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I draw some amusement from seeing high net worth individuals treat Keynesianism with such disdain for creating jobs by "digging holes and filling them up again" while they essentially do just that to create assets.

It's also good at making me feel better for not recycling.

I honestly feel kind of sorry for some of the people who have earned orders of magnitude more in their entire life by essentially making one lucky bet than through anything that could be attributed to their own positive qualities.
Once upon a time, this was called impersonation. How did the change to "identity theft" happen, and why? Does anyone here know anything about that?
What I am interested in: a single entity responsible for trenching/fibre infrastructure, then allowing providers to resell access to it. Requiring each ISP to run their own fibre makes no sense to me. Let ISPs compete on price and quality of service, not on having billions in the bank to roll out the fibre (or take subsidies and not roll it out, like in many places in USA).

Even worse in condos (like in Toronto) where the condo board has signed an agreement with a provider and not allowing occupants any choice.

Huge shoutouts to Beanfield (Toronto) and Sonic (SF) for actually providing symmetric gigabit for cheaper than the incumbents with lower, asymmetric plans. If all companies were like them I wouldn't be advocating for municipal broadband.
This crosses into religious flamewar. We're trying to avoid that here, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Right, and they presumably do that to create value rather than destroy. How is that going to hurt Yahoo Finance again?
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You're saying that the providers should have absolute monopolies? What could possibly go wrong!
> nuanced experience fixes can have big collateral benefits

For me, little annoyances really stack up and make the whole experience a pain. I prefer to not have a specific feature at all, but have a great experience on what works, that keep finding little things that annoy me
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It's important to understand why reinfection might not be such a big problem.

First, the virus can only spread broadly with an R0 above 1. Even if some portion of the population is susceptible to reinfection (vaccinated or natural immunity), so far there's been little evidence that it's widespread. In a fully vaccinated population, the R0 will only reach above 1 if the virus is able to break through vaccines wholesale.

Second, the vaccines seem to be highly effective at preventing serious cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, even in reinfected individuals.
i think some descendant of cryptocurrency technologies has a good chance of being in use in 100 years, it's very cool stuff. will it be Bitcoin? i don't know, I think it's likely something better will come along but there are counterarguments to that.

there is a loud minority of Bitcoin freaks on social media who are incredibly strange, aggressive, hostile, and irritating. if bitcoin is going to be a major part of the world economy, then these new rich people will have to learn how to behave like decent adults, or normal people won't put up with them.
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No matter what you'd see greatly reduced spread. Ideally everyone would be vaccinated, but it would be unwise to ignore the substantial overlap between antivax people and antimask people. Everything pushing R beneath 1 is a good thing that should be counted.
At the last big subscription company I was at, it wasn't a product owner seniority thing, it was a organizational problem.

Signup is a big thing with lots of stakeholders and interest. User acquisition is an easy metric to track for business health. Everyone wants to push not-logged-in users to sign up.

Ownership of logging in was much less clear. It's not a full time job for a person or team in the same way customer acquisition is. So you put some buttons/links on the page, but then there's no single owner of them to get pissed off when other teams start moving their shit around.

(The other aspect here is that the website was a declining platform compared to the apps, where a not-logged-in user is much more captive and there's a more obvious single "login or signup" landing page point. On the web most media sites, at least, try to provide SOME sort of preview/partially functional experience version of the logged-in view, which wasn't designed with a prominent "SIGN IN" button in mind.)
I'm definitely a designer first, so I see things through a design lens. But I think that taking the time to truly understand your users as best you can—whether you're a designer, developer, PM, support, sales, etc—is the first step to building a good product and being able to identify these high impact areas.
Aristotle explored this long ago, mapping out levels of friendship:

1) Friendship of Utility: Affection is based on usefulness, and if usefulness fades so does the relationship.

2) Friendship of Pleasure: Affection is based on pleasant enjoyment of the other, often in shared circumstance such as sport or hobby. When the enjoyment changes or circumstance ends, so does the relationship.

3) Friendships of Goodness: "Now those who wish well to their friends for their sake are most truly friends; for they do this by reason of own nature and not incidentally; therefore their friendship lasts as long as they are good- and goodness is an enduring thing."

#1 and #2 are common, #3 is rare.
In 2008 there wasn't a need to click "install"? What OS were you on that provided Google Chrome seamlessly?
It appears that internally its transmission rate is faster.

For example, try driving a car, vs having two people collaborate to drive a car, with one on the steering and the other on the brakes.

The two person setup is theoretically at an advantage because you have double the sensory input and double the 'brain power', yet the results are far worse.

This suggests speech is a limiting factor for performance for the latter setup.
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And didn’t render millions of polygons at 60+ fps, while having many GBs of assets like textures, so I don’t see how is it relevant.

One could write those programs in a truly inefficient manner in a not too performant language and it would run without problem. Today’s computers are really fast.
Yes, it is state terrorism.
Will the transaction fees for ETH ever adjust downward?
An asteroid....is that what you're praying for so that you can be right?
Just look at the standoff between the teacher unions and the CDC. The unions take the side of their members who would rather stay away from the little asymptomatic sweethearts while the CDC takes the government's side and would like to have school going again so both parents can be back at work.

If the government's messaging is that the economy takes precedence over individual safety, that's the priors that people work with when they evaluate vaccine safety.
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> what is the file size limit

The actual file size limit of the portal is 1GB. SkyTransfer file size limit is ~700MB. Since the encrypted data are Base64 encoded and the Base64 encoding has an overhead of 33%, the encrypted data are correspondingly larger compared to the unencrypted data. This limit will be increased as soon as possible.

> minimal storage period

Files uploaded to Skynet will remain available as long as a portal pins the skyfile (agrees to pay from it). The rule-of-thumb for a minimum time is 3 months, but this will vary from portal to portal and could depend on if you have a user account with the portal. You can pin files yourself by running your own portal, and any portal can pin any file that already exists on the network. https://support.siasky.net/key-concepts/faqs#how-long-does-d...
ETH is the only crypto I’ve bought because it’s the only one that seemed to bring real value. It seems that with ETH2 it’s going to be the backbone for everything in this space, which will mean built in long term liquidity.

As far as I can tell, liquidity from every other coin seems to only come from constantly trying to convince people to buy it.
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> The patent office doesn't do much background checking.

That's not correct. By law, for every patent application, the patent examiner is supposed to conduct a thorough search of the prior art; some patent examiners have long experience in their "art units." [0]

Also by law: Inventors must disclose, to the patent examiner, all information of which they are aware that is "material to patentability." [1]

Well-trained patent attorneys take the view that it's far better to tell the patent examiner about everything you can think of that might be significant. Doing so helps to strengthen any resulting patent against infringers' claims that the invention would have been obvious.

Think about how an infringement lawsuit will often go down: The accused infringer will generally try to claim that the patent is invalid because of one or more particular prior-art references. When that happens, one of the best possible responses, by the patent owner's trial counsel, is, in effect, Oh yeah? Well, ladies and gentlemen [of the jury], the patent examiner already considered those references, and s/he concluded that the invention was indeed patentable, so whom are you going to believe — the patent examiner, or the infringer who stole my client's invention?)

As a more-or-less random example, see a 2017 patent issued to IBM, where the cited prior art included 32 prior patents and 3 non-patent publications — all cited by the inventors. [2]

[0] https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2103.html

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/37/1.56

[2] Dixit et al., "Performing sequence analysis as a relational join," U.S. Patent No. 9,589,018, https://patents.google.com/patent/US9589018B2/en?oq=9%2c589%...
The only "conspiracy" is that it is called an attack without evidence. It's so easy to do that, and is hardly conspiratorial in nature. No one's making any claims about the real causes or what really happened here. It is the usual ordeal, you take some happenstance, often heavily distorted, and frame your enemies for it. This is especially common with regards to cybercrime. People will eat it up, often no matter how little it conforms to common sense.

There have been instances of false-flag operations, most notably the Gulf of Tonkin incident which served as pretext for an escalation of the Vietnam war. But it doesn't have to be to serve its purpose.
Yep, my first pick on a standard lock took fairly little time. If you're talking about something like a normal house door lock, even a beginner picker, with darkness as a cover, can get through without risking the sound generated by an entry through physical force.

My view is that you choose lock cores based on how difficult you want it to be to pick before it makes more sense to resort to destructive entry.

For a bike lock on the street, a few minutes of picking won't look much different to pedestrians than someone simply struggling with their own bike lock. But destructive removal is much more obvious. (Unless it's a physically flimsy lock, or even a beefy one with a simple bypass vulnerability)
I think there's a larger elephant in the room in regards to exponential rate of printing.
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I want to add more clarity on where Ethereum currently stands. I am one of the devs that worked on proof of stake and the future of the Ethereum protocol, bundled into an umbrella term called "Ethereum 2.0".

Eth2 is a monumental research effort to create a blockchain that makes no compromises on security, scalability, and decentralization. Given Ethereum is live today, secures a ton of value, and runs a lot of applications, it is almost impossible to upgrade to 2.0 via a simple network upgrade. As such, the project is split into phases. The first phase is a proof of stake chain that runs _in parallel_ to Ethereum today. People can join as validators via a "one-way burn" smart contract. The next phase is then "merging" the state of Ethereum today with this new chain using proof of stake via a docking process. That is, Ethereum will continue to function normally, but mining will be disabled and consensus will utilize proof of stake instead. My implementation of Eth2 is a client called Prysm written in Go here (https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm).

Previous attempts at proof of stake were either too expensive, too centralized, or hard to scale to a large enough number of validators. After many years of research and hard work, and leveraging really awesome cryptography for signature aggregation called BLS (Boneh–Lynn–Shacham), the first phase launched December 1st, 2020 and the current proof of stake chain is now securing over $10bn worth of value at the consensus layer.

A few important things to keep in mind:

- Ethereum development for its future is quite decentralized, with 4 different teams having implemented high-quality, production clients for proof of stake. These teams are independent of the Ethereum Foundation. Most other blockchains have only one, canonical client implementation that has very large majority share

- The "merge" is happening later this year or possibly very early 2022

- The technology used in Eth2 is quite a breakthrough in cryptography and I urge those curious to dig deeper. Using BLS signatures, the protocol can support millions of validators at the consensus layer

EDIT: readability
> It was the experts that you disdain with quotation marks, but the rest of us call scientists and engineers, who made Tesla and SpaceX, not Musk. It was not scientists and engineers who scoffed at the ideas of Tesla and SpaceX,

This is definitely some rewriting of history. Plenty of engineers gave a long list of reasons why reusable rockets couldn’t work. Difficulty of station keeping for the drone ships, cost of refurbishment, safety margins, etc
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Thanks! I used Illustrator to create it and then cleaned it up by hand.
In 99% of cases you only need

go get -u
They're pretty low now... relative to a few months ago.
You can differentiate physical bills by serial yet we consider currency to be fungible, no?
> It seemed obvious to me at the time that God is just a thing people tell each other to feel at ease with the greater questions in life: where do we come from, is there a meaning to life, what happens when we die, why am I trapped inside of a monkey I can control with my thoughts etc…
Then I started to explore altered states of consciousness and I realized that there is much more to life than meets the eye.
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> “ Today’s Original Lishi tools are the brain child of Zhi Qin Li. These amazing tools were invented in early 2000 in response to the need to help his locksmith friends and his trainees.”

Note that the picture on the sets are of him as well.
Nit-pick: I don't like the language of wins [versus losses]. I get that people like short words that are associated with happiness and success, but the underlying messaging are that if we're not winning, we're losing, or that we "have to win".

In reality, failure should be normal, expected, and even desired, because if you're not failing, you're not trying new things or taking risks. You should lose sometimes. But success is preferred to failure, so I would prefer to get Tiny Successes through Tiny Improvements.
You go there to look at charts? That's what Trading View is for.
This combines all the weakest attributes of market and planned economies together.

It would make sense if the exclusive non-overlapping regions were for maintenance contracts on common infrastucture, but it makes zero sense for last-mile.
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He didn't start Tesla. And you can thank NASA for funding SpaceX. In both cases you can thank generous government subsidies for keeping his businesses afloat until they started making money.

Let's also thank the thousands of engineers who made both Tesla and SpaceX work. We need to stop giving one guy all the credit.
> Every time your client slows down, somewhere an executive was promoted.

Or wined & dined.
While identity theft involves impersonation, impersonation doesn’t always mean identity theft has occurred.

For instance, if someone puts your name and phone number on Craigslist and says that you are selling a 1918 Model T car, and then you get a lot of calls from people wanting to buy your Model T (which you don’t have)—well, that’s annoying, but it’s considered impersonation.

The impersonator didn’t cause any harm to your credit, steal your information in order to steal your money, or do anything to warrant the fines or jail sentence typical for identity thieves.

This is from https://cookattorneys.com/criminal-impersonation-and-identit...
Then what is The Whole Truth? What piece is missing?

It's the Russell's Teapot thing. It COULD be out there, and there COULD be something more.

But the Selfish Gene -- Evolution -- is reasonably easy to demonstrate. Different verities of viruses, like new strains of COVID, come to mind...
So there are now more package managers than there are programming languages and operating systems?
After 4 years of tether FUD can we finally put it to rest?

Also, this is about Ethereum not BTC… which is the primary target of tether complaints. Not even the most hardcore conspiracy theorists suggest tether is being used to buy Ethereum.
Large enough solar flare might do the trick, too.
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I have no idea what the truth is. My only point is that we (as the general public) should never take the word of spy agencies for anything, especially not about what their perceived enemies are doing.

Perhaps what they said happens to be absolutely true. Perhaps they have withdrawn their diplomats for fear of other attacks (e.g. poisoning, as Canadian authorities have apparently claimed). Perhaps they have withdrawn their diplomats in order to create some impression that they are in danger. Perhaps they have withdrawn their diplomats because they intend to do something that they think could put them in danger.

There are myriad possibilities, but until we get a chance to see classified reports or we get some independent reports about what is going on, we shouldn't speculate based on nothing more than the claims of spy agencies.

Edit to add: if the story would have been "Cuban intelligence agency reports how US diplomats faked symptoms to claim they were being attacked", would you believe this claim? Even as a Cuban? I for one would not - and just as I wouldn't believe this claim, I will also not believe the opposite claim from US intelligence.