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Yeah, I think I completely agree with this. Nominally GTK (and I think Qt?) is designed with scripting language support in mind. They export a bunch of XML that can be used to generate bindings in other languages, but said XML is miserably documented and in practice it's basically impossible to leverage it (I recall various attempts at generating Go bindings and all ended in failure--it became apparent that it was easier to manually maintain bindings rather than generating them from said XML).

Perhaps rather than "bindings" you're thinking something like GTK and Qt's JavaScript integrations (embedded scripting languages vs bindings)? These are bummers in that they use some home-grown JS interpreter implementations which don't implement any standard version of JS (or at least not a very recent standard) and it's very confusing what is and isn't supported, and IIRC the docs aren't great here either.
Yup! In many ways Linux is leading the charge. Not just with these features but also for development as a whole. Here's the background story on how 1Password for Linux started and how it was built:

https://dteare.medium.com/behind-the-scenes-of-1password-for...

++dave;
1Password Founder
But it is much faster to fill-up an hydrogen tank then it is to charge a battery.
No, there are coins like Bitcoin Cash that have ridiculously low fees and are accepted in tons of physical stores across the world.

BTC refuses to scale, Lightning is permanently broken.

Ethereum will reduce the fees with sharing, but that will take time.
The opposite of blameworthy.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exculpatory#note-...

Yep my usage a bit odd, I forgot it is a common legal term. Maybe *trivial* would be a better word.
And if the US fails, don't you have quite a lot bigger problems than the currency over there?

Good luck paying for things with cryptocurrency-of-the-day without electricity. Or without authorities to call if your trading partner pulls a gun on you. But I'm sure the American solution is a diesel generator and an even bigger gun ;-)
You don't have to buy them, you can borrow them. This opens up a certain type of attack where you promise to pay interest to get control of the stake. If you're running a stake pool, you can pay interest on top of the stake reward. It's possible to run a staking yield farm, where you pay interest in a different cryptocurrency that you can mint yourself.

These kinds of off-network incentives can disrupt the reward system. It's even possible to incentivize a lot of people to collude in a double spend attack if the rewards can be distributed to the participants.
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What is wrong with shareholder value over everything else? What is the else? Shareholders sink a ton of capital into companies and take on significant risk of loss, why can't they be compensated for it?
He certainly started that way; his Common Lisp stuff is interesting, although I don't usually agree that it's the best approach. But as far as I know, the only technical thing he's done since selling Viaweb is ... this forum. You apply to YC for money and for contacts---exactly what dealmakers do.
> As a business, you just have to use it.

Thanks, I'm aware of this...

> Whether it sucks is irrelevant as that does not affect the reason why you're there.

No, it is not at all irrelevant. I'm much less likely to use it well and maintain up-to-date information if the UI and UX is so terrible that it makes it easy to make mistakes and hard to find the thing I'm looking for. Not sure why it sucking would be irrelevant, I'm a user of it, of course I don't want it to suck...

> They'd rather release a new product than make an existing one better.

I don't think this is true either. Google updates old products all the time. The updates they do frequently makes the software worse though. The willingness to make things better is there, it's just that their execution of these updates is poor as fuck
> Amazon is closer to a level of government than traditional company.

I'm not sure what this could possibly mean.

> is a threat to a well regulated democracy

Ok - tell me how. Is Jeff Bezos going to... buy the Presidency? A Senate seat? Or... ? I really don't see what you have in mind.

> IMO Amazon should be split into a dozen companies.

You can do this if you want. You could split AWS from the retail operation, I guess. I wouldn't expect any outcome for consumers to be better. If you have a different idea, tell me what outcome and why you think it gets better.

And probably you don't want this, b just like w/ Standard Oil this would likely have the effect of making Jeff Bezos richer.
After quickly trying to checkout, it looks like they only offer shipping to the EU.
Yes. It frustrates me because I can pretty much predict the future when I get messages about people getting a puppy and knowing them and/or their home situation. Relatively few people have the kind of dedication that it takes to properly care for a pet (or a child, for that matter).

I currently don't have pets. That's because I love pets.
Can you please provide more detail?

What did you find undesirable about serverless architecture?
Reminds me of the 2008 collapse of Wall Arch in Arches Nat'l Park, Utah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Arch.

Just a few days before it's collapse, I was climbing on it; well, I couldn't quite get to the Arch part (so I know it's collapse wasn't my fault), but I can't help but think: if it was on the verge of collapse, would it have been able to hold a couple of 150lb monkeys jumping around on it (my buddy and me)?
Emphatic agreement.

Unchecked exceptions are preferred because many frameworks (APIs) are poorly designed.

The Correct Answer[tm] is to fix those libraries, not paper over their flaws.
way to devise a very specific way to kill the gravy train cryptobros have been riding on for so long
The article talks about Core Web Vitals in passing. That's the major change here. Two posts from May 2020 talk about them more

- https://blog.chromium.org/2020/05/introducing-web-vitals-ess... introduces these metrics, what they mean and how to measure them.

- https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2020/05/evaluating... talks about how the search engine experience will change

> The change for non-AMP content to become eligible to appear in the mobile Top Stories feature in Search will also roll out in May 2021. Any page that meets the Google News content policies will be eligible and we will prioritize pages with great page experience, whether implemented using AMP or any other web technology, as we rank the results.

> In addition to the timing updates described above, we plan to test a visual indicator that highlights pages in search results that have great page experience.

Seems like a positive change. It will mean extra work as developers improve the performance of their sites. But having clear metrics to improve will make that work tractable. Also, advocating for that work to senior management will be easier when it's so clearly tied to SEO.

The upshot is that ordinary users will experience a more performant web. Not overnight but over a few years, like the shift to HTTPS and supporting mobile web versions. Both of those changes were driven in part by the desire for better ranking on Google.
Or aluminium smelters.
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This is largely done by software. If you are not mucking around with the software, there is zero risk.
I had two Nexus 5x and ran into the same issue. It's a shame because it was a great smartphone. After that I bought a Pixel 3a and I like it too, it's the spiritual child of the 5x.

I'm annoyed with Google's behavior on... everything though, so I plan to switch to an iPhone for my next smartphone (in 1 or 2 years probably).
It's written for Unix (FreeBSD or Linux). It will probably run on windows using WSL. But it won't run directly on Windows.
According to this forum post I just found[1], they are "no longer advertising" the non-subscription mode, and they apparently will not directly answer questions about whether it's still sold:

>> "We're no longer advertising standalone licenses"
Does that mean "We're no longer offering standalone licenses"?

> Membership [aka subscription-based] is the way forward with 1Password.

It's really disappointing that their communication is so transparently evasive on this point.

[1] https://1password.community/discussion/116659/how-to-switch-...
I initially wrote the backend for my current startup in Elixir, using Phoenix. As many Elixir developers, I'm coming from the Ruby and Rails world. I really enjoyed the language and there are definitely things in Phoenix that are a vast improvement compared to what's available in Rails (changesets are awesome for instance).

However, after some weeks of development, I decided to move the project to Rails. We were still pre-launch so it didn't impact any users and only took a couple of days. The two main reasons for the move were:

1. *Ecosystem.* The Ruby and Rails ecosystem is just so much bigger and more mature. I cannot criticize Elixir for that, I'm just stating the fact. Ruby is many years advance and that shows in the breadth and maturity of libraries and deployment options.
2. *Re-learning basic things.* I found myself needing to learn how to do things in Elixir that I fully mastered in Ruby. I had to reinvent my own wheel in a way. And when you're trying to move fast to get your product out there, this is a waste of time.

In the end, I realized that for my purposes, Elixir/Phoenix is just not 10x better than Ruby/Rails. I can tell that learned from some of the mistakes of Ruby/Rails and many things are better. But they're not drastically better for the project that I'm building, which in the end is a GraphQL backend for a more-or-less CRUD mobile application.

Since the migration to Ruby, I'm much more productive and get things done much faster. I also spend a lot less time learning how to do X or Y. I felt relief when I didn't have to follow the Elixir ecosystem anymore and was able to unsubscribe from Elixir Newsletter and from the Elixir podcasts.

I know that my move does not help my criticism that the Elixir ecosystem is too small. But I value the success of my startup more than the need to help advance the Elixir world.

Maybe we will suffer long-term because of this choice, although examples like Shopify, Stripe or GitHub show that you can maintain massive codebases just fine in Ruby. But at this point of our startup, time to launch and velocity pretty much beats any other criteria.
Or perhaps they're too independently minded, but not in the right way.
Netflix has exclusive content. ABC, NBC, Discovery, ... all have exclusive content.

Why does Amazon buying MGM and getting some exclusive MGM content harm consumers?
Would Ethereum be able to make the switch to PoS if it had never used PoW originally? How would they ensure a good distribution of ownership?
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> However show me an alternative with a UX that is simple enough for my 6 year old to use, that works on iOS, Android, MacOS, and now Linux.

I'm afraid Dashlane fits all of those requirements. Hands down. Then Bitwarden comes second.
> ETH is competing against USD, not against BTC. Bitcoin is competing against gold.

> To be clear, bitcoin is of course also competing against USD

These can’t both be true.
The numbers I have seen is that somewhere between a third to half of Evangelicals support Israel specifically because Jews controlling The Holy Land is seen as a prerequisite to the End Times, the Second Coming of Jesus, and all the stuff from the Book of Revelation.
Having market share does not automatically make you anti-consumer.

Google has 90% of the search market because they have the best product. This is the same reason Amazon is doing well – people just love what they're offering. It's not that you need oil and Amazon is the only player in town – it's that Amazon and Google offer the best gas station experience by a large margin.
> US justice system is probably more corrupt than some African countries, yet nobody is even talking about it.

Plenty of people talk about this. It's a lack of listening that's the problem.
Also, pools are not miners.
Have you done mine prodding drills over 50 square meter fields? Sure it'll fulfill some superior's KPI but it's not very useful nowadays with all that modern military equipment. A good majority of these prescribed processes, norms and ideologies just aren't useful in the individual's growth.
For short-term storage a rechargeable battery is certainly preferable.

For long-term storage, the battery auto-discharges, so the efficiency drops quickly with the storage time, until it becomes much less than for storing the energy by synthesizing some appropriate chemical compound.

For storing solar energy, both short-term storage (e.g. for a day or a week), like rechargeable batteries, and long-term storage (e.g. for a year or more), like synthetic gasoline, are needed.
Because despite it being very bad for the poor and middle classes, money printing is at an all-time high. Just like how neither US party is anti-war (but claims to be), neither wish to give up QE. The system is rigged for the super rich.
It makes no sense. All these ads and tracking and all that is to make people buy stuff.

If people are ready to give you money, don't try to stop them!
And if you enjoyed the Cluss Test, you might like http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/The_Gostak.
Cardano already uses over 99% less energy than Ethereum and doesn't have Ethereum gas fees...
How many industries can a single company operate in and dominate?

If Walmart had done this in the 2000's, the DOJ would have stopped them.
Currently Bitcoin is $13 to Ethereum's $20.

Ironically, that's because the value of value of Bitcoin has plummeted compared to Ehtereum. A month ago today, an Ethereum transaction would have cost $21 while a Bitcoin transaction would have cost $45.
Also, Dr. Ray Peat
http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml
The functional uselessness of ALL site breach notifications from EVERYONE who will send them to you is something that pisses me off to no end.

"Your Email was found in the data dump from the FooBarBaz.NET hack!"

Okay, which site was this?
Is there a password I'm supposed to change?
Was it actually a password I stopped using 5 years ago, but is still floating out there somewhere?

None of these questions are ever answered in a way that's actionable, so these notices get effectively ignored.

(FWIW, back when I worked at a certain big company and they provided this service to employees, the data dumps actually did contain enough useful info to answer the questions some of the time. But the services available to the general public, even if you pay for them, are damn near useless.)
Banks will still loan even if fiat doesn't exist.
Everything's part of the problem. It's why it's so hard to find "the thing" that causes high US healthcare costs. Every single part of it is more expensive than it should be, including doctors, and it all adds up to a system that's way more expensive than it should be, without any single entity or group being responsible for most of the problem.
For a basic transfer, it's probably best to use a gas tracker like: https://etherscan.io/gastracker to check on costs. It's about $6-8 at the moment. The average tx cost is going skew much higher because of DeFi transactions. Uniswap V3 is scheduled to deploy on Optimism potentially in a few weeks which may help alleviate fee pressure (although as you can see from the linked gas tracker, Uniswap V2 is still consuming a large portion of txs). The bet is that a combination of L1 and L2 improvements will bring transaction fees back to reasonable levels in the next year or so. If it doesn't, there are a host of new competitors like Algorand or Solana that are looking to supplant Ethereum (and do currently provide much higher transaction throughput and lower costs).

In general, fees go up as the token price goes up since fees are usually charged as a function of transaction size or complexity, and also fees rise as a protocol hits its tx limits, but not always. Nano is an interesting cryptocurrency that is fee-less (although they just had to roll out an emergency update to improve spam resistance), so it's possible to design a fee-less system, but it's certainly even more experimental atm.

There are, however a number of cryptos that currently (and by intent) have <$0.01 (sometimes significantly less) fees. This includes (just going down by market cap): Ripple, Bitcoin Cash, Stellar, or Dash. For transactions, even though fees are a bit higher (about $0.06), I like Monero since it's one of the most private and widely used cryptocurrencies out there, and it's fees have actually significantly decreased due to technical improvements in transaction efficiency, dynamic blocksize, and an algorithm that can actually reduce fees as volume increases.
Maybe forced entrepreneurs are also more eager to accept venture capitol or buyout offers earlier than voluntary entrepreneurs.
Wouldn’t people with unreported income not be at the top of the income distribution, by definition?
Say what now?
> That is a very, very bold claim. Please provide bold evidence or reasoning.

A selection of common reasons to oppose corporation tax:

- It encourages financing via debt instead of equity (debt payments come of pre-tax profit, equity dividends do not). Debt financing is far more systemically unstable than equity financing.

- Corp tax applies to profits that will be reinvested as well as those that will be withdrawn via dividends, buybacks, etc. Taxing reinvestment (eg in equipment, premises, etc) is very undesirable.

- Companies are highly motivated and well able to avoid it, which means, eg that corp tax falls on small companies more than bigger ones, and that it's administratively complicated to collect (litigation is often required)

In short, corp tax is a tax on money that companies often invest and leads to the most phenomenal hijinks to get out of it. IMO would be better to lower it and raise other taxes instead (eg capital gains, dividend tax).
That has nothing to do with economies of scale.
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They announced the planned transition to ARM in June of last year. Did you know about that before your purchase?
>and long term jobs

Very few. A datacenter might only have a few dozen people as I understand it.
We're bringing this feature to Mac and Windows as well. It's currently in beta and will be coming to the official release soon.

If you'd like to play with this now be sure to install the beta of the Desktop app as well as the beta of the browser extension.

++dave; 1Password Founder
Am I right that majority of video card miners are mining Eth? Does it mean that when merge happens, we ca expect video cards be available to buy again?
Of course, as soon as the M1's were announced with the 2 year transition plan, the actual suggestion would have been to wait until the M1 mac pro comes out.

My suggestion was if there wasn't enough power, and the person needed a computer (which is the only reason one would buy a mac exactly during this changeover point), then a threadripper pro running linux would be the way to go for many workloads.

The alternative is to just wait a few months and see what comes.
> introduce severe Google ranking penalties for bloated pages

That's literally what they're doing with the AMP requirement change, no? Instead of giving priority to AMP pages, they're giving priority to any pages which have good performance.
Not in the industry, and these are complex issues, but the AMA is made up of doctors and is also a huge part of how medical professionals are qualified and has heavy influence on how funding for training, etc. is allocated. So while an individual physician may not be 'the problem', blaming the AMA (and so 'physicians') shouldn't be dismissed outright in favor of the other groups you mention, which are also part of the problem
Many industries do a lot of harm to the environment for profits. On the spectrum of those, where do cryptos fall?

I don't know and personally hold only a little bit, nothing I would be very pained to lose, but it would certainly cause a lot of economic harm to a lot of people to do what you propose. The idea cannot be taken seriously without first answering my question.
That's the website of a conservative think-tank.
If there was a way to verify the power source is green I think PoW would be the ideal way to move forward. For example if electrons generated by photoelectric cells somehow were different than other electrons (quantum spin, parity, etc.) then maybe an algorithm could check for that and only accept blocks mined using these electrons and not others.
In addition to the grammatical issues other posters have replied with, another issue is that script in tablets probably would drop words that aren't strictly necessary for understanding which may mean very compact writing since the context could allow high compression (e.g. "John green house" or possibly "John g h" could be perfectly clear to the readers, but still mean a million different things if you don't have the context).
I have a similar background going from a software engineer to starting an e-commerce brand. My advice is to just get good at it. You may never become the best but you can become good. I really believe anyone can be good at anything, it'll just take you more time and effort than it may take other people. Once you're good at it, you can hire the best person with the confidence you actually understand what they're doing.

As for getting good at sales & marketing, there are tons of tools and advice out there by people who are very good at their jobs. From paid ads to influencers to seo to retail distribution, you have a lot of options. To me, it sounds like you need more emotional advice than practical advice. My advice is to just get over it. You're going to feel like you're bad at it. You're going to feel out of your element. It's going to be frustrating. That's okay. Learning means admitting that you don't know anything or else you'd just be executing. You just need to go for it and get over feeling uncomfortable with being bad at something. Put in the time, use the vast resources online.
Ethereum is winning every crypto/blockchain narrative. This is super impressive and proves, once again, that real value is where devs are.
It can lead to chronic stress. Chronic stress can kill in the worst case. I think Elon Musk is a good public example of what (chronic) stress can do despite being financially successful.
The issuance is exponentially decreasing every 4 years. If you're a miner and have hardware investment, increasing your issuance contrary to the expectation of the market is essentially taxing the holders.

It's besides the point though, you can certainly benefit from holding power of the protocol but the reality is that there is very little of this dynamic.
As a climber and marketer, this is how I feel. You may need some help on sales copy but this is a marketing problem--who is this for and through what channels can i reach them?

There are definitely places where chalk is frowned upon. Try calling the gyms near those crags and sending them some free bottles to give out to their employees and gym climbers. Without any real differentiation for a large segment of climbers, the best you can do is use this small group of people who need to care about chalk residue and the even smaller group of people who do care, but don't need to.

I do think you could define the problem more clearly and try low-cost test channels like Google Ads & Facebook Ads (show ads in the geo's where chalk on rock is frowned upon).

After I read about the feelings about chalk from non-climbers, I can certainly understand why people care about it. The issue is real. It's just not a problem that most people know enough about to care yet. The challenge there is that it's hard and expensive to try and sell people on a new problem they don't know they have. It's much easier to replace an existing pain point they feel right now.