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Computer science is essentially a management science, and vice versa.

---- Lin Pengcheng

Creator of Computer Science Management School

Creator of Management Science Computer School

In the field of computer science, I applied technologies such as management principles, warehouse/workshop model, and large-scale industrial standardization assembly lines to the fields of computer software, hardware, and AI, and realized the unification of computer theory.

In the field of management science, my discussion of management principles and warehouse/workshop model is the most scientific, systematic, simple, reliable, clear, and operable.

Whether it is an IT practitioner who takes up a management position, or a manager who becomes an IT industry executive, they can use my theory as a bridge to another kind of science.

The Grand Unified Programming Theory: The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow with Principle-based Warehouse/Workshop Model

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
How will less intelligent autonomous drones do any better against manned fighter, "manned" drones, and jamming?
If you don't have an argument to make, perhaps it's better to say nothing?

When you come out and say, things are too complex to make an argument, it can read like FUD and whataboutism. As if you are attacking an idea that an argument _can_ be made.

I'm sure you didn't set out to muddy the waters, but after having muddied them in the middle of a lively debate, I think this is the sort of response you should expect to receive.

Coherent arguments against cryptocurrencies are readily available. The case for cryptocurrencies is shifting, contradictory, and often nonsensical. This means something. It matters.
> any system for distributing money to people is going to be ... bureaucratic.

Nope. Private charities like churches are not bureaucratic. They distribute money to people based on personal knowledge of those people and a personal judgment on the part of the church community that those people deserve charity.

> You claim that the bureaucracies are bloated, but have no evidence that the things they do can be achieved with less bureaucracy.

Many of the things that bloated government bureaucracies do should not be done at all. So it's pointless to ask for evidence that they could be done with less bureaucracy.

> Most regulations exist to check the power of the rich

That's what we are led to believe. I just don't think it's actually true. A whole new mess of regulations got put in place after the crash of 2008. Yet the rich are even richer now than they were then.
> The cheapest microwaves you can get have two dials, one for temp, one for time. Why not buy one of those??

I imagine two reasons: first, the market seems to have decided that simple microwaves must be small microwaves. If you want to heat anything larger than a bowl of soup you’re gonna forfeit the dials.

Second, most of the time the dials also suck. Want to heat something for 2 minutes 30 seconds? Good luck with that on a cheap microwave that shows minutes in 5mm increments with 2.5mm of play in the dial.
The reason being the fear of missing out on getting more fiat money back than they paid for. If you buy ETFs you at least indirectly incentivize firms who produce usefull stuff like medicine, food, shelter, insurance or trading (not by itslf useful but it serves an important role in our economy).
Now that I think about it, maybe you are onto something. Even if crypto is just a fad it was an important signal for governments and the markets.
The early adopters were considerably more varied than just
"anarcho"-capitalists.
...and then one day they quietly implemented ip6 :)
Why is that called non-euclidean?
Concourse CI. Easy to install locally and you can define pipelines to do ... stuff.

It does stuff you’d normally do with Travis or GitHub actions. Store them as code in your project repo, run jobs automatically and repeatable and do stuff based on the results.
Well, we don't live in a democracy, we live in a republic with various roadblocks and safeguards that make it much harder to pass laws than taking public opinion polls. There is the dreaded senate, for example, that can block laws.

So as is often the case, the legal system is quite conservative whereas people wildly claim that whatever they don't like at the moment -- whatever seems "unfair" should be illegal, and fortunately there are usually enough roadblocks to prevent that from happening.

> the US government or a pissed off Judge could shut down Amazon’s entire operation in a day if there was the political will or some scandal came about.

Nope.

Even if there are pissed off or crusading judges -- of which there are plenty -- those decisions will get appealed and overturned via the appeals process and it definately will not take one day, these cases can take a decade as they wind their way to the supreme court where they are finally turned into nothingburgers most of the time, to the constant fury of those who insist that their ever-changing moods should be encoded in law, or that a pissed off judge should be able to carve apart a company. There is a reason this has never happened in the history of the U.S. Sometimes monopolies are broken up, but you can usually count on one hand how many times that will happen in your lifetime -- I think ATT was the last time that happened, before most of the people on this site were born. And it hasn't happened since. The judicial system just doesn't have this power and laws are very slow to change, requiring much more than just a shift in public opinion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor

This design has a lot of practical advantages, but seems to be suffering in the market from the same capital cost disease as other reactors.
time isn’t the issue! that hugely oversimplifies things (retail isn’t disappearing because people aren’t hanging around places). It’s also possible by the time evs are widely adopted… say 10-20 years from now, charging won’t take as long or be as scarce… so not even time will be an issue
Does the Self-Hosting heading not answer that objection?

https://github.com/susam/texme#self-hosting-texme
That's nonsense. Bitcoin is not limited to whole coins. The total number of satoshis is crazy big, more than the dollars in the world.

Bitcoin is limited by the block size and the lack of working L2 solutions (lightning is permanently broken).

But other currencies, like BCH don't have that problem, and can easily represent the whole US economy.
I’ve discovered if you adhere to a diet recommended by your doctor then you’re not going to have many issues with clean up. Yet another way you can lessen your impact on the world’s natural resources.
That README.md is a model piece of doc. Nice work!
I can add another reason: Because I want to.
The Persians also have an expression for "drunkenness and truthfulness", masti o rasti. مستی و راستی
I think this depends entirely on the value you're getting from it - as with everything in IT.
Holochain fulfills blockchain's promises: https://medium.com/metacurrency-project/cryptocurrencies-are...
A breadth first search?
Agreed with this, because it gives you a relatively direct upgrade path in case you want to start using GitLab Enterprise.
I think that scenario may be why so many people have a hatred for value engineering: once cheaper becomes available, the market bifurcates into value-engineered wares for people who don’t care and the high-quality end becomes higher quality and three times the price it used to be. The choices of other customers deny you the continued availability of the optimal price+feature set for your needs & budget.
It's a good comparison insofar as the tools were/are primitive and only usable by experts. A lot of domain knowledge was required.

You can hate crypto and still agree with me on the above point. It's a pretty innocuous observation.

I'm not going to engage the rest of your argument which has no bearing on the point being made.
Yeah examples would be far more interesting than this lecture.

It is absolutely comical to find that there are people passionate enough about board games to respond as if we were talking about geopolitics.

There is not really much I can do with your rehash, but if there were examples of pivotal games, their mechanics and offshoots that would be more useful.
I don't think derisive attitudes in the workplace adequately explain it, because there are a lot fewer women in CS/engineering school too.
Smart contracts seem legitimately useful. Am I missing something here?
I've personally witnessed friends doing this as a man. A bit sad, and certainly not true of all men, but it's not false.
> I was surprised, however, to find the New York Times uses the very same dark pattern it derides to prevent its own subscribers from canceling.

It was very simple for me to cancel my NYT subscription. I got a new credit card because the old one was getting mysterious charges on it. I forgot that NYT had that card on my subscription. I soon started getting dunning notices on it, and logged in to change the card number. The NYT kept rejecting the new card, and I gave up.

No more NYT for me!
The photo of the lifetime waste burden is good. But of course obfuscates the waste trail before the fuel arrived at the reactor. I don't want to come off as nit-picky: its an amazing lesson how how LOW the post-energy waste burden is, done right and I wish we could learn to agree about this as a huge upside of Nuclear, compared to the mountains of fly ash, and related waste from coal, and the CO/CO2 burden.

But, we do need to pay heed to the waste cycle going in. Its not zero by a long chalk. It includes heinously bad stuff at all stages from yellowcake up. If the cycle still has Uranium Hexaflouride in it, this is why we have PTFE.
I think we can probably all agree that while these things are different, we're really just talking about different flavors of disastrous. Sure, right now landmines have the lead in unintentional injuries/deaths, but in the grand scheme of things it's the early days, and bad quality automation (or good quality automation put to awful tasks) has yet to show its true potential. Then again it's hard to compete with the 60,000,000+ unexploded landmines estimated to be out in the wild.
I’m in the field and I would be careful with OP’s pov. I don’t trust the opinion of a bitcoin maximalist as much as I don’t trust the opinion of someone who has little clue about the field.

Someone saying that crypto will replace the USD = someone saying that crypto has no usecase and is only used for fraud.

Unfortunately it really takes a lot to have an opinion on the field imo. Money is very abstract and so you need an understanding of crypto, of economics, and of how payments work in the world today.
> need to go get the paper tickets.

Darn, no mail service either. That's harsh.
I’m in the not sure camp. I’ve had more positive gut feeling about some projects over others. I can’t stand tech bro culture in general so most of it turns me off pretty easily.

I think there may be something there, but that the current state of “crypto” isn’t it.

I’m encouraged to see discussions happening around banking and other open financial processes there. People who just can’t gain access to market where money they make can actually accumulate and help them are usually invisible. I want to see something come of that.

These are expensive lessons, though—financially, ecologically, and socially.
Watched it. Excellent. Though some parts may surprise some people. Won't spoil :-)
My point is that a bank is essentially a commissioned matchmaker for lenders and borrowers, and that depositing your hard earned money in a traditional big bank savings account is effectively a free cash flow for them insured by the U.S. government. So while I agree with you that a Citibank savings account and a Yearn USDC deposit have frankly incomparable risk profiles, in the sense that if the bank ever needs to claim FDIC insurance then shit has truly hit the fan, I disagree that these two positions generate income (or lack thereof) in any fundamentally different way.

I would not recommend my grandmother uses Yearn, but I also wouldn't recommend that my little cousin who knows how to program saves her money in a Wells Fargo account either.

Regardless I appreciate your considerate comment. I always know something interesting is afoot when HN relentlessly downvotes both pro and con comments.
From what I can tell, much of this discussion seems to be characterized by people miscommunicating.

> Considering that _it_ hasn't produced any value of note in 13 years...

What do you mean by "it"? Do you mean (a) Bitcoin in particular; (b) some/many/most/all cryptocurrencies; (c) a distributed self replicating Byzantine tolerant state machine? Or something else?

The comment by tzumby meant (c). Generally, the HN thread was about (b), best I can tell.
How many institutions that bought in at $50,000-$60,000 are now sitting on huge unrealised losses, and are now trying to offload their positions to retail investors?
it's not that. it's the rationalization through imagined differences. A forceful separation and grouping of equivalent things into difference categories and a dictation of their interaction by segregation in the name of more "organized code".

Things do adhere to a structure under its guise, it's an accurate statement. But it's an arbitrary one that's of dubious and most likely negative value.

The reality of maintenance, deadlines, budgets and number of engineers working on the projects seem to suggest the impact is overall negative.

There's two reasons this stuff sticks around:

1. Counterfactual testing can't ever be done to test without ... You can't rerun the project with the same initial conditions and do some kind of clean demonstration of it being a hindrance.

2. Even if #1 was achievable, there's other reasons people do not want to admit to it. And this is especially applicable to an authoritarian framework such as react that enforces doctrine by explicitly disallowing heretical code

Political scientist Adam Przeworski claims authoritarianism can reach a stable configuration "mainly on lies, fear and economic prosperity":

* There needs to be an economic value to the doctrine perceived in the mind of the prospect.

* There has to be a fear of losing out or falling behind by not adhering to the orthodoxy

* The core claims have to be fundamentally, exhaustively and obviously fraudulent.

React checks #1 and #2 and for #3 they claim simplicity, painlessness, ease of use, all of these are profoundly fraudulent claims as anyone who has extensively worked with it knows.

This is why it's become a stable authoritarian system.
In reality though, most of the munitions such as these will not be used for wars.

Unfortunately, I'd have to put my money on munitions like these being used more often for targeted assassinations of <insert name of prominent person here>. It seems on the surface, very effective. And I could see where it would be hard, if not impossible, to trace. I think people in the future will think twice before running for mayor or agreeing to be a sheriff or police chief for instance.

For example, once the cartels build some of these, I'm not sure what kind of odds I would give anti-cartel leaders. Probably would be even worse in the US given our acrimonious dichotomy. I could see tit for tat assassinations going on all the time.

Of course, all that also means that a lot of work will likely be put into countermeasures. So who knows how all this will develop I guess?
RFC 1149 is missing, weak.

Great design, I only had to click Back about 3000 times.
It’s the long date concept, promoted by the Long Now foundation [1] which promotes long-term thinking and gives a nod to this by writing years in 5-digit format.

The irony with the GP’s post is that I can’t see using Bitcoin, with its current incredibly-high power usage and associated environmental destruction, as long-term thinking in any way, shape or form.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
> I told the representative I wanted to cancel. Then I was offered reasons not to. I responded with “no thanks” each time. Then, I waited for the representative to reply and come back with several rounds of offers to get me not to cancel. On and on, the process went until I was finally allowed to leave.

That's fairly easy to deal with. Answer every question, argument, and pitch from the representative with "please cancel my subscription".
> If had not been for government antitrust laws and their enforcement, IBM would have stifled the PC market before it even began.

Your reference takes a viewpoint that is, to say the least, questionable. IBM didn't even comprehend the PC market. If they had, they would never have given the license for MS-DOS to Microsoft. Nor did they comprehend the market for graphical user interfaces when they told everyone in the late 1980s that yes, OS/2 would be wonderful when it came along but there was no rush, they were much more concerned about coming out with new mainframe hardware and software. Bill Gates didn't want to wait that long, and the result was Windows. IBM had no clue what he was even doing until it was too late.

If you want to look at what antitrust law really accomplished, look up what happened to Alcoa Aluminum. Their "violation" was providing aluminum more cheaply and in greater quantity to their customers than any competitors could. Their breakup in an antitrust lawsuit made aluminum more expensive and scarcer, causing huge costs to industry and ultimately to consumers. Your rosy view of the benefits of regulation is a myth.

> Taxation ensures that all of society benefits as the collective wealth increases. It pays for shared resources, and provides for a shared safety net.

If that was all our tax money was used for, I wouldn't complain. But it isn't.

Not to mention that much of the money the government spends doesn't even come from explicit taxation; it comes from printing money, which has the same economic effect as taxation--us ordinary citizens have our buying power reduced--but is more politically palatable because most people don't understand what is being done to them.
If you're not on a glass smooth California highway and you try and adjust a medium-small knob that doesn't have a lot of resistance you're not going to be accurate.

Better than a touch screen, definitely, but worse than discrete up/down buttons
I found this out the hard way. Picked up a cheap surplus ProLiant to mess around with, and quickly realized it would be far better for my use case to use a business-class desktop or laptop and avoid the unnecessary noise, space, and power draw of pro server hardware. It sure looked cool, though.
>"It's time for us in tech world to speak"
>"It solves nothing", "It's used by criminals".

If I got $1 every time I heard these...
Cool. I'll let my 7 year old and 5 year old know.
> or that my string is an integer

Have you ever considered PHP?
When I first explained bitcoin to my mom and her friends, they didn't get it.

The second time, I explained it, they didn't get it. The third time, I sat them down, and made them learn how to run full nodes, run a few commands on the command line, and use bitcoin. Western Union is certainly not guaranteed, nor tyranny proof. If the governments of Argentina or Pakistan need the USD bad enough, they will every dollar Western Union is holding for recipients. To keep the story quiet and the money flowing in, they may imprison the recipients and their families. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
This is a really cool sort of science fiction: attempting to build a story around a world where some fundamental scientific law has been adjusted.
No you can't. The protocols for buying and selling or making payments haven't changed in decades. The problem is communication authority and scaling, not the data format. Blockchain enables so-called triple entry accounting. Everyone sees everything everyone else is doing (if you want them to). There is never an argument about who did something or why. Just consider the audit and servicing cost savings.
> Someone launched an explicit "PonziCoin" on ETH even

Lots of meme coins have launched -- does not delegitimize everything else.

> ...whole concept of trustless irreversible digital cash just does not work in the real world for normal transactions

Layers will be built on top to provide that. Your vision is limited.
> Society is created by humans. Therefore it is man made, not made by nature.

Okay, then that just means "unnatural" is not a bad thing, unless you think society is a bad thing. But if you think society is a bad thing, why are you taking advantage of the benefits it provides? I assume you are, because if you weren't, you wouldn't be able to post here.

> you can change society by changing humans

Really? And how do you propose to do that? Particularly without grossly violating the rights of the humans you want to change?
Tsunami Survival Pod
Because airlines don't share passenger information like this except through the TSA...
The return policy also leads to inflated prices. Since there is (effectively) no way to dispute a buyer's return, sellers must eat the cost when it happens--and they're out fees already charged in the purchase transaction.

The result is exactly as you'd expect: the items sold by third party sellers on amazon have a large markup just to produce break-even margins. Source: my wife, who ran a business including third-party selling on Amazon for a while.
Nerd Dictation: Speech to Text on Linux Using VOSK-SDK
NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report
Whoops lol, should have kept reading. I definitely understand. Drinking and writing software is something I enjoy.
There both is and isn't. If someone says heat pump in a generic heating context they don't care. However most of the time the difference is significant, so geothermo is added as a qualifier where that is what is meant, and heat pump alone means air to air. You have to guess from context which it is though - and you won't always be right.
I'd send them back this link and ask if they value the free use of curl: https://github.com/search?q=org%3Atravis-ci+curl&type=code
I've often thought about how superior my car seat is to any office chair. Do you still sit with your legs out in front of you, and lower your desk?
Is there a Visual Basic that compiles for all platforms? Man that would be a killer app. As a teen, I hadn't even formally learned BASIC, but somehow I was able to cobble together programs with VB, and it gave me confidence that I could learn more.
CAPTOR mines are discriminate. They can recognize different ships by sound and won't fire on friendly ships.
True, but it’s still crappy of them to waste people’s time.
> Fortunately, we also live in a world where the UN and its agencies do not have a monopoly on good information.

We live in a world where the UN is basically a formality. I don't see how this organization has been helpful in solving world problems and preventing wars at all.
Well my answer would be that there are many different types of exploits that we may consider fraud. As I said blockchains prevent _some_ of these exploits but not all. I don't think we can prevent laundering of illegal arms sales with cryptocurrency just as I don't think we can prevent the same laundering with actual paper bills.[a] However blockchains do prevent problems like double spending and information asymmetry from occurring.

My counter point to the lack of specific, easy answers on how blockchain solves any kind of fraud would be that there aren't any, in that there is a certain amount of financial and technical know how that is prerequisite to explaining _why_ these problems are provably non existent. We will need to wait for higher level abstractions to be invented before mainstream adoption is possible, and until that happens I will admit cryptocurrencies are almost hopelessly confusing in their mechanisms of action.

[a] China's new central bank currency may be able to solve this problem to some extent but I consider the forced adoption of such a currency in the Western world to be too draconian to be practical.