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Every crypto thread has lots of crypto lovers and lots of crypto haters. If you only see the hater then you are probably a lover.
I can't write it here :)
Someone sees cryptocurrency as exactly what it is, and at some point in the future we will know who.

But in the interim, lets not compare crypto to some utopian world that doesn't actually exist. In the current world which we inhabit, the many major currencies are either controlled or heavily influenced by people who:

1) Believe prices constantly rising is good for poor people.

2) Advocate that governments can spend potentially an infinite amount without consequences because they control a printing press. And looking at the actions of, e.g. the US government, it is easy to suspect that the people who understand the nuance there aren't the ones in control of the money supply.

In such an environment, the crypto folk are reasonable. Even if in a perfect world they would clearly all be scammers.
Hacker News has a short delay before you can reply to a new comment. I think precisely to stop instant replies and give people a chance to think about it?

Anyway. There's a cute video out there I can't find now of a man trying to use gold in New York to buy something. Anything. The results indicate its use as a currency was questionable. (No one would accept it as payment.)
They have almost 0 community spread. A fact which many in the west respond to by saying that they’re faking their numbers, which completely ignores all of the counter measures they’ve taken. I have colleagues in China, and the Chinese lockdowns literally looked like a Zombie movie. It’s not surprising they were able to contain spread.
Do you mean "what's the problem with using the last available package of sourcetrail?"?
Nothing, I'm using it. eventually, in some timeframe, the compiled package will stop be installable in a new system, or the unrecognized language features will be too many, which is sad.
Thank you for your work. My 9 year old son has worn a Dexcom for the past 3 years (Medtronic prior to that) and it's a godsend to be able to pair it with Sugarmate.io so we get phone calls in the middle of the night if his BG goes low.
That newly freedom-thirsty middle class could be simply brutally suppressed by an automated police force, powered by AI-driven surveillance. The CCP is a long-term thinking government, I'm sure they are at least considering how it would work.
You don't have to bother with the second field, I think. Just enter into the first.
The same way we eliminated illegal drugs?
The words "dream" and "job" don't really go together. A job is a means to make a living, and thus always a compromise. It's a never the dream.
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Thanks for the question!

Where CodinGame and TopCoder are great platforms for competitive programming, solvable programming problems and short-form competitions, our longer-term focus is more on open-ended, ongoing sandbox simulations that evolve over time. We think this format will lend itself more to challenging real-world simulations and ML approaches (think self-driving cars, drones, and challenging games like StarCraft II).

While Kaggle is great for classification-type problems and even recently started running their own simulation competitions, we feel there's a lot of room for a platform that is 100% purpose-built for simulation-type competitions (e.g. better visualisers, Twitch streams, matchmaking).
It is a bit annoying that you assume that people critical of cryptocurrencies and specifically Bitcoin's environmental footprint are uneducated about the issues. It is not a myth. BTC's environmental footprint is preposterous. It's estimated that the network currently runs at 165 TWh/a, or around 19 GW, which means that one transaction uses around 5 GJ or 1500 kWh, and produces 800 kg of CO2, and 250 g of electronic waste.

For keeping track of a ledger that one dude in a basement with an Excel spreadsheet could keep track of, more or less.
Exactly. It's literally just burning the world's resources just for the modern equivalent of beanie babies

For those who genuinely want decentralised currency, there's so many more efficient options
Here's an interesting take on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFp86n7QCf0

This analysis suggests that the value of tracking every financial transaction will eventually cause governments to institute their own crypto currencies and eventually outlaw the use of independent crypto currencies.
China's central bank declares all cryptocurrency transactions illegal
Almost a third of the world’s trees are threatened with extinction
I believe that is the purpose of the xdg portals specification.

https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/portal-docs.htm...
Agreed! I finished it recently and it did a good job explaining how to make the memory palace really work instead of just explaining the technique.
Anyone who is alarmed by this law but not by vaccine passports able to explain why? Genuinely confused.
But there's so much work that just has to be done, whether anyone loves it or not. For that, I think reliable mediocrity is a fine objective.
> spraying the area with a bleach solution

Does that help?

I'm interested in any efforts to make playgrounds, dog parks, etc. safer.

Along the lines of choosing plants to reduce mosquitos.

Like perhaps there's a species of ground cover that kills parasites.

Or ticks avoid the needles from the crunchy pine tree (not a real thing, to avoid creating a false idea).

Or maybe there are fungi that break down poop faster.

Or....?
The whole point for criminals is that it allows pseudonymous (or anonymous, in the case of monero), and remote dealing of illegal goods and services. Especially across international borders.

Another use is tax evasion and money laundering.

Why is crypto any better than cash if users are forced to deal in person? I understand the argument of not having to carry around a duffel bag that could be seized. But nations can disrupt crypto markets on a global scale.

At the very least, they can make it difficult to exchange for actual, usable, local currency. Which appears to be what China is poised to do.
Monero and similar currencies are available for those interested.
Nonsense. Why would any sane person move a large part of their assets into something as volatile as crypto? If you want to protect yourself against inflation, buy real estate or equities if your time horizon is long enough. Even fixed income once rates are a bit better. But for the average person please stay clear of crypto!
But which one hasn't failed ?

All of Europe's have. All of Asia's have. The Euro is too new.

Only the dollar arguably has endured the last 150 years, depending on how you consider its three redefinition with the foundation of the Fed system, then Bretton Woods and then with the abandonment of the gold standard..
Oh, the old "EDuCaTE UrsElf" argument? I'm sorry, but Bitcoin's energy use doesn't even pass the smell test. If you're consuming ~1% of global power generation while providing only ~2% of world's narrow money, that's not very optimistic. The fact that its deflationary nature makes it unappealing for actual cash transactions should make it even worse should you go for transaction volume comparisons.
No wonder Google has so many messaging apps!

/snark
I don’t think 7 years of major OS upgrades and support is really a good example of planned obsolescence…
> A statement posted on the Central Bank’s website today says that “virtual currency does not have the same legal status as legal currency.”

China has "banned Bitcoin" dozens of times over the last decade. I mean, this is an ancient and well-known meme involving a certain South Park clip after all.

Maybe this time is for real, but all of these media announcements have one thing in common. They always conflate the concept of "legal tender" and "legality."

The number of authorities around the world who have warned citizens about Bitcoin using language like "no legal tender status" and "risky" and "no government guarantee" is legion. Easily thousands of times. Every time "journalists" with no business reporting on tech, law, or foreign governments interpret this as a "ban." 99% of the time, nothing happens and there is no ban.

So, maybe this time is different. Over the last year, an initiative toward greater centralized control seems to be underway in China's tech and finance sectors. Disappearing of wealthy founders. Restrictions on video game consumption. The three red lines. The ejection of the Chinese mining industry.

Then again, maybe not.
Bitcoin does, but it's not the only blockchain currency around. Some have more robust privacy guarantees. As far as I can tell, this rule in China bans those too.
This whataboutism while true is not really revelant here

Further do you believe I would agree with this cancellation

I do not, if a person is a danger to others they should be in prison, if they have deemed by the system to not be a danger thus are free to roam among us they should have all of their rights and privileges of a free person restored to them
I have to second this - the rampant layering violation that is ZFS has in my experience been extremely robust.

Maybe it's simply doing the "one coherent tool to manage large chunks of data and disks" thing well.
I, personally, would still pick AWS.
Butters fs!
I use flashcards to memorize things. Sometimes I use mnemonics to memorize flashcards. I used memory palace once, to memorize something for a Romanian language exam back in highschool.

Things that I memorize now: Bible verses (I've memorized all of Galatians and I'm working through Ephesians right now), a couple of important phone numbers, credit card number (I don't want to save the details on every website), and some programming concepts that I use on a roughly monthly basis - frequently enough to save time by memorizing, infrequently enough so that I can't memorize them purely by using them.
For China specifically, the reason to hate crypto currency is because it's a system where they don't have control. It's the same reason they are cracking down on the tech sector and Hong Kong. The CCP does not like having competitors for power or even something they don't have control over.
Not supporting the parent’s opinion, but here’s a well researched report on the topic:
https://nydig.com/bitcoin-net-zero/
Good, most USA thugs need to be bulldozed into mass graves.
This is bad idea, so you want your code to not looks like what's in the repo?
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Ah, sorry. I was thinking of desktop browsers that do have the feature (but I don’t think I’ve ever used it as, well, I hardly use bookmarks).
A keyboard does not a Linux phone make. All the Planet Computing phones are just Android phones with shitty Mediatek chipsets. Don't believe their marketing - their phones will never run mainline Linux, and maintenance of the proprietary kernel fork is abandoned the moment they release the next device.
Commies, all of them
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Crypto goes up, crypto goes down.

Panic/optimism/panic/whatever.

There’s nothing behind the price but pure sentiment.
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Clearly he thinks that investments in renewables are a good thing, since those would also "reduce the use of non-renewables in the wider energy grid". So I'm puzzled why you'd think what you just wrote.
I think that the point here is that this is anything but a "good faith bug".
Small-scale ETH mining on gaming GPUs does take place. But nothing like dystopian warehouses stacked with racks of hardware until the ceiling
There's some ongoing work on a LLVM whole-program backend for the MOS 6502, which can already compile some Rust code (discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28581812 ). If that's successful (it does require lots of new optimization passes to match the effectiveness of hand-written code), it would be quite easy to have a backend for the Z80 as well.
Speak for yourself, I use cash.
I wonder if anyone really thought
this whole 'defunding the police' idea through.
Not really

>The FileChooser portal allows sandboxed applications to ask the user for access to files outside the sandbox. The portal backend will present the user with a file chooser dialog.

In addition it being a dbus api for communicating outside a sandbox
In my opinion, everyone who's willing to pay for a good IDE is already subscribed to JetBrains. And since they have static analysis, excellent refactoring, and plenty of navigation aids for foreign source code, I never got frustrated enough to start DuckDuck-ing for another external tool that might help.

Accordingly, I believe that new developer tools are difficult to monetize because the established ones are already exceptionally good. There's no customer pain to alleviate.
Yes, assuming that anyone knows what this thing is seems a unbelievably optimistic.
Even Serenity OS has a feature complete file picker. Embarrassing.
One thing I always found curious is that Synology supports Btrfs.

Granted, they are not exactly what I'd call a company with a rock-solid track record, but they are still a rather large premium manufacturer in the NAS space.

It seems they have either managed to contain Btrfs' complexity and prevent users from doing the dangerous things, or their own hybrid raid was even worse, or they are just very risk friendly.
Can you provide a source for some previous crypto ban? AFAIK this is the first time they've made crypto transactions illegal.
I'm on board if charities* could somehow get in on the action and convince the bored rich to part with their money.

* Real charities, not those billionaire tax avoidance schemes.
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>> ...snooping on customer activity outside the company's own web site or app. This is what is meant by tracking and Apple doesn't do this in their ad service.

I'm sure Apple is going to offer exactly that, as the conversion-rate data of an Ad into an actual purchase elsewhere is where the big Ad-money is.
Apple will just do all that without handing off any data to another party, providing only the persona of an end-user to the Ad-customer.

Their dilemma is that doing this today at an "Apple-price" has limited competitive value to Advertisers.
But if Apple cripples the competition to become the ONLY company able to provide such data, they suddenly become a mandatory supplier for every Ad-campaign in the world, as only Apple will be able to provide effective Ad-analytics on iOS.

>> It seems like what Apple is doing is trying to cripple tracking for other ad services to make their own service more competitive.

Exactly. Which should be a strong sign that regulation is urgently required, but somehow people still are stuck on the wrong narrative.
Thinking back to the 10x developer discussions from a few days ago, the OP seems like an exemplar of one of the stereotypes (not necessarily bad or wrong): Very fast, very quickly frustrated, potentially not great at communication/politics.

The speed at which he puts things out just seems like a different planet to me. I've always been valued by my employers in concrete ways, so I'm pretty sure that I'm not a 0.1x developer, but both my skills and ambitions appear to be quite a bit more modest. That said, I was the only one keeping two teammates (one quite like the OP) from strangling each other, despite not being in a formal leadership role, so that's worth something. Anyway, it's fascinating to read something by someone with such a different brain.
Sometimes you just need the scalability. I work on a 2 programmer team making a data integration product. There's a whole lot of features, but one is that you can push a button and move like 10 years of ERP data from 1 system to another. This is done as a scalable microservice because running big migration can up our resources like 50X from baseline, and sometimes we're running 5 to 10 at once. Usually we're running 0. Between all services we utilize on average less than a gig of memory, but regularly allocate 10 or even 100s of gigs at once for short periods of time.
They are pretty practical; boot Linux or Android and a keyboard make them, for me, practical on the road Linux devices and phones. I have the pinephone which is miles from practical still but I like that it is a Linux phone so have to support it. We need more and different hardware like both of these to get adoption. At least we are allowed, from the very inception, to actually put Linux on them and that is already quite a think for 'modern' phones.
I suspect that without complete galvanic isolation (which would require a transformer in the power supply), you can’t avoid this phenomenon.

Although why you can avoid it probably depends on what country you’re in. But as a general rule it pretty tricky to get a true “zero volt” reference out of an AC socket. (You can’t know if the neutral is actually zero-volts, or just a different phase, or if a fault elsewhere has caused your neutral to drift slightly. Equally you can’t rely on the ground, because if you started leaking current down it, it would trip the ground current leak protector and turn your house off).

Which means the ground the power supply presents to the device is alway gonna be a little bit off.
> they are mostly powerless to control it.

What makes you think that? You do realise that they could easily outlaw 1) miners, 2) exchanges that convert to fiat, and 3) people privately exchanging to fiat, and (domestically) enforce that reasonably well, too.

And sure, there could still be an underground market - you can get still get weed and cocaine in China or Singapore, but I wouldn't recommend participating in it.
> Needless to say that its also technically impossible to ban crypto.

No one wants to ban crypto. The goal is to ban financial institutions that handle fiat from trading with institutions that handle crypto.

From there, if people want to accept funny money as payment for pizzas, it's up to them really.
I think a lot of people that like big government, people that tend to call themselves liberals, these people generally don't like (or even hate) crypto.

Maybe these people feel this way because they feel the government needs to protect people against themselves. Or maybe because they somehow fear central banks losing power and they feel central banks are needed in a monetary system. Or maybe they are concerned with the energy use for mining some crypto currencies (mainly Bitcoin).

On the other hand there's the libertarians that want as little government as possible. Libertarians tend to feel that people should be free to make their own choices as long as it doesn't harm other people. And that it's ok to make mistakes and learn from them and government doesn't need to protect people from mistakes.

I believe the tech sector has plenty of people on either side.

I myself am on the libertarian side and think crypto is a force of good. I do wonder if this crypto crackdown in China could somehow be related to the situation with Evergrande.
Governments want a healthy steelmaking industry so when the time comes to defend your country you can make guns and tanks. When your country is being invaded how useful is your bitcoin going to be?
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It's a no-brainer. Your solution worked under very specific circumstances, but what if those change? It's better to find out why it worked, so you can adjust it later.

Would I lose sleep over it? No. Nothing is worth that in IT. It's just a machine, and it's just a job.
Reminds me of Landscape Jasper.
If you care so much about climate change have you completely stopped flying? Have you been in a car lately? The energy consumption from those activities is _beyond unacceptable_.

I don't fly in airplanes but I use crypto. So why should you get to choose to do some activities that blast CO2 directly into the atmosphere but I can't? It is a disgusting, authoritarian ideology you have.

Besides that crypto can run on solar. Airplanes cannot. So I propose we ban airplanes. /s

The reality is you just don't like the politics behind the crypto movement. The climate is just a convenient bludgeon for you.
Realistically there are 3 unique connectors at the moment. Prior to USB-C (briefly at least) there were 2. I would love to just have one connector, but without going all liberterian, it hardly seems sensible to legislate which exact piece of technology that is.

The problem of 100 different phone chargers was resolved 10 years ago. There are actual problems in the world, that there are 2 types of bits of metal you shove in the back of your phone doesnt even rank on the list.
This is by far the biggest obstacle to mass adoption.
Do you have any evidence that Apple has been checking for these vulnerabilities in apps? I mean, if you tried now, sure, I'm guessing you'd get caught (or will be soon). But these have been around a long time.
I'd say so, but they don't count as free and open, and therefore do not count as trustable and secure.
Where did GP write "it just won't last forever"?
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That's incorrect, especially in the context of bitcoin given how concentrated early emissions were, which you mentioned. A years-long ico, or incentives paid to users, would serve the same function but without economic waste.
At the same time it's true that no l1 to date did that on any non-negligible scale, and starting now would take years.
It's simpler to simply require banks to provide transaction data.
Note, this isn't Dell specific - the loss of s3 sleep is coming from Intel and Microsoft. The idea is that S0ix is supposed to "replace" s3, but (at least on Linux) it's a horrible mess.

I have a System76/Clevo - ostensibly one of the better choices for running Linux - and S0ix at best drains like ~5% of my battery overnight, and at worst it doesn't work at all.

Some will quip that I shouldn't expect sleep to work on Linux anyway, but this defies my experience with S3 on Linux (which has "just worked" for the last decade for me) so this is a substantial downgrade.

Do yourself a favor and avoid Tiger Lake and newer if you care about reliable sleep.
I would call myself an extremely experienced and knowledgable C# programmer with 10+ years of experience and even I found a few things surprising or new in this guide. I think C# async/await implementation is the biggest con on the .NET community, because it gets constantly hailed as one of the easiest ways of async programming but this guide itself proves to me that there are so many gotchas which are not obvious at all that it's actually not that easy after all. When I compare this with goroutines I do sometimes wish .NET would have a Go like model instead.
That is a feature, not a bug.
Drugs are addictive which is why people continue to use them even when illegal. Why would people use illegal crypto? It was hard enough to use them as a currency when legal, them being illegal would make them mostly worthless to most people.
That depends on where you are. In the UK, while any debt can be paid in cash by law, there is no requirement for a business to refuse to accept cash for a purchase. There are some places that don't accept cash, some coffee shops, most cinemas: I guess that's more because they expect their staff to pilfer. Personally, I just don't use those places.
It does not.

Bitcoin (and it's successors) are a decentralized solution to the double spend problem. If "decentralized" is a requirement, then a cryptocurrency can be an excellent solution. Other known solutions (like "just trust everyone") don't scale well (an understatement!).

If "decentralized" is not a requirement then there are other solutions to the double-spend problem.
Your apologetics don’t work. iOS has had humongous user counts and growing market share in its largest market for over 10 years.

Source for historical market share: https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
Even bad people can do good things. It's not strange at all that we can applaud an action of an authoritarian regime. Xi is an evil dictator, but I think this particular action is positive for the world.