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> Bitcoin can be purchased/sold P2P without counterparty or exchange custody risk.

By definition, you can't exchange Bitcoin for dollars without counterparty risk. Technically you can exchange it over-the-counter or with some guy in a shady alley, but few are willing to do this.

> Real estate/company resale market isn't as liquid as bitcoin's and they are not immune from catastrophic failure, degradation over time, or agency related downside risks. Also, ever tried selling a $200M home/company on a Saturday at 2am?

True, real estate isn't as liquid, but compared to stock, you can live in it and may have some tax advantages. You can have stocks and real estate, you don't really need Bitcoin in the picture.

> You are trying to separate the unique combination of properties bitcoin has and individually address them with an alternate asset. The real work you have to do is find an asset with all of the valuable properties mentioned, working in unison, that also wins the hardest money contest. Unfortunately, you can't and that's why bitcoin wins as a store of value, especially over a long time horizon.

I'm looking at it from an investment perspective, because you are arguing that all the billionaires are going to "ape in". Bitcoin may have all these properties and still be not interesting as a large allocation. The "hardest money contest" doesn't matter, because holding money is not the point of investment.

> Price action and growing depth of market proves that.

Price action doesn't prove anything. Bitcoin can still drop 10+% in a single day.
Netherlands is the 2nd largest argricultural exporter [1], and has heavy factory animal farming that are all fed farmed crops. Very little grazing for meat animals.

[1] https://www.deheus.com/articles/news/the-netherlands-are-alm...
Oh I get the logic all right, but I imagine the transition is a pretty sensitive topic that can be difficult for some family members or acquaintances. And this kind of vocabulary (death-related) in this context sounds like an odd choice.

But that's just a thought, I have no idea how it feels to transition and what kind of emotions are involved. Maybe it's more definitive that way, acting like the former identity does not "live" anymore.
I'd say it's a possible manifestation of self-interest, but that it isn't always self-interest. There are people that hurt others without any apparent self-interest. When it gets out of control, we call them sociopaths or psychopaths. But that's a minor point.

My point was more that the dichotomy stupidity vs. malice seems to imply that e.g. playing music, or having dinner is either stupid or bad. Many things get done out of self-interest without being malicious, or without malicious intent.
I think you're giving them a lot more credit than is due. they are merely puppets poorly acting out situations scripted by people who do understand how to market their products
"I don't think more than a small handful of adults and certainly no kids ever held my status against me."

Seeing how kids diss kids with old iPhones or even shoes, I have a hard time to believe that.
> Standing their ground and refusing to succumb to blackmail is not the same as retaliation.

Lol, that is the most backward fanboy reading of that sentence possible.
I don't think that people experiencing racism have "surrogate adversity", but I can certainly relate to the general notion. I've "struggled" with this because I too had no "real" adversity in life and people like some greek philosophers and Nietzsche put adversity into their centre of attention. I'm convinced that sometimes, people just get hurt by adversity without any advantages later on. It’s also perverse to think that the pain serves a kind of purpose, it justifies an extremely toxic and abusive mindset. If it happens and you can grow from it - that's wonderful. But it should never be used as an excuse to do harm or to endure abusive situations, especially if the abusers are using this kind of narrative.
This is absolutely not true in most countries. Where I practice you can get into big trouble for this. You have do declare pharma affiliations, cannot accept sponsorship and the age of junkets through drug companies is long in the past.

I could be deregistered if I was found to be accepting anything (travel, hotels, conferences) and not declaring it
All of those examples boil down to making technology more accessible for the millions or billions of less technologically savvy people.

Indeed, anyone with the knowledge would overlook a lot of these. They're not revolutionary on a technical or individual level, but they are on a social level.
I love that something that basically clones what "dd" can do is ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR MEGABYTES. And people just accept that as normal. dd is 76k

Imagine if the binary is 128MB how big the source code repo must be.
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This is pushing "notify and staydown", and if anyone thinks youtube's current copyright takedown system is over-broad this will be even worse. A whole new category of things you'll be rejected at the upload phase.
Sure. But even with that plant we depend on fossil fuels. So it is clearly not a complete option.
Is there a quality of life tipping point at which you would rather never have been born? If you were offered a life consisting entirely of pain and suffering, would you accept that?

If the quality of life is *not* an issue, we could logically maintain that we are morally obliged to maximise the number of beings brought into life -- however short and horrible that life may be -- because any form of existence is preferable to non-existence.

If quality of life *is* an issue, we should strive not to bring beings into existence that are likely to have a particularly low quality of life. The suffering of factory farmed animals may be great enough to say it would be better that they never existed rather than they were born into a short life of imprisonment and suffering.
I tried it (and some clones) and for whatever reason both me and my partner get a bloated stomach from it. Very likely not a mental thing as I get this too from Saitan but actually like stuff like quorn or well done tofu.

On the other side I know many of the cows I eat, I don't think they actually suffer other than dying too early.
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That's a very fair point, thank you!
To me, the rich people bigging up high tax policies and heavy regulations feels like they're intentionally pulling up the ladder from behind them.
There's actually a lot of "Kardashian-like" people out there these days.

People literally throw money at girls talking to a camera, taking photos of themselves and their lives and/or playing games.

I still don't quite understand why :D
Fromage de tête in French, if you can get over the idea of it, it's well worth trying it. When it's well made with good quality ethically sourced meat (we used to do the same and buy a pig with neighbours and then process it), it's super tasty.
That's understandable, thank you!
I'm currently dealing with explaining why we should at least try and understand Stephen Wolfram's "a project to find the fundamental theory of physics".

It is a very unconventional view certainly and one which I suspect many "reasonable" experts from the field might term a crackpot idea. But Stephen Wolfram is an expert himself and so I suppose Paul Graham's test stands.
If I search for “buy new running shoes” I’d rather get the best search results, not the highest paid for.

I’m pretty sure there are better criteria for those results than the amount of money paid to end up in that list.

But alas, that’s not what modern search engines use, because they are advertisers first and foremost. Not reputable search providers anymore.
This is easily explained by a combination of past experience (SARS), Chinese dictatorship (Western countries can’t realistically solder people into their homes), hubris (“our medical system is so good that we could easily handle a pandemic”), wokeism (locking borders is evil) and scientific failures in medicine (if it’s not proven by randomised controlled trials, it doesn’t exist). Add a bit of political infighting in the mix (which presumably doesn’t exist in China) and ...
That's interesting advice, thanks!
Not really 'tracking' is it?
Ghost and Wordpress aren't free. Medium is.
Also I think you need to add a trap to make sure the processes exit on ^C.
That's excellent advice, thanks!
Google the concept of the gentleman's B. if you show up, most teachers will take pity and not fail you even if you are subpar on your tests.

i dont know what trauma you went through at iowa state university's calc 3 hazing but I personally pulled the patrician move and graduated with a degree in history, only to get a job programming straight away anyway.

leetcode, system design, and book knowledge questions about java will forever be more manageable than a compilers class or multivariable calculus, for purposes of making enough money to live a middle class life without burning out
I thought the AppStore didn't allow apps that download videos from YouTube:

>5.2.3 Audio/Video Downloading: Apps should not facilitate illegal file sharing or include the ability to save, convert, or download media from third-party sources (e.g. Apple Music, YouTube, SoundCloud, Vimeo, etc.) without explicit authorization from those sources.

So either they have permission from YouTube, or will be promptly removed from the store....
> Then there is the embedded space where almost 40 years later trying to use C++ instead of C is still an uphill battle, between embedded development communities, tool vendors

And why do you think this is so?

When I was starting with embedded development I missed C++ as I felt compelled to reinvent same things that were given in C++.

But then I grew up to learn there is a hefty price to pay for it and in embedded development those problems are blown due to properties of the environment and types of projects you build.

It is one thing for a game to be constantly crashing and it is another if this is happening to an embedded device.

When you develop embedded code it is way more important to understand exact consequences of your actions and C++ is trying to hide those from you as much as possible.

There are also other requirements like being able to easily ascertain the amount of stack used, ability to use exclusively statically allocated memory, etc. that are conflicting with C++ or at least making it difficult to enforce them in C++.

I am very happy to see Rust is overtaking C++ in embedded and is an answer to C problems without creating (too many) of its own.
Your wage is payed from that insurance, so it makes sense that you pay accordingly to what you earn.
Unfortunately you have to accept full surveillance mode (including which websites you visit) to run the required Windows 10 Insiders Dev version of Windows to test this.
Yes, it was certainly prized because of its high calorie content and relative scarcity compared to today, when one can have a virtually unlimited supply. That's why it tastes good.
Well, yes and no.

You can add any website to your home screen. Most behave like mere shortcuts.

Unless the web app chooses to tell you that doing so will make it persist on your device, there’s just no way for the average user to know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
To be clear, the scientist is not quoted as calling it a conspiracy theory, that is the wording of the author of the article.

The scientist provides a scientific explanation (“Recombination is naturally very, very frequent in these viruses, there are recombination breakpoints in the spike protein and these codons appear unusual exactly because we’ve not sampled enough.”).
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I don't know why you were downvoted into the grey zone. I don't entirely agree with your points about Big Pharma finding needy patients instead of doctors prescribing based on professional experience (though there's still plenty of room for bias there too) but overall, fully agreed, the pharmaceutical industry is a wonderful thing on the whole, and while it gets a lot of knee-jerk hatred from too many people, i'd love to see somebody suggest something practically better (as opposed to ideally better based on their limitless dreams of a perfect world).
New Zealand English (through Māori influence) has this, in names like Ngaire and places like Ngaio. This said, a lot (perhaps most, though it'll be regional I expect) of speakers will pronounce it as though the 'g' isn't present.
It seems that content platforms are cought between a rock and hard place here

That’s because they chose to use technology to push growth above all other concerns. They’ve reached such a scale that it’s not feasible for humans to moderate the content users are posting. This is a problem of each platform’s own making.

We need to move the law forward now.

That’s one position. Another one is to argue that not every business model has a right to exist. These days I tend to find myself leaning towards the latter. I think we walk a dangerous road when we give too much power (and too little responsibility) to big tech companies like Google.
While not as efficient as if we'd eat that grain directly, it doesn't seem terribly inefficient, and it may reduce the number of individuals that need to be born & die. (Of course under a stark analysis of whether to have cattle at all, the conclusion could be different, so the question is what analysis you're using this info for). Anyway, if on top of that you subscribe to the hypothesis that grain is not good for human health, grain-finishing may do net good.
Out parameters are a welcomed feature of all memory safe systems programming languages, only missed from C and BCPL.

C++ references surely are safer than pointer that can point to whatever they feel like and aren't initialized to any safe value.

There is a difference between being 100% fully safe, which they aren't, and being safer than plain unsafe pointers Assembly style.
At least that's an independent ranking (I presume?)

Plus you can go watch TV and see that it's actually been on there. Or walk down the street, or pick up a newspaper.
Yes, I agree that the price is a very big factor for mass adoption.
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Why so many hates from developers who never used or helped building Audacity ?
Some corporations put up a mixture of Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays signage/messaging etc.

Christian persecution complex hustlers—and Fox News etc. seeking outraged eyeballs—took the existence of people saying "Happy Holidays" as an attack on them because "Jesus is the reason for the season" and then unreasonably inferred that somehow people were banned from saying "Merry Christmas".

This led to some very entitled people shouting "It's 'Merry Christmas' actually!" at some underpaid cashier in Walmart because they'd been led to believing that saying Happy Holidays was a form of religious persecution and an attack on their faith.

For a British example, recall the story of "Winterval", where an attempt by a city council to come up with a brand name to cover a series of events including Diwali, Christmas, New Years and so on that was used in addition to "Christmas" led to a full out culture war where the press misrepresented the whole thing as somehow replacing Christmas due to "political correctness". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterval
But it could be similar to the case where Target was able to targets ads to women who did not even know they were pregnant.

In this case, the above commenter could be doing things signaling that he may need a will soon due to diseases or life situation that he is not aware of. Or he/she has looked into content similar to those people in need. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wow, 1.5 years of bearing such daily situations, that is something I find impressive given the anecdotes you described. I would probably not have lasted than long in such an environment.

Good for you to leave that place at last. Hope you found a much more better environment!
It is very easy to understand. People like Bill Gates who is a big investor in artificial meta are lobbing for normal eat and fish to be banned one way or another.

That it, people eating the way they always had eaten have other people wanting to force them to do something. That triggers reaction in the opposite sense.

Those technologies should prosper on its own, and they will be if they are cheaper or more nutritious. Over time they will.

It is like illustration ideas in Spain. People that read were accepting those ideas on their own until Napoleon came and wanted to impose the ideas by force. The reaction against the invader made those ideas(and the people that supported them) not only to not to prosper but go back(and the people expelled from the country), because they were the ideas of the invaders.

I love technology, and as entrepreneur and engineer have always managed innovation. I believe it it the future, but because I know innovation well I also know the drawbacks.

Early products tend to have bugs on them. When we create something knew I expect those like Elon expects their new rockets to explode. When those bugs are related to health it means people die.

And we don't really know what those bugs are. The world in incredibly complex. For example autism or cancer, leukemia, and allergies in young people are skyrocketing.

We know it is related to microorganisms in the gut and we also know that we are killing those microorganism like fungus, bacteria and virus that were beneficial to humans.

We started spraying roundup and other products thinking the world was super simple. And it is not, eliminating all insects, fungus and bacteria that were with us for millions of years will have consequences and secondary effects we could not predict.

Over time all our food will be grown indoors and cultured bacteria will do everything for us like cotton, vaccines or paper. But trying to accelerate the progress by coercion could backfire.
Franz is still in this space, although it uses tabbed views for each service: https://meetfranz.com/
> but the ongoing externalities and subsidies for fossil fuels are already extremely expensive to society

Not really, that’s why it’s an externality. The damage in the US caused by climate change is maybe a few billion annually in increased hurricanes right now. That’s only like $10/person a year.

This is why it requires getting people to understand the future damage that will be caused. What’s happening now isn’t enough to justify doubling electricity costs, etc because most citizens aren’t feeling any pain from climate change.

> the costs in terms of healthcare and QALYs just due to air pollution alone are tremendous.

CO2 != “air pollution” in the sense that causes health problems.
If you're only paying for conversions then you should be OK, but paying for clicks is still very common no?
At the time I commented to the post, it was marked as "Show HN: WinBox – just like Windows, but for the web", implying the submitter was the project's author making sweeping claims about the software. The title has since had "Show HN" removed (had it been like that, I would not have written my original comment that way), and the inaccurate tagline removed as well.

Arguably I tend to be not only perfectionist and detail-oriented (whether on important or unimportant details), but even pedantic, or quick to judge, at times. Nonetheless I do not appreciate being having my writing called "mean spirited" or a "toxic culture".
Sun already does desalination at the scale. Just create shadows over mountains to collect all this water at winter.
I don't have any real data to prove my point but I think that many people would not like to watch how a cow is killed and transformed into steak. But nobody has problem watching as someone picks apples from a tree, or how a press creates olive oil.
Those code samples make me want to Ctrl+A and "Reformat Code".

I know it's personal and trivial but I struggle to get past niggles like this when first encountering a new tool.
> and server side.

Cool story.
They did have the experience with SARS1. And if you look at other countries that had experience with SARS1 they also acted very swiftly and did fairly well - Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.

What I found absolutely baffling is that we in west saw what China was doing and haven't got our shit together until months later (with exceptions). Instead the discourse was about how much the Chinese eat unsavory things and how much pollution is there so it wouldn't be the same if it got here at all.
Has everyone forgotten the OxyContin scandal? Or are we just all grateful that Big Pharma has saved us from the pandemic that we're going to overlook the past specific, illegal, actions of pharmaceutical marketing?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/

> When Purdue Pharma introduced OxyContin in 1996, it was aggressively marketed and highly promoted. Sales grew from $48 million in 1996 to almost $1.1 billion in 2000.1 The high availability of OxyContin correlated with increased abuse, diversion, and addiction, and by 2004 OxyContin had become a leading drug of abuse in the United States.
> I also guess his main concern with Flash was, that he couldn't control the proprietary plattform.

Oh, the irony.
It's totally possible to have one party diagnose and another prescribe.
Yes and mighty will keep increasing prices as the developers can now ship any horribly optimized thing.

Mighty can succeed yes, but it's success would be bad for the ecosystem.

Centralized processing of all computing, would just make current issues like censorship, security issues worse.
And that's why I am not claiming I know C++.

Don't get me wrong, I can read the code, debug it and correct it.

But in C++ being able to read the code and understanding consequences of every single line of it are completely different things.

There is just so much magic involved that no one ever can claim they fully know C++ and if they do I can safely and provably call them liars and find something they will not be able to explain.
This. Why is this the case?
Not only that but you can just use a different browser.
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Yours is not the comment I was replying to.

Perhaps I misread, but the parent seems horrified at the idea that users should get to know they are downloading something and that such knowledge would supposedly ruin native apps adoption.

I was merely pointing out that it already is, albeit partially, the case, and yet said apps are quite popular.
You’re exactly right. Google resists hiring human moderators at every turn. I think they (reasonably) believe that it’s a slippery slope. As soon as they agree to moderate in some narrow part of their business then people will use that as a precedent to argue they should moderate elsewhere. At the end of this road is a place with so much moderation that their business model is no longer viable.

We as a society have some difficult questions to face over the coming years. Do we want to surrender control over our lives to algorithms owned entirely by big tech companies?