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The argument makes sense when you put it that way, and especially in the terms of NFTs. In my opinion it all depends on what we envision the future will look like. If you ask me, I’d love to take the responsibility of managing my own keys and being my own bank , regardless of the issues that come with this approach (for example losing the keys).

I suggest you take a look at what we at AMPnet (www.ampnet.io) are doing and how we plan to bridge the real world assets to the blockchain.

two main issues here pointed out:

- losing the keys

- ownership transfer issue

We are building the decentralised network of auditors, on top of Ethereum. Auditors are randomly selected every now and then to continuously verify listed assets and check if the ownership structure fetched from the government databases matches the blockchain representation of the listed asset. In order for asset to get listed, one must provide the collateral less than or equal to the $$$ value of the asset (depending on some factors this amount can vary from asset to asset). Once the asset is bridged you get all the nice things distributed ledgers can provide, such as the cheap transfer of wealth, or out of the box integration with many existing defi protocols. If something shady happens with the listed asset (for example owner sells the asset in the real world while he remains the owner on the chain) then he gets slashed and the collateral is automatically liquidated. Auditors will detect this in the next auditing cycle.

For the faint of heart or the ones wanting to play with the blockchain but are not ready to take care of the keys we’ve integrated the hosted wallet support by using the Arkane services. They hide the wallet behind the simple google/fb signin methods and users don’t have to worry about losing the keys. Arkane guarantees to not lose or leak your keys and provides the insurance on every hosted wallet.

So yeah, I agree the challenges exist, but so do the solutions. Benefits of the blockchain are simply too good to not try many different approaches on solving these issues.
Thanks for that feedback, we will add more information. Date of the event is June 15th, the four speakers are listed on the page. It's a special event, so not a full conference. Hope this helps!
If free mental health care was provisioned, would incels avail themselves of it? Because, last I heard, it's unmanly to talk about feelings. I agree that better (and available) mental health care is of critical importance... but how do you make a horse drink?
If the application switched to key press mode, you're not going to be able to type reset.
I mean, the use case is (generally) providing a verifiable transaction chain. We have complex processes in place for doing this IRL right now for assets such as real estate deeds, vehicle titles, etc. Obviously, these all work because we collectively agree on the system in place. Blockchain would provide an alternative process for this. With tokenization, it would be possible to have multiple stakeholder ownership for a real asset.
What about a piece of software designed to circumvent laws against accessing websites critical of some authoritarian regime? Should citizens of that country suck it up, because the solution to a bad law isn’t “no law”? Is using such software immoral?
It's funny as I didn't know who he was either. I went to the link expecting someone with thousand upon thousand of Amazon reviews or something else that stood out about the profile/reviews. I had to Google him to find out who he was. I have heard of his books, but didn't recall his name I guess.
This piece probably has a very specific intended audience.
What are you congratulating?
>You seem to assume I am perfect social fit in all teams and groups I am member off.

I made no such claims. I literally only used the sole example you used.

>It is super odd to me that you assume that normal state is to be perfect fit for working group you are in.

Again, you are putting words in my mouth. All I am stating is that if you find yourself in a fairly homogenous group that you don't necessarily fit in, it can be an alienating experience. My only other claim is that point seemed to fly by you because you were more concerned with things you're interested in, like indoor rock climbing, being painted as "bad".

>It is super odd to me that you assume that normal state is to be perfect fit for working group you are in.

I’m not sure how you can have this takeaway. My point is literally the exact opposite idea about how homogeneous cultures can be alienating if we aren’t careful.
What kind of a nonsense reason is this. If they actually did the work it'd be just as good as any other locale they do support.

Why can Microsoft and Google offer excellent localization virtually everywhere, and Apple can't? Apple too poor, can't hire enough people? No. So what is it?
He spent around 1 year in custody before being released on bail.

And he's sentenced to 30 months, suspended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Karpel%C3%A8s#Arrest_and_...

From all I've read, custody before sentencing in Japan is no picknick.
>Failing to update the blockchain means the sale didn't go through.

What sale? An artist I love offers a vinyl record for sale via NFT. Being a fan of the artist moreso than a proponent of blockchain technology, I purchase the record. An unknown number of years go by and I decide that I don’t really enjoy the record anymore. The record sits on my shelf collecting dust for years until a friend comes over and expresses interest in it. I casually tell them they can keep it and I move on with my life. That friend now, for all intents and purposes, owns the record that I bought. It belongs to them.

>You can’t assert ownership via a blockchain then believe failing to update the blockchain is acceptable.

But in my example, I don’t care about the blockchain. I’m more interested in the music, the blockchain is just a barrier to me obtaining it. My physical copy is far more important to me than an electronic record that says I bought it, so as long as the record makes it to my house after I purchase it, I’m happy.

Unless there’s a law that stipulates that I absolutely MUST update the blockchain when I pass it on to my friend, I may just not care about it. Hell, I might even forget about it if that's one of the only blockchain transactions I've ever made. It'd be a damn shame if I forget my blockchain account credentials, too...

>The buyer has records of transfer, eg payment. Right?

Not always, no. Did you write out, and get notarized, something that says you gave your friend your used frying pan and let them keep it? If I bought that record and just told my friend, “Eh, sure, take it, it’s yours,” then typically we’re not going to generate a record of that transaction.

>The court orders new block chain item.

Ah, see, that’s where I misunderstood your first post. You used the word “asset” in reference to the artwork early on, and then said the court could “order the creation of a new asset”, when you actually meant, “order the creation of a new blockchain transaction”, correct?
Well the oracle problem has been solved for something as simple as price feeds. So today you can easily get price feeds from any pair of assets into the blockchain in a decentralized way.

Why are there developers in crypto? Because it's very cool and interesting? I'm currently working on building applications for Starkware and layer 2 networks and I'm loving it. It's totally wild what you can do with programmable money, like https://alchemix.fi/ where you can get loans that repay themselves by providing liquidity to yield aggregating protocols. Totally new way of thinking about money and value. I think it's funny when people think this is useless. I suspect they wouldnt be saying that if they actually developed applications on the EVM
Well, the conference essentially just borrows the name, in effect. The conference is highly vendor oriented, unlike Blackhat or Defcon. The speakers, however are RSA themselves. Keep in mind that they are no longer associated with the company.

And the theme "crypto means cryptography" is a losing battle, I think.
Sad trombone. You could have avoided all that if you had written the software to the standards and not to IE. Then you didn’t use the many years you got to transition.

It’s way too much work to port your app? Well guess it isn’t that important after all. Because whether you want it or not, IE is a dead end and it’s going away.
Let's say I wanted to start a small podcasting collective with people from many different countries. We would all know each other in so far as any member of a small online group knows other members. We might want to have people tip our podcasts and streams, and we might want to use a system to split up that income to the people in the collective. Bitcoin can allow that kind of revenue splitting without having to mess with hiccups in the legacy financial system.

Whatever people's reasons, I don't think crypto is just one thing because there is a whole world of things people might use it for, and I can't trust myself to know of or approve or appreciate the value of all of them. In that way, crypto kinda reminds me of learning to play Go.
Unfortunately, this is a 2015 take on blockchain. Protocols are now to the point where you can have the ability to create "courts" and social governance protocols on the network itself to resolve this kind of thing, also see: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/03/23/legitimacy.html
It is the only true city in the area, where younger people can have a urban lifestyle... the rest is depressing suburbia.... San Jose, and the rest feels like a cultural grave. The only other town that is walkable is Berkley, but that is too small for hosting large companies.
Also, parts of Oakland, but the city itself has major governance issues, and crime in general.

I think NYC and Austin are booming right now. While nyc is a world class city, the 'progressives' have taken over the NY State legislation, and personally it is worrying.

While some of the legislation might be long overdue, and good, there are many parts of the 'progressive' movement that is just nihilistic, and destructive in the long run and it might end up goin the route of SF. So, this year will be the wait and see year on how NY will move forward. If it goes the way of SF (with destructive policies) it might not look good.

But, NYC-ers are more rational, and both of the leading candidates for Mayor seem to be more in the centrist, or center left camp, and the far left / super progressive ones are not doing well.
To be fair, it's also the messaging, marketing and target audience.
Yes. Freenode was the largest public IRC relay network, something like 30 servers, 80k+ users, 40k+ channels, originally directed to open source software but e.g. I would mostly hang out on ##math and ##physics and help students out with problems. This is not a "back in the day" situation, like, it continues to be extremely popular as far as non-Web non-Email internet usage goes.

As for the situation, if I understand correctly:

- Andrew Lee unexpectedly transferred control of the domain names without telling the community of maintainers who actually volunteer, unpaid, to keep the relay servers running.

- The maintainers perceived the company that now held the domain names as "sketchy." Andrew is the director of the company but it looked like its corporate filing status was out-of-date or something.

- In a damage control chat, Lee explained that the domain names were transferred because someone at the sketchy company had a plan to "decentralize ownership of the domain name" (which sounds kind of ridiculous up-front?). Lee also made references to proposals he'd never proposed to those folks which documented the transfer, and other such things... there was apparently also some reference to Freenode costing "millions of dollars" which the maintainers did not appreciate -- responses with the emotional tone of "you mean our donated compute and time that we don't get paid for is costing you millions? how?? and if not, how dare you complain that the main burden is on you rather than on us?"

- And part of the problem is that Lee isn't, you know, a peer of these volunteers running his own Freenode server and having conversations with them on a daily basis, so he came across as a domineering outsider.

For these reasons it looks like the volunteers have basically decided to flee the one domain name and start up a separate one, in the hopes that the users get the message and head on over to the new domain.
What kind of projects are these?

I'd say that $10-30k range is blogs with high search positions and established affiliate partnerships, but that's just my uneducated guess.

BTW: empireflippers.com seems to be down right now, possibly due to all the hype caused by HN audience.
This article doesn't even get into the awesomeness of `cargo build` and `rtt-target` or `probe-rs`! I use these things in my Riskeyboard 70 hall effect keyboard firmware to provide a full-screen debugging interface that gives me real-time output of basically everything that's going on in the keyboard.

It has "channels" and each channel gets its own tab in the built-in interface. It's so sweet! Check it out (I'm typing F1 through F7 to go through all the channels):

https://gfycat.com/lonelyspanishasiandamselfly

To get to that interface I just ran `cargo build --release` and it comes up automatically :D

The values output in the various "AM<num>" tabs are the readings from the hall effect sensors (in millivolts). So I can see that I had a lot of work to do on voltage wobble, haha. We'll see how well I did in fixing it with the next revision of the PCB (which I can't order because everywhere is out of stock of the hall effect sensors I need! SOT-23 "49e" sensors if you're curious which sensor).
How do I find out what portion of a subscription goes to a creator?
Why did the original creator sell? Was the growth not possible for him?
How to Prosecute the Financial Crimes of the Rich
It's not infeasible. The smart contract in the block chain just pays a third party to access real world data. The business model of the oracle provider is to provide accurate data and get paid for it. It works well enough for data that is public.
Ironically, that was one of the reasons why distributions wanted their own builds.
Thank you for sharing your perspective on this. I think other people probably feel similarly.

I am old enough now that I accept my limitations, and have decided to apply my talents to areas that I find interesting and valuable.

Just because I will never be a Leibnitz, I’m still confident that I can help teach people what I know and help them on their own paths to reach their individual potential.

But still, I marvel at geniuses like Feynman who made things seem so effortless.
Duel of the Mega Art Dealers
The very first version was a native application for Windows 95 and 98 (First Edition). It was retired in short order in favor of the ActiveX page.
There's always enough X in San Francisco to give every homeless person X/n of it.

What's lacking in San Francisco is the political will to do anything meaningful about homelessness (or crime, or the housing crisis, or infrastructure, or the schools or anything other than vague virtue signaling)
No, it's that you don't have enough margin (possibly because your lifestyle expanded to keep pace with your resources?)

My parents died. They'd been sitting on property and had never tried to 'featherbed' their kids' experience, so we all grew up THINKING total failure was an option. I survived until I was over 50, very much living constantly with less than $1000 in the bank and a roof over my head (one exception to the latter, but it didn't last long)

I went, at a stroke, from that, to more than $100k in the bank (quite a bit has now been turned into equipment for my work, but not all)

If you have enough money to go for a YEAR with everything else collapsed and gone to zero… as in, however lush or humble your lifestyle, you lose all means of income, but it'll taka a year for you to burn through all your money and have none left… and then you have not lost your normal income after all… that would probably shut off the 'what ifs'.

It's a margin thing. You can continue to keep track, you can continue to fill out your checkbook and all that, but if your margin is roughly a year before you're in serious danger then you will probably not burn extra cycles worrying about your finances. And if you do, the therapy to straighten that out won't be super hard.

I bet you 'enough money for rent and bills' means you can always pay them, not that you've got 12 times that amount socked away. I absolutely wouldn't have ever had that except that my parents literally died and left it to me. I don't design my life to squirrel away 12x more money than I will ever need. I think it's unhealthy, though obviously my folks did something of that nature to create the situation.
I've been using Wipr. I've been getting the white placeholder screen for just about a year now. Every one in a while I get actual ads getting thru, before a new update fixes it.
There are plenty of ways to make the airport part more pleasant with more money. Priority check-in desks and security mean you don't need to get to the airport as early just in case, it will be consistently fast. Priority boarding removes the need to queue. Leaving first probably means shorter queues at immigration. Lounges are much more pleasant to wait at than the general access areas. Does first class baggage also get offloaded first?
> and crime in general

That's no different in SF
I use LastPass with over 600 passwords and have never had this issue...
Anti-Zionism is, by your own definition, opposition to the idea that Jews should have a homeland in what is (now) Israel. I don't see any proponents of "Jews should not have a homeland [at all]" here. Perhaps they could have New York, or Florida.
Unfortunately they are solutions designed for a platform and ecosystem with a lot of suck built-in. For my money, AppImage has the most sane approach, but without support from the wider community they are still a bit of a pain.
Only hope is more and more services actually having the balls to drop IE11, e.g. Office 365.

Imagine Google would not support IE11, I'm sure the pressure to upgrade these browser would be much higher (not sure about the health care space though)
The user themselves not, but if you have some apple homepods and airpods max, they can build the same model and actually do that (and that's part of their spatial audio).

Dolby provides a similar system, but with a generic room simulation, as do several others.
As an aside, I teach Elixir as part of my distributed systems MSc course. Anyone here in the London area (or even UK) looking for junior engineers? It would be nice to have some companies to point my students at when they start looking for jobs (or year in industry).
Millstones
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You're right, I meant "M1 MacBook Pro", not "M1 MacBook". I cannot seem to edit after a certain period.
I'm assuming you hulked out and bent the barrel into a pretzel, and command came back with "well all we can do is dock a paycheck".
What is a connector?
Is that an accurate count? That actually sounds surprisingly low. I figured it was quite a bit higher.
To be fair, this has been on the cards for the last couple of years - should be no surprise to anyone.

Also, if there's a genuine need to keep IE around for longer, then you have some options, e.g. deploy Win 10 LTSC for specific legacy use-cases, or publish IE11 via Citrix.
I see. So this is specifically about speculation, not about replacing all property ownership. This then involves trusting a central authority (the DOA) to grant ownership of the property to who-ever owns the NFT (which can be seen as a derivative from the property). Then the idea is that transfer of ownership through the blockchain is cheaper faster than actual transfer of ownership of a property through the government.

That is interesting, but it seems to me that the legal problems here are far from trivial. How do you, as someone that purchases a NFT that is supposed to grant you ownership of a property, supposed to be ensured that you are actually purchasing a property? What if the DOA simply refuses to give it to you? Are you trusting a central authority without any legal fallback?

There are also laws on eviction. It's not as simple as "if you get a mortgage and don't pay for a month, the house belongs to the bank". The government will not be pleased if people try to wriggle their way around those laws using a setup like this. There is strong regulation in this domain for a reason.
A CIO is more onerous than a CLG because a CIO is a charity, and comes with the charitable reporting requirements (and also the tax benefits).

A pure CLG doesn't have the charitable tax benefits but it's still a non-profit governance structure, and you only have to file with Companies House and HMRC. The CLG is the lowest-hassle non-profit structure.

(Confusingly, CLGs can also be charities - because charitable status can act as a "wrapper" around other corporate structures - and indeed a lot of charities are CLGs because the CIO is a more recent invention.)

I wrote about this, ages ago, I think it's mostly still correct:

https://russ.garrett.co.uk/2009/10/25/starting-a-non-profit-...
“Why isn’t he cashing in?”

Probably the #1 question you should pose unsophisticated people.
> If you are wiring all 1826 cells in parallel, that means you need 1826 battery controllers to achieve reasonable life and reliability.

NB that I'm an electrical engineer and have built many batteries before, including from 18650s. First off, it is absolutely not necessary to have so many controllers; cell-level controllers are only used in the cheapest batteries. High-quality batteries will match cells individually and switch them in groups, which reduces the losses from running a bunch of parallel circuitry. This is not really different from simply using larger cells, as long as you can match them sufficiently well.

Cell-level BMS is very cheap as a result, for example this single cell chip that costs 7 cents each: https://lcsc.com/product-detail/PMIC-Battery-Management_HY22...

> Plus the hassle and cost of using bus bars instead of wires.

Only if you're using 18650s; if you are using prismatic cells you just solder or crimp the tabs to the HV supply. If you're using small-format cells, you would typically used stamped sheet current carriers rather than busbars.

> And it means that the battery module output is 3.6V at an insane amperage and needs a massive transformer for a reasonable voltage.

It certainly does not, because batteries are DC and you do not use transformers to convert their voltage. Transformers require you to convert to AC and back, but you can use an inductor ~100x smaller by using one of the many "boost" topologies. The basic idea is that you only need to convert to AC, and you don't need to rectify back to DC. You chop the high-current DC up very finely, then store 1-3 cycles in a very small inductor. If the inductor is sized just right, it will drain out current that is very close to DC.

Naturally though you would really want to operate between the 245 volts of the Mirai's battery or the 650 volts of the Mirai's fuel stack. That would be something between a 68s27p pack and a 180s10p pack. That's far more efficient. You can still have cell-level BMS for every single cell- that IC I linked above is daisy-chainable, meaning it does not need a real 0v ground reference. It's perfectly happy working at whatever voltages on the two ends of the particular cell its connected to. In this case I'd opt for something closer to 68s- the more cells you have in series, the more susceptible your design is to degraded performance over time.
Seems tricky. Surely the 262 comments were intended to be public.