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The whole idea behind crypto currencies is that there is no central authority behind it. And so there is no blacklist / whitelist because you need such an authority, trusted by everyone, to create such a list.

All cryptocurrency transfers (between digital wallets) are recorded in a public ledger (the blockchain).

Anybody can read it. But only those with the correct encryption keys to a wallet can write to it (add a record). Once someone steals the encryption key of your wallet A, it can be used to access your wallet and add a record to the public ledger that all the cryptocurrency of wallet A has been transferred to wallet B. This record cannot be changed by anyone.

But since every transaction on the ledger is a public record that anyone can read, one can theoretically track where the cryptocurrency goes from one wallet to another. This can be used to catch a thief by the police. Anyone can create a digital wallet anonymously, but to convert it into real currency you need to provide your real life identity and bank account to a crypto-exchange. This is the point where someone becomes exposed and loses their anonymity, and hence can be identified by the law.
It's only 67% more. Practically the same price!
Save it. It is not enough money to offer enough return on your time managing it. The only way it will return a meaningful amount of absolute dollars is dumb luck. Or years of hard work.

By which I mean as working capital it might be enough to buy a lawn mower, some shovels, and a trailer and put you in the landscape business. But only dumb luck is going to turn $20k into $50k in five years without a lot of your time.

In real-estate or the stock market and finance in general, $20k is the short stack gone all in. It’s dumb money at the table.

So save it. Stay liquid. And maybe you will see some luck there to grab at some point.
I don't think ECS as such would really make a language on its own, but languages that use traits instead of inheritance would be approximately that. Both ECS and traits eschew using the inheritance-style "is-a" thinking. ECS goes for "has-a" thinking, and traits go for "acts-as" thinking. A few popular trait-based languages that would feel comfortable to someone familiar with ECS are Rust or Go.
When I went to high school, I remember having to take philosophy schools, and we went into the art of debate, etc. How to argue about different viewpoints without getting emotional, respecting your opponent, proper protocol for discussion.

Liberal values used to mean being tolerant of different view points, being open minded, being kind, respectful, and being aware of the dangers of censorship. We were given banned books to read (e.g. To Kill a Mockingbird). It makes me sad that, as a society, we seem to be losing such values.
> Yes, I’m surprised at how little the Western countries use their military (and police) when facing an obvious act of territorial dispute.

Immigration is generally not territorial dispute, indeed, its far more often voting for an alternate regime with one’s feet than asserting a hostile territorial claim.
Ok, would you be able to protect your right to free speech if you were dead? Is being alive a requirement for protecting your right to free speech?
Definitely not, although any grouping of beliefs with a concept mapping to original sin strikes me as religious. So kind of a "not all rectangles are squares but all squares are rectangles" situation.
Good zinger.
This is propaganda to make jobbed people feel special
I agree he wasn't convicted of murder, as the charges were dismissed with prejudice. (ignoring the fact that no one was killed, so it would have been conspiracy to commit ...) I however don't ignore the context under which the charges were dropped: any conviction would be merely ceremonial, as he already has multiple life sentences from which he will never be released.
Solar power would likely not be nearly as lost cost as it is now without investment by China. You could argue about wether it is fundamental ip or manufacturing ip that was developed but imho there is much knowledge and economic activity that simply doesn’t happen unless you are in the area where the factories are.
People recommend practices that worked for them. If other people have actually tried (rather than theorising) and found this didn't work for them then of course I'd be interested in hearing about that as well.
Author suggests, “I think this is what we should do, but let’s make sure it’s the best approach..."

No. "It is starting to look like this is what we should do, but I'm not sure it's really the best course. Can we do better?"
Probably one of the numerous compromises made just to get the bill to pass at all.
I would expect the 58% to be children and Republicans. Children aren’t in the labor market and the “COVID is a hoax” people weren’t changing their behavior over it in the first place. Is there some evidence that many Americans who want the vaccine still don’t have it? What is stopping them?
Identity is used to automate decision making, so less energy is expended on conscious thought, so less time is spent weighing pros and cons of each alternative for every daily decision. If someone is 'dog person' they have routine where they take dog for walks, with positive effects such as exercise, without having to weigh pros and cons each time it is performed. If someone is coffee person, they do not have to weigh pros and cons of what to drink with breakfast. With politics this is perhaps bad, as we do not want people to make decisions unconciously, we want citizens to weigh pros and cons conciously, so that they are less easily duped. But for other daily activities it is useful to simplify decision making so conscious thought can be allocated elsewhere.
What do you mean? Aren’t you technically paying a company for said service? Even if that company has one employee, your house cleaner?
I think the amount of truth in that statement is "it depends". I've found that having conversations about certain controversial topics is can be unproductive unless you're talking to someone you know fairly well, and both parties are willing to listen with an open mind. When someone you don't know well says something that goes against your idea of common sense, it's easy to dismiss them as an out-group idiot. When it's someone you've known for years, who you know to be thoughtful about their beliefs, it's harder to dismiss them out of hand.

This is anecdotal, but I've also found that people who bring up those sorts of identity issues when you don't know them well aren't usually looking to engage with someone who disagrees. They're looking to see if you belong to the same tribe. If you do, it's an opportunity to bond.
That seems better to me! Thanks for the feedback.
Autonomous system (AS) operators should not act in bad faith towards other AS networks they peer with. BGP hijacking is an example of abuse of this institutional trust, same for DNS hijacking.

If this trust is repeatedly broken, peering networks may be forced to depeer the AS as a result, like what happened to McColo when they were depeered.
Congrats on the launch! Have always wanted something like this! Do you plan on charging for premium plans? I think you should.
Yep, same here -- no AAAA record for v4.icanhazip and no A record for v6.icanhazip . The documented interfaces were ipv4/ipv6 though https://major.io/icanhazip-com-faq/ and {v4,v6}.icanhazptr.com have both A and AAAA.
>> Did you know that Taiwan and China (pre-covid) could freely travel between the countries more or less, and even setup business like Foxconn that profit off Chinese labor? There's literally more cooperation between Taiwan and China than US and Cuba.

This is because China had been attempting a policy of economic (and cultural) engagement with Taiwan for the best part of 20 years, up until the election of Tsai Ing-Wen in 2016. China had pursued this policy while the KMT were in power in Taiwan; the KMT are generally considered to favor closer ties between China and Taiwan. Things have changed a bit since the DPP (the more "anti-China" of Taiwan's two major political parties) won the 2016 and 2020 elections. I certainly don't know what the future holds, but I think China has now concluded that reunification through cultural/economic links is unlikely to succeed, not least because the idea of "one country, two systems" looks even less attractive after the events in Hong Kong.
> I feel there should be a mandatory 1 year of service in retail for every American. It would humanize them.

I don't think it will. I know plenty of people who've worked retail and still treat others like trash.
I have an MS in Computer Science (from the mid-90's) and have never heard of this term. (it seems simple enough once you read the definition of it).

My graduate level algorithms class used average or probabilistic cost, but never the term amortized.
What puzzles me is why these areas are not marked on the shore with tall posts with signs saying: DANGER! STRONG CURRENTS! TURN BACK. Such signs should likely start like 150-200 yards upstream to warn boats and kayaks.
Batteries usually degrade. That's why people ask this question. We have all been carrying around phones with batteries that start to perform badly enough after a couple years that we end up buying a brand new phone.

Not everybody wants to buy a new phone every couple years, and not everybody agrees what a standard car lifetime is.
> I suppose it's too soon to tell if they take off, but they seem to fit the bill to me: Priests, holy writings, dogmatic beliefs, original sin, etc.

Your list left out one thing that is in the definition of the word, religion.
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Totally agree. Politics has ripped the fabric of society. I vividly remember how political discourse was in 2009. It was nowhere near as toxic, fascist, rage-fueled, woke, and dangerous as it is now. What has been lost? Truth. We've stopped caring about seeking truth and instead have resorted to subscribing to mob-mentality. Equally applies to both sides. The mere act of listening to both sides is considered as "silence is crime". WTF people. HN is probably one of the better places to have a political discourse but it has also suffered.

I yearn for pre-social media days.
I like how baked into this question is how a practical single-payer solution is not practical due to purely political reasons. (Where your house cleaner's taxes pay into a large risk pool and their healthcare costs are based on their income)
An analogy is sports training. Damage is caused by overtraining. But to the naked eye, overtraining and pro training look pretty much the same. Some lift 150 lbs easily. I can't work 8 hours a day, but plenty of coders can do 10 hours because they're at a higher level (or lower intensity).

If it hurts, if you're neglecting something in life, then you're probably pushing it. You need to push yourself constantly to improve. Just counterbalance it with enough rest.

Watch out for envy though. Resist the urge to "humblebrag", i.e. saying that your success comes at a cost. I've seen it become a self-fulfilling prophecy; either they fear the work or become consumed by it. If you're doing well, then keep on doing well.
I’ve heard this in a couple of places now. It’s a neat, but horrifying, explanation. Are there reliable statistics that suggest it may be true?
What? I’m on one of those plans and frankly it’s pretty darn great. The premiums are cheap because they are heavily subsidized. The subsidy goes up the less you earn. My generic prescriptions are cheap. The co-pay is $45 for most Dr. visits. I think the Emergency copay is $150.
The macros maybe, but many of the nutrients don't. You can't get the health benefits with other foods.

Your friend is more likely to die at a younger age and have health problems when they are older.
> Aren’t you technically paying a company for said service? Even if that company has one employee, your house cleaner?

Plenty of people are hired for work like that without forming a business entity, and sometimes under conditions that qualify as employment rather than contract work.
Not great. It's been much worse.

I notice that when I'm feeling noticeably bad, it correlates (no cause implied!) with my having angry made up mental dialogs. I guess that's a kind of monitoring.

Any health solution, mental or otherwise, should be personalized to the extent necessary for effectiveness.

Does that help your startup research? :-)
I agree with this treatment of the "joking... not joking" style of trolling.

I think this individual tweet is the sole evidence cited for Musk's supposed support, and that seems a long bow to draw from it (an equally sinciere reading would be that it is Musk's take on the history of coups in South America),
Not very many of them[1], though?

1: https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...
Yes, thanks for the details!

The US fought them in the Barbary Wars as well - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War

I think the statement I was hinting at was that essentially all these companies are on their own (vs pirates and hackers) until the problem is too big and dangerous and then the state steps in.
Without free speech, I can be killed, and you'll never know it happened. Even if I in theory had a right to life.

In that sense all other rights depend of free speech.
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This is a quick and and dirty utility to dump ELF file information written in Nim (similar to readelf and objdump). I wrote it to learn Nim, so don't expect much.
Another thing you should not do is name things “fast”. It will end up not being fast (esp when you find the next faster thing) or else someone will find security holes in it.
> Many of us in China are absolutely saying Chinese Traditional Medicine is garbage and there s no "western medicine", just medicine.

I sure hope that "just medicine" extends to Po Chai pills. So welcome for treating diarrhea symptoms (despite my initial skepticism) when loperamide wasn't available while I was traveling in China!
Sorry—you hope I didn't mean what on the personal level?
It's evidence of a fundamental misunderstanding of what free speech is and why it's important at the highest levels. Free speech is the right to say things that others find offensive. If being offended is enough of an excuse to silence others, then anyone, at any time, can silence anyone else with impunity. If this power is only given to marginalised groups, then it becomes a matter of who defines marginalisation and who gets to draw the dividing lines in identity politics.

Come on ACLU, is free speech a fundamental right or a contingent power to be granted or revoked?
All of this was well understood in, say, 1975. The tension you're describing is why the ACLU's hardline stance on speech and the rights of the accused has always been controversial and deeply unpopular in some circles. Without putting too fine a point on it: that's literally what made them the ACLU.
>What’s the practical alternative?

Single payer healthcare, not that your question is sincere.
It seems that the pandemic has created a de-facto mass decentralized union of low-skilled workers. I believe that before the pandemic, most low-skilled workers felt that their working conditions were unfair but they didn't have the means to protest. The pandemic sent everyone home and gave everyone the opportunity to quit at the same time (via unemployment benefits and stimulus checks). Now these workers are collectively yet passively bargaining for their rights. Social media has given them a tool to relate their experiences to each other, which empowers everyone. But since it's not a real union, time will show if they lose their power once unemployment benefits are cut. Alternatively, if people truly hate their jobs, companies may be forced to raise wages to convince people to come back to work.
Interesting, so basically no transactions are illegitimate they are just wiping out old ones by publishing a longer chain? In that case, could you protect yourself against an x hour attack by waiting x hours to consider a transaction confirmed?
smsm made a point that implied some facts.

alecb rebutted those facts, added one of his own and made a critique on the rest of smsm's comment.
Nowhere is that making smsm an "unperson".

People are free to make a point. And others are free to critique that point. No one has the right to consequence/criticism-free speech.
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Serious question: isn’t this also what the ACA intended to address? It’s imperfect, but the ACA does provide subsidies for lower-income folks.
This is specific to the middle manager who can’t coerce their team back into place. It explicitly follows this blog post:

https://hbr.org/2021/01/what-to-do-if-your-team-doesnt-want-...

If you’re being pressured to bring your team back into the office, and can’t, find out where they’re going and move the whole team.
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The presence or absence of good faith in the person with whom you are engaged I think makes the biggest difference.
To be fair, that's a rather large topic. Not to mention one that PG wouldn't be terribly qualified to answer I don't think.

How do you go about your life knowing that some sizable portion of it identifies you in a way that affects you negatively?

In a minor way I've struggled with this myself over the past few years. Best advice I've come across is to use the stoic dichotomy of control guide me: Some things are in our control, other things are not. Focus on those things you can control. Pay no heed to those you can't. If something seems like a mix of both it can be further broken down into those two.
Fun fact: we have surnames largely as a result of another pandemic, the Black Death in the 14th century. The Black Death killed an estimated 1/3 to 1/2 of the population of Europe at the time (really!) and created a huge labour shortage. Peasants were largely serfs and tied to the lands of their lords. Surnames were an indicator of profession.

As a result of the labour shortage, wages went up and workers became more mobile, which created the need for surnames that weren't strictly profession-related. The King even passed a law to try and limit wages with mixed results.

This pandemic may well end up being a huge boon for real wages.

As many have noted: there is no labour shortage. There's simply an unwillingness to pay what the market demands. Additionally, the last 12-15 months have taught many people that commuting into an office is completely unnecessary and is essentially wage theft since you aren't paid for those 1-2 hours of commuting time.

A fallacy of youth I've found is to fall into the trap that things are only getting worse. A benefit of having some more experience and perspective is the realization that things happen in cycles.

We had union movement spring up, which were a huge boon for working conditions and real wages. In many cases the pendulum eventually swung too far in the other direction and unions became a tool for political power and an excuse for inefficiencies that paralyzed industries.

And then in the last 50+ years in the US we've had the cult of Ayn Rand acolytes take hold and sell people on the idea that they need to be beholden to employers. It's partly (IMHO) why we've largely seen near zero real wage growth in 40 years.

My hope is this is a turning point where we'll start to see it's unacceptable to not provide living wages and not to provide basic human rights like affordable health care.

This won't be a quick process but the main purveyors of pro-corporate propaganda, the Republican party, is essentially in its death throes. It is a now a minority that can only govern through voter suppression, disenfranchisement and gerrymandering.

Here's something I want any defenders of billionaires to consider: if you give people a living wage, what do you think is going to happen? They're going to spend what they earn. This is the fabric of an economy. After all, who does a trillion-dollar market cap company sell to if only 0.01% of the people on Earth have anything to spend?
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Friends from Palantir have seen the data that Plaid downright steals and sells for money. Except they don’t “steal” it, they just use the login credentials and pillage anything that’s available online. It’s disgusting. I wish consumers knew better. I wish more banks cared.
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I’m not privy to her business arrangements, of course, but we write a check to her as an individual.
I’ve heard this put another way, when someone asked me: “what did the ideal version of yourself do differently today?”

Which I found to be a dramatically different, and dramatically easier question to answer than something like “where do you want to be in 5 years?”

I found it help me shift away from trying to make predictions, and towards making healthy, productive (not self-sabotaging), well-rounded decisions with obvious long term benefits.
Well, the story has appeared on HN recently, so ...

It's an inside HN joke, to point out that the less exposed something "bad" is, the more likely it is to continue, and if it becomes widely known (not merely publicly available), then there is often visible backpedaling.
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No, I can’t. Thinking I could and trying to caused me a lot of pain. I am queer. It’s as much an immutable facet of who and what I am as my neurodivergence, or my right-handedness. It shapes me beyond preference in similar ways to those. Why shouldn’t it? If it makes my life better to recognize who I am, why discourage that? Is it harming you or anyone?
Brier score is MSE applied to predicted probabilities. One is a loss function for "regression" type problems, the other is a proper scoring rule.
Buying traction is always a red flag. A lot of startups put it under their marketing budget. It's worrying because now VCs will check everything to see that it's not fake instead of just believing you.

I know a marketplace startup that did used clothes. The CEO would buy them off the market. A lot of people would put a single item on the app once to test it, then when someone actually bought it, they'd put a lot more. So that was fake traction leading into real traction, and that's fine.

I'd say if $1 marketing budget leads to $1.10 of sales, that's fine. If it's $1 leading to $0, that's not. If the number is used to raise money from investors, then that's probably fraud if not disclosed.
Regularly people already do cook most days of the week.
Those weren’t abandoned.
You take 2% off the top of what Stripe already takes. No different from DonorBox. You mention on your website that there are discounts for non-profits, but I assume it's not 100%.

The idea is that if Stripe offers it, they won't take anything off what they already take.
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I've seen this in discussions about games I've worked on where people suggest we simply do that one obvious gameplay tweak which we tried a year before release and it wasn't any fun in practice.
Crows definitely get drunk, on purpose, by eating rotten fruit & berries, so this is plausible - although formic acid to the skin seems less fun - but then I'm not a crow.
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