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Congrats all! Mind elaborating a bit more on how this is different than selling to some PE bros though?

Also, for anyone reading this, if you’re a high income individual or have come into a windfall from RSUs/Stonk/inheritance/coin there’s marketplaces and plenty of access to brokers if you want to buy your own shop.

Lot of sellers under $1MM ARR will sell their company at like 2-3x (!) which if you can just maintain or improve just slight, a couple years becomes pure cash vehicle. I know a few folks who navigate this space and make great money buying very small and profitable businesses too low-profile for PE to care for.
Not to be jumping on bandwagons but it seems to me like decentralized block chain based accounts abstract both payments and auth out of your app and into a unified audited protocol. And since its a ledger, couldn't you include notification information aswell? I feel like this is the killer feature of all these dapps, 2 of these features come built in.
Article doesn't mention the one big con of look-aside load balancing. In a partition scenario it can be that the load director can contact backends that the client can't, so it gets bad advice from the load director. So you need to think about fallbacks and how clients can operate autonomously in this scenario.
It's honestly amazing that we can identify distinct supernovae that happened millions of years ago and find debris from them.
Yes. I just wanted to emphasize that in PoW coins, a rogue miner cannot force the whole network to accept blocks because all network participants (even passive non-miners) will just ignore the "invalid" block.
As an American, I'm surprised by the LACK of anger and distrust towards the EU by Europeans, specifically in the wake of the vaccine fiasco where the EU was so dramatically behind in procuring and administering vaccines to the population.

But yes, I agree that the skepticism of the Federal government in the US is far too skewed towards assumptions of malevolence, when it really should be skewed towards incompetence.

If you've ever travelled to the US, it's absolutely embarrassing how incompetent and awful of an experience it is to enter the country. Compared to when I go to basically ANY other country, the US customs personnel are rude, unprofessional, and just outright incompetent. It's such a massive difference in experience that you it slaps you in the face, every time.

Instead of a debate limited to how big or small the Federal government in the US should be, we should be having a debate about how efficient it is. We don't, due to the absurd, theatrical polarization we have baked into our system.
> 3) Is it possible to create "smart" algorithm to reduce computing cost per bitcoin?

I think this is equivalent to the problem: "how can I calculate SHA-256 hashes more efficiently?"

This is an open problem in cryptanalysis. Is it "possible"? I think so, but it's a very complex computer science question. I would say: "it is probably possible, but extremely difficult to the point that it might be impossible."
Those servers use that stack as a component in closed systems, exactly the way Apple and Google use open source as part of their closed systems.

Frankly the argument that Linux powers servers is a red herring.

Look around at the devices people use.

Yes, some hackers like us use Linux boxes. Yes, there are some possibilities opening with things like the raspberry pi.

No, open systems are not succeeding in displacing closed ones.

Recommending people buy a closed system instead of one which is open source to punish the company for not complying with an ideology does not help the growth of open source.
Oh, that's called an ankle monitor, ankle bracelet, or GPS monitor in the US. Officially called electronic monitoring or electronic incarceration (e-carceration).
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I don't disagree with your original point that marketing is likely the key driver here.

However, I don't think your second point really stands up when considering 'kinds' and classification of things.

jillesvangurp's response was that "micro-whatevers" are a profitized subset of the original definitions (e.g., they are saying a 'microfarm' is a profit-driven subset of 'home vegetable gardens'. You then say that people can and do make money from their gardens, thus arguing that microfarms are not a thing?

The existence of profitable home vegetable gardens does not mean that they are not microfarm's in jillesvangurp's definition.
What are you talking about? Java release notes look like a list of Kotlin features these days.

Sealed classes, data classes, multiline strings, coroutines -> project loom, switch statement improvements to resemble Kotlin when statement, improvements to Streams to match Sequences.
Drawing large amounts of electricity can raise suspiciouns. Such as law enforcement suspecting you run a marihuana/hemp operation.

I recommend against mining for different primary reasons though. It is speculation and bad for the environment.
The difference for visible ethnic minorities though is that even with your culture completely assimilated, you cannot hide your racial appearance and people will still treat you based on it. Plenty of Asian-Americans are 2+ generations in America little to no connection with their language and culture, completely assimilated as you say. They're still targeted just because of their appearance, assimilation does nothing to help protect them. For German and Italian Americans, at least assimilation has the intended effect.

I suspect there's probably some anger behind assimilating and tossing away cultural roots and identity only to find out it was absolutely pointless that's helping to drive the upsurge in recent Asian-American movements.
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> there was "ample evidence" for it

Funny you don't mention the Senate committee (led by Republicans) which found the same evidence.
My German ancestor had a different experience. Perhaps he had to do this for a while after first arriving in Canada, but by the time I was born he was a part of a rich and thriving German community in the town I grew up in. I have many good memories of going to events at the German club growing up, singing German christmas carols in December, all of that stuff.

I guess it depends on the region.
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> Is looking for a mentor even the right approach...

It’s a terrific question.

We tend to mythologize the sensei, or wisened uncle persona. That special Someone, who we hope will patiently, lovingly coach us up.

It seems the best mentor relationships are organic things. Somehow your paths cross, striking up a relationship. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Relative to getting advice-

There is still tremendous value hidden in books. More immediate are podcasts, blogposts, and occasionally Reddit.

So, where do you feel you are struggling? When you think “next level” what images come to mind?

PM if you prefer.
I did some more research and it seems I am substantially correct; paying a ransom to a terrorist organization is illegal.
> A few times a month I open the browser and see some "world changing battery technology" being talked about. Here we are however many years later and the world has not changed.

That is the entire reason for Popular Science magazine it did for decades. Amazing things that never were built some were yes but many were not. It's fun to read about it but I can see how it could be frustrating too.
It really reminds me of this hilarious 2008 keynote by Cal Henderson: https://youtu.be/i6Fr65PFqfk?t=2255

(relevant graphic: https://ibb.co/yV6bN9H )
> 2 miles

That's trivial; I do that much to get to the bus stop to commute to work daily in the US.
700 th/s will get you about 1.25 btc a year. That at say 13 th/s a miner asic, at a cost of $800 per asic works out to ~$44k upfront and then each asic burns at least 1k/hour for about another $37k if you get power at 7 cents/kw. Then add cooling and data.
I do agree the "avoid a medical shortage" white lie did harm their credibility, but I know why they did it (I think). It will be a good case study for bioethics and public policy students.

I always assumed the virus was airborne, and they tended to say outside was safer than inside. I haven't looked at the new way they're phrasing it, but I need to look more.

The J&J vaccine halt was done for scientific reasons, and precisely to instill confidence in people that the CDC is acting in good faith and isn't going to sling something out there without knowing all they can about its effects. That you think they made the wrong decision is funny if it weren't sad.

Finally, and I don't know you, but I think it's cute how all the CDC haters/people saying Fauci is evil are the ones who through the pandemic have laughed at the virus and said vaccines are evil. Now here we have an instance of someone skeptical of the CDC because they didn't give enough warning about the virus and they eroded trust in vaccines!
I'm pretty sure that SciHub and LibGen downloadable archives already contain all the torrent files.
I agree, but not until mid-June.

Vaccine appointments weren't widely available for everyone until late April, so for people who got their first shot then , add four weeks until the second shot plus two weeks for the vaccine to be fully effective, many people won't be fully vaccinated until mid-June.
Well it's a quote, so the author of the article didn't write the claim. There's another article out there which inserts a word: "iPhone sized coin cell", which makes a little more sense.
I'm not referring to some specific changes. It's just there are many type operators already and still not enough to express JavaScript.

In the earlier versions of TypeScript, I often stuck with something natural in JavaScript but cannot express the same thing with type annotations - It's like opening a pandora box, once some advanced type operators have been introduced, whenever I played with them I would quickly found more type operators to be desired.

And so it did. Things were getting better over years, there were a lot more type operators, mapped types, the infer keyword, etc. I feel it points to a direction: There is still a lot of existing JavaScript functions' type depend on the input which cannot be well-typed. For example, there are functions similar printf in most languages, or return type T when 0 is passed otherwise return type U. To satisfy those cases, we'll basically reinvent a whole new programming language in the type system - if the new language happens to be JavaScript itself it would be similar to other dependent type systems.
Not to denegrate or barf on anyone's birthday cake but IIRC there were some complaints of unfriendly community support interaction styles. Is this still the case?
In some areas it is explicitly the opposite that happened, and in a way that is for the best — see implicits.

Scala 2 is a very flexible language and a lot of outsider complaints seem grounded in this flexibility.

Scala 3 is more opinionated in some ways:

"Opinionated: Contextual Abstractions

One underlying core concept of Scala was (and still is to some degree) to provide users with a small set of powerful features that can be combined to great (and sometimes even unforeseen) expressivity. For example, the feature of implicits has been used to model contextual abstraction, to express type-level computation, model type-classes, perform implicit coercions, encode extension methods, and many more. Learning from these use cases, Scala 3 takes a slightly different approach and focuses on intent rather than mechanism. Instead of offering one very powerful feature, Scala 3 offers multiple tailored language features, allowing programmers to directly express their intent

"

I think it is a very practical and grounded focus change.

https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/new-in-scala3.html
Wow, that’s extraordinary. Do you think it’d be fun for kids too?
OFTC was founded by people who didn't like how freeenode was run. but that was quite some time ago. i don't remember the details but there were some issues very early on, and the people responsible for those issues left long ago.
First, be in 2011...
They’re not really sovereign then, are they?
"But in timeless universe, it should be a known final quantity, similar to 1+1, no?"

The word "known" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, and bear examination for hidden assumptions. I would go with "defined". It is defined and concrete, but "known" adds a lot of questions in like who or what "knows" it. (I am skipping the question of "existence" on purpose because that's yet another question. The BusyBeaver(10,000,000)'th row of Pascal's Triangle is well-defined but whether it "exists" is yet more philosophy.)
It is a coin battery and the Apple AirTag uses a CR2032. It was probably a simple misquote.
Lol, you are retarded.
Maybe I'm cynical, but I don't see any innovation to be done in search. Google results have become much less useful over the past few years. If they cannot solve search with basically unlimited resources, how is a tiny company going to?

1. Filtering ever increasing trillions of spam/clickbait pages

2. Figuring out which results are useful information vs corporates trying to sell something.

Those problems are not solveable by a couple guys in a garage
No you still are misunderstanding what I'm saying. The text on the exchange for me is like "We charge 0.05% fee on all withdrawals NOT INCLUDING the transaction fee to send to your wallet".
Is python not sufficiently 2D? You could see it as characters in a grid.
Only if he pretended to represent the US administration. Did he do that?

Otherwise it's just a private citizen meeting with foreign diplomats, which happens all the time and there's nothing nefarious about that.
I see why you are confused because that’s not how it works. A manufacturer is required to produce say 20% electric vehicles to reduce carbon emissions. To reach the goal, unless they pay someone who is producing electric vehicles they will be fined. This basically boosts the electric vehicle industry and hurts the gas vehicle industry. If you are in favor of the environment this should be a good thing. Companies are encouraged to go electric, and if you don’t everything is more expensive for the company and the consumer. You don’t need to worship anyone, the point is to encourage a transition to lower carbon and few companies can do it. You don’t need to worship anyone.
You could access IRC via Internet2? I always thought Internet2 was limited to accessing smaller educational networks networks like Merit, JANET or CERN.
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Actually, the Expanse portrays how ships can turn and change directions basically perfect. Where it takes liberties is that ships can't turn and change directions as much as they do. The engines and propellant in the Expanse is way way WAY efficient -- probably much more efficient than our physics allows. In the real world, you'd either be manoeuvring with 1,000 times less zest, or having to refuel about 1,000 times more frequently, or some combination of both.

But apart from that, its physics are pretty close to 100%.
Thank you for the description. It sounds like you’ve developed something really cool!
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I don't have all of the answers but our current system taxes labor at a higher rate than investments, which creates a 'trickle-up' effect because the most wealthy make most of their money from investments. Then enforcement tends to hurt the little guy more. There is not much fair about our current system, so lots of room for improvement.
What is a “ridiculous rate”? Where is it documented?
The time to restore from backups after a ransomware attack is more about figuring out how they got in and closing any back doors then cleaning out the existing systems, applying the latest security updates etc., rather than actually restoring the backups from tape or whatever.

The last thing you want is for your backup to restore whatever back door they installed a few weeks before they launched the actual attack, or to leave the unpatched system (or whatever it was) open and immediately have the attackers encrypt all your files again.
This is just how things work when there's so many laws and they're so broad that the scope of "prosecutable criminal behavior" exceeds enforcement resources.

Of course the DA's are gonna pick the easy wins with good optics and avoid hard targets and/or rocking the boat. That's just rational decision making.

You can either increase resources and create a police state or decrease the amount of prosecutable criminal behavior and have people complain that "there ought to be a law" about <pet issue goes here>.
That's a very good point. And how could that be rectified? Public service hasn't helped much nor more centralized state media. What do you do, require all news outlets be nonprofits?
Somebody who is 50 now might have 20+ experience with "check your email to verify your email address". I wouldn't be worried.

In 2002 I went to a school near Norwich NY which trained our draft horse and trained me to drive and in the mornings we met at a cafe which always had a table full of old ladies who were talking about Netscape, AOL, whatever. People like that were really into the internet BACK THEN!
The fact that we can only understand timeless concepts with time is a property of our existence, not a property of the timeless facts. In 0 seconds I can "do" nothing, but that's a property of my existence, not necessarily a universal absolute across the entire Tegmark-ian multiverse.
That's a good point. Current LI Teslas recharge times are bounded by the charging stations, and not the batteries.

Non-tesla charging stations are even worse, and become buggy when trying to charge the mach E at the rate the vehicle attempts.
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Missed patching on what, is my question. Windows, MacOS, Linux, routers, servers, networking, etc. - what exactly is being attacked? Sure you should patch everything, but clearly something is being attacked more than others.
That response is just a way to move the discussion out of the public domain without actually addressing it. It’s a scam.
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> an aircraft carrier can go over 50 km/s

I'm assuming you mean km/h there? I'd love to see a boat going that fast.
It appears to me the assumption these people / articles make is that nobody is using existing hardened production ready libraries, but hand writing everything from the ground up for their todo app.

Because otherwise their message falls flat on its face.
It's just syntax differences. The newer compiler supports all previous language editions, you're not using a 2015-era compiler to compile 2015 edition code.

Rust is not ABI-stable, there is no guarantee that you can even mix libs built with different versions of the compiler. The entire Rust tooling is built around static linking and building all your dependencies from sources. So yes, all the crates that go into your program are built with the same compiler, it's just that the compiler knows how to paper over the syntax differences in the different language editions.
The mob would not miss such an opportunity!
For what it’s worth, I did have a candidate in the primary that I liked a lot. I think all of my friends did too. They didn’t get elected, but I also did nothing outside of casting the ballot to help get them elected.

(And, part of caring a lot is paying attention to the other 99% of elected positions)
Maybe not, but the garage guys should look into becoming the best search engine in a niche and expand from there.
Perhaps Elbakyan should promptly convert to Islam so she can claim she's being persecuted by Islamophobic investigators. I'm only half joking. As dumb as that may be, I think it does actually have some purchase in America.
The "trick" is finding a good spot where you can build a small hydroelectric power generator. Then you just convert the electricity into money. I'm not sure about the current conversion rate, but it's generally the average price of electricity that is used to mine bitcoin.
For there to be a "deposit only" bank, there must also be a "loan only" bank.

If the money just sits there in a bank account and rots for all eternity you get unemployment and deflation.

The solution to this problem has been to loan out money so that someone else invests the money on your behalf. Inflation exists as an incentive to invest your money and since future incomes are greater (thanks to inflation) it is not very difficult for the borrower to pay the loan back plus some.

Investing doesn't make sense if you have deflation. You can just sit on the money and get rich by on the backs of others. A growing unemployment rate is unavoidable.
To maintain stability you would somehow have to get rid of all the useless people or make them work for goods instead of money.
Here's my strange anecdote:

My girlfriend's mom is Cambodian with Chinese ancestry. One time she was describing a pickled cabbage preparation from her home village, and I responded with "oh, so kind of like Korean kimchi?" and her response was "yeah, but Asian-style."

In her mind, "Asia" specifically means China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, and Thailand.
Yes, but you are not syncing between all of them (since that would scale quite badly), but directed graph like in IRC (if I understand the specs correctly anyway).
Edit: Oh.. or does it really sync between all servers (in which case I didn't quite understand the spec I guess)? Then that solves netsplits quite well at the cost of quite poor scalability.

Not sure what the issue was in the end, but I have had it with all clients I had tried (mobile, desktop, ..).
But it only became a serious problem because of them.
Of course, but there needs to be a way to say, for example, Russia is a hostile state without being seen as prejudiced against people of Russian descent.

If someone says anti-asian ideals are on the rise, I think it's important to unpack that to say it is caused primarily by the ccp. Many people are anti-ccp but not anti-asian, likely including, a majority of non-chinese southeast asians. Having that conversation is how you remove vague racist sentiments and encourage a focus on actual political entities.

Yes, people often fail and just use visual cues. But historically there have been differences. E.g. the original american views on japan were that of a refined civilization and sort of honorary white Asian vs. the chinese, which is all sorts of fucked up, but serves to highlight that even dumbass racially driven views can have nuance.
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Knowing nothing about that situation except how you've just described it, of course.
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I like how QE is becoming a catch all for "expansionary monetary policy I don't like."

Changing reserve requirements is part of conventional monetary policy, it is not QE.
> A price increase that effectively stops people from hoarding gas would be equally as effective at stopping people who need gas from affording it.

no, your statement is false.

Hoarding cheap gas results in zero gas at the pump, and that is MORE effective at stopping people who need it than high prices do.

That's right, market pricing solves allocation problems that your misguided approach creates.
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Computer programs can often be structured in nearly infinite ways while accomplishing the same (or nearly the same) objective.

Writing can often be organized and worded in nearly infinite ways while getting across the (or nearly the same) message.

There are some pretty strong similarities. Writer's block and programmer's block correlate.

EDIT: Sadly, writing has no compiler to tell me that I overlooked the word "block" after "programmer's".