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Welfare may be a bad example because I think there are more white people on welfare in general? Would potentially be evidence of class divide.

I think there’s truth in what you’re saying though - single family zoning is an easy example. Also when they talk about welfare on the news and only show black people (even though more white people are on welfare iirc) - or how the sister reply to your comment gets indignant demanding you “explain how opposition to welfare is racism” and in the next sentence complains about minority communities. So there’s definitely a racial component.

I guess I mostly agree, we just see race more easily than class because of arbitrary skin color categorization. I hope in the future both are irrelevant.
That requires living in an expensive city, at least in North America.
Coincidentally, I have experienced 4 crashes already since 88.0.1 was released.

But I agree with you, I can't remember when was the last time I had a crash before these!
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Unless the tag could not be damaged, or interference from an electrical issue would not cause reading issues, or there are no other materials or objects that would prevent reading the tag, or the wrong tag was affixed prior to being delivered to the store (swapped).
Yes, I read the parent comment. I originally typed out in my previous post that I felt you may have missed the point of the article, but I felt that was too harsh. I don't think the main takeaway from the article should be certain things commonplace in tech culture are "bad" but how it can be alienating. To that point, both yours and the parent post seem overly concerned with the "bad vs. good" distinction. I do have some issues with the article, but I think alienating certain people (whether conscious or not) is something we should be concerned about.

Edit: it looks like you've edited your comment quite a bit since I first replied but I think there's another important clarification:

>As far as I know, people having hobbies I don't care about is completely normal.

I'm not using "normative" to define "weird or not-weird" but rather commonplace. So regarding the article and your example, indoor climbing may be commonplace in your peer-group while still being non-normative in someone like the author's peer-group. Pile enough of these together and it's easy to see how one may begin to feel alienated.
On the contrary, decentralized stablecoins are some of the most exciting things in the space. The MakerDAO system, which issues the DAI stablecoin, is earning 2.5 million every year, distributed to token holders. It has survived multiple market crashes. Algorithmic stablecoins attempt the same thing w/o collateral, and seem to have done well in this drawdown as well.
>It’s looks like free but it isn’t, RH makes money by selling trading requests to high frequency trading firms like Citadel, which buy/sell before the actual order in a better position so they can earn a penny from selling to or buying from you.

That's literally not payment for order flow works, and it's illegal under regulation NMS.
You may be right but I want to give them the benefit of the doubt, that may be just to keep the UI consistent and avoid the trouble of people complaining that they see the button on some websites but not on others.
More computationally intensive, yes- but computationally intensive may mean "running on smartphones in the background for .1% reduction in battery time" or "a medium-sized country".

Increased cost is certainly not so straightforward. If you're sufficiently distributed, using already-existing hardware, with spare compute on extremely efficient devices, it could conceivably cost less. Even if a centralized server farm would be doing an order of magnitude less math, smaller processors use an order of magnitude less power to do that math.

Bitcoin proper has a central ledger- every miner needs to hear about your transaction to verify it. Lightning is a clumsy way of reducing how many actors need to be notified of your transaction. Better currencies include stuff like that as first class. It's all in the name of getting closer to a constant-number verification scheme that is closer to competitive with the O(1) of registering a transaction with a bank.

Centralized credit/debit cards exist so that a big wealthy firm can say yes, this person has enough money for this transaction and I will guarantee the transaction by paying for it even if they can't. What I would really like to see is distributed, automatic guarantees: when you buy something at a coffee shop, people running validators on wifi will pick it up and use their staked currency as insurance (hedged by the system) that they know accounts who trust this particular account, and the transaction is valid. More people staking and trusting this account means more trust by the larger system, which then only has to validate aggregated transactions. Anyone announcing themselves at a validator plugs in at a given level of aggregation, all of which have different staking/network/latency/storage requirements. Unlike off-chain transactions (eg lightning), the system is guaranteed at every level.

Any given transaction will still be validated dozens or hundreds of times. En bloc it will probably use tens or hundreds of times more energy than the server farms powering VISA. I'll be honest, I'm okay with that. I really like the idea of having a bank account that isn't tied to a company.
And Taiwan.
keeping a ledger updated with what happens in the real world makes the court's job harder, not easier. keeping a ledger in sync with reality is going to be near impossible.
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I listed a project on your site, I can't remember if we found the seller there or not.

However, good point about the pre-packaged apps. If someone describes it more honest, would you feel better about them? For example, if someone was upfront and said "I've done the work of putting together this site, you don't need to know the mechanics, you just need to run it."
Everyone who is buying x is not buying y. That reduces the value of y.
Yoga instructor selling her house to throw it into bitcoin feels like the '21 spiritual successor of the Las Vegas stripper who owned several condos/houses that became the '08 housing market crash meme.

Wild prediction: this BTC crash pops the USDT bubble, cratering crypto in general. TSLA holders (frequently BTC/doge buyers themselves) begin to panic sell, triggering an ARKK bank run. ARKK implosion sparks wide selloff of big tech stocks (essentially their holdings) which depresses the S&P (where tech is the main driver of growth). Everyone is now forced to be conservative; cost to borrow skyrockets; demand chills, and coupled with supply chain disruptions and high commodity and materials costs, some businesses begin to fail. New homeowners who went for broke to buy at the top of their market are immediately underwater, and some of them are now losing their jobs. Fed is now between a rock and a hard place - needs to raise to interest rates but also needs to encourage spending - what to do?

Anyway, there is my daily dose of doom-and-gloom, and I have a vague understanding of any of it, so enjoy.
Expecting HN commenters not to behave like the vapid nuts they're they're mocked as on n-gate is a big ask ;-)
I’m not sure I follow. What do you mean by The Internet in this context...? Organizations such as ICANN and IETF are not exactly anonymous.
Is there any proof that a competently run system can not be as secure as a blockchain?

> You can't just bribe your way to its DBA

Instead you bribe the person that has the court's keys. Or whoever that declares what keys are "special" and granted the special permissions.
I use SASL to authenticate with NickServ on Freenode. My IRC client automatically looks up the hostname of users I message.
This is awesome! I love that everyone can now give feedback. Developers, designers, people who write copy, etc.

And that the feedback is piped into a single source of truth: GitHub (of course, if you use GitHub). It's so easy to loose track of these things when they're not near the code.
Yes it does flip it back to green.
If he has caused that much of a problem, then just move on. Block him, stop mentioning him by name, and forget about it. For the open source community, he no longer exists.

I mean I feel like changing the domain name is less of a problem than the one all of the 4000 people named Andrew Lee who are not that guy now have. It's a lot harder to change a legal name. So they will have to live with his bad reputation potentially rubbing off on them. But luckily online most people use aliases so that should mitigate it somewhat.

Libera.chat is a more modern name anyway.
Even though this happening often, software is still the best solution we have. They know that, and they don't stop using a system for it. Moreover, the same correlation problem would happen (even worse) by using paper for the records.

So, why should we stop using blockchain?
I’ve paid many people with stablecoins, even make in-kind investments (not like-kind)

You dont have a way of quantify if people are tax cheats (as what you described does not prevent capital gains liability), stores of value, or buying hamburgers
Eh ok fine, I take it back, Schwab also has outages. I use Fidelity, though, and to my knowledge, they did not.

Point is, availability is important.
"Plant fat sources" is too vague to be useful, because they are partitioned in several classes with very different fat composition:

1. A few "Plant fat sources" consist mostly of saturated fat, e.g. cocoa butter

2. Some "Plant fat sources" have a fatty acid content consisting mostly of oleic acid (mono-unsaturated), e.g. olive oil, cashew nuts, almonds, hazelnuts, pistachio

3. Some "Plant fat sources" have a fatty acid content consisting mostly of linoleic acid (poly-unsaturated), e.g. sunflower oil and most other cheap vegetable oils, many seeds

4. A few "Plant fat sources" have a fatty acid content consisting also mostly of poly-unsaturated fatty acids, but with a large proportion of alpha-linolenic acid, e.g. walnuts, flaxseed and a few others.

The rules for a healthy diet are simple:

1. Most of the fatty food eaten should belong to the second class from above, i.e. plant fat sources with mostly oleic acid

The reason is that this corresponds to the normal composition of the human body fat, so it can be used with maximum efficiency as an energy source or for cellular membranes, without requiring expensive transformations in the liver.

2. Any fat sources from the other classes may be eaten, but in smaller quantities.

3. The vegetable fat sources must be supplemented every day with a small quantity of fat containing long-chain omega-3 fatty acids (DHA & EPA). The cheapest and most convenient way is to use cod liver oil or another kind of fish oil.

Rich vegans can pay 7 or 8 times more for a similar oil extracted from certain algae (algae is the commercially used word; it is not the most appropriate but there exist no more appropriate non-scientific names for those uni-cellular organisms).

4. Heating fatty food should be avoided, because, unlike with proteins or carbohydrates, heating does not have any useful effect but it only degrades the fat, especially the non-saturated fats.

Best would be to not add any kind of vegetable oil while cooking but to mix oil with the food only after cooking and cooling.

Fat that is heated should be of the saturated kind, e.g. butter or lard.
They solve the problem of centralized trust.
And if you don't have access to USD?

Everyone with a computer or even a phone has access to BTC.
It has the relevance that many Google teams prefer it to Kotlin, hence internal politics.

Jetpack Compose is clearly a counter movement from Android team.

https://medium.com/flutter/announcing-flutter-2-2-at-google-...

https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T032861...

https://devclass.com/2020/10/29/sony-takes-a-flutter-on-embe...

https://stadia.dev/intl/es_es/blog/how-flutter-helped-us-mak...
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/surface-duo/flutter-dual-scre...
Opposition to welfare programs happens in countries without race related problems as well. How do you distinguish between such opposition if you're going along with "that affects particular race more that's why they oppose it" argument. You can paint everyone to be racist this way.
I'm really into music as a hobby and I don't want to mess up one of my few working computers. I do admit to using a youtube downloader some when I want to view a video.
Perhaps he doesn't consume the same sort of products than you!
Not everyone has access to a computer or a phone, though.
Absolutely. I want to make products that are accessible under the hood. It‘s not for computers any more, but then there are many other objects we’re adding computing to.

In the meantime, I’ll start the kids on my old Apple ][e if I can smuggle it by my spouse.
The real learning comes from executing on even those dumb ideas. I learned more from 2 dumb Shopify sites I built and ran then listing out ideas.
To be fair to yourself this is probably a lot more than a year's work, but also... just because it exists doesn't mean that another shouldn't version shouldn't exist either!
Are you talking about the RAI that traded at $0.0186 a few days ago and that you can now sell for $0.00022 ? That's a "stablecoin"?

https://atomars.com/trading/RAIUSDT
Quick sidenote, but some prisons do already charge room and board[0].

Florida comes up a lot in these conversations about prisoner rights:

> Each state prisoner shall pay from such income and assets, except where such income is exempt by state or federal law, all or a fair portion of the prisoner's daily subsistence costs, based upon the inmate's ability to pay. An order directing payment of all or a fair portion of a prisoner's daily subsistence costs may survive against the estate of the prisoner.

And Florida does not pay prisoners a minimum wage. So while I disagree with the overall premise (more on that below), giving prisoners a real wage for their work would still be an improvement over the current system, which is the worst of both worlds.

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But ignoring that and just talking about the policy on its own merits, I would ask the same question about whether those room and board costs are fair. I can choose where I live, a prisoner can't. Prison accommodations are not a free market.

So should prisoners be allowed to "shop around" for which prison they want to be incarcerated in based on the prices of room and board? Should prisoners be allowed to decide when they turn lights on and off in their cells to save power? Prisoners have no say in how much their accommodations cost. In multiple states they don't even have voting rights, so they lack the bare minimum of input into the policy behind how those costs are determined.

To me, it's a little problematic to charge someone for something that they are legally forced to purchase from a single source. We should generally try to avoid that. But it's extra problematic to force someone to work to pay for that charge. That's when we start getting into direct comparisons with slavery. Slaves were also provided living accomodations on plantations. But like prisoners, they couldn't leave or execute any choices about their arrangement.

In practice, what really is the difference between charging a prisoner for tampons and charging them for the electricity in their cell block? Both are required purchases by a captive market.

[0]: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/char...
This article, which I think broke the new, has a rendering it claims is of the approved location ("East River, just north of the Manhattan Bridge on the Lower East Side"):

https://www.curbed.com/2021/05/first-look-plus-pool-east-riv...
Then what happens when your comparison fails. There's no consensus mechanism. But then can't everyone just start using a fork from the last time you all agreed (ignoring that coming to a consensus on where to fork would pretty much be impossible)? Well since github is hosting that git repo, and they're the malicious actor, they just alter that as well. You could take them to court, but this would take a huge amount of time. Effectively if you have a central authority you gain nothing from a public ledger because you have to trust them in the first place. Maybe it makes it quicker to find out that fraud has been committed, but the individual(s) who suffered from it will probably be suing anyhow.
Settle positions between two mutually non cooperating parties. Your github solution doesn't consider that many non cooperating parties may want to do conflicting things on chain and you need a trustless way to resolve those conflicts. First writer wins to a centralized database at github is not an acceptable settlement method for billion dollar transactions.

EDIT: A blockchain is not just about keeping a history, it's also about maintaining liveness of the chain and preventing censorship even when many non cooperating parties are involved with conflicting incentives.
Good article, but it could also be seen as a global poker game, with holders "bluffing" people to buy while they hold, looking for a top to sell at.
“And a deflationary currency pretty much becomes an investment and so loses its purpose as a currency. That’s exactly what’s happening to the likes of Bitcoin.”

Is it? It’s not like merchants across the economy were going to accept Bitcoin, but decided to hold onto it instead. Nor was the economy using Bitcoin to trade goods and people started hoarding Bitcoin instead.

“If a country ran a deflationary currency, it would slow down the economy significantly”

The US experienced GDP growth during many years of price deflation and a dollar backed by gold during the 1800s and after the Great Depression. The economy grew a lot through periods of volatile consumer prices (high price or inflation or deflation) for over a century. The historical record does not seem to me to support a link between deflationary prices and lack of economic growth. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2580289

Also, “savers” are not being penalized. People who are hoarding currency, ie, the unit of exchange, are being penalized.”

Call it whatever you want, money losing purchasing power over time means it cannot be used as a vehicle for real savings. “Hoarding money” as you call it is a requisite for investment. Investment cannot occur without deferring consumption. All investment must come from saving wealth from consumption. When currency is inflationary it drives real savings towards other assets, like stocks, real estate, etc., and this effect strengthens the more inflationary the currency. It creates a situation like the one we have now, where investment in stocks is not about capitalizing entrepreneurial ventures, but parking savings to avoid debasement. Buying up property and stocks to preserve capital is not investment in the sense that capital is being used to increase production of things consumers want or need (real investment), but to avoid loss.
Oh no problem. I thought it was a place name, like SoCal for Southern California or Soho.
US only. It seems even Puerto Rico doesn't ask capital gains on crypto.
Look it’s easy to nay-say. There must be something that connects the ledger to the real world and that something is going to have to be able to modify the ledger when the real world doesn’t match.

Blockchains aren’t magic and can’t just query the state of the world without the help of people in meatspace.

This is not a fixable problem. It’s just a question of who the somebody is. It’s why I think blockchain for IRL goods is pointless because whatever entity you have to trust to enforce the database constraints could just run the database without a blockchain.
As far as I can tell, the Fed is still pumping cash, so I agree that it's unlikely we see a large stock selloff.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
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These things are not innate, they are learnt. You are essentially saying you can only learn to cook if you already know how to cook. Obviously this is not true otherwise no one would ever learn to cook.

To develop the intuition for flavour and quantities you have to be willing to ruin your food. Add too much salt and you'll find out pretty quick. You'll also learn pretty quickly that the "right" amount is somewhere between too little and too much.
Fair, but I as a kid (like 10) had no idea what was and wasn't good. I gobbled pretzels, breads, and the like hoping that eating low fat would make me less fat. I thought I was doing what should be healthy.

That and the fact that the government and other authorities like the American Heart Association claim that whole grains are heart healthy to the point that their labels and or claims of heart healthiness are put on boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios...
This is more a social convention than a technical limitation. Both Git and blockchains use Merkle trees to describe a linear history, and both allow rewriting history (via "git rebase" for the former and forking + the manual equivalent of a rebase for the latter). Many hosted Git repos disallow rewriting history on the central branch (i.e., they do not permit force-pushing to the main/master branch).
The ramp approach was used by the 1997 Sojourner rover: https://flickr.com/photos/rhubarble/268583624
USDT is a concern, because it probably can't survive a big net outflow.
Right now, dumping Bitcoin and buying, say, yuan is something a hedge fund might do. Or may have been doing over the last few weeks.
What happens when some trader cashes out a few billion dollars in USDT to buy yuan? Coinbase has to wire transfer out that cash.
No didn't you read all the other comments, that didn't happen because nobody uses them as currencies, or it didnt happen because either the payment processor, merchant, or their daycare provider eventually converted to the state’s local fiat currency so your experience is invalid /s
Agreed that this is huge for quality of life - the ability of Ammonite (a Scala shell) to require remote dependencies in the script is amazing, compared to having to set up a whole project and build a jar.
It's much, much, much more common than "database owner falsifies records, leaving no trace behind, but is otherwise completely trustworthy" which is the issue with real world inventory management blockchain purports to solve
I can think of 101 ways this can help large teams become more productive
Interesting, I might give this a shot, thanks!
And each transaction gets to burn the equivalent of 10 gallons of gasoline instead of an atomic logged database transaction (which could even be published and cryptographically signed cheaply).
Maybe I wasn't clear enough.

What I really mean is that we sit down in the same room. You bought the BTC for $1 in 2013. Today I give you $50k in $100 dollar bills, you send me your 1 Bitcoin. I am deliberately ignoring the current exchange rate to prove a point. What happened is that I overpaid by $15k, I immediately lost $15k on this transaction. You got a bargain and gained $15k on top of the $35k you would have gotten from simply holding onto your Bitcoin in this transaction.

jasonlaramburu says "When the price crashes money disappears." but there are still 500 $100 dollar bills in the room. The price "crashed" by $15k the moment I purchased the BTC but the money I gave you didn't disappear, it just changed hands in a very unfair manner.
I've sold a few small tiny businesses and some of the potential buyers are just students in their dorms with extra time on their hands. They have a bit of cash they can part with and just want to run a tiny site or Saas as a hobby more than anything. It's also a great way to get feet wet before they finally execute on that "great idea" they have :)
Buy bitcoin every week (Dollar Cost Average). Buy the dip when you can. Never sell.