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You're both kind of right here. The farmers market stuff is mostly BS.

In the rural areas the weekly/biweekly shopping routine involves everyone (rich and poor alike) dragging their butts to the one strip mall in a 1-2hr radius and that strip mall will have at the bare minimum a super-walmart with a good fresh produce section or a Walmart with a grocery store beside it because that's the place where rich middle and poor from the entire area shop and it needs to cater to them all in order to get them to drag their butts there and do business. The poor will buy less and fill in the gaps with Dollar General food (which is bad food at a bad price).

The poor urban areas which can't economically support supermarkets and who's residents can't economically justify traveling the range they'd need to travel to get to those supermarkets (because the run down not always running cars that underpin the transportation of the rural poor are not as economically viable in cities) so they're stuck buying food at CVS, the bodega or whatever convenience store is accessible.

If you draw the food desert line at "no Whole Foods and no farmers market" then they both suck. But if you zoom in on the area below that the rural areas have a slight edge.
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If you are a gambler, crypto is a dream asset, with a good combination of talent and luck you can make good money.

But don't be dumb, it will plunge for real at some point.
Your comment appears to be the only one in Hacker News history that says, "bitcoin crashes to 30k". Maybe the phrasing was different?

It's not good when an asset class drops by 30% in 24 hours.
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I'm not sure about this, but my assumption was that the service provided information on the availability of names.. not squatting. Which to me is different.
"The bitcoin flow picture continues to deteriorate and is pointing to continued retrenchment by institutional investors,"

Quotes like that, in my experience, always turned out to be a buying opportunity.
Sites like this are typically squirreled away on the Internet Archive someplace. The issue is discoverability. It's probably fair to say that just because something is stored there, absent links to it from active sites, almost no one will find it.
Attention seeking headline. Stocks are down as well. From the very first sentence:

> Global stocks slipped and cryptocurrencies sank deeper on Wednesday as a threat of unwanted inflation had investors shy away from assets seen as vulnerable to any removal of monetary stimulus

This whole fiasco is because of money printing at will.
I read a book once on extreme early retirement that advised to pick your place of work and house so that they were within walking distance of each other and also walking distance to a grocery store. The quality of the work and even your income weren't as critical as this. The idea being the goal was to finish work as soon as possible in your life when investment income could take over. Live in a one room rental, have one plate, a pot and a fork. Be a Spartan. That was the gist of it. Retire in five to ten years. Was compelling on some levels but orders of magnitude more difficult when you consider trying to bring a spouse and family into this.
Something something hedge against 4% YoY inflation
Ok, if that's the case why should we start using it now? What's the advantage other than fomo-driven speculatory gambling?
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https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1309664882283950081

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/izuswa...
Seems like a sensible list. I hope they don't deprecate the old settings too much, because to be frank, the new ones are horribly designed and offer less functionality with the rare exception of new features that are mostly secondary.

For example, the "system" page is less useful than the old one:

C:\Windows\explorer.exe shell:::{BB06C0E4-D293-4f75-8A90-CB05B6477EEE}

How do I get to advanced system option? I can type it in, but...

Also, I don't like my OS spam links to bing searches. You should be able to toggle them for advanced users to make navigation easier.

I hope Windows comes around, but I understand people switching to other OS.
This is straight FUD.

The identity server is completely optional (you can just login with username & password), and you can opt out or swap it in element -> settings -> general. Also, there's plans for getting it replaced.

There are quite a handful clients and servers. They are replacing their most featureful server (Synapse) with other implementations (Dendrite) to not have a monoculture. Heck, the German government is sponsoring development of yet another server (conduit.rs, in Rust).

Your approach sounds like wanting everything implemented right away, and giving no leeway. And I don't think your attack on their CEO is relevant even. Their whole approach is based on that you shouldn't need to trust them at all.

Given that your handle is "newvectorllc" (the previous company name of Element), it strikes me that you are so hellbent on trying to paint them in a bad light.
Super interesting thanks for sharing.
You'll note that I didn't show up and advocate for XMPP. Also I have no real affiliation with the XSF except being a volunteer and maintaining a library and having written a few specs (in the past I have had more strong affiliations, but never any financial considerations or anything that I'd need to disclose, I have just volunteered more in the past than I do now)
Though I suppose one leads to the other
In 2017.

and revamping that enforcement now. Possibly.
So bizarre that he would tweet this after coming out against Bitcoin for environmental reasons. The higher the price goes, the greater the incentive to spend more electricity on mining; for anyone who cares about the environment this crash is great news.
If they think that retail buyers are close to being maxed out and are just holding (reasonable assumption), they can be relatively sure that there will be no another short squeeze.

Price can go up somewhat, and if it keeps up, they lose some amount of money eventually, but nothing catastrophic. It's more likely that the price goes eventually down and generates good profits. If GameStop goes trough $1 billion stock sale the price will almost certainly tank.
> To be clear, I own some cryptos, but treat it purely as the speculative gamble that it is.
Dumbphones?
GitHub now supports ecdsa-sk and ed25519-sk type keys. OpenSSH have supported those keys since 8.2, but GitHub has not until now.

With the -sk keys, you no longer need to install any software (gnupg, pinentry, yubikey CLI etc.), or run gpg-agent which has always had reliability issues etc. It should all Just Work out of the box now. GitHub was the last piece of the puzzle for us, and for example I can now change our team's onboarding docs from "follow this long OS specific guide to setup SSH w/ gnupg and ykman" to "run ssh-keygen -t ed25519-sk".

There's some confusion in this thread, but you can use ssh-keygen to generate either a public and private key pair, with the private file being a stub and the validation still happening on your physical YubiKey, OR you can omit the private key stub entirely with "-O resident" option to ssh-keygen allowing you to add your key to your ssh agent on any machine you plug it in (for good and bad).
You don't have to get too far off the beaten path to hit material that's only even mentioned in books, and you'd never even know exists if you only used the Web. The Web is pretty damn shallow for, especially, history and social science, in my experience. It's great if you want to look up math stuff, I guess.

For social science it seems fastest way to get into a topic is just use the Web to find one decent, recent book on the topic, get it, then write down all the books & sources that book name-drops in its introduction as important or notable, and go get them. College course syllabi can also be useful if you're really starting from scratch (especially for finding that first book). If you try to stick with the Web you'll just spin your wheels.
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one benefit of btc falling: less $ for twitter elon scammers
Yeah, it worked fine for me a bit later.
As I understand it, when China banned crypto transactions - "Beijing on Tuesday banned financial institutions and payment companies from providing services related to cryptocurrency transactions."(1) and suggested not to use crypto "The slump for bitcoin comes after the People’s Bank of China was seen warning against using digital coins as payment."(2), people started to dump certain currencies and take their profits...perhaps to put in to other things. This resulted in drops that triggered floor price alerts and bigger players dumped, which cascaded around to the various currencies.

1) https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57169726
2) https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bitcoins-40-crash-does-fee...
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And it's not only Robinhood. Citadel, the market maker seems to be the brain behind all this price manipulation and media attacks on AMC and GME and selling a whole lot of synthetic shares on the market which when retail investors buy do not affect the price. I've been following this saga closely and am beyond horrified of how corrupt our free market is. It is not free at all and heavily manipulated.
I setup a server a few months ago to get familiar with matrix. It wasn’t very lightweight either. I have since shut it down because I felt it was too resource intensive for the small amount of users that were using it.
Exactly. You might think crypto is worthless or a fad or whatever.

But it is by definition not a "ponzi scheme" or "scam".
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Exactly, the original article linked at the bottom makes it clear that ars is full of bs and these animals are just indicating playfulness, like one kitten playing with another, not amusement or (as you better put it) comprehension of the absurdity of a situation.
Not to detract from the broader point, which I completely agree with, but the gym example didn't strike me as a Valley-specific phenomenon. I could imagine something similar happening at a gym in a working class neighborhood, and I could also think of gyms which welcome all, regardless of being a beginner or not.

People not near the median get critiqued often for their weight, and it happens to underweight people too.
Basically yeah. There are time lags, but crypto mining has been causing new power plants to be built everywhere and when it goes away that pressure will stop.

However the world always needs more energy so the plants built will unfortunately continue operating in some other capacity for a while, but the sooner the mining stops, the sooner they will be replaced by renewables.
Not everyone in the world lives in an economy that has 4% YoY inflation. And not everyone has access to financial services or a developed banking sector
Ditto. Usually with this kind of drama there's some kind of smoking gun, but I'm really having a hard time seeing what's gone wrong here despite reading three or four summaries.
The weechat plugin is being rewritten in Rust right now.

https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix-rs
That is not correct.

Two glaring gaps in that concept...

First, energy use is not tied to transactions. An empty block uses the same amount as a full block.

And second, the transaction count we’re discussing is the count of settled base layer transactions. This doesn’t include the majority of transactions of value: those that occur off chain or through second layer transactions. An infinite amount of off chain and L2 transactions only need a single on chain transaction to settle.
Doing the steps required manually was a little of a pain. I've found using an ansible playbook like https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy to be the easiest way to setup a homeserver.
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This is a collection of my investment modules - strategies codified from my experience in quantitative investing and software development. All categorized into a short menu.

These models (algo-investors as I call them) serve different purposes, some just remove the stress and emotion of maintaining a portfolio (automated rebalancing, etc), some seek to capitalize on binary events (like elections or regulation changes), some seek to minimize volatility, some seek to "beat the market" (leveraged modules, hedge fund trackers), and some are just fun (wallstreetsbets sentiment tracker).

These results DO account for slippage, and many are showing actual live results (not just backtests).

This is a highly regulated environment (I'm US-based), so you can't deposit your money in these, but I've been using them myself for a few years. Cheers!
Cryptocurrencies do have a couple of extra utilities:

- they can be pumped and dumped without state oversight

- with the use of a tumbler, you can launder money pretty effectively (in fact we should stop calling them tumblers and start calling them money launderers, that's exactly what they are)

It's pretty obvious that this is bad for society. In addition, the transactions are extremely slow and wildly expensive--even without factoring in externalities like carbon burn. The price is extremely volatile. It's highly unavailable (ex: good luck getting your money if Coinbase goes down). The governing structures don't inspire confidence (look at ETH's PoW -> PoS, or BTC's block size debate).

Things don't have value simply because people decide they have value. This is a weird kind of tautology or circular reasoning based on a deep misunderstanding of markets. It's clearer to say that people price things based on a perception of value. Crypto seems like it does--a lot of people go around saying so--but unless you're a comic book villain, it doesn't.

However, things like gold or oil do! You can make electrical contacts out of gold. You can refine oil into fuel. Commodities have physical utility. BTC doesn't.

State-backed currencies also do! You can get pretty much anything for USD. You can get a great pint for GBP. This is because the states and entities producing those goods price them in currencies they can get other goods for, reliably. You can't reliably use BTC to get other goods, and you can't reliably say your BTC will hold the same value even minute to minute. Further, it's very likely your transaction fees will be more than the purchases you make.
by that logic, why not just buy lotto tickets?
It was for consumer and user facing features / products. So technicals like MapReduce and K8s dont count. And I still have reservation about k8s.

Map was probably one we had last time when it was discussed. Gmail came in as side project, unintended. Android was acquired and forced to react with iOS.
It was never needed. What was needed was to increase the max block size.

Instead, new people took it over and kept the throughput to the rate of a 56k modem. Now for the cost of a single transaction you can pay for enough hard drive space to hold the entire chain and enough bandwidth for a billion transactions.

This is like building a sidewalk instead of a freeway then saying you need to build a network of gondolas over it that just plunks groups of people down at different places on the sidewalk to move people.
Your self-admitted lack of understanding is not evidence there's no value in Bitcoin.
According (loosely) to the CMM approach, Amish could be thought of as more technologically 'mature', since they have clear policies around evaluating technology according to clear requirements which have been optimized over time, rather than simply chasing trends

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Maturity_Model#Leve...
Don’t take it too literally, the point is YTD is still positive and 1YR charts are ridiculously in the green, beyond any bull’s dream not too long ago
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please, feel free to educate me. what's the value of bitcoin, other than the tautological argument around preserving its value?
The value of cryptocurrencies is currently comprised of just a 3 components:

1) Speculation
2) Electricity
3) Compute

There's going to be volatility.
Yeah, I wonder if they'll do the same thing for the miners who are turning Yuan --> BTC via graphics cards and electricity instead of through an exchange.
Chinese people will continue to siphon money out of China and cryptocurrencies are the ideal vehicle, they will continue to do it one way or another.
I'm anti all of these alt-coin things. They're just beanie babies that use absurd amounts of resources. Their value comes from hype and limited availability. Why not buy and sell stock? That's basically another set of alt coins that's arguably based on more intrinsic value, doesn't burn energy like an inferno, and you can buy and sell without much risk of accidentally commiting tax fraud.
The point is those people who sold at the peak makes some money.

That's always been the point of bitcoin. It's used for speculation.
What's interesting is how many other cryptos rise and fall similarly to Bitcoin. They are definitely linked in the crypto market.
That's fair; I don't mean to suggest that all standards bodies are perfect all the time, or that they've never made mistakes :) just that it's better than making up a foundation spinoff from a company that doesn't have any experience and will re-invent the wheel yet again instead of submitting the standard to one of the existing standards bodies.
Transaction fees are over $10 right now!
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/docs/mess... is the server config for automatically purging old history - it got added last year.
Wojak must have bought
>mass migration of channels

...has been happening for the past several hours. It's bedlam...
And is it unthinkable someone would do it without a legal requirement, to keep their business afloat?
I'd trust a dog (or any other furry community member) on the internet over an international corporation any day of the week.
Who could have predicted that the Tulip bulbs would plunge...
Ingredients for a Bitcoin correction:

- a recent steep increase in exchange rate

- heavy mainstream media coverage

- announcement from China

- outages at one or more exchanges

As the article shows, all of these factors are present now.

Those celebrating "the crash" either have short memories, or haven't been paying attention. This has all happened before. Several times. The only difference today is the scale.
Great!

They do account for slippage and false entries, including fees on certain trades, and many of them are live results (like the sentiment tracker). Hope this helps!
40B+ company which sole product is web-site can't keep it running? Where is the value in that? Or are they doing it intentionally to slow down things?
I like it... it's like an old RPGs.

Any cheats like IDDQD or IDKFA?
How much dopamine does a walk through nature create? is that part of why people find nature relaxing, because our indoor spaces are made for dopamine release?
I think the guy is not completely sane, to be honest.
Also, not as smart as most people tend to think he is.
Bitcoin is a just an unregulated casino game akin to musical chairs. You put money is along with other people and you hope to take it out at a profit. But people will continue to gamble.
Hoping there's one soon, the only way I connect to IRC these days is through a Matrix bridge and I don't want to run one myself :)
That's an interesting hypothesis, but I'd need to see some data. Since you haven't experienced it, you would be buying based on hype, on the concept of 3D. As I said, I'm not arguing that the novelty is appealing. I'm saying that once people actually experience it and the novelty wears off, people stop caring.

Another issue here is that this is being sold as like "being there", but it's more like "being there at a jail" where you can see person but can't get close to them, can't touch them, can't hand them anything. I have immigrant friends who do calls with their parents basically daily. They do it with mid-grade consumer tech, even though they could easily afford big screens and high-res cameras. That suggests to me that image size and video quality are not as important for this market as one might think at first blush.
"there are those fortunate few who have, as you say, won the "genetic intelligence lottery" and sail through school and exams such as this with little to no effort"

Is that just genetics? What about these kids' family lives? How about the interests kindled in them when they were young? How did their teachers treat them, and was there something in their experience in school, with tutors or parents which ignited a love for that subject? Did these kids' friends and family also value their learning? How much encouragement did they get?

We can't assume that kids who take the same exams differ in nothing except their genes.
Is IRC user data of any value?
Perhaps, but it's likely to be highly directional and it's possible we'll end up using lasers.

Radio is really only viable at the moment because pretty much all communications goes to or from Earth (sometimes via relay) and on Earth we can build massive radio dishes to transmit very powerful signals, and enormously amplify reception. In the future a lot of comms will be between points other than Earth, and in many of those locations radio antennas many dozens of metres across won't be viable. I think at that point we'll most likely switch to lasers for communications over interplanetary ranges. Starlink are planning to use lasers for their sat-to-sat relay links.
But almost everyone with Bitcoin live in low-inflation developed countries.
And somehow MATIC is the safe haven for everyone, that project has been making insane gains ever since it listed.

It went for an All Time High during everything else crashing around it. Wow.
Instead of that exact case, how about 3278 non violent offenders serving life without parole?

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It makes me really sad that Elixir isn't more popular than it is. I'm just a hobbyist but would jump at a good opportunity to write it full time (though I'm really happy with my current employer and want to put more time in with them). There's just so little BS in the language itself (by my standards). A good Elixir program reads SO well thanks to some strong conventions. I particularly like how it's very common to forgo imports and just prefix functions with their module name. That coupled with it being functional make for very little need to jump around when trying to understand a function--everything is just right there. It's also so nice having a performant, query-able key-value store at your fingertips. Anyway, I dunno, I know that it being a dynamic language is a deal-breaker for many but gah, I'm rambling at this point. I just really, really like it.
Do stocks, commodities, real estate, etc... not work anymore?
I thought you were being serious for a second there.