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It doesn't really help my faith in BTC when the article never refers to actual Bitcoins like currency, and instead uses USD equivalent everywhere.

> Transfers of $35/family are made to 600 families every 3 weeks, which covers 50% of basic needs per household.

$35? Or $35 equivalent in Bitcoin? The article never really explains why giving them bitcoin is better than just giving them $35 in paper bills and coins. Just that the person giving the money will only do so as BTC, it doesn't sound like the townsfolk have any say in it.

> At the time of writing, the price of Bitcoin is $9226.56.

So anyone who paid their utility bill with Bitcoin at the time of the article overpaid by 4x compared to current bitcoin prices, or about 6x compared to the peak.

How realistic is it for this to continue when delaying a utility bill by a month could possibly make the value of that bill half, or double. I don't see how this can scale, and it sounds like the El Zonte situation only works because of the guaranteed BTC income by a benefactor.
Very good news for those of us on Mac and Linux. Until now Visio was Windows-only.
> Both lambda calculus and Turing machines are computationally less powerful than Actors.

Do you have a reference for that?
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Oh thankyou for reminding me of NewPipe. I find the YouTube app on Android unusable - the interface is too "messy" for me, plus it usually has ads vomited inbetween the things I'm trying to look at.
That's the impression I get. The opinions are certainly originally formed from some sort of objective-ish basis, but then it seems to be more important to propagate the meme than it is for others to individually assess the subject or the validity of the original judgment.

Similar dynamics happen among VC investors ("no one else is investing, it can't be that good"). My issue is that end up people taking the meme propagation as ground truth.
What if they could meet the regulations without it costing too much and without exposing them to risk of compromising privacy and security? I don't see why you find it disappointing that they checked to see if that was the case rather than immediately pulling out.
I already pay a Land Value Tax to my town.
From reading recent news, California agriculture uses way more water than California residents. Now we need fruits and vegetables so we can't just do away with agriculture. But we can do something about which agriculture we allow in the state.

Just over 50% of the water in the Colorado River Basin is used to produce beef and dairy. This means the water consumed by the animals themselves along with the water used to grow the alfalfa they eat. Also, lots of alfalfa is sold overseas to be fed to cattle.

Almonds are by far the most water-intensive crop in the Central Valley. Much of the crop goes to almond milk.

If we could roll back these two food classes we would have much less of a water problem.
This is just phase one. The real money will get made when they start artificially constraining housing stock. In my area (central NJ), the big player is Berkshire.
> The potential disaster scenario is that, by making most taxation impossible, cryptocurrencies destroy the modern welfare state without providing anything to replace it. So the public hospitals close, the enormous police force starts to support itself by extracting tribute, and the infrastructure decays. Pretty similar to what’s happened in the US over the last 50 years, in fact, only more so.

Why does it make most taxation impossible? Goods and services still change hands.
Tempelhofer Feld is so vast, you could build housing and it would still be a huge park.

Hardly anyone goes as far as to the southern strip, most people stay at the edges or bike through the center.
You could build housing there with little influence on the character of the park.
Yep: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57254488
Random counterpoints: how many US hardware startups managed to have hypergrowth. How many US hardware startups are involved in chip fabrication, period?

Taiwan doesn't have either crazy investors or hypergrowth. I suspect the chip hardware business requires many years of steady-but-compounding growth.

As for the AWS/GCE competitor: I suspect the policy goal is not to have one platform/product in X years that will soon be outdated. Rather, it's to nurture and grow a competitive domestic ecosystem that is self-sufficient. That way, you may have dozens of AWSes in thr future that keep you on the leading edge (not just inplementors)
Six million is not a huge country. The current lighting network can handle millions of transactions per second.
It's closer to each individual bank having their own digital currency, all of which are worth 1 USD each. The digital US dollars at my bank are not directly exchangable with the digital US dollars at your bank. You need to settle up with an ACH transaction, which takes at least a day to transact as it has to run in a central batch job. In addition, only US domestic institutions can use this mechanism to transfer US dollars between themselves -- international institutions need to use the SWIFT system, which is multiple days for a transaction. Contrast with credit card payment and settlement, which acts closer to a digital system but can't be used as a store of value (and has punitive fees for attempting to do so). The US dollar acts like a cash system with some digital features rather than a digital system.
Rent control makes landlords very hesitant to add new people to a lease. Otherwise the unit can just be passed from friend to friend and never get back to market.
Correct.

There is a lot of arguments around that quantum computing will scale in a Moore's Law way (wrt qubits, so doubly exponential in compute power) and thus will be useful in the near future.

These are extremely optimistic.

Quantum computing hardware just came out of academic lab in the last few years and was subjected to actual engineering, hence the massive growth in capabilities. However these were mostly the result of solving all kind of low hanging fruits. To give an example of what I mean, I talked to a physicist doing superconducting qubit work at a conference in 2015 and at the time the cavities used to hold qubit wavefunction where machined by the Dept machine shop, using a mill. He told me they would just keep making them until they had enough that were of sufficient quality for computation. If I remember properly something like 1 was kept and 20 thrown. Using proper manufacturing can get you a lot farther but...

It's unclear how far, and modern (non quantum resistant) encryption would require thousands of time more qubits to solve on QC than are currently there.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/05/30/65724/how-a-quan...
Sure, we can't print more ground to build on. But it's another cause of increasing real estate prices here in the Netherlands.

Probably need to zone some of that agricultural land (60% of land usage in the netherlands) into housing, if we want to give young homeowners a chance at owning property.
If memory serves, they removed the user agent because one of the Google properties was serving it substandard HTML/JS even though they use the Chromium engine.
On the contrary, if the FAQ entry is honest (and this is the first question), then I'd say let them market it however they like. But I fully understand how one could get quite a marketed-bugs-fatigue.
The problem is the government mandated houses be piggy banks for middle class people, all but allowing large institutional investors to take advantage of the rule system put in place to protect and increase prices: low interest rates, local control of land use (to kill new supply), etc. It was a side effect to allow others to benefit from the scheme.
the whole economy got closed up

California led the US in job growth (or rather, job restoration) this spring, and many sectors of its economy survived COVID19 unscathed. (https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-06-02/la-fi-cali...)

there's a massive drought

Drought has been part of CA's climate history for centuries.

Rents have been insane for years in most cities

Objectively false, unless by "most cities" you mean exclusively the major metropolitan areas like LA, SF, and San Diego. CA has hundreds of cities with affordable rents, some of which are even located within the LA, SF, and San Diego metropolitan areas.

Huge homeless and drugs problem in LA, San Francisco.

Yes, with the caveat that more than 50% of the homeless in LA and SF are not locals. They're out-of-staters that either came to LA/SF or were shipped here by their home states to avoid housing them. (Texas especially is notorious for this; former governor Rick Perry publicly bragged that Texas' homeless solution was to buy them tickets to Santa Monica.)

For what?

Amazing weather. Amazing beaches, and mountains, and deserts, and forests. Amazing food. Amazing people. Amazing culture. One of the world's biggest economies (as a sovereign nation, California's economy would rank ahead of India, a country of more than a billion people, Germany, the economic engine of the EU, and the UK, the former financial center of the world).
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Once you own all housing, what's to stop you from increasing rents?
Then the problem is NOT "Blackrock buying homes".

It's elsewhere.
True, but it's not a terrible fate :) and it doesn't have to be an island either. I'm sure he can get residency of any country he wants. Maybe even start up a new company.

It's not like his personal life is shattered or anything, that's all I mean.
Wrong. This one has 83k commits.

https://github.com/damng/hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content
Axios just had a little blurb about this: https://www.axios.com/housing-prices-construction-costs-8acb...

The bottom line is that local land-use laws are murky and problems with local codes are very difficult to predict and control for at scale - and that's the way existing homeowners want it.

It's interesting too that homeowners are such a powerful lobby, but without a single entity setting policy or giving talking points. It is, essentially, our culture. This is the way we want it to be. At least for now.
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4. They set up charities.

How exactly does giving money to other people help a millionaire fund his/her lifestyle?

Surely the IRS you cannot have a charity that donates to just your family?

I wish these articles would be specific [so I can setup my own :) ].
Maybe a two factor like should carry more weight. Or one factor likes should carry little.
Thank you for that question, michaelagustin. You are right: most popular SaaS tools in the conversational space are indeed priced per volume, usually per message or per (active) conversation.

As communication is core to every business, we strongly believe every company should own their conversations and utilize their conversational data in the best possible way, taking the interest and privacy of their customers into consideration.

We believe there is a unique opportunity now in the market to create an open source conversational stack and we would like to contribute to it with something we are good at and have a lot of experience in. Our goal is to create an open standard for the processing and storing of conversational data which is why we went open source.

This situation is perfectly suited from our perspective for an open core pricing model where we will continue to give away our Airy open source core platform for free under an Apache 2.0 license and sell additional enterprise licenses for optional features like advanced routing capabilities, team management, advanced storage and analytics solutions on top to enterprises that have additional requirements and more organizational complexity to deal with. Enterprises can run Airy Core + Airy Enterprise in their own private cloud or even on premise for privacy sensitive industries like banking, insurance or healthcare.

For business teams that want the full power of a conversational platform like Airy, but can't or don't want to dedicate engineering resources on their end, we also offer a fully managed Airy Cloud solution on the side. Because each Airy instance is fully independent, we can even offer this service in any region in case the relevant customer has preferences e.g. to store their conversational data exclusively in the EU or in a specific country or data center.
Never lived somewhere with tap water you could smell from a foot away, and taste over the flavor of any tea brewed in it, no matter how strong, huh? And yes, that's in the US.

(though, sure, a home water filter might also solve that particular problem)
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> receiving money from N26 gets a 3 EUR fee again

If the payee has a Greek bank account I suppose? But then it means that if both payer and payee have a n26 bank account and use it in Greece, they don't have to pay this fee anymore, right? So why would they use Greek banks?

I just don't see how this 3 EUR fee still exists given the current competition.
I read that you put a "bounty" in your transaction so that if your node is offline, another node will have an incentive to prevent the theft for you.
I don't have the precise wording to hand but it was along the lines of "security, protecting assets, etc, etc"
this is like one of those cities that sells a century long parking enforcement contact to pay the budget today. it's so so so far watching some misgovernance today be unammendable for a series of generations.

personally I feel like there has to be some way to reassess. simply letting ancient decisions hold in pepetuity is not acceptable.
Since land is a limited asset they can effectively corner the market in specific regions and gain pricing power, allowing them to turn that 20% purchase price premium into a hefty profit.

Cities can counter this by allowing more new construction but backfilling Single Family Residences requires land and that may not be readily available within certain commute distances.
This is my monthly reminder to everyone that Brave browser blocks most ads - including YouTune ads. It has the added benefit that you don't have to install a 3rd-party ad-blocker (which is one over Firefox for me).

Just make sure you are running latest version - as it seems youtube moves things around which breaks the ad-blocking until the next Brave update (which come thick and fast).

(I don't work for Brave)
Are there any videos of Lightning in action in the real world (I.e. not abstract explainers)? Genuine question, I don’t know enough about it and would love to learn.
Pay might not be "too bad" in eastern Europe but it is certainly not California levels. Not sure what the whole economy got closed up means, but for the average software engineer things really didn't change economically.
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But having everything redundantly available costs money. While some redundancy is easy to justify... At some point it becomes hard when the MBA wants to cut costs so he gets a bigger bonus.

There is even a competitive advantage in living with the risk, as you have less costs and overhead... Sure, you might have an outage once every x years for a few minutes... But that's obviously the fault of the development team, duh
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(I think your definitions are reversed- a decrease in money supply is associated with deflation, not inflation.)
There's a variety of reasons this may happen that stem from either legal, certification, or company reasons.

Your production database may have medically-sensitive PII (or for something like SOC-2 compliance any PII at all) that cannot be shared any human (other than the original user) unless with prior approval.

Even for non-externally mandated reasons, companies may (and often do) wish to restrict access to production data by developers to minimize concerns around data exfiltration and snooping on user data by company employees.
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This was in Washington state in the US, not the UK. Even if the logistics in that state were similar, that does not justify implying that the parent who was interviewed was lying about his experience.
This is going to be great for drug traffickers and other shady elements operating in El Salvador. What they did was just opening the door for the worst individuals to laundry money and buy assets in El Salvador.
Drive the five and its not marginal land being grazed for cattle. These are factory feedlot operations, not bucolic rangeland operations with 1500 head on 150k acres.
This is a fantastic story. For the folks doing a side hustle to your daily job, the last few paragraphs regarding ownership of results is worth reading carefully.
See El Zonte or Bitcoin Beach.
I agree, I tried going the route of having a separate server to do my dev on, and it's a pain if anything with your network changes, and when you're not at home and connected over a VPN, then you're in a worse position than you would be compared to just spinning up a VPS.

I run Docker on my M1 Macbook Pro and have had no major issues running amd64 images using the M1 specific builds for Docker.
That actually messes with single family home owners more. I would love to provide more housing and make more money.
>often includes toxins such as chlorine and copper used in desalination

This is very avoidable. Most extant desalination plants are in the Middle East and subject to relatively little environmental oversight. While desalination will always produce brine, introducing extra chemicals is something that can be solved at the technology level.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I heard Strike and Bitcoin Beach Wallet use Lightning and that network makes the fees to drop bellow 1 cent.
From a customer point of view diversity is far better it's great - if Sainsburys is closed for some reason I'll go to Tesco.

Certainly don't want a situation where all the shops are closed.
> Its only the most expensive thing in most people's lives that has doubled in cost in about 10 years.

Most people pay for housing by monthly payments, making the nominal value of the house irrelevant if the monthly payment stays the same. Further, you should consider the home owner's "basket of goods" to include the hypothetical rent they'd be paying for an equivalent house. Their mortgage payments and home ownership are then more like taking a loan to buy a fixed-income asset that gets renegotiated annually. A home owner who lives in their home is both a landlord and a tenant.

I'm not a home-owner, and I don't feel shafted. My stock market holdings have kept pace or done better than if I'd purchased a house.
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The problem is that Blackrock is taking advantage of "free money" to get in on this arbitrage while it can, while normal people don't have anywhere close to the same opportunities to take advantage of "free money". Naturally, Banks eat up all land and houses, and then "you will own nothing and be happy", as per WEF.
Isn't prefab a thing in the US? I have a hunch 3D printing won't solve the issue since you need not just walls, but plumbing, electricity, windows, doors, etc. Then again, imagine Blackrock or someone else just starts buying land. You're screwed anyway.
So you’d rather have an inefficient use of property that sits languishing just because some one owned it in the past? One of the benefits of taxing property is that it encourages productive use. Use it or lose it. The increasing velocity of property transfers helps increase economic activity.
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I found:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/el-salvador-becomes-first-count...

El Salvador Becomes First Country to Approve Bitcoin as Legal Tender

Designation allows bitcoin, which has struggled as a method of payment because of its high volatility, to be used to pay taxes and obligates business to accept it
They certainly should be.
Presumably, they and their lawyers believe they are subject to Russian jurisdiction. Why else would they have challenged an order from the Russian government in Russian court?
Except you have no way of knowing if that will be the case ahead of time. Unless the first thing you do after enabling 2FA is to social engineer a password reset for your account? Even then that doesn't guarantee that there isn't a more clueless service rep that will make a mistake.

Asking before you sign up, "will you allow my account to be hacked through social engineering?" isn't going to an answer other than no. Even if the answer is possibly yes.
This totally depends on the jurisdiction. In NYS, your taxing authority (town, school district) has some levy that is approved. Your share of the levy is roughly your property's assessed value divided by the total assessed value of properties in that taxing jurisdiction. There are some complicating factors like when a taxing authority like a school district spans multiple assessing authorities (like a town/city); but the basic concept is sound.

I was very surprised when I learned other places charge you some fixed fraction of the property value; and as that value goes up the budget of the municipality goes up.
During the July 7 bombings the train drivers led passengers out of trains and out exits. I would be glad to have someone familiar with that process on hand in the middle of that situation.
That's almost never a worry that plays out. Property taxes are usually a levy, allocated prorata based on total assessed value.

If your taxes are going up dramatically as values rise, that's either a sign of issues with equalization rates (the county/town/city needs to periodically reassess), or that other areas in the jurisdiction are declining relative to value. You often see that in cities where property values often mirrors the old "redline" maps... gentrification gets you million dollar condos, but two blocks away some tenement is declining in relative value.
Add in zoning and NIMBYs and getting anything built is a nightmare.
Hell, why not turn Factorio into a programming language?

If you can translate a real-world problem to in-game problems, it'd be so much fun to solve them that you'd probably launch a new epoch in human history - the Factorio Age
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> If "scrum" is being followed properly, there's somebody listening who's actually recording what you said you were going to do yesterday and compare it to what you say you did yesterday and call out any discrepancies.

Seems to me that if you can't justify why not keeping your stated commitments was in the interest of the team and the company, then the issue is with your communication and not the process itself.
Unless the national exchange is hosting wallets it controls on behalf of individual citizens, or acting as an intermediary for all transactions—in which case you’ve negated all the features of Bitcoin and may as well be using any random currency with the government as shared banker—I don’t see how it does.

I mean, sure, “the government will be your bank for free” solves the problem of the unbanked, but renders the identity and features of the underlying currency mostly irrelevant.
> And I'm always disappointed at the bias in the human interactions portrayed by novels. They are almost invariably driven by unrealistically evil people, and the stakes are typically too high to bear any relevance to most of human life. Most conflict is between people none of whom can be well characterized as evil. There is substantial variation in peoples' values, and in the information they have, and those are the important drivers of what people do.

This very much depends on both the author and the genre of fiction. Not every fiction novel even has a notion of "evil" (or outright evil, there may be characters who are "bad" in some sense or the antagonist, but not outright evil in their nature or quality in an over-the-top fashion). From your description of fiction it sounds largely like the fantasy genre in particular which is very often written as good vs evil kind of stories (though not universally, just very common). Other genres or other writers within that genre are often more interesting.