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100% Agree. Frankly, I think this article doesn't belong on HN in any shape or form.

It's just people shilling left and right to pretend that cryptocurrencies will be a thing. They aren't and the will never be, because they can't.

Cryptocurrencies will make few people rich, but most people, the ones too ashamed to admit it, will lose it all and then some.

Ask yourself: where does the money come from?

Answer: that lambo is paid with other people's money.

For every 'lambo driver', there are a thousand suckers who lost. And had to lose to pay for that lambo.

I write all of this because I think cryptocurrencies are asinine in every possible way. They play on every weakness humans may have and they undermine our environment and our societies, without anything in return.

And let's be totally honest about this: it was never about banking the unbanked. It was always about one thing, and one thing only: getting rich, no matter the consequences (for others).
Maybe for car paint that is correct. I am more into wood work and it is readily available at the regular paint store.
Etoile: A GNUStep-based Linux GUI written in Objective-C
Vaccines aren't 100% effective in the short and especially the long term. The article itself talks about planning for vaccine booster shots.
One of their remedies is to periodically ask for an update to any review posted. Am I the only one who no longer has any desire to act as an unpaid reviewer for every little thing I buy? And who gets annoyed that I get _reminders_ for not having posted my oh-so-important review?

Order pizza -> review the sales experience, the website, the delivery person, and of course the pizza itself.

Book a hotel room -> review the room, the hotel, the facilities, the breakfast, the surroundings, the transportation, the weather, the staff, ... bloody hell just stop it already!
No, because physics. Electric engines are twice more energy efficient than their ICE cousins.

Supersonic jets are 2-3 times less energy efficient than 'normal' jets, and all methods to make them carbon neutral can be applied to both modes of transport.
> However, there is one big elephant in the room: right now, there are a lot of platforms that do not fully support static linking because you have to dynamically link libc or other system interfaces. The only one I know of that supports static linking is Linux.

> The ironic thing is that operating systems only supported a stable syscall ABI, rather than requiring programs to dynamically link system libraries, they would have less problems with ABI breaks.

> With a statically-linked binary, you can copy it to another machine with a Linux that supports all of the needed syscalls, and it will just run.

I think this is a misunderstanding. With Linux there is a stable interface at the kernel boundary. Other OSes have their stable interfaces in user space. The difference is mostly irrelevant in this context. In one case you dynamically call into the kernel, in another case you dynamically link a user space library. Either way the code you're calling isn't static but the interface is.
The boom isn't from crossing the barrier; it's from being at that high speed. A plane traveling at Mach 1.5 cross-country will leave a boom at every point along its travel
I would prefer if Facebook and its properties withered away from disuse but regardless, if the new public squares are privately owned digital spaces, it is still important to maintain the principles of free speech. Disinformation as a weapon complicates things as well.
Am I the only one who is happy that Apple is taking away the right to repair?

From my experience, almost all third party iPhone repair shops are filled with untrustworthy people who disregards their ethics for such a little money.
Would you mind uploading them to the internet archive if they aren't too personal? I'm sure lots of people would get some insight from them.
Basically your post reads like this meme:

https://pics.me.me/we-should-improve-society-somewhat-yet-yo...
Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft are lobbying against climate change bill [pdf]
Are there any Linux distros that actually distribute (most) software as (mostly) static binaries? Right now, the only way to do it seems to be compiling everything myself...
Cheaper than Concord is not cheap in absolute terms.
The Disneyfication of Atomic Power
You don’t need to study non-ceos if you are trying to understand what a ceo is.
An alternative is to use coconut coir and keep it always wet. The problem is that you have to get rid of the runoff to avoid accumulation of salts as you add fertilizer to the water. This is not practical if you're watering every day unless you have special draining saucers.
I would strongly argue that Apple products last longer than any other products in the market.
(I don't feel I'm expressing myself well here, but bear with me:)

Something that tends to be underappreciated is the risk associated with contemporary mobile payments solutions. Both the individual and the local economy become incredibly reliant on a small number of private companies.

For more well-off individuals who can spread their risk ad easily switch providers, this is much less of a practical risk and therefore are likely to shrug off. They also tend to have access to providers with human support and better platforms.

Consider also that for multi-national providers, they become affected in new ways to foreign domestic and international policies and politics.

These are just some ways in which people become serfs, at real mercy of the whims and fate of politics and businesses.

Last week, thousands of people who had Coinbase accounts in Japan are now forced to close them due to them now only being available for Japanese citizens (as opposed to residents).

This is probably not more than an annoyance for most of those affected, but transfer that to migrant populations and mobile banking in Africa and things get dark pretty quickly.

Cryptocurrencies (when done in a way that liberates the user as opposed to being wrapped in centralized fintech) break this dynamic completely.
FYI: Russia has no extraditions
The resources available for this kind of work are limited, this is a new kind of x-ray that presumably has limited machines available and a high operating cost.

And I didn't say uninteresting. The authour of the letters purposefully removed the lines from the historical record for modesty's sake. It's similar to digging through a celebrity's trash to find salacious gossip.
Might be referring to the concept of a lifestyle business [0]

> A lifestyle business is a business set up and run by its founders primarily with the aim of sustaining a particular level of income and no more; or to provide a foundation from which to enjoy a particular lifestyle.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_business
Repeat until you're the most viable option.
Most people's introduction into finance usually isn't a casino
There's other groups of people who have access to money and tech but lack access to banking: persecuted people, financially ruined people or people with irregular documents.

1) persecuted: For example, a religious cult grew to require power in the government in Turkey, clashed with the official government and even tried a military coup and failed. Following the coup, those with direct involvement to the coup went to jail and anyone known to be associated with the cult lost access everything and even their bank accounts were closed(they had a regular Banking institution that was seized) and other banks often refused to open an account for those who were associated with the cult. As a result, they started using money transfer services that are not banks and keep to money in cash.

2) financially ruined: People who screwed up or got unlucky in something and lost everything. Many would work and do business outside of the official channels and as a result they don't want to keep the money in traditional institutions because the money can be blocked or seized due to their financial situation. Also, they won't be able to get any benefit of a bank, so all they need is a way to keep and transfer money.

3) irregulars: Those are usually immigrants who entered a country trough illegal ways or overstayed their visas. In most places, they wont be able to provide the documents to open a bank account or even get a TV subscription but they will be working and making money for many years until they sort out their situation. They will need ways to get payed and pay bills, rent etc.

Therefore, "unbanked" doesn't really mean too poor, many times it means "unserviceable clients". The "decentralised" aspect can actually mean no one is left out since the usreviceability of those people come from the central government in the region.
“Killing informants is cool”: how a Myanmar hipster became a guerrilla fighter
Housing Boss Earns $1M to Run Shelters Despite a Troubled Past
No. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_boom
This looks pretty neat. I assume you only beat the game when you use the computer you create to create a game where you build a CPU and assembly language from circuits?
How is the Afghanistan withdrawal and subsequent collapse of the propped up government anything but a US military and intelligence failure? #1 was badly organised, hurried and left many people behind to certain death ( translators and others who helped the US army). #2 came as a complete surprise to everyone.

The decision to withdraw wasn't a military one, but they didn't really do a good job at executing it. What better way to cap off the fiasco that was that war?
I, too, have played Crusader Kings 2.

And it’s a great educational source!
You are forgetting one thing: how the electricity is generated. Nuclear reactor is clean, hydro energy from waterfall in Norway is even better. Or a coal power plant in Germany. Electric engine might be super efficient. But at the end it could also be coal powered vehicle.
Maybe it depends, my experience was in the South of Portugal where you get a subsidy to plant olive trees (as an example). They get the big terraforming machines out and basically destroy complete hillsides and then plant the trees protected by 30cm high plastic tubes.

The only care I saw was done by a few farmers that would replant and generally remove the vegetation around them which is hard and noisy work with petrol bushcutters.

I also know someone whose plantation was burned down and he got a fine and had to replant because he forgot to notify the authorities.

These were the exceptions that stood out. There are thousands of hectares of destroyed and abandoned by the fraudulent ones. You can even see it from Google Earth.
link doesn't work mate. :)
Even today's airline industry is unsustainable and can only continue to function because it's heavily subsidised.

Fossil fuel for airplanes is tax-free and cheaper than petrol, e.g. $3.31/gal w/o taxes in California [0] vs. $2.06/gal (average) for jet fuel [1].

Using atmospheric carbon to generate fuel is significantly more expensive than that as even just capturing the CO² costs more than the crude oil used for jet fuel [2].

The claim of "carbon neutral fuel" basically rests on super optimistic assumptions already. The cost can only be competitive if a world-wide carbon tax on the order of $200/metric ton is implemented, which is very unrealistic.

[0] https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/transp...

[1] https://www.iata.org/en/publications/economics/fuel-monitor/

[2] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/carbon-en...
then again, this does not proof that others aren't doing it as well
This is interesting, 'cos Chromebooks started ARM then largely went x86. Current Chromebooks are more-or-less PCs, with slightly different boot loading; you can put x86 GNU/Linux on them if you want to. (Even Windows, if you're willing to mess with the BIOS.)

I expect these ARM chips will be pretty conventional - because the other thing Chromebooks do is run Android apps.
Can you suggest some historical mysteries that do not receive attention but should? It is my impression that the broad strokes of history are well covered so it is on this level that historical research now takes place.

The bonds between Swedish and French nobility during this time period are interesting. About twenty years after these events, one of Napoleon's marshals was offered the Swedish crown and became king of Sweden.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72

We still don't know what went wrong there.
If this succeeds, it won't just be for rich people. Anything technological goes down in price over time. And there are huge benefits to modes of affordable travel become faster, which the article details.
How do NoSQL / graph databases support foreign keys or joins? Do they have the concept of referential integrity?

The point of a DBMS is to do this for you, via the SQL table declarations. AIUI, NoSQL / graph databases cannot do this at the system level and needs to be done by an application-level framework.
Lisp will blow your mind.
I'm distributing my code as a bootable USB drive.
I hope "well fed" was an intentional pun!
Americans used to be involved in making things to a greater degree. When half the town worked for Holley making carburetors, everybody knew what it meant when some part came up short; or Ford shut down a line and cancelled the order that was going to be everyone's Christmas bonus.

I know artists who are having trouble sourcing materials and having to find substitutes. I'd guess 95% of these people will not be able to make the leap from "i cant buy the thing I need" to "i have to make the thing i need".
To be fair to the Soviets, killing or starving millions of people, mostly in rural areas for the latter, certainly helps with increasing literacy on its own ( less illiterate peasants to dilute the stats).
Hey man it's that or Thunderdome.
The scientific process is interesting, and I don't object to it's use on Egyptian papyrus or the Dead Sea Scrolls.

I find it unlikely anyone was expecting to find some revelatory details in the letters between Marie Antoinette and her alleged lover. They just wanted to know more about her intimate affairs.
Senator speaking from his yacht: “we need to tax the rich”
"Nobody knows" is too simplistic a take. Nobody knows when they don't know anymore is more accurate.

A better way to describe the situation is that most mainstream established macroeconomic theories/models work only conditionally. They match reality accurately only in certain periods, on the condition that myriad of other factors doesn't become important. Over time, some excluded variables become important. The explanatory power of the old model erodes. When the theory is finalized and explains the situation for the era it was created, it may be already outdated.

Inflation expectations theory works reasonably well for fast growth, increasing labor force industrial era. It's not so good in 2% annual GPD growth, aging or slowly growing labor force era.

The new school of economists thinks that that inflation is not likely to be a long-term problem. Fed will be back in trying to get inflation up in 1-2 years. Old school economists who look at the older models and data from 50-90s think that expectations will keep inflation going once it starts.
Despite benefiting tremendously from crpyto, I don’t believe this narrative.

The article mentions the core problem: being your own bank is a HUGE risk. I can accept that risk and deal with complex security mechanisms I have to maintain to both protect my own bank and keep it accessible. But a good security guide for crypto is 20-30 pages and requires serious cryptographic understanding. Currently, I can’t expect that from average users.

Everything can be solved over time. Social recovery wallets and user-friendly hardware might become mainstream. But I don’t see that happening in the next 5-6 years, and I fully expect CBDCs to be far along in that time. Then, countries will be a lot less motivated to promote crypto for the unbanked.
Built-In Functions – Python
"$3bn was spent developing an aircraft they hoped would be the next generation of flight"

When we compare money spent on development, commercial projects will always win because they get to offload infrastructure, prerequisites and fundamental research onto the government.

The first iPhone offered navigation but didn't have to foot the bill for GPS satellites. In the advent of personal car, car companies didn't pay for highways (but train companies do).

The current crop of Fusion start-ups are benefiting from decades of research, and training spend on scientists - they would have no-one to hire!
i assumed as much given one is made for gamers and the other for corporates.
Electric Jet Engines Could Mean Carbon-Neutral Air Travel
The fact that Go has gained so much adoption probably justifies that investment. They are completely different languages and much of it is personal preference.
Given the idea of Division of Labor[1] attacking anyone for lacking knowledge seems quite silly. Who can know more than a tiny fraction of what's in play?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_labour
> house prices to income ratios are much worse

But what about cost of housing -- interest rates are much lower, does that offset the costs?
JVM is a double edged sword when it comes to Clojure. JVM makes it possible to run on different environments, yet on the other hand it is constrained by the underlying semantics that JVM supports.

It is the latter aspect that has discouraged me from adopting Clojure for my projects.
As usual, here on HN, any time something is posted that relates to cryptocurrencies the discussion gets filled with negativity and even, seemingly unprovoked, outright hostility toward the idea. Overall HN (in my opinion) has a very good quality of discussion and I often read the comments before opening a link or even just for the sake of it. Nevertheless when it comes to cryptocurrencies that assumption goes out the window and I'm bound to see overly negative attitude to the point of irrationality. It's surprising to me how, out of all the places, HN would be the one where that's the case.
I wonder if anyone has any theories on why that is? I dare to assume that it's not just my ignorance of some fundamental, unrecoverable flaw in the concept itself that motivates some to speak against it with such certainty. It might be partly a lack of understanding of the multitude of available options (and even those not yet conceived) and how different - "cryptos" can be from each other but I don't understand how that would translate to people writing unprovoked, unsubstantiated claims or even just unrelated but unhelpful, overly negative remarks. Is it some negative experience someone had that traumatized them? Why HN has this problem?
I doubt it, they picked the letters between Marie Antoinette and her alleged lover for a reason.
Also https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments
""Static Linking Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful:

This is the blog version of Re: Re: Fwd: Re: in email and has to stop here.

See also https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
I experienced the “both side options get more valuable in extreme volatility” in GME. A day into the first large runup, I bought put options (betting against the runup continuing).

I was dead-wrong and made money anyway as the increased volatility over the next several days made my options worth more even though they were now even farther out of the money. Sold all but one contract at an overall profit and kept the one losing contract as a reminder to watch it crash to zero at expiration as a lesson in hubris.
I’ve tried both blumat and arduino style watering, in the end the water can is the simplest and most reliable. Sometimes technology doesn’t enhance things e.g. the soil moisture sensor gets wet, doesn’t give good readings, hard to calibrate etc. Blumats are very sensitive to tuning mistakes, can dump gallons on a plant in a few hours and don’t distribute the water well but only water one small spot
Thanks a lot for the shared resources. I'll try working on the tips provided there :)
"I assume Boom will be owning the global IP on the carbon neutral fuel"

How would they come to posses it? I don't think it's patentable given the breadth of the topic and amount of research already published.
Sometimes I wonder if anyone studied to which extent modern business practices resemble communist practices. Both have multi year plans, closed door high level commities deciding things, sometimes Byzantine politics... The main difference is, it seems, modern business doesn't completely ignore customers. And we now have the tools to make those large, multi year plans work.
It was a failure in the oauth implementation in coinbase I like the way shills don’t even try to justify their untrue stances. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
On and off ramps are predicated on the necessity to transfer fiat into and out of crypto. This (some would argue) is just an intermediary state before _everything_ is crypto. In El Salvador, there is no need to off-ramp fiat into BTC...
For those who could not immediately interpret the number in the title (before reading the article): the vaccinated in Portugal are 88% of the total population, and 98% of those eligible (principally owing to age).
Modern Treasury (YC S18) is hiring engineers (SF, NYC, remote)
Thanks for the tip.

The question now would be: How do I figure out what exact phrases are my potential customers looking for? I've tried using google trends but unfortunately there is "not sufficient data", I presume it is because my problematic might be too specific?

Any tips?
"Fossil fuel for airplanes is tax-free and cheaper than petrol, e.g. $3.31/gal w/o taxes in California [0] vs. $2.06/gal (average) for jet fuel [1]."

This is total insanity, why are we doing this
Thank you, I agree!

I don't think you can enforce a constraint on which nodes are supposed to have which edges, etc.

I'm curious: is there a reason why you're putting NoSQL and graph databases into the same bucket, other than them both having the aforementioned limitation?
Exactly, which means the carbon neutrality claim is just PR...
How about places where there are no first party iPhone repair shops? There are aplenty of those.
To be clear, that's your (somewhat cynical) opinion of what their job is. I assume that you think Fed is cynical and sinister organization.

Their offical job description is. "maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates." (aka the so called dual mandate).
I think programs in /bin used to be usually statically linked. When updating the glibc for instance, this makes the change far more doable. In general dealing with static binaries is much less pain, especially when they haven't been compiled locally/by the distributor for this particular version of the distribution.