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> Crypto gives the ability for the community to actually control and be confident they won’t get slowly squeezed out, because you can actually codify control.

This is nonsense. Sure, on a technical level, you can ensure that Google2 will only have 10,000 crypto-shares, and will never issue any more. Regular Google can issue new stock and there's not much that can be done.

But the volume at which public companies or even private companies trade stock is so huge that there's no use case you can imagine that would tank the stock. You're talking about micro-payments -- Google2 is not going to pay people $30 an hour (crypto or USD) to upvote comments or submit useful content. I know this because Google1 barely pays YouTubers (outside of the top x% who make real money, and even they have ad dollars siphoned off by Google). Google1 could issue a million new shares of the stock to pay its moderators, and all they'd do is tank the stock price. But all their most valuable employees are paid heavily in stock. They wouldn't be happy and would quit or riot. It's a soft-regulation on that kind of silly behavior.

Despite 20+ years of "pay users to use the site" being an obvious conclusion, almost no site has done this in a meaningful way. There are hardly any even paying people in funny money / company scrip. All I can think of are Eve Online and Steam. You can't convert money OUT (regulations) but you can use their chuck-e-cheese tokens to buy stuff within their business. On Steam, the money you get per value the user puts in is a pittance. Valve takes a 30ish % cut on almost everything you do, even "secondhand" trading card transactions.

You can speculate that financial regulations are preventing it, but I think it's more likely that the owners of Google2 would much prefer to keep as much capital for themselves and not let its users/"staffers" get a slice. Similarly, Google1 pays its low-level moderator staff very little (compared to an engineer or upper level manager). Most corporations turn a profit. That's a very clear indicator of 'money on the table' - money that the owners chose not to return to the people performing labor for the company, whether volunteer or employee.

You imply a kind of 51% governance of an open source or community driven project. History shows that community projects fork all the time over personal differences, and majority does not always rule. Google2 coin won't matter if people get mad at Google2's governance and fork it for Google2.5 coin. If you can't fork the coin, then it sounds like regular stock or company scrip.

https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/18843/how-does-a-p...
Citation needed?

Humans have been using credit systems for millennia. The implication that in the olden days people only walked around with bits of gold in their pockets is a bit of “retconning.”
Exactly this. You make yourself and your ability to work depend on applecare. If everything works fine, lucky for you, if not well that is when the problem starts.

When you repair the device yourself you are independent from such a service. You could get hardware parts from any store you like and you might have some replacement parts at home.

Don't get me wrong I don't think that applecare is bad, but I do think it is better to have more options. Therefore I think it is best to have something like applecare plus the ability to repair the device yourself if necessary.
Yeah but WSL2 and Visual Studio Code ...
What do you mean? Isn't the burden of proof on cryptonerds to back up their claims?
Good point. In that regard, i think the cartels have also latched on to the oil trade.
That is a ridiculous and ugly accusation to make. If you don’t know what it takes to run a globally available top site, it is better not throw stones at people.
This sounds similar to the argument of chaos engineering (eg. Infrastructure chaos monkey).

At scale, destroying things has larger returns than the costs.
This particular whistle blower is not alleging that the NSA or any US controlled entity compromised Ericsson equipment, rather that the US and Danish intelligence agencies collaborated but that collaboration ended up being used against Danish interests.

That’s orthogonal to whether using Huawei equipment is also against Danish interests.
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'Pipeline running' delay is a pain, something potential users/customers won't wait around for. Have you looked at using on-demand managed containers (like Google Cloud Run) instead of full EC2s to launch the pipeline? It'll be cheaper, quicker and more scalable too.

Just saw that JSON support already exists, which is great.

Also, it has the potential of being a great platform, but I wouldn't suggest marketing it as a 'Roblox for AI'. How many AI/ML people really use Roblox? Few I suppose. Perhaps something simpler and familiar, like 'GUI for AI' or 'Your ML Lab/Studio/Toolbox'.
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Or the nuclear arsenal which sits on your side. Most of Europe has effectively outsourced its military defence to the Americans with some plain, visible costs (the at least 2% of GDP in military expenditure the previous US president was so keen about) and, more importantly, there are also some other, hidden costs, like the Assange scandal and stuff like this Danish - NSA cooperation.
In France, the gendarmes (police force outside of big cities) are military and live with family in garrison-like building blocks. SWAT team members identity is a secret, and if you mess up with them, French special forces will get you anywhere in the world, even if it means dying trying. We also have institutions like the Legion to give a safe reboot place to « guys with a history ». There are ways for institutions to compensate the power of money.
I've long said to anyone who'll listen that there should be an alternate audio channel a la "En espanol en SAP", but instead of another pair of announcers calling the game in another language, it's no announcers at all, and it's just the sounds of the game and the crowd. No commentary. Sports-spectacle is atrocious and ruins most games.
10 years ago would've been 2011 or so. I'd say it's very much in the ballpark wrt. global impact, considering everything that Wikimedia does and the way the projects have grown. Of course, much of it has to be credited to growth in Internet and Web access since then.
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I mean, it's not even 'entirely new ways' to describe it. Bitcoin has been reinventing the finance industry one mistake at a time.

Tragedy of the commons is fully evident in the bitcoin block size debacle.
One of the major argument I have seen why the retention graph has gone down is that English Wikipedia is much more complete in 2021 than 2007. Writing about esoteric topics is by itself limiting to fewer editors, and the bar of notability is more restrictive. Non-English articles is easier in that sense, but much of that work seems to become a translation of the English version. Writing a non-English article from scratch is an alternative but can feel a bit less interesting when the English version is already of high quality.

I could be wrong but today it seems that most editor efforts in the English Wikipedia goes towards news, politics and media. It would not surprise me if those have a natural lower retention rate than other form of articles.
UWP is fine and in fact should be preferred for apps targeted at content consumption. E.g. you want your IM, Facebook app, media player, all the video games to be UWP so that you would know the companies making these apps are not stealing your data and not making your system too vulnerable to RCE attacks.

This also applies for any professional apps that do not require extensive access to the file system.

For the rest of the stuff like system tools, arbitrary file editors, user interface utilities you need to run in full trust UWP is currently not suitable.
> I've been dreading the "softwareification" of weapons for quite a few years now. There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about how weapons can nowadays be readily and cheaply made with commodity parts and no special training or materials.

It's not so much software that's the issue, it's people taking existing tech and weaponizing it.

Software has been in weapon systems since the 1970's from guidance to target acquisition. It's already there, and has been for a while. Machine learning is just another iteration on what's already out there.

The world knows how to kill en masse for a long time now with NBC (Nuclear/Biological/Chemical) weapons -- and software wasn't a part of Fat Man or Little Boy.

But consider the challenges the US had in the middle east for the past two decades.

* Consumer drones dropping hand grenades.

* IED's using manual triggers.

* Trucks loaded with explosives blitzing checkpoints.

* Cars with explosives driving up next to convoys.

* Land mines.

You don't really need custom software, just take existing tech and get creative with it.
Anarcho-capitalists should not be surprised if a vacuum of power over Bitcoin is filled by those with the most means.
It seems to be only a couple of years (losing 100m altitude per day [1] ) for the ISS to fall out of orbit if it was left alone. I guess space debris in the same orbit would be the same.

[1] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9482/how-long-woul...

Higher orbits would last essentially forever though.

These tiny objects aren't that disastrous either. From what I understand, the insulating blankets destroy them and dissipate their energy, limiting damage to the underlying structure.
You know that new car smell? That's the smell of all the glues they use.
I’m not in a car though, I bike or walk.
Maybe maybe. But most of the large organisations you are refering to make the money they pay their waste^Wmanagers with not from donations, and are typically also not relying on so much volunteer work. In my book, it is totally fine to demand that organisations that are largely based on volunteer work and dontations dont pay the typical manager salaries. Why should we look away if a mostly-volunteer driven project gets cancer? Why should we ignore the cancer? Just because other companies have cancer too?
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I think this is a really valid point. If you look at their list of staff (salaries are their main expense) there are clearly a lot of people that aren't necessary to run Wikipedia.

But I think it's weird to complain about the endowment. That's exactly what they should be doing. If I ran Wikipedia I would have kept it to a core team of engineers - they could have built up a $1bn endowment by now if they had done that, and then they could run it indefinitely without asking for donations again.
This is fascinating, but I do have an off topic question: why does a robotic arm need a thermal blanket?
Wiring money isn’t a great analogy. In the US it’s expensive for consumers just because banks can charge a lot for it, but ACH isn’t really more or less reversible (I.e., both are, to a degree) and is free. Conversely, in SEPA, wire transfers are free/inexpensive and in my experience people routinely use them for consumer payments.
Hey, some of our users (and us) are based out of Asia, and have not observed latency to be an issue. We are currently tunneling our data over Cloudflare, and that helps quite a bit.

If you find observable latency within the service, please write to vishnu[at]ente.io. I will see what we can do.
Your response sounds like Wikipedia is putting a paywall!
I think I'm going to earn my Godwin point.

My understanding is that Da'esh governance (and recruitment, to some extent) was not dissimilar to early Nazi governance. Yes, they managed their state, but within an ideology based on an imaginary past, on permanent internal violence against real and imaginary enemies of the state, total war against foreign inferiors, and of course genocide (against Yezedi in the case of Daesh).

To add to the parallel, the economy of both states were also, to a large extent, based on plunder, and both nations were born from the ashes of scars of the partial destruction of their country at the hands of foreign powers and a revenge fantasy against said powers and the imaginary conspiracy that caused the fall.

There are also many differences, of course. But my take on it is that there are enough similarities that the world (including myself) not seeing it coming is a failure. Also, yeah, both nazis and da'esh had a mostly working state, but at what cost?
> Because 10 years ago WMF's expenses were $10M/year

I linked to a source for their financial reports and you still pulled the number straight out of your ass.
That strongly depends on the altitude. LEO still has fairly strong atmospheric drag, so trash from there lives on the order of years. Higher up, say geostationary, the drag is very small, so trash is stable for hundreds or thousands of years. But then again, there is a lot more space the further out you go.
Ok sets then.
> The success of Bond is all the more intriguing because Ian Fleming was such an appalling writer. He had no sense of place that scratched deeper than Sunday-supplement travel articles

Bond offered escapism to the post WWII world. When casino Royale was released there was still food rationing in the UK and bomb sites littered the cities. Bond offered international travel and excitement in the same way that the Fast and Furious or Mission Impossible movies do today.
Ok but if they fired all their fundraisers how are they going to get $10m a year?
Is there any example in recent history, where a failed state managed to turn around and improve/start functioning properly?

And if yes, how did they do it?
You are not the first to think such things: The Programmer’s Oath:

https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2015/11/18/TheProgramm...
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Although I probably insult everyone that has been electrocuted before, I think that's pretty shocking.
No it is not. Some areas are perfectly describes, others basically empty. I remember dabbing into sewing a while ago and finding out wiki is basically empty.
Respectfully, this sounds like rant (without much substance) and a lot of arm chair military hoo haa.

I’ll tell you how this is going to go - HN will vote it to the top just like those discussions about Taiwan invasions. Juicy? Yes, pretty fun. Completely detached from the reality? I wonder what people who are familiar with the matter think. Gellman’s amnesia much! Inevitably it will get into a heated discussion with rocks thrown from a multiple sides, some China whataboutism and voila - you’ve got a bog standard classic flame war. Sigh.

Let’s talk about data collection and NSA, please. Not F-35s and nuclear weapons.
I think ppl who dismiss crypto as having no social benefit don’t really get the decentralization benefit w.r.t. trust. Crypto is objectively inefficient and full of scam right now, but the fact that you can exchange value over the Internet, don’t have to trust any third-party and it’s really difficult for anyone to censor the exchange, is huge. If the inefficiencies are solved, then I don’t see how it is possible for fiat to keep up.
Spoken like a true one-percenter.
If you're looking for something old to restore, here's something I started - restoring one of the very earliest pieces of science fiction. This is "The Sky Pirate", by Garrett P. Serviss, better known for "Edison's Conquest of Mars". That one was intended as an unauthorized sequel to H.G. Wells's 1987 "War of the Worlds".

"The Sky Pirate" was serialized in newspapers, and never published as a book. I brought back the first 3 chapters from Library of Congress scans of microfilms of newspapers from 2011. The Library of Congress ran those through an OCR program. The result needs much cleanup.

Here's the first chapter, cleaned up.[1] Here's the prologue:

"The sea pirate has long been a fascinating figure of romance, but the march of progress has driven him into well deserved retirement, and he has now been replaced, in fiction at least, by the sky pirate, who is even more mysterious, more daring and more romantic than his predecessor. Read and there will unfold before you the extraordinary story of Captain Alfonso Payton and his airship, the Chameleon; of William Grayman, the richest man in the world; of his beautiful daughter, for whose ransom $10,000,000 was demanded; of Lieutenant Allen of the revenue service, of wonders by wireless and of fierce battles above the clouds."

It gets worse. The writing is terrible. The plot is lame. The characters are one-dimensional. I got through seven chapters before quitting in disgust. There's a reason that nobody, in a century, ever republished this.

So I put it on Github.[2] After 110 years, it's clearly public domain. If someone wants to finish the job, fork the project on Github and go for it. Thanks.

[1] https://github.com/John-Nagle/Sky-Pirate/blob/master/src/cha...

[2] https://github.com/John-Nagle/Sky-Pirate
Funny question, wouldn’t the head of these European states use e2e encryption?

If they do, how does NSA break encryption without having secret keys?

Frankly, we can’t blame NSA only.
Using RDF to store multiple languages of the same article is gross overengineering. Interlinking with other projects isn't nessecary when there are no other projects.
DeFi is just a rebranding of smart contracts, which are still a hammer looking for a nail. If anything, it's just more baseless speculation like GP said.
It incentivizes holding currency instead of making productive investments with your capital. Currency only has value when it moves, not lives under your grandma's mattress.

Inflation incentivizes investment because you are going to lose 2% per annum if you don't.

Fiat offers you the maximum flexibility because you can back your personal economy any way you want - if you want to back it with gold, just buy some. If you want to back it with crypto, bless your heart, buy some.

This is a false narrative.
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I thought Ketamine was a street (illegal) drug - and people on here are talking about it being available OTC - am I missing something here?
Also Denmark itself and the US. Intelligence Agencies are simply out of control and a threat to democracy.
Wikipedia exploded over night.

The semantic web is "tomorrow technology" for 20 years now.
At what point does tomorrow technology become yesterdays vaporware to you?
It's used as animal anaesthetic but I don't think it's generally available OTC?
If the general very strict adherence to copyright in Japan is anything to go by, contacting them would probably mean getting a 'no, absolutely not' back initially, and even if they find someone there who is receptive to the idea the chances of getting full, legally sound permission seem remote.

Not contacting them means keeping the clearance status at 'legally copyright infringement' rather than 'explicitly forbidden by the owners'. The two are the same if you just want to answer the 'Is this legal?' question, but for a noncommercial community translation effort like this it changes the 'Is this morally sound?' one.
The actual cost of the drug is only part of cost… malpractice insurance, accepting some risk for off label impacts price.
It's a form of survivor bias, because companies drop bitcoin support as fast as they get it. I remember when Wordpress dropped Bitcoin because it there was more fraud than actual legit transactions.
> or some other highly rewarding and nonproductive area

Yeah I second this
I agree that BTC has terrible privacy. But this is a BTC problem, not a Bitcoin problem. A smart Bitcoin wallet would not reuse addresses across transactions, and would split your coins into many fragments, making them virtually impossible to trace. But to do this you need low fees and therefore big blocks - what BSV and BCH are doing. Several wallets on BSV already do this today, like HandCash (https://handcash.io), and the user experience is fantastic.
They had ~30 million in expenses in the 2011-2012 financial year: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/0/09/FINAL...

Whether or not its 10x better service, I don't know, but they are definitely doing more now then back then. There's been lots of software development since 2011 (Some good, some not so much). Even just site speed and stability has improved significantly since 2011.
This is ridiculous - why would anyone force someone to speak if they don't want to.
I'm french and yes, I can tell you that depending how rational & clever you are; It gonna takes you only few minutes to understand how things are...

keep calm & try profit your life...
I mean, you are not wrong. But I think the chance for all these people just missing out or not having the idea seems quite low to me.
> I think the only thing we’ve ever really said no to was nuclear missiles.

Denmark also politely turned down selling them Greenland. Note American cold war operations had previously contaminated the area around Thule Air Base with nuclear waste. Having nukes there in the first place was also against a Danish policy, but big brother...
Wages have kept pace with inflation over the last decades. This means they earned more currency units over time. If we had 0% inflation, they would earn the same number of units. With deflation they would earn fewer units.

If you want to change the amount of wealth low-income earners have, stop focusing on the units. This is not JPow's fault, it's a job for congress - it's social and fiscal policy not monetary policy. This is just a quixotic quest against the wrong opponent.

If you want to help low-income folks, advocate for unions (so labor can push back against capital), advocate for wealth taxes, higher marginal taxes for the rich, minimum wage indexed to inflation, a strong social safety net and national zoning laws to stop metros from preventing adding enough housing supply to meet demand. Things that would help.
You don't even have to get them used, if you watch for large color laser printers to come up on clearance when they are a generation or two old you can get a steal. I got my huge dell color laser for about $150 with free shipping. I have two kids who print stuff all day and in 3 years I have replaced the toner maybe one or two times (each color + black is a different cartridge). I haven't had to replace whatever you call the discard toner collector yet. Replacement toner is available in many brands of generic, costs $12 on amazon (less if you buy multipacks, which I don't because I would have to store them for years), and you can print many hundreds of pages before having to replace it. It's a huge monster that has never had a single issue other than a paper jam once or twice. Print quality is as good as you can expect from a laser printer. (It goes without saying I guess that it has a built in duplexer)
Being disgruntled about supporting a donations scam might be another reason to leave.
Fans dont neccesarily want to watch the interviews right away. In fact I will call BS on that the media us required at all. Certainly not in this day and age of sovial media. Osaka and her PR team xan easily handle a livestream a few days after the game where she can talk directly to her fans and answer their questions directly. Or she can just release a video/audio detailing how the game went, what she did, whats next with several orders of magnitude more engagement.
Probably to mitigate material stress due to temperature swings from alternating exposure to sunlight.