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Let's take two examples.

First Pepsi Vs Coke. Both Pepsi and Coke make a product that takes no more than 10 cents to create, ship, and put into stores. And yet their prices are many times more than that. Capitalism says that a perfectly free market will eventually reach a point to where there are no profits. Why is it that in a very mature field such as soda, there is still massive profits?

In order to get where they are they had to make deals, certain restaurants are only allowed to have one of them. They need logistics agreements. They need massive billion dollar factories. Those factories are working at way below capacity. Most of their value derives from these political aspects.

In every market there are only 2 things you need to keep track of. Costs and Values. Values - Costs are the surplus. Who gets the surplus is negotiated between the average participants. In a buyer's market, where there are many suppliers all fighting to sell, the price is close to the costs, and most of the surplus goes to customers. In a seller's market, the price is close to the value. Soda is a seller's market.

What if it were a buyer's market? What would happen if Pepsi dropped their prices to $0.10? Coke would have to follow suit, and they would end up with no profits. They know they can't bankrupt Coke doing so, as they each have equivalent infrastructure, so there is no need for them to slash their prices. Same deal with Coke. They are in a stable equilibrium. It is in the best interest of each company to split the market and reap the margins.

Now let's take Uber and Lyft. We just saw the war phase explained through coffee shops above happen with them, and they are now solidifying into a relationship similar to Coke and Pepsi. Let's take a look at Uber

1. Uber is losing money.

2. Their drivers are making less than minimum wage after taking into account car depreciation.

3. Their investors are losing money.

4. Their customers are mad at the rising prices.

What the heck is going on?! Everyone is losing! Just because you win a market does not mean that the market is worth having. Taxis in big cities makes sense. Taxis occasionally but you know will be expensive makes sense. Uber tried to push this low cost system where you use their system much more than we should be relying on. And it simply doesn't make sense. Costs - Values is negative! In 5 years we will be back to where we started, exact same use cases of Taxis, except with Uber and Lyft with near monopoly Coke and Pepsi margins.
Blockchains are finite, the future of the web is fuzzy.

Do we really need bulletproof consensus on Wikipedia edits? Let alone your blog...

Idk what "Web3" will be, but the future of the internet is a tolerant(fuzzy) mesh network.
Do you think it makes you less of a sucker to pay someone’s 10x profit on real estate in a neighborhood they campaigned to downzone?
OP here (new acc, because previous one has anti-procrast enabled:)

It's not a shock, that's comparable to a static electricity discharge, when touching a door handle for example.

And the "shock" I feel when I partially touch my laptop, is comparable to someone constantly pulling on one strand of your body hairs. It's a constant pain that happens when You baaarely come in to contact with the laptop with for example Your forearm (the skin on the palms is too thick to feel it)

It's actually a common theme with macbooks. A former coworker actually pointed it out to me.

"Ugghh, don't you hate it when you slide your finger across your laptop and it's giving you that buzz?"

I was like "What are you talking about? It's just the brushed aluminum feel?"

He told me to unplug the charger and try again. And Holy moly indeed the buzz stopped.
I prefer mustmayostardayonnaise.
Reminds me of that classic Onion article:
https://www.theonion.com/man-on-internet-almost-falls-into-w...
So the extremely precisely machined piece of heavy metal is essentially part of the fuel. That seems like a no-go for commercial energy generation without any firther discussion.
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Yes. In the early 2000s Endeca made use of several public ontologies to enhance its information access and summarization products for clients.

One particularly compelling example that comes to mind was an ontology involving public companies, figures, events, and relationships that was combined with NLP (entity and concept identification) over semi-structured content on the ETL side, and faceted search and navigation on the retrieval side, to replace a research portal for a major UK newspaper in the mid 2000s. The results were mind blowing.
Indeed, mathematical notation is often used (and abused) where plain language would suffice. This is so widespread, in fact, that one might think that there is a conspiracy, or a contest, to come up with as unreadable a text as possible. On the other hand, the (original) purpose of mathematical notation, in its condensed form, is facilitating and, in many cases, automating reasoning and calculations on a piece of paper. (You wouldn't want do perform long division using words, believe me.) Also, the plain language may bring the possibility of an uncertainty in meaning and/or misinterpretation, so a definition or a theorem stated using notation instead often serves to minimize that possibility.
Oh do I have a scam for you! So, no, obviously you can't divide an NFT, but what you can do is create a new fungible token (or smart contract not sure about the exact details) that represents partial ownership of the NFT. So you can issue 1000 of these fungible tokens that represent partial ownership of the NFT.
Yeah,I'm trying to implement an electron offline first app that syncs, there seems to readymade solution.

Stuff like https://github.com/aerogear/offix seem to be in the right direction of what I'm looking for but not nearly mature enough.

I don't want to pu to much effort on the app so I would like something more or less ready made, preferably with graphql apis.

Any suggestions welcome.
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No because the nothing link the contract to that jpeg anymore.
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That calculator looks like that's part of the Bing results page... so it made an HTTPS connection and parsed some HTML, JS and CSS to show what 8*9 is.

It'd be even better if it said "You need to consent to these 100 cookies for us to show you what 8*9 is".
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/suicide-mortality/...

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_pop...

I didnt bother to run any kind of correlation, but eyeballing states by suicide rates seems to correlate best with population density.

The states that I associate with materialism seem to be the lowest on the scale of suicide rates but are more rural.

Alternately older white men overwhelm all other groups for suicide. So what is being measured is the concentration of older white men.
The fault with phishing _always_ lies with the victim, by this logic.

Put differently: if you assume the user to be infallible, there's very little reason to use 2FA of any kind. (Don't believe me? Describe to me a threat which applies to an infallible password-only user which is mitigated by non-FIDO2 second factors.)
Not really, because there is still no utility in owning the rights to an NFT.

I've only ever seen two kinds of interest expressed in NFTs.

The first is immensely wealthy people who are looking for a trendy way to flaunt their wealth, because they've exhausted all traditional options. This is what leads someone to pay $3M to "own" the first tweet.

The second is people who aren't immensely wealthy but are hoping they will become so by buying/minting an NFT and selling it for an huge profit, presumably to someone from the first group (or a sucker from the second). This makes up the majority of NFTs by volume, and is where the pyramid scheme similarities become hard to dismiss.

Haven't seen anything resembling a third kind of interest that, under scrutiny, doesn't ultimately fall into one of these two groups.
Matrix (Element and friends) is the future.
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KRunner is one of the many areas where KDE is "secretly amazing".

The level of polish, robustness, ease-of-use and efficiency of today's KDE versions is incredible. It is lightweight, too. This is the desktop environment that stays out of the way, but here when you need it. There are no strong decisions that surprises anyone, things are familiar, there is no hostility towards users requesting obvious features. The user interface does not change so much from versions to versions, but is rather improved (a lot, in tiny ways).

Only, it is secretly so. Nobody seem to know. I don't know what can be done about this.

KRunner is doubly affected by this. It is not quite discoverable, does not get in the way of users not using it, yet is so convenient. I'm lost whenever I'm using another environment just because KRunner is not here.

(it can also be brought up by alt+space, which matches the keys of Launchpad on Macs)
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I used to do a similar job a few years back. Reading logs upon logs and reading code I didn't write. I was so depressed I eventually got fired. Now I earn a third less, but I design and code my systems from start to finish. It really makes a difference if you have a feeling that you did something of value at the end of the day.
The same. You can return or throw out the gift if you don't want it.

If you keep it, and it's over the taxable limit, you have to report it and pay tax.
You are asking all the right questions... And you will never get an acceptable answer beyond "Some times you need to break a few eggs to make an omelette."

Sadly, the CoC wars were lost several years ago. The victors had the simplest tactic: projection.

"We are just against all the bad things. We are anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-prejudice. Why aren't you on our side?"

Well, I have two things to say. First, I eagerly await your omelette. Judging by how tolerant society has become, it should be any day! And second, why be against the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea? Democracy is in the name!
I'd say both, but the quote was not for accuracy, rather convey that we should stay humble about it.
Unfortunately no. And I'm currently traveling and don't have access to one.

and It's actually a "feature" of macbooks in general, not this particular one.

I mentioned under another comment:

That A former coworker actually pointed it out to me.

"Ugghh, don't you hate it when you slide your finger across your laptop and it's giving you that buzz?"

I was like "What are you talking about? It's just the brushed aluminum feel?"

He told me to unplug the charger and try again. And Holy moly indeed the buzz stopped.
Another good thing with bing is rewards - I get about $5-$10 a month in Amazon vouchers. Was better when I could get skype credit but they stopped it.
Could you not see e-mail as decentralized as well?
Hardware tokens were commoditised by yubikey but they really should be TPM based, until there’s critical mass it’ll be a nuanced technology and Yubikey clearly don’t have the clout.
It's also market manipulation. Most of the celebrities are just hypemen who get a cut for helping someone sitting on a ton of crypto pump NFTs and then dump them on idiots who bought into the get rich quick hype.
Solid is much more "Web 3.0" than "Web3" - it leverages decentralisation and HTTP rather than cryptocurrency nonsense.

Although there is a bunch of overlap via DIDs and such.
This is an interesting case because presumably they would want to write this off as a loss (in a theoretical world where they were paying US taxes) so it’s not a gift.

Technically the profits are a result of the computer code of the system, though. If they want to stick to their arguments that smart contracts are the law, then it’s just a regular payout from the system according to the rules of the system. Business as usual.

However, I suspect when the losses are in the tens of millions they’ll drop the pretense of “code is the contract” and start pursuing other legal avenues. The loss was about 1% of the total money locked in Compound.
Why would you want the government controlling even more of your money? They already take large chunks. I'd rather control the remaining bits. It's not their job to invest your money (at least the money that you have left after they take a nice chunk for taxes). The tax money you give them is invested in the country (defense, roads, teachers etc)
Yeah. Absolute nonsense from the author.

Takes an example of a people taking positive action because they were worried about climate change and then tells us not to worry because 'humans will adapt', completely missing the point that we adapt because we act on things we're worried about.

Author is basically hoping the problem will sort itself out, or that someone else will handle it for them.
No, nobody in YOUR circle bothers with it. Approaching 50% of mine does.

Don't project that laziness onto the entire populace, enabling others to feel comfortable that it's "too hard" to use Signal....that's awful.
So when you sit in endless meaningless meetings and see how the management create insurmountable obstacles that make it impossible to actually do some meaningful work while whining about deadlines and changing the requirements on a whim, you should just be thankful that you have a nice paying job? Well you can be thankful and still cry inside since if the management were competent, you could get 3x done. If you feel this several decades you die inside little by little until you do what is described in the article.
For a SaaS style (aka client-server) application, the right way to think of client-side storage is as a persistent cache, for a few reasons:

* it can be deleted at anytime (by browser, or even by user!)

* you generally want the server to be authoritative. if there's a bug client-side, server view of state should win.

* it's not possible in the general case to store all user data offline, it's always a subset.

Once you realize that the client-side state is a cache, potential uses of it become a lot more clear.
Though if you allow duplicates, that should be non-decreasing order instead of increasing order?
From the conclusion:

> In the historical record, crises are like fires and the government interventions in those crises are firefighting. ...

There's a brilliant quote from James Grant to the effect that the US Federal Reserve acts as both firefighter and arsonist:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-08-27/fed-s-funct...

It's not clear that the paper even considers this perspective. Instead it seems to take the position that banking crises naturally evolve, rather than get spawned by policy missteps to correct the previous crisis.
When I was touring Moutarderie Edmond Fallot [1] this summer they told us that mustard makers suffered the phylloxera crisis [1] more than the winemakers.

Originally, mustard was made out of the mix of mustard grains and the juice of bordelais grapes. Since bordelais was quite sour, it was not of particular importance to wine production. Once phylloxera hit, winemakers started rescuing important grape varieties and lost all bordelais species.

Since mid-XIX century, mustard is made out of, well, mustard grains, vinegar and water.

[1] https://www.fallot.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_French_Wine_Blight
I work in infosec, I literally write phishing sites. A good phishing site with MFA would easily fool me. How’s grandma gonna stand a chance?
Perhaps the fundamental dimension (mass, length, time etc.) could be considered as the 'abstract base class', with the specific units (meters, feet...) being derived classes.
I’d say that is fraud.
TPM-based like...Windows Hello?

Both Windows and Mac support host-based FIDO keys. Of course, the downside here is that you...can't move them to a new computer. So they're sort of hard to use on their own, hence people still turn to portable (but less secure) solutions like TOTP and SMS.
Yeah that semantic debate about what exactly the story points mean, is my least favorite recurring stupid conversation, right after that angry debate of what exactly constitutes a "true" unit test, lol
indeed. it s still the user fault
A wire transfer involves a money transmitter, who provides a service according to some terms & conditions. In case of a dispute, a court will have the final word. None of this applies to cryptocurrencies, because cryptocurrency transactions are final. They can't be overridden by a judge. If they could, they wouldn't be censorship resistant. You can have censorship resistance or rule of law, choose one.
It seems like the digital identity problem is fundamental to actually do what NFTs claim to do, though.
Neat! Just be wary around licensing, we’ve been using a similar management tool for a couple years https://github.com/yahoo/CMAK which was originally Kafka manager but they were forced to rename it.
You should have mentioned that you work at Provectus in this article. Feels pretty sneaky to claim to do an impartial review, but provide no negative critique of the one made by your company…
Superficially, the mistakes are different, but the evolution is the same.

E.g. the original goal of bitcoin was to be a digital form of cash. Cash because the transaction is just between you and the buyer - cash is a bearer instrument. With ACH it's a custodial relationship with the bank, and the bank's interest may not be aligned with yours. They can decline transactions, freeze your funds, monitor what you do, etc. So there was less "ownership", and this true ownership combined with digital payments was the original vision.

Except that true ownership is really limiting. Sometimes you want the intermediary or need money held in escrow and that's when you want a custodial relationship. So enters Etherium and the notion of contracts. Now it's no longer payer and payee, but you have the contract sitting between the two, much as the bank. And just as the bank, the contract can act against your interests. Now it's true, the specific ways that you get screwed by the smart contract are different than by the bank.

Next up, we are seeing the need for adjudication/rollback for when the custodians screw up, as people want to unwind errors in smart contracts or make policy changes. So this will be like re-inventing the court system. Soon, someone will be able to sue you and put a lien on your digital currency, using smart contracts, for example, with appeal to an adjuticating system that can force you to enter into the contract against your will. Then we will be back to longing for the days of bearer currencies.
Over-sensitive, politically-correct people are going to end up in a hermetically sealed bubble of their own making, hooked up to virtual reality and drugs while the rest of us enjoy the real world. I have no problem with that. It's natural selection. Some people are too fragile. I'd rather let them lock themselves away in some virtual universe driving up virtual asset prices than have them in the real world drive up real world asset prices.

I can't believe that so many people are so suggestible. Part of me feels like they can't be serious; they're just acting out, conspiring in an attempt to incite (fool) others to adopt this strange vulnerable mindset.

It's easier for me to believe that it's a conspiracy than to believe that so many people are so gullible. Why am I not richer if the world is so full of gullible people? Where are all these suckers? Maybe I've been overestimating my neighbors and competitors.

What kind of world have these people been living in all these years?
> "There I was, a grown man, planning a trip to the Mustard Museum in Wisconsin, when suddenly I heard a voice deep within me say, 'This is not what you want your life to be about.'"

"The Onion" was started in Madison IIRC, which is where the Mustard Museum [1,2] is.

> The museum was conceived and founded by Barry Levenson, former Assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin. It centers on a mustard collection he began in 1986 while despondent over the failure of his favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, to win the 1986 World Series.

[1] https://mustardmuseum.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Mustard_Museum
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I don't think that will work. My public key is public. The ticket's public key is public. Right?

Thus, anyone can make QR codes that show the 2 public keys. It's trivial. This is the "showing a picture" scenerio I mentioned above. Anyone can show the right picture, especially since the picture that needs to be shown is public information.
> The fault here lies with victims answering a prompt
> to enter their 2FA out of the blue.

Go wish 10 random people happy birthday. For some people such a greeting is relevant for one day only. For others, a week. For some people, especially if the don't recognize you and think that "it's been a long time" a whole month is valid.

If one is using a dozen services that auth with 2Fa and needs to log in once per day, that's a lot of windows of opportunity. Multiply that by 86,400 numbers phished that day.
I remember loading the Mac Spotlight and trying to calculate some decimal numbers, let's say 63.10 * 3.50 . But because the Mac was expecting the German locale with "," as a decimal separator, it just silently gave me 2208500 instead of 220.85 (or 220,85).

Wow.. at least show me I goofed up, you useless piece of software!
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This headline appears to be inaccurate?

https://github.com/jacobherrington/www.ruby-lang.org/blob/ma...

Removing "Participants will be tolerant of opposing views" was proposed, but I don't see where the proposal was accepted or merged.
You are the only one talking about black people and completely missing the point.
HOA = Petty people on power trips.
because you are wrong..

when you own shares in a company you are entitled to the cash flow of the company. Over time the price trends towards the future cash flow of the company.

In the short term the price can be anything, but if a company continues to grow and generate cash/profits, then the value will go up.

There is too much money chasing too few companies so multiples are high, but that is a temporary situation (that could last a decade).

Anything that happens in the short run is irrelevant to long term investors. In fact retail investors have a huge advantage over professionals in that they dont have to show returns every quarter.
Hum async-start from async.el seems exactly what you want?

Standard emacs also has make-process and friends.

edit: of course emacs won't be able to automatically make all time consuming tasks asynchronous. Each package would need to support async processing as required.
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Really? You would permanently remove someone from a community for one joke in bad taste? You wouldn't use any social skills of your own to, say, tell the person their joke isn't well received and they need to be more polite?
My understanding is that you can sail completely around the world in a small sailboat without ever being more than 2-3 weeks from a port of call. You check the weather forecast and leave for the next leg of your journey when you have a high confidence of a good weather window. And I've heard that pretty much no port will kick you out if you overstay your visa by waiting for safe weather (though you probably have to stay on the boat and not come ashore).

Also, at least in the US, typical boat insurance is very expensive if you want to have your boat anywhere near hurricane "areas" during hurricane season. People up here in the northern US like to take their boats down to Florida or the Caribbean during winter, but generally their insurance policy is null and void if they get there before Dec 1.