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Can't we dream bigger though? For instance, I feel like templeOS's command line is unironically conceptually superior than the linux commandline or any other unix. I should be able to mix text with 3d models or images or sound, pipe them between programs, etc. I should be able to pause a running program, save it to disk, and resume it later. There are all sorts of things that I should be able to do but can't, because of the deliberate unix fetishization of 1970s era computing.

>Command line interfaces are superior even today because the step from interaction to automation is as minimal as possible.

Agreed completely. In fact, the OS should force GUI programs to all speak a coherent language so that you can automate them and pipe data between them. And if the machine is going to serve the user, the user should be in control of the GUI, they should be able to move buttons and UI elements around into the configuration they prefer. This would only be possible if GUI programs had minimal control over actual UI layout, which would make webdevs angry. But given the state of web UI, I think that's an acceptable sacrifice.

Much of the above was possible in lisp machines. But sadly I don't think it would be possible to create such an OS today (unless the "OS" is running in a linux VM and using linux for the actual hardware interface) due to the sheer diversity of hardware. And the closed source nvidia driver would ensure that you never got cool graphics.
Freenode operated this way and failed.
She does say she is paid less then everyone else in the company and it seems she lives in San Fransisco, so it doesn't seem like too much of stretch to me
That's really cool. So your tracked tracks (so to speak) helped inform maps of the trails you walked?
This. Warning people before you bomb their buildings is unheard of.
It's a cool technology/concept, but at the cost of all the energy it's wasting to be a "speculative asset" at best... yeah, it's frustrating.
If you want people to adopt your viewpoint, education works better without being rude and condescending.

If you want to promote others beliefs that Bitcoin has become a religious cult and MLM scheme, your attitude is perfect.
If you’re going to switch a bunch of servers anyway, why not start over by partnering with someone like Matrix.org? Dead simple to create an IRC<->matrix bridge for people who just love the old protocol, and decentralization efforts always have strength in numbers.
It happens to most workers involuntarily terminated, and the brutal and humiliating way most American companies go about it is quite telling.
There are already several standardized mouse protocols available some even with pixel precision. The most complete implementation of those protocols has xterm. They can be tested with a program called "vttest".
PIA can't feed its own pilots, yet still goes doing outlandish foreign acquisitions.

They will sell their last airliner, but will still cling on to stuff like Roosevelt hotel, and such.
It's not zero sum, it already got close to 1% of the worlds electricity usage. It is negative sum.
> 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.

This implication reads as pure projection in your part. There is absolutely nothing else in the title or article to substantiate it. The author as a woman more likely just used the term as she is a woman and indeed the sole founder/worker of the company.
It has a legitimate use as a store of value / means of exchange, especially in places where private, online banking services are not great.

However, because it is also used so heavily for speculation, it is very volatile and therefore not an optimal store of value / means of exchange.
If you don't have a financial service / developed banking sector, how do you get your local currency into BTC and back?

Mt. Gox proved that you can't just trust random exchanges. Even in the best of times, the exchange can get hacked and all the holdings disappear.
Think of all the untapped incompetence out there to make this happen. This could also solve UBI.
Uh no, Aave has credit delegation for no collateral loans and it uses OpenLaw contracts to secure a credit line. And there's also TrueFi https://truefi.io/. And a bunch of others. You can get loans based on credit on Ethereum.
I mean, most spaces have those as roles that you can fill in, but don't have to. wrt pronoun roles, they are used for figuring out how to refer to you -- it is after all, a trans space where appearance and expectation won't match up with people's preferences, and where people are tired from the water-drip torture* that is constant implicit and explicit misgendering.

* - that is to say, each individual instance (drip) wouldn't cause pain, but when you face it almost constantly, and you're already hyperaware of it, it can cause a lot of anguish.
Sorry only have a video for you, still worth watching IMHO https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE
If you could convert between gold and usd at the same rate that one can convert btc to usdt, gold would be just as volatile. Strangely the energy and human cost of gold is rarely mentioned
It's not uncommon for smart people to be poor. You can be intelligent and have intelligent parents that came from poor countries, maybe parents that experienced a debilitating traumatic experience keeping them from working, or mental illnesses that don't inhibit intelligence, but do inhibit basic survival.
Such a fun story. I’m glad you and Al still hung out.
sure, but let's say that you're in Turkey, and very worried about your currency devaluating 17% every year.

Does putting your money in something that can devaluate 30% in a day sound like a better solution?
Note the massive errata list which is very likely just the scratching the surface. Later editions tend to either implement these corrections, or have a more complete list.
"Bitcoin is the first and best, and will be the one world store of value in the end. Everything else is shitcoins." - any Bitcoin maximalist
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> When at any point as an engineer or a scientist have you observed large exponential growth to be sustainable in any context???

what on _earth_ do you think 6-7% a year is? that's exponential growth.

> SPY is up 50% since 2019 (pre covid crash). [...] Index funds aren't supposed to be nitro, they are supposed to be slow and plodding, and 10% annual is supposed to be huge. I think major indices should be nice, slow, inertial gains from ~6-7% annual, tops.

you've confused long-term averages with short term behavior.

the market gets its 6-10% annual by going up a lot when it does, to make up for the years where it goes down, or just moves sideways.
They're pointing out the hypocrisy of your speculation as you're speculating about speculative market trends as past trends can very well not be predictive.
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Because it can go down 30% in a day.
Yes. The author of the comment seems not the understand simple concepts like averages and normal distributions. Additionally, he/her seems to assume a causal relationship where if you're poor it is because you're dumb, and not the other way around, or even a mix of those two things.

Yeah, on average, poor people score a few points low than the average for rich people. true. But this is not an absolute as the post's author seems to believe.

It doesn't mean all poor people are dumb, or that you are automatically smarter than someone who is poorer than you.
Picture mentally two bell curves with a lot of overlap and very long tails. Things are in reality way more nuanced than this dumb statement that poor == dumb.

On the aggregate, it is a useful datapoint, it means that probably as a society, you should reserve some more resources for education in poorer neighborhoods.
Because publishing a blog takes effort, spinning up an additional public repo takes 2 seconds.

Github proves that you only really need 2 things: versioning and displaying on the web. Theming, templates, CMS, whatever. Easy versioning + trivial deploys (git push) are a winning combo.
That’s incorrect. If I’m remembering correctly Nigeria was the second largest Bitcoin market pretty recently.
I'd be highly surprised if rolling green lights are implemented the exact same way across geographies. Does anyone have more details on how this works ? It has been an area of curiosity for me for quite a long time.
No, she’s point out that no one treated her like a thief. Previous workplaces treated her like a thief because she was poor.
Intelligence is not completely due to genetics as you are suggesting and has to do more with socio-economic conditions. Read “guns germs and steel” for why human development through the ages has a lot do with just being at the right place at the right time.
Who knows for sure, maybe he did sell Tesla's positions and is buying back when the price hits rock bottom. There have been heavier crypto price drops and people are initially traumatized but when the price starts climbing up again everybody jumps in and the mishap is quickly forgotten. There's nothing rational about it.
It looks like the DNS is still propagating through the internet, and from some servers it does not resolve yet. Also it looks like they are just generally down a lot right now.
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Don't buy bitcoin, it always crashes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg

We'll be back here in four years when bitcoin is well above 100k being used happily as a store of value by millions of people and someone like you will say the exact same thing again. How long will it take you to realise that it's already a success?
I'm not familiar enough with cryptocurrency culture to understand this: what does "Tesla has <diamond> <raised hands>" mean?
I am not advocating for XMPP, nor am I nagging you. You showed up to advocate Matrix on a thread about IRC, stop accusing me of things and collaborate yourself instead of reinventing the wheel in terms of specs and in terms of standards bodies. Everything I said about the company and foundation is accurate as far as I can tell. I am very glad there is a foundation, but it's still not okay: submit to an existing standards body and stop advertising on threads about IRC.
I've used it to pay for things more than a handful of times. Just cause you don't have a reason doesn't mean the tech should be immediately dismissed.
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If it were actually used as a medium of exchange, it would likely be more stable and it would provide value by facilitating trade. That was basically the original intention behind the design. Unfortunately most people are buying it to hoard and sell later, not to use as a payment mechanism, in part because it hasn't scaled to a higher transaction rate, causing large transaction fees whenever anyone attempts to use it.
I found going through the official Elixir guide top-to-bottom to be an excellent crash course:

https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html
Do any trading platforms allow for crypto margin trading? If so, there's going to be quite a few margin calls today.
In this case wouldn't it be like the stimulus went to Chinese mining farms (if that was the case)?
It is an expensive way to send money around without involving PayPal or a bank etc. If you're buying something illegal or forbidden by them it would be handy for that.

That's about it.
Trust is established through interactions (behavior) and not by; real names, titles, certifications, wealth, and location.
let's just skip to the end.

at $DAY $COIN is at $MAX_PRICE. it never reaches $MAX_PRICE ever again. for someone who bought at $MAX_PRICE, what is the value they received?
Over the last 50 years there have been a few cycles between thin and thick clients (in different contexts) so hopefully it's not all one direction from here.
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There were plenty that predicted over $100K by now.
The point of Bitcoin is that the world's governments have weaponized money. If all you pay attention to is the ups and downs of the exchange rate, then it all probably seems pretty pointless.

But if you look at it against the backdrop of sanctions, civil asset forfeiture, erosion of civil liberties, and monetary debasement, things look different.
Unless big players know something about Tether that most people don't https://coingeek.com/tether-reaches-new-lows-in-quest-to-avo...
Kind of like when you create money:credit out of thin air when you run a tab at a bar. But with code.
Didn't anyone bother to set up the MacBook activation locks? Or did people steal MacBooks anyway just to throw them away later when they turn out to be unusable?
The US prison system is not designed to reform anyone. Its goal is purely punitive.

The financial incentives are set up to produce as many dangerous criminals as possible. Without repeat offenders, many private prisons would have to close.

The solution is simple: The US should actually ban slavery and should also ban private prisons.

It should replace private prisons with ones that are rewarded when their former prisoners become productive members of society.

There should also be a cap on the ratio of prison spending to education, mental health, and community service programs.
Not even a "good evening" for your fellow human?

I usually nod or say a quick greeting in passing as I head out for the evening. I've also thanked the guy who refills the soda can dispenser, pointing out that the company runs on caffeine. Each of these interactions takes less than 30 seconds and reminds us of our shared experience on this planet.
remove 2 and 3 and you have an accurate list. Electricity and compute don't drive the value of bitcoin, they follow it.
Every community IS different. Amish hold Sunday meeting in their homes, rotating who hosts. Therefore, everyone in the community must live within a practical buggy ride of each other. The community elects a bishop. The bishop has final say for that community. So.... lots of variation in the nuances of rules between communities.

“Live in the world without being of the world.” There are many interpretations of that.
weechat-matrix unfortunately cannot coexist with wee-slack if running on top of Python 3.9 (https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack/issues/812, https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix/issues/248), so one has to choose between Slack and Matrix. It's just a bug that will eventually get fixed, but it does make things unnecessarily complicated right now.

With this issue and Matrix being several times slower than any other instant messenger I've ever seen, I'd really prefer communities didn't move to Matrix. :-/
The term you're looking for is "naturally occurring Ponzi scheme"

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/19358
> But when you put kids from poor parents into rich households they will continue to do poorly.

Have you considered it’s because being a poor child is itself a traumatic experience that isn’t magically cured by being ripped away from family and put into an environment of material abundance?
> Being 'underweight' is associated with significant excess death; being 'overweight' is associated with a lower death rate than 'normal' BMI:

This is nonsense. In many medical deaths such as cancer (and especially since euthanasia isn't available) the person dies by slowly withering away. One of the first things that happens is that they become skinny and frail. That doesn't associate underweightedness with mortality. It intentionally draws a false correlation.
My comment was more referring to cryptocurrency and the blockchain concept in general, I probably should have been more clear.

You are right that BTC isn't that useful as cash. I don't think BTC will be dominant forever, there are already superior cryptocurrencies for use as actual normal currency. If/when another crypto really does fill that void and achieves major adoption, I think BTC will probably retain some value, for speculative reasons and also just because it has the oldest chain.
You'll listen to Bitcoin FUD all day but you don't seem to care about the hydro carbons purged in the process of strip mining the earth for shiny rocks though.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/why-bitcoin-may-actually-spe...
Makes sense, but it's always good to capture the intent of the test. If it is to prevent a regression, having data about the issue that was fixed is vital.

In general, I prefer to start writing tests, just enough the tests fail but call the functionality (this makes API design flaws obvious), then actually build the functionality and, finally, make the test conditions reflect what we need.
Thank you for the disinterested take! It's refreshing to see this as a top comment when so often I see "Crypto makes me sick" which offers zero information and doesn't belong on HN.

A few points to the repetitive comments I keep seeing:

1. Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme. Various cryptocurrencies operate in such a manner, but Bitcoin and Ethereum have value propositions: settlement and programmable money respectively. Crucially, these projects are still in a growth phase. More projects are being built on Bitcoin (e.g. Avanti Bank) and Ethereum (e.g. Uniswap) and more institutions like Tesla, MassMutual, and Square have a position in it. Banking institutions are working on supporting Bitcoin.

2. Bitcoin pricing is on a log scale. Dropping to $36k from $50k is not a concern on this scale. If it drops below $10k, there might be some nervousness but Bitcoin's fluctuations have almost never deviated significantly in its 11 year history.

3. Bitcoin is not a currency. How do we know? You can't price the components of a Big Mac in Bitcoin. Again, it is in a growth phase which is what people like Taleb don't understand. When you can price a Big Mac in Bitcoin then maybe it is in some form a currency (not directly, but perhaps indirectly using Lightning or another L2).

4. 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 do not understand how every time cryptocurrency comes up armchair HN users come along and comment when they, very apparently, have almost no understanding of the topic. It's like coming in and starting to discuss how L1 cache works when you aren't a computer engineer or don't have an active day-to-day interest in the matter. Why waste people's time with your vacuous comments? It's like some kind of therapy. "Crypto sucks!" Reinforcing feel-good Circle-upvote is all it is.
Pay them minimum wage, put the money into a savings account for them, use that money to pay off their restitution, with some money set aside for them to be able to live on release.
That's why he asked what the value was.
Market forces affect the energy industry as well. They aren't burning coal for fun; they're burning it to make money and/or satisfy a demand. If electricity consumption drops, then plants will produce less electricity, and construction of new plants will slow down or stop.
Derivative coins that might not be so stable after all... https://coingeek.com/tether-reaches-new-lows-in-quest-to-avo...
I love how simple this is.
This is a book of mathematical results without derivation. Most textbooks that people learn from include proofs.

It's easy to understand how a person with no formal mathematics training could read this book, try to figure out why these results are true, and in doing so, gain an intuitive sense about numbers and operations on them without developing the rigor to be able to state proofs for why anything should be true.
I view it as a similar asset class to gold - why own gold? No really though, I don't own any physical gold for the same reasons.
Decentralized/federated is a beautiful thing.
Personally I don't think the market has yet caught up to the fact that today's new cars will make horrible purchases as the 3rd or so owner.

All the financiers have to do is make sure someone buys it for a good price after 3 years of being leased from new. That's not a bad proposition - the car will probably last a while longer with all of its electonic toys and gizmos working. It's the buyer after that (of which I am usually one) that will find out how expensive the car is to maintain.
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Which effectively make the total amount of live tokens (the rough equivalent of share count or money supply in stocks or currencies) more deflatory than useful for any application outside of pyramid games. All projections of market cap that include the dead tokens are even more worthless than other market cap projections.

Problem is: there's no way to tell the dead from the merely sleeping. The bigger the share of dark addresses, the bigger the impact of some "old god" dark address lighting up again. And the longer a "darkening deflation" goes on, the higher the impact of some old darknes wake-up would be.
As much as i hate the speculative bubbles, the high electrical usage, difficulty of obtaining and using it, the disturbing services that are traded on the dark-net, crypto-currency is the only way to transfer money electronically today.

All non-crypto-currency based methods require permissions, and are politically gated.

Thus despite the negatives, i think crypto-currency can help connect the world.
>However, because it is also used so heavily for speculation, it is very volatile and therefore not an optimal store of value / means of exchange.

It's better than gold in every way, including energy use.
It probably just means that it's not actually liquid at the values that btc people are crowing about. The real question is how much trade volume it took to drop it 30%.

Being at $60K just means that a handful of suckers bought for $60K.
> Rinse and repeat

Until it doesn't repeat, which gets more and more likely each cycle.
> Did you grow up poor, as she did? If not, then you are missing the important context of what it’s like to grow up in a food scarce environment.

Yes I did and I'm still not obese.
You're mind reading.
So they use their pollution for something else, as opposed to using it for that and mining BTC. Still a net-win.
Wheat has value because you can eat it. Dollars have value because you can pay your taxes in them.

Gold does have craft and industrial uses, but not enough to explain its value.
what does gold have to do with bitcoin? why even bring it up? did gold also crash today?
I left the US a few years ago. Occasionally, I sent a few thousands to my US bank account via bitcoin + coinbase. I was then able to wire my money to a seller in Singapore for a lovely set of Go (the board game) problem books that I have been looking for.

I am a Vietnamese living in Vietnam, and I would have absolutely no way to wire $2000 to a bank in Singapore (I tried). I do wish bitcoin stay alive (along with the US financial system too)
If you're from an undeveloped country you probably can't afford the huge transaction fees and wild swings in price