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So with PoS, we recreate a system where a few rich pool have decision over the network. Can someone enlighten me on how this is different from the current fiat system?
Rockefeller became vastly more wealthy when Standard Oil was broken up.

Same will happen to Bezos, and he'll be the largest share holder of whatever pieces there are.
I'm just surprised people call Electron apps "native" now.
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The question has been answered by Locke

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/11/david-gordon/locke-vs-co...
How correct is the color red? Is it more correct than the color blue?
>Vertical mergers can frequently be welfare-improving to consumers.

As can be horizontal mergers given economies of scale and/or network effects.

It's an interesting area of the law (anti-trust) as it strikes me as one of the few really excellent uses for the heavy hand of the government. Lots of cooks in the kitchen of legislation.

It does grate my ears to hear the word 'consumer' rather than 'citizen' but I suppose it's a natural side effect of a country that is made up of decreasingly self-sufficient individuals.
To be fair, there's a lot more to the "nerd" archetype than just technology. But, from my experience, it was not particularly edgy or differentiating to be passionate about video games, board games, card games, literature, obscure TV, fanfics, internet culture, etc.
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Same, born in 92 and his characterization of being nerdy and young seems super antiquated. “Nerdy” interests don’t make you a social pariah, they transcend groupings all together; the star quarterback plays dnd, the head cheerleader builds robots in her basement, the stigma on having unique or “nerdy” hobbies and interests is mostly gone. When I think of what PG is describing, it’s characterized by poor social skills and bad hygiene.
Handling very low temperatures isn't very hard if the car is designed with that in mind.

It would simply have a small heater and insulation around the battery. A 3 inch thick layer of insulation around the battery should keep the heating power to 10 watts or so to keep the battery at -10*c. A 70kwh battery will last 7000 hours supplying 10 watts, or about a year. Longer if it isn't -50 every day.
I am so used to C inspired syntax with curlies that this seems a bit foreign to me.

Java, javascript, php, C, C++, C#, Typescript, Rust, golang,
Python

I found it fairly easy to pickup syntax since they had many similarities with each other. How to represent functions, assignments, if/for/while seems quite consistent.

I found Arturo quite hard to grasp and make sense of.
Current system is no different, as the hash power is related to how many computers you can afford to buy.

This doesn't fix the problem but it does fix the environmental impact.
Somebody posted my post which sums up my experience a while ago[0]. In short: No regret, just make sure you are not building something that can be done twice faster with an existing Ruby library or so. But for a long-term team project, I would prefer Elixir codebase.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26702222
PG gets dunked on on Twitter for defending Antonio Garcia Martinez but he knows he's right even though everyone is making fun of him so his natural defense mechanism is to go back and create an elaborate framework to prove he's right and it's just that nobody else can see he's right.

You see, AGM isn't a misanthrope misogynist, he's fierce! He says the things everyone else is afraid to say and thinks the things everyone else is too afraid to think because he's an Unconventional Thinker (TM). Everyone else is simply just too threatened to acknowledge this and that's why they're bullying PG.
> fairness, Linux GUI toolkits suck a lot

Well, this is GTK password manager https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/PasswordSafe - UI works really well, use it every day.

Guess GTK will be much more popular 'cause Qt LTS going to be proprietary.
They have an incentive to not mess around.
If this is a personal project, go ahead and try it. See what you think.

If this is a project for a company, then look at the intersection of what they have in-house expertise in running and maintaining and what you know well, and use that. Probably going to be Ruby on Rails if that's your usual thing.
I've noticed as I myself get older that a lot of things that older people used to say, which seemed particularly out of touch then, are actually starting to make some amount of sense to me. I even find myself repeating some of those things. However, I try to be careful to temper that with my memories of hearing them from older folks when I was young. I think part of the disconnect is/was that older people actually do forget what it was like to be young or how they thought/felt when they were young. I'd suspect that's what's going on in OP's mind - he's mostly forgotten the trials and tribulations of youth (maybe even defensively blocked out some of the traumatic memories) and to him it doesn't even make sense for an older person to remember how important social interactions are to teenagers.
I'm currently learning Elixir and I'm loving it. I'm in that got 30% of my app written in it place.

I may or may not regret using it in the big picture (libraries, esoteric ness, performance, a 5th language/platform in our soup of tech we use to solve our problem, etc, and who knows) eventually; it's too early for me to tell.

But I wont regret learning Elixir. There's a certain zen in the "ah so you're a programmer, eh? But can you do it without any references/pointers or for loops, huh?" This from a guy who spent 20 solid years as an "objects all the way down" smalltalker, and does a lot of multi paradigm hybrid Python/Kotlin/Swift these days with a bunch of C as well.

What I really noticed last week when I did a day of Python after a week of Elixir is how much time I spend in other languages writing branch logic code. Code where you decide what direction your code should go next. Should it do this or that now. Or if it should optionally do that. I'm writing an order of magnitude less of that code (it moves to a more orthogonal place in multi function matching) in Elixir. It's stretching me and I'm learning new ways of seeing things that ultimately make me a better programmer; the slack channel has been really nice.

I tried Haskell to try and get the taste for pure functional a year ago; it did not go anywhere near as well as this.
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It says the split for performance versus efficiency cores will be:

- 20 total, 16 high performance, 4 efficiency

- 40 total, 32 high performance, 8 efficiency

Which is kind of interesting given that the 8 core M1 is split half/half at 4 high performance, 4 efficiency.

Sounds like perhaps MacOS doesn't typically have more than 4 cores worth of low-priority work, regardless of the system size/workload?
Is it different from the current PoW system?
One way to automate list population would be to identify the established journals in each field and use number of citations of each individual's papers. Generally if someone is competent everyone else in their field will be paying attention to what they're saying and this is one way to check that.
> I am an economist and that is my field. I disagree with your take

Maybe economists need to get a new take cause this shit is obviously ridiculous

EDIT: see the already pending antitrust litigation against Amazon in EU and US
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Thanks for your answer!

> I can't tell whether this is supposed to be sneaky self-promotion or a real question,

Real one. I make research to carry on my development and producing of own cover.

> MacBooks have camera indicators - they can be bypassed, but give a sense of security to most people

Green indicator is not a guarantee. Please, read this article https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36569

- A hard-plastic cover is likely just as cheap but has no limited lifespan

It's true. But hard-plastic cover has significant disadvantages.

> A hard-plastic cover is, by the looks of it, easier to use

Ease of usage must be the same.

> Some people just don't care

Yes, but only some people. Where is the rest part of people? :)

> Finally, your website says that 50 people ordered today. Unless that's a marketing scam, it sounds like people _are_ buying your product.

This is "marketing scam". But this is not to deceive people. Just for test one more hypothesis about our customers behaviour.
Apple doesn't do modular
Fellow climber here.

First, congrats on launching your products, and also congrats on chasing innovation in this area.

After reading through parts of your website and product descriptions, I have a few comments and questions.

"use less chalk" <- this is good. It certainly gets my attention. One of my reasons to pay the premium of Friction Labs chalk is exactly that, and the extra friction I get from it compared with other chalks.

As for your revolutionary crystal chalk, I am less convinced.

First, it looks like it replaces magnesium with silica. I'm inferring this from comparing the ingredients lists on your 2 chalk creams. Not ideal.

Second, you say it doesn't leave residue on the holds. How is that so? Is there zero dust/powder?

Third, have you performed tests to know the real impact your product will have on skin, lungs (we breath it, after all), and holds, especially on the many different kinds of rocks, but also on plastic indoor holds? Will it react with the rock or plastic, perhaps altering its qualities, or eroding it? Perhaps it will make it more polished, which could render entire routes unclimbable - remember pof? How does it compare with normal chalk?

Fourth, does your regular white chalk cream also hold the promises of using less, preserving holds, better friction, etc?

Finally, is the clear cream really chalk [0]? If not (it doesn't seem to have any actual chalk in the formulation), then I feel lied to and that erodes my confidence in your company and product.

Please don't take any of this as blunt criticism. I hope it gives you insight into how to communicate better and wish you success!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk
Talking about tomatoes, highly recommend watching this episode of Growing a Greener World.

https://www.growingagreenerworld.com/episode-803-epic-tomato...

https://www.craiglehoullier.com/resources-videos-etc
As far as I can tell, Google have the power to essentially end web bloat at one stroke: introduce severe Google ranking penalties for bloated pages. Websites would soon get the message and cut down on bloat.

Presumably the reason Google doesn't do this is that they'd have to punish many of the most popular websites, which might be seen as damaging the quality of their search results (at least in the short term).
Do you really want that? When a streaming service reboots a classic, you end up with:

1. The plot is pretty thin and always involves a twist. That the twist happens is predictable, and so the contents of the twist become more and more ridiculous to try to reclaim unpredictability.

2. Every episode is a cliff hanger in service of the twist from #1.

3. Unnecessary lewdness means you can't enjoy it with your kids.

4. It probably won't contain the things that made you enjoy the original. What even is fan service if a large number of the fans hate it?
Here's an example teardown: https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/iUejB4OfKlPD4Fex.hug...

The heat pipe is the part just above and to the left of the fan.
The difference is that with PoW you constantly have to do "stuff" (ie. buying equipment, running datacenters) or get left behind. PoS on the other hand you can just sit on your ass and wait for the $$$ to roll in.
Thanks for your answer. Why don't you care?
The connection is that once Zionism was an actual threat and Jews were trying to get the whole of Palestine, and massacres started on both sides, Muslims around the world took the side of their "brothers" in the "war".
> Indeed, this is why vertical mergers are harder to regulate than horizontal mergers. The welfare effects are not obvious ex ante. This has a decent chance to be pro-consumer. I don’t see any reason for the FTC to object to this on antitrust grounds.

I'm curious how this could possibly turn out to be anything but anti-consumer.

I'm sure that in general and in the past there can be and have been welfare-improving vertical mergers. But this particular one seems questionable.

> What job do you want the FTC to do here?

I would like them to carefully and thoroughly evaluate the welfare effects of this merger, and block the merger if it's not obviously welfare-improving, and not in the Kaldor-Hicks sense.
> The interaction with copyright invariably creates issues for the end-consumer, which is why consumers in the media ecosystem are often better off when distributors and producers are separate.

And addressing it via enforcing separate distributors and producers allows the copyright issue (the real issue) to go unchecked, since politically, it’s harder to attack it as a problem.

It might even be politically necessary for people to feel the pain before we can get back to decent copyright lengths.
If their typical deal price is X,XXX or XX,XXX then XXX is "not worth their time". Most likely they are not even allowed to do smaller deals if they are outright ignoring you.
> Talking to people, let alone selling, turns out to be extremely hard for me.

Recognizing weaknesses is a terrific leadership trait.

So, this is a WHO problem.

Essentially, Who can take on the public facing role of evangelizing, marketing, and selling your product?

At this stage, assuming you’re bootstrapping —- Look for individuals you can trust, (people you might afford) with non-traditional backgrounds.
Essentially we've written an engine which renders the YAML / JSON as a React app. So the backend serves the json config to the frontend which renders and interprets the app at runtime. There are 3 parts to the front-end, operators - which executes page logic, engine - which evaluates all page blocks, and renderer - which renders the components using react. The logic executes in a recursive loop, so if you look at the renderer [0] or operators [1] code it's actually quite simple. The engine part is a little more complex, but thats written in pure js, so it's easy to test.

All of this talks to a stateless node backend [3] which talks external connections or data sources.

> Are exported projects cloud host agnostic?

Yes. Open-source and self-hosted. We run apps on Netlify (with functions), Serverless, Docker etc. We'll probably include a static build version which will allow to host a Lowdefy app as a static site. The docs is also just a Lowdefy app, so we can easily make it interactive [4] and autogenerate much it from a JSONSchema.

[0] - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy/tree/main/packages/render...

[1] - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy/tree/main/packages/operat...

[2] - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy/tree/main/packages/engine

[3] - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy/tree/main/packages/graphq...

[4] - https://docs.lowdefy.com/ButtonSelector
YT videos often don't do well on HN, and in this case it's a shame because this is an interesting look at the many ways this dam spillway failed.

He has a lot of great videos on his channel too.
I've been through this and can definitely offer some advice, assuming you are pursuing a partnership:

- Buy a domain for your email and have a website; the website can just claim it's "coming soon" and look modern and promising.

- Ensure your email is personalized and targeted, and include direct propositions to how you will increase revenue or decrease cost or offer growth — something, anything — to the company. Super short cold emails don't work as well for startups in my experience.

- Address your emails to everyone relevant you can find, but surprisingly, C-level execs appear more likely to respond than lower-level people. They'll often forward your email to the most relevant person who will then feel obligated to reply and hear you out.

- Once in meetings, your advantage as an early startup is your flexibility. Know what you're capable of, and then listen well. Tell them what they want to hear as long as you're capable of building it and it's worth it to get them on board.

If you want to talk further on this, let me know and I can send you an email if you put it in your HN profile, and good luck!
Wasn’t Casper going to do this like four years ago? They have been talking about moving to PoS forever now. It still hasn’t happened.
Can you show the difference with a competitor live?

Then have both options near you and demonstrate the difference. If it's good, watch feedback from people and iterate on your sales talk.

Talking about it is step 1.
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I see that you're hiring. Are the positions remote as well or strictly London?
As Graham says, the difference between fierce and bitter is success. And given that, in a very competitive environment, the difference between success and failure is largely luck...
> It's weird to read an "essay" about "nerds" from a 56 year old. It's like he never got over the high school caste system of cliques.

“Nerds” being a meaningful category isn’t an idea limited to high-school caste/cliques, especially in tech; one of the reasons software flipped from being predominantly female to predominantly male is the popularization of the idea (IIRC, in the late 1960s or early 1970s) that stereotypical nerds (socially maladapted, querulous, technophilic males) were the optimal workers in the field.

The idea, which best as I know was only grounded in thin popular management quasi-science, has become increasingly less popular in the last few decades.

It is weird, though, that Graham’s affected contrarianism requires him to pretend that fierceness as opposed to diffidence is contrary to the popular stereotype, nerds lacking the skills to manage/moderate conflict manifesting in both conflict avoidance where they are uncomfortable and fierce, intractable, often petty conflict within their comfort zone has always been central to the stereotype.
Adding a bunch of tiny cores to an SOC is easy. What’s much harder is writing the software to make use of them.
> The key to a hydrogen economy will rely on wasting energy on creation of hydrogen in locations with extremely abundant electricity.

Honestly, this sounds just as bad as setting up bitcoin mines in places with high rates of renewables, to avoid directly throwing tons of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Even if you have loads of clean energy, that's no reason to waste it when there are more efficient ways of using it (lithium batteries, PoS).

Not to mention the fact that every watt of wasted green energy can't used to replace a watt of coal energy.
While I myself stay with Bitcoin, Ethereum still has lots of advantages compared to the fiat system: it's still open source, and people can still validate the rules (although that full validation is extremely hard).

Also the current fiat system is debt based, which means that the vast majority of money is printed by banks and the money printing power is at the highest ranking sales person, and hidden.
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Shuttle had solid-fuel boosters and hypergolic thrusters for on-orbit maneuvering. The Delta IV Heavy, on the other hand, is a fully hydrogen-powered rocket: three common cores, with an RL10-powered upper stage. It also launched the Parker Solar Probe, which has been doing rounds around the sun for a while now.
If I as a user think one thing is better than the other, does it make it automatically the more correct one? Unless you design doesn’t serve the purpose of a product but for yourself to feel better when compared to other designers.
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True, but this isn't vertical integration of delivery/production like the AT&T / Time Warner merger. Thank god AT&T is exactly as incompetent as we all thought they were. There's nothing to see here. Amazon is just expanding their existing footprint in a market segment where they are barely afloat.
Note that due to various deals back in the 80's, MGM doesn't own most of its older films, Warner Bros does. They do have the entire United Artists catalogue, and films from some other smaller studios like Orion pictures.
Electrons are more energy dense than hydrogen unfortunately you need a heavy battery to store and use them properly.

However hydrogen needs high pressure tanks and fuels cells to store and use it properly so there is basically no energy density advantage right now in a car, both fuel cells and batteries are increasing in energy density due to R&D not sure which will win out it the end. My current opinion is batteries are simpler in every way and have good enough energy density.

All the current cars also need a lithium buffer battery because the fuel cell can not put out enough burst power nor do regenerative braking.
Even though we’re a Bitwarden family, I’m happy to see other password managers supporting Linux, the world needs more native Linux support in their applications!

Edit: not too happy about electron, but it’s still a step in the right direction for the common folk who use Ubuntu and aren’t the most tech savvy and just don’t care
To repeat myself in another post here, copyright is a funny thing in that it proposes a form of monopoly, just on the small scale.

I think it's hard to avoid the conclusion that increasingly strong copyright holders (given all of the media mergers) implies increasingly strong copyright law.

Add that to the expanding ability of parsing for copyright violations and I can imagine the Disney Police parachuting in to arrest you for that counterfeit Micky Mouse watch 150 years after Steamboat Willie.
I just use pass: https://www.passwordstore.org/
You mean bitwarden?
It's not pronounced as 'yen' anymore, but it was in the past. Some of the historical kana that are not commonly used anymore, such as ゐ、ゑ used to express sounds that are not distinguished anymore, but were retained in historical orthography for a while.

It seems ゑ 'we' was pronounced 'ye' in the past (It seems え also was, at least in the middle ages, hence old forms such as Yedo for Edo 江戸)

Nowadays, ゐ is pronounced 'i' and ゑ as 'e', so words that were written with them now just use い and え instead.

ゐ、ゑ became most relegated to bring an 'antiquated' look. Think Yebisu (ヱビス) beer, written with ヱ, the katakana equivalent of ゑ, that also kept the archaism in the romanization, as Yen did. So ヱビス or ゑびす are read as 'Ebisu' even if written with the archaic kana

But some Ainu and Okinawan orthographies have adopted their used (in case of Ainu only the katakana variants, I believe)

を 'wo' (but really pronounced 'o') nowadays is only used as the 'direct object particle', but it was used in words like をとこ (男 man). As it ceased to sound different from お, subsequent orthographic reforms also removed it from use except in the particle function.
Its price will also tumble 99% .

People motives to get into crypto are clear. They want to subtract themselves from government policy of constantly printing money. BTC takes care of that and it's a 14 years brand which is extremely politically expensive to make illegal

On the other hand people are perfectly satisfied with their experience on Youtube, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Ebay, JPMorgan etc. which are the entities which Ethereum aims to disrupt