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You say the state already has the dollars, but it will need more as BTC flows into the country.

Does the state handle the conversion - ie I sell my BTC to the state and it imports the dollars? This is the part I don’t understand is what part brings in new dollars at a lower cost than Western Union.
So, where does "dirty" in a nuclear bomb come from? The left behind remnants of fission getting mixed into dust and dirt, then lofted up into the air by the force of the explosion and coming down later downwind- that's fallout, which is the "dirt."

Fusion leftover products are essentially fine, and if you explode your bomb high enough that it doesn't throw much dust and dirt into the air that also will limit your fallout (obviously burying deep under the ground also works, but that is generally impossible for a weapon, only matters for tests). One more thing to explain: a typical thermonuclear weapon is actually three stages: fission (the initial atomic bomb) which creates the high temperatures under which we can get fusion, which then gives off roughly an order of magnitude more of energy (second stage) which then hits a natural uranium tamper (third stage) which essentially doubles the amount of energy, at a cost of leaving a lot more fission left-overs around and making it much more dirty. (You can continue to stage indefinitely, but that makes the bomb bigger and less practicable.)

The largest weapon ever tested, the so called Czar Bomba, actually had it's third stage uranium replaced with lead, so its energy came all (~97%) from fusion, therefore it had very few fission by-products and was very very clean. This sort of weapon with no third stage tamper is also known as a Neutron Bomb- the so called 'clean bomb' that kills people (with the radiation from the fusion) but mostly leaves buildings intact, and has minimal fallout.

So why were neutron bombs scary? For most of the Cold War, when NATO ran exercises, they 'lost' within 2-9 days- where lost means that Soviet armored divisions started running free and unopposed. At which point it became a political question: can NATO use nuclear weapons to wipe away those divisions before they conquer everything? Will the German government allow NATO to use nuclear weapons on German soil- or will the rest of NATO overrule the German chancellors opposition?[1] A neutron bomb, which can kill everyone in a few kilometers with minimal fallout, might be a convincing argument in that situation, and that worried a lot of people about the potential for nuclear escalation.

In the post-Cold War context, it is widely believed that the most plausible first use of an American nuclear weapon would be to take out a 'hard' target- one buried deep underground that the US National Command Authority decided needed to be taken out for some reason. That sort of weapon will be extremely dirty, because it will of necessity be right up against the ground, kicking up a lot of dirt and dust and so would have a lot of fallout. Additionally, if you are trying to maximize blast-per-weight or blast-per-dollar, getting rid of that natural uranium tamper is really hard to justify, just to be a bit cleaner to the people who are receiving this weapon.

[1]: The first generation French SRBM, the Pluton, had a range of 17-120km, and was based in France- meaning it could only be used to nuke West Germany.
There are more words after the comma. There will be quibbling about the definition of "middleman".

Yes, bank transferral of money for basic things can often be free and very fast these days, but it wasn't when bitcoin was created, and cryptocurrency does more than just that nowadays too.

Both areas are constantly evolving, so comparisons are a bit fraught with bias.
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I hold a degree from a small, regional university and I am better for it IMO. That wasn't my point... I'm more curious where and what you can actually study.
I agree, though it seems reasonable to trial it at a small scale as soon as possible so we can gradually scale it up and understand these second and third order effects with minimal risk.
I don't think that is the case here but I have experienced the same.
>> When does "collapse" happen in principle? There's no clear answer.

It does not happen at all. There is no measurable distinction between a particle whose wave function has collapsed and one that hasn't. If there were a discernable difference the "spooky action at a distance" when an entangled pair is collapsed could be used for faster than light communication.

>> When one system measures another, there is no collapse, only entanglement.

This is the first time I've seen this explanation. To me it feels like an attempt at resolving the issue, but I think not.

The right answer AFAICT is that we must embrace non-locality. But that's still another sort of punt.
It says "CWE" a lot, but does not say what a "CWE" is. Anyone know?
So true. A 40 hour work week without school feels like you're on vacation. It's so weird when the clock turns 5pm and you're just done with work and have no further responsibilities.
That's called a capacitor. The theory is well-known and many different products exist. But they don't store as much energy as you would hope.
"I'd like to review the paperwork before signing". Usually when you start a new job you have to sign paperwork with the salary and other comp. It's totally reasonable to ask to review that before signing. It's also totally reasonable to go back to them afterwards and tell them you weren't happy with the offer after reviewing it.
Stanford offers tuition-free access to families that earn less than $150,000 per year.
I, on the other hand, would need to sacrifice a lot of convenience to be included in this "we"
The parent post is probably incorrect by making an absolute statement ("nobody [...] will get into Harvard tier schools"), but the odds are certainly stacked against them.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobilit...
Wait is that right? I thought charging a lithium battery was simply displacing electrons from cathode to anode, but the total number of electrons in the whole battery is conserved (and hence mass). Or is this converting that electric potential into an equivalent mass? Does this actually manifest as a difference on a scale?
Yeah, if I could go back and tell my 16 year old self not to do drugs and drop out of highschool because college is really, really expensive I would. I probably wouldn't listen though haha.

It's entirely your own doing if you don't get good grades IMO unless you have a legitimate disability. But some people were idiots when they were younger, or had other (questionable) priorities. I've also heard really sad life situations where teens wind up essentially having to take care of their siblings and the household due to dysfunctional parents or other stuff.

Because yeah, if your pubescent, immature brain decides that you have better things to do than schoolwork, you've really screwed the pooch and lost your shot.

Can't well go back to highschool and try over, haha.

(It worked out okay for me, I eventually got a GED and that's it. Never finished highschool or went to college, but programmed for fun as a kid and so managed to worm my way into software eventually. It probably would not have worked out in about a billion other scenarios, RIP)
I looked for other buyers before Apple had a bug bounty program, not while talking with Apple. When I found an official way of submitting the vulnerability I cancelled my other negotiations (Apple is the correct channel and I wanted to see it fixed without exploitation). Regarding bounty amounts, I agree that they should clearly define the amounts for each factor of a complete exploit. That currently isn't done. The one thing everyone can give Zerodium credit for is being clear with their pricing, there's no ambiguity over whether you can keep your lights on by doing the research.
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I agree completely. That wasn't my point and I hope it is useful for folks beyond climbing the Amazon ladder but knowing friends trying to escape driving a forklift in a warehouse any thing to help is better than nothing.
The laws around data are completely different, at least in the USA. In general, if someone else has "your" data, it's actually their data.
The amazing thing about PalmOS was how it managed performance by simply saving the state of any program when you exited it and resumed the state when you opened it again. There were of course exceptions for background audio playback, but Palm devices never became bogged down with too many open programs like Pocket PCs did.

They were also damn sexy: http://www.palminfocenter.com/images/TX_front_yahoo_S.jpg
Agreed. Volatility being profitable just incentives volatility. We usually combat this with regulation but that doesn't seem feasible here.

And as you say, that's the appeal anyway.
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It’s not an interview with Intel’s CEO. It’s an article about Intel seemingly informed by the CEO’s interview with a third party. It has lots of apparently TH commentary on Intel vs AMD vs Arm etc. So we should judge it on those terms and on those terms it’s incredibly one sided.
"Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.” - Oscar Wilde

Just as America has the bizarre situation of healthcare being tied to employment, we may end up in the same situation for education, where becoming an indentured servant for Amazon or Starbucks takes the place of what should be a public education service.
I worked a full time tech job from the start of my senior year of college all the way though my master's degree. All I can say is 'never again'. 20yo me was able to sort of handle it and I had to do a lot of schedule juggling (I was lucky that both my workplace and my university offered some degree of flexibility). Most of my workdays were booked back-to-back from 8 AM to 8 PM, failed a couple of classes and had to repeat a bunch of exams, it was pretty rough. The money was good but I didn't have the time to do anything with that. Looking back, It was a mistake, I had all the time in the world for a full time job after finishing college. This was happening before and during a recession so the main reason was that I was anxious I would be left out of the workforce if I left my job..
Ah, I can see why you'd think that, unfortunately it's not the right understanding in this context.

The definition of disinformation is:

> False information which is intended to mislead, especially propaganda issued by a government organization to a rival power or the media.

And the definition of misinformation is:

> False or inaccurate information, especially that which is deliberately intended to deceive.

As you can see, the definitions aren't relative to some other piece of information. It doesn't mean that some information is incorrect based on some other source of acknowledged correct information.

It means that the intent of the information you were given was to deceive and mislead you, and that the information was thus specifically crafted in a way to do so, generally by being false, inaccurate, cherry picked, fabricated, or manipulated in some way.

In this case, you can see that there are some wealthy people who want to propagate some information in order to mislead people, the deceiving part is that they are not transparent about who they are, and they want to make it look like the information is coming from influencers as part of their own volition, and that the belief is held by a lot of people through trying to manipulate the Twitter recommendations and trending algorithms, making it look like the content is more popular than it really is.

The validity of the content of the tweets doesn't even matter, the misinformation is in the misleading lineage of who is really behind the tweets and what their agenda is, and the false representation of how popular the content is.
Thanks for a very nuanced reply!

> Regulatory capture, paid-for ratings, revolving door appointments between finance companies and government

This is a very valid concern to have about traditional finance.

I'm just not convinced that the same structures won't emerge in DeFi sooner rather than later, and that in the regulatory vacuum in between a lot of retail investors will be left holding bags.
> The comments here are disheartening. I get it, a lot of people hate Amazon and that perfectly ok, but why can't we be happy when companies do nice things?

Because the benefit of the doubt is for people/companies who haven't repeatedly (some might even say enthusiastically) shown that they don't deserve it.

At this point, it's always safe to assume ulterior motives anytime Amazon does something that seems good.
Aha, wait for the next one. It contains the 2021 edition!
I replied to another comment of yours, but what's funny is that you're right about what you're saying in the wrong-est sense of the idea. Statistically speaking, normal people don't go to Harvard. However, being a normal person making that absolutely enormous leap happens a non-trivial amount of times (there are 328 million Americans out there after all.)

It's so funny how the tone of your comment completely changes the meaning. Your tone essentially says "normal people aren't good enough to get into elite schools" which is disgusting and classist. If your tone was slightly different, "normal people aren't often given the opportunity to go to these schools even if they deserve it" you would be saying the same thing (statistically, "normal" people aren't the norm at Harvard).

But, either way, I hate to break it to you... but us peons are just as intelligent, clever, interesting, and motivated as the social elite... we just happened to be born to poor parents by the grace of history and (bad) luck.
Yeah, he was super biased. For a number of reasons. I just kept it as a parenthetical because I think it’s fair to assume that they were relatively wealthy, more equal and powerful than their contemporaries, even if Aristotle is likely overstating the extent of these differences.
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> Supply Exceeds Demand

One of the reasons why NFTs are a huge scam.
Consider the John Wick movies instead, depending on your parental discretion.
The joke is that they probably have the same father and the emperor's mother wasn't faithful, basically the reverse of what the emperor was implying.
Sending the email and messages is what the user does.

Auto-sending all your photos to a server owned by someone else (and without end-to-end encryption!) by default cannot be described as "what happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone" in my opinion.
" I get it, a lot of people hate Amazon and that perfectly ok, but why can't we be happy when companies do nice things?"

I think we have touched the hot stove enough times to know that corporations don't act altruistically. If they do something "nice" it's because it benefits them.
After seeing how big of a hard-on business drones have for OpEx vs CapEx expenditures, I don't think the cloud is ever going away completely.

Like we have an entire cloud "revolution" (note the mocking quotes) because of a bullshit accounting rule!
Seems apt if you think that every time someone uses a transporter, they are really committing suicide with a new copy of themselves reconstituted elsewhere.
Thanks for the patient explanations! You could immerse the thing in insulating liquid, maybe inside a rubber pouch, would that not be enough?
The former doesn’t imply the latter.

I suspect one could think of QBism as a theory of rational belief for agents in a context where details of quantum mechanics are highly relevant.

Just as bayesianism is a theory of rational belief more generally.
> while attending a world class university

Most of us can't attend "world class universities", we're inherently inferior. The vast majority, actually. So bringing up elite schools in this conversation is both irrelevant and in many cases just self aggrandizing.

I don't know how you twisted what I said into the idea that people from FCs can't go to top schools, but the reality is almost none (and probably close to none) do.
Thanks for the feedback. The site uses Stripe Connect for the money transaction. It is fully integrated into the site and makes paying freelancers a snap.

Yes, at the moment, you can search by category, but I have not implemented filters yet.

As for sorting by difficulty, I'm not sure what you mean by that. Difficulty is very subjective. You can sort by payout and budget, which should correlate to how complex the project will be.
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what is "Front-Line" there's no front line at amazon. it's all distributed. I haven't read article FYI. That headline is funny.
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> carefully avoiding making the code too similar to what I happen to remember

Is this really necessary? The GPL allows you to read and study the software. Is it really copyright infringement if you take your understanding and make your own program? Are people really forced to come up with convoluted new ways to solve the same problem just to avoid any similarity to existing work?
This has been the case with any counter offer situation I've been in.

I didn't realize this wasn't being done everywhere.
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Carlo Rovelli's book Helgoland[1] is a short and accessible account of the various philosophical interpretations of quantum phenomena, along with their shortcomings. Highly recommended to anyone interested in the topic.

Rovelli is a proponent of what he calls the "relational interpretation" of QM, which basically states that particles only have properties when they interact with other systems (and may be better thought of as events than persistent objects). Entanglement is a general phenomenon that describes the relationship between two interacting systems and a third which hasn't interacted yet. Put another way, something can be real in relation to A but not to B. However, the correlation that entanglement guarantees ensures that previously isolated systems will see the same things if they do eventually intersect.

It's different from QBism because there is no special privileging of human observers; all physical systems exist in direct interaction with some systems, are in superpositions in relation to others, etc.

[1]: https://bookshop.org/books/helgoland-making-sense-of-the-qua...
I _personally_ had to return (free of charge) my FreeNAS Mini to have them fix this (well-known) issue.

Yes, this is a very well known issue, left sour taste.
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From the article - "Owens created a hypothetical attack that gave hackers access to the victim’s files. He said in an interview that it could have hypothetically allowed hackers to access corporate servers, if the target computer were used by a corporation."

Perhaps Owens is lying. Perhaps this is misleading reporting, or otherwise occluding something. But on the surface of it, it sounds like no user intervention required.
I'd hate to inflict us any further on the universe, to be honest.
Common Weakness Enumeration - like a public bug report related to security, which is not managed by the developers of the software / hardware.

https://cwe.mitre.org/
If I'm a hacker and I have an Apple 0-day, why the hell would I report it to Apple if I can quickly get a tidy payment on the black market?
I know exactly how to self-host - I ran Trac for years - which is why I keep all of my projects on GitHub now.

I know full well how much work it is to keep something like that maintained and secure and properly backed up.

I also know how many things can go wrong - including nasty things like missing billing emails when a credit card expires and losing the associated instance.

"GitHub, by default, writes five replicas of each repository across our three data centers to protect against failures at the server, rack, network, and data center levels" - I can't compete with that! https://github.blog/2021-03-16-improving-large-monorepo-perf...
Coming from a country where education is public by default it feels weird society relies on private companies to provide basics.

You still have what you "deserve", if you have done the effort to enter and work with a specific company you have free education, otherwise keep looking for better luck.

Yes, it is better than nothing but IMHO is another way to concentrate power.
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> I upvoted you just so that your ignorance

I upvoted because he's correct. There's a staggering amount of denial in this thread. Statistically (and recently https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/histor...) the trends remain unchanged for Ivy league schools. The competition is high and the prejudices are baked in.
> other blob-y, closed hardware like SSDs, network cards, radios.

Actually the ryf certification allows this kind of firmware if they are written in ROM; in such cases, they are considered part of the hardware. I understand the complaints about this stance but I know no other similar certification and I think that having non-replaceable firmware forces the vendors to include the minimum of logic inside it and be more careful, so I'm not entirely against it.

Ideally the source code of the firmware should be available. I try to vote with my wallet for that and encourage people to do the same.
Agree, wondering if we swap Amazon with some other no name company, would the responses be the same?
The provincial man is basically saying that his father did Augustus' mother.
Go into the Air Force or Navy, if you're just looking for the benefits. Absolutely do not go into the Army or Marines for that purpose.
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The plugin is potentially a derivative work of both Yosys and GHDL, but that's fine - it's possible to comply with the requirements of both the MIT license and the GPLv2 at the same time. The resulting work is GPLv2-licensed. (To be precise, you also need to preserve any copyright notices from the MIT-licensed project and the text of the MIT license. The MIT license has only one condition, but you do need to follow it, same as if you were building proprietary software with an MIT-licensed component.) If anyone distributes Yosys with the plugin, the combined work must also be distributed under GPLv2, which is also fine.

In this case, perf is (like the Linux kernel, in whose git tree it lives) GPLv2-only, and modern versions of libbfd are GPLv3-or-later, and it's not possible to comply with both at the same time. The GPLv2 has a "no additional restrictions" clause, and the GPLv3 asks for things the GPLv2 does not. So a distributor of a combined system including perf built against libbfd (like a Linux distro) cannot comply with the licenses.

(I suppose perf was written against the libbfd API back when libbfd was GPLv2, avoiding the question of whether perf is an illegal derivative work of libbfd. Or the backtracing API is de minimis, which means the source is fine but a compiled binary as par of a distro that also includes a modern libbfd is not.)

One possible answer here is to ask the perf authors to relicense under GPLv2 or later. Many years ago, at a startup that no longer exists, I wanted to reuse code from the Linux kernel "dm-verity" module in GRUB, which had moved to GPLv3, and I got a pretty quick answer from Red Hat (who was the only copyright holder for those files) saying that would be fine.