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Block subsidy doesn’t provide any security, if you made a fork of bitcoin that paid 100 times the subsidy of the original, your fork wouldn’t be any more secure. Much less secure in fact.
They have large tranches of data from large funds that have deployed. While we are at the beginning of mass deployment - theres been a considerable amount of deployment to date that you can model against if you have access to data and then constantly update your priors as you get more information.
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Judging by the Wikipedia page, pre-pay e-cash cards.

But as police and criminals are in a constant arms race of what does and doesn’t work, that’s a bit like asking “how did we win wars before atomic bombs?” in a discussion about a country proposing to ban nuclear bombs.
Thankfully it's a specialist software package not aimed at gamers or ML researchers.
Yeah let's pretend the other person said something that we want to argue about and then respond to that pretence.
I must have forgotten about that time America sent its gun boats in to depose a democratically elected government over a disagreement about copyright law.
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It's more likely than you think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis
Banks literally create money by lending, here's a good overview from the Bank of England:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
Who says that Qualcomm are not also trying to do something in the RISCV space?
Human failure and weakness is something we have to accept, the response to it doesn’t need to be entirely negative. Often we can be empathetic in some way or another, which doesn’t exclude tough love.

Also we often underestimate others when thinking too cautiously or fearful. This can often be cured through direct interaction.

Whenever I feel overwhelmed by negative perspective/thinking. I try one of these angles. Sometimes it works, especially if I put effort into engaging with people that are involved.
I've been permanently remote since 2014 (with some regular office visits interspersed at a few employers along the way). My take is that working in an office is superior to working at home, so long as employees have short commutes and the office provides an environment which is conducive to productivity (e.g. private offices or well-made full height cubicles). In any other situation than that (e.g. open floor plan being the worst), remote work is massively more productive than time spent in office.

It does require a cultural shift in an organization, and I do find that companies that are half-remote/half-onsite or some mixture tend to do significantly worse than companies that go all-in on remote or all-in on staying in the office because the mix always leads to remote folks being left out of important political nuances handled in the hallway and break-rooms.

I don't see myself ever working for Amazon for a myriad of reasons (or most of the other FAANG companies for that matter), but I do think this issue is more complex in a large organization than many WFH advocates give it credit for. That said, I never intend to go back to an office other than for occasional visits for the remainder of my life/career.
I take it you didn't see the video of the high speed multi-vehicle heist attempt that devolved into a shootout on a South African highway a couple weeks ago? Because that was all over a legal shipment of cellphones. [0]

[0] https://abc11.com/south-africa-armored-truck-heist-pretoria/...
Ban exchanges from operating in Netherlands. Ban merchants in the Netherlands from accepting cryptocurrencies. Ban the exchange of cryptocurrencies by the public. Monitor the cryptocurrencies networks and have ISPs block access to all IPs running cryptocurrency nodes. Ban cryptocurrency mining. Ban services that offer online wallets. Block links to cryptocurrency software.

The entertainment industry has been unlucky that it hasn't managed to make the use of torrent illegal. They have to monitor the trackers and figure out who is sharing their copyrighted works and then send threatening emails and hope someone will comply. Instead since they would be banning cryptocurrencies completely they would be able to straight up block connections to cryptocurrency nodes.

You could still use a vpn to use cryptocurrencies, but still buying cryptocurrencies with money would be difficult enough to dissuade most people from doing so.
I agree that being backed by a government carries weight. Largely because tax liabilities are denominated in the home currency, which creates a persistent demand for the currency.

But it's silly when people bring up the army or military when it comes to the USD or other fiat currencies. As if the only thing keeping the dollar valuable are carrier strike groups threatening people around the world. If military spending was cut in half, I guarantee you the dollar would be just as valuable.

China, Russia and North Korea all have formidable militaries. Their currencies carry very little weight outside their borders. In contrast the Swiss Franc, Swedish Krona and New Zealand Dollar are all considered ultra-hard currencies despite those countries having little to no ability to project force around the globe.
Bans are totally justified. They will achieve two major outcomes:

1. Tank the price, thus freeing up energy and advanced manufactured goods (which are in shortages right now) for proper productive use.

2. Significantly lessen the instances of Ransomware, since companies will have no legal mechanism to actually pay.

Whether the coins continue to exist informally and are traded in some kind of primitive barter system is irrelevant.
This project predates the song i assume you're referring to by 2 or 3 years
Even if the people you label modern day robinhoods (but that take money away from people who work and make sacrifices to get ahead in life and redistribute it to themselves, which is not quite the typical robinhood version) really are as self-serving as you suggest - do you really think that making bitcoint would enrage so many constituents? How many people do you think actually hold bitcoin?

https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/how-many-bitcoin-users/ estimates there are around 15.3 million people in north america, and of those how many actually care deeply about this issue? Additionally, realize that how much this hurts dramatically depends on how such a ban were to come into force.

I mean - I don't think there's a chance in hell Biden will ban bitcoins, but rather because it's just not a priority, not because this is electoral suicide.
Don't let good be the enemy of great.
I know scientists and software developpers that believe all kind of weird stories (I even knew one that believed in perpetual motion).
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It's remarkable that this is only coming out now. Had 42K people not shown up to vote last November it's possible we wouldn't have found this out until 2025...or ever.
Read more about this experiment before jumping to conclusions

https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-el-salvador-bitcoin-lif...

The smallness of the country doesn’t mean this isn’t significant. They have problems, and through an experiment found solutions to those problems and are scaling them up
I think some of the “world police” stuff is necessary, particularly protection to important international shipping routes. Some of these places would be lawless without it.
Because Russia just recently launched a war of territorial aggression against Ukraine?
While it seems to be true gcc and clang don't recognize this pattern even when implemented correctly, your program becomes an infinite loop if the highest bit is set (negative), because 'i' will never become 0.

Example with int8_t:

int8_t i = -127; // 0b10000001
i >>= 1; // 0b11000000
i >>= 1; // 0b11100000
i >>= 1; // 0b11110000
i >>= 1; // 0b11111000
i >>= 1; // 0b11111100
i >>= 1; // 0b11111110
i >>= 1; // 0b11111111
i >>= 1; // 0b11111111 ad infinitum

One needs to be careful when using >> (shift right) with signed integers.

So your program is not equivalent to popcount.
The Pentagon would like to reduce the size of the military but are thwarted from doing so by elected officials. They would like to close bases, reduce the number of aircraft carrier groups, retire obsolete weapons systems, etc but Congress intervenes.
I read that a few years ago, probably because it was recommended here on HN. Absolutely wild book.
The energy use is for processing transactions. The block reward exists to give an incentive to process transactions.
Doesn't take an Einstein to see that the US created a lot of messes it's on the hook for, and in addition to that, the US Military is not very efficient with money. (Source: my brother is a navy seal.)

Similarly doesn't take an Einstein to look at US Military budget and compare it to the opportunity costs: with just proportionally small portions of the military budget, we could change education and healthcare dramatically. A healthy well educated populace is actually really important for global competitiveness.

If you've ever worked in a large organization, you know that there's a difference between underfunding an effort and pushing back to force them to prioritize better and become more efficient with resources.

Also, normally in well functioning organizations, there are metrics to measure how efficiently resources are being utilized. The US Military lacks oversight in this dimension.
I've recently launched HypoFuzz - https://hypofuzz.com/ - which solves this by running it on a different server.

You run the tests briefly in CI to check for regressions, and then leave them running permanently on a fuzz server to search for new bugs. Nelson Elhage has a good writeup of this approach at https://blog.nelhage.com/post/two-kinds-of-testing/
Please submit it to peer review along with your comparisons of Chinese and Russian spend and the consequences of either of those being the new world police if the USA just stopped doing its thing because of needing to consume 1% of the oil production.
Definitely a kind of cellular automata, I like seeing a different version of that than Game of Life.
One could impose a 100% tax/penalty on converting to fiat currency. I suppose that would get most 'investors' nervous enough to get out while they are stilled allowed to.
> The 11-member committee voted nearly unanimously in November that Biogen's drug should not be approved, citing inconclusive evidence that the drug was effective.

A near-unanimous vote against the drug, and the FDA moved forward with approval anyway?

Like many others, I've experienced first-hand what Alzheimer's does to a person and the hopelessness in fighting it. Approving a drug that doesn't appear to do what it claims to do will provide false hope, and that's the worst thing you can give someone with Alzheimer's.
Could you expand this? Quite like Acme and wondered what you don't like about it
It used to happen even with everything configured correctly, if your users connected over plain HTTP, from an ISP that forced their traffic to go through a transparent proxy with overaggressive caching. It's not fun to hear about users logged in with somebody else's account, but only in remote corners of the world instead of the more densely populated areas as you'd expect.
Nope, they're injected into the frontpage sometimes. It's the entries without an upvote button and comment page.
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As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen
BTC carbon footprint is smaller than USA government's
> Better than China, sure. But not great.

Try a hell of a lot better, in every way. Also better than any other empire in human history, and not by a little bit either.
Housing market crash is not inevitable. The market crashed in 08 because banks gave loans to unqualified people who could not afford their mortgage(s) otherwise.

The current housing “bubble” is driven by-and-large by private equity groups who see the real estate market (more so the single family home) as the safest place to park their money.

Thing is, these people can afford them.
What if those who produce, use and mantain those tanks, ships, planes and rifles suddenly lose trust in the mean of compensation which the government offers them in exchange of their services?

Nobody ever thinks about this, but government and all the infrastructure it owns are embedded in society

The general view is that Bitcoin takes hold among the population and then there is a fight between the population and the government....quite the contrary, Bitcoin simply takes over the government at an equal or slighly inferior rate compared to the general population.

See how many people in the Capitol are being bitten by the bitcoin bug. For every critic you'll find somebody who is willing to speak in favor of it.
I have been in this situation , maintenance on cooling tower 1 engineer put it into bypass mode so he can work on it safely (in case bms decides to turn it on while he is on it.) When he left the site he forgot to take it out of bypass mode. every few days the BMS rotates the cooling towers switched off tower B and turned on tower A which was still in bypss mode… so air was blowing but the water was not circulating. the temperature graphs show the effected floors of data Center space heat up very quickly. there was a lot of permanently damaged equipment 24/7 human operators ignored many warning about ambient temperature and Low humidity assuming it was system error ( does it look hot on the cameras?? shrug ?? ) various equipment have different power down temperatures the halon did not trigger for us. some equipment did not for whatever reason shutdown when they hit the cutoff temps and cooked themselves. I suspect the Low humidity caused too much static and that’s where the damage was from..

I guess thats something hard to test for , let’s put this switch in an oven and run it to make sure it auto powers down at 80c :) every time we release a firmware.

was a problem from multiple vendors who issued bios / firmware patches. Cisco, dell, Emc, brocade.
> I hope that small semi-self-driving electric cars will eventually replace our dying public transit

Why?? That can't work with the terrain and current buildings in Lisbon, there simply isn't enough space for a car per person. And I can't imagine a livable city with so much space and money wasted for parking and roads. ( Due to induced demand )

Improving public transit is a much better option, especially considering Lisbon has some decent infrastructure already ( the tram and metro networks seemed pretty decent from my trip there just at the start of the pandemic).
If you want your cell phone to disappear from the airwaves, fold it in a piece of foil. Quite cheap and infeasible to overcome.

There are more realistic things like that, e.g. foil-protected credit card / access card wallets that prevent accidental contactless reading.
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But does it mean that the US needs a huge army to fight them?
If Bitcoin was banned, then Dutch citizens could just as easily trade wrapped Bitcoin on the Ethereum, BSC or Solana networks. I don't really see how this works unless you literally ban all distributed consensus protocols.

And even so, how are you suppose to ban people from "holding" crypto. Transacting I can understand. But holding simply involves storing or remembering a private key. Are you going to ban people if you find a decade old USB stick with a cold wallet? Will you interrogate people, Clockwork Orange style, to make sure they forget their brain wallet phrase? If somebody was using the same public/private key for their other data will you force them to delete their entire crypto identity?
It seems that the committee is an panel of outside advisors for the FDA.

The advisors advised that Aduhelm should not be approved because it only helps with a likely contributor to Alzheimer's, and it doesn't actually help with Alzheimer's.

The FDA ignored the panel and approved the drug anyways.

I wonder about the financial incentives and the corruption in the FDA. Every drug maker wants to be the first with an approved Alzheimer's drug; there's a ton of money to be made there.
Wildland – open data management protocol
It’s still trust, just shifted to something else.
I have a drug that is just as effective, will the FDA approve it too?
It's weird how matter-of-fact people were about smallpox in some memoirs. Casanova's descriptions are revolting but everyone just went on with their lives. 14-day quarantines when traveling were annoying but common (though maybe those were for plague).
I'm not sure "aren't compensated well" means what you think it means.
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Defenses perhaps, but I highly doubt that either country is still researching bioweapon applications. What's the point? They have nuclear and (latent) chemical weapons which are far more militarily effective and less likely to cause "friendly fire" incidents.
God I hate that video so much. It is right up there with the Top Gear Hilux episode when it comes to entertainment being peddled as scientific experiment by people who find it convenient to the point they are trying to make to do so (not saying you did that, just that tons of people do). It was a promotional video designed to highlight progress. It does that just fine. But every two bit tom dick and harry seems to think it's representative of a crash between any old car and any new car when the vehicle in the video doesn't even have seat-belts (!!!!) which are the single biggest improvement to crash safety/survivability ever.

There's a reason nobody is going to do a crash test of a 1980s Ford cop car into a 2010s Ford cop car. It would be a massive nothingburger.

Frontal airbags do little for seatbelted passengers at crash test speeds (texting into the back of a semi at 70mph is a different story). In fact in many cases they are worse than no airbag at low/medium speeds because you injure your face hitting airbag or are injured in its deployment in situations where you would have otherwise hit nothing. They are intended as damage control for unbelted passengers (which is where do you think the first S in SRS comes from).

Crumple zones are highly overrated. Imagine an old cartoon where someone gets thrown off a building and happens to land on a guy carrying mattresses. That's basically how crumple zones work. Too high of a jump or too soft of a mattress and you blow right through with negligible deceleration. Too hard of a mattress and the mattress decelerates you basically as hard a the sidewalk. Crumple zones provide time for the airbag to deploy, yes but they only really mitigate the forces on the passenger cabin (and its occupants) at a narrow speed range (they shoot for the speed of the relevant crash tests).

For people who were doing things right and wearing their seatbelt the safety of crashing a car changed negligibly from the advent of the 3pt belt to the time of the side curtain airbag. (I'm ignoring rollover safety here, that's been a basically linear improvement since the 1960s but it's not technically interesting because it's a simple case of throwing more and more steel at the problem)

Side curtain airbags have been a major improvement because there's not much restraint nor space for deceleration in that direction. They do a great job keeping people's heads from hitting stuff.

AEB is another good modern one. Knocking 5-20mph off the speed of a collision helps a lot no matter how you cut it.

All that said, everyone who worships safety tech uncritically as though they're all big improvements you can stack on top of each other and get the sum of them all needs to take a long walk off a short pier. Professing your love for airbags and crumple zones might get you fake internet points on Reddit or HN but that's just not how it works and those people pollute and/or prevent legitimate discussion.
Every nation that has ever existed or will ever exist flexes for economic interests. This is not exactly a meaningful criticism to make, because which contender is free of it? None of them. If anything they’re all far worse.

So what value does it bring to the table to work towards stunting the USA’s military capabilities, besides to boost China and Russia?
There’s no evidence we live in a simulation, and a whole lot to suggest we aren’t.
Derek Lowe has a recent article on the subject (https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/06/08/th...) that covers the issue in some detail by way of criticism.

In short, the medication does appear to reduce the beta-amyloid plaque buildup in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's. However, in the phase 3 study that plaque reduction did not appear to result in any clinical improvement in patients. The Phase 3 trial was "stopped for futility."

That's why the advisory panel could recommend rejection -- the drug did not appear to help patients. But equivalently, it did do the thing it set out to do, so that justified (ish?) the final approval.
Moreover, Ferranti Mark I included a hardware random number generator, another feature useful for cryptography, which was reintroduced only recently in modern CPUs.
Don’t be silly; there are multiple ways to strong arm another country well and short of full invasion.

My point is more a response to the world being free because of America. America acts like an imperial power over the rest of the world. It strong arms allies into complying with its economic wishes, and it regularly overthrows weaker neutral governments for similar reasons.

Someone in South America would openly laugh at the idea that they’re free because of America, given how many democratically elected governments we’ve overthrown down there.
About half of the US currently.

China - ~7 tons CO2 per capita
US - ~15 tons CO2 per capita

You have to discount the China figure further though because of the balance of goods made in China (and thus CO2 produced) and shipped to the US. I.e. the 15 tons per capita hides the outsourced emissions.

Or you could go for the simpler analysis - which country has huge swathes of it’s population running AC, heating, huge cars and a “disposable” approach to manufactured goods consumption.
Why stop there? It's weird. You'd think deepfake porn would very quickly evolve to essentially cut the need for actors in porn entirely. I mean that's what happens with the 3d modeled porn, right?

They do it for a bunch of reasons, more to distinguish from I guess the competition. Things such as outright impossible body geometries (from tentacles, various types of combined male/female bodies, robots, cyborg, ...) to otherwise difficult/impossible sex acts (e.g. a kinda cool one was jumping out of a plane, then having sex before crashing into the decor) or things impossible with humans (like sex with various types of (partial) android-type robots where we're not even remotely close to having advanced enough control algorithms to do that).

This certainly looks like it has the potential to be more popular than porn. Perhaps exploitation will mean humans will always be cheaper, but I don't think so.