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Why? I've never heard of them being any trouble for customers, indeed their reputation is that they're extremely friendly to the end customer (will give you a refund no questions asked, never dispute chargebacks, ...).
Maybe an update is coming?

Bandcamp is great to buy music but the app as a music player is not.

- No resume when launching the app

- No swipe for backward/forward playlist (more album than playlist, really) navigation
Thanks: glad you liked it. he original title is my fault as author because I picked it and it took me a while to realise that it was so terrible. Sorry about that.
Nah, not based on this piece. This is the opinion of a director of one of many government agencies. CPB is the economic planning agency, so he is supposed to say things like this. But he is only one of many stakeholders in this subject. Once national bank, politics and public sentiment start making statements like this, it would get more weight.

There's no way The Netherlands is going to lead the pack so publically on banning cryptocurrencies. That would be too politically unwise.

I am not saying he is wrong. Just unlikely that The Netherlands is going to be the first to ban.
A bit unrelated, but this submission was top 3 on HN and suddenly seems removed from the /news page?
I see what you mean and was wondering the same myself, but I'm not convinced it's really for the best to say we should not be asking questions and apply self-censorship as a general rule during some period that lasts multiple years.
Maybe?

Although, which one do you think is easier to ban?

If cryptocurrencies were to disappear tomorrow, would the everyday life change? And if we ban meat? Which one do you think will encounter the most resistance? So which one is the most feasible? And then, which one do you think has the best return on investment?
I can see how a group ride could see it like this but single Harley riders don't greet you back either (unless I'm on a Harley or something they in passing might think is a Harley).

I'm guessing you are from the US, which I'm not, but I have never seen this in other bikers no matter the brand. Sure Ducati guys often hang out with eachother at a meet, as do other groups, but it's not like they don't greet other riders.

Heck, I even wave (end get waved at) when I drive my Alfa Romeo by both other Alfa drivers but also people in classic cars (and a few Ducati riders even). Totally different cultures than Harley riders, which I think is sad.
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Yes, I was asking about the latter, thanks!
What! Why?
Guggenheim and Elon Musk were heavily pushing the environmental disaster articles to move Bitcoin price down to buy (they just filed an SEC report about holding Bitcoin futures 2 days ago). As Bitcoin's not a security, they can legally push any news that they want to manipulate the price.
At first I thought this was some kind of parody. After reading some of the other articles I realized that the author was really fond of dropping garbage (code) anywhere without any considerations about its effects.

Yes, this is really coding horror.
I did notice the irony myself :)

The article talks about contingent advice being better than universal advice only in stage 3. If you're not then universal advice is helpful. I think that holds true for most people and most subjects, including myself.

Originally, I thought the article did a great job describing a common scenario that occurs usually in decision making and I wanted to describe my intuition on why I think it comes about. It's not really a universal theory, more my own digestion / explanation on the interrelation around hedgehogs vs foxes and my own interpretation of the issues that the articles describes.
nit: I feel we're far enough into the 21st century and photography has been around for long enough that it isn't completely clear what century is meant by 'midcentury'. I figured it'd be the 20th century, but it could have also been the 19th century.
Except a smart scammer won't do it as a hard sell and look like they need you. They know as well as anyone that aggressive sales look suspicious. Madoff waited for people to come to him.
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This drug has already failed to be effective, it's extremely expensive, and it has bad side effects that require periodic MRIs to check for brain inflammation.

If the amyloid plaque hypothesis is wrong (which it almost certainly is based on the failure of other drugs) the destruction if amyloid plaques is likely to be harmful to the brain with no benefit.

Looking this as a 1% chance of a cure is not really accurate because if this drug was really capable of completely curing Alzheimer's there is no way the existing trials wouldn't have found that.

The article also describes additional reasons why it is generally bad to approve drugs that most likely don't actually work.
Also London's Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) that is going to be expanded to most of Greater London, and where non-EVs, including hybrids, will have to pay £12.50 a day. That will immediately make an ICE car unaffordable compared to a low-cost BEV like the Kia e-Niro, VW ID.4 or Renault Zoe.
A stock market crash is inevitable, let's ban the stock market!

A commodity crash is inevitable, let's ban trading commodities!

A housing market crash is inevitable, let's ban real estate purchasing!
I don't think so. I have worked in the Germanic side of Switzerland before the pandemic and will go back after it.

IMO the main reason is that Switzerland has no natural resources so for this reason it was not invaded. You go to Africa and see the same thing, the less resources a country has, the wealthier it is.

Then you have Jews and protestant ethics in half the country that value work a lot. They welcome and support you if you are a good worker.

Then you have cold Winters that develop indoor activities like reading or workshops. They used to sleep half of the year.

But the most important thing of all, they don't have socialist or communist in power. It is a great thing that I can not vote, because the majority of workers that go there to work are leftist and will destroy the country in a few years if they could vote.

Imagine that you take the better workers, teachers, and entrepreneurs in a country and exterminate them. That is what happened in Russia and China with the communist revolutions. The most lazy and envious, aggressive and worst workers became the bosses.

That made people in those countries to literarily starve to death from incompetence and population to go down(Russia population was bigger than US of A at the start of the century). But most important, it was an inverse natural selection. The brightest and resourceful people disappeared from the genetic pool. And the culture destroyed excellence and hard work as a merit.

In Switzerland, merit culture not only survives but prospers, because without natural resources, they don't have alternatives.
Inflation/deflation is an effect of the amount of money (or in general: any kind of material compensation for trade, work and services) available and which potential customers are able to spend and the amount of goods (and the capabilities to produce them), which are actually available. Meaning, it's a function and not necessarily a conspiracy.

Edit: In other words, if you are working really hard and are making earnings which allow you to spend more on Teslas than Musk can produce, you are creating inflation. Money or other tokens.
Every time I read these things I'm surprised at how one sided and narrow minded these are! People in the nordics have existed for centuries with periods of 24 hours of daylight. The concept of natural light and sleeping with the sun is excessively stupid.
"Natural customers" are demanding that the earth's temperature doesn't rise to the point where life becomes difficult. Regulating ICEs is one part of reducing that. The regulations don't arise spontaneously, they are enacted by politicians who in the west are democratically elected.
I read it as anyone – including spammers – who puts link in will get a head request to it from the email provider, thus providing information – even if just that the address is real.

However, the absence of a bounce probably also does that, albeit less reliably.
I'm sure there are contingencies that can make contingent advice worse than universal advice.
Hoax claims Nobel laureate said all vaccinated people will die within 2 years
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Okay, and how do cryptocurrencies fix this?

Mining is supposed to be increasingly cost prohibitive so in an ideal world it would eventually cease to have a meaningful impact on currency supply within practical timeframes. Assuming economic growth holds, this would mean constant deflation (i.e. value of the currency continually increases as its supply remains quasi constant while the overall economy increases).

Since transfer of cryptocurrencies incurs transaction fees and the value of those currencies only ever increases, transactions would eventually become cost prohibitive for smaller values. So realistically it would seem that we'd eventually have to transition to representative money instead (i.e. you don't transfer crypto between wallets, you shift numbers in a trusted third party's database which itself holds crypto for you). This would lose most of the benefit of the blockchain for these smaller transactions and effectively create banks because these third parties would have operating expenses they would have to charge you for (either directly or by using your crypto for investments).

So in other words, this sounds a lot like returning to the gold standard with extra steps.
Could Apple preload those links too the way they want to preload the tracking pixels? (I don't know much about web tech)
Ban knifes! The biggest enabler of stabbings!
Try setting GUEST_ALWAYS_SWITCHES=false, you'll find your winrate is still 2/3.

In the if(hostPick.equals(prizeDoor)) block, rather than maybe incrementing winCount, you need to decrement GAME_COUNT (or rather the number that you're going to divide by at the end - don't reduce the number of iterations) - we're talking about the probability when you're deciding whether to switch (so after the host has already opened the door and not hit the prize).
I got a pretty short gmail address way back when it was invitation only. It's a bit of some of my names but I have a long name, so it's not the whole thing. According to this it would score 1 because it's 7 characters, but it's got a 100% track record of being correctly recorded over the phone. I rarely have to repeat it, which surprises me actually.

I definitely didn't think about whether this would be easy to use and say over the phone back when I made it, so I just got lucky, I guess. I have been thinking about moving away from Gmail to my own domain name but it will be nowhere near as easy to say over the phone as my current one.
Best return on investment is most definitely finding new ways to produce energy and new ways to sequester greenhouse gases.

Anything else is a minor dampener to an exponential process.

Getting rid of Bitcoin is absolutely nothing compared to our exponentially increasing energy needs.

Lowering greenhouse emissions to 0 today would still result in dire consequences when the temperature increase comes, just from the massive n-th order effects.

I have no idea how the opinion of Bitcoin being so detrimental to climate came to fruition and how it's considered plausible at all.
Ironically the opposite order predates the current standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_domain_name_notation#H...
Sorry about that, I changed the title after posting it here, when I realised how terrible it was. It wasn't really intended as clickbait though and in fact it actually functioned as anti-clickbait. As a few people have said, it looked like a "risky click". :|

Glad you liked it though.
In the same vein you might not be factoring in under-reporting of covid cases or the frequency of bad long-term effects of covid.

>I'm not anti-vaccines, I'm anti this experimental & rushed vaccine. Buy hey let's create vaccine passports and try to force everyone to get it because of politics.

The vaccines were not rushed irresponsibly. The schedule was accelerated and they are under emergency use approval, because of the, you know, emergency.

Also the reason governments want you to get it is not politics but economics.
What is this useful for, page 45?

Rational Numbers: Every rational number can be written as r = [(r - 1) + (r + 1)] / 2

I would have expected p / q with p and q integers or some variation of this.
As someone living in Norway I can tell you that heavy blinds are pretty much standard in every bedroom.
I've pushed it even harder with a gTLD ('.jetzt' -> 'now' in German). My email looks like ${firstname}@${some-german-word}.jetzt and I never had a problem with German speaking people. Ok, some people, especially state officials, are asking if it's a joke, because they never heard about gTLD's, but it's pretty rare.

I wouldn't use it outside of German speaking regions and that's why I still have a ${lastname}${firstname}@gmail.com address.
Because the cost/benefit ratio of Bitcoin is even on the same planet as that of knives?
...and the US military effectively backs the dollar, which makes this the energy footprint of the dollar.

meanwhile, gold stripmines the soil in poor countries, where children die in mines, while the loot is carried off to the west, AND it uses much more energy than bitcoin.

and bitcoin is technology to replace, at least partially, those two things. And like a car versus a bike, it does so with more utility: better to store, better to transport, better to divide into units.

and it can use energy anywhere, whereas banks and gold mining have to use it where there is gold and people to use banks, which means that energy for these uses is actually newly made for this purpose. Bitcoin often and increasingly uses energy that was made, but not used: 1/3 of all global energy production is produced and then just seeps into the metaphorical ground, which is necessary as a network safety measure. Bitcoin miners put their ASICs there and take it, meaning no additional energy was produced and the opposite of waste occured: it prevented waste. Not to speak of the fact that bitcoin incentivizes green energy, because solar and wind are problematic for everyday use (bc you're so highly dependent on the whims of nature). Bitcoin is not your dryer; it can run whenenever it happens to be there, thereby increasing the efficiency of renewables massively.

This whole argument suffers from a lot of ignorance about what's actually going on here.
It's not my experience that high performers get paid more than peers, people who switch employers and negotiate better pay are the ones that are paid more. Staying at one company and working on career progression is a slow grind to good pay.

The way I see it is that I can come in to a fresh role on that 2.5x peer rate by performing a solid interview at architect/principal level. I then do this for multiple roles concurrently then I'm on 7.5x my peers. Which is actually a pretty good estimate to what I know I'm making in relation to others. I also find the principal/architect roles are sometimes less hands on and you're being paid for knowledge and advice, so it actually makes it less of a burden to product high output.
> because they are not taking security seriously?

I don't think is necessarily the case. You can take security seriously, but there are limits, and you have to balance the effort with the willingness of someone breaching your safeguards.

I would use a bicycle as an example. You can buy whatever lock you want, it can be broken by someone. The better the lock, the less people can get through it or are less inclined to do so anyway. You can pay a security guard to look after your bike, but at some point, if your bicycle is really valuable, one guard can be bribed (or killed), and so on, and so on.

In summary, just because they were "hacked" does not mean they are not taking security seriously.
What is this bubble? I’ve been having and using (ordered some RPi’s and sushi mainly) since 2014. And I makes some money here and there. I can’t really feel sorry for people who go all in now and lose later. It’s a casino people!
OSM is showing what's on the ground so there are no dotted lines like with Google Maps. For example both the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem will be shown as part of Israel because it is the de facto ruler of those areas.
I'm very sorry about that. The submitted title was the one I originally had but it took me a while to realise that it wasn't very good. I changed my mind about it but you can't edit titles on HN submissions after publishing.
Sorry if I sound exclusively negative about someone else's hard work – that is not the intention.

I find people's obsession over memorizing mathematical symbols (part 2) really strange. If you understand what the concepts involved in a symbol mean, you won't have a problem recognizing the commonly used symbols. And if you don't understand what the concepts involved mean, then having memorized the symbol does you no good.

Am I missing something?

Edit, since I'm apparently in a very critical mood today: It seems very strange for a document to barely scratch the absolute essentials for something as important and broadly applicable as linear algebra, yet go on and on and on with quite esoteric lists of special primes that surely concern at most researchers in specialized parts of number theory? Of all the lists of primes that the author chooses to focus on, I must say I had only heard of three (Fibonacci, Mersenne and Gaussian). Granted, my PhD is in a very different part of math, but this seems a bit… crazy… in such a document. (Also, are the lists "even primes: 2", and "odd primes [insert list of all other primes here]" meant as jokes?)

Edit 2: Same goes with the obsession with pi. The amount of effort and space spent on features of primes and pi that are incredibly unimportant except to very specialized researchers is… a bit insane in a document like this.
A lot of good ways of looking at this, and your phrasing @bombcar it's really nicely put.

In my opinion, once you play a game for a while, it's easy to know exactly when and how to break ANY rule: you must understand what the rules are there for.

Think of any agile framework, a ton of them are practiced like cults by the most. However, if you think that those are there for 2 simple purposes:

1. you want to ensure nobody in the team is ever idle
2. you want to ensure everyone is working on the most relevant available task that hasn't been picked up from others

Then it's easy to see which rules are useful to the goals and which are hurting you, thus you just gotta break them!

This is just an easy example, this is really about anything in life though!
people have noticed the connections between unauthorized bread and ubik in the past - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25010352
> No, please don't tax something because it is wasteful or not, but tax something based on how much resources it uses.

"Wasteful" = "using more resources than it genuinely needs". We're saying very, very similar things here. I don't find the difference between them significant enough to be worth arguing about honestly. I'm just suggesting an alternative that I think might be more viable, but if we go with your proposal, that's enough progress to make me happy.
If you’re interested in this, I recommend checking out:
https://github.com/grblHAL

It’s a rewrite/fork of GRBL for ARM microcontrollers with a bunch of useful improvements.
OK but how does Terraform know you are renaming a resource? It is not a daemon always running and watching everything you type. It only gets a snapshot of your code to work from when you run it, it doesn't know what your code was before, just the saved state from your last run and the real state in your cloud provider. The only way it can track the state is through the name which you have provided it, if you change that name it cannot know without inferring something. Maybe it matches up all the attributes in your code and state and infers that a rename has happened. What happens when only 95% of attributes match? What happens when multiple things match (An ec2 instance only requires 2 attributes so this is plausible)?

Example 1:

You have 2 essentially identical EC2 VMs with terraform names vm1 and vm2. You decide these are not good descriptive names so change them to webserver1 and webserver2, before running that change you also realise you only need 1 of the servers so delete webserver2 from your code. Terraform runs a plan and sees there is now only a single VM definition but 2 VMs in state. Neither of the terraform identifiers match the original resources. How does it know which one was renamed and which one to delete?

Example 2:

You use Terraform for IaC and something like Chef for configuration management so your Terraform code exclusively deals with the "hardware". A service is being migrated to a new implementation so you need to delete the old VM and bring up a new one. Both old and new implementation have the same exact hardware requirements. You make the change in your Terraform code, deleting the old resource and creating a new one with the same requirements but a different name, and run a plan. Terraform tells you there's nothing to change because its inferred that you wanted to rename.
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This isn't the first time I've seen negative articles about cryptocurrencies suddenly drop down the rankings on this site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27215572
What you think banning means
That is indeed strange. And why restrict it to rationals, when it's true for every real (or every complex, whatever)? It's even true for integers, under a suitable interpretation of what is meant by dividing by 2 in that case.
Yeah, you still win 2/3 of the time. Some of those wins come from the host accidentally showing you the prize, which is prior to your decision.
How do you know they don't have a bigger-picture view than you? How do you know that they haven't had to acknowledge your problems but have to compromise because the alternative would be more problematic? (It's been my experience from both sides that even simply telling people this is the case isn't enough.. I've seen peers get upset when management explicitly acknowledge and explain why compromises are made but some on the team still feel resentment to that manager - but not the reasoning, despite it being objective) as well as members of the team I am managing hold resentment to me despite my own objective reasoning, and even support from other members of the team, not being enough to, I quote, "show them I am a good enough manager."

I'm not going to pretend managers are automatically all massive value-adds. A bad manager is a bad manager. But a bad developer is a bad developer. A bad person is a bad person.

My previous rant is mostly about those who perpetuate this nonsensical adversary between managers and workers everywhere they go, often wearing their repertoire of conflict with management like some kind of accolade.

To assume any given manager is bad because of previous experience, or based upon your own misunderstanding of what a manager does? That is ignorance and prejudice, which is your cross to bear.

"Managers" (the collective/stereotype) don't deserve any resentment. An individual manager that is disruptive and/or a drain on the team's productivity then sure, there is a valid grievance.
Yeah, but they are talking about crypto not bitcoin. It's like banning knives because one type use to stab
My guess for "how to make sure all people are out": typically in such industrial, high security facilities, each people going in would have to badge at each door, i.e. no holding the door for a group of people. Combined with many locked doors, this allows you to know exactly who is in which part of the building.

That, plus you typically dont go and hangout on the DC floor, only the personel who is really required gets to go in.