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BLOCKCHAIN IS NOT BITCOIN.

Cardano is decentralized.

https://pooltool.io/

With 2,459 active stake pools operating all around the world to process Cardano transactions.

You can see the distribution of Cardano in Biggest Groups (Stake) on top left in the link below.

https://adapools.org/groups

It would take many many groups getting together to take over 50% of staked Ada in Cardano.

Bitcoin on the other hand is not that decentralized

Bitcoin Mining Pools 2020

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

You can see that if three major mining pools joined together, they could take control of the entire Bitcoin network.

Decentralized? - Charles Hoskinson
https://youtu.be/0QtQGzqAIiU

China Could Hold 60% of the Residual Bitcoin- Tough Competition for Digital Yuan
https://coinpedia.org/news/china-could-hold-60-of-the-residu...

(March 6, 2021) China Declares War on Bitcoin - China Uncensored

(April 19, 2021) After a bitcoin crackdown, China now calls it an ‘investment alternative’ in a significant shift in tone - CNBC
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/19/china-calls-bitcoin-an-inves...

I know this is a site where everyone likes to think they are way more informed than the world population but in terms of cryptocurrency, I find the posts here woefully poor in quality and information.

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And I haven't even started on Cardano's Project Catalyst - their democratic method of funding new cryptocurrency projects/developers and adding projects on the Cardano Network. All decided and controlled by ADA holders and not necessarily IOHK/Cardano Foundation/Emurgo, the organizations who made Cardano.

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If you have a problem with my statement, then actually challenge what I have to say instead of hiding behind a downvote. Cut the bullshit propaganda and have an actual conversation about it.
Yes, but fewer. That’s the point
That might be true to some extent, but each of those new projects consist of one or more people at the top controlling the functionality for the rest of the users.
Imagine how many students would cheat on tests if the penalty was not a failing grade, but only a “wrong answer” counted for every question they could somehow prove you cheated on. Ooh, and you’d get to bring in experts to argue with them on your behalf about it for a few years while having the grade you got through cheating stand on the records for all that time.
To clarify, I'm not attempting to normalize it.
Regarding "men tend to have more variance in everything due to having only one X chromosome": So, there are lots of recessive genetic conditions: for a particular gene, if you have two copies of the common A allele, you're normal; if you have one copy of A and one of the rare lowercase "a"—written as Aa—then you're normal; but if you have "aa", then you have the rare genetic condition.

Then, if we suppose that 99% of people's copies of the gene are A and 1% are a, and that there's totally random distribution, then you can calculate that 98.01% of the population has AA, 1.98% has Aa, and 0.01% has aa. Which means 99.99% will appear "normal" and 0.01% will exhibit the condition.

Now, what happens when the gene is on the X chromosome? Women will have two copies, men have one. What happens when a man has "A" or has "a"?

I think the mechanism for recessive genes is often something like, "Allele A codes for an enzyme/protein, while allele "a" codes for a version of it that does nothing; if your body is producing the normal amount of that enzyme or half of it, it still has the normal result, but if you produce no working copies of that enzyme, then you get the unusual result." Or something like it. So in that case, a man who has "A" will appear normal, and a man with "a" will have the condition.

The result would be that, for an "X-linked" condition, 99.99% of women will appear "normal" (1.98% of which will be "carriers" who are Aa) and 0.01% will have the condition, while 99% of men will be "A" and appear normal and 1% will have "a" and have the condition. Thus, men are enormously more likely to get unusual recessive genetic conditions when the gene is on the X chromosome.

Colorblindness is one such condition, which comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

So, if we hypothesize that there might be lots of recessive genes that have "some" effect on behavior or personality or whatever we care about... If the genes are on chromosomes other than the X, then men and women will have equal variation. If the genes are on the X chromosome, then men will exhibit more variance, because more of them exhibit the rare condition (while a similar number of women are merely carriers of it). So, if we suppose that there are some important recessive genes on the X chromosome, then we would expect to see higher male variance due to that.
The problem with this perspective is that for each scale you measure people (e.g. how fast they can swim) a different set of traits contribute (e.g. shoulder width, torso to height ratio).

This means that you don't have a set of super humans that extraordinary at everything, but that for any arbitrary scale, the group with higher variance will tend to be over represented at the extremes.
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Well, any argument about "most" is ultimately going to come down to how you define the reference class. If you're saying that it's not a common, influential view, I definitely don't agree; for example, my state published a school curriculum revision just yesterday which states "we reject ideas of natural gifts and talents". A lot of people really do work under the assumption that there's no such thing as non-environmental variation.
For that it would be great if we could differentiate between who in society is a wealth creator and who is a zero sum player.

Grouping Jeff Bezos in with Jamie Dimon (JP Morgan CEO), as both evil because they are both rich, is an extremely simplistic view of the world, but seems common, even on HN.

Bezos has his faults, but he is still responsible in an insane reduction in prices for many items for consumers. Plus he created 400,000 jobs in the pandemic.

Jamie Dimon takes huge financial risks with all sorts of opaque financial tools, an when he fucks up gets bailouts from government.

One creates wealth, the other basically rearranges it into his own pocket.

(and don't get me started about people complaining about Elon Musk being a billionaire, that is just a sad state of jealous resentment that should not be given a voice in society)
Looking at it scientifically has done the opposite, and largely dispelled the illusion of any major difference, surely? Any net difference on some cognitive or personality index is swamped with variation within each either sex. If we're going to deny women from taking loans for being too X, or deny men from owning guns for being too Y, then we should probably also ban about 80% of the other sex too -- they, individually, would be over the median line.

This is human height distribution by sex: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/06/distribution-1-77... One of the most dramatic sexual divergences in humans. With personality it seems to follow that basic pattern. Even with the men usually having a wider variation, as noted elsewhere in this thread.

Except with psych indexes and metrics, it's usually even more overlapped. So overlapped it's often hard to tell if it's a statistical illusion! In many cases there seems to be no difference at all. So, really it's more like such research points more to that we're close to indistinguishable. Sex alone would not give you a great deal of information about someone's mind or personality or mental abilities.

This is the very opposite of a basis to argue for unequal treatment for half of the population. Will some still try to justify an absurd and unjustifiable thing on the basis of such data? Probably. But they could just invent complete pseudoscience too. Misuse by morally deranged actors has never been a too compelling reason to not do social research, surely?
This is on the surface a "reasonable" argument. It also perfectly illustrates why HN will forever have negligible female participation.
>And, dismissing the death of someone by saying "they were going to die soon anyway, so what" is disgusting.

It may be "disgusting" - but it's also statistics

It was sad when my grandfather died a couple years ago at 87 - but not exactly "unexpected"

Compare that to friends who lost their 18-year-old daughter before she graduated high school

Which one is shocking? Which one "hurts more"?

Deaths rates follow a bathtub curve - ultimately leading to a 100% mortality rate (ie, everyone dies eventually)

If you have to choose between saving a 5-year-old and an 85-year-old, the "smart money" says "save the kid"

If you don't have to choose, then by all means - save both

But that's not how economics works: choices must be made
re discussion in these threads: Is there a difference between sex and gender?
My pet theory is that testosterone impacts brain development in a way that causes people with more of it on average (men) to be more singularly driven, or "one track mind". The key is that "driven" does not mean "usefully driven" – and that is why you seem the extreme outliers on both ends. Making men more likely to be completely non-functioning alcoholics or more likely to successfully commit suicide, but also more likely to excel at chess.

In more egalitarian societies, we consistently see women make "better" choices when it comes to work/life balance etc, where as men are much more likely to unhealthily pursue career / etc doggedly even if it means sacrificing everything else.

It probably only tips the scales a tiny, tiny bit, but when you're talking about 7B people and societies that want to extract maximum efficiency from participants, it shows.
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75% of my electricity bill is transmission and distribution charges. It's beyond preposterous.
> There was a huge online propaganda war between r/Bitcoin and r/BTC with large amounts of disinformation being produced on both sides, as well as banning and censorship on these forums. Ultimately the "big blockers" lost and moved over to creating their own blockchain in 2017.

This is what I want, my wealth to be tied up in a currency that's at the mercy of a Bitcoin subreddit flame war.

I'm sorry. I appreciate that a lot of people have become extremely wealthy from Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies. I also that a significant, maybe unprecedented, amount of technical excellence and labor has gone into developing this ecosystem. I appreciate that block chain and all of the other derivative technologies have a significant amount of realized and unrealized potential, and I'm sure that my comment will be downvoted to nothing.

I just can't, for the life of me, understand why I would want the intrinsic value of my daily labor locked into something like this. This reads like the type of drama that I - don't - want in any way, shape, or form associated with a legitimate currency or other store of value.
How to (not) use Docker to share your password with hackers
Links are checked at least once daily - I do have a few that are recently broken that I need to address - but File.pizza is okay again. I have switched the main link to Wormhole, because it's now my preferred option - and because File.pizza has been up and down for me in the past as well.
Scientists Claim They Discovered the “Gate of Consciousness”
Lots of aerosol "air fresheners" out there in operation too, that use petroleum gas as carriers. It's just accepted that it's fine to inhale petroleum gas.
> I'm supposed to be training the next generation of $my_profession, and if they're not getting in the way, I'm not letting them do enough to learn.

I had intended to say this myself.

Computer programmers rarely train themselves. Very few of anything train themselves. Autodidacts who can become masters of <insert field here> are extremely rare, and even those that have that capability can still pick up a lot of information from someone with decades of experience.

Our species seems to learn best through being taught by those with more experience than us.
The flip side of this problem is keeping track of exchange rates when currencies go through hyper-inflation. For example the exchange rate between Venezuelan Bolivar to USD right now is 0.000000.

https://x-rates.com/table/?from=USD&amount=1
Sure, okay, let's put Goebbels back in. I'd swapped him for an irony monad whilst double-checking the list of archetypal bigots that'd promoted a similarly distorted view. Lothrop Stoddard is another candidate. Choose your monster. Pretty much any politician appropriating Nietzsche qualifies.
Fairy tales are ironically typically set hundreds of years ago, when wealth creation was tied to land and thus finite.
How can we un-polarize science of we cannot discuss it?
Thanks for those examples. The first one errors out because there's no content in v1 of the paper (admittedly, I need better error messages). I've fixed the other two.
It isn't a mystery. Exactly what everyone said would happen (bitcoin blocks fill up and transactions are expensive while throughput is dismal) came to pass.

Bitcoin's average transaction cost has been anywhere from $18 to $60 over the last few months. Even dodge coin is approaching $2 for each transaction. Bitcoin Cash transactions cost $0.02 (2 cents) and the transaction throughput can grow 30x without the blocks being full.

In the venn diagram of (decentralized) cryptocurrencies that are widely accepted and have reasonable transaction costs, litecoin, monero and bitcoin cash are what end up being viable for real use right now.
It's not non-default. When I used macOS every time I tried to send a new emoji for the first time it popped up a modal asking what colour I wanted. So the yellow was no more "default" than the skin-tone ones are.
I think there's plenty of examples of command driven text interfaces in popular products. But they're just delivered in a way that either functionality is intentionally limited, or where the order of the commands are interchangeable. For example

+ Search engine search bars

+ voice services like Siri and Alexa

+ Excel formulas

+ Slack and MS Teams use of IRC-like /commands in the chat window
> It's interesting how frequently this pattern exists where history is silent about class difference and loud about race/gender differences.

That's not a coincidence. The 0.1% would much rather the 99.9% squabble over race and gender than class: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/media-great...
Data Warehouse Refactor Approach
Hello Folks,

As part of migration from Postgres to Snowflake, we are planning to refactor our ETL pipeline.

I have suggested below 2 approach

(1) Document existing database and pipeline dependency and design new solution

(2) Migrate pipeline as it is. As refactor later bit by bit.

But leadership wants a hybrid approach i.e start with development and refactor on the go. As per my experience in working in many migration project this is a recipe for disaster.

They don't want approach (1) because this will delay delay the project and nothing to showcase to business.

They don't want approach (2) because once migration is complete, business won't see any benefit in refactoring.

In my experience working in industry for last 11 years, migration and refactoring with time limit never works and solution ends up been a disaster.

So far, I have worked in IT services and this is the first time, i am working on project for own company.

I am thinking too much about the outcome and failure ?
Strange... Workers band together to demand sanity, and things move.

They start quitting in droves, even at the core of several projects and. . . suddenly the change we want? Just happens.

It isnt even a concession. There's less costs involved all around.
I made a SRS deck for PHP stuff when I was going to take the certification.

What I found was that studying the deck didn't help me at all. What did help was making the deck.

IMO, if something makes the deck for you, it's going to drastically reduce the usefulness of the deck. Making the deck means a lot, and possibly much more than studying the deck could do for you.

It does help that this is making it from something you're trying to read... But I think removing that effort is actually harmful to the experience.
"probably almost never" :)
You could hypothetically have a situation where libc has an arbitrarily large internal FILE* buffer (instead of reading a block, looking for a newline, and copying everything over immediately), and then copies in reverse, corrupting data after the guard page before it hits the guard page.

If there are other threads accessing data that happens to be placed after the guard page, bad things could happen, but this seems rather unlikely to be a real problem.
I get what you're saying. I think there's an issue though, that neutrality is hard to come by for lots of reasons and especially nowadays when preference falsification is prevalent because critique of DEI/CRT is social suicide in certain sociopolitical milieu.

So naturally you're only going to find critique on the other side. As the CRT folk are keen to say - you can't be neutral - pick a side!
Paging James Damore...
Ok, sure, but by that standard nuclear is by far the least polluting per watt.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Most people don't have a strong enough grasp of statistics.

No matter how careful one is with the wording, some can only hear what they are capable of understanding, because they lack the frame of understanding.
What does an Engineering Manager do anyway?
> "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"

Everywhere else he had to invent stuff to parody the language. He presents Haskell straight up.
They did their job, which is basically to determine if FB has correctly applied its policies particularly in the context of freedom of expression. It's a ruling that took 2 parts: 1) The initial decision to ban was okay but 2) The "indefinite" part was too ambiguous without reference to specific FB policies and so they must reinstate Trump's account or to provide concrete policies to justify its actions within 6 months (which I would agree is too long)

This is no different than any other appeals court, at least in the US: An appeals court can rule for/against something but it can also push the case back to those who made the initial ruling and force them to reconsider.

This doesn't even mean that FB is going to be the final decision maker here: After FB makes their case (if they decide to do so) for a perma-ban, the board can then review that and make a final decision on whether FB's application of policy in this case. All they're saying is FB did not provide that justification initially and must now do so.

This is the way systems of justice typically work. It is not a one-time binary decision. It is an iterative process refining the legal (or rules-based) question to hone in the core of the issue.

Did the board have the authority to make the ban permanent? Sure. Should they have done so? Absolutely not. It would set a bad precedent for them to allow FB to get away with decisions on the basis of vague justifications. It's forcing FB to support its decisions with specific references to its policies. In the short term that probably feels unsatisfying to anyone looking to end this saga one way or another, but in the long term it is telling FB it can't make arbitrary decisions unsupported by its own policies.

The only thing I disagree with is that 6 months is really much longer than required for this. FB has had plenty of time on this issue, they shouldn't need more than a few weeks to get this done.
I had the same experience w/ my Apple AirPod pros. I thought I lost my pair, so ordered replacements. The first time, they only sent 1 of 2 headphones. I called, they shipped 2 new ones. I called Apple to return the extra bud, some wires got crossed, and they sent 2 more.

At this point, I obviously found my originals. So I called Apple to try and send back the 3 extras they sent me (I would still have my originals + the replacements I paid for). They were unable to coordinate a return, told me to keep all of them.

I now have 7 apple airpod buds.
Men are so special we can’t even be confined to a single sex! Women are mostly all kind of like normal housewives, right?
Web server management involves getting timely and accurate feedback about the server performance as well as about the activities being performed on a web server.
If it can write past the guard page, even if your program faults afterwards, it could have already compromised the larger system. Not claiming that it can, just entertaining the what-if.
Ah, right. >2 pages-worth of input would break the scheme.
This is excellent! I've been missing Firefox Send ever since they took it down.

However, it needs to be hosted somewhere.

...and if I'm going to be using a hosted service, I'd like the ability to easily pay for it (so that it doesn't eventually collapse or resort to shady things like ads), either though donations or microtransactions for bandwidth/storage.

Unfortunately, there's no good microtransaction service.

Wasn't Mozilla working on one? Where did that go?

...and thus, we've gone full circle.

And I'm typing this comment in a Chrome browser, because my company is migrating away from Firefox due to "security issues".
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This looks really great, and shows a lot of polish in its interface. I liked how you had different preset ways of filtering the data (SMGs, Rifles, etc), as well as linkable results pages. Being able to select armor and hit-locations seems to just be a scaling factor, but also was a neat touch.

I think there might be some value in adding a duration slider (as an alternative to shot count). Because most items you're comparing has varying rates of fire (e.g. P90 vs UMP45 vs Mac10), the slower weapons will often show more "damage" (over N shots), whereas the DPS might be similar or vary a lot.

It might also be interesting to have weapon selection filters based on cost -- e.g., comparing rifles and SMGs of similar cost, or things you can buy on the first or second round.

Edit: I also just went to the advanced charts section, encountered your buy-me-a-coffee link. While I personally don't like signing up for additional tiers of access, I think this was a very nicely done way of doing so.
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I believe you mean child + male + ZWJ + child + ZWJ ...

I think it was mostly a mistake that the joiners started occurring later. Expressed eloquently in https://xkcd.com/1813/