining chain cannot commit to the tx history (instead the miner's private key signs for a block of txs as belonging to the mined header)
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Because generally you want lobbyists. You can say many things about politicians, but they don't know anything about how most of the economy and country works, just like you and me don't. They don't understand either inner cities or the countryside, they don't understand how mining works, they don't understand ad auctions, ... (occasionally you'll have one politician who understands one/a few of these, I get it, but ...)

So what happens once elected is essentially that interest groups (ideally multiple), amongst other companies, industry associations, unions, pension funds, government representatives, ... see the elected representatives, quite literally teach them, in a biased way, even write legislation for them (this means hiring a team of sometimes hundreds of lawyers and putting them at their disposal), and the general idea is because multiple interest groups participate you get a somewhat reasonable negotiated outcome.

You don't want oil industry legislation to be written by Greenpeace. You also don't want it written by ExxonMobil. So what to do? Lock whoever they send to represent them in a room, have someone to check for guns at the door, and have them fight it out.

Of course, none of these interest groups are playing fair. That can (and generally does) lead to very biased laws. However, when it comes to contentious issues, the interest groups that win are actually popular citizen-based interest groups (e.g. in climate change legislation it's clearly not one-sided, at least attempting a compromise between multiple parties, when it comes to police power, clearly someone's providing counterweights to police requests, and so on)

So the general idea of democracy is: we have many idiots, not just one, to hopefully get at least "average" intelligence and decision making, then we have them listen to anybody who wants attention and then collectively take a decision. They make too many mistakes or stop listening? We replace them. Does it give ideal outcomes? No. Is it a million times better than forcing one interest group's opinion 100%? Yes. Does a mountain of money really help in making yourself heard better? Yes.

It's better than an idiot who knows nothing about anything taking control of everything, which is what most alternative systems boil down to.
I think that Android phones can record stuff you say about marketings/ads purposes. Check if this happens for you here https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?pli=1&product=29
This is great for Advent of Code:)
The guards are often just a bit tucked in under it for the clean look but without cutting corners.

Edit: Pelotons are really heavy as well starting at about 300 lbs. Most of the ones in that weight class seem to have safety bars? The difference in a child getting a fraction of a 200 vs a fraction of a 300+ lbs treadmill from getting pulled under is massive.
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I have this one- https://imgur.com/a/keTNqAc
> You are missing the bandwidth charges.

Which tips the balance even further in the direction of the root server/dedicated server providers, since not only is the server cheaper but so are the bandwidth charges (usually by a lot).