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But in the mean time the value is likely to have tanked, because if they can't trivially be traded for national currency, the interest in them will wither.
Poverty can only be really fixed by tackling poverty. In a country where discussing universal healthcare and basic needs coverage is a considered extreme leftist ideas. I am not impressed that people are worried about recession and the life of the poor.

Sure, in a recession, Elon Musk might get poorer, but it isn't the same kind of poverty that affects the poor.

If US wants to tackle it properly, first solve the initial issues. It is possible to have a recession where poor people aren't the ones most affected, it's all a matter of approving policies, laws and really looking after the poor.

A recession where some rich people that took more risk than they should and get punished isn't bad. What is bad is workers depending so much on their employers to survive. Well, in the US that would get tagged as communism.

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It's not infinite bandwidth.
He replied to a Twitter comment saying he doesn't. He said he didn't know anyone who knew Buffet well enough to say.
Today, the dollar is the reserve currency of note across the world. That may be changing, but I imagine we can agree on that facet of today's global economy.

So, do you think that the dollar - and specifically the inflation schedule and distribution mechanisms of the dollar - can be reasonably said to be under democratic, rather than plutocratic, control?
> So burning electricity on running a cryptocurrency is not right, but burning electricity on running servers for Facebook or user tracking is all right?

Spinning up cores to do intensive math for the sake of its difficulty is wasting energy by design. PoW's financial incentive is to waste power.

Facebook spends a massive amount of money on compute, and their profit is only as good as the margin they can make over that compute cost. Therefore they have a financial incentive to save power.
I ton't mean to sound rude (really) but this sounds exactly like the argument 'I've never had any serious problems traveling around on my horse, why do I need some new-fangled carriage which does nothing better than before?'.

This is the genesis of a new crypto universe. It's hugely hyped, and a lot of it is clearly BS. But underlying the hype and hysteria there's a kernel of a new paradigm emerging.

Crypto applications promise to provide disintermediation on a scale not seen before. Direct peer to peer transactions, conducted transparently, without a need to verify trust and happening simultaneously anywhere in the world.

Not only that but smart contracts bring with them the potential to do stuff that simply is not possible right now. For example, providing instant conditional transactions (if my fave rental car is available book it, otherwise search for another solution, but only from these sources at this price) etc etc etc. We don't know what this means, but it could be a revolution. Or not. :)
This has been the plan for a long time. But this is like Google deciding to switch to Microsoft Windows, it's not something they can just decide to do one day. There's a process. It's a massive effort and hundreds of billions of dollars are on the line.
Surprisingly, I'd argue that athletes are an example of fierce nerds. I think people vastly underestimate how nerdy top athletes are. They're people willing to devote their entire lives to obsessively analyzing a single game. Somebody like Jordan had to spend hours, days, years of their life just constantly shooting a ball at a basket. Not to mention the obsession with meta and strategy.

We like to see people like Jordan or Kobe as normal people who happen to be really good at basketball. I disagree. They're nerds who happened to do a profession that doesn't seem nerdy to the public.
The AirPods Max digitize wired input with a 48kHz sample rate for processing, so even using the ($29!) cable won't deliver any sort of benefit from this.
> Did I say anything about bezos?

I'm trying to understand what you meant when you said that Amazon is a threat to democracy. That is a very strong claim. What exactly do you mean and what is your evidence for it?

> stop ignoring that fact

I'm not ignoring the fact that there is criticism of Amazon and that it is being investigated. I'm expressing an opinion on the basis of professional expertise: I do not see Amazon as a monopolist in general, nor do I see any particular concern from this acquisition.
> the age of D&D

Is right now. It's orders of magnitude more popular than it has ever been.
I use NoScript and uBlock Origin in Chrome, and the article appears with all the images.
Not that you'll be able to tell the difference
You are right.

Instead, they explained why these questions are (partially) misguided.

That's also an answer.
> The amount of power Amazon has over media, retail and internet is unparalleled and is a threat to a well regulated democracy.

I don't subscribe to any Amazon-owned media. I consume tons of media practically every day. If Amazon was a monopoly in media, shouldn't it be near impossible for me to get non-Amazon owned media?

I've purchased maybe a dozen items from Amazon in the last few years. It makes up <1% of my retail spending. If they were a monopoly in retail, shouldn't it be hard for me shop at any other retail space?

I somehow manage to host tons of applications both professionally and personally. I only really use S3 and Amazon DNS, and that's in only a few limited places and could be easily replaced. If Amazon was a monopoly in internet services, shouldn't I pretty much be forced to use them for something?

I don't even have to try and I can avoid them for my own usages, both professionally and personally.
Yes, because that's the negative externality, the carbon that you dump in the atmosphere by consuming electricty. Would you be willing to pay more so that videogaming is not banned as well, or would you ban that too?

Also, you can make the tax progressive so that the high consumers can pay much more.
I’d argue against that because of how much data is in a single database. I’ve been at 3 different hospital systems in various capacities and all three had a shared database/program (Epic, Cerner, Meditech) for 2-3 states worth of patients. I had read/write access to patient medical records for all hospitals and clinics across 2 different states at one site. More so, the systems may be antiquated (30 year old MRI machine) but the hospital has paid the lowest bidder a lot of money to upload the data to a shared imaging website that only works in IE10. It meets HIPAA requirements, but I guarantee security was barely on the priority list. Everything is interconnected and unsecured.
Excellent. I'll bring your computer-with-regular-speakers-attached with me on my next bus ride.
> If you want less carbon burned, tax carbon.

What if we want to decide that we want to minimise carbon, but some use of energy is preferable (for instance consumer/home use) to bootstrapping new financial products?
The public underestimates the huge efforts that have been accomplished to prevent tax evasion in the last few years.

FATCA forces all signatories to report US tax payer info to the IRS no matter the country in which they have a bank account.

CRS signatories do the same thing for pretty much every country in the world and automatically exchange bank account information with the tax office of one's country of residence.

Pretty much every offshore center requires identification of the UBO - Ultimate Beneficial Owner - of any tax structure in place.

It's so so so much harder to open a bank account in a country in which one is not resident because the US has a very long reaching arm and frequently punishes sanctions banks or entire countries for failing to have proper anti-money laundering controls in place. Yes, banks can be fined, not because money laundering took place but just because the regulator decided that the controls in place are not sufficient.

Where does that leave us? On one hand, tax evasion is much harder. On the other, money has become a system of control. The government knows by default who has how much in their bank account. Banks are deputised with government powers and can lock your account merely on suspicion of a fraudulent transaction. When they freeze your funds, they are legally prohibited from telling you why. You essentially don't own your money and there is no due process to have it seized. Developing countries are pretty much excluded from the modern financial system. It's close to impossible to process financial transactions if you're a software developer trying to sell your products but have the misfortune of living in Nigeria or Cuba.

It's a modern aberration that the internet is so free yet the financial system isn't at all but most people in developed countries aren't affected by this so they simply don't care. What's the point of crypto when I can use venmo, right?

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> I think PG is trying to justify some kind of assholish behaviour in his past by reframing it as a virtue.

I couldn't help but read part of it as a response to/rationalization of the recent pushback he (and other "fierce nerds") have been receiving lately...the former underdogs are now the establishment.

The bad news is that if it's not exercised, your fierceness will turn to bitterness, and you will become an intellectual playground bully: the grumpy sysadmin, the forum troll, the hater, the shooter down of new ideas.
The Mac mini used to have a 65 W Intel processor. If the M1 uses ~15 W then they could fit something like 16 big cores, a few small, 32 GPU cores, maybe a 256-bit memory bus, etc. in the existing case.
It's a success of federation - competition has lowered effective tax rates.

The failure is that mom and pop grocery stores can't do the same because they can't easily move to another state, so states don't make special deals for them.
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Why should anyone pay for your consumption and values when you aren't willing to pay for others?
I setup Bitwarden for my mother and step-father last year as it is free for basic use and they don't care for any of the advanced features.

While the UX of Bitwarden isn't quite as polished neither have had any issues. They use it on their Windows laptops and Android phones just fine.

I think the fact my mother hasn't asked me to help her with her Facebook password for over a year now speaks volumes over how well it works for her :)

1Password is indeed a superb product though. I do like to chime in when password managers are mentioned to help spread awareness of Bitwarden as they don't have the same level of marketing as 1Password and I appreciate that Bitwarden is open source and all that jazz :)
The regular banking system leaks your purchasing power over time via the mechanism of inflation. The regular banking system relies on the US Dollar which is backed by proof of violence - aka the largest military industrial complex ever created. Externalities are a net negative. It's important to consider the externalities of every system. When compared with the death and destruction and burning oil fields in Iraq, Libya, Syria etc, the cost of proof of work seems trite.
Except people with a lot of money can afford a team of lawyers and accountants to grapple with the IRS. Middle income people can't afford to fight back. The path of least resistance is to ignore the big fish and just catch as many small fish as you can.
Having wireless headphones:
Cons:
- Battery to charge
- Battery that is reduced after a few years
- Pairing with devices issues
- Lower quality of the sound due to the Bluetooth recompression

Pros:
- No cable

I'll keep my cable headphones :)
The government hasn't banned beef, and yet there are now vegetarian and vegan products all over. People vote with their money.

You're advocating for violence against people who do things you don't like. Use your wallet and leave other people alone.
Isn't Libhandy (the library used for making mobile linux applications for the Pinephone & Librem 5) GTK based? I assume that would help tremendously with popularity as well
Apple took our headphone jacks, then gave us lossless audio. How generous. My 6s is starting to show its wear, unfortunately.

I don't expect it, but I truly hope the next iPhone has a headphone jack. People want airpods whether or not their phones have headphone jacks, it was insecure to take it away in the first place. Have some faith in your products.

On the plus side, I often get to pick the music in my friends' cars.
The other choke point is conversion to and from USD. With a law, BTC loses any corporate 'investment' (eg, Tesla), and coinbase stops converting to/from USD, making it much more of a pain to work with.
my financial privacy is a basic need, and I need cryptocurrency to achieve it

I do not believe consensus mechanism other than PoW can provide enough security for a cryptocurrency
Not really. There's a question of if we're talking about the reported income distribution or the actual income distribution, of course.

If it's reported income distribution, you could have a lot of reported income as well as some amount of unreported income.

If it's total income distribution; having a lot of unreported income would put you at the top, but of course, it's hard to know about it, unless the income is discovered.
It feels like Apple released the lossless Apple Music update prematurely. I'd expect them to do the lossless update at the same time as introducing a refresh of their high end gear that is able to take advantage of the upgrade.

If my speculation is correct, did they do it early to get the jump on another platform? That also does not seem like an Apple style move.
If you’re taking about suicide, we do have statistics to tell part of that story.
Isn't it a little ridiculous to compare wireless headphones to wired speakers?
Remember the infrastructure is one part of the equation. The billions of devices consuming YouTube are running in electricity as well.

The virtue of energy use argument is just dumb.
Yes. The latter has value whereas the former is just dumb as green cryptocurrencies exist.
I'm not sure. The article does say:

> If you want higher rankings and more traffic from search engines, you need to optimize your site for a better, more performant and faster user experience.

But wasn't this how things were meant to work before AMP? Google search never had harsh enough penalties to seriously deter bloat, and I don't know that they're going to change that, they're just going to remove the preferential treatment for AMP.
With Georgism, the government doesn't even need to track how much you make or have in your bank account.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
The butthurt at our (collective) success is also obvious from a wide variety of sources. My gun-loving red state relatives have impressed upon me multiple times about how the high pay that engineers get and general cushy life that they get is really bad for society and that eventually when the power turns off due to a solar flare we will be essentially their slaves. There's even a comic of this exact scenario that gets posted all the time on 4chan which I cannot for the life of me find but documents this exact scenario happening.

It really sucks I guess to make 45K fixing tractors all day with demanding managers hearing all about how the person half your age is making 4x what you make by writing yaml files with basically no stress and good WLB.

The right answer to "how do I stop getting exploited" for many is unironically "learn to code" (yes, including to many of those coal miners in WV), but they HATE when you say this. Kinda sad too since most of the hate is from people that never even tried it. They seethe at our success, and would take it away from us in a heartbeat if ever given the chance. Just look at the culture war being waged against "big tech" right now.
Why does the energy moves with the price? Is it because of increased number of transactions?
I agree w others saying focus online retailing.

For local / consumer input - What do your local climbing clubs, outdoor stores and indoor climbing gyms say when you approach them?

Outdoor Retail has big trade shows - ISPO in Europe.
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Isn't that sort of like stealing power? Wouldn't the station need to broadcast with more energy to reach any listeners "behind" your antenna-siphon? And isn't the energy transfer extremely inefficient?

It kind of sounds like the apocryphal tales of farmers who would lay big loops of cabling underneath HV lines to power their electric fences.
Kind of strange to go through all this work to allow CGA and EGA to use the VGA port, but not support the VGA modes.

Did the FPGA just not have enough block ram to do this?
Google is claiming to be Carbon neutral though, so not a good comparison.

https://sustainability.google/commitments/
Very cool! Incredible to blast 100kg of aluminum into shape in <.1 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=143&v=DbxxrbYWN7... has more info.

Though I'm not entirely clear on the benefits of this vs smaller casts + riveting/welding. I can't imagine it's much faster/cheaper/stronger to do it this way than to have one machine for casting and another for riveting pieces together.

I would understand it more if it was a performance car where every ounce mattered, and structural rigidity is at a premium.
Shein overtakes Amazon as the most installed shopping app in US
You're a bit young then. I'm a decade older, and see very clear similarities in my age cohort to what he's describing, particularly when I was in my early 20s and teens. Which is interesting, because a good theory of behavior is not limited that tightly in time.
And if the ship sinks I guess hydrogen pollutes less than oil ?
Apple lossless goes up to 24bits at 192KHz, which is over 4mbps. I believe bluetooth 5.x only supports 2mbps, although I'm not sure.

According to wikipedia, Apple did file a patent in 2019 for high bandwidth low latency audio streaming over bluetooth (up to 8mbps)[0]. Looks like they've been working on this for a while.

[0] https://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2019/0104424.html
> then a threadripper pro running linux

Except for all of the software that doesn't run on Linux.

>The alternative is to just wait a few months and see what comes.

If one did this with Apple, one would never buy a product.
> Pass a law against proof of work crypto currencies

once again, you have merely just assumed the role of arbitor. What makes this opinion better than the opposition?

What needs to be addressed isn't energy usage, but the cost of energy in the first place. Why isn't the fix be passing a law to tax carbon properly? Tax the externalities, and the rest would follow. I don't care if people burn up energy for crypto, as long as they pay for the cost properly.
The title is a reference to Mack the Knife, a playable character in the arcade game Captain Commando developed by Capcom.

MAME is often used to play arcade games on PCs.
I think titles that are clickbaits should be avoided, titles like "eternal youth found" referring to article with: "eating apple seeds for 10 years you can gain up to 10 microsenconds lifespan".
> On the surface this sounds like bitcoin's PoW use will simply stop. It's actually the entire opposite.

Not really. It wouldn’t stop, but it would decline substantially.

Smaller operations and hobbyists only participate because it’s worth money to do so.

Making Bitcoin illegal would kill the argument that it will eventually displace fiat, and relegate it to being used only for illegal purposes.

The incentive to mine a currency that can only be used for crime as a hobbyist would end up being low.
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> copyright law is that there are entities that have businesses that are built on copyright protection that are so powerful they can nearly dictate what the copyright laws are (cough Disney cough).

I fully agree w/ this criticism of copyright law. I do not think that has a substantial intersection w/ the competitive effects of this proposed acquisition.
What do you think a PoW change does when the PoW is being done by ASICs?

Slashing stake is significantly more arbitrary. You basically need to reset the coin's ledger in order for it to make any sense.
Do you remember which one that was?
I think for companies that big, they should be required to launch a tender just like public sector e.g. for a supply of beans. This means their own beans company would be excluded because of conflict of interest. It won't stop them from delivering beans to other companies though, but it will make a tax fiddle much more difficult.
Drugs are not a unit of exchange that rely on markets, they are consumables.

A better comparison would be online gambling - which has been banned effectively in the US.
I agree - lifting could be a tangential market that is actually bigger.
YouTube also entertains hundreds of millions of people, whereas crypto benefits the average person…how exactly?

By enabling ransom ware attacks? Creating GPU shortages?
>How about we ban gold mining

Why not?

>or set quotas on the number of children people may have

Some people consume 10x less energy than others, so blindly capping the number of children does not seem a good idea. What about capping the carbon footprint per person instead?

We track and tax revenues (not perfectly but as well as we can). We could definitely track and cap carbon emissions. Sounds good to me!
Having also been in that area, I almost never put forms or animation state into the redux store. Sure, you lose a certain amount of time-travel goodness, but it made for a much saner development experience (especially where performance was concerned).
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Nerds didn't spring fully formed with the invention of the transistor - they have always existed in various forms throughout history.

But it has also been true that moving to a dealmaker provides more impact, especially once you get past a certain point.
The reality of the current world is that a lot of people feel exactly like that, so you're unlikely to convince them to change their behaviour.

Rather than deny that reality, you're better off working with it to produce more, but cleaner, energy.
That's assuming PoW cryptos would remain attractive to smaller operations and hobbyists. I'm not sure that's a given. If no business can change your coins to fiat, and no business could accept your coins in the first place (not that they really do now, but whatever), your options for getting anything out of your coins is... what? Posting on craigslist to find people to meet up for illicit localcoin transactions?

And if you can't really do anything with your coins but have your coins, why would people rush out to break the law to mine them?
Bitcoin is an incredibly dangerous idea because of its contributions to the climate crisis.