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I'm also from Scandinavia and I just don't agree with you. What you're saying doesn't line up with my own experiences, nor with my understanding of the statistics.

In general, it seems like you are attributing all academic performance to some innate "intelligence" in the singular. This is just a bad assumption. There are many factors behind how well you do in school, and most of them are quite obviously social. That doesn't mean that your parents academic performance doesn't influence your, but there's no basis for claiming that it's genetic. We can help people do better, and we have done so. Of course, what we're doing now isn't perfect, but that doesn't mean it's not worth it.
How about earlier this month when corporate asked child care workers to come back to the office to take care of your kids and refused to re instate their transportation benefits?

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/552403-google-childcar...
I think it's made clear in the article, isn't it ?
It happens like clockwork after every next step up. We don’t have a lot of history, so who knows how long the pattern will hold, but this was fairly predictable. If past trends are predictive, it’ll bottom in the mid 20s to low 30s, consolidate for a while, then hit 100k. Rinse and repeat.

To be clear, I own some cryptos, but treat it purely as the speculative gamble that it is.
I'm neither "pro Bitcoin" nor "anti Bitcoin". I don't own any Bitcoin and never have, but it's not because I'm against it. I just haven't needed it. What I am, is skeptical of BTC as a speculative commodity that should be treated as an investment. I don't need more stuff to invest in... what I find appealing about the idea of crypto-currencies in general is their use as a currency.

And in that regard, I find something like Monero, which specifically has anonymity as a feature, more appealing. And then all the "smart contract" / "programmable money" aspects of things like Ethereum also have some appeal, but not enough to date to where I've bothered actually buying any.

All of that said, I want a viable crypto-currency - that functions primarily as a currency - to exist, as something that's outside of government control, and ideally something that allows for anonymous transactions. I'm just not sure we have it yet. Maybe it's Monero, or maybe we're still waiting for The One. I don't spend enough time on this topic to be sure.
Most IRC users today were kids during the fragmentation days. It's like still complaining about 1990s AI Winter.
And that's how dogecoin was "born"
I'd genuinely be interested to know what the difference is between something like IETF / IEEE / ITU / W3C and a non-profit which was created as a standards body for a specific standard (e.g. Matrix.org Foundation or XSF). Is it just that you're recognised as a peer by the other long-established standards bodies? Or is there a standards-body-for-standards-bodies somewhere?
Yeah, the only magic sauce behind Bitcoin seems to be that it was the first one and has the most valuable brand.
When the price crashes money disappears.
I grew up in a rural area and I think I can count on 1 hand how many times I saw a farm stand. People do not shop at farm stands and farmers markets in rural areas that often.
Changed by pandemic, many workers won't return to old jobs
I think it's the other way around - bridge your slack/discord/whatever into matrix, and then bridge the matrix results into IRC channels. That way everything stays put in your IRC client and you don't have to have a webpage open just to chat.
Selling user data?
China bans cryto services companies.
> Most people don't get opportunities to study at one of the most elite educational institutions in the world, with world-class academics

Most don't. Many do. And Vom Neumann was still massively ahead of them, and the rest of the world.

Trying to write off his raw brain power as mostly a consequence of his socio-economic standing and upbringing is intellectually bankrupt but populist-pandering poppycock.
This sounds like a much better spec. Using the 65c816 keeps the 8-bit vibe but doesn't force you to play the bank switching game to access more than 64K. DVI instead of VGA itself is also enough to give it a much better chance of success.
The book is still in print: "Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics: Volume 1: Containing Propositions, Formulae, and Methods of Analysis,"
> Most of the tests I write aren't for pure functions

In response to this, I recommend the "Functional Core, Imperative Shell"[0] talk/pattern. The idea is to extract your business logic as pure functions independent of the data access layer. This pattern allowed me to test large portions of a code base using property tests. This works really well in most cases and gives me much more confidence in the product that will be deployed.

[0]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...
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> It seems to me like this is a shortcoming of the English (and American) legal system, where non-profit organizations and such can only be founded as "regular" companies and then tax-exempted. This means they are still subject to all the normal procedures surrounding companies like sales, and still tend to have one or a few owners who are solely in charge of everything.

This isn't true in the UK. There's a structure called a Company Limited by Guarantee, which has no shareholders so it can't be sold. It's an association.

These are quite common, and in fact Freenode Limited is one. It was never "sold" in any conventional sense. There is no owner of Freenode Limited, but Andrew Lee is currently the only voting member so he has full control.
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> This one is way off. Synapse, the "one complete server" you must be referring to, is going to be deprecated. The Matrix Foundation team is working on Dendrite to replace it.

I hugely disagree.

I have tried to setup a "homeserver". Synapse is huge beast, complex, CPU and memory-hungry, hard to setup (no, a Docker or VM instance does not mean easy to setup). Dendrite is not ready and has been "not ready" for years, not to mention it is also huge and hard to setup, and from the same vendor, so it allays none of the fears. Construct is the _only_ one of all the 3rd party servers which I have found to be actually in a fully usable and federable state (the rest being all in different states of abandonment and uselessness), created by an author who is _openly_ critical of Matrix-the-company and their policy regarding 3rd party servers (incl. how most of the protocol is just defined by bug-by-bug Synapse compatibility and how the Matrix webpage to this day has no 3rd party servers list -- but happy to feature 3rd party paid-hosting list)

Compare this with Jabber. I install in seconds any of the _multiple_ servers that come with Debian stable. They are by now years old, but they still can connect with _everyone_ on the Jabber network. In Matrix, if I run a 2 year old Synapse, it will be like death-by-ostracization; same if I run today's Conduit.
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Yeah, you're not going to get anything like a real instrument outputting a sawtooth wave, especially the bass notes.
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Can someone explain why people are upset about Freenode leadership? I've read the other linked articles, but I don't understand what the reasons are.
The esp32 would have been a good graphics controller and would have been very cheap and simple. It would have provide VGA NTSC, PAL and wifi.

The fpga graphics controller seems like overkill to me.
>Pictured: Commander X16P concept art

clearly art https://imgur.com/Y36FUCg
> Whether a monarchy without a written constitution, or separation of Church and State can be considered a democracy is left as an exercise to the reader.

That's begging the question, since it assumes an objective answer. Rather, "it is up to the reader whether they consider a monarchy without a written consistution, or separation of Church and State, to be a democracy".

Even that is rather silly, since it's drawing arbitrary lines on a spectrum of more/less democratic. Some are pretty clean, e.g. direct democracy is more democratic than representative democracy; an elected head of a republic is more democratic than an inherited head of a monarchy. Others have more overlap, and hence aren't strictly ordered in the abstract, e.g. written versus unwritten constitutions, sortition versus election, etc.
People will always find things to complain about. Toronto isn't SF when it comes to tech (nowhere is), but it still has plenty of opportunity. Don't listen to the complainers. Just focus on becoming a good SWE for now, then worry about maximizing your earnings.
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Meanwhile, Elon Musk is trying to extinguish the fire.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1395027147161489412
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Why not have 5% or less in BTC, if it does well, good for you, if it does not, its just 5% of your portfolio.
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I mean doge is more direct - 35 cents after a major crash. It only just got lifted from 8 cents territory, where a crash was feared
That is the point. People don't use Facebook because they like using real names, people use real names on Facebook because they were forced to in order to stay on Facebook.

When that Zuck quote happened, Facebook didn't require real names.
Here you go -- exactly what you asked for. FOSS, available today.

https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/Software%...
undercollaterized loans are valid for one transaction only. You should research what you preach before dismissing others
Is this a condemnation of crypto markets then? Because you put most of that stuff in place, you probably lose the 'value' of crypto (anonymity, lack of central governance etc).
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Depends on the state. Many (if not most) have declared some sort of war on pain relief. In the worst, effective pain meds are all but impossible to get.

My adult son was recently cycling and sent flying by a jeep. He's in tons of pain but none of the injuries are serious. The ER isn't willing to Rx anything stronger than ibuprofen.

I recent had abdominal surgery. I had to beg just to get Tramadol. I've a friend with crippling arthritis, who'd responsibly taken opioids for years and was cut off after the state passed draconian anti-opioid laws. This is forcing him to consider actually risky drugs just so he can function at minimal levels.

At some point we need to give a crap about the millions who've lost their quality of life due to anti-opioid hysteria.

We are WAY past time to stop conflating typical Rx pain meds with blackmarket fentanyl. The bulk of the pill mill problem was tackled a decade ago. News reporting on opioid overdoses that infers Rxs are the major current driver is patently false.
> You can connect to the new network at `irc.libera.chat`, ssl port 6697 (and the usual clearnet port).

You might want to consider to shutdown the clearnet port, since it sends user passwords and private chat messages in plaintext over the internet.
> then hit 100k. Rinse and repeat

that's purely speculation - it might or might not. It depends on the chaotic forces of the market participants, because there's no underlying intrinsic value for crypto.
So, nobody in this family when they had rumspringa went out and ate pizza?
That’s not an inherent feature of decentralized ledgers; you can have protocols like Zerocash which hide the sender, receiver, amount completely, via the use of zero knowledge proofs
There's a reasonable argument that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr was a contender for that title previously.
Hey, I meant potato farming. Regular people do it voluntarily. Its not even all that onerous, just hard work. Don't know where that 'prostitution' bit was supposed to be going.
IME they mostly didn't know how to teach anything once someone fell off the rails of the curriculum. I quickly learned that, for whatever reason, the "normal" way things were taught didn't work for me. The people whose job it was to navigate it didn't know how to help me. I was fortunate to have parents who, despite not having much money, knew computers would be important and always kept us in a working computer and internet connection.

Even the early web in K-12 and early YouTube in tech school were more helpful because there were ways of teaching out there that worked for me, and I could find them. Math was the hardest because the teachers were mostly people who Just Got Math and didn't know how to help someone who didn't. They would get so into explaining something that they didn't hear me begging them to slow down so I could process it.
Tomaw fought legally with Lee to get the sale contract from what I've read; and apparently it _does_ legitimately own the network.
It's like how the visual neurons of blind people get repurposed for other senses. Turns out this happens so quickly we can start to lose visual function in just the 8 hours our eyes are closed while we sleep.

Can't remember source but heard this theory on a podcast.
> how much money goes to waste.

Eh, it doesn't go to waste, it goes to other people.

> Being a techie poor teachs you to be careful about this decisions, but people seem perfectly fine to be locked in and just buy new stuff every time.

Yes, this is a big one! Ever since I got into hardware as a hobby I can repair many more devices with a 3D-printed part or replacing a burnt component, now I'm horrified at how often people will just get a new device. Repair shops should be more common, and repair should be easier, as that is truly wasting money (because you're throwing away a usually perfectly usable device that just needs a bit of repair).
Yup. ThreadX from Express Logic, now part of Microsoft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreadX
There are a lot of those of course, but browsing https://search.jabber.network/ I see for example:

- xmpp:openhardware@conference.magicbroccoli.de?join for chatting about open hardware

- xmpp:discuss@conference.soprani.ca?join for chatting about bridges and opening up the phone network

- xmpp:floss@rooms.dismail.de?join for general FLOSS discussion

- xmpp:thinkpad-user@rooms.dismail.de?join for people who love thinkpads

- xmpp:libreparents@conference.singpolyma.net?join for discussion of the intersection of FLOSS life and parenting

Probably more, and I only looked for ones in English for this list :)
> people with 10+ years experience who think "fundamentals don't really matter."

Sounds like people who think "programming is not math".

Granted, it's quite unlike the math we were taught in high school. But it does have patterns, opportunities for simplification, similar correctness problems, and sometimes good honest Math™ with geometry, linear algebra, and more. One can easily miss that when they assume programming is not math to begin with.

Even if those programmers didn't know the fundamentals behind animation systems, they could have reached for those if they recognised that this part may have some significant math behind it, and sought out relevant material.
Tezos?
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But then the argument is: why would I turn it into usable cash if everyone used it. And by the time you reach that point in the discussion, back slowly away...
You're assuming I care how much something costs in dollars.
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Why can't the word "man" be used to apply to both sexes when it is clear that it is being used in the sense of "person", ie "The tools and tech I used to run a one-person hardware company."

The title somehow implies that some of the choices are a consequence of the author's gender when they are in all likelihood purely technical.

Women should use "man" to refer to themselves in such instances. If it starts bothering "men" aka males, then the need to switch to "person" becomes more obvious.

A point to note, there are many languages where the term to express "one man" is gender neutral. Perhaps languages like English should rethink their usage of such language.
I played the web version. Random feedback:

I like the mix of mobile casual and pokemon / mystery dungeon style. However I played two runs (returned safely, upgraded abilities, got killed by angry bear) and I don't want to try again. I'm missing some meaningful interaction (maybe shops? or alternate routes?). I'm bored by long transitions and repeated messages after battles (maybe let me skip or speed up the animation about absorbing monster energy?). I'm also overwhelmed by seeing so many different moves; perhaps moves could drop less frequently? This way it would be more of a special event instead of a regular thing.

Overall, I enjoyed it and will look out for future upgrades.
> under a legally registered Swedish non-profit

Thank you Sweden, again. Anyone have a good read why Sweden is always on the forefront of liberty and intellectual freedom?
The later-created coins are similar to bitcoin but they're not "the bitcoin". In this way, the supply of bitcoin is still limited
Are you arguing that the original Bitcoin whitepaper is invalid as a source of whether Bitcoin is "desired" as a payment method?

Clearly, at least one person (the author of the whitepaper!) "desired" Bitcoin as a payment method. They desired it so much, that they went off an invented it!

If that doesn't count as a source indicating what someone "desires" then nothing does.
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I recently tried to join a discord that was tangentially relevant to the trans community and the amount of self-identification they wanted was troublesome to me (region, age, sexual preference, opinion on pronouns/pronouns, etc).

EDIT: well fuck me for sharing, right? 2021 Hacker News karma scores are fucking cold.
Those have "no car problems" that are objectively worse than "old car problems", since the (often disastrous) consequence of the later is throwing some of the former at you.

Yes, there are some places where public transportation both exists, doesn't take most of your day, and is cheaper than cars. Those places must be great, but as a 3rd worlder I barely know them (it's not a huge problem for me, personally, it's just enraging).
Are you not trading YAML for yet another markup language (pun intended) in Nomad/Consul?
It's a substantially-manipulated negative-sum distributed Ponzi scheme. The most blatant example of a naked emperor I've seen in my lifetime. And it consumes the energy of Argentina to achieve as much work as a Raspberry Pi.
Indeed, as your wiki citation notes, “Despite the magazine's frequent statements to the contrary...”, so such interpretations as your own are mistaken.
I believe in Power, Sex and Money. I can give up first one if I had but last 2 , hell no.
other than trying to get the money of suckers, I've never understood the point of bitcoin. no currency, digital or not, can be removed from the world's activities.

why would you ever want something that could plunge 30% in a day? even if it went up 5 billion percent, then what? everyone sells and it goes down? what's the point?

it's like the most zero-sum activity imaginable.

edit: I'm sincerely wondering what the value of bitcoin is, other than things surrounding preserving its value
Except that during crashes like this one, what you see is everyone moving their crypto holdings to stablecoins. The intent is to wait things out and then buy back in and profit during the next cycle.
> I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because I was the only person who would say hello to the cleaning lady as she meekly made her rounds around us when we worked late. Everyone else had a long habit of ignoring anyone like her.

I hope no one is gullible enough to believe this. This is bond villain stuff and most certainly does not apply to "tech" as a category. I even worked in Finance and never heard of this kind of behavior.

> I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because everyone’s hobby talk was incomprehensible to me. Sailing. Indoor rock climbing. Building robots. Golfing. Sourcing and collecting antiquities. Adult soccer leagues. All I heard was money. Money. Money.

The poorest people in the world play soccer and sports. My parents collected antiques on minimum wage. The biggest antiquers I've known were college students. And as for sailing, most people don't sail on their own boats, they pitch in their physical labor in exchange for getting to participate in the hobby. That's free, you just have to be physically active.

> I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because I was afraid to seek mentorship from anyone above me, convinced that even asking would seem like bothersome begging. I watched the people around me network effortlessly, assured of favors and good words put in. I could only think in terms of what I could offer and how I could survive; they were thinking on the next level where they never had to wonder if they were good enough. They were to the business-class manner born, at least.

This has nothing to do with poverty. My cousin grew up poorer than I did and is the most arrogant, direct, and demanding person you'll ever meet. If the job pays $100k he'd ask for $500k.

> I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because when I talked about paying off my student loans, people expressed their utter shock that my parents hadn’t put me through Berkeley. Were Mom and Pop simply opposed to public school? Did they disagree with my choice of major?

No one said that. Literally no one is shocked that anyone else has student loans. This is more bond villain hyperbole.

> I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because they thought I was kidding when I said I had a GED.

Well yeah, but this has nothing to do with poverty. You were irresponsible enough to drop out of high school and people are rightfully shocked that you're responsible enough to hold a tech job.

> I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because I forgot my charger once and absolutely nobody had one old enough to be compatible with my phone.

Everyone knows this is the opposite. We've all seen poor people in brand new shoes and with the latest iPhone and watch. People in poverty actually have the newest phones. That's part of what keeps them in poverty, irresponsible purchasing habits. Meanwhile most tech people I know have far older devices when it comes to smart phones.

I stopped reading here. This isn't serious. OP is a professional victim who is outright misrepresenting things.
Interesting, when I hear libre, I think Spanish. It comes from a common root word across all the Latin languages, and that has also given us "liberty" in English.

Anyway, it doesn't bother me. It's better than "Free", which is mostly misunderstood, RMS's rebranding attempts notwithstanding.
You have a much more sunny view of HN readers than I do; I was expecting to see a whole bunch of victim-blaming and complete lack of understanding of what it's like to be broke. I was delightedly surprised to see your comment as the top one when I looked.
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