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First a pandemic and now my online home of the last 20 years being torn apart. This is really upsetting. The people of freenode are something special. I really hope the community can manage the switch without loosing too much of everything. Already the channel registration on libera is throwing established communities into chaos.

I really hate that corporate shell game bullshit and attempts at monetization are being made by a dude that professes to love IRC. I wish andrew could acknowledge the hurt he is causing but it seems like saving face matters more to him at this point.
Oh hmm, that's true, thanks for the clarification.
At least for me after FF updates itself it won't let you open a new tab or anything until it restarts. According to this Reddit post this is due to it being updated by the package manger so maybe it's a Linux only issue?: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/jwx54y/firefox_for...
That happened in May-Jun 2019. Auditor's report came out that Tether was insolvent, there was a run on the bank, Bitfinex suspended redemptions of Tether, Binance suspended trading in Tether.

The price of Bitcoin went up, from about $5200 to $11,000. Why? Because with Tether out of the picture, Bitcoin is the next most stable cryptocurrency (at the time, there was not enough DAI or USDC in circulation to absorb all the Tether money, though those "stablecoins" traded at a premium of about $1.06/$0.92 against Tether). If you're in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, it's usually because you don't want to keep any of your wealth in $USD, so when Tether was declared insolvent all of the money there rushed into BTC.
If so then the legal system needs to be able to rewrite the ledger. Consider if you have some asset that is represented on the blockchain and you have it seized by the state for some reason. Or you die and you didn't have a system for your heirs to get your private keys. Or any other way that something needs to change owner without the current owner being willing or available.

And if the legal system needs to enforce it and can rewrite the ledger at will then why should the system be decentralized? Why should we need to have all this complexity when it gains us nothing?
There are different goals a society can hope to achieve by imprisoning its citizens for crimes depending on its philosophy. These include retribution, rehabilitation, protecting society from the individual, and deterring citizens from committing crime. You are focusing on retribution and deterrence. Planting potatoes in the hot sun does little to mitigate any damage done by a prisoner and seems more like revenge than mitigation.

Training and incentivizing a prisoner to change their behavior (rehabilitation) has a better chance to provide a much larger gain for society in the long run.

> But fundamentally, making prisoners work is not a bad thing.

Forced labor is a violation of human rights. Either these rights are inalienable or they aren't.
> RH has become the media's favorite whipping boy because retail trading has seen a spike in popularity

Because they cant operate as a real brokerage as we saw with GameStop and manipulated the market as a result. I think that is the largest reason they are (rightfully) the whipping boy. They should not be allowed to be a trading platform because of that alone.
Perhaps you could break down the exact steps that mean a fraudulent claim of ownership would be impossible? Given the frequent theft of cryptocurrencies, it seems like false claims of ownership on the blockchain would not only be possible, but common.
You kind of already can, at least in the US. Property ownership is public record and so are the property taxes individuals pay.
duh this is hacker news LOL
that's how it works in my city. If you want, you can incorporate a company and buy the property through that though.
Because you actually believe in things and don't just follow trends. Fundamentals work, they really do.
> Didn't anyone bother to set up the MacBook activation locks?

The macbooks were handled by the IT department, everyone was just using them, so I don't know if such a function was enabled, the only security measures I know there were are remote login and disk encryption.

I don't know what the person that stole the macbooks did with them, but because he/she stole more than one I believe he/she was able to make a profit
Myanmar's military moved in on the telecoms sector to spy on citizens
It's reasonable to evaluate the usefulness of a system by weighing the resources it consumes against the valuable output it produces. In Bitcoin's case the valuable output is around 10 financial transactions per second, and the resource it consumes is enough energy to power the Netherlands.
Eh, Schwab regularly has outages. Schwab went down five days in a row during the height of the GameStop stupidity, for example.
For many people, living a sustainable life means giving up a lot of modern technology and comfort, for the wealthy, not so much.

Life has become so expensive for most people that were it not for cheap, low quality food and goods, most people wouldn't be able to make two ends of the month meet.

I often think about what I can do to live a better, healthier and more sustainable life, but other than minor changes to my diet, I can't do much.

I can't afford a car or a license, so I can't afford to live outside the city, have my own garden like my grandparents do.

I can't afford my own house or apartment so I can't really invest in more efficient cooling/heating solutions and install solar, etc.

I can't even bring myself to recycle anymore, because the garbage containers are right across the street from my window and the truck just grabs and dumps them all in the same place, making the active thought process of being mindful to recycle a pointless endeavour.

In fact, as I am writing this, I just watched it happen again.
> In other words, I'm convinced they could have easily arrived at probabilities like 0.1% or 99.9% by reasonably varying their prior distribution for that parameter alone.

In other other words, this reading of the paper also confirms the general point it makes: The Drake equation is garbage-in garbage-out. There is no way to determine what numbers to plug into it. So let's just drop the whole unscientific nonsense.
Speed and cost. It takes time and money to register and maintain the title records. Searching takes time and money. Blockchain just lowers that, supposedly, if they can lower the cost of mining.
The consumption is a result of the greed to get the reward (fee + per block coins) and is not related to how the blockchain is operating.

You can see the carbon footprint from different blockchains on https://coincarboncap.com
Serious question:

How is blockchain superior than me just creating a git repository on GitHub called "allmoney" and just setting it up such that a commit represents a transaction and the log represents the ledger?

I also don't see how block chains or smart contracts can override reality. Let's say you buy a house using a smart contract, and someone, in real life, comes to you with a gun and says give me your wallet and transfer it to me, or you die. Are we supposed to just accept that? If not, what mechanism will undo the crime and restore the house back to the [rightful] owner?

it just all seems dumb, imo - technology cannot exist in a vacuum, ever.
It will be interesting to see if this can be proven. Until then it seems more accurate to simply say that Robinhood took actions that harmed its users and benefited its corporate customers.
Speculation, not investment.

The use value of cryptocurrencies is near 0.
If you know what you would rather do, then there is no need for force at all. It should be voluntary.
Says the guy who has never gone a day without food.
There are multiple copies of deed within multiple organization, what kind of person just trusts single copy without due diligence ?
It remembers the tabs, but it loses my vertical position within the tabs. When reading articles or a thread on some forum, that's quite annoying. Even Pocket doesn't save my progress on a desktop but does on my phone.

It's nothing that would make me stop using it, just an annoyance that I wish I didn't have to deal with on a semi-regular basis.
Billionaire CEO of a startup? Are there many? I imagine most billionairses are running established companies. Including the fact the OP says she is in oakland and can commute there faster than the other employees who get in from other places, anyone care to take a guess at who the company is?
>The whole reason they've been hired is to spare everyone else the time

Do you extend this to other jobs as well? Is it demeaning to say hello to your boss because she's been hired to spare you the time of managerial decisions? What about the QA folks who've been hired to save you the time of executing tests?
It loops back around at the top. It’s why there’s an eccentric rich person trope and why it’s called “fuck you” money.

If you’re totally financially independent you’re more free to do what you want, independent of class behavior expectations (or even in contradiction of them). They no longer matter that much (unless you’re doing something that requires politics or people).
I thought this was especially interesting as it's one of the earliest examples of PACE copy protection, and has remained uncracked for a good 35 years. The article author describes in some detail how the scheme works, and it's quite interesting to read. Very impressive efforts that protected the product for literally decades. PACE later developed the now-common iLok dongle used for copy protection still today. https://paceap.com/about-us-basic.html
It still would slow down a bank run, and Coinbase conveniently/suspiciously going down when bank runs seem to start would further cut off impulse selling - and arguably long enough for manipulation to happen elsewhere to turn price into upward trend again to quell impulse selling by potentially artificially making the price look like it's rebounding.
This book helped change the way I think about technology: https://www.amazon.com/Better-Off-Flipping-Switch-Technology... It's about the Amish.
Maybe in your country. But where I'm from pretty much all property is recorded by the government run Land Registry, and their DB is the source of truth.

Not a single blockchain in sight, and has been working fine for decades.
leveraged etf arent an investiment veihicle
Weirdly enough, "Tits or GTFO" was primarily a 4chan-ism. Everybody was "anonymous", so if someone claimed to be a woman, she needed to show tits.

Thats not to say I've never seen discrimination of any sort on irc. It's usually troll behaviors I see there, and general hate.
What makes you bullish about crypto and what need do you see it fulfilling long term?
Real estate has most of the same problems as any other physical good. Really the only difference is that it's (usually) easier to locate & define.

I'm struggling to think of one aspect of real estate records that is improved by blockchain that couldn't be improved equivalently by other technology (and in some jurisdictions, has). Any central registry addresses the problem you point out, especially with a court system backing it to resolve issues that run deeper.
> A lot of smart people are invested in crypto: a16z, USV, Paradigm. These aren't greedy VCs -- it's their job to make returns for institutional investors who are often pension funds or charitable endowments, so if it a "Ponzi" then they are fools.

(I wanted to say back in 1999) - a lot of smart people are invested in dot-com startups: Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Hummer Winblad. These aren't greedy VCs -- it's their job to make returns for institutional investors who are often pension funds or charitable endowments, so if it a "Ponzi" then they are fools. I'm sure Hummer Winblad's investment in Pets.com will work out great.
I don't think he has "get to Mars" money. It's just fun idea to sell and think about it. Like hyper loop, boring company, solar roof and so on... He got traction and now he just keeps throwing things at the wall...
Do you have a reference for the electrically-repelling solar panels? They sound fascinating.
About half of this sounds like "I knew I was the only not-fabulously-wealthy person at my tech startup."

I grew up in a quantitatively upper class home, and I'd still feel like an alien around the people the author is describing.

I think this person is suffering more than they need to (while being offensively underpaid) because they happen to be in a particularly weird and wealthy bubble.

I understand the point of the article. It's worth reading. But for anyone out there who is also poor: no, most people at tech companies are not like this, even the ones who make $500k/year and come from wealthy families.
There is a whole legal system around property transfer in most reasonably run countries. Title registration, a legal process including a process to refute a claim.

Simply having a fraudulent piece of paper saying "Deed" doesn't go very far beyond getting you a free trip to jail.

Further I don't see how a blockchain would help at all. So if I can acquire someone's keys I can transfer their property to myself and I'm thereby the full and legal, irrefutable owner? It has all of the same problems mentioned about the Mona Lisa.
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I think Schwab does this, too, and it supposedly gets traders better prices.
The article talks about a corrupted official stole the private key to add a transaction to transfer ownership of Mona Lisa.
That bread is basically candy. Just make yourself a salad if veggies is what you want.
well one reason is that you (or github) would be the owner of that ledger. And we would have to put all of our trust in you
>If you actually read the referenced studies from an evidence-based medicine standpoint they're pretty weak. They're mostly just observational with unreliable subject reported data. They haven't fully controlled for all confounding factors such as the healthy subject effect. And effect sizes are small.

The first citation (23) links to https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32827219/, which analyzed 15 randomized controlled trials. The effect size is 17% reduction in "combined cardiovascular events". Considering that "heart disease" is the top cause of death in the US (https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_of_dea...), that seems like a big effect size.
>someone with more money is less likely to become a political problem that shuts down the market, or a drain on the public purse, when they lose money.

laughs in 2008 securities crisis
Retarded is not a slur, its descriptive. Stupid would be derogatory.

You see it as a slur, and that's fine, but why should people have to change a common lexicon over some random person's feelings.

Also, 'disability' is considered offensive now, didn't you mean 'differently abled'? See, where does it stop?
> prevent it from asking for a restart after update

This isn't just nagging. The API between the main browser context and content processes isn't stable between builds. This means that Firefox can't spin up a new content process if the update has replaced the executable with a different version. Therefore Firefox has the tough choice of trying anyways and risking misbehaviour (including possibly security bugs) or forcing the user to restart the browser process so that it can spawn new content processes.

It also depends on how your distribution updates Firefox. For most distributions they have this problem, however NixOS doesn't because the new version is installed in a new directory.

IIUC Firefox's self-updater also doesn't have this issue, and I think it supports Linux.
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Woops. I may be dealing with friends & family that joined prior to that. I wonder if one could get prompted again for enabling cross-signing & backup once you open a new client (I don't think it happens right now). That would help migrating everyone to enabling it.
Heck yeah man. This is cool. Thanks for taking this challenge seriously.
Opportunity cost and choice.

Dogecoin means more to me than BTC. Good luck convincing me, or those that share my belief, otherwise

If I put $500 into either, it'd be Doge.
Since when was that added? Anyway, my days of closing the whole damn browser instead of a single tab are finally over!
Lies like autopilot and self-driving too...
Schwab had multiple outages during height of the GME craze.
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It's been more than 10 years now. Crypto isn't going to replace financial institutions. It's naive to think that a New World Order will come where banks don't exist and we're all happy trading in bitcoin

Over 10 years and NO real life use yet. None.
Was it also suspect that Walmart, Target, and Amazon sold out of PS5s at the same time? Large price movements create high trade volume on all exchanges which overload all the exchanges. AFAIK the real stock market is large and mature enough to not have crazy swings in volume.
In job interviews my experience is that you're asked to design data structures to solve a problem, whereas in a real job you use data structure to solve a problem. In the job interview they're trying to find out if you understand how to create the datastructures in order to ascertain if you can reason about which situations you would use them in and the trade-offs involved in using 1 structure over a different one.
> Traditional engines

That's the crux of it though isn't it? These are complaints about a specific approach, not generally of computers, and not even of the best demonstrated models.

I'm also not entirely sure this is the correct way to think about it. If the function to evaluate the accept-a-draw decision is separate from the next-move decision. Then if the accept-a-draw is refused, doing the poor pawn sacrifice is, without question, the best available move. My interpretation is that the accept-a-draw is made in a vacuum here.
And car registration.

And with the rise of casual to state enforced surveillance in public and private spaces I can imagine near absolute resource tracking "cradle to cradle" via RFID, GPS, wi-fi, surveillance video, and block chain.
So I'm not sure what your point is.
Both diseases are dangerous.

Yellow fever vaccine is mandatory when you travel in a country with high risk.

Covid vaccine will be mandatory when you want to go in situations / places with high risk.

So why would you be against covid health pass and not yellow fever health pass ?
The title can afford to drop a few words and still be accurate:

> No Real Use Case for Blockchain
at ~$2,700 (current), ETH is where it was on april 30th, which was only 19 days ago.

Would you consider being reduced to last month's price a crash?
As someone who can't even stand cigarette smoke, let alone do drugs, I have a particular fascination with psychedelics.

The idea that there are things my brain is capable of, but needs a kick-start to do them just tickles my curiosity bone.

Perhaps one day, after I retire and if it's legal, I might try it.
is that a problem, though? all participants could clone the repo. it would be trivial to see if GitHub or I tampered with the ledger.
That's not really true is it? There are alternatives like "they", which has been perfectly good usage for longer than people think. It's not like Spanish, where a group of people are "chicas" if they're all women, "chicos" if they're all men and "chicos" again if they're a mixture of men and women.
I would absolutely love a shortcut manager for Firefox. For example I use this shortcut enough that something like Ctrl+Shift+Q would be useful. (And the dozens of other things that I would like to rebind, including custom shortcuts).
> Schwab doesn't have outages during sell-offs of very visible investments, though.

Yes they have. During one very red day they were down almost all morning (although StreetSmart Edge worked).
> with cellphones they could turn them off, with a landline your family time could be interrupted

Interestingly, I often miss landline times, because with landlines it was a fair excuse to say you were out and weren't reachable, whereas in the cell phone era people tend to expect you to be always reachable, and I'm in vehement disagreement with that kind of expectation from anyone other than an SO or close family member.
I think that's a fair observation although peer pressure certainly could act as a form of closed loop control. The near-linear increase in modern obesity seems to kick off in the mid-1970s.

I'd also want to add the lack of physical activity as people move to doing God's Work by sitting still and tapping on a keyboard with occasional visits to the gym, but I haven't found a decent study showing that over time.
As a Dutch person I can attest tulips have an actual purpose. And worth- the flower business is worth billions every year.
Or someone has it on their cart on the way to the checkout.
Following WSBs is like the new QAnon.... some 'event' is always a few days away.
You and I, the tax payers, are who ultimately pay for lodging for prisoners. It makes much more sense to me for the person who committed the crime to bear this cost (if possible).

The abuses of private prisons, etc is a tangential issue. As a high level, it's all still funded by taxpayer money.
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Why not? Its a new asset, what is wrong with improvement? I mean using that logic does it also disturb you that somebody invented the seat belt? Would you prefer they didnt invent seat belts? Would that have been more reassuring of the relative safety of the vehicle if they never admitted that you could die in a car crash? The point of stable coins is really only apparent if you're trading crypto just like the importance of seat belts might make more sense to somebody that drives daily.
My first response to reading this was "dude isn't a pronoun", but after thinking about it, I realize it is being used more and more as a pronoun and not just as a noun.

I wonder what other words can be used as a pronoun?
Tether is the only thing driving the price of BTC. When it came out that Tether is only 3% backed by actual USD, the prices dropped dramatically.
> If you have $99,990 in BTC, and $10 in cash, only the $10 is covered.

By the FDIC. Of course, FDIC only covers dollar-denominated balances (savings accounts, checking accounts, etc. etc.). Even money-market accounts (very cash-like) are NOT covered by FDIC, which is why money-markets get a wee bit of a bump in %yield.

Coinbase claims they have the BTC insured through some other means. I don't know how to look into those details or how trustworthy it'd be (ex: AIG "insured" a bunch of mortgages through Credit Default Swaps, which ended up being worthless).

But overall, the idea of losing a security through various means (ex: Credit Default Swap "insurance" turns out to be a sham and the mortgage debt is all worthless) is kind of "normal" in terms of financial markets.

Similarly, if all the BTC disappeared it'd be terrible for BTC-holders, but I think people generally understand that those risks exist.

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Look, I think Cryptocoins are stupid at this point (even proof of stake, but that's another thing). And Coinbase's service going in-and-out over the past day or so is clearly a threat (if BTC moves while Coinbase is down, you lose your opportunity to buy-and/or-sell at the prices you want).

But I don't think there's anything shady going on at Coinbase specifically.

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Now if you want to talk about shady business, we can talk Binance, Bitfinex, and Tethers. Plenty of shady things going around in the cryptoworld.
No need to rewrite. Just add a new compensating transaction to declare new ownership, presumably with the court's private key wallet as the authority.
Kind of a strawman. AFAIK most NFTs are actual digital assets which can be copied, and in general people are not claiming that blockchain is magically going to enforce itself.

BUT, blockchains may replace Patreon and the like, by offering the satisfaction of connection to art, and the ability to prove it.