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This is why I say my ADHD has made me a better programmer. I can't mentally simulate more than the most basic state interactions. I have to write code that my rainy-Monday-morning, pre-meds, pre-coffee brain can reason about. And I see that as a win/win. It means someone foreign to the codebase has to put less thought into reasoning about it. My brain handles big picture thinking super well, but I can keep about 1.5 pieces of state in my working memory.

I love my IDE. I love interfaces, type systems, and static checks. ADHD pretty much forced me into a very functional programming style, because mutation is so more to think about.

Conversely, some of the most inscrutable and buggy code I've written was when my meds were a tad high and I could easily reason about really complex interactions.
Let's be clear that if I had accepted Bitcoin payments in 2013, I would have then lost them all a year or two later when my exchange got hacked. That would make me an even more bitter person now.

I can't remember ever calling for a ban on cryptocurrency. If you're remembering something I'm not, then please correct me.
Yes. That's the point. Bitcoin serves incredibly poorly as a savings account, along every conceivable axis.
Exactly, but it will be also about the underlying asset soon. This is what my company is working on: Darkblock.io
That makes a lot more sense, thanks for commenting!
> "the lack of reports of seroconversion, the silence from China on this evidence, speaks volumes."

This is just Hacker News-level commentary passing for science.
>> I wonder how often these are just the Baader-Meinhof effect.

No. That is, there's Baader-Meinhof effects, misattribution and other things going on at the surface level... but the actual reality is much worse.

Ad tech is the entirety of FB & Alphabet. Ad tech is their business and as an industry it rivals energy, shipping... everything but defense. It is the tech industries' biggest achievement, and the most economically significant "big data" and machine learning sector. Don't underestimate it.

Tracking and snooping are the single most important element in ad tech. Views & user volume is secondary.
> A lot of these comments are not fond of the author's arrogance... Which seems to be a little nitpicky.

Arrogance is one thing. Outright misleading/lying about what other books say is another.
If I'm understanding this, they have guessed the probability of various things, including events, and assembled them to assign some kind of probability for each possibility.

So it boils down to "if our guesses about some underlying probabilities are correct, this would be the answer". I see this a lot in financial analyses too, where some sophisticated analysis is done but it's just on top of guesses. It's not really accurate to say it "concludes beyond a reasonable doubt" - they have an argument, maybe a valid and supported one, buy the "bayesian analysis" is just smoke and mirrors on top of their initial assertions.

If someone has a different view of what the Baysian analysis adds, I'd be interested to understand.
> Nope, science is just shifting the perspective.

That's an incorrect assertion based on cherry-picked evidence.

The Feynman video is a perfect example of this. He gives examples of cases where deep "why" answers aren't easily found. But those examples don't cover the entire field of science.

All you need to refute cherry-picked examples is a single counterexample. I've provided two counterexamples. I've also provided a derivation for one of them, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27336901

The point is that science can and does answer "why" questions, and in many cases does so very definitively - so much so that we can predict behavior in other universes that we've never seen.
RAM is just an example. In my Thinkpad (T430) I'm able to swap out the CPU, mainboard, keyboard or screen if necessary, like in an ordinary PC. The question is, how likely is it that some component will break. From my experience it's not very unlikely over a lifespan of a few years. I mean sure you can have luck with all your computers and you never have any hardware failures, but I wouldn't count on that.
Thanks -- I have used that word wrong too. I guess 'entirely' or 'completely' would be better
You could book plane tickets.

That, literally all by itself, would be enough for me to think building the internet was worth it.

You kids have no idea how much fun it was to go downtown to a travel agent just to find out how much it would cost to fly home from college for Christmas.
It’s the combination of strong network effects and artificial scarcity driving the price action. You buy Bitcoin cause something about it really resonated with you. Price goes up and you feel validated. You go and naturally — out of benevolent intentions — tell your closes people so they don’t miss out.

The mistake of cryptocurrency is discounting the potential for price manipulation. Earl adopters understood cornered these markets immediately. Now we are in never ending cycles of hype, markup, dump, accumulate, hype, markup, distribute, and accumulate over years. These cycles are continuously producing winners and losers and the losers are generally those who have more to lose and are thus enable to withstand the intense pressure of bear markets.

I love Bitcoin and Ethereum and all the potential freedom that they represent. At the same time - enough. These markets need regulation. We need to know who owns these coins. We need to see their selling patterns so we can see their manipulation.

Unfortunately, the cynic in me knows that too many people are making too much money and are probably going to block regulation for a very long time.
You're actually almost right. While Bitcoin was launched with lofty goals, it was pretty quickly overtaken by capitalist vultures who saw a low-regulation industry to extract money from people.

Importantly though, it's not an either/or. Capitalism is problematic and cryptocurrency is problematic. Both can be true at the same time.
I don't think any of that matters at all to people who enjoy the games or virtual worlds. I understand your point, I just disagree that it will matter in any way.

>you can buy a digital artwork at a Christie's auction and display it in Decentraland and have it be verifiably authentic

I can't imagine anyone would give a shit about someone's virtual art being "authentic" for whatever meaning of authentic NFTs pretend to claim. This is basically receipt porn at this point. Truly we're talking about bragging about wealth, one of the shittiest traits a person can have.
Proof of stake only gives you new coins, not actual value. You may or may not be able to trade those additional coins for value, but that does not matter here.
I have some products on Amazon and hate paying the "Amazon tax". So, I often use Amazon as a way to look for a company that sells a product I want and then try to buy direct from that company. Most of the companies are thankful for me doing it.
I am not sure remittance counts as a "use", especially if it is only useful for remitting money because it is also actually "used" for settling ransomware payouts or buying cocaine.
Booking.com's "best price agreement", which prohibited hotels from offering lower prices on their own website, was just declared illegal by the highest German court because it's anti competitive.
The "early internet" comparison is usually presented when talking about how clumsy and slow the technology is in its current state. The argument is certainly not presented in the context of how "fun" it is. There's nothing "fun" about finance (and there never will be).

In the context of technological state (how brittle and obtuse the tools are), the comparison between the two is right on the money IMHO.

I once configured SOCKS on Windows 3.1 so I could connect to the internet over a 9600-baud modem. In those days, unless you were in Academia, you didn't know anyone with an email address. Early Usenet and IRC had very little to offer someone who wasn't a nerd. FTP? MUD gaming? Come on.

You and I found the early internet interesting precisely because we were nerds to begin with. Don't mistake that sentiment for that of the general public. They mostly found it frustrating and boring.
How was the interview process before you got hired on? Any warning signs that seem obvious now in retrospect?
> 'a good book on negotiations will differentiate between strategies where the relationship is important and where it isn't'. What is one such book?

Bargaining for Advantage does this. I expect most "academic" books do it.
Obviously you’re missing that most of any land’s value comes from the fact that it can be wrapped as NFT.

It is well known historic fact that Romans fought for new land knowing that the time will come when you could wrap it into NFT to make finally useful!

Same story with Columbus and his ICO (Initial Columbus Odyssey).
Do you have a source for this?

For example, Erdogan flat out banned businesses from accepting cryptocurrency when he saw that people were putting their money in cryptos because of the inflation of the Turkish Lira.

It's not like cryptos are a stable currency, either. Question: Wouldn't it make more sense for people in develping countries to buy more stable assets or currencies, or is it not possible to that because of a lack of access?
The newly issued shares represent a share in the underlying value of the company, which has increased.

For cryptocurrencies, there is no such underlying value.
This rings home for me as well. I remember my (now ex) wife saying she was going to quit working and be a stay at home mom the day I hit $100k salary. Effectively cutting it in half economically. I feel like folks who say these kind of recommendations also need to preface the fact that not everyone can afford to. I couldn’t afford to put anything in a 401k for years.
I find “write sober, review drunk” to be much better advice.
I could waste a huge amount of time refuting the author's points, but will make it more of a meta comment.

Crypto is vast, complex, and inherently not suitable for binary thinking. I've studied the space for months and have come to the conclusion that crypto is two-sided in almost every aspect.

Many/most coins are speculative, which you can associate with words like "greed" and "casino". Yet also provide wealth savings/growth to people locked out of it in our traditional system.

NFTs are a cruel joke right now, yet ridiculous as they are, may be a precursor to various groundbreaking uses having real utility, in an exponential way.

Smart contracts are largely dysfunctional, yet there's early success in replacing financial products like staking, lending, leverage. When it works, it's permission-less, which has interesting social benefits (access not defined by your identity/social class).

And so on.

I'm not here to debate any of these points, my only point is to not dismiss crypto as a whole (binary thinking) and to not underestimate it. The topic is too complex for it.
which phone do you use it on? as ios browsers do not seem to support it?
> So because people kill people, machines should be allowed to kill people? not even logical, I can see an argument being valid as in why shouldn't machines kill other machines. why do you think machines should be allowed to kill people?

This argument is fatecious and irrational. You can argue whether it's acceptable to kill. Beyond that it makes rigorously no difference whether you kill someone with your bare hands or by pressing a button.
> Those individuals need the consent of at least two private corporations

Not true, you can exchange Bitcoin locally with other individuals. Mailing paper money or checks over postal service is not comparable to making payments using Bitcoin online. Especially when considering international payments.
"Trust is the raw material from which all types of money are minted".

You make a valid point, I do trust that our government will come to collect what's due from the citizens, but what about the corporations?

Worth noting there are quite a number of what are known as Community currencies still active in the US & Canada:

USA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies...

Canada:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies...
If this wasn't for a birthday present next week I would have, finding a screen that works and has decent viewing angles seems difficult?
Yes, absolutely. HN for some reason does not want to hear it, but this is the cold hard truth of the matter.
Documentation can also be anything. Is it your initial RFC or ADR, or is it a spec? Is it a set of product requirements? Is it inline with your code so it produces a manual when you build it? Is it a set of articles or tutorials written after the fact? Is it a README?
What problem does Bitcoin solve?
What you get by shopping at Amazon isn't just the pricing, it's the convenience not to enter your details again and again and again for the sake of getting a single item. I'd love if someone could solve it and instead of 'sign up here' I'd get 'pay with superDuperSingleSolutionForAllECommerce' and it's done. Maybe I should ask for VC money and start working on it?..
And unless you are doing something very specifically tied to revenue generation (so, sales basically) impossible to answer sensibly.

Like, what value does an SRE engineer bring? Or a cyber person? For a large company; basically nothing on average, until you save them from a major incident, then potentially loads.
Should be a yes or no answer? Either you worked on the algorithm or you didn't.

I asked the question because they spoke with the assurance of an insider... so I wondered if they worked on it.
Your location probably will be one factor in the offer you receive. They will assume that your other options may not be as good as someone who is located in more expensive areas. Ideally you would show your hourly rate for past projects or other offers you have now.

That will show that they can't pay you based on your living situation. Instead they have to pay you on the rate you can otherwise get in the market.
It is a codepath that is used a lot, in system frameworks that many apps use. So, speeding it up can yield a systemwide performance improvement for all sorts of apps.
And other studies found large sleep phase changes are very hard to maintain. A single late night or an illness can send someone back to their natural schedule.
No, I am referring to Google's SMS platform. It interfaces to nearly all other carriers, and is accessible through the "Voice" app or the web page at https://voice.google.com
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Companies make billions off free products. It shouldn't be surprising to anyone there are extremely shady things going on.

Don't use a phone and pay in cash.
If you look at that thread, people are relying on a company called Reserve, that essentially issues its own currency (a 'stablecoin'). This is the part that I don't get—how is it cryptocurrency when you are relying on trusted third parties?
How exactly do you imagine that an unbanked person living in rural India would be able use cryptocurrency? It isn't like they can just enter their credit card into a website and buy some. Not to mention that even if they someone managed to acquire some, the $5+/transaction fees are going to make something like bitcoin or ethereum completely impractical.
I would highly recommend a 787 cockpit seat instead. Much more comfortable and adjustable than an ejection seat and also kind of futuristic looking from behind.

If you mind the gap between your knees for the controls too much, look for an Airbus seat. They also have nice armrests because the stick is on the side.
Understanding proof-of-work down to the very details, I can make some evaluations based on simple technical properties. For example, Bitcoin can never become "more efficient": If efficiency of computing hashes goes up, difficulty goes up to counteract this, and the energy usage remains the same.

This is different from almost everything else, where advances in technology that increase efficiency are usually a direct benefit.

All this energy goes into what is essentially a lottery for miners. Except for 6 hashes per hour, all of the literally 100.000.000.000.000.000.000 hashes per second get thrown away entirely, not even advancing the same miner, the same ASIC, towards one of the qualifying 6 hashes per hour.
Not available in the U.S. :/
So you are saying all deliveries need to require signatures?
I'm a tech guy. I've spent years experimenting with crypto and it isn't fit for any legitimate purpose.
I didn't read the author's charge of antisemitism as strictly guilt by association. I think Richler's argument is that the fixation on shadowy global plots threatening "good old England" both fits into a pattern of 20th century antisemitism (Russia, Germany) and provides a kind of "dog whistle" appeal to the old (antisemitic, xenophobic) aristocracy.
> whether or not they actually reply in detail

In my experience, they never do (if they're a decent sized company).

> "See, I did it this way, and I ended up with this other number. What do you think causes the difference?"

This does work at times to increase your pay, so I recommend it. However, when it doesn't, they are not going to respond to your question. It will be another "We're sorry, but our data suggests otherwise. We aim to be competitive."

Of course, if you're a very senior position and they really want to, they will have a conversation. In the remaining 99% of cases, they'll adjust the salary to an extent, and then you'll hit a wall. That's when you start negotiating on non-salary stuff.
Would you please provide the native Portuguese words? Like others, I'm interested to know what they are.
Film equipment is just like that. People ask where the autofocus is on that 50k$ Arri-Zeiss combination and you point at your focus puller loafing around with a coffee in her hand.

Just made for a different kind of gig than your usual consumer grade camera
it depends on how you count. if you measure "primary use of email" by number of emails, then yes spam wins out, but that's only because a tiny fraction of human users are sending out tens of millions of spams. if you measure "primary use of email" in terms of users, the vast majority of people who use email use it for useful, non spammy purposes. The same can't necessarily be said for cryptocurrencies, as far as trying to prove that cryptocurency has a large userbase that is not there just for speculation/inflation and/or illicit use cases.
I understand the final goal, but if I want to send my relative in Venezuela half my paycheck this week, how does she spend it on groceries and at the pharmacy before the Crypto Revolution comes?

Inevitably the answer is "some trusted third party" that turns it into a vanilla remittance.
> We flew B-52s over Germany and Japan and dropped unguided munitions from far above. Britain flew bombing raids at night. Not sure about who was held accountable for killing the wrong people then.

I would go a step further and point out the fact that while bombs are fired and aimed, landmines are designed specifically to kill and/or main indiscriminately.
Not available in the N.Z. :/
There’s a Heinlein short story with a similar passage. It’s in a compendium of stories called The Man Who Sold The Moon.
Conversely with the rise of Sikh driving culture in the US the last few times I stopped at truck stops I got much higher quality food (samosas & butter chicken thank you!) and was able to fuel up on good quality tea.

Those things weren’t available ten years ago. I’d argue over the last 10 years highway food has gotten better in the US.
The Bitcoin whitepaper brought together a few existing technologies into something that had never before existed in the world - decentralised digital scarcity. This lead to a Cambrian explosion of new developments, most of which are pyramid schemes. But at its core, the invention is world-changing.
The US should try to export its social justice to China: that's the only thing that can delay the inevitable.
Recently upgraded from a slow Fire TV to an Apple TV. The Apple TV can control the TV via HDMI and turn it on. Integration on other Apple Devices is good as well.
> If you are content with everything why not just lie down and die?

Because life is about happiness? If you find what makes you happy every day, why die and have these great days going for waste? With this mindset, the bad days also don't become that bad, because you have the experience of the great days of the past.
For online shopping for most goods under $100, and many over $100, they really do. I've seen a few balance sheets, and Amazon is usually over 80% of online sales.
i grew up a long time before stack overflow. actually used man pages and read books. there is just _no way_ to program in Rust or Go without access to a search engine and the package libraries.
Please explain, I thought B&M was just a discount store that purchased surplus inventory and knocked it out cheap? why would they be charging their suppliers
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How does their direct purchase work? How do I buy a pizza on the blockchain in a hyperinflationary country?
The trick is to have “Amazon-exclusive” SKUs, or vice-versa: “NotAmazon-exclusive” SKUs that are ever-so-slightly different to justify a different price.
All money is worth what people think it's worth. Next question.
I needed that too.
A couple weeks ago there was an HN post about some lockpicking tool. I watched a video about it in Firefox Focus on my iPhone. Later that day, I was on YouTube on Safari, logged into my gmail account. It recommended videos on lockpicking.

I assume this is based on IP address? What can be done about this? If Firefox Focus/incognito isn't enough, what should I be doing? I already use NextDNS and mostly use Brave incognito on my laptop.
This is not even touching the fact that bitcoin and similar currencies are a danger for the environment. They spend huge amounts of energy that are helping destroy the planet. The longer this scam goes on, the more damage will happen to the world.
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>> Third party recruiters are leeches

Can confirm this and it was surprise for me when I discovered it. I assumed they would try to maximize $$ in my offer in order to maximize their profit. Yet most of them were trying to get offer accepted as quick as possible. Seems like more offers with less money in each is preferred over less offers with more money in each.
My phone has an IR blaster and it's pretty good for controlling just about any device as long as support software is there. The interface on my phone is also a lot clearer than the weird plastic remote that came with the office AC. The device is a Xiaomi and this has the downside of the IR database mostly consisting of Chinese products.

It's a shame to see how the IR blaster has disappeared from phones, just like the FM radio functionality that the SoC probably still has support for. Only weird, cheap, and very Chinese phones still seem to sport these features.
This huge silent majority that know it is a scam doesn't exist.

Crypto is so large, complex and fast-moving that it takes thousands of hours to grasp.

If I'd make a list of 100 questions regarding crypto, an exam so to speak, I am reasonably sure that this silent majority can't even answer 5% of the questions.

Because they don't know crypto. At all.
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