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Also, in our current system the people with actual power are not at all anonymous. I can name all the elected officials. There are some people with influence whom I don't know, but the power is ultimately in the hands of voters and elected representatives. One way you can tell: Many people will spend billions trying to influence those two groups.

> as long as people are involved it is impossible to not have a government, in one form or another.

That's essential: The power is conserved; the question is, who controls it. Every time someone talks about smaller government, they really are talking about shifting the power elsewhere - to whom? It's not necessarily bad, but shifting power from democratic government, however flawed, to a powerful elite, who are more flawed and have no accountability to everyone else, is not a good deal IMHO.

> The ultimate irony, though, is that even with proof-of-stake, the entire crypto-economy becomes owned by a bunch of pseudo-anonymous elites. The end result is the exact same as our current system.

This section seems to contradict the rest of the comment ?
You just explained why the quadratic formula is the way it is better than any of the discussions of completing the square that all my middle school textbooks gave.
On PoW, if one fork is much less popular, it will be feasible to attack because you can rent enough hash power to produce a larger chain. If only slightly less popular, this isn’t feasible.

On PoS, a substantially less popular fork will be possible to attack, because you can afford to buy enough coin to stake and take control of the validators. The economic value of your coins will be divided between the forks based on market consensus. A more popular fork will be hard to attack because the coin will be too expensive.

In my view these are a similar type of security guarantee, what am I missing?

In both PoW and PoS, providing security to prevent attacks requires allocation of economic resources (spending hash power, or holding and staking tokens).
It certainly can be bootstrapped by PoW, but doesn't need to be (and usually isn't in practice). The initial stake if it's not bootstrapped by a different consensus mechanism is simply created (not too differently than PoW creates coins). You have an initial block that anyone can create (but in practice, it's generally the creators of the coin who do that), and then the coin created in that and subsequent blocks is distributed in some way (sale, give aways, etc). The fairness of the distribution is always something highly scrutinized by the larger cryptocurrency community, and many coins (pow and pos) have massively unfair distributions of their currency (ie to themselves as a money making or "funding" scheme).
I do think you're being a bit overly cynical. Many kids will find a way to liquidate their money and buy cannabis. I know this, because that's what I would have done.

However, unlike software engineering, policy shouldn't be made to cover all the corner cases.
No, it hasn't occured to me. As I said, it was napkin math. At the same time the dude I had coffee with is an engineer at a rather respectable motor vehicle company so I assumed he has enough insider knowledge beyond what is generally available. Perhaps my mistake.

I am sure it's all fun and games and saving the planet until shit really hits the fan regarding what happens with batteries after they're disposed of but I suppose we're at least 20 years away from that and the comment I replied to will have a completely different meaning for people who don't gobble up the general sentiment that EV cars are the next best thing since sliced bread.

Edit: please understand we used numbers from the manufacturer, not made-up stuff. I understand and respect people with PhDs who look into this, but I have zero respect for car companies in general (random e.g. the VW scandal exposing most manufacturers do the same thing).
> But they aren't talking about a philosophy of government and system of laws, they're talking about a party.

Which reflects a philosophy of government and a desired system of laws.

> I wonder how people like that function. Like, they chose a party, and automatically agree and favour everything that party says? That's weird. If not, like if you only believe in 2-3 of their core things, but disagree with the rest, why do you still talk about party affiliation?

Usually it’s the other way around: parties, politicians, and activists specifically court and/or alienate people based on broad cultural affinities, and once they’ve established those affinities, maybe they can communicate their policy and ideological agendas. Both parties have actually substantially changed their policy agendas over the past few years to maintain those cultural affinities.

> What happens when you have a conflicting opinion with the party? Especially considering the party in question is blatantly anti-science. Take climate change for instance. There are young Republicans that aren't braindead or brainwashed enough to think it's a sham and want it taken seriously, but they're still stuck only with the Republican party as a choice because the the main things they believe in match only with them. And then have to support the party which proudly says that climate change means no more burgers, so it's obviously stupid and wrong and God wouldn't have wanted it!

This seems like a parody of what Republicans actually believe, but let me detach from the object level a little bit here: it sounds like you really would not, yourself, prefer to live in a state governed by Republicans. Well, you don’t have to!

> Or, hear me out... compromise?

Federalism is a compromise.

> Otherwise you'd have half the country living in a backwards, religious law-based, science denying country with lots of guns, high teen pregnancies and child abandonment and mistreatment.

Aside from the “lots of guns” thing, this sort of reads as a biased stereotype to me. But I’m trying to avoid the actual object-level political differences here.

It seems by “compromise” what you really mean is, “red states shouldn’t be allowed to decide their own laws”. I somehow doubt you’d be so sanguine about urban Democrat-dominated parts of the country having to “compromise” with those awful, awful Republicans.

Whereas what I mean by “compromise” is—you don’t have to like the other side, or agree with them, or try and come up with a compromise set of policies you can both live under. You can just leave them the hell alone and mind your own business, and in exchange, they will leave you the hell alone and mind their own business.

The US is roughly the size of the European Union, while individual US states are comparable in population to European countries, though a little smaller on average. I think the differences in law and policy between, say, California and Idaho are not as broad as some of the differences between EU member states.
>This can be solved via two strategies. The first, described in broad terms under the name “Slasher” here and developed further by Iddo Bentov here, involves penalizing validators if they simultaneously create blocks on multiple chains, by means of including proof of misbehavior (ie. two conflicting signed block headers) into the blockchain as a later point in time at which point the malfeasant validator’s deposit is deducted appropriately. [...] The second strategy is to simply punish validators for creating blocks on the wrong chain.

Which one does ethereum use?
My school started children in elementary and middle-school on Logo, then Pascal for high-school.
Driving off road is a more common use case for pickups than for delivery vans. Some pickups get driven around on construction sites, and some are used as farm vehicles.

Obviously some people take this way further than practically necessary, but the basic form of a pickup does have a legit reason to be different than a delivery van.
I resent the "(ab)" in "(ab)use tables for layout"... it was all we had AND was still better at vertically centring things until Flexbox arrived!
I always thought Logo would be great for PHP-style web programming.
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I had an employee once who told me his pickup provided him job security. Every company he worked for wanted him to use the truck for errands. He was able to get $2-3/hr more than everyone else.

There were a few times I wanted to let him go but we needed his truck.
Yeah, honestly, I couldn't justify the utility of a truck buying new. The price tags are nuts. I got an old T100. They run forever, cost less than $10K (even in CA where the truck market is crazy), and are very capable for all the stuff I throw at it. I love the thing.
> Lots of compute requires lots of $$$, which isn't opensource-friendly.

Not really, look up BOINC.
>Renting is a hassle, and its cheaper to buy if you need to rent more than a couple times a month.

What kind of activity requires so much transportation?
This is really cool. Does anyone have any suggestions for a reputable printing company for creating prints of these? I see the site links to Canvaspop but I'd be hoping to find someone that could do giclée prints or similar, rather than only canvas.
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Crypto is take it or leave it. You are free to choose if you wish to use any given cryptocurrency. Government, not so much. Those who refuse to participate in compulsory government programs are typically compelled by violence.
People buy F150 because they need a truck. They sold almost 800K last year.
Awesome, thank you for the detailed response!
Story time: Back in 2001 I lived in San Francisco and my little Mazda was going to be in the shop for a while and I needed to rent a vehicle. Long story short the only vehicle I could get my hands on was in the east bay and was a (I shit you not) Dodge Ram 2500 Diesel. Absolutely obnoxious. Being from Texas I was used to driving pickups but a this thing is just shy of a two ton payload capacity. I have no idea what this was doing on the lot at Enterprise or whoever I rented it from.

Well, the dirty looks I got every time I belched black smoke on the streets of SF were a given. What I did not expect (or notice previously) was the other truck drivers (however few) there were in San Francisco. It seems I too was inducted into a little club. Whenever I saw another truck there was always a thumbs up, or a "nice truck". Kinda funny when all I got was dirty looks from everyone else.
cryptocurrencies, but not blockchain more generally.
In principle, the small trailer with a small car plan is great. It doesn't really work in the U.S. though. There is some combination of towing practices and regulations that make this not work here.

In the past few decades, we've seen many cars here go from having some decent tow rating to a very low tow rating or saying in the manual not to tow.

Just for example, the Mazda 3 in Australia has a tow rating of 1200kg. In the UK it's 1500kg. In the U.S., towing is not allowed at all per the owner's manual.

I'm not sure what all the reasons for this discrepancy is. I know when I lived in Germany where towing fairly big things with fairly small cars was more common, I noticed some differences in towing practices:

1. They use a different style of hitch that flips down under the bumper instead of the receiver style hitch in the U.S. The German style hitch kept the ball closer to the bumper, which improves stability.

2. The trailer is loaded with a fairly balanced weight distribution so that there is not much weight on the tongue of the trailer. This keeps the rear suspension of the car from being compressed and keeps weight on the front wheels of the car. It has the downside of making the trailer less stable at higher speeds.

3. Presumably because of this lower stability, many trailer/car/driver combinations are limited to 80kph. Car/trailer combinations tend to have a critical speed where they become unstable if the weight from the trailer is not loaded in the front, and 80kph is a typical speed where this can start to happen.

4. Germany requires extra licensing to tow a trailer. Someone who actually gets some training and has to pass a test is going to be a lot safer towing than someone who got 5 minutes of instruction at U-Haul.
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For a family, a minivan is very practical. Not only for your one, two, or more kids, who will easily be accommodated in a 7-seater or 8-seater (if you add the optional middle seat in row 2), but when taking their friends along to the park etc.

My minivan is a Chrysler with the stow'n'go fold-down seats; in about 5 minutes I can fold all the passenger seats down into the floor and have 8' x 4' cargo space, which is more than most pickup beds.

Pickups have the advantage of height, as pointed out previously; if you need to move a refrigerator or a Harley, probably a pickup is better. Also, pickups can tow trailers & RV's.

But for taking my family on holiday, or when transporting a sound system, musical instruments, and 2 other musicians all in one vehicle, the minivan works best for me :)
Every action doesn’t need its own physical control. Knobs and buttons can be multipurpose. My mazda3 has touchscreen but it’s disabled because I can navigate and control everything with a single “command” knob.
Autopilot sure but software updates are obviously an issue if they can brick your car.
> What is the meaning of use(*p) in case p is null?

It dereferences a null pointer, invoking undefined behaviour, then calls the function `use` with the resulting value.

> what should the compiler emit?

Probably something to the effect of:

ld r0 [sp+.p] # if p is not already in a register
ld r0 [r0] # *p
jsr use

but it would be fine to emit something like:

ld r0 [sp+.p] # if p is not already in a register
jz r0 .panic
ld r0 [r0] # *p
jsr use

because the jz can only be taken when undefined behaviour happens.
This is not directly about 51% attacks.

This is about chain splits.
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> Write your representative and tell them to thank the EPA and NHTSA for doing their jobs.

It seems like those regulations aren't working they way they ought to if the result is to encourage people to drive bigger cars than they need and to have more cars on the road that minimize the safety risk to the occupants while maximizing risk to everyone else...

> The death of the small pickup is squarely the fault of the confluence of fuel economy and crash safety regulations.

...and the chicken tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
The whole concept of ev truck as portable power generator is an interesting concept to explore, and one I'd love to see evolve into other EV vehicles.
thanks for the reply

I'd argue that pretty much every civilization has tried the peer-to-peer thing in the beginning. I won't get too much into the history of bartering, but to your point regarding a central pain in the ass, I think that's why the entire world has sort of settled on "proof of violence." ultimately, like you've said, the only way to defend your position when you're a large central authority is with violence.
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On of the consequences of those provisions is often either

1. Companies do weird divisions to keep under the limits

2. Companies are artificially restricted in their growth as they need to add employees but are unable to, for example if the cut of was 50 employees, adding the 49th employee is easy, adding the 50th employee is $$$$$ thus it will not happen, this would mean few companies grow to 50, rather you would see several 50+ employee companies merge as the cost burden for the new 100 employee company would spread over all 100 employees, vs the regulatory cost being hit with the single employee add
Pedestrians make up only a small minority of people killed in car crashes. (Like 6k of 40k per year.) So sure, it's good to make easy adjustments if they lead to big reductions in deaths, but it's not reasonable to care a ton about seriousness restricting the form factor yet think cars are fine in general. Best would be indexing car/truck sales tax to the size of the negative safety externalities, which would be a quite small fraction of the total car price, and letting people buy what they want to buy. It's clear consumers in the US value the large truck format and are willing to pay for it.
I think you're looking for "proof of gun" by either the military in a macro sense or the police in a more micro sense.
Following this line, wouldn't corporations form around the large stakes? So essentially banks, but with transparent holdings?

I'm not well versed enough in financial systems to game out the implications of this, but as someone who believes in the efficiency of free markets, it seems like a good thing to have more transparent banks.
So far the used car market for EVs is fascinating. Right now the mean "first owner" life of an EV still seems to be triple that of an ICE vehicle. An average EV owner is keeping the car for closer to 9 years compared to the 3 year average turnover of ICE vehicles that has been a used car market staple for decades. (A lot of used car dealers would hope this statistic would decline as we have moved past the earliest of early adopters to more "mainstream" buyers, but so far there are no indications of this shifting.) Because of that EVs are holding their market prices more stable over time than ICE vehicles as they age and there's a lot fewer EVs on the used car market to judge any clear statistics just yet.

The market prices may seem to be reflecting that overall reliability of an EV is much higher than comparable ICE vehicles as they age and that so far battery degradation hasn't been a market issue. Though again, that may still be some bias from much, much smaller sample sizes to date.

What we do know is that of the EVs entering the used market, very few show noticeable signs of battery degradation (again, at 9 years on average!). Most of the ones with very noticeable battery degradation are Nissan Leafs. Most of those are still getting resold at decent prices (compared to equivalently aged ICE vehicles) and as cars to new owners (often as a second commuter car for a household some of these statistics suggest) and expected to still be on the roads a surprising number of years even after "noticeable degradation".

Some of the earliest of these degraded batteries were still under lease from Nissan, as Nissan for the first few years of Leaf sales had a battery lease model, and Nissan hasn't released statistics but admitted "surprise" that very few of the leases have been called in and most people still prefer to drive the Leafs as-is "degraded battery" or not rather than release the batteries to secondary usage. Nissan had plans for a project like Tesla's PowerWall for secondary life batteries (only; Tesla sells PowerWalls built from entirely newly sourced batteries), but claims so far they've yet to receive back enough batteries to build a single one even given how notably "degraded" their batteries have as a reputation in the used market.

All of which is to say that current indicators are that EVs seem to be on the road with their original batteries right now statistically for 15+ years even most of the "most degraded" ones the used market has seen to date. Replacing the batteries hasn't seemed to be an issue that has manifested yet in the used market. Though that extra reliability currently seems to come at a cost in the used market for the people who rely on cheap used cars because the cars seem likely to remain more expensive than ICE vehicles as that first owner statistic alone likely keeps the prices compared to age higher, but the overall reliability also may be keeping the prices high.
Ahhh. So that's why it happened, makes sense now. These are the types of regulations I want to see disappear (or, rather, modified to align better with desired incentives).
I'm also planning on doing this. I fervently want to live in another country for at least a few months.

I could probably stop working for about 6 months if I pick a cheap country.
I live 5 minutes from a HD and it is still a giant PITA to rent their truck. Usually there is a line and the transactions are relatively slow. Then you have to gas it up. Then you have to make an extra trip, even more if you're not using it to bring home a Home Depot purchase. Then you only have it for 75 minutes.
This is not even an argument, there's no substance at all, just "I don't know how this works, I won't bother to learn and I don't trust it". Even a 1 minute skim of Ethereum's docs on proof of stake[1] would prove him wrong. Proof of stake means the you have to hold ETH to validate transactions, meaning defrauding the network and causing a fork would destroy the value of your own stake.

[1] https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/consensus-mechanisms...
Sure but it's not just about quantity. They need to be along the highways to be useful for roadtrips. And no one else even has the tech for supercharging at the moment, it's 72kwh supercharges vs 50kwh (rare) ( as far as I know ).
Worth noting that the Rizon-related tweet that you cited is most definitely false and zero opers have moved or been added that match that criterion recently.
They're not going to test positive if they only use casually.
In the UK, we were reminded to clean the inside of the windscreen to remove the telltale suction cup marks, so thieves wouldn't assume there was likely a satnav hidden in the glovebox or boot. (Windscreen = Windshield, Boot = Trunk)
I don't need to know anyone's name, just show me the code.
While that's personally appealing to me, I worry that we tend to understand what we want to understand - there's a reason we use the expression "if a were a horse" as a parody of empathy. Though of course that's even more true of trying to make sense of other human beings, which I don't think is impossible (just hard).
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The F-150 Lightning only comes in Super Crew (4-door).
Yes, of course, if it’s a two way relationship. But I’ve seen plenty where the “mark” is unaware or cognitively dissonant that they are being taken advantage of.

Initially, they take pride in being able to help someone, but eventually they’re giving much more than taking, and they cannot bring themselves to say no, whether it be to keep themselves happy because “if I’ve helped them before, why should I not help them now…even though I don’t really want to”, or to avoid confrontation.

Pride is always a liability, so I like to try to keep away from it as much as possible.
Just to clarify, he asked for a downside of trucks, I said they're far more likely to kill pedestrians and bikers than normal-sized cars in the event the driver hits someone (which is true). And the next logical step is "we should all live in the farmland and not leave the house at night"?
Great analogy, I just fear the classic answer will popup “Imagine if you wish to sell your product inside Walmart”...
You are right, sorry for missing the third bug.
That's just Amazon's policy, not some sort of fundamental constraint of Rails itself.

While it's true Rails will use more ram than other options for a given traffic level, many of us have scaled it just fine.

The techempower benchmarks aren't particularly useful for anything other than forum warrior style arguments. They don't really measure a realistic workload.

Your last sentence is entirely unnecessary.
This type of hand-waiving is amusing coming off a year where we couldn't even really speed up something as simple as toilet paper production.
The fact that this paper was in the best 5% of papers submitted to this IEEE conference[1] tells you all you need to know about academia.

[1] https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2021/downloads/2021_PC_St...
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