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Yes the government will never be able to ban cryptocurrency transactions on the blockchain.

But if you can’t convert your cryptocurrency into fiat money the whole concept is pretty useless.

Yes there might be a future where these “use patterns” don’t rely on exchanges but it’s been 10+ years with Bitcoin and I haven’t seen them.

So let’s continue this conversations when crypto exchanges are replaced by “something”.
Exactly, which is why neutering tax authorities would lead to plutocracy, where the rich stay rich and the poor have no recourse. A fair society can't rely on the goodwill of the wealthy.
ZenCad seems to wrap OpenCASCADE [0], which is also used by e.g. FreeCAD. I can't help think FreeCAD could be awesome if it tried to do less. I wonder if you forked it, ripped out stuff for e.g. architecture/finite element analysis/CAM/CNC/etc, then you could spend time on the GUI experience, and end up with a nice CAD tool that works better for fewer use-cases.

[0] https://dev.opencascade.org/
What happens when the state can't pay the men with guns when the fiat currency becomes increasingly worthless? Will the men with guns continue to protect the state?
I thought they were focused on convenience etc vs the E2E security model (which makes onboarding devices harder etc). Have they put out a roadmap to E2E everything? That would be somewhat major but surprising given they seem to be doing well with current approach (ease of use / features).
Do you think that is related to cryptocurrency, or simply any fast moving asset in general?

How many people really bought GME just to stick it to the hedge funds? How many people really liked the stock?
From the perspective of a farm /plant owner with a commodity product who is trying to compete internationally that's kind of a 'let them eat cake' solution though isn't it (not robotics - a wage hike)? Margins can't be much above the minimum to earn an OK-ish return on capital in such an industry. If that move makes them unprofitable then it's not a viable solution.
> You're also making a pretty bold assumption that the governments actually want drugs stamped out. I don't think that has EVER been the case, that's just been the story. It's used as a means of suppressing people of color and poor people. When was the last time you heard of a Wall Street banker going to prison for coke?

That's really trying to frame the world through a lens of racial or class bias. It's not the reality. You're the one making the unsubstantiated bold claim here.
No I don't think it's poor form. If we had a forum full of people talking about how great Facebook is, and when forced to disclose their $FB holdings, realize everyone is holding $100,000+ of $FB, we might realize we have skin in the game to talk it up instead of objectively evaluating it.
Big difference in incentives between $10 and $100,000.

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agricultural drones run on gasoline and have plenty of energy
My money SHOULD be worth more tomorrow than it is today. Tomorrow the economy is just a tad bit more productive, so my dollar should go further... Why is deflation a curse word nowadays? I feel one of governments only role is to ensure that the dollar is not being debased and slowly losing value of time or atleast at a rate that is known. When the FED prints an unlimited supply of money, it breaks down the social contract or useful fiction that we all accept about our money.

i've read some rhetoric somewhere that deflationary money is a terrible thing for the economy since it reflects in asset prices and makes you more concerned with saving. From my perspective, that's a very good economic consequence and would stop all these boom bust cycles that we seems to be creeping up at irregular intervals of massive spending.

A better system of stock trading would be bonding. When i buy a stock, the money is locked into a contract that is reimbursed to me after the purchase period. say i buy $100 worth of Tesla for a 1 year stock period. At the end of that lease, i will recieve my $100 back and Tesla may reward me with a % based on the performance of that year. I have no liquidity but my only 'Loss' is the loss of other rewards i could have gained by betting in another industry or company. Everything being completely liquid allows for HFT and the banking industry to drain our economic fecundity by placing it in the realm of fairy-land instead of investments in infrastructure, energy generation and manufacturing.
Total crypto noob question: What is the lowest cost way to convert some USD in a bank account into BTC? I looked at some exchanges and the fees seemed to be in percentage points which seemed outrageously expensive!
Non-engineer speculation. Seems like drones might have the potential to make it cheaper? What if the laser was tower mounted and the drones just were there as a camera and reflector and to verify clear line of sight? I guess that would only really work well when the plants are small...
So you never voice opinions about topics that you aren't in expert on, otherwise you'd be a flaming hypocrite, right?

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Lol you use too many pseudo-intellectual words.

Democracy is self-sustaining. Crypto is not self-sustaining, it requires institutions to be able to exist and provide the stability and infrastructure for it to exist.

Crypto detracts from gov/institutions because it enables individual actors to hold on to "their" wealth more easily and evade paying back into the system that allows the wealth to thrive in the beginning.
I agree. In a 1K ZX81, the chess program had to share memory with the whole rest of the computer. This was a pretty impressive feat.

There's nothing impressive about a supposedly smaller program that has access to unlimited memory, unlimited screen memory, lots of BIOS routines, et cetera, and STILL can't honor the rules.

One-upping a ZX81 in terms of sheer number of bytes of code is not impressive, and it wasn't at all what 1K Chess was about.
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TFA was about Europe. Europe is where the bulk of the vaccines were invented.

And the great-grandparent comment and others seem to not get it. The US is successful in its vaccination programme because of aggressive protectionism, not because of some superior technological know-how.

Let me spell that out for you: the country that traipsed around the world for the last 40 years preaching free trade and laissez faire economics refuses to participate in a free market of vaccines, and has left all its trading partners high and dry. And the IP behind those vaccines did not come from the United States.
The article (and the theorem) says "there’s EITHER a group of three who all know each other, OR a group of three who have never met"
Ever worked for a company with a truly garbage CEO?? Good heavens, when you’ve got a moron there, you might as well be an air traffic controller at asshole airport.
Useful, inconsequential, and profitable are orthogonal. Useful has a positive effect, inconsequential has no effect, and profitable is something else entirely.
Because they don't want their money flowing out of the country
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Content is not fungible. I want that show in particular and not something else, and Netflix often cannot deliver on that want.
Even for the Pfizer and Moderna?
AstraZeneca wasn't the only one interested in this IP. They were the ones who got chosen to use it - in fact the first choice was Merck.

Would they have done a better job, and saved many more millions, I guess we will never know - it's pretty hard to do a worst job then AZ though. Hell, just look at how J&J is cruising through their problems, and compare.

I never said I wish AZ didn't exist, I said it's obvious the outcome would be a lawsuit.
> Among those people, there’s *either* a group of three who all know each other, or a group of three who have never met.

In your example, there are three who have never met (your work friend, your hobby friend, and your wife's friend).
> In terms of the tivoization / drm provisions - the GPL is viral - it only takes one screw up or chain of viral connection to blow their business up.

Did I not just finish explaining how that is not true?

The GPL is only "viral" to software that it is licensed with, and extensions to that share meaningful data structures with that software.

The GPL does not cover content created by GPL licensed software.

> The issue is they don’t know who will use what where, and the viral aspect adds insane risk.

Except it's trivial to understand the "viral" aspect of the GPL. It's clearly explained in many places. Therefore, there is no risk at all.

> Minecraft / roblox and other games

Games? We're talking about motion picture and television studios. Then again, plenty of game devs use Blender in their asset creation pipeline without getting the GPL involved in their codebase.

> Or they may want to run the software on golden image VDI pools that are locked down.

So? What does that have to do with anything?

> Even Ubuntu was so worried about the chain risk they changed bootloader license away from latest GPl

I don't know anything about that, but I sincerely doubt the context for that decision is in any way similar there...

All I'm seeing here is FUD. Not one of your examples actually brought up a reason - outside irrational fear - to avoid using Blender to make movies.
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I am confused by this comment. "[M]any trillion dollars of money printed recently" -- are you talking about the US Federal Reserve? That isn't money printing; it is quantitative easing -- now also practiced by European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, and Bank of England. It does not cause inflation. If anything, weirdly, it appears to cause deflation. Money printing is Weimar Republic (~1920s) or Zimbabwe (2000-2010). If there was out of control "money printing", we would see unprecedented inflation. Do we see that? No. Please correct me if I misunderstand your comment.

"0 CNY" -- Do you not consider expansion of credit by state-owned commercial banks equivalent to "printing money"? I do. It causes inflation through rising housing costs. (All major central banks now include housing costs in their inflation figures.)

The more likely scenario of the future of "cheap manufacturing" is (near) total automation in highly developed countries with (near) zero-cost green energy. That means their carbon intensity will be very low. Thus, carbon (import/export) taxes will be very low. Why sew socks in a country with very low labour costs, but coal-generated electricity? A machine/robot can sew the same socks using green energy in a factory located 100km outside a major city in a highly developed country. As an example: Look at Fast Retailing (Uniqlo, etc.), headquartered in Japan, but truly global as a retail brand. They are a world leader in highly automated manuf. of clothes. (Same for Zara.) I can imagine they will be one of the first to aggressively "on-shore" from developing countries to Japan, where clothes will be (near) 100% robot-made. I have heard much the same about Adidas and re-shoring shoe manuf. to Germany with (near) 100% automation.
> Apple is the largest taxpayer in the US and has paid almost $45 billion in domestic corporate income taxes over the past five years alone.

They just had to slip this in there. If they were taxed appropriately on the money over seas we would see an additional $10billion. Being the least scummy in a field rife with tax evasion isn't saying much.

Also...

> Apple’s contributions in the US have significantly outpaced the company’s original five-year goal of $350 billion set in 2018

So it's only upping the amount it had already pledged. So they were already doing it anyway
It seems for younger persons, the severity of adverse reactions to the vaccines may be worse than the would-be experience of naturally fighting off the virus itself.
You misread. It's either 3 people who know each other or 3 who have never met. Otherwise it's trivial with a 6-cycle.
> Roku alleges Google has asked it to favor YouTube music results from voice commands made on the Roku remote while the YouTube app is open, even if the user's music preference is set to default to another music app, like Pandora.

> Roku says Google has threatened to require Roku to use certain chip sets or memory cards that would force Roku to increase the price of its hardware product, which competes directly with Google's Chromecast.

That's just straight evil - overriding user preferences to favor your own products... Some growth PM and/or business head is trying way too hard to hit their OKRs. I'd be surprised if Google could defend this in court.
In many ways it's far worse. Kinda like the RM mind parasites.
Don't forget this part (for completeness): "Those apps which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
Dividends ought to not be at a tax disadvantage over capital gains for this reason.
> That in a group of at least six people, there are three people who all know each other.

You left out the "or there are three people who have never met." In your example, C, E, and D have never met each other.
I am not affiliated to this project. I happend to find it while doing some reading about Kerbal Space Program 2.

Looks like a interesting project in active development.
They just chose new vapid distraction instead of the old vapid distractions. I’d rather have them watching sports, at least it can unite people in camaraderie.
You're 100% right. The only thing I'll say is that there are still movies made worth seeing, but you have to look more carefully for them. Without a doubt, most of the box office hits and many of the award winners are overhyped, bland and not worth seeing.
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I wasn't comparing morality of academia and industry, I was making an argument about what are considered a reasonable grounds to calling for someone's firing.

If you are trying to argue that publicly funded research institutions don't think ethics are a core part of research, that seems like something that needs to be addressed.
It doesn't. But graphql doesn't help in that case either.
Thank you for the summary! I was just going to ask...
In that same vein, I assume that anyone who comes out against crypto has little or no stake in it. And I’m usually correct.
The Sound of Metal was a truly fantastic movie. I haven't seen the others either, but I highly recommend that one. Riz did a terrific job.
The US is one of the only countries that taxs worldwide income.
Ponzi schemes are outlawed as is most fraud. Are they useful?
Exactly. Thus crypto is the ultimate zero-sum game. Get as much as possible and hold it. Deflationary currency.

No one is incentivized to grease the gears of a democratic society. Nobody wants to pay taxes. But they are necessary to establish an environment of innovation, etc (to a point).

There's a reason the dark ages were called the dark ages.
There is already one milligram of atmosphere over the cross sectional area of a cell nucleus, so it doesn't seem like it could change much for cosmic rays. All DNA in a human cell is about 6 picograms.

That's 166 million times more mass of atmosphere. The elements may be less effective etc. but it still seems like any junk dna shielding would be negligible.

Maybe cosmic rays aren't the main source of ionizing radiation throughout the evolutionary period though.
Why are the people in b) okay with overpaying for something?
There’s talk on this thread that boards choose a CEO based on their marginal competence.

I doubt there’s much evidence this is true.

Boards select “the best person they can justify to shareholders.” Being expensive is a feature. A board member invents reasonable criteria for choosing a candidate: years of relevant industry experience at the VP level, advanced business degrees, charisma and “It” factor, recommendations from influencers, etc.

As a result, the candidate pool shrinks from “honestly, lots of people could do this job” to “we have to choose one of three candidates.”

From there, it’s all supply and demand curves, where the company has artificially crunched the supply and the price skyrockets.

The solution isn’t to automate the leader. The solution is to admit to ourselves that a highly-relational project manager with a decade at the company could lead it as well as the CEO, if not better.
Your comparison fails because 'Causing the 2nd most preventable deaths' is far from "useless" it's just an undesirable use.
Are there actual PoS systems in the wild that don’t pretty directly tie themselves to PoW systems?

In my mind, the people who make this pitch that we shouldn’t blame crypto, we should blame proof-of-work sound a lot like Elon telling me that Tesla will be Level 5 any day now. Yea, it would rock if we could suddenly have the perfect thing, but I don’t see any evidence that PoW is actually being replaced by PoS for real world transactions.
> I don't see how New Jersey, for example, materially differs in a relevant way in terms of population statistics from Santa Clara.

Yea clearly a science-minded person wouldn't be able to find a plethora of different variables between populations on opposite sides of the country.

Let's just assume they're homogeneous. /s
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People who have a problem with high wages need to have a problem with commanding high budgets, but none of them do. The entire issue is a canard.
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No, it doesn't compare at all. There is no bus line that goes straight from the bar to my apartment. Hell, after 11:00PM, there are barely any bus lines running at all due to low ridership at that hour. And this is in a major European city. It just doesn't make sense to run a bus when it will only have 1 or 2 riders throughout its route. That's why it makes sense to have an individual car service. That's why taxis/Uber are doing so well.
> Among those people, there’s either a group of three who all know each other, or a group of three who have never met.

Or a group of three who have never met. In your example, B, F and D have never met.
That's not true at all. Also, historically, there's been a trend of attributing negative things to depression. I've read John Cacioppo's work (here's an interview: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/04/how-lonel...), and as far as I know it's both scientifically well-founded and at least somewhat actionable.
I worked for a startup obsessed with vanity metrics. They would freak out if the average time spent per article dropped down, even if our conversions increased. Just an odd bunch of people. They went down with the company while doing nothing but micro-optimizing for bad metrics.
Lol. If cigarettes are truly useless and government wants to ban it, why would anyone want to use it? Usefulness must have a very strange meaning to you.
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There’s always powerful institutions involved in money, and yet countries fail. There’s always corporate money and politicians tied up in huge contracts for resources, for imports, for exports, etc., and yet wars happen.

Bad times makes things reach a point they cannot be contained anymore, it doesn’t matter how big your backing seemed to be during the good times.
The problem is also unrealised gains vs realised ones. I don't pay any tax on the stock price increasing. I have to pay tax on dividends.

If I don't need the money, I can just let it continue to grow tax free.
Out of interest, do you hold any proof of stake currencies? I despise the externalities of proof of work, so interested in whether proof of stake is in a useful place yet.
But they are a good thing, from a type perspective, they encode the idea that a side-effect is going to happen at the type level, and then force you as the caller to handle that fact or pass the buck to your caller.

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To each their own perhaps, but I find F1 very exciting. Even despite Mercedes's recent dominance, there is plenty of great midfield action, strategic decisions, uncertainty due to safety cars or weather, and teammate battles that make each race a fun watch.
This is bordering on logic like the following:
- Water is really important, why don't you buy this $100 bottle of water.
- The site has an incentive to improve your dating outcomes. No, it's primary objective is to maximise revenue, everything else is a side effect.
- Paying more for something means someone will commit/ follow through, somehow raise incentives. This is just a guess, not supported or disproven by reality.

I like to think defensively especially when it involves companies. What are they doing, and what do they stand to achieve?

These apps have not shown any value to their users, paywall their content and have an aggressive-long-term subscription model because they have optimised themselves straight into the garbage can, by thinking short term.
Rust was conceived as an Erlang-like language, and had "colorless" I/O and green threads in its early implementations. This idea has been demonstrated to be unfit for a systems programming language, and scrapped before 1.0:

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Thank you. People who treat jury duty as a burden and a job for suckers are playing the game that they will never be in a trial where a jury will decide their fate.

And while that's likely a game you win, I also wear my seatbelt despite not betting on crashing my car.
Yes, comparing CEO compensation to what line workers make is a standard play for the outrage promoters, but it really isn't related. When one slice of the pie is already small, making it smaller doesn't make a lot more available for everyone else.
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You describe a problem that is beyond any particular technology of choice in tax evasion. These problem already exists in society, and has existed since before the advent of cryptocurrencies.

Tax evasion, in the individual style you describe, can be detected in lifestyle choices and consumer habits. Generally, the burden is on you to explain how you've been able to spend more than your official tax records report.
I'll second this comment.

Armchair evaluation of CEOs suffers from survivorship bias.

Decent/good CEO keeps the business moving. A bad CEO can sink a company.

Boards/owners (dependant on corporate structure) can mitigate results.
> While UML's inheritance diagrams have been dead to me for a long time, I still like the sequence diagrams.

Common sentiment, I suspect.
>> F1 is definitely trying to make the teams and their engineering more similar than different, why do you think the whole regulation part exists even?

I agree, especially under the new owners. And for sure the cars are built according to each teams interpretation of the rules (which are of course subject to scrutineering). But that still leaves massive room for innovation.

Lewis is sitting in the same cockpit as Bottas is... their results are frequently vastly different due to their individual interpretation of events.
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