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The truth is that with blockchain came Bitcoin.

Bitcoin's rapid price rise has allowed many people to make money.

This has created a number of evangelists with almost feverish pitch of excitement with claims that Bitcoin and Blockchain will change the world.

With this, it has also created a backlash of people who are against Bitcoin and Blockchain and refuse to believe there is any value whatsoever.

I've seen people on HN embrace all sorts of technology - a lots with very little utility or use cases or actual real-world users. Yet with Bitcoin/Blockchain they argue there is no value whatsoever.

The truth is that if Blockchain didn't come with Bitcoin or the potential to make money (or if Bitcoin was more stable around $1) there wouldn't be this backlash.

People in tech can become cynical easily and a bit mistrustful of new technology claims. This can be a good thing. But this knee jerk reaction to Blockchain and Bitcoin is highly disappointing to see on HN.
Ok, but ...

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3609955-moderna-failed-to-disc...

And Derrick Rossi's research was publicly funded which led to creation of Moderna...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Rossi

> Rossi based his developments on the results of Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman on mRNA. He succeeded in finding investors for his plans to transfer these findings into new medications and vaccinations by founding Moderna

This is a tale as old as time. Government funds labs which invent and discover. VCs then fund companies to exploit and make money off publicly discovered work.
Not true, at least in restaurant industry, people rage quit (because horrible condition or whatever) all the time, yet some time latter they show up again at work at the same place, same pay, same position.

Coupled with increase pay incentives, yeah they will come back.
> show the same certificate on every website

Not really, because, you can use on-demand certificate issuance.

Hell, if you really want to, you can even name your certificates the same as existing certificates and the only way to detect the forgery would be to compare the actual public keys (and who does THAT).

I feel like I'm writing an evil roadmap here, but, you can even do multiple root certs with different names and trust them all, do a whole "fake" PKI infrastructure which would be impossible to detect unless you were comparing the actual keys.
Is this the official position of ieee? It's seems both unrealistic and unconstitutional (at least within the US).
Same, I don't understand it. Also still surprised that Google sold them.
Less than 25% of the population is fully vaccinated in 482 U.S. counties
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>latestpagenews.com

Is there a better source?

UPD Found AFP story:

>Snipers 'were ready to shoot' Greenpeace Euro 2020 parachutist

https://news.yahoo.com/german-police-probe-irresponsible-gre...
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Buy - build - sell.

Used in box sells quite well - especially if you sell after they’ve gone from store shelves. eBay or BrickLink.
As an alternative, since you brought up primary sources, you could always show a case where one of the news outlets I mentioned took a story from somewhere else, who took it from somewhere else, who either made it up or turned the chain of citations into a self-referencing circle.

That would be a perfectly acceptable demonstration of "fake news" that would draw me in to listen to your side of things.

All it takes is a little evidence.
Are these drone-based 'lethal autonomous weapons' markedly different to cruise missiles?

Or is the alarm here about the fact that every man and his dog will be able to get their hands on them, when they cost $1000 instead of $1000000?
Yea, it is shitty back breaking work where you are micromanaged a ton. They could either raise the pay or they could stop pushing their workers to be miserable machines so much to make the work more tolerable. I hope they do both.

This is by far the best news I've heard about Amazon warehouses. It's so incredibly awesome that there might be something that Amazon can't lobby against that could force them to be more nice to their employees.
It wouldn't even be about colonization, because it would be infeasible to make a return trip or, unless communications technology changes (e.g. quantum entanglement magic), even phone home upon arrival. The only thing I can think of is survival of the species, survival and spread of life itself. It's not infeasible to believe that's how life on earth started - not as a spontaneous process, but a natural spread of life from elsewhere (panspermia) or a previous life form spreading the building blocks on purpose.

But life on earth has been going on for hundreds of millions of years so I don't think we'd find any traces of it.
Because blowing up weddings leads to dissatisfied voters, so politicians are less likely to do that very often.
Along the same lines you could argue that any book collection is being curated by writers, as it's the writers who decide what books are important enough to write.
And I will spend the weekend developing autoaiming gun battery that shoots the .22LR that needs to ground one of those birds and we are at stage 1.
Whether a group will be captured or not often depends on whose turn a given space becomes playable or not, and if there are enough moves in the game left for the group to weaken sufficiently. Both of these are very hard to predict, which gives the game a somewhat random feel.
Maybe YOU can.

Have you seen the Koch brothers?!
> GP wanted to watch BBC News in particular. I don’t think there’s any licensing issue with that, surely?

Ha! There's SO SO MUCH. More than you can imagine.
if they automatize too fast then people will call for UBI... that's my guess
This is very neat. I love that this is an on-device product, not a recurring bill service. There was a YC company that was doing the same thing, but with ridiculously expensive monthly pricing, that had a Launch HN thread here recently. To be frank, I like your execution and product/pricing choices better than theirs.
The Germans had access to a motor - always described in the manual but not available to the US.
The Venn diagram of people who have cruise missiles and people who have anti-missile defences is a circle. I think parent was talking about various guerrilla fighters/terrorists who have neither technology but still engage in conflicts with those that do.
Thanks again, I'm already using unique email addr just to be safe with Amazon and have prior experience with Lambda.

I'm currently in the process of validating my project and if there's enough need for reMarkable support I'll definitely use your project with due credits + donation(If my project makes any money).
The ability to get off and out. In practice this is already possible and many people's daily life.
Once you've knocked out all the enemy drones...

Then the enemy will build, or buy, more drones. Well-funded armies or terrorist groups don't lose because they run out of weapons.
STM, the Turkish company that makes the KARGU drone referenced in the article has a promotional video from 2018 showing the unit being demonstrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqv9yaPLhEk
> Humans aren't that logical.

I think they're perfectly logical. Superior force (in the context being discussed) makes you better at war, but not ruling.

Advances in military tech will probably reduce the overall bodycount of wars, but they don't solve the insurgency problem.
Amazon’s demand for warehouse picking and packing is highly seasonal, centered around the American holiday season. I think they do have robots, but it’s still cheaper to hire seasonal humans rather than have a bunch of expensive robots idle for 8 months of the year.

One of those dystopian facts that makes me feel some kinda way.
I think they are suggesting current usage is limited by political fallout due to the misidentification rate.

They hypothesize reducing the misidentification rate will increase the usage rate, ultimately killing more people (but fewer wedding parties)
I can't think of a single nation that wants to deal with the consequences of sinking a vessel with Chinese citizens on it. In all likelihood it won't lead to a shooting war but the CCP has so much power and influence that they could severely disrupt any nation's economy.
Easing starvation enabled more people to have offspring and that fact likely cause a swing in population which increased demand and use of fossil fuels.

The possible outcomes of a a runaway population living on a planet with a runaway climate are likely harder to predict than a simpler and smaller system.

I certainly do hope we can solve our problems with technology, but it will take concerted effort and unified attention to do so.
If they're accurate (or more accurate) then there's less resistance to using them more. They will be used to target an increasingly large number of people (or individuals) with a kind of specificity that present weapon systems cannot be used for and which impedes their use in some cases (because of the risk of collateral damage or the political fallout from a recent incident of bombing a wedding party).
They were better off because demand recovered in the aftermath - i.e. there was economic growth.

If there wasn't, then worker conditions would not have improved because there would not be more demand for goods then there was workers to make them.
Why? Amazon already has significant automation in their warehouses and Boston Dynamics has yet to find a significant market for thier products.
Weapons that have been successfully banned in the past typically had an alternative technology that it could be substituted with. I'm not sure you can say the same of lethal drones. In the case of Azerbaijan vs Armenia, the sum total of the fighter aircraft of BOTH nations combined is just 5. For poorer nations, drones represent a democratization of the battlefield; an extraordinarily cheap technology with a lot of firepower per dollar. I don't think these countries will be willing to give this up easily.
> If the astronaut jumps directly to the direction of the orbit normal at any velocity, it will end up in an orbit with equal period

That's obviously false for e.g. escape velocity, and by continuity also wrong for lower velocities.
I just went and repeated all my google searches from this morning, and the only knowledge cards that I got were from Wikipedia and the rest of the results were ads or the "blue links." I'm a little confused if the instant answers/knowledge cards refers to a larger piece of the results that blends in?
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at first glance it felt exploitative to me

Exploitative? Of who? The submitters?

I only ask because as both a submitter and content creator I have zero problem with anyone finding items through /newest and sharing them wherever they like, credit back to HN or not, and am unsure who benefits from dissuading this.
Eventually you'll probably need to take a piss.

Newtonian physics will take it from there.
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For a lot of illegal fishing it's not even neighbors' waters but waters of countries on the other side of the globe.
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The current title, “John Law and the Mississippi Bubble”, is more descriptive, if less mysterious.

A good read nevertheless.
That's the Extropian "Utility Fog" concept.

A more direct science fiction forerunner of this is Bruce Stirling's _Islands in the Net_ (1988). There is a scene where cheap explosive drone swarms are used in terror attacks.

And of course, there's the famous first line of _Count Zero_.

"They sent a Slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling for his rented BMW - Its core was a kilogram of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT."
The thing to remember is in a low earth orbit, your orbit has you moving around 8 kilometers per second. So even before we start getting to the counterintuitive parts (higher is slower, lower is faster, etc) take a moment and think about that 8km/s figure by itself.

Consider a token 1% of that amount: 80 m/s (~180 mph). Do you think your orbit has more than a 1% margin before your craft plunges into the atmosphere? (I certainly expect it does). Does this seem like a reasonable speed you could get to using your personal astronaut propulsion device? I don't actually know, but it certainly challenges my image of astronauts zooming around a space station at speeds that would make a kick-scooter look fast.
Which it's worth noting: happens in like, 20 minutes before you wake up.
I think you meant this link https://huggingface.co/transformers/
A lot of thought has gone into this area. I think the parameters of this simulation are too conservative, which is perhaps the point. Several issues:

1. Speeds are likely to be much higher. We largely rely on chemical propulsion plus gravity slingshots. For a sufficiently advanced civilization you're likely to concentrate a star's power to provide significant outward propulsion (and braking!) without the mass concerns of carrying reaction mass;

2. Once you've built one of those starships, it will likely continue on its journey after stopping at a new system to colonize and resupply. It's not clear to me if the simulation assumes this. Given the time frame of 1B years it seems not;

3. Stars in the Milky Way rotate at different speeds. Like in a few hundred thousand years we'll have a new closest neighbour for awhile. This potentially increases spread as the colonized systems drift further away extending their reach over time;

4. The simulation just looked like a collection of stars rather than, say, a spiral arm galaxy.

So a realistic timeline is closer to 10M years than 1B years.

I'm firmly in the camp that believes the speed of light is a hard limit. FTL drives and variants (eg wormholes) just seem to be wishful thinking by people who don't understand function domains (eg negative mass). Assuming that, a galaxy-spanning civilization is unlikely to be a civilization in the sense we understand it given that it might take you >1M years to cross from one side to the other.

That's not really a problem for detecting such civilizations as the source of detection isn't likely to be EM transmissions (as the SETI program began looking for). Instead, it's likely to be the IR signatures of Dyson swarms.

Short version: in space, the only way to cool down ultimately is to radiate that heat away into space. That radiation is completely dependent on the temperature of the object radiating heat. For any normal range temperature that's firmly in the IR range. So, if a star has a Dysown Swarm, it'll shine incredibly brightly as an IR source with a very low amount of visible light.

Can you spot one such star? Possibly not. But an entire galaxy? You're likely to be able to see that from 1M+ LY away, easily.

Given the small amount of time this would take to eventuate, in cosmological terms at least, the reason we haven't been able to detect any highly-advanced civilizations within our light cone is quite simple: there aren't any.
What are you saying? Our current drone strikes are plentifully precise and smart munitions are abundant.
I don't fully understand how there is real difference?

If you give a swarm of drones a kill zone and time limit, then they try them to kill every human in the area, how is that so different from MLRS salvo?

Cruise missiles are already slaughterbots. You just give them location and they kill everyone in that location.
According to this, up to the same 150% rate: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/29/fast-food-restaurants-in-ame...
To expand on this: the thing we want isn't immortality as it is possible in reality. What we actually want is the nature of reality to be different. We want our identity to be special, something that can be labeled as a mysterious "consciousness", but no such thing exists. It's a hard truth that almost no one is willing to face. The people making decisions about whether or not we commit atrocities to "others" should bother to face this reality first.
Printing LEGO is one of the modern improvements that they’ve implemented - it is substantially easier and cheaper to print an element than it was twenty years ago.
It's what tech companies already try to do recruiting fresh out of college and promoting their specific tech in highschool curriculia as well as just hoping to pad the future workforce. Not that different than the military and its ROTC programs in highschools.

Obviously, working at Amazon as an SDE or whatever isn't quite the same as signing up for the military but the recruitment strategy isn't all that different.
One of the reasons the attempted drone assassination of Maduro in 2018 failed was because police were using radio jammers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Caracas_drone_attack

It's fairly easy and cheap to make an explosive drone and train a neural network to drive it using off the shelf components and open source software. It follows that it's inevitable that at least semi-autonomous drones will be made to counter radio jamming.

So while the best outcome a treaty could hope for is to prevent mass manufacturing these things by some countries, any motivated small country/individual will be able to craft them.
What video services really want is for each user to be identifiable by IP address. This doesn't quite give them that, but it does region-lock them.
It should not be different, but it is. Strictness of punishment does not directly correlate to deterrence. However, laypeople don't know or care; they want their pound of flesh. The GP's list is very much laid out in priority order according to practical American policy, although it misses 0) profit for private prison operators.
They're not running out of people to employ, their product (working in an Amazon warehouse) sucks, the market knows it, and Amazon is stuck with the excess inventory. If they want to solve the problem, they can improve product/market fit.
I've heard Walmart warehouses are also incredibly bad to work in. They are just less adept at scaling micromanagement well. I'm sure they absolutely would push workers harder if they knew how. Their management is just as soulless as Amazon's.
Hence why it doesn't.
Why can't spell checkers correct “dissapear”?
I'm sure I'm not the only person who occasionally mistypes disappear as dissapear. But I have never ever seen a spell checker that can identify it correctly. The only offer I usually get is "dispensary".

They can correct the same pattern in similarly structured words - for instance they can correct dissapoint to disappoint. What is the issue with the word disappear?
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this is showing up as a malicious site.
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What do people usually do, just break it down and put all the bricks in one bag? I feel like it'd take even longer to do that than put it together...and then to put it back together when you have to sort through thousands of pieces?
It always has been scary to me to how weapons evolve over time. Even though they are (thank god) mostly not needed they still keep developing further to be more lethal and efficient just to be "prepared" to what might happen in the future.
I am talking about the usefulness of security theater on the margins. At a concert venue, and at a polling place, we can do things that, in the abstract, increase security, but provide little to no actual benefit and actually serve to make the process more difficult and unpleasant on the whole.

(Ignoring RSA tangent, making all concert-goers go through an X-Ray to screen for weapons and drugs would catch more weapons and drugs than the current pat down/bag check process does. It would undeniably increase the security of the venue, while slowing down entry, exposing concertgoers to X-Rays, and IMO providing more annoyance than actual extra security)

It seems that you think, for voting, that's a fine trade-off. I do not.

edit: not disagreeing that signed tickets would prevent fraud. Disagreeing that it would be worth, say, an additional $5 fee on the tickets, plus slower more expensive readers to verify that they're signed correctly, plus plus plus etc etc. My entire argument here is based on the net utility of additional security measures, not whether or not those measures provide additional security.
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The Amiga had a 68000 chip in it and dedicated graphics and audio hardware which enabled it to be quite a bit faster than the C64.
This looks cool! How did you find programming in Swift to be?

One small nitpick: the refresh button in light mode is a bit difficult to see due to low-contrast.
Immediately reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(Animal_Farm) , the horse in Orwell's analogy for Stalinism.
I didn’t read the post, just checked the comments. 23 out of 23 has negative tone.

A tech magnate raises the bar. Goes from ‘better’ to ‘save’. Technology is heaven, himself is a god. Perhaps should be better, for all of the humanity, to tone down this voice a little bit.

Otherwise it leads to idiocracy.
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Uh, are you asking why a site with that doesn't use cookies in a purely functional manner has a cookie banner?

In any case, it's the usual reason: they have google tracking, and it seems like they embed content from other sides the easy way. You too can learn the answer to the mystery of why there is a consent banner by clicking the "Privacy policy" button, this one actually explains it clearly, like it was supposed to be a model example or something.
I found this article to be excellent, unlike most commenters here, perhaps because I had not heard of the author before. Laying out how so many parts of the economy, health system, educational system, and entertainment industries used relatively new technology to keep on' running is a very interesting observation, and it is fascinating to see it all laid out in one concise piece like this.