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In each of those 12 years there has been significant work at the protocol level. You forget that these are mostly volunteers working on these projects.

> It's not early days, it's the twilight of a failing technology.

This would be true if there was no active development, but development has only been increasing in pace year by year.
Financial analysts trying to figure out if AMC are gonna hit their quarterly numbers?
> you kinda think this kidnapping was OK, and the US makes a convenient excuse. Please tell me I'm wrong.

it is absolutely _not_ ok so yes you are wrong. Couple weeks ago I suggested[1] arming insurgents, training civilians, and sanctioning them so they can no longer fly to Malta & Cyprus to visit their offshore money.

But talk is cheap, violating international laws on engagement yourself and then pointing the finger at China, Russia or whatever country is hypocrite. In fact I wonder how can one suggest intervention fully knowing your own camp does the same shit. The level of entitlement in such an argument is pot-kettle-black insane.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887900
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This is entirely incorrect and reinforces OPs point about the obsession of some people with the inflation boogie man.
Is there a usable DEX yet? I tried Bisq and it was quite good, but there's low liquidity (which I didn't really mind at the time).
Yes! I've written about this from an F# perspective, which calls them 'computation expressions' instead of 'do notation', here https://dev.to/choc13/grokking-monads-imperatively-394a

If the author really doesn't like the "imperative" syntactic sugar then it's always possible to write equivalent code without it, but it quickly becomes painful for more complex situations.

'do notation' is just a more generalised version of what async/await does. No one wants to go back to writing async code with callbacks / continuations.
Hi! I haven't considered pricing per the amount of content or similar structure, I'm afraid it would become too complicated as pricing. What do you suggest? What kind of plans? At the moment I have just one plan with pricing per site either monthly or yearly to keep things super simple.
I could introduce a cheaper plan perhaps. What kind of plan would you be interested in? Thanks
There is no Hypermedia with REST APIs, so let's call them HyperText Transfer Protocol APIs. But wait, there is no HyperText transferred with most of the APIs. What if this happens on top of TLS, is it then Transport Layer Security wrapped HyperText Transfer Protocol Application Programming Interface. Didn't we call them Web APIs at some point?
Interactive Learning Forums:

- Arch BB [1]

- Unix.com

- realpython.com

- teambhp.com

- DOOM Emacs discord

Also, I have Corporate Udemy account, which allows me to take any number of courses

[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/
Equities are not (marketed as) a USD alternative? This is a bad faith argument.
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My family are descendants of a gypsy from Romania who walked here in the late 19th century. He found a local wife.
Hi, and thanks a lot for the kind words! I am "just" a developer so I have no experience with marketing and am not very confident about how I communicate what I propose, so I am very happy to read that you find it clear! Thanks again :)
I don't understand what a centralized digital currency even means. All I can think of is "it's the same as the regular currency, except we don't issue cash because we hate cash because we can't track it as easily".
I second that. At work we run our own email server (50 people company). I receive single spam message maybe like once in two weeks. With a Gmail home account I have that once in a month.

A slightly more problematic is targeted phishing attacks, where the attackers try to put at least some work-relevant information “. Some of those attempts are not so trivial. I do receive them few times per year, while with GMail I do not remember getting one in at least a year. But on other hand I am not so sure that Google will defend against those if we have used GMail at work.
Free, and in at least the UK, virtually instant when transferring between UK banks.
Show me a phone that works as well as my iphone plus has better privacy and I'll be the first one laying my money down on the counter. I don't think you need to remind us of the dead obvious trade off of apple vs android vs linux, we're all techies around here.
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Nack nack.
I don't get why the higher level frameworks can't make it easier though. I've used three.js before (without knowing any webgl) and was burned by the fact that lines can't even display consistently across devices. For example the line widths would be ignored in some cases but not others: https://threejs.org/docs/?q=line#api/en/materials/LineBasicM...
Final Fantasy 1 for the NES (spoiler alert) has a plot twist at the end where you save the world by undoing a time travel paradox created by the villain. This results in no one being aware that you've just saved the world, or that it even needed saving.

As an 8 year old I learned that one shouldn't need or seek out praise or recognition from others for doing something that I felt was good.
DIY Photophone (Transmit Sound over a Beam of Light)
Buttons need to be designed, dash that fits those buttons need to be designed. They already get the touchscreen, adding smaller screen + buttons is more expensive than no buttons + larger screen.
So, conversely, if a company were to deploy massive BTC mining rigs in China, it would be bad for BTC?
The short answer is we don't know; it is not something we can directly observe. However, they are not expected to have them as the elements to form them would not have been present when the star was formed.
There's a passable movie called "the bit player" currently on amazon and I guess elsewhere.

I'd never heard of him, and that's embarrassing, but he probably prefers it that way :-).
At this stage Tesla doesn't need or want to deliver luxury vehicles to begin with. It was a stepping stone to mass production. The next step is Model 2 or whatever they call it. Which is a smaller hatchback with lower price.

Their other key component is new technologies, like the batteries, self-driving, and so on. I'm not saying they're way ahead, although in some aspects they are. I'm saying what their strategy is.

I don't know what you consider luxury honestly. Maybe the interior materials, and so on. None of this matters much on the real market. People want capability.
See my answer above. As for my argument above that about comparative morality, it's more complex and nuanced, but it boils down to the idea of agency and praxis, and the responsibility of those who have everything they need.

Also a large number of people receiving food aid are neither homeless nor vagrants, but the working poor.
> 11 years of evolution and counting, and still nothing to show for it besides the now habitual pump-and-dump cycle

What, precisely, are you looking for cryptocurrencies to “show” you?

Transactions work today. Plenty of people use them for exchanging actual value, quickly and anonymously (or pseudonymously) across the world.

> If cryptocurrencies are so good at transferring money what's stopping them from replacing existing solutions?

Why would the financial industry do anything to encourage the adoption of crypto? It strips them of their power. They rely on you keeping and sending money with them - the democratized platform of cryptocurrencies are a potential threat.

> Literal billions have been poured in the tech

Sorry, billions have been poured into a worthless speculative market. The developers are not receiving billions, they are still volunteers. And yet there has been a massive amount of development in the crypto space over the past 12 years. NANO enabling instant transactions, XMR allowing for privacy, etc.

> how long it'd be before cryptocurrencies actually delivered on that mythical "tech" and we'd get actual mainstream real world applications […] Can I get an update on that?

I ask again, what exactly are you looking for?

In terms of real-world usage, well, crypto has been used for years. Drug/Darknet markets, for one. Ransomware for another. These are stress-tests for any currency and prove that crypto can work to exchange value in a real market setting.

Further adoption is really up to people, and it will likely happen anyways as the technology improves. A lot of work has been done, but there is a long way to go.
Not sure how your current builds look like, but I tend not having to deal with containers per se. All they force you to do is be explicit about the build‘s dependencies, which I think is a useful thing.

My approach for migrating existing builds to Concourse is to start with a stock image (alpine or ubuntu), and gradually add things that are missing (`fly execute` is a big help for that).

Once I have a successful build, I extract the prerequisites into a task image (but that really is an optimization).
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I've never had cross border SEPA take longer than a business day. Don't doubt it can happen, but if you submit before the cutoff and it's not there by end of next business day your bank or the recipient bank are violating the rules.
I'm currently one of those interviewers and we always ask about fun projects like these. We do that especially since that shows that they're not doing the job only for money, but also because they're passionate about developing software.
This helps on multiple levels. For starters, if you focus on one task for too long, that may result in you having a too narrow view on that problem. While doing a fun project on the evening your mind wanders and sometimes suddenly you get an idea to approach that pesky work problem in a totally different way, even though you were thinking about something totally different.
Or when you return to your specific work task you can just look at it from a fresh perspective.
Or you get a new work-related task and suddenly think "Oh, I could just use part of my [Bobble-Head simulation] algorithm here and this could save me a few hours."
If someone says that everything you are doing has to have a specific goal other than just "for the fun of it", I wouldn't want to work with them.
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Don't feel bad about not knowing basic things
I'm not sure I agree with this lesson. I've sunk 1000s of hours into DOTA 2, and would agree with you in such a game where emotions run high and considered, reasoned responses aren't possible, but I think it's a poor takeaway from the game. Sometimes it is correct to stand your ground and stand up for what you believe is the correct course of action. I'd instead emphasise the importance of emotional control and the importance of morale as a better lesson from MOBAs.
Is that true though? I was under the impression that people have to personally pay their medical bills and visits in China, like in large parts of Asia, so generally they'd only go if it was something severe.
Wikipedia developed something many though was impossible by assembling thousands (millions?) of volunteers.

Why did the solution here need to be algorithmic? Couldn't they scale useful summaries in the same way they scaled the actual article content?
Early Kickboarding in Germany
Before K2 Kickboards and Micro Mobility Scooters emerged in Europe in the dot-com-bubble 1999, there were Ciro Boards in Germany. The Ciro Boards are still around and are an insiders' tip for mobility enthusiasts.
It's not a 'boogie man'. It's theft built into the system.
Imagine cryptos being the mayor currency used. Everyone needs to adapt their lifestyle to that of a gambler. Every month you need to convert your income coins to other coins. The amount of extreme poverty would be staggering. A few large pump and dump moments a year. Organized by powerful individuals becoming extremely rich and making thousands poor.
> And iOS and Apple are not the whole of society.

I dont think it is over-dramatic. It is little exaggerated to make the point, but not over-dramatic for sure. The Smartphone impact to our society will be if not already unprecedented. We will ( unfortunately ) "live" on our Smartphone.

For those who have been looking forward to Smartphone since ( Apple ) Newton era, which is now coming close to 30 years, this has been long time coming. But now we are actually here, it is kind of scary the direction we are heading.
It's uncontroversial that upwards of 90% of the dollar's buying power has been lost due to inflation. Does that seem like a bogeyman to you?
That's because it has no inherent value. Gold has inherent value because it's used in jewellery and as a conductor. If a new use was to be found for gold, it would go up in value. Similarly if someone discovered another metal which could trump gold for shine, the value of gold would go down. There is nothing that BTC can do which altcoins can't.
One difference that I'm aware of (I know people in this situation), is some people cannot open a bank account, but everyone with a computer and a network can open a crypto account.
Great clarification - thank you for calling it out.
Because Tesla screwed up. The component itself (an 8GB e-MMC flash chip) actually wasn't faulty, but it was being misused/overused by constantly writing syslog data to it. Apparently this could amount to hundreds of MB of writes per day, with the device already mostly filled with firmware. After a few years of this it would exceed its write-cycle limit and start to fail.
The difficulty of this depends on the acceptance criteria. I can imagine that the industrial requirements for FP/FN count make this quite an interesting and complicated problem.
As I said, how long your computer waits on the BIOS screen to wait for a keypress is independent of the OS boot time, and can be set in the BIOS if you need it to be longer. Booting the OS happens after waiting for DEL, and are independent events, one has nothing to do with the other.
This is… an interesting take. You mean that everything before the 1999 XMPP PoC was decentralized, and XMPP killed it? (despite the actual situation at the time being split between closed and centralized networks, like MSN, ICQ, etc). And XMPP is to blame for the failure of all the other decentralized systems (that have nothing in common) that came between then and now?

Additionally, considering several hundred million people use XMPP on a daily basis (and even more use something that started out based on XMPP, e.g. whatsapp), saying that XMPP is so terrible that it killed everything is so weird that it would need some facts to back it up.
I am simply saying that it is early to tell if Bitcoin failed in any way. Is it subject to price manipulation? Of course. But that's the result of a free and mostly unregulated market, which is inherently a good thing because it fosters long term robustness at the price of short term stability.

In other words, what Bitcoin may or may not be today does not define what it is going to be in 2, 5 or 10 years.
There is a slight difference between Belarussian justice and US justice, isn't there?
This is completely untrue. Tell me the last time the US government used nukes and F22s on a company lmao. You always have courts and laws.
“Digital gold” is just a euphemism for speculative store of value. Unlike most altcoins including several of the ones you mentioned, Bitcoin never (mis)represented itself as anything but that. Bitcoin never tried to say its use case was anything but the safest safe haven asset. Every other coin had to invent a reason for its existence which without fail never differs from “speculative store of value” underneath all the sophistry and buzzwords.
Repair shops won't touch Apple. It's something people should know before they buy an iPhone.
I don't get this either. Apple is a private US company, making every privacy aspect more or less obsolete. I can't even trust them to not leak private data to foreign servers, which is definitely not what I understand as data privacy
Even special cases like Venezuela where people are fleeing from hyperinflation, they mostly benefiting from the exposure to the USD. The only benefit is evading capital controls and price is irrelevant for that usecase.

Capital controls (blocking foreign exchange) are stupid because for every person selling a hyperinflationary currency, there is someone on the other side paying with a stable currency who is partially relieving some of the inflation pressure.

There are Venezuelans in Miami that send their paychecks back home to support the local economy yet capital controls prevent something like this from happening.
The title doesn't really represent the article. The thesis of the article is that

> there’s someone who stands to make a large profit (or avoid losing their large profit) from ensuring decentralised systems fail.

But you can't actually make decentralized systems fail. Email's still around despite Google's abuse of spam filtering. RSS is still around despite Google's manhandling. Git is still around despite Github. IRC is still around despite Discord.

None of the truly decentralized options are as popular as the centralized-ish alternatives, but that seems entirely inevitable in an internet where most users have near-zero technical proficiency and want someone to hold their hand, which is just not viable without commercialization.

I think just like the world needs both a Linux and a Mac OS, it also needs centralized and decentralized options and while the decentralized options will drive actual progress, lots of people will get rich profiting from centralized bastardizations.
> Thought the source code is not IP bounded and that is why we can run mvs older edition with the ibm emulator.

In the beginning (1960s), IBM released their mainframe operating systems into the public domain. (At the time, US copyright law required an explicit copyright notice, and so IBM relinquished their copyright by publishing the software without any copyright notice attached.) So they were not copyrighted and anyone was free to use them, both then and today.

In the 1970s, IBM began to increasingly copyright add-on components, but left the core OS public domain. However, a lot of new features went into those copyrighted add-ons (MVS/SE, MVS/SP, ACF/TCAM, ACF/VTAM, TSO/E, SPF, etc), so if you just stuck to the public domain core OS you were running something a lot more limited than what you got with all of IBM's copyrighted add-ons.

Finally, starting in the 1980s, IBM started copyrighting the core OS as well. The big change was the introduction of MVS/XA in 1983 – MVS/XA supported 31-bit addressing (as opposed to the 24-bit addressing of previous versions). MVS/XA was fully copyrighted, both core and extensions.

So, yes, you can run old public domain OS versions legally, but not current versions. For example, the newest version of MVS you can run is MVS 3.8J at 8505 maintenance level. That has bug fixes through to 1985, but in terms of actual features is stuck somewhere in the early-to-mid 1970s. (The story for VM/CMS and DOS/360 is similar.)
> The developers are not receiving billions, they are still volunteers.

This has not been true for some years. There's been a lot of ICO money, and some of it is used to pay full time developers.
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Yeah,I'm 8am-3pm M-F only for a wire and they have to call me to verbally verify it before routing. Quite annoying.
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As well as my general dislike of touchscreens, this is especially so in outdoorsy kit where you are prone to have dirty hands. You are then putting the dirt on the bit for seeing information.

Also, for me, outdoorsy kit should be operable in gloves. Vehicles with hearing are a bit of an exception I guess, but still.
Exactly this. Who cares if you have a digital currency if you control everything about it. At that point it's just fiat with extra steps.

Meanwhile they sit out the development of new tech like the 5G network being built by the Helium Network which uses HNT as the motivational driver to create a distributed decentralized network run by average people. These types of systems will become the norm in the next crypto wave.
This is all just Theorie or personal. I know plenty people that moved country (including myself) that face none of these issues and have no interest moving back ever. My quality of life is better, jobs are better, moving was not hard either.
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Belarus can't be closer to Russia than it is already - they effectively don't have a border between them. Belarus is a definition of a satellite state.
Hey,Thanks.

We re-used our old failed ideas design because we didn't have time. Happy to learn you liked it.
Shannon was awesome. It seemed like after he wrote his groundbreaking information theory paper he did whatever the hell he wanted for the rest of his life in Cambridge. Made all kinds of contraptions and devices.
I just don't think that there are that many Europeans on HN percentage wise.
I’m sorry for your pain (I feel it too!) but I can’t figure out what Siri misheard as “Obama lights”..?

Fwiw my car always thinks I’m trying to call someone or listen to obscure 60s pop, when all I want is to adjust the AC
> You'd need multiple technological breakthroughs for that to happen.

For (1), at the very least, Apple could provide a VPN by default.

For (2), why is this the case? Apple mostly just needs to delete content from the Keychain for deleted apps and throw a wrench into some APIs used for fingerprinting.
It's patently ridiculous, especially taking the context into consideration (persecution of opposition).
This Walmart store analogy often over simplifies the problem that is not accurate in the grand scheme of things.

Everything about the Walmart as a "store" in the above are correct. Except iOS is also a "State", and this State only accept one "store". While in the Walmart example, which is a real world example, one could always expect you to open a Store next to Walmart selling exactly the same thing with a lower price.

The Store, The State ( Platform ) , Judiciary ( App Store Rules ) are all interlinked together. You cant compare one thing without mentioning the other. And that is not even including the payment processing.
What particularly surprises me about this is that the star is in our own galaxy. I'm used to the idea of seeing remnants from the early universe from observations of very distant galaxies, but of course then we're seeing them as they were long ago. This is a second generation star that's almost as old as the universe, but in our neighbourhood and we're seeing it as it is "now" (or close enough).

I wonder where in the galaxy it's located? Intuitively I'd expect such an object to survive longer if it were out in the rim or halo of the galaxy, in a more rarified region, but of course intuition on these things can be very misleading.
Testing is expensive. That's why it has a great potential for savings.
A bank deposit is just that, a deposit. Your bank owes you x amount of $USD but it doesn't mean it actually has that many $USD in reserve. There is nothing wrong with it because lending is a valuable service to society but it is not the same.

A CBDC is electronic cash. The CBDC $USD in your account are real $USD the same way $USD bills in your wallet are real $USD.
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