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> So does this confirm that what you're claiming is not applicable in the US?

In the US, yes. But there is no reason similar laws couldn't be enacted in the US.

> Non-competes are a different animal from transferring ownership over IP.

They're an example of a right that you cannot waive or sell. So an example of the law annulling a private contract, meaning that there is precedent for this proposed change - the law could be written so that simply selling this proposed new right is impossible, just as you cannot sell your right to work at a competing business.
So why does the buck stop with government then? If enough of us agree that a law should be passed then why not just pass the law? Seems way easier to just make a rule than try to individually convince everyone.
> they have no other options

This isn’t really true and should not motivate us to value desperation. Survivorship bias prevents us from hearing the voices of those who chose the final solution to desperation.
Lol. Yes you are, of course, correct.

What I should have said is the Product Manager at Google in charge of the extensions for Chrome is asleep at the wheel.
>I wonder how much of these "subsidies" are actually tax abatements as opposed to a handout?

Is there a difference? Money is fungible so there's really no difference between a $1M check from the government and $1M in tax abatements.
Is there a clear definition of self-doubt that doesn’t overlap with underconfidence? Because if the terms we’re using are so broad that a person can both be described as overconfident and underconfident, then as I say elsewhere this just looks like cold reading.
I have. My whole team at once? Not really.

Unless management is really vigilant, when people are working overtime everyone on the team feels pressure to do the same.
Their graphs show a huge increase in energy consumption for both Bitcoin and Ethereum since January 2021. Why? What happened recently?
This reduces security considerably. Fundamentally, the proof of work system locks in longer chains because of all the work that was done historically. If there is just one honest node out there you will be able to tell the difference between the honest one and a majority of fakes. With proof of stake there is nothing beyond the will of the current majority to lock in what is right. If you feel the majority is always right, and you'd be comfortable with the majority being able to re-write all of the history of the ownership of your currency, that is fine. I do not feel I can trust the majority to be correct every minute or every day forever.
* Its a technically flawed solution that now has so much hype, abandoning the idea would lead to further FUD, tarnishing the project's future direction. So we must go through the motions to appease the energy FUD warriors.
Right.. they keep them in secure web browser wallets... (
Some writing on this: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-data-centers-fail-t...
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Rails is very productive but it has problems of its own. Many companies move away from Rails once they reach certain growth milestones.

Erlang (and by extension Elixir) is a concurrent language. You use it when you have non-trivial concurrency challenges. When tackling the right problems, the language shines.

Implementing a simple CRUD application with Elixir is overkill, because you can make your servers stateless and delegate most of the concurrency problems to the database.
I taught base-10 to my kids (pre school, ie 3/4) by teaching them the concept of number bases, and considering aliens with different numbers of fingers ... and robots of course (my robots only speak binary!). Seemed to work somewhat.

Mind you, despite having relatively good teaching in mainstream UK schooling they could all definitely have done/do with more headroom in their school maths.
$20 is a little high. ETH transactions are variable cost; more complex transactions cost more. In order to get the price of a simple transfer you can take the current gas price (for example, from https://ethgasstation.info/index.php), which is 87 right now, multiply that by 21000 (cost in gas of a transfer) and divide that by 1 billion. So a transfer costs 0.001827 ETH or ~$6 if you want to happen within a few minutes.

So yes, it's currently not practical for microtransactions.
This certainly seems like an unnecessarily oppressive stance to take, all effectively at the whim of your own personal aesthetics.

There are tons of things that people do that I might deem not worth the environmental impact, like flying a hundred thousand miles a year for business, or eating beef, or driving to work every day, or having bigger houses and lawns than they need. Seems kind of arbitrary to allow most wasteful things that people do but draw a line at being able to participate in a certain kind of blockchain. The per-person impact of holding and transacting with bitcoin is not egregiously high compared to all the other things people do in their day to day life.

And based on ethereum's move here, perhaps people are starting to vote with their wallets anyway and such dramatic limiting measures aren't needed?
> Almost 200 dead in days. If you call that restraint, I think it's you who's gone off the deep end. Restraint would be doing nothing because barely anything has been done to you. Or shooting 10 Palestinian freedom fighters. That would be restraint. Firing missiles into a populated city isn't restraint.

It's totally reasonable to attack your enemy with the intent of crippling their capabilities of harming you. Standard fare in any conflict. Doing that when the enemy is using their own population as a human shield and only having 200 casualties is an achievement of sorts.

> Surely you jest. Those fireworks do almost nothing. A single Israeli missile is more deadly than 3000 Hamas rockets, so you have it backwards.

Thank God they only have rockets and not the military power of the IDF. I'm pretty sure they'd use those nukes if they had them. As I said there's a big power imbalance here. But it's not the effectiveness of the attacks that determine their morality.

> No you don't. Quit the propaganda.

I don't appreciate you calling my feelings propaganda or claiming to understand my state of mind better than me. Both ridiculous claims.

> How is defending yourself terrorism?

The IDF only attacked them after they fired 500 rockets at Israeli cities, an act of terror in every sense of the definition. That's not defending yourself. What the Israelis are doing, that is defending yourself.

> Next you'll tell me that the Jews who fought back against Hitler were terrorists.

If they were attacking civilian targets with the intent of causing innocent casualties - sure, that'd be terrorism. I'm unaware of any instances of that happening, but I don't claim to know everything.
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Meanwhile I can make a loop antenna on a banana box and tune to 880 6PR local am station and collect a few volts with enough drive for a loudspeaker (via a tx), light a dim led continuously or store up in a cap to make a burst of 2.4ghz data now and then.

Ok, it's the size of a banana box, but it is 24/7 dependable and a relatively decent amount of power compared to picowatts.
Meanwhile, my computer-with-regular-speakers-attached continues to support anything you could imagine.
There are several aspects to this:

1. Safety in the short term has been confirmed. Not a surprise, but nice to have evidence that nobody insta-died or insta-$bad-thinged

2. « More neutralizing antibodies are produced in this study with Pfizer «. That’s great, but let’s see how well they do when following them around.

I was hoping for a comparison with AZ+AZ, but it looks like they only compared AZ+Pfizer against AZ+placebo.

They say « In the equivalent trials with a second dose of AstraZeneca, this response was multiplied by three«, but you must be very careful when comparing results from other studies with other participants/methods/inclusions, etc.

But what really matters isn’t antibody levels, but how well these groups fare in real life against circulating COVID and its known and unknown, current and future variants.

Not anti-vax, just despise drawing conclusions from small limited studies against big phase 3 trials.
A quick google seems to turn up that this claim is from thefactsource.com based on the internet uses 10% of global power. And YouTube is 11% of internet traffic. So 1% of global power.

VS

An estimate of Bitcoin power consumption by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance.

I know which one I’m more prepared to believe.

Even if this were true. I go on YouTube and can learn things: recipes, FreeCad tutorials, coffee nerdery, harmonica lessons.

Bitcoin literally does nothing.
So there's no bounds as to what government should be able to do, ethically or legally?
The economic and monetary risks of deflationary coins are potentially much greater than the environmental risks imo (Even Douglas Adams tried to warn us: https://benoitessiambre.com/specter.html ).

You don't necessarily need to ban the coins to fix this aspect however, just make sure they don't get integrated in the financial system too much. They're basically digital gold. Gold was ok until central banks tried to anchor to it which caused the Great Depression and maybe even WWII.
I actually just got an M1 Mac since that post and I've decided to start from scratch again for the exact same reasons as you've mentioned here.
Your entire argument is base on the fact that more people mine because when the rewards are better, higher price.

But in PoS there is no mining. More and more people will stake, but will do so with a small single VM, with no GPUs or ASICS mining and using power.

So a PoS system will never ever use as much energy as BTC mining, by many many orders of magnitude.
And when the comparison is not even close, why are you the one making it? All you've stated was an old opinion and not a fact about what is more useful, or how they are used. It's totally fine for you to have just said "I don't understand either banking or Bitcoin whatsoever." Bitcoin is going to get a lot more global over the next several years in it's use cases and for savings. I hope to see you commenting later on after becoming more informed about our current times of inflation and what the people want, vs what is forced on everyone so that they have no way to save hard money. The revolution isn't going to wait for everyone who chooses to be truly ignorant about Bitcoin. And there is only Bitcoin.
I was a reasonably paid developer / manager in 2008 and couldn’t find a job as hiring was frozen. Unemployment wasn’t going to cover the mortgage so I was in a sense forced into entrepreneurship despite being a previously attractive hire for multiple companies.

I had to work 2x as hard to make the same salary on my own the first year, but after that the rewards became easier as the company grew.

I doubt I would have had the courage or interest in leaving a comfortable salaried position for entrepreneurship if I wasn’t forced into it. Turned out to be a life changing lay off for me though in a good way.
Is that a practical use case? For a token that‘s valid for one hour? And the device is presumably locked. Is it really realistic that a user realizes quickly that the device is stolen and worried that it will be unlocked quickly and then actually logs in on another device to revoke the session of some website they were using (I wouldn‘t even know this is possible, how would a user know!) and that just to invalidate the token that would expire anyway within 30 minutes on average? Is that even remotely realistic to say nothing about „basic“?

I had (fully encrypted) devices stolen, of course, and I did revoke keys and changed passwords (just in case). But I never managed to do this within one hour and there was never a risk of anyone unlocking the device anyway.
You answered literally nothing that the person you're responding to asked.
Reddit mobile is deliberately terrible, amp or not. They want you to use their app.

Use "old.reddit.com" (old style, best on desktop but ok on mobile) or "i.reddit.com" (minimalist, for mobile) if you want something usable.
It's not necessarily a binary thing. You can have gradual sea level rise punctuated with rapid inundation events.

This is exactly what happened in the British Isles when low lying Doggerland (between modern England and Denmark) was wiped out by a wave which was likely caused by an underwater landslide; that wave was in turn caused by the melting ice at the end of the ice age, which was otherwise causing gradual sea level increase.
I love Elixir, but even I have to say that the tooling story in IDEs is awful. Using VSCode, ElixirLS is the best extension I've found so far, but even the experience with it makes me want to ditch Elixir entirely more often than not (and no, the number of stars on VSCode marketplace means nothing).

The extension will often just lock up, either giving you no autosuggestions/errors, or refusing to remove errors that you've already resolved, and the only way to fix it reliably is to delete the .elixir_ls/ folder and/or completely close and restart VSCode, both of which require rebuilding the entire dialyzer which is a constant battery killer on laptops. This is such a frequent issue that some days I find myself having to quit/reopen VSCode at least once an hour, and despite spending absurd amounts of time trying to find a long term fix, I've never found one.

Not to mention the issue that has been open for 8+ months where ElixirLS is built using an older version of Elixir, and if you are using a recent version of Elixir for your project (anything newer than 1.9), some of the core functionality of ElixirLS just breaks (autocomplete and hover tips). That issue alone makes me want to ditch ElixirLS (and likely Elixir) entirely.
Here's the mistake I made that made me decide to switch to 1password

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26801155

Also, depending on your phone, it might be significantly more secure against non-superpower actors.
In our current system, decisions are made democratically - you vote politicians, who choose central bankers, who make the decisions.
A small number of mega corporations have always controlled the media marketplace, the difference is streaming is shaking things up and making a new set of mega-corporations in addition to the existing ones.
Tap a space that's in the minority. It will reverse relative to the rest. So if there are more checks them empties, tap an empty. If there are more empties, tap a check.

Eventually you have all but one boxes checked. Tap the empty box and the checks will clear.
And I would assume that the GPU, which needs to be grown considerably too, might be on a second package, so the 8 M1s without GPUs would use less than 100W.
Just got a DMCA takedown notice from NordVPN
But.. I pay my YouTube subscription with my Bitcoin. :(
> What kind of a mental process should a brain perform to conclude, that it is a bug in a website, and not in their extension, which is supposed to remove ads.

For website owners who are losing revenue, the mental process is simple: "If I change this webpage I will get more sales."
They’re not suggesting pass to the general population, but I’d expect the average HNer to find it useful.

Syncing is also very easy for developers - just use git.
Zack (of https://amoveo.io) has a good write up of some attacks here: https://github.com/zack-bitcoin/amoveo-docs/blob/master//oth....
But this isn't proposed regulation to prevent an "economy oriented around energy being put into finding hashes".

It's literally regulation to stop "Proof of work". Which is a generic algorithm that can be applied to other circumstances.

It could have applications in CAPTCHA's, or anti-spam.

It could be a critical component of other decentralized technologies, not just blockchain crypto currencies.

Making this math illegal JUST to kill cyptocurrencies seems a tad much, right?
Lots of jobs during build. But after that, 10 guys on a security rotation 24/7, 5 guys on 'take stuff out of boxes and put it in racks to replace failed components' duty, and 5 more to do all the certifications and paperwork (who might be offsite).
I grew up in similar fashion, and with similar freedom.

Bad datapoint: To the maximum possible, I free ranged my own kids.

They still mistrust. The dominant cultural influence is "everyone just trying to get theirs", fish bowl style. This impacts everything, and yes. Ethics are a challenging conversation. I tried hard. Conditions are just not good. Hard to compete.

"But I really need or want mine" is super compelling and can justify a lot.

I have a granddaughter to raise. Am trying it again...

I agree with what you put here.

Can add to civility: much thicker skin and giving people outs to reconsider or make better choices without closing doors on them.

I am generally slow to make, and avoid personal judgement. I want to continue talking. It helps a lot, can build trust.
As a technical person, I think we should be a little more careful than to ban a technology because there's a proposal for a newer tech that could work (knowing if it works is harder than a posting on a website saying it's going great in beta). Crypto at all is risky and the tech is uncertain. Seems pretty extreme to get the guns involved on the premise someone somewhere can do it better.
As per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26943408 encouraging folks to state their stake in the comments.
Companies may be punished for paying ransoms to sanctioned hackers
What I was trying to convey is more "Regardless of what's going on outside you, you can choose how to respond. And as of recently, I'm choosing more positive reactions, instead of cynical and self-defeating."

stoicism, as opposed to raw control issues.

I'm trying to break that feedback loop, and be a source of more positivity, knowing that there's a sea of chaos out there.
You want air conditioning?
You want to eat steak?
You want some microprocessors with that guided missile?

Buy bitcoin.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210116135412/https://taaalk.co...
> The law doesn't need to try and anticipate the actions that occur in the future

That's an incredibly dangerous idea.
I'm still using a trashcan Mac Pro on my desk, and it works just fine and is still receiving updates. macOS Big Sur 11.3.1.

It's a little upsetting to see even the 12-core version get smoked by the M1 Mini, but it's from 2013 so what do I really expect.

Still nice and quiet and compiles iOS apps just fine.
> By following a few principles of immutability and purity, React frontends were generally better written, stabler and easier to debug, compared to contemporary alternatives such as Ember or Angular.

I have the exact opposite experience. Our large Ember application is a lot more maintainable, and requires a lot less boilerplate code to get things done, than this React Native app that I'm working on.
I see. Thank you for the detailed information. I will read the linked content.

I don't know if this is a good place to ask. But I was interested in wgpu because of the interest in building a cross-platform non-web UI library. I read a few of your articles and also looked at druid. I am pretty new to it and there seems to be no books on this topic. Do you have any recommendations?
..they said authoritatively, and without evidence.
The *adblocker crowd. I think I'm in the "technical crowd" but I've never used an adblocker.

Running non-compliant extensions is your right, but the results don't need to be supported. I've run into this situation a number of times, although not with adblock. My advice has been to disable the extensions, or use a different browser without them.
> When they feel like they're about to say something inappropriate, their instinct is to pause and recheck their thinking

This is something all intellectually honest people learn to do, one way or the other. We're all very familiar with claims that are simple, mostly plausible, and totally wrong for $COMPLICATED_REASON. After a while, you learn to double-check your thinking to avoid being nerd-sniped by someone saying "Bzzzzzzzt, that's wrong."
The minimum amount of Ether to be eligible to stake is 32 Coins, so it appears that last year in June, about 120k addresses would've met that criterion[0]. That probably changed by now, I'd assume the number to be higher as more people set up 'mining rigs'. That's at least a larger number than I would've guessed. I wonder how many people/entities are behind those addresses.

On a side note, I have mixed feelings about PoS. The idea behind Ethereum - that is, as I understand it, being able to deploy smart contracts using a Turing complete language -, is pretty intriguing; but the costs associated with doing so put me off. I tried to estimate how much it'd cost to deploy a fairly small smart contract a couple days ago (admittedly when 'gas costs' were high), and it would've been several hundred dollars, perhaps even surpassing a thousand. It seems like PoS would lower that, which is good, but comes at the great cost that people who aren't already in the game won't be able to acquire Ether without basically paying cash for it. That's a weird dependence on fiat currencies for a 'decentralized ledger'. (And yeah, there might be other means, but none of them are really practical for the average person.)

If there hadn't already been cryptocurrencies, nobody would've thought PoS to be a good idea. A bunch of people who hold some digital certificates that predictably multiply themselves want people to give them money to 'acquire' those? That would've sounded like a scam to me...

[0] https://decrypt.co/31646/nearly-120000-ethereum-wallets-prim...
>it should not be the arbiter of what's a worthy use of energy expenditure.

I disagree. If we must cap the CO2 we can emit, we should definitely favor basic needs over luxury. Here in France, the government tried to set a carbon tax on gas (which is required for many simply to commute to work, with no affordable alternatives yet) but they refused to impose a tax on jet fuel which is known to be used by the ultra rich to fly their privates on the weekends (while they can afford high speed trains).

We should not just let money decide what's possible, when so many are still in need of basic necessities. Many could pay a 300% tax just to fly 10x a year across the globe (emitting many, many times the carbon footprint of an average household). How would that be fair, when the problem is not what people pay but how the planet is becoming inhabitable?
Crypto is already taxed.

All money has a cost on society. You have to do something to maintain its value. You don't think wars in the middle east -- to maintain the petrodollar -- have an environmental impact?

And when it isn't oil it'll be fights over germanium and lithium veins.

If you actually cared to do more than sit in a chair -- advocating random things you didn't research -- you'd be advocating for Thorium power. Thorium is nearly as abundant as lead -- it's all over the place -- and it's much more clean and less dangerous than even solar or wind.
Does Bluetooth support binary transfer? Why can’t it be just a dumb wireless data transfer protocol. Instead you have profiles and lossy compression. Turn on a mic and the quality drops to phone quality 30 years ago.
Building construction standards are a great example of regulatory failure.

By optimizing around energy conservation at all costs, we have homes that cost 3x, held together with glue, susceptible to mold, and filled with toxic crap like vinyl.
It's just a twist on prosperity gospel, a way to a priori dismiss anyone who disagrees with him as a bitter bully.
Your checkout shouldn't trigger ad block. Stop slavishly bowing to GA everywhere. I'm about to give you money. That's the only 'analytic' you should care about.

I'm tired of being treated as little more than a data cow, always ready for milking.

Just. Stop.

To the person who ignores people who complain because their 'non-standard' browsers fail on their site, why do you have a site if you don't care about your users accessing it? Ego much?
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