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Would it be better if alcoholic drinks and tobacco had never been discovered? Perhaps. But I don't think you can fairly say the same thing about fossil fuels, which have enabled widespread prosperity.
I hope they start seizing Ethereum because it would show how not decentralized and not secure proof of stake system is.
Hill staffers in DC all know you can look up each other's salary on a website, as you can with most government workers.
It is quite interesting, that they were consuming drugs while discussing how to persecute others for using different drugs.
It’s Apache 2, isn’t it? What’s wrong with that?
If you are reading this protonmail, I would very much like to be able to have the emails within a thread sorted with the latest one on top, so that when I get many emails from a given emailer with the same subject, I do not end up at the bottom of the screen.

I can't find this option if it already exists.
> once the government can own stocks and portions of real estate, I'm sure it will seek to incrementally increase its benefit from doing so.

There's nothing stopping the government from owning these things already (governments own plenty of real estate, in particular), so this seems like undue cynicism.
It’s not, but it sets the precedent that the FBI will seize bitcoin without any kind of due process when it is able to recover proceeds from a criminal transaction
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This jeopardizes the use of Bitcoin as a currency for cross-border criminal transactions which is a large if not majority share of its use case.

So it’s easy to see why its value went down — fewer criminals will want to use it.
Aren’t 409a valuations famously gamed?
G7 plan ‘will slash UK tax revenue from US tech firms’ say experts
Hey if the worst thing the HN comments have to say is "Well, he's no Bertrand Russell." I'd call that a pretty positive reception!
There are other uses of BTC?
To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand their key strengths
Why do these things need to be mutually exclusive?
I know people in the kinds of circles where micro-dosing is popular, in San Francisco. I can say with absolute certainty, walks in the park are still more popular.

Although, if the homeless problem gets any worse, who knows.
But if the asset sale + the debt leaves you at a loss wouldn't you be able to avoid paying the capital gaibs over the asset sale?
It doesn’t feel good that science journals will consider something unscientific until it becomes mainstream.
¡De nada, tío!
Thank you; I just added most of the G7 countries. Not sure how long it’ll take the change to propagate though.
It allows academics and other informed scientists to talk confidently about their design. Everybody else like Linux admins and VM users is still working with a black box software.
Sure cloud vendors may get on board and start announcing how their solution is the best verified software out there. Did I mention bullshit marketing yet?
Great post for DevOps teams about monitoring after launching an AWS service using CloudWatch Metrics.
Autocomplete for Terraform/HCL is available, too, though you do have to use specific tooling (e.g., VS Code with the Terraform extension) rather than the same tools you use to work on JS.
Bitcoin is literally about tracing transactions... criminal IQ smol.
Fujifilm refuses to pay ransomware demand, restores network from backups
Hi, I work on the Crux team. I think "fully distributed" has a few possible meanings, but is it essentially a case of wanting something with a dead-simple clustering story? Or is it more about multi-region distribution & availability?

Whilst Kafka itself is almost certainly not as simple to operate as FDB (although I can't speak from experience), it does in turn provide Crux with dead-simple clustering, because each Crux node acts as an isolated replica. FDB could be used equally instead of Kafka, but the maximum write throughput would then be somewhat lower. The only key part of the story Crux doesn't currently supply out-of-the-box is a load-balancing layer atop a cluster of nodes.

I expect the real drawback of Crux's current design, by comparison, is that each node is an ~expensive full replica, whereas your system (built on FDB) will benefit from fully sharded indexes running across a cluster of (smaller) machines. The main trade-off then is the low-latency query performance of a fully local KV store.
You can't just forward project like that. The question is what people are working on. So far people main concern has been reduction in price.

This has reshaped and is reshaping the supply chain, has localized production and has massive improved production efficiency. Now we are slowly starting to approximate production of a scale and efficiency where we are approaching raw materials cost.

A huge amount of effort has now shifted into improving density as that is a vector to reduce cost. Huge money is flowing into silicon and lithium metal anode study.

There is some hope to get there faster.
So a bunch of hackers were able to hack Colonial Pipeline but they used a known traceable payment for ransom? Bullshit.
There should be a step between banning and approval.

If you look at the history of hiv/aids drug approval it's pretty clear that there is significant harm that can be done by banning unapproved drugs.

At the same time, removing the requirement to show efficacy to be approved is also quite obviously bad for the reasons outlined in the article.

Why can't the company be allowed to provisionally sell the drug with the warning that the FDA has evaluated the drug as "unproven efficacy" until such a time as the follow up studies are completed?
I know right?
To be fair, it's usually pretty hard to say why stock prices change. Even with hindsight.

Mostly because anticipation is so important.
Thanks for the tips.

One thing I've noticed helps me learning language has been working hard to imagine the physical thing as opposed to the english equivalent word. That is imagining a shiny red apple when learning "manzana" instead of the word "apple". Always wondered if theres anything to back this sort of approach up or its just different learning styles.
Not just financial reporting. "Portland burns as Trump golfs" type stories were super common as well over the past 4 years or even "Politician X does Y as covid cases rise" if media wanted to throw shade on Politician X last year
I love this comment. This is one area where I think crying racism is actually justified.

Racism is thrown around as a justification for anything today, but _real_ racist policies like:

> different sentencing laws around crack and powder cocaine

That persist today are almost never mentioned.

Another policy that disproportionally effects blacks:

> A mother will receive far more from welfare if she is single than if she has an employed husband in the home.

https://atlantablackstar.com/2014/12/24/ways-war-poverty-des...

> But by the mid-1980s, black fatherlessness skyrocketed. Today, only 44% of black children have a father in the home. In unison, the rate of black out-of-wedlock births went from 24.5% in 1964 to 70.7% by 1994, roughly where it stands today.

https://ifstudies.org/blog/family-breakdown-and-americas-wel...

This in particular is discussed at length in Moe Factz
https://podcast.app/moe-factz-with-adam-curry-p810825/

An excellent podcast!
That came with http/1.1 ;-)
Is mental health treatment not covered in a lot of health plans?

I'm not a fan of involuntarily committing people. But I do want to make it as easy (and as cheap) as possible to get good mental treatment if they need it. I've seen the results of good therapists, and it is no less impactful than a good surgeon.
True. But the prices of most of the ALT coins are correlated with BTC, which has also caused them to go down too (in the same way they went up with it before May).

I wonder if the future push towards Proof-of-Stake away from Proof-of-Work will one day stop this happening.
See the Fair Tax proposal for one way to address this problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax
My comment was mostly just mocking crypto.
> The bottom earners probably have zero excess earnings but somehow pay similar tax per dollar earned as the top 1% earners who have pretty much only excess earnings, even when not accounting for inflated lifestyle inefficiencies.

Again, this is in the source I linked, and if by similar you mean, differing by 14.4%, then sure.
More detail on how they managed to get access to that password/private key?

Edit: I found the bitcoin address https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1q7eqww9dmm9p48hx5y...
I'd love to see some data on how big a deal this really is, because I would normally assume that by the time you've reached the levels of wealth we're talking about, "tax assistance" is a trivial expense.
Performance expectations were if anything for the most part tighter than what people tend to get away with today. People hadn't gotten used to slow dynamic sites yet.

We didn't fork for for every static asset, but the vast majority of overall requests were dynamic past the initial pageload, so the vast majority of requests resulted in fork.

In terms of benefits, the simplicity is attractive. It's an approach that is in general quite resilient to errors.
If it's a publicly available component, then Apple would not be able to block the supply.

If it's not a publicly available component, then how do you know it costs 50 cents, if Apple is the only one manufacturing it and they're not selling it? It's not because Apple is paying 50 cent to the manufacturer, that this means the component doesn't involve Apple-specific IP, which they obviously do not pay for. Maybe Apple doesn't want to set up appropriately priced pipelines to sell these all five thousand of the parts that they order just so repair shops can purchase them at cost.

Hypothetical scenario: imagine the iPhone is 2 components, each costs $1 to produce at TSMC, but the IP to produce them is what makes the components so valuable, and this is owned by Apple. So Apple pays $2 to TSMC for both parts, assembles them, and then sells the iPhone for $1000.

Now a repair shop complains that they don't have access to these two $1 parts, but that's only logical. The value of the parts is much higher than what Apple is paying the manufacturer. And if Apple would provide these parts available at cost, someone could build their own iPhone for $2 instead and circumvent all their IP licensing.
I'm still doubtful the things are causally correlated. Wouldn't privacy coins then increase in price immediately as well?
--The FBI in 2008, probably

(but really the FBI since the Bank Secrecy Act and before)
Should you be able to take out a million dollar loan against the diamond, use the loan to buy stocks, and claim a loss on the year? Then the stocks increase in value, you're able to take out a new loan against them, and use that to pay off the diamond loan. Now you have a diamond, stocks, and no taxable income. Of course, you rinse and repeat.

Maybe we need to re-examine the definition of "realized gains".
Firefox is/was really lacking in WebRTC support for non-P2P use cases - bandwidth estimation support was sub-standard until recently, there is no support for simulcast (multiple video quality encodings) when using H.264, and no E2E encryption support (which is very new to the spec). There has been a lot of back and forth on the Firefox / Jitsi situation but it does seem that most of the time the ball has been sitting in Firefox's court.
Programming by Hand
> Censorship of those who seek to oppress

I suppose one could argue that this amounts to a threat of violence, which is a form of limited speech. I am not free to make bodily threats of violence toward other named individuals. Threatening positive rights is threatening force, so it definitely gets at least near to that line.
Show HN: Netgraph, a Python library for visualizing networks
I've done a reasonable amount of both psychedelics and long distance running (finished full and half marathons + the training required to do that) and they're completely different things.

Both are great, both can be great tools for self discovery, and both can yield annoyingly ardent fans. I personally think everyone who is interested in experiencing life should aim to do a 10+ mile run and take a reasonably strong dose of a psychedelic. But by no means is your life impoverished by having neither experience.

> I felt like I was at peace and all my problems almost went away.

Right away this is a key difference, the peace you feel running is closer to a mild opioid than any psychedelic. Long distance running is fantastic for this sort of deep meditation, and for many people will be much easier than performing long sitting mediation. However I would say the end result of this running is that you travel deep within yourself.

Psychedelics on the other hands will temporarily take your mind apart. It is very common to experience looking in the mirror and seeing 'you' as just another body that is no different than the other bodies on the street. Psychedelics are both more exhilarating and more terrifying. Baggage you are carrying around can easily spiral in to a "bad" trip (which may be terrifying, but many would agree is not really a "bad" thing). At the same time and during the same experience you can see and feel the details in a blade of grass that let you feel a sense of beauty in the mundane that is a very different intensity than the peaceful bliss that can come from running.

I highly recommend you try something like shrooms in the safe environment. Not dissimilar to running a marathon, once can be enough of an experience for a lifetime (where for some people they want it to be a major part of their life, which is fine too in both cases).
That and third party access to their API.

Sync is so much better than the official app it's not even funny.
There is not widespread vacancy. Aggregate vacancy rates are at all-time lows statewide. There may be small jurisdictions with exceptional vacancy rates but if you are going to claim them please bring some hard evidence so we can evaluate the claims.

In my city NIMBYs are always making shit up about vacant buildings but it never turns out to be objectively true. One of their favorite targets that they always point to as "vacant luxury towers" is in reality 97% occupied. So, please don't throw out vacancy trutherism unless you are prepared to back it up.
I think it's that BTC is easier to get victims to buy without oversight. There are Bitcoin ATMs. Buying Bitcoin from an ATM is like sending money via Western Union, but without the teller there to spot someone looking like they're under duress.

As for anonymity on the receiving end: the BTC can always just be exchanged for a more anonymous currency like Monero. You might think that'd require the criminal to KYC to a [centralized] exchange, but there are decentralized exchanges (i.e. DEXes — on-chain, crypto-for-crypto exchanges with no support for fiat deposit/withdrawal), and these have no need for KYC, since they don't touch the real banking system.
I found that I experienced something similar on stuff as light as adderal/vyvanse/focalin or cigarettes.

As someone who has taken most of the stuff out there I agree with trabant that they help return exit 0, and think it's proportional to the euphoria the drug produces.

I don't think we need to ban them but we need to be honest with ourselves that we're sticking cattle prods in our brains, and to enjoy them for what they are :)
Check your local city map on Google Maps, you may be surprised to find some "nature" [0] trails within your residential area. They're not always marked well.

[0] In quotes because you're going to be 100-300' from houses on a large portion of these kinds of trails. But they can still offer something nice and scenic compared to walking the suburban sidewalks.
It also encourages liquidity in the residential real estate market… which seems to be a net good thing.
>PM cannot read your emails, which is false

How so? The storage is encrypted with a key they don't have. They can read all of the non-encrypted email traffic that passes through their servers, but that's true of any router in the path of nearly all email traffic as well.

They don't have the ability to decrypt the store of emails. This is valuable because most email hosting providers are one hack or subpoena away from being a massive info dump of all of their users.
Their answer will be “it depends, what do you want to do”

You’ll say “I don’t want to pay taxes, I heard I can pay $4000 and not pay taxes”

They'll say what I said “it depends on what you want to do and what compliance burdens you want to deal with” along with “where did you hear that, my retainer is $10,000 and hourly rates are $700 and $300 for the junior”

and you still don’t know what you want to do

RTFTaxCode and find a service provider that specializes in that part of the tax code and then come back with specific queries about how those topics work

This is more analogous to saying “go to a medical school professor and your dentist” as they are both doctors and one might be licensed to practice, when neither of them can actually help you, and your dentist says “the eye doctor specializes in this topic” but you hadn't quite figured that out yet and you really have to go to your primary care doctor first who will still be confused about whether that’s the right recommendation for you because you can’t articulate what you really want to do

But since everyone that read this far is still here, and even more frustrated, I’ll
point out that 401ks are a whole industry that is simply a reference to subsection 401(k) of the IRS’ 400 section and someone eventually noticed. There are other less used sections. 501(c)3 which you also may have heard of in passing are simply a reference to that subsection of 500 section of which there are many other less mentioned sections. All of which may be more interesting to your specific goal.
> After a cursory glance, and getting through the heated bluster that often clogs up any twitter debate, I had a general understanding of the situation.

I'm not sure if this was layered meta-commentary or a lack self-awareness. Either way, I chuckled
The vacancy-rate statistics do not back this up. Compare the residential vacancy rates for California vs the US as a whole: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CARVAC and https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USRVAC . Every city has some vacant properties, due to turnover and renovations and other factors.
If they get hold of your wallet's private key, they can seize it in any system.
The reason I gave up was coz I found a nice template and tried to use it and it just didn't work.

One aspect of static site development nobody seems to want to do is to keep themes up to date.
> I’m also wondering why the hackers didn’t request payment in a currency that’s more difficult to trace.

Because they need to cash out somehow? Being crypto-currency rich doesn't mean much if you're unable to exchange the crypto-currency for real money.
It looks like it's Apache 2.0 licensed? Wh issues do you have with that licemse.
The loan is paid for by the appreciation of the backing asset. And over the long term the depreciation of the dollar.
> The wiki lacks category ...

Just FYI: we recently improved the internals to be able to add propagating tags to wiki pages[1], so it will eventually be possible to use those to categorize/group your wiki pages. What's missing now is UIs which can make use of that feature. The CLI tag command can make use of them, but that doesn't help your UI much.

> ... and transclusion features

For the wiki it seems unlikely to me that transclusion will ever be a thing. It can hypothetically be done with the embedded docs feature if the fossil binary is built with "th1-docs" support, but, alas, we can't currently support propagating tags on file-level content. (i have an idea how it might be integrated, but figuring out whether or not it internally makes sense requires trying it out (and that doesn't have a high priority).)

[1] https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/3d4b79a3f9?t=h
But the Bay Area's high prices are driven by scarcity + demand, not intrinsic cost. So if everyone had a higher tax burden, I'd expect costs to come down.
I'm not sure where that's the case, but it's certainly not the case with cryptography, where "clunky" means "mired in design decisions made before the era of authenticated cryptography".

To me, "old and clunky" also tends to imply "memory unsafe", or "written in Perl so old that a pipe filter in the wrong place in the input coughs up a shell", or "better make sure nobody's name is O'Connor because that includes SQL metadata", or "lol remember temp file races". But I'm prepared to concede that there may be places where the old stuff is better than the new, and eager to hear examples.
What data would you look for to confirm the claim, and what data would you loom for to reject the claim?
Governments can simply take the private keys if they wish along with your computer. Come up with smart ways to avoid that (but I'll memorise the private key!) and they'll just lock you up instead.

In the case of coins moving through exchanges, they can simply take the coins instead by threatening the exchange.

In many other cases they can also catch you when you try to use the money by converting it into a currency that people actually use to transact like USD.
Books don't let you know that genocide is happening at the time, that the bars have been closed yet again, nor that you should probably postpone that trip due to bad weather.

Books might capture the feelings of now: 1984 wasn't making predictions, but illustrated the concerns of the current time. Same for the things in "A Brave new World".

Reading books about the history of cooking isn't going to give you much of a worldview, nor is it going to prepare you for a government restricting your ability to get birth control, abortion, or sterilization surgeries. Books also aren't worth much if you don't reflect on them - but once you do reflect, they aren't realistically all that much better or worse than other artistic mediums and you don't even have to read the books to get advantages (some visual adaptations are good, and there are always audiobooks too).

It isn't to say that you cannot learn from them, but it isn't the same sort of information.
Before I switched to computer science, I studied philosophy, and I encountered lots of people who seemed to think that philosophers had some kind of special relationship to critical thinking. That makes sense in a way, but I also imagine that adherents to just about any discipline, whether it's mathematics or history or journalism, tell themselves a story like this.