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> Monad tutorials are hard to understand because nobody actually wants to tell you what a monad is, because that would defeat elitist thinking.

Tutorials aren't for telling you what a thing is but for developing an intuition around why, in practical terms, it is. Telling you what a monad is is easy, brief, and fully handled by the typeclass definition and monad laws. But a tutorial which just presented them, while perfectly accurate at telling what a monad is, would be a crap tutorial.

> A monad is just a very concise definition of a List

Its not, because monads are much broader than lists, and the definition of a monad is less concise than that of a list. So its pretty much exactly not that.

That monads encapsulate something like your vague concept of “listiness” in some sense is usually part of tutorials, because its a useful fuzzy intuitive handle. But its not alone sufficient to develop enough understanding to use, any more than the definition and laws are, so tutorials need to, and do, present more.

They tend to suck because monads are a very abstract concept, and one which doesn't closely correspond to thing people tend to have a good concept of outside of people versed in category theory (I assume, not being one of those people I can't say for sure.) But the high level of abstraction is why they are useful, because they capture related parts of behavior of things that intuitively don’t seem very similar.
I have never had "bugs" from my bank or money that suddenly got stole / removed from my account. Yet in crypto land this seems to be daily news.

Far too much trust and too little control in systems like DeFi. It all sounds wonderful in theory but we fail to see the big impacts of human errors.
The tone of the original comment suggests that Iceland is in some dire situation with respect to covid, that the vaccine's effectiveness is questionable, and that the vaccine specifically hasn't prevented deaths. This couldn't be further from the truth.

Yes, tone matters. Tone that sends the message that vaccines aren't effective, as the original poster's tone suggests, is misinformation.
That isn't offline first though: desktop software like that is generally offline only, and the user wraps their own chosen sync method (which could simply be good ol' sneaker-net or frizby-net) around that if they want/need to.

Offline first is only used in the context of web applications and sometimes their Android/iOS cousins (which probably share the same backend, where both are available), once the decision had been made that a not-locally-installed and/or remote synced application is desirable where possible, so isn't being suggested (directly) as an alternative to locally installed offline programs.
“Listening to people while they tell you what they’re thinking” is not normally classified as mind reading.
I saw a documentary once covering a similar incident in Europe affecting the Celts. There was a period were high quality iron ore showed up for a while in weapons, settlements vanished and the term "heaven falls on our heads" came up first. Also some geological analysis done. The conclusion was a Tonguske style event.
Facebook as a technology is inherently damaging, it's not just the users who make up the platforms. How many senate hearings do they need...lol
In that case, the nationalisation in that context is to apply brakes - sure those brakes are broken already and so wouldn't prevent a collapse - but its intention is to allow Bank of England's and UK government's protection schemes to be applied with as minimal loss to the taxpayers' and other banks' customers' money as possible. In this case, it limited the run to only the original bank (unlike 19th and early 20th-century bank runs resulting runs in other unrelated banks). Unfortunately, if your a customer of Northern Rock, it sucks so bad.
> How do rich people make money in the stock market if it's a "scam?"

Definitions:

scam (verb): to obtain (something, such as money) by a scam

scam (noun): a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation

together: to obtain (something, such as money) by a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation

Rich/powerful people obtain money and influence by fraudulent or deceptive operations, via the stock markets, from less powerful people, by convincing them that they should participate in said market, either as small investors or indirectly by having their banks, insurance, and pension invest into the stock market.

The rules, and conditions on the stock market are in such a way that they reward power and wealth with further power and wealth. E.g. being able to invest into better locations, infrastructure and connections for HFT, being able to hire better analysts and more mathematicians, invest into satellite data and machine learning to track cars in parking lots to estimate the results of earnings calls, pay lawyers and lobbyists to change influence politics and change laws.
I apologise in advance, but if necessary, will fight to the death in defense of Colman's being used on almost any occasion, whilst other imposters hunch quivering on the sidelines drooling at low hanging vittles. But as does Norris of Chuck look upward to Schneier of Bruce for inspiration and permission, Colman's looks to a proper habanero mustard for hope in a lonely world of vinegar tainted dribblings. Good on all occasions that don't involve zippers.

Edited: remove "e" from previous "Col[e]man's. Please pardon me for opening a potential Mustard in the Middle (MItM) vector.
Mia culpa.... I was thinking locally as a US citizen. I can't really speak for what's happened in other places but appreciate the context. Thanks.
Link IRS funding to defense and police funding. When those increase, IRS funding must be increased by the same %
> I fail sometimes following that rule and I don't deny it.

We all have different definitions of being a jerk. So, do you take responsibility when you’ve crossed your own line, or when you’ve crossed someone else’s line?
This reminds me of Netflix vs blockbuster.
I see Solidity as statically-typed JS flavour. Knowing all the gotchas, I think it deserves to be called the JS of DeFi. When you write code in it, it feels like walking on a minefield. Except when things go wrong, your frontend won't crash, but you'll lose yours or someone else's money.

Not to mention, you have all sorts of people trying to exploit your code - draining smart contracts from money is a great incentive for black hats.

So it's even worse than JS in some aspects (not just the language itself, but the platform it is tied to).

EDIT: see https://ethernaut.openzeppelin.com/
There's two types of gender-neutral nouns in German being used:

- apprehending markers like -*in, -_in, -In [1]

- forming a gerund from a verb describing the activity

e.g. the word "Bäcker" - engl. "baker" - could be written as "Bäcker*in" or "Backende" (from "backen", the verb), depending on the speaker. Note that the gerund form eliminates conveying info about gender, unlike an "universal" marker like *in.

[1] for plural forms, those are expanded to -*innen, -_innen and -Innen
This is the second crypto startup this week I've seen cost people a lot of money. The other was a startup destroying a bunch of NFTs that got produced in a hack. Catch was, these tokens had already been bought and sold.

Cavalier stuff like this will absolutely get you regulated. The draw of crypto is supposed to be immunity from this sort of thing, but the frequently amature execution of the products leaves end users often more vulnerable to attack than had they shoved their money in Bank of Your Nation. Banks invest eye-wateringly large sums of money every year in security. Crypto startups are just unable to match this level of security analysis and testing.
I have the same problem, was hoping the end would tell me what to do once I discover that it is actually moles.

I’m finishing setting up a rig with Frigate for object detection but one thing it lacks is many common animals (although if a zebra ever shows up in my yard…). Maybe as a weekend project I’ll figure out a way to integrate MegaDetector.
Attaching a motion sensor and a camera to a rasberry pi is a little hey ho. But the Microsoft megadetector machine learning software to distinguish between motion by an animal rather than say a leaf is quite interesting. No doubt soon to be wrapped in an app for the rest of us...
I guess the real question is why the fuck are management courses still founded in Taylorism?

Taylorism was known to only work on short interventions at the time it was created, and it's known to create all sorts of problems (one being absolutely demotivating everybody).
Linux teams also sucks
> ownership of cryptocurrency (PoS)

The problem is that PoS commitment isn’t binding. You can always stake your money, then if you don’t like the outcome, you can just pretend the first stake never happened and do it again. Cf “grinding” attack. PoW is unique in that any claimed commitment corresponds to a real, physical, irrevertable commitment.

> or storage space as that rare resource.

Every storage coin so far has been some sort of DINO scam. The most interesting one is Chia but it’s absurdly complicated, and I think that complication might mask some centralization/vulnerability. For example, the reliance on “time lord” nodes strikes me as very questionable.
My naive answers:

> And how do politicians use the stock market to take money from anyone?

Insider knowledge.

> How do rich people make money in the stock market if it's a "scam?"

They have an army of traders and their job is to buy and sell non stop, taking advantage of smaller players who think the game is fair, until a profit appears.

> What about index funds, which usually have proven returns and require no special knowledge?

Why don't everyone buy into index funds then (genuine question) ?
If they can afford a CEO that makes millions, the fact that they don't make a ton of profit (this is rhetorical: They definitely do) is immaterial: The margins could be thinner, the workers could be better paid.
Most things in life are a tradeoff.

You can't just get rid of 100% of bad things about regulation and keep 100% of the good things about regulations. It reminds me of people who start open relationships. The upside sounds great, but there is a huge potential for downside and you may not fully appreciate that until it happens.
Aot in a way right ?
At first I thought the same thing. But think about it a little more and it's not that simple... (which is why I think others downvoted you).
I was the original author of the Pycon Canada Articles of Association back when we were starting it, which included a section on conduct and inclusivity.

A code of conduct is not there to protect powerful people. It's not there to browbeat people into being absolutely politically correct 100% of the time either.

A code of conduct is something you put together so that everyone involved in the initial organization look at it once, and say "yep, I'm dealing with reasonable people here" and 99.999% of the time you don't have to look at it again because you've established from the start the type of people you're dealing with and they attract others that share the values.

Then once in a blue moon someone does something awful and you pull it out and kick them out.

Pete Forde was pretty "powerful" in the Ruby community and I don't exactly see him leading conferences or introducing people to Tobi anymore.
HNews people - multiple, lengthy comments here claim that "due to competitive pressures" the "total energy used to mine will be the same" no matter how hashes are calculated.

The challenge problem in BTC is to find a number below a threshhold that fits a pattern. The threshhold changes in a two week regime. Finding the number is not prescribed, only the threshhold. Where is the required energy use here?

Please illuminate
The difference between most[1] NFTs and Netflix/Steam/Apps is with the latter, you are buying access to something. With most of these NFTs that are just a picture, owning the NFT doesn't confer any special right to you. We can all enjoy the Disaster Girl meme, you don't have to have bought the NFT. The owner of the first ever tweet cannot actually do anything with it, edit it, destroy it, put it in a private collection so only they can look at it.

The only thing buying one of these NFTs gives you is I guess "bragging rights" but I think it remains to be seen why anyone should care that you paid money for 0x3B3ee1931Dc30C1957379FAc9aba94D1C48a5405,25046.

[1] The only exception is maybe these NFTs that interact with something on the blockchain like an item or place in a videogame, in that case owning the NFT provides some sort of utility.
You can't get Rich with a capital R through safe, traditional investing working even a SWE job.

You can get upper-class rich, seven figures rich, comfortable house, vacation home, early retirement rich, but you can't get Private Jet Rich, Masters of the Universe Rich, Look At Me Rich.

If you want to be Rich you need to to resort to something like playing the lottery, or starting a unicorn startup, or exploiting large numbers of people for your own profit, or crazy "technically it's not a pyramid" schemes like crypto and DeFi.
if i were them i would rather invest it and return later w/ interest
Woah man, do you expose your SingletonStrategyFactory-s to the public? That's risky API design, I would recommend you at least put it behind a Manager, or ideally a ManagerDependencyFactory.
WordPress makes it easy to set up a blog. But then it requires updates to Wordpress and associated files and system files.
Gotcha. I've been into cryptocurrencies for a long time, but I've been feeling like a bit of a luddite when it comes to NFTs, or like most people who call crypto a ponzi scheme (some coins pretty much are, but not all), and that probably means I'm missing something.

I know where to go to find good information about crypto, but not NFTs.
> Penrose's "Emperor's New Mind" also discusses this topic at length (within the context of whether human brains can be emulated). I wasn't convinced with his argument regarding AI but his overview of the problem of what's computable and what's not is rather good if a bit dense.

As far as I'm aware physics is computable, so I don't buy that one. :)

At most one might argue that there are high-level optimizations to be had, which can't be used because they're uncomputable. In which case is it really an optimization?
I like native comp (and major kudos to the devs) but my poor ThinkPad x201 smokes after large ELC cache update.
What kind of normal person wants to pay more for gas, especially when most of the population isn't in the upper income bracket in the US and mismanagement of tax funds is so common? I can't imagine why a teenage mother or person struggling with minimum wage desiring these extra costs or more taxes. The usage of the taxes is big issue, it is likely to just be pocketed by the politicians or as subsidies for large corporations that will have a disproportionate pollution effect.
Taxes should be properly utilized and be proven through proof or as a fund like social security for the environment, rather than pay more for less and let them decide how to use the money if even its implimented. Nothing stops them from subsidizing gas companies with the taxes.
The market is hot, and because companies are hiring so much,they now have to rely on people (engineers) who in the past didn't have to conduct interviews; people who are not particular skilled in, or hired for their knowledge of conducting interviews. Hiring is one of those things that scales poorly.
This was my primary way of accessing the web in the early 2000’s. Juno was a free dialup email service and that’s all I had access to.
Correct. This is equivalent to you paying your bills early. Sure, it sucks to be stuck in a money crunch if you found it out later, but your financial mismanagement doesn't automatically mean that the you have the right to ask your utilities to return the money.
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> How big are the operating margins for major ISPs nowadays?

In 2020, KT: 1.18 trillion KRW (1.00bn USD), SKT: 1.34 trillion KRW (1.13bn USD), LG U+: 886 billion KRW (749m USD). Their revenues range from 10 to 25 trillion KRW for the reference.
> Just like casinos in Las Vegas

It has nothing to do with a cassino. It's not a zero sum game. It generates value from profits, it makes the general market more liquid, pricing assets. Not everybody is day/swing trading with futures.

> rich people taking money from poor people

That's a pretty strong affirmation, do you have sources with backtests? otherwise, well, it's enough to have 01 consistent counter-example. Of course, if you day trade, you'll give your money to whoever knew how to properly price an asset first. But that's just being unwise.

The article bases its theses on the fact that there is insider trading - and its variations - which is a failure on the judicial system, not markets in general .
> many European countries

Not two of the most wealthy ones I know, so I must ask: Which ones?
Because you have a headset strapped to you providing metrics indicating you are not wearing it. Because your work is now tracking your eye movements and they know you aren't focused in the way that the latest ai produced productivity metrics associate with the 2-4% gain they want this quarter.
The conversation in the PR makes me feel like its author thinks the whole world is California and every single computer user knows what Californian laws are.

What a chauvinistic little bigot he must be.
I think part the above person's complaint may stem from what happened a few years ago, which is that a decent number of businesses had their taxes reduced and simply used the extra money to do stock buybacks instead of improve or expand the company, increase pay, etc.

Now that said, stock buybacks on their own are not necessarily a "bad" thing, and if a company has no uses for a bunch of cash on hand then giving it to shareholders via buybacks can make sense rather than hold on to it. But I do think it's a fair complaint that if we're "giving" a company money in the form of tax breaks and they're using it to do stock buybacks (effectively saying they have no real use for it, as you mentioned) then it's unclear the tax breaks are actually useful to begin with. If they weren't allowed to use that money to do stock buybacks then they would have had to find some other use in the company for it (though in reality, since budgets are pretty flexible it wouldn't be too hard to get around that kind of requirement...)
> Little need for monads to do this:

What do you think >>= is? It is the piece unique to Monads.

So your “little need for monads” example shows the opposite.
Considering what it was created for Solidity is a very poorly designed language. It has many foot guns and unsafe defaults.

I really hope something much better replaces it. DeFi has so much potential but running on Solidity makes it high risk.
I'm going to be that guy: They say it is good to see others or they say what is expected of them? Is like the conversation yesterday about leaving interviews. You don't say Person was is shit and an asshole but you say a better opportunity came up. Heck, even during job interviews, you don't answer 'why work here' with 'money' but 'looking for a new challenge, or interesting work or whatnot'
Let's not forget the poor security in most of its themes, plugins etc.

The bloat it wastes generating a page and all the damage that does for the environment (I'm looking at you who use Wordpress to create one page static websites!)

Let's not forget the absoluetly shocking codebase

Let's not forget the hack on a hack on a hack for BC since 2005!

Lots more to list but the fanboys will already be crying with this little list!
In my opinion, investing money into yourself in the form of tools and learning will always yield the best ROI. But obviously, that's a lot less sexy than the hope of one day retiring because you have so much "passive income". It's just that most examples for "passive income" aren't that passive, e.g. all those people advocating SaaS and Apps as a lifestyle business.
They are sending the trucks out of their shop…
> why am I paying for bandwidth on AWS? Shouldn't that be paid for by the downloading party?

you're paying for it because it costs money to provide bandwidth on both ends, and AWS is just shunting the cost onto you itemized.

Netflix, believe it or not, also charges for the bandwidth it uses, but it hides it unitemized into the subscription fee, and in sufficient quantities that when averaged across all it's subscribers, they come out at least breakeven.
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No, Crystal is a separate community and thus has a separate CoC.
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Hm yes, my perspective is probably quite non-representative. Thank you for the insight!
Yup, I did say I didn't agree, just laying out what I assumed was the thinking.
Daily standups, weekly retros and weekly 1-on-1:s. Those are the ones that bother me the most, the micromanagement around planning, I can deal with. But the creepiness of these other vague "Hey, I'm your friend, we can just talk" type of meetings are too much for me. And this trap of "giving feedback" and whenever you do, you get punished and marked for no promotion, immediately, it's just loyalty checks masked as something else "this meeting is for you" uhmm, can I just go back to work please?
Used to think it was the PS5's SSD that was the game-changer. Allowing for in-engine cut sequences seamlessly meshing into gameplay. But now I think it may be the 10 Teraflops Navi GPU that devs will seek to unleash ;)
Yes you can use it directly as a service with your own authentication. There is no Authzed account required.

The docs are built around the idea of using Authzed.com, the hosted SpiceDB solution for protecting your first app. We will try to put together a guide around self-hosting SpiceDB.

For usage from CloudFlare workers and other non-http/2 friendly environments, we're considering adding a gateway which can speak regular http natively. Bolt-on solutions like grpc-web or more invasive solutions like adding twirp support will be considered. Do you have a preference?
I mean much of the economy is an MLM for elites.

The elites of Claire’s Boutique aren’t letting employees design novel items.

Adam Smith wrote hundreds of years ago that division of labor, taken to extremes, would lead to dumber humans than the dumbest animal.

Here we have people standing around retail shops, not working on their ideas, but minding a “booth” for a distant “owner” who does little real work to sustain themselves. We believe in them therefor they get to be rich and not work. It’s simple manipulation of brain chemistry built into years of forced belief.

It’s exactly the math of an MLM; keep selling others selling my value for me.
The entire US economy is built around materialistic consumerism. To be fair, pretty much every developed economy is like this, but the US is kinda the poster child of waste and excess.
Yeah now it means “free to capture economic rent” almost the exact opposite.
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At least one of the reports shows the same or similar effect across many cultures in many countries.
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It's so weird to see these scams running in full view of the public and casually discussed as if they're not basically just criminal ponzi or mlm schemes dressed up with some jargon. Hopefully when this ends up collapsing, it will be public and clear enough that "tokens" etc will have the same credibility as a Nigerian prince asking to help transfer money, but in this case I feel like there is always more lingo to keep dressing up the scams as something new, e.g. NFTs.

I don't generally like government intervention, but I do hope the "real" financial system is sufficiently isolated from these scams so their collapse won't cause problems.
Tax payers may very well object to that, but the shareholders (in that capacity) shouldn't.