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I'm no frothing at the mouth crypto advocate or fiat currency hating conspiracy theorist, but whatever you're trying to say, and the article you link to, seems like complete nonsense to me, and your snarky recommendation to "read up on what a store of value is" is silly.

> A store of value is an asset that maintains its value, rather than depreciating.

Value is just what others are willing to pay for something at a point in time. Literally nothing is guaranteed to maintain it's value, not even US Treasuries. So this is just circular logic saying "things that maintain value are value stores" and "if something that previously maintained it's value no longer does, then it is not a value store".

> Gold and other precious metals are good stores of value because their shelf lives are essentially perpetual.

Gold and other precious metals are terrible stores of value, their dollar values are incredibly volatile, they are incredibly expensive and risky to store and transact with, and contrary to popular belief, they really don't actually have much "intrinsic value". Let alone that "intrinsic value" is a nonsensical concept. "Intrinsic value" is meant to be understood roughly as "useful for some practical purpose", but valuations clearly often have nothing to do with their practical purposes. A stick or a basket can have very significant and diverse intrinsic values too, but that doesn't mean it has value. Likewise, some sticks and baskets might have very high values, despite actually not being very good sticks or baskets! (eg if they're antiques or archeological artifacts or whatever)

> A nation's currency must be a reasonable store of value for its economy to function smoothly.

Most central banks aim for 2% inflation per year, literally guaranteeing any amount to become worthless over time if stored in currency. (vs bonds or some other appreciating asset)

> intrinsically, Bitcoin is a negative-sum asset, a mechanism of redistributing real cold hard dollars from new participants to old entrants and miners.

Just what. Bitcoin is strictly positive sum under any sane definition. Unlike MLMs or pyramid schemes, Bitcoin never alleges to return anything other than Bitcoin.

> It creates nothing

Neither do currencies. They're just currencies. Their purpose is to be means of transacting things that are created, that otherwise wouldn't be created, if there was no means to transact. Bitcoin does that too. But in Bitcoin's case, it actually does create something: it creates the ledger of transactions itself, the wallets, the ability to sign things etc, which currencies don't.

> Systems built on top of it might, exploiting let's say regulatory arbitrage, facilitating crime or gambling, but intrinsically, it creates no value.

Even if you disagree with the valuation of Bitcoin and how inefficient the mining is (and I do), the realized idea of a distributed, tamper-proof ledger is useful, and thus has "intrinsic value" just like toilet paper or gold. (again, intrinsic value is a nonsensical concept, but under that logic, it does)
CA: Proposed Web 3 Primitive to Avoid Ad Fraud
As someone with a diabetic family member that frequently forgets to carry her medicine. I can't help but think of a situation where I'd be put in an emergency and traffic is blocked by a bunch of goons. I'll happily drive over you and deal with the consequences later for a medical emergency. Good on law makers siding with drivers.
I don’t know if the cool kids are Apple fanboys, but affluent cool kids buy Apple. Go to any college campus and count what percentage of computers, phones, headphones, smart watches are Apple. The more affluent the college the more Apple. It is a luxury consumer brand in the way no other technology company is. They have no real competitor or equal.
The wallet has a pin code and it erases itself after 3 failed attempts.

It would be a great improvement in security.
Music by an algorithm on SoundCloud; a debut for nil-arity
What you say is true, but at the same time there was a voter fraud commission started in 2017, formed with the explicit charter of investigating such claims. This commission was disbanded after they couldn’t make progress showing that “thousands and thousands” of people fraudulently voted in 2016, causing then President Trump to lose the national popular vote. He made very specific claims about people being bussed around New England to vote across state lines, which is why he claims he lost New Hampshire that year.

The claim is perpetually that there is a problem that needs to be fixed. Literally millions of dollars and an entire political party has set out to answer this question in the affirmative, but they can’t even prove their claims in a court of law. The most telling instance if this in the last year was Rudy Giuliani refusing to make a claim of “fraud” in front of any judge after the 2020 election, but claiming “fraud” as often as he could in front of any TV camera.

So yes, both sides have overstated their case at times. But only one side is perpetually making a very strong case that they will never take to court where they have to provide specific evidence of their claims. It’s very notable and telling that the extreme case they say is the status quo (rampant voter fraud that stole the election from Trump not once but twice) has never been proven by them or anyone else.

> Then each side gets to declare the other side wrong and biased and hidebound and irrational.

Here is where we are right now. A team of auditors in Arizona spent months trying to show fraud occurred there that tipped the scales in Joe Biden’s favor. The result of their audit was that Joe Biden won a slightly larger margin than originally counted. How was this result spun by Trump?

“We won on the Arizona forensic audit yesterday at a level that you wouldn’t believe … They had headlines that Biden wins in Arizona when they know it’s not true … He didn’t win in Arizona. He lost in Arizona based on the forensic audit."

Did you get that? Trump loses Arizona, demands a recount, gets the recount, recount determines Trump did in fact lose, Trump claims exact opposite, and millions of people follow his lead and repeat this lie.

That is the level of reality denial and irrationality coming out one particular party. This is a mind bending level of denial and delusion.

So when you say things like the above, that “each side gets to declare the other wrong” it really serves to blur the context and normalize this insanity, making it seem like the two sides are the equally deluded. Yea maybe if you look only at the extremes, but this is the main stream GOP party leadership pushing this, not the fringe. The two sides are not the same on this issue.
> the government might choose to block you from using your hard earned money because you posted a criticism of the president on twitter

Um, I don't really see how cryptocurrencies are going to help you much when that same government just tosses you in jail instead. In fact, there are governments in our present reality that will throw people in jail for saying the wrong thing on twitter, so that really isn't an outrageous thing to imagine.
If you enjoyed this, check out this (older) podcast. The homebrew community has gone through some major changes in the last couple years.

https://soundcloud.com/nesassemblyline
FWIW, VS Code has "inlay hints" added in August 2021 which provide one solution to this problem: https://i.imgur.com/1NUmYON.png

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_60#_inlay-hints-for...
Python and a few of it's libraries are certainly the closest to this I can think of on commodity computers. (To wit, I think you can just import turtle to get a logo.)

Now, imagine teaching an eight year old to update their home computer so that this works. And realize that that was common for many home computers back in the day.
Unless your bots are doing things that get their messages reported by recipients, this shouldn't affect you at all.
You are right, not sure how I missed that
You lose the usefulness of IDE argument typehints (now you just get a [Object] requirement) and still need to look somewhere to know which parameters are required and which are optional in your object. And if you mistype the key/tag, nothing tells you about it.

Pass descriptively named variables instead imo.
Building a plaid / pattern designer. Someone I closely know is a much sought-after fabric designer, but tends to use primitive tools. I swear, I've seen them make pictures and catalogues in Excel.

I've never been a web dev, but I've set myself a challenge to make something for them. 2 weeks in, I've got a hacky ugly-ish MVP, but hey - it seems to be doing its job :)

https://plaid-designer.vercel.app/
Note: Tablet-friendly, but not phone-friendly.
I‘m from Germany and even I found the vastness of everything in the US remarkable. In some regards it‘s amazing: the country itself, the national parks, the wide roads, parking space, buildings. In other regards it‘s obscene: beverage sizes, package sizes in Wal-Mart (some are larger than what our local wholesale stores have to offer), and SUVs and pick-up trucks. When I rent a car on my trip, I was glad I upgraded to an SUV because otherwise I would‘ve been anxious between the huge SUVs, which seemed to make up the majority of all cars (this was in California).
What they call “powdered”, we’d actually call “granulated” which looks like salt. Powdered here (in the US) is a much finer confectioner’s sugar that is more of a pulverized dust than a granule.
There is no equivalent of this today

Boot rpi, launch scratch. Granted, that's one extra step. But after the first boot you just set scratch to auto launch.
You prefer ten arguments to an object with ten fields?
Damon: Data Access Monitor
When I chat with my friends through google meet, we always say hello to the Google/Gov agencies.
See the word "attempt". That changes everything. They were not convicted of having a monopoly.
pijul (successor to darcs) looks very interesting (I like the darcs model of using patches rather than the entire source tree as the object being versioned) ...

What would be REALLY interesting would be someone taking a snapshot-happy copy-on-write filesystem (btrfs, nilfs2), and putting a version control layer on top.

Sort of like the old clearcase versioning filesystem (used that 20 years ago ...)
A longwinded way to say that the health benefits of the vaccine in the 5-11 population are underwhelming.

* Cases are irrelevant, in particular because it is well known that VE against infection fades away after about 6 months.

* The article claims "there have been over 1.9 million COVID-19 cases in children ages 5 to 11, with nearly 100 deaths." for a rate of 50 deaths per million.

* The FDA application estimates (unscientifically!) to prevent 1 in a million deaths, see table 14 on page 34. https://www.fda.gov/media/153447/download

Overall, according to Pfizer's estimates, the vaccine may save 2% of the already minuscule number of kids with a fatal covid risk. The study ran for a whole of 6 months on a population of 2000 kids, obviously all long term consequences have been thoroughly accounted for. Time to rollout the vaccines for tens of million of kids!
>Desmet C

I don't remember the price but it was probably something like $50 in the early 80s. Certainly far cheaper than the Microsoft C compiler. As I recall it had quite a few quirks though.

Turbo Pascal was quite the innovation when it came out. I had a copy but never really got into it though. I don't remember the sequence but I was probably was into assembly by then and likely got Turbo C when it came out a few years later.

I was in grad school for a couple years in there and wasn't doing much programming at the time.

Still, none of this was especially cheap compared to free as in beer/speech today.
Chenquieh
> It's clearly political.

Is that an euphemism for corruption? It's almost certain hands were greased. That however seem to have been aligned with many interests, also of those who are supposed to protect us, but nevertheless it's worrying that there is no investigation of any kind.
I prefer the alternatives:

- limit the number of parameters for most functions to at most 2.

- Use TypeScript (optional) and editor Intellisense (inline prompts) to display parameter type when writing function calls. VS Code has this by default.

- Use objects only when unavoidable (options, forms)
> US troops fought in all three conflicts you've listed.

You forgot Vietnamese troops and South Korean troops I guess?
The issue is not that we would go to war over Taiwan, or at least I hope not. What we would do is:

1. Seize all Chinese and Taiwanese foreign currency reserves - that's $3.7 Trillion gone in a poof.

2. Seize all Chinese and Taiwanese investment in the U.S - another several trillion in a poof.

3. Start a global trade war, and Europe would also join in, locking China out of exporting to the western democracies or participation in the dollar system. All those nations that owe debts to china because of Belt and Road? Those can't be paid, as they are transacted in dollars, and China can't touch a dollar now. From now on, China has to trade via a barter system with Russia.

China is already hated due to blowing off the CO2 targets, then throw in an unprovoked invasion and occupation of a democratic state -- the Europeans eat that stuff up.

Meanwhile, what does China get? A population of 23 million people that hate it. A destroyed economy in which 40% of its GDP vanishes overnight. Loss of all foreign currency reserves and an inability to purchase the energy and food that it needs.

Remember China is not even able to feed itself without dollars. Yes, the US will have a shortage of cheap TVs and it will hurt our supply chain, but we can migrate that supply chain to vietnam, Brazil, India, Mexico, etc. We have the rest of the world to keep outsourcing jobs to. China would have only Russia. Moreover China needs foreign coal, oil, soybeans, and pork in mass quantities every single year.

Absolutely none of that requires that even a single shot be fired. It would be ludicrous to engage in a shooting war with China.
that makes jobs too right?
I feel like if you look at the last 20 years and don't fall on knees at the Church of Fiat, then you have no idea what you're talking about. Crypto doesn't solve any urgent problems and is contributing to climate change as a bonus. Who is making use of crypto right now except crypto speculators and money launderers?
There’s always that avoidable constant extra mile needed for Apple products and how the true fruit company followers never fail to mention it in a a way that it sounds okay.

Didn’t OP’s question clear it up that this was not an option/intention? Or did you assume OP didn’t know the watch could be charged at night?
What exactly would Europe do? Europe is a museum. An economy that hasn't grown in over a decade and a people that would likely lose a war of any meaningful attrition to the vastly poorer Russia.

Europe is increasingly irrelevant to the future of geopolitics.
Good point. More kids should have RPIs.
You have to bring your own bags in Australia too
Care to share that forecast?
Exchange value only matters when there's trade. My view of crypto is "wrong in the right direction" because it currently addresses macroeconomic coordination via mimicry of traditional finance. The technologies it uses to achieve decentralized coordination do matter, though. Automated consensus on a large scale is meaningful. But it needs a post-trade, natural-systems view of the world to really make sense.
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Job board: https://boards.greenhouse.io/stylitics

Data engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/stylitics/jobs/5623510002

Clojure engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/stylitics/jobs/5623507002

That last one's written as a backend focus, but you should definitely apply via that one or just email me at the address in my profile if you want to do ANY type of Clojure(Script) with a fast-growing company with a small-ish (12) and effective engineering team.
I think the first idea is cool. I especially want something truly ephemeral. I don't want all of my messages existing forever. That's my main gripe with both Reddit and Discord right now.

One note about Discord though: why do you find it exclusionary? We use Discord for our customer ops, and we bring on a lot of not very tech savy people. It's really easy: they click a link and it opens in their browser. Not sure how you could make something more accessible in this regard.
Qumulo is a Latacora customer; said security engineers in question will be working with us as we work with Qumulo to do said building out :)

Qumulo is a really neat piece of kit that lets companies manage huge storage clusters. If you've used things like Isilon or Netapp, you might care about writing software that runs everything on everything, having APIs for everything (no, really), great built-in fantastic support where the first person you talk to understands how the product actually works, and a pile of features you were going to build anyway that are built straight into the product.

Contact details in bio as usual.
> In my book, there's some value in protecting the average Joe from the incessant dollar printing that decreases the value of the dollars in their saving accounts.

This is a complete misunderstanding of the role of currency in a modern economy and the mandate of the federal reserve, which is to maintain a low, predictable rate of inflation to incentivize investment and maximize employment. Literally any asset will "save you" from the "relentless printing." That's the role of an asset, not a currency.

> That's just one argument for Bitcoin, there are more. For example, it provides the opportunity to second/third world countries to break free from the IMF debt slavery.

They're all basically debunked, but advocates trot them out and try and Gish gallop over any criticism.
This is a lovely typeface!
> Sugar here is powdered, it doesn’t come in tiny cubes like I’m used to. It’s very easy to confuse salt and sugar (as I have done) because they look exactly the same.

Isn't the "powder" actually a bunch of tiny tiny cubes? Certainly tinier than tiny Indian cubes :-)
One thing that seems to be smaller in the US.
It's simpler than anything beyond using the built-in BASIC interpreter was. Which also wasn't very good. And was arguably a fairly poor platform to learn programming on--although myself and many others did. (Though in my case on a teletype hooked up to a mini rather than a local computer.)
> But if time saved by either 1) doing things online or 2) having your role eliminated entirely then we'll have additional and aggregated time for things like clubs around hobbies ... (aggregated part means 60x 1 minute saved could potentially be used to have a social interaction with a friend)

Could, sure, but will it? Experience of last 50 years shows that it will more likely be spent on solo watching Netflix, while sipping wine and cuddling with a cat, or playing yet another video game.

The fact is, our ancestors had more meaningful social interaction with their friends and neighbors, despite all the modern efficiency improvements not being available to them. In my opinion, modern individual entertainment is so optimized that more old school activities cannot really compete in the immediate term, despite being much more fulfilling and socially beneficial in the long term. Optimizing out chores won’t solve this.

But, we strayed very far from the original topic.
That's so cool! It's inaccurate for Manhattan though ;)
See also Smalltalk, Objective-C, Swift
In Korea, both Chinese troops fought as well as Soviet pilots. In Vietnam, Soviet troops helped manned SAM batteries and were advisors. In Afghanistan, the only other party that could be claimed to be using the Mujahideen as a proxy were the Pakistanis, who were nominally our ally. Since US troops were fighting in all three conflicts, there was no proxy fighting in our place.

And with Taiwan, there's no realistic way the Taiwanese military could survive in the long run without direct US intervention, and it's arguable that we don't have the ability to project enough power to prevent defeat even in that case.
I'm not so sure. There's a type of person who would deem the US Government having a privileged role in coin governance as a legitimacy-reducing factor for that coin, and that type of person is over-represented in crypto circles.

Also there's a possibility that whatever coins decide to comply end up spending their reserves on humans-in-the-loop to ensure compliance, thereby giving an advantage to the noncompliant coins.

Something analogous to this happened where I'm from: We voted to legalize recreational cannabis, but most people still use the black market because regulatory burdens put the legal shops at too great of a disadvantage to be competitive.
Oh, please. Most of the currently inhabited land surface of Earth does not experience any of the things you mention. But the media don't want us to be bored, so they don't run stories about how nicely habitable most of the Earth is. They only run stories about the small portion of Earth's land surface that experiences disasters. To extrapolate that to the entire planet, as you are doing, is ridiculous.
If you know more about the fundamentals than competing job applicants then you increase your chance of getting the job.
I'm not an economist also, but I wonder does this have something to do withQE? US almost double the QE in 2020.
I always thought rental apartments have blinds since preinstalled curtains likely wouldn't match the tenants style. Same reason they almost always have white walls and beige carpet.
Not really, and you shouldn't try. The highest recorded price for 1 USDT was $1000 at a centralized exchange, and do you really trust your counter-party in a DeFi transaction not to get flash-loaned into oblivion or to rely on a bad oracle? [1] You also have to post crypto collateral which may get rekt alongside a Tether collapse. Who even knows what that might look like? The only way to win is not to play.

[1] http://rekt.news
No doctor ever told me to lift weights, and I've been to many before I gave up on them. They'll tell you to lose weight, exercise, improve diet and whatever, sure, but very specifically, they will never tell you to lift weights. And not a single doctor I encountered knows what to do with men who train, besides advising them not to train.

They are, presumably, afraid that you might get "injured". To me the easiest way to get injured is to let one's back musculature to atrophy, and there are likely tens of millions people in the US alone with back problems because of this.

Unless you're about to die, or have a profitable chronic illness of some sort (such as, say, diabetes), US "healthcare" is borderline useless.
> POW as a consensus method is flawed.

It's not flawed, just hardcore. It's like the gold bars sitting in vaults deep underground in London, rarely moved and usually just relabeled to account for change in ownership. Every now and then someone gets spooked and asks to take custody, and it's expensive as hell to move it but you can lay your hands on it and know your ownership is secure.
They weren't fighting in our place, they were fighting alongside us. As were the Canadians, the Australians, the Philipinos, etc etc.