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Provenance is what gives NFTs their value.

The question is how you prove that provenance if a niche artist has created an NFT on a niche piece of art. (And, honestly, most of the people who would want to create NFTs are going to be in this category.)

Now imagine an agency whose job was simply to create a digital signature on a work that indicated what they had done to prove a particular piece of art really was produced by the artist who then goes on to sign the NFT. If the agency has an established reputation, then that signed NFT has much more solidly established provenance than an unsigned NFT. Of course that agency has non-zero costs to establish provenance. And adds a non-zero amount to the value of the NFT.

What then, can said agency reasonably charge the artist for this service?
You're god-damn right.
But it doesn’t. Switch doesn’t support it. PS4 doesn’t support it.
I'm just describing the plausible argument that the original commenter said didn't exist - to that end, it should be obvious that a bullish investor, who believes crypto is the future of finance, holding a balanced basket of crypto investments, might invest less in any individual coin as more potential successes appear that must be hedged against.
My summer job is a lot like the job that he avoided - it requires "manual labor." But I know Java so... if you know of a computer-related job that's remote or in northern Colorado, let me know.
To disprove a hypothesis only a single counter-example needed.

The example is Iceland. It let its banks fail, wrote down nearly 15% of household debt, let its currency collapse, put capital controls in place. Completely opposite of the west did, everything exactly opposite of what global banking cartel insisted on.

Guess what? They recovered way quicker. If you contrast it to another smaller country that was also hit pretty bad, Ireland, who followed the more common bailouts+austerity, Iceland recovered years ahead of Ireland.

Yes, Iceland is a small country. The bank debt however was quite ridiculous: 20x larger than the GDP of the entire country (lol), and threatened failures of European banks, as most borrowers were foreign. The UK and Dutch governments had to compensate their residents. It was an issue systemic enough to create a diplomatic row and even attempts to kick out Iceland out of the free trade block.

There are plenty of historical examples that contradict the "zomg bailout or else the world ends" FUD.

In the Asian Tiger crisis of 1997, economies with capital controls and managed exchanged rates (Singapore, Taiwan, China, Vietnam) fared much better than relatively more open economies that implemented IMF demands(South Korea, Phillipines, Malaysia, Indonesia), despite of the incessant FUD and pressure from the West at the time.

Even in the case of Great Depression in 1930s, a rather mainstream opinion of the monetarist school of thought today is that the intervention by the Fed was either the cause, or made things much worse. No, it's not some fringe crackpot theorists, but an orthodox mainstream opinion. Nearly 100 years later it is not firmly settled still.

Bankers have perverse moral incentives to convince you that handing over your hard earned tax dollars to them is somehow good for you. Of course they'd say that.

Evicted taxpayers' money going to bailout rich fund managers that made bad bets is the hypocrisy of systemic proportions indeed.
Yes, you would be. I don't understand what the importance of the distinction is in terms of being able to use a device like an iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch.
I'm Not a Robot So Why Won't Captchas Believe Me?
> I understand that. But when I rent a server, I want to be able to use the hardware. That is, if I want to roast the CPU or write to the disks 24/7, I should be able to do that, because I rented the full server.

No, when you BUY a server you should be able to do what you want with it, including burning up the CPU in a week. When you RENT a server, you get to do exactly what the owner says you can do.
I suppose that Freenode will survive the mass exodus going on right now, but will become something akin to the Sourceforge of IRC afterwards.
SENS Research Foundation 2020 Annual Report (2020) [pdf]
There are probably quite many interesting insights that this can provide.

At first I thought the fact that 76% think they procrastinate more than average is one of these insights, but then I remembered I'm playing this game.
Just a heads up I assigned CVE-2021-1000189 https://json.distributedweaknessfiling.org/CVE-2021-1000189, especially in light of the data harvesting concerns and DoS (offering people the ability to arbitrarily k-line people) and the simple fact that a good solution exists in the form of https://libera.chat/
Generally when the artist endorses it. NFTs give you a token that represents a piece of art they made which you can move and resell independently, even if the artist is no longer around. I personally am not very likely to buy any, but I can see the appeal (it's much the same as owning the originals of any other bit of art as opposed to a copy). The current cost of creating and moving them around is unfortunate, however (and reflects the immaturity of crypto as a whole. I believe ethereum is working hard to improve their scaling with a plausible plan, so this should improve, but it is a definite problem at the moment)
This is an interesting take — I don't disagree that these sorts of things happen, but in this case, the author clearly felt his work was paid for fairly.

I think one's own perspective is a pretty key regulator of what's fair and what's not. Perhaps not in the macro level, but on a case by case basis. Is the author's point of view incorrect in your eyes? Who else should be able to decide that, other than the person who experienced it?
The Apple Watch is a smart watch with a touchscreen, it's not just for seeing the hour.
Interesting point.

I’m not looking for crypto to be protected.

I’m looking for all compute classes to be treated equally.

Overriding this, a company should absolutely have the right to offload a customer.

That said, don’t then market yourself as general purpose computing in the cloud.

If I pay for xCPU @ xHz with yRAM I don’t want to have you then tell me what I can do with it. Just charge me aptly for my use.

Tbf I wouldn’t like to think they’d even know what I’m doing. Privacy should be ok.
Ownership is a social construct, dependent on the established social system, particularly a legal one.

It's hard to get around that.

Maybe there are some niche cases for parameterized control for blockchain i.e. we de-facto leave it to the block chain, but there can be 'amendments' to the chain by specific legal authorities that just become part of the system. Not utopian ideal, but maybe 'mostly practical'.
I have heard of unbanked refugees fleeing with crypto and using it to make a new life.
Defmt: Debugging Embedded Rust Without GDB (2020)
With packaging technologies such as Flatpak and Snap, app makers now have the option to distribute a bundled-everything version of their software to Linux users.

This has drawbacks too though, in that it's now up to app makers to take care of keeping supporting libraries up to date and secure. That's not necessarily their top priority though, which is a risk for the end user. Also, unnecessary duplication of libraries increasing memory use, when the distro is able to share most of them. Plus the poor middleman has an incentive to set user-friendly, privacy-preserving defaults that I wouldn't trust as much when the package is provided by a commercial company with different incentives.

It's great to have the option, but overall I would still prefer to use distro packages except in the rare special case.
I've never had AWS block me from S3 - they just charge more for more tx.

I've never had AWS block me from compute - they just charge more if I want more.

I used to chase the "unlimited" services various of the cheaper providers offered - partly because HN always suggests that. But there are often weird limits. Ie, unlimited but... at some point its not worth dealing with. Either peering and latency is garbage, there is some fine print, or they just can't actually deliver the traffic volume. AWS same availability zone latency / bandwidth is really pretty OK between most nodes I've found.
It still doesn't necessarily come down to intelligence. It could just as well be motivation, or laziness, or other social pressures.
What do you mean? They just access the database / server that stores your repo and they modify it.
Collaborative Deploy Previews are fully enabled on every Netlify account today! Anyone with a Netlify account can use the reviewer tool.

This is why I love Netlify.

They put together an incredibly powerful tool, and then released it to ALL of their customers. No, not a "Hey, we created this really cool tool! And for only an extra $3.99/mo you can utilize it!" I have several accounts, both free and paid and all of them have the Deploy Preview feature available.

There's so many things Netlify could've monetized and they haven't. They truly are a customer centric company - which is rare these days.
Also the "sharing". Is the article about "sharing"? Perhaps a normal human would have used the title "An evaluation of our image cropping algorithm".
Wow! I didn’t know about this, thanks for the recommendation.
I love this guy, it’s a guilty pleasure for sure because of his personality but I find it somehow refreshing.
So someone who doesn't have dyscalculia, but is just having a bad day and isn't doing math well...we wouldn't say they are still disabled, and we wouldn't call it a situational disability.
That's a real end of an era. Internet Explorer's legacy engine is going to be relegated to old grayhair horror stories. Not unhappy it's going away, but it feels like a big chapter is closing.
If it allows extensive scripting on player side it would be really nice. But again I know it's very difficult to get it correct.

Other than that, I also love to have global events which promotes cooperation between players or even guilds/alliances.

If I could choose a theme, then I'd prefer 1) DND theme, 2) Three Body theme (the S-F novel).

BTW are you developing one? Which language are you using? Any chance I could tackle along and contribute to the project? Just curious.
RIAA collects a loyalty every time a song is played just because they hold the copyright. Why isn’t there moral outrage on that?
What amazes me is that Charizards can sell for so much when they are so worthless to the game. In MTG the most expensive card Black Lotus is basically broken and can be used in some formats and so actually desired by players. Charizard from the the original Pokemon base set is bad now. His HP is laughably low, his attack throws away tons of energy and it's a 3rd stage evolution making it slow and hard to get out. Even the buffed 2016 Pokemon Evolutions version isn't much more playable.
I don't think this meaningfully reduces the life of a CPU. It is more about sucking up shared resources and making the customer experience all around worse for everyone else not mining crypto.
Jordan Peterson is obsessed with meaning so his books are filled with discussions on it.

Edit: love how I’m getting downvotes for a factual statement
Precisely. That’s why I just use AWS. Costs more but they just do what they say on the tin.
To me AMP is a way of accessing news that would otherwise be blocked off.

Other than that i have no real interest in AMP as an end-user.
Depends on the size of a firm. If you rock up to a small firm and talk to the owner, you could well get a job, they don't have HR rules and corporate management.
Exactly. I'm sitting on the couch now with my laptop on my lap, so I can't walk right now, but I'm not leg disabled.

I'm not partially blind just because I can't see with my eyelids closed.
It's interesting how differently her generalizations are received on HN, vs. Paul Graham's, even though her's are (IMO) much more extreme.

I won't be the same as her, though, and say that all poor people complain and that all poor people steal. I'm just gonna say, she's a negative, immoral person.
That would be a more accurate term.
You've had lots of sales advice already so I won't comment on that. How does your product compare with liquid chalk like this [1] which used to be pretty popular in France. No idea if it was popular in the US.

I know quite a lot of climbers in England and if I had this product I'd get it in local independent climbing gyms and shops, I'm sure they wouldn't take much convincing, even if you weren't getting great money for it it would be an awesome place to show off your product. Some friends own an independent gear company called alpkit.com I'm sure if you had stock in the UK they'd consider taking it on if it works as good as you think it does.
This is something people don't seem to understand about Chia. Mining ("farming") Chia is a very low-resource activity that can be done easily on Raspberry Pis — it's mostly just doing a few disk seeks every 30 seconds.
That is totally understandable, but do they have to use the whole chip?
Be careful. He might write a biting, 20-bullet-point-long review of your comment.
Charge appropriately
> For instance, we as a society don't call someone disabled for not being good at math, unless something else has been diagnosed that causes that.

It is part of the definition for intellectual disabilities though. From [1]:

> An individual is generally diagnosed as having an intellectual disability when: (1) the person's intellectual functioning level (IQ) is below 70-75; (2) the person has significant limitations in adaptive skill areas as expressed in conceptual, social, and practical skills; and (3) the disability originated before the age of 18. "Adaptive skill areas" refer to basic skills needed for everyday life. They include communication, self care, home living, social skills, leisure, health and safety, self direction, functional academics (reading, writing, basic math), and work.

Being bad enough at math that it impedes day to day life is not sufficient to qualify for intellectual disability under the ADA but it's one of the major factors.

I think the point is that even capable humans are often in situations where they are functionally disabled - like when they're really exhausted or inebriated or mentally/physically overloaded - and all of these accessibility technologies are helpful in those situations. It's not about the ADA definition but humans in practice.

[1] https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/persons-intellectual-disa...
> The next guy to convert, was able to negotiate harder and I believe he ended up with a higher rate

This is why salary negotiations are inherently unfair* (and salary info does get around even in companies that try to keep it secret -- if it's fair who cares if it gets around?)

* unfair because of an asymmetry: a hiring manager with any experience will have a higher n in negotiating hires than any employee will have negotiating their own comp. Also unfair because it pays for more for a skill not needed in most jobs (negotiating a feature in or out of a codebase is not the same thing). It is fair when the job calls for it (e.g. CEO or a VP of Business Development)
Aside from not really knowing what Freenode is/was (a bunch of IRC servers?) none of that really makes clear what Andrew Lee is actually doing that is so objectionable.
It may be easy to jump to the fatalistic conclusion that we are all clueless lemmings waiting to be wiped out by some random event or another but the book ultimately suggests to not ignore tail events. What you make out of those is up to you. Some of those are disasters for which one should hedge against but some others are opportunities to reap outsize benefits.
Let's clone dang and employ the clones as moderators for all forms of social media. We will of course pre-program them for compliance.

We can replace one moral quandary with another, much darker, one, which is a boon because it is something to talk about. And we've solved twitter.
But then Hetzner has to pay to replace it and the customer isn't happy. Not exactly a good situation to be in.
Either way is fine, I think.
Nokia confirms it’s replacing the ‘incumbent vendor’ in Swedish 5G deal
If you tried it out and have any feedback, I'd love to hear it!
The most important feature any browser ever included was auto-update. If IE had included this, things would be quite different.
> Cars monitor energy use through MPG. Datacenters monitor it as well. Why should crypto currencies get a pass?

cars spend energy to move. datacenters spend energy to compute things. bitcoin mining doesn't spend energy to process achieve some TPS, it spends energy to achieve certain level of security, so it's security per energy spent that matters, not energy per transaction.

if transactions or number of them are not an input to a bitcoin miner -- if miner will spand the same energy whether it's for 1 or 1 trillion transactions -- then energy per transaction metric is zero signal.

> [CITATION NEEDED]

no, actually, it's an opinion. current financial system and fiat money cause immense externalities: war, corruption, hunger, crime, etc. bitcoin is an incarnation of money where security is expressed in form of energy spent - you no longer need to involve politics or any other human activities to achieve security and so a large incentive for those simply disappears. bitcoin doesn't solve those externalities, but that specific aspect of money is simply no longer contributing.
Yet WeWork happened still. And tons of investors get screwed by scams or companies completely lying.

Makeup company Coty couldn't verify Kylie Jenners companies earning and once they audited it they found out that it wasn't making nearly as much as they thought.

So it's not like its uncommon for investors to get taken for a ride. Why should we then treat them differently than lower income investors?
I still believe that there is a misconception of what this document states. On page 5 of what you refer to, the authors state:

The terms used in the engagement section of this resource are ideas presented in the dismantling Racism workbook (2016) notebook, grounded on the work of Jones and Okun (2001). It is important to read this article first to fully understand the terms that are identified as characteristics of white supremacy culture in organizations. We contextualize these ideas into the math classroom to make visible how white supremacy culture plays out in these spaces.

It then lists a series of terms including Either/Or. The above quotation refers to a document found here:

https://www.thc.texas.gov/public/upload/preserve/museums/fil...

With respect to Either/Or thinking, it is defined on page 5:

Either/Or Thinking
• things are either/or, good/bad, right/wrong, with us/against us
• closely linked to perfectionism in making it difficult to learn from mistakes or accommodate conflict
• no sense that things can be both/and results in trying to simplify complex things, for example believing that poverty is simply a result of lack of education
• creates conflict and increases sense of urgency, as people are felt they have to make decisions to do either this or that, with no time or encouragement to consider alternatives, particularly those which may require more time or resources

antidotes: notice when people use either/or language and push to come up with more than two alternatives; notice when people are simplifying complex issues, particularly when the stakes seem high or an urgent decision needs to be made; slow it down and encourage people to do a deeper analysis; when people are faced with an urgent decision, take a break and give people some breathing room to think creatively; avoid making decisions under extreme pressure

As far as whether or not Either/Or has a place in modern mathematical thinking, I will contend the answer is a resounding no, but it does certainly depend on what you or I believe that concept means. To me, and I believe to the authors, it means the false dichotomy fallacy. In this definition, it has no place because it would lead to false proofs. In many ways, it could be considered the incorrect application of the pigeonhole principle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle

If we falsely assume that there are only two holes when there are more, proofs based on this assumption will not be true. I'll also contend that the concept of Either/Or does not refer to the logical disjunction, similar to a programming or. It's a different idea and not what these documents are referring to.

But, really, you don't need to take my word for it. The authors do define what they mean by each of these terms in the above document. I will contend all of these documents need to be considered together in order to understand what California is proposing.
Eh, so write a warrant to buy the NFT for a dollar, then sell the warrant.
I use Debian testing as my daily driver at home and at work, and have found it to be plenty stable over the decade or so that I've been using it.

I've also been using Arch on a "for messing around; I don't care if it breaks" laptop for about two years, and haven't had any major breakages.

For me, the most noticable difference has been that Debian will install new kernels as new packages, will suggest removing old kernel packages, but won't suggest removing the currently booted kernel. I like this behavior. By default, Arch will swap your currently booted kernel and modules out from under you. You don't necessarily need to reboot right away, but if you don't, you can run into issues loading modules or recovering from hibernation.

You can work around this once you realize what's happening, but it seems like a needlessly dangerous default.
Not all gyms are created equal, and it's possible she (perhaps through ignorance or lack of choice based on the reimbursement) picked one that is full of judgmental people who are already fit and just go to the gym as status signaling and/or to maintain their fitness. Also, "gym" might mean some sort of "fitness class program", so it might not just be a big room with cardio equipment, free weights, and weight machines. The fitness class type does anecdotally seem to attract more of the status-conscious people than do-your-own-exercise type gyms do. (To be completely fair, the fitness class type does of course attract a lot of people just looking for a more structured way to get into shape.)

While I agree that most gyms are great places full of supportive people (or at least people who don't give you a second look and will leave you to do your thing in peace), there are also certainly some gyms that seem to exist more as status symbols than anything else.

But still, assuming she had a choice (again, maybe the company gym perk only covered one specific gym), she absolutely should not have given up after that one experience, and should have tried another gym. I do get how it can be hard enough to get yourself to go the gym in the first place, though, and a bad experience can completely drain any motivation to continue on.
The exchanges handle that part of the "problem" by simply having an outage. The withdrawal limit solves the rest of the problem by limiting how much USDT can be converted to USD.
Without even looking it up, I'd hazard that Chrome has at least a couple orders of magnitude more users than the Fediverse.

This renders any move the Chrome developers make available and usable to something approaching an actual critical mass of usage, even if it is a less open standard.

And I say this as a Firefox user and someone who wants open standards to win out over whatever corporate lock-in Google decide to roll out.
Right, so just use a normal database then. Shard and/or replicate it if you must. It's orders of magnitude more energy efficient, easier to mutate, maintain, and upgrade, and seems to solve the problem at least as adequately.
I was using them to run my own server. I used to pay them in cash, but I earned so many credits by referring people to them that I haven't paid them in years. I've also often thought about starting my own SaaS, and those credits would have helped keep my costs down.