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It’s really by necessity, because we all saw what happened to Hong Kong and Ukraine and what they’d like to happen to Taiwan and south Korea and basically as much territory as possible.

If the US military vanished today, Russia or China would be the world police.
Zero carbon footprint and zero carbon in transaction costs.

You simply don’t understand what is that energy used for. It’s definitely not for processing transactions.
Also Intel. Being Nvidia-only is not very good from an accessibility point-of-view. It means that only ML researchers and about 60% of gamers can run this.
But this still does not answer why this expression is specifically listed for rational numbers as it is true for subsets of the rational numbers like the integers as well as for supersets of the rational numbers like the real numbers.
> Still less than the carbon footprint of the people running our current fiat-based financial infrastructure.

One is literally supporting the world and the other is used by a few million people as a speculative asset, money laundering scheme or to buy drugs online.

And on top of that you're wrong...
Seems to go out of their way to say which vendor they were using? Looks like now they're on Cloudfront.
I’ve found that management and decision making is much more of a social thing than anything else. Which is probably why your “I told you so”’s feel so worthless. I don’t think think quietly making people crash into a wall is the best way to handle it either, but having worked in the same political organisation for a decade I can certainly see why it’s easier to end up in that category.

I prefer to drive into the wall with people instead, working at it together, when that’s what is going to happen despite any concerns I have. Usually when you end up being right, people will listen to you more the next time if you’ve stood there with them.

It also helps a lot when your prediction turns out to be wrong. When RPA became a big thing in the Danish public sector a few years back I was one of the stronger voices against it in most of our national ERFA networks. When we got the clear message from the top that we were going to do this, however, I jumped right in and helped us chose and build what is now the leading RPA setup in any Danish municipality aside from Copenhagen. I still think RPA is really terrible from a technical perspective, but I can also see the merit in how it’s currently saved us around 90 years worth or manual case-work at the price of a few months of developer- and support-time in total. Because I was quick to jump aboard what I still thought was going to be a sinking ship when it was going to sail no matter what I did or thought, people don’t hold how wrong I was against me but instead lovingly tease me or sometimes cheer me up with other times where I’ve been right.

You have to want to do this of course. If your workplace doesn’t have the sort of people you’ll want to drive into a wall with, the your way is probably better than mine.
Pretty much anything is easier to reference than a man page :) I wish the standard for man, would be to include examples. But maybe I'm in the minority of people who learn by example.
i feel like a good business idea would be showing new product names / logos to a group of 50 people from various demographics and ages to see if the name clashes with something else.

bc this one quite quite funny
The tone of your response seems to imply I’ve was attacking your position, but that wasn’t my intent.

I am legitimately asking how much parity there is regarding oversight regulation between flight and autonomous software, which would help make your point clearer since it has a direct relationship to reliability.

However, I do think it’s relevant to the point. If you are making an analogy about reliability but one is legally forced to demonstrate reliability while the other is not, does that comparison really make sense with that additional context? While I've worked in the aerospace software domain, I don't know to what standard AV is held which is why I was asking.
You have no argument.
Seems to me El Salvador will say anything they can to make the price rise.
NVDA is 82% of the market and rising.
This.

To add a little more context to this, the first banks took deposits and lent that money out to borrowers. They would keep a certain percentage of that for liquidity ie to cover withdrawals.

This became viewed as overly conservative so banks started retaining a smaller percentage of the loans in hard currency and/or gold.

This is the origin of the fractional reserve system.

Some Luddites who often bemoan abandoning the gold standard point to this is a mistake but the last few centuries has shown this to be wildly successful.

Ultimately this led to the formation of central banks (sometimes called the lenders of last resort) to, in part at least, avoid the issues of runs on individual banks.

Nowadays debt tends to be securitized and not even on a bank's books anymore anyway.

This is actually one of the desirable properties of a currency that cryptos (or Bitcoin at least) just doesn't have. Combine that with highly volatile values and it's a mistake (IMHO) to call cryptos "currencies". They're assets not currencies.
+1 on feature flags. I find them to be a pain, but fussy customers insist "that we need to test it in staging first".
How is it clickbait? Nations like Morocco, Switzerland and Sweden are all industrialized nations, and not tiny enclaves no Westerner has ever heard of.
This is it. I do a lot of consulting work around this problem, and the roadmap is where the business and technology meet. It’s where you convert sprints into calendar boxes. It’s also the part most companies do poorly because nobody likes to spend money on good project/program managers (hint: hire product managers instead even though they’re ~25% more expensive because everything in 2021 is a product in some way).

When you do it this way, you can decide well ahead of time if you need to bring in a contractor to build a must-have feature your team won’t have bandwidth for. It flips the narrative and puts the responsibility on the business side (which usually controls the budget anyway).
Yes, I do trust the elected officials and the military officers to make this determination.

And if they say they need more funding, I’ll believe them. Doesn’t take an Einstein to see the news abroad.
> Unfortunately, because this issue impacted several redundant network switches, a larger number of EC2 instances in this single Availability Zone lost network connectivity.

These may be redundant by a reasonable definition, but they clearly weren't here....
> how can we make this work for us?

Which side of this debate do you think the City of London and Wall Street are on? Crypto has been a panacopia for finance.
So in summary your argumentation rests on the case that Western media is corrupted by American interests. At the same time you admit that the CCP manipulates their own media to use as propaganda but you prefer to believe those vehicles, from a single nation rather than a collective of media across multiple cultures because all of them are under the fold of American influence.

It sounds like a major conspiracy.
Yeah let's swap a currency backed by 27 rich countries with something created by a bunch of sociopath tech douchebags.
AMD, and Intel, yeah.
Designwise, it's about waterproofing.

You have to undersize parts for a watertight fit, which can result in undesirable characteristics when deformation or dropping of a device does happen. There's also an increasing tendency to use the outer shell of a device as a heat-sink/radiator. Adhesives enable this type of design but make it darn near impossible to maintain.

I'm not going to say there isn't a mustache twirler somewhere with surveillance plans of grandeur... but unfortunately the truth may be closer to it's cheaper to buy a tube of glue than to get a tub of small, self-tapping screws.

That's just my 2 cents from having torn things apart and put them back together to varying degrees of success.
Unrelated to the incident, but to Klarna.

What is Klarna _for_? What does Klarna do that others don't? They brand themselves as "We enable you to buy hip shit you don't have the money for [and will become irrelevant before you payed off your debt]". Almost literally [0]

Is it more of the same but dressed pretty or am I missing something?

That said, sometimes a common thing done up well will be successful. Looking at you, Slack.

0 - https://www.klarna.com/us/pay-in-4/
Are we celebrating monopolies now?
I usually don't leave CC info on some random site, only to major and well known. If the site is unknown, it's either PayPal, "pay by invoice" or no order at all.

Either PayPal or CC issuer provide at least some buyers' protection, while given your bank credentials to Klarna is normally against ToC of your bank.
Well, the raspberry pi is already open source, so quoting or linking their documentation is already done. And if the small business was simply creating a “hat” of peripheral hardware that plugs into the pi, including a data sheet or BOM list is just a few mouse clicks in the cad software they’re using to design their PCB.

This comment feels more like FUD than a realistic concern.
If it came on sudden I would say look for changes in your direct environment. Something dramatic? Did you maybe hurt yourself? Did you start eating a new food? Someone pop back up in your life that you thought was gone? That sort of thing. If you can not bisect the issue a sleep study would be better. Medication may help but it may mask the underlying issue.

For me it was more of a realization it was my diet. I changed my diet to remove some particular types of foods and now I sleep good. If I eat those foods I sleep like crap. Pop a tums and I am good (it is the upset stomach waking me randomly, so the bad sleep). Everyone has different reasons why. But the top ones are typically stress, injury, or food are a good place to start.
> Maybe a tiny minority

Wait, what? That’s like the main reason people give when pumping it - “Bitcoin will replace fiat and it’s a good hedge against normal money.”
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Bitcoin isn’t ready for that yet.
Not all lecturers welcome questions, it depends on the country and culture. Certainly my own undergraduate experience consisted of a "human text-to-speech engine" experience where the lecturer lectured mainly from a text, while students were expected to silently listen, and then answer any questions they had themselves by searching in the literature.

When I moved on to graduate studies and had a weekly seminar, then questions and discussion were welcome, but I sympathize with the feeling that in-person undergraduate education is a waste of time and (in countries that charge tuition fees) money.
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I accounted for this in my comment. There's confirm steps and then there's confirm steps. When I want to unsubscribe from your newsletter you already know my address, I shouldn't have to enter it, I shouldn't have to list a reason (though by all means keep it as an optional), I shouldn't have to do more than one extra click.

If you indeed meant a simple "Yes I'm sure" confirmation button, then I agree.
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While I agree with the sarcastically made point that the whims of the powerful are not by themselves good enough reason to outlaw things, one of the more frustrating arguments made in favour of Bitcoin is that it can free us from government control.

I say that claim is not true, and recon bitcoin is all hat and no cattle in this regard.

I also reckon that when the government is sufficiently democratic (i.e. not just the whims of the powerful), undermining it is a bad thing, which is the only reason I don’t want to say “time for Bitcoin to prove us wrong”.
Continue to promote a cashless society, ID2020 and social credit scores.

https://decrypt.co/25190/the-world-is-accelerating-towards-d...
I think it's Korea or China that requires the rates to be published, so they might be available somewhere already.
You think boomers are thoughtfully rebellious? The generation that presided over the entire planet getting polluted with plastic?
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This is the reason they're introducing FLoC in the first place: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb...
I don't protest the obvious. There's little discussion about the harms of global warming in general; this is a generally accepted fact, at least to most people I engage with. The same can not be said about cryptocurrencies and their harms; this is an argument worth having, precisely because people have not yet fully acknowledged the problems. Also: it's remarkable that you've so fully analyzed my personality in 5 minutes.

In any case, to reiterate my counterpoint (which you have not disputed, but given your ad hominem I assume you don't agree with): estimating at least an order of magnitude impact of bitcoin isn't that hard, so your suggestion that it's hopeless to compare somebody streaming gangnam style with a bitcoin transaction is unfounded. One can compare bitcoins environmental impacts with other environmental impacts.
On the day in question, Robinhood posted to say this is what it was doing, and it explicitly stated that it was doing so to protect its customers from volatility. It absolutely said nothing at all about doing it because of regulatory or other requirements.

Robinhood has since deleted that post from its site.

And no matter how you cut the cake, if you put your money into Robinhood then you risk losing it when Robinhood changes the rules.

That’s the message people need to hear.
The original promise of bitcoin was that it would actually be useful as a currency, for buying stuff. Now that this hasn't panned out, and the problems preventing BTC from being used as a currency fail to be addressed, advocates have shifted the narrative to "bitcoin is digital gold".

IMO, if the Netherlands bans bitcoin, they will also ban other similar cryptos that could actually be used as currencies. That negatively impacts the crypto markets for sure. It's not just about bitcoin.

Would such a ban be hard to enforce? Sure, but not everyone feels comfortable doing things that could land them huge fines or even jail time. I certainly don't.

Gold is used as a store of value because it's been universally recognized as valuable for thousands of years, in almost every culture. Would you really trust your life savings to bitcoin if we're in a climate where more and more countries are banning it? That would make redeeming your digital gold increasingly more illegal and difficult. Crypto bans definitely erode the "digital gold" proposition as well IMO.
> but this his view is very unhelpful

Did you read it? If so, why do you take this opinion?

> Does CPB actually has anything to say here?

The CPB does analysis to inform public policy making, they're not a legislative body. Neither is the DNB for that matter, the Ministry of Finance would make these laws.
Something fishy going on there
JWST won’t sit directly at L2. Instead it will orbit around that point in a “halo orbit”.
Nobody, not even Biden has the political goodwill to make Bitcoin illegal and enrage so many constituents (aka lost votes)

The only ones who maybe can do it are Xi and Putin, and the latter seems more pro than against because everything which goes against the dollar is Putin's friend.

Xi is also on and off again with Bitcoin but every day which goes by in which he is not decisive is a day in favor of Bitcoin.

You are left with the Warren, Sanders, Corbyn types as well as this Dutch guy who have only one style of messaging: modern day Robinhoods (or Pocahontas) trying to take money away from people who work and make sacrifices to get ahead in life and redistribute it to themselves
True, 51 is "exmadscientist prime".

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> You’re not paying attention to what you’re reading. The parent comment is saying some users will do this on all newsletters, even ones they signed ip for.

I was paying attention, I was commenting on specifically:

> they hit the spam button when unsubscribe has a confirm step

Even if I've signed up for a newsletter, if I have to jump through (varying degrees) of hoops to unsubscribe, you are spam.
KISS -

Most people would not recognize simple code if it hit them I'm the mouth.

KIES (keep it easy, stupid) is what they mean, and that means following idioms, frameworks, that are familiar.
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The real irony is that each "crypto bad" thread on HN is clearly someone's paid shill. Because every time it reiterates the same extremely primitive misconceptions about crypto. Surely there are some real useful woke idiots on HN but I refuse believe that they constitute a voting majority.
It sounds a bit like the way mild depression affected my sleep during covid. I wasn't obviously depressed--still exercised, did my job, etc--but my doctor said that may be a cause of my sleep issues. He suggested spending more time outside, more time with friends (outside), etc, etc and it did the trick.

Try the benzos or a mild andidepressent (discuss with your doctor of course). Do not take more than the prescribed dose (maybe even start with half of it). The important thing is to use it along with a solid bedtime routine. Same time, lights out, no TV, etc. I had a bad experience with it when trying to use it as a replacement for a bedtime routine, but its been wonderful in addition to a routine when I needed the help.
That was an amazing demonstration. Showing the sped up video was genius: the mass clearly reversed its direction in mid oscillation and then bounced down.

I felt a tiny bit sad he didn't go 5 minutes longer and estimate F and G with a little math from the video frames. He'd already demonstrated the noise amplitude nicely.
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This was truly a terrible decision. Not a single member of the advisory committee would attach their name to this shit drug. 9 YEARS for a phase 4 trial! This decision will go down in history in the same league as the Addyi approval or Oxycontin label approval.
Bitcoin uses far more energy than the jets, mansion and yachts of bankers.
They are tiny in their population size and I wouldn't say Morocco is a heavily industrialized nation (even though they have 30M people @ 3000 GDP/pp).

That said I believe the US military is moving towards a greener future where possible. They have invested in renewables since the aughts and are constantly looking at new technologies in the space. Actually a bit of a coveted buyer of tech if you can prove that your product is viable.
I think your exemplifying my point with your third objection is impressive. You're not even recognizing a general principle, but instead responding hey, not everyone knows agriculture can be dangerous or complicated!.

That's basically the pure form of what I'm talking about--the beliefs about many programmers that 1) they are smart, 2) their work is uniquely difficult among all other work, 3) any other work is obvious and simple, and working from those beliefs, 4) that if other people have problems with their work, they must just be too stupid to do the first few things that pop into programmers' heads.
No, what it actually recommends is banning Bitcoin in the Netherlands before it crashes, forcing Dutch 'investors' to exit before the Ponzi scheme collapses.
The biggest problem is we aren't compensated well. I only make $200k as a mid-level engineer.
If it is about memorizing then yeah, I don't get it. If it is a handy reference for I found a weird symbol what does it mean, then I do. When I was 14, I found a 1960s era electrical engineering text book. Being rather nerdy I bought it and read most of it. The only problem was I didn't understand the math because it had this weird S symbol in it. I didn't know what it was called or what it was about so I couldn't even formulate the question to find out more.
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not exactly FUD when China already actively exerts control over out TV and Movies without military supremacy. Also the majority of the military budget goes to salary, so you couldn't reduce budget by 50% without serious consequences to our capability. The Russians and the Chinese barely spend any money at all on salaries comparatively. with each soldier costing a fraction of a single US private. [1]. Moreover, the Chinese defense budget is increasing faster than their GDP, around 8-9% per year.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/understanding-chinas-2021-defe...
It at least lets one retain the moral high ground. By contrast, in El Salvador it's going to become illegal to not use Bitcoin.

I see some outright hypocrisy in that move being cheered by more libertarian-minded folks. If Bitcoin's supposed to be about not being forced to do things by government, then wouldn't governments forcing people to use Bitcoin be just about the worst possible thing that can happen to it? This would be like if Frodo decided to start wearing the ring and using it to try and take over the world, kind of thing.
Then you do what the drug companies did: you hire consultants to do it for you. I did architecture work for one of the major covid vaccines for most of 2020 and that’s exactly what they did.

The overall tone of the program was “we basically have infinite money, just get it done and the government will pay us back”. So they had a fucking army of consultants to accelerate a process that normally takes 5+ years down to 6 months and they were building down multiple roadmaps just in case they hit a block on one of them.
I believe their value lies in their e-commerce partnerships. You can effectively check out (almost) as seamlessly as a using a credit card on partner sites. I used Klarna when I bought new golf clubs. They show up right on the checkout screen. I can afford to buy them outright but it was an interest free loan for two years so it made logical sense to me.
The official narrative in the UK is "don't invest your money in cryptos, you are going to lose it all". However, if you happen to have cryptos you must declare them!

I wonder if the dutch government bans Bitcoin, that means that there is no need to declare anything. After all, it doesn't fulfill any function as money, means of payment or store of value.