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I’ve advised many projects, allowing them to inherit my professional network in the crypto space, as well as launched my own tokens.

And the exchanges really are a problem and are still a racket.

It is so great that Uniswap and their style of autonomous liquidity pool creating has taken over, the market was tired of that other bullshit.

Even the most reputable custodial exchanges are a total racket! See Coinbase’s settlement with the CFTC a few weeks back for an example.

The challenges to fixing it are very high, I agree with Gary Gensler’s (SEC chair, former CFTC chair) comments to Congress today about a new regulatory framework for custodial crypto exchanges.

For one:
Projects cant talk about exchanges because one part of being considered an unregistered security is by providing an expectation of liquidity!

But communities do have an expectation of liquidity and so does everyone. Otherwise they will attack the founders personally, forever!

The exchanges know this and create extremely toxic relationships, that any complaint from a founder will cause the exchange to completely ruin and slander the project and also delist it, validating any detractors existing beliefs!

Complete racket because the regulators are already taking an adversarial stance and cant even get any insider to talk to them because they’ll go after the insider!

If you arent aware, uniswap (AMMs) and yield fixes this, as communities are providing all of the liquidity and listing of the token for exchange. So honestly the impossible regulatory environment is really being a catalyst for innovation.
The point being that in NC, at the time they were allowed to write non-compete clauses that functioned as any software written in a 500 mile radius was considered competing.

I worked on enterprise data storage operating systems, and I wanted to work on a personal phone application in my off hours.
>The most common cited reasons for overtreatment were fear of malpractice (84.7%), patient pressure/request (59.0%), and difficulty accessing medical records (38.2%).

so not relevant to this coversation.
What do you expect from Big Tech engineers? Honestly most peoples livelihoods are generated by working on extremely centralised, monopolistic services.
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I don't know I agree with you there are no victims in America, but I strongly agree with you it's pointless to dwell on as an individual matter.
Yeah I found reading it a bit underwhelming considering it's mythical status. There isn't that much material and interesting things like Arc aren't covered.
XRP is the token
Its called XRPL and its not centralized since years.
For a more direct presentation of these ideas, see Elements of Style by Strunk and White:

http://www.jlakes.org/ch/web/The-elements-of-style.pdf
Yes. All of my friends use MMS.
If you say "I don't know about that", or "I'm not sure if that really happened", it's a short walk from tolerating fascists. My country is having a conservative/authoritarian turn, and only about 30% votes for the regime. The rest has no opinion or thinks everyone used to be just as bad.
Depends on whether their product is a cool social network or a voice bridge. Twitter and other text/image social networks scale because there was no opportunity cost to following someone, whereas participating in a conf is a time sink and reputation bid. The comments on this thread talk about how it's not fun, so some users are disengaging. Clubhouse's retention numbers wouldn't give the more meaningful info about DAU/MAU, which are about the engagement that necessarily drives the network growth.

Absolutely armchairing this, but stories about people in their target market winning the fame lottery or some other jackpot on it would drive that funnel. The way society pages used to do it was gossip columnists and blind items written by people who had skin in the game so they wouldn't upset the applecart. (Vice can't swing that because their whole schtick is sympathy for people who disgust themselves, so there's no desire there) Clubhouse doesn't have to reproduce that era of media, but they could learn some stuff from it.
> Things that are radioactive for longer than human lifetimes are not very radioactive at all. The danger is more that they are still poisonous.

good, so we take it out after 50 years and place it in your yard than?
just kidding, but saying such things is stupid, the stuff is still highly dangerous even after > 1000 years, especially if the shielding gets blown away, people die from that.
the fuel NEEDS to be on site for the first 10-20 years, since it's impossible to shield it good enough. after that it needs to be stored 100000 years at a minimum.

> Finding places where you can control the groundwater isn't that hard. We have many candidates. Old salt mines are preferred because the salt slowly flows around the containers and entombs them. This is where the relatively small volume of the radioactive waste is a feature, you don't need a massive number of old mines to handle all of the waste. One or two would be sufficient.

good idea. in germany we already found a salt mine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine oh... wait.

btw. you can actually recycle some material, but that is expensive and is not done for all material, but it drain more billions of dollar for a single plant, most often it's easier to socialize the storage of the radioactive waste.

> High level radioactive waste doesn't stay high level for very long by its very nature

spent fuels is radiotoxic over 100000 years? I mean, that is long. of course for more money it can be reprocessed, reducing the long livity waste by a far margin and also not everything needs to be stored that long. it's still problem and down talking it does not help.

> Natural gas is extracted by pumping poisonous chemicals into the ground to break up rocks--greatly increasing the possibility of groundwater contamination. Imagine if they had to extract all of those chemicals back out of the ground and then store them someplace where they could be proven to never leak out again.

ok, because that's also bad it's ok to use another bad technology? heck coal is also bad it produces flying ash, way way more tones than all reactors in the world will produce over their lifetime. does it make the waste of nuclear better? no.
is it good to point fingers on other technologies that are as bad? no.
(to make it clear high level waste per 1000MW reactor is like 3m^3 (around a tonne) per reactor. of course it's not a lot compared to stuff that coal, mining (uranium gets mined, too and produces a shit ton of tailings) and gas, etc..., but a lot for the timeframe it needs to be stored)
I wonder if a pump like this could be made smaller using a perfluorocarbon liquid like FC-70 (Perfluorotripentylamine)—nearly double the density of water, higher boiling point, non-flammable, and would not impart water vapor to the compressed air.
oh - didn't know that...
I suppose they'd have to stop taking advertising from Florida based entities as well, to be truly 'not doing business' in Florida.
Ok, but if you read the text as a whole, it's not true that it's haughty. That it sounds haughty when quoted selectively is the internet's fault, not the commenter's. At most he can be accused of (a) not pre-emptively bulletproofing his text against selective quotation, and (b) not knowing the future. And (a) reduces to (b).

I take your point about lore, and on that level it's just good fun.

p.s. Also, nice use of the word 'haughty'. We need those good English words.
It really is that easy. And, I don't know why there's a hide button. I have never used it that I recall; I had forgotten that it existed.
> I think creating BAT was one of the smartest things Brave did. […] This feature allows you to download a youtube video and watch it offline.

That feature is unrelated to BAT.

Also: Brave has a built-in functionality to violate YouTube's ToS (sections 5B and 5C)?
Lying because you enjoy it doesn't really do much for anybody either.
Your argument boils down to "content creators need to make money, and the only expedient way for them to make money is to show ads".

And you know what? Perhaps it is.

Even if that's the case, I still think it's unethical, that a bit more brainpower should be put into a funding model that isn't ads. Even if it increases friction.

The most expedient way to expand a country's border is still war, and I believe that's unethical as well.
Well actually, the goals of the attempt was to prevent their guy Trump from being removed from office. So in that regard it was a coup attempt. They were attempting to illegally wrest control of 1/3 of the government with force.
But if the equilibrium is below the cost of production, no one will bother producing.
> The much maligned HMO was an early attempt at applying market discipline to medical care. Guess what? People hated it.

HMOs remain common, and none of the satsifaction data I can find shows satisfaction with them significantly lower than PPOs or traditional insurance. Not sure why you act like they are something that exist only in the past or universally hated.
No they put faith in their fellow humans. Which we all do when we're participating in traffic.
If you remove pay models, a vast majority of the internet will just disappear. (I think you) in a previous comment mention that it is 'cheap' to run a site, which is generally true on a per user basis for primarily text sites. But cheap != free.

I see it often, but it is honestly the most laughably selfish opinion to believe that one should be entitled to the internet as it exists today, but also not pay directly or indirectly to be able to use those services.
Like others I don't buy this argument.

They wrote that the two choices are

> Paywalls. You pay with your money.

> Ads. You pay with your attention.

But that's not quite right. Ads have two options themselves:

> Ads. You pay with your money, because the ads get you to buy stuff.

> Ads. You pay with your attention, wasted on stuff you'll never buy.

Two negatives. Either you buy stuff you otherwise wouldn't (and therefore don't need, and were manipulated into buying), or you don't buy stuff and just have to suffer the attack on your attention in a world where your attention is already strained to its limits. No good outcomes here.

No argument for ads works if you believe, like I do, that buying things in general is bad -- bad for you, bad for the human race, and bad for the environment.
I thought the idea there was a lot of the big tech companies had offices in Ireland for tax bennies... and that was part of the EU ?

Anyway, be interesting to see how it all plays out...
Yes, Fastmail would be great. Or just CalDAV in general.
also starring a pizzagate promoter, which seems a whole lot darker now than it was at the time: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/fcc-chai...
You don't even actually match up buyers and sellers on the public markets anymore for stocks. Individuals (from retail to institutional investors) buy and sell to market makers; later, when settling, market makers will pair up with brokers when clearing the funds.

So it'd be up to the market makers to not fuck up and sell at $1. If not, it's their liability.
I’m putting a WiFi router into a wall charger
This is a post documenting my adventures in fitting a WiFi router into a wall charger!
Here's a somewhat dated example of such a setup: https://github.com/memco/dotfiles. Basically, you just need the install.sh if all you care about is macOS preferences, but you can also add in something like the brewfile so that you can also install your apps. My brewfile leverages MAS so that I can install stuff from the app store in addition to what's available via brew. I haven't automated app preferences, but macOS and apps are just a clone, `./install.sh && brew bundle --file Brewfile` away.
Except they can treat current employees differently. It doesn’t have to be a down round. In the case I’m thinking of, valuation went up a lot… it was the opposite of a down round. And it was all engineered to screw all the previous people as it was taken over by an entirely new crew as a lead investor directed.
The value proof in the backend that convinces advertisers to throw more many at this? Mostly rule of thumb heuristics with a fair amount of overselling. So no, in most cases the telemetry just doesn't prove much.

I've seen the thesis that all this advertising revenue - even if poorly spent - subvents large portions of exciting research in deep learning etc. at the likes of Google and Facebook. So all that talent wouldn't entirely be lost to advertising.
Yeah I paused right before the brick hit the window and realized what I was about to see, I'm kind of glad I stopped.
> barely stopped an actual coup attempt

"Barely stopped" is a modifier to "attempt" that implies the attempt was almost successful.

If you read my comment, rather than being reactionary, you see that I deliberate do not say it was not an attempted coup.

You can accurately say that this was the closest we have come to a successful coup in our lifetimes. You cannot truthfully say that the coup was close to success or that it was barely stopped.
The expense comes in having to re-learn basic actions or go find a setting. My job takes longer to perform now because I have to stop and re-learn simple things that used to be instinctive, such as dismissing notifications and looking at icons or changing the direction my mouse scrolls.
Zizek has talked a lot about victimhood and makes, imo, some great points. One point he makes is that people today assign virtue to victimhood, which doesn't really correlate because victims can turn out to be assholes themselves. I agree with this point and think it's a major reason why it's trendy to be a victim. If victims get all the attention and support these days just for being a victim of something, why not join the crowd?
No one said they should. But they can offer something and get payed with one that's usually the use case of the token. And it does not require a new token.
Being able to represent speech in writing is still pretty useful, even in 2021!
I think to address "why do you work on ads" and only addressing the positive points misses half of the question. The other half is what harms do ads cause. He addressed bandwidth concerns which they're working on mitigating with ad vendors, but biggest problem with ads is the number of wasted attention cycles by people who do not find ads relevant or otherwise be interested at all in buying anything displayed in ads. If you calculate life lost on the internet due to this factor alone that number may justify banning almost all types of ads immediately.

Additionally, opening with I give half of my money to charity so leave me alone, should be a red flag that what's to follow is not a strong argument for the point the author is trying to make.
I think you missed the words "barely stopped".
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The newish "Powered UP" line is also a lower-priced alternative to Mindstorms (still not cheap, you're looking at at least $50 for a hub plus $15 per motor or sensor), using a Bluetooth-connected phone or tablet as the 'brain' with a visual programming system similar to Mindstorms. These have been included as a part of some of their newer big sets, including a few that are basically RC cars built out of Lego.
Couple of thoughts here:

> if (debug)

The language Elixir, during its compilation phase, actually automatically removes these in the production environment. That is to say, it is a macro which behaves as expected in every environment but "prod", in which case it removes itself.

> conditionals

A number of years ago I used Ruby to experiment with writing a version of fizzbuzz that avoided conditionals entirely, and was purely functional:

https://github.com/pmarreck/ruby-snippets/blob/master/functi...

(I actually regret using currying here because it hurts the portability of the algorithm)

While it may be difficult (if possible) to convert all conditional logic to functional logic in a given algorithm, perhaps a compiler could do the work, if certain patterns emerged.

I'm not a C guy, but I have to wonder if such an algorithm would run faster on Intel or ARM chips by avoiding all branching and branch prediction. Can someone chime in on this?
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Isn't there a law that makes it a crime to knowingly submit false information to the federal government?
"The Norway Problem":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26671136
This is so cool! I hope the author finds time to add tones, too.
funnily enough now h0arseSt@br3bg#terYC0rt5d!t is a terrible password to use ;)
But you can easily disable the ads if you don't like them
Instruction level just-in-time programming
Regardless of bloatware, I don't see how more transistors can indefinitely simulate an increase in processor speed. It seems like it would violate P!=NP or the halting problem or something - as well as being a massive security hole.

This is why gpgpu processing seems like the wave of the future.

Alternatively, human level AI won't come from OpenAI but the final desperate Intel team trying to create a system that anticipates all serial routines the processor can run in parallel.
The real patheticness here is the desire to call a riot with a more politically charged term "coup attempt", just because it pleases you to further vilify your political opponents.

I watched the whole thing live. It was messy at times, but it was clear as day that the mob didn't have neither a plan nor a command structure. Once they got into the chamber, they just chatted with guards! Or, in that shaman's case, just blessed everyone around.
You don't need that.

The branch predictor can select a random branch, so it doesn't even need to actually predict anything. It should use quantum noise so that it has chance of selecting different branches in different copies of the universe. There is noting to compute, quantum or otherwise.

The bomb to destroy the universe will take care of all universes where it made wrong predictions, so that is where we should concentrate our development resources.

It has more utility than just branch prediction. Imagine the bomb going off automatically whenever there starts a war.

Any copy of the universe that starts a war is automatically eliminated and this guarantees that you, as an observer, will never observe any wars.
> buying things in general is bad -- bad for you, bad for the human race, and bad for the environment

Do you mean to qualify this in any way? This is quite the radical statement that I'm not sure how you can reconcile with human existence any time the last X thousand years.
Absolutely, and I certainly don't keep my inverter running when I'm not on board.
No. Should that be a temporary increase until federal benefits run out? Should it go to current employees? What if they're paid different rates, do they suddenly make the same amount?

Even if they increase it to be somewhat more than the government is paying people, you're still competing with them getting income for doing absolutely nothing.

This is all coming from someone that is also getting unemployment. However, it's less than I normally make - significantly so, depending on the week. It's a shame state unemployment systems apparently couldn't cope with a percentage increase rather than a flat number.
Power systems seem to still be available inside the Google Cloud : https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/ibm-sg/...

https://www.google.com/search?q=google+cloud+IBM+power has lots of stuff, including a video from 2 years back about how to fire a Power VM up and use it : //www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0ml4AwewXo

(disclaimer : Ex-googler, involved once upon a time in the project, no current knowledge of status).
Oh no, ridiculous in a good way. Prices in this space can be insane, and high resolution consumer stuff has only been legal for a year or two IIRC.

To answer though, secret wild hog tracking first off if it ends up good enough. Family has property and a nearby asshole running hog hunts with alarming frequency.
> And the exact same proposition for any use of energy.

Obviously not.

Different sources of energy have different externalities, and different uses have different impacts.

> Mind your own uses of energy and leave the market to decide what is really valuable.

The market is made up of people, who make decisions by communicating with one another.

Tellinge people not to discuss what is valuable and what the externalities is a sign you don’t have faith in the market.
I never attacked them personally.

I told my opinion about their work and writing.
But in one case, they are being productive, in the other case, they are not.

I prefer having people on the dole if they are productive rather than sitting at home entertaining themselves at my expense. There is no societal upside to that.
If you turn off personalized ads, that's basically what you'll see.

Although for me, it's a 50/50 split between topic-related and ads that appear to target a generic male audience, which is a very good guess for some topics.
Wow I was about to gush about how much I LOVE my NP compared to my old crappy, braindead MDs. I could share stories of how bad MDs are...and the horrors of insurance.

She is sharp as a whip. Smarter and more motivated than ANY MD I've EVER had. Anything she doesn't know about, she researches (on her own time/dime). She prescribes everything - dirt cheap. Lets me text/call/email ANY time. Refers me to a specialist for anything beyond her expertise (just like any MD would!) DIRT CHEAP (eg: MRI for $300, scheduled within a day or two down the street). A single, cheap, monthly fee ($65/mo!) lets me see her any time day and night, ask anything, discuss as long as I like...and I do all these things! No MD going through standard insurance would allow anything even remotely similar.

...I could go on...

imo the NP model is FAR superior than the traditional insurance+MD crap model we have right now. It's one of those things "they" don't want people learning about since it'll crush the traditional way of doing things once people realize how amazing that model is.

Yes I have basic insurance since it's required. And, just in case - she obviously doesn't have an emergency room.
k8s offers some of the same benefits but not to the same extent because the restarting and state shedding happens at the level of the a container on k8s. On the Erlang VM it happens on a per-process (what Erlang calls coroutines/green-threads/fibers), so rather than losing all state and all requests currently happening in a single instance, you only lose the 1 of potentially millions of processes in your program. This means you can handle failure much more gracefully, and within nanoseconds rather than seconds.

I like to say that Erlang's supervisors are to k8s what k8s is to datacenter failover. Similar things, different level of abstraction.

And yes it's common to use Erlang with k8s, though there is a little redunancy. It's still good for all the other k8s features.
The scandal will be when it turns out their reference was actually a toenail.
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