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You have to think how that process started. Tim had to give something to Josy for Josy to have debt. If Tim is only working with bitmoney then no new money entered the scheme.

If Tim sold some of his bitmoney to lend to Josy, and then josy bought it back, then no new money entered the scheme.
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I don't disagree. The transaction fee burn is pretty much equivalent to a streaming stock buyback. But the service Ethereum is selling is arguably just providing a platform for other people to run their own ponzi games on.
Might be because there is now inexpensive gear available, eg Baofeng?
I'm sure glad you didn't work at SEC Enforcement when they finally went after Madoff.

> The younger generations have been told in no uncertain terms that they are locked out of investment in real estate and many other instruments that are controlled by the aging generations.

Sure, so they should petition for zoning reform not engage in Ponzi schemes.

> Many things look like ponzi but are not, because they never burst.

That's not really the definition, though.

> People putting themselves outside the bitcoin bubble are willinging missing the future.

The definition of the "future" isn't "Ponzi scheme that will never burst probably, because real estate is unfair."
> someone taking a snapshot-happy copy-on-write filesystem (btrfs, nilfs2), and putting a version control layer on top.

That's actually what Pijul does under the hood, its CoW filesystem is called Sanakirja (Sanakirja is a bit more than just a filesystem).

(I'm one of the authors).
On the contrary, retail deposits are as high as ever.

https://mobile.twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/1455315779...
How in god’s green earth do you arrive at this conclusion.

I’m convinced having read the comments here that nobody actually knows what a Ponzi is.
That sounds like it has very marginal value to me. What's the problem it's solving in financial exchanges that you can't do with pedestrian cables and techniques inside a datacenter? Let alone a wild and crazy solution like only processing orders once per second.

I'm especially looking at where it says "typical distances of 10 km between network elements"
Teach at the university! It is incredibly satisfying work.
It's absolutely not debunked. That's a value judgement and your take away from a conversation.
I would say that 8km is actually quite small, and besides, LPWA has its own problems.
In practice, most currencies are inflationary because more money is continuously being made. Which means that early obtainers of money actually lose value holding it, instead of gaining more. So currencies would be the opposite of a Ponzi.

On the other hand, the current economy model which relies on continuous growth, might reasonably fit some definitions of a Ponzi.
By the Gods of demand and supply adjusted by God of minimum wages. No matter how much mgmt question it they'll not be able to pay 10$/hr unless someone is ready to work at that rate and if allowed by the govt.
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Building a successful startup is a grueling marathon. It honestly sucks a lot of the time. It's hyper stressful, you have to absorb a ton of personal risk. Even if it goes well, share preferences can leave you with nothing at the end.

If you don't want to do it, then it's better to tell your co-founders now and walk. You'll end up quitting anyway, because it is just brutal.
> Sure, so they should petition for zoning reform not engage in Ponzi schemes.

Demographically, post-boomer generations can never win the vote

Voice does not work in this case, so they choose exit

I guess they are also sick and tired being told what they "should" do
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Probably from the nature of crypto.
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IntelliSense makes anything like this immensely easy. It also helps that the method names are great and match the function they are performing.
Sorry for your loss. Do whatever you need to make your days easier.
There's no doubt there's money to be made, but fundamentally bitcoin represents a threat to the existing power's ability to control financial markets. I see so many people hoping that they'l give that power up .. and then we have a nation like China go and ban crypto and EU legislating it like crazy.

I'm sure crypto will exist in the future, to me the big question will be how painful will a government make it for you to own crypto.
There are miserably poor people in this world, that's right, but it's not because of the LHC or particle physicists. And assuming you're American (most likely) then your country has far, far, far, far bigger problems than the support it may opt to provide to a fundamental physics search.
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Yet it is valued in the trillions. Likewise, our society uses billions worth of services from financial institutions. Bitcoin and more strongly Ethereum compete for that same utility.

Sure they have some utility. The current block reward of Bitcoin is 6, with a market value of 60000 that means every 10 minutes of ledger is valued at 360000 dollars worth of utility, or 52 million per day.
> Demographically, post-boomer generations can never win the vote

You don't think the "boomers" will die?

> I guess they are also sick and tired being told what they "should" do

Petulance isn't a value proposition either.
I wonder where this urge stems from.

Probably their belief that it's a scam.

There's no need to hint at a conspiracy when there's a much simpler explanation.
Because its source of value is very unapparent
I believe your statement including real estate, startups, non-dividend stocks in this category is incorrect. They all have the potential to generate cash flow. Maybe not at the time of investment but at some point in the future.

I work in investments and I feel like you could broadly place opportunities into two buckets. One which has current or the potential to produce cash flow. Second which produces no cash flow such as currency, crypto, gold, oil…the price of these assets depend on supply and demand. Oil is different since it is consumed where as crypto isn’t.
> So they create their own bubbles and they will keep supporting them because every generation wants to achieve some level of wealth.

You are talking about things like equity and real estate which have actual utility. Sure they might be overpriced now, I agree with that. But their prices are backstopped by the utility they provide.

A lot of crypto does not have any utility and never will. Nobody is supporting the beanie baby bubble or the tulip bubble. The idea that bubbles are not just ok, but should be encouraged, is very troubling.
Hey, I've been working on missions and rovers to investigate these for 10 years now.

That particular pit at the top of the wikipedia article shown is really convincing, when checked at different times and angles [1]. You can see at some point, the shadow of the crater stops moving with time, this can only be explained by an overhang, which implies a tube is there.

As mentioned in the article, these are really attractive from a scientific view, and also could provide much protection from the harsh lunar environment (radiation, 100C + at lunar noon, and -150C during 2 weeks of lunar night).

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mare-Tranquillitatis-pit...
Someone else commented with more detail, but personally I can't get past the package management and the dependency on using the REPL. Rust gets tooling and packages right.
There's giant a flaw in the authors assumptions.

> The investors are all those who have bought or will buy bitcoins; they invest by buying bitcoins, and cash out by selling them.

Who says I want to 'cash out'?

Why would I 'cash out' of the hardest money man has ever conceived for one of the easiest monies man has ever conceived?

What the author does not get, is people are buying bitcoin not to 'make fiat gainz', but to protect their savings from debasement. They don't need to convince anyone that they will 'profit'. People only need convincing that their purchasing power will not be decreased due to the policy of the easy money creators.

When you adjust your unit of account to satoshis instead of dollars, you only profit if the number of satoshis on your balance sheet increases. This doesn't happen by 'selling bitcoin'. The idea that I would spend bitcoin on depreciating fiat is preposterous.
APRS is cool, but it’s also somewhat… complex. I wonder how hard it would be to write a “modem chat” phone app, with the ability to translate text into audible Bell beeps, slow enough to work without cables, to be used over ordinary voice frequencies.
Consider an unattended EV being recharged. Ideally, when all charged up it could eject the charger "nozzle" and crawl away from the "pump" to open up the space for the next EV. Are there technical obstacles to this ? Couldn't a charger tell a car that it could (say) turn 90 degrees left and go 8 meters ?
With enough time, sublimation and vapor deposition can do the job, under the right conditions. If you come in after the experiment has been running for a hundred million years, there are probably surprises in store, things no one has ever seen.
I think the reference to retirement funds is in relation to the fact many of them are under collateralized. They need to take new investor's money to pay out old investors.

Some more background here:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/an-ohi...

The situation is pretty extreme. To be honest, these really _do_ look like Ponzi schemes.
Since free will doesnt exist, you can check that out. Anything that I make anytime of my day, like a thought, will unstoppably affect you all... That's why education is tremendously important, because you have to anckowledge that we either cooperate or kill each other. So this is so stupid to start with, that I won't try to make a point further that making people realize, how fucked up we are
> ...the vaccines don’t prevent transmission.

This is one of the MAJOR things that make me concerned about the vaccine. A leaky vaccine almost seems worse than none at all, to me. (Just look at mareks disease in chickens)
I think the quality of products from plant based alternative protein sources like peas will increas so much in the coming time that these will make the race.

We recently purchased a cross sampling of pea based "alternative meat" products and so far the quality is astonishingly good. One can taste that it is not meat, but texture and taste are so good that it does not really matter. It is going to become a staple in our household.
Apple's chips include storage. They put super fast storage in the SoC.

Raw capacity doesn't matter to most people. I collected up all of my personal files including all photos/vidoes/documents/etc, and it came out to about 35GB. The average person has absolutely no use for a 20TB drive so it isn't very interesting. For CCTV uses, 20TB drives sound awesome.

Fast storage is all that matters to regular users and not capacity.
> In India, if a stranger walks up to you, nearly 8/10 times it's either to ask you for money, directions, or to scam you.

Same in Eastern Europe. Small talk with strangers is generally not a thing here.
This bit really caught my attention:

> In contrast, this website runs on an off-the-grid solar power system with its own energy storage, and will go off-line during longer periods of cloudy weather. Less than 100% reliability is essential for the sustainability of an off-the-grid solar system, because above a certain threshold the fossil fuel energy used for producing and replacing the batteries is higher than the fossil fuel energy saved by the solar panels.

This, in particular, is an amazing take:

> Less than 100% reliability is essential for the sustainability of an off-the-grid solar system

Saying that sacrificing uptime is a good thing for achieving a particular goal is a take that's so wildly out of line with what most of the industry believes is refreshing, because it really makes you think. What would the world look like, if instead of being obsessed with SRE we simply assumed or accepted that there will be downtime, and treated it like something perfectly normal. Maybe a nice message at ingress/load balancer level, telling everyone that the site will be back in a bit.

I have no illusions that any company would want something like that, or that it's even feasible for many industries, e.g. healthcare, though the Latvian "e-health" system is an accidental experiment of this at the cost of around 15 million euros of taxpayer money: https://www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas/latvija/par-e... .

However, if companies have working hours, why couldn't websites? What a funny thought.

Edit: on an unrelated note, it's wild how different setups can be.

For example:

> The web server uses between 1 and 2.5 watts of power...

While at the same time, i have two servers with 200GEs (essentially consumer hardware) running in my homelab, with a TDP of 35W each, though with the UPS and its inefficiencies, as well as the 4G router, the total energy consumption that i have to deal with is around 100W. Granted, i also use them for backups and as CI nodes, but there's still a difference of 20 - 50 times more power usage between one of my servers and one of theirs. I guess one can definitely talk about the differences between x86 and ARM there as well.
Wow, this is seriously fast!

Maybe you should provide more links to existing blogs somewhere? (e.g. something like https://read.write.as which aggregates public posts from blogs on write.as)
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Is there not a way to pin processes to cores in linux already, and/or why it cannot be used to achieve a similar thing (pin user1 to cores 0,1 and user2 to cores 2,3)?
When I'm not making web stuff I'm often out in the British countryside photographing birds. https://www.instagram.com/onion4k/
I just read the short summary on goodreads [1] and... color me skeptical...

It reads like a version of "The Celestine Prophecy" [2] but aimed at a middle-aged tech bubble. Could you (or anyone else) compare the two, for a very slow reader to make a decision? :D

PS yes the comparison is probably too harsh but that was honestly my first gut reaction...

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36481028-4000-weeks-a-li...

[2]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13103.The_Celestine_Prop...
> (and source control systems you don't hear much about these days like darcs/pijul)

A bit unfair, Darcs is indeed less fashionable nowadays because of performance issues on very large instances (which few projects actually have), Pijul solves these problems but is still alpha. In other words, this lineage of version control is between two different tools.
I am on the author's side. Still in the end, it just comes down to whether you think Bitcoin has any value. You can take any other investment and do the same comparisons:

When you buy assets like a house, you are speculating, that someone else will buy it at a higher price or pay rent to you, because they think it has value. All 5 points apply here, too. I would say rent is basically the same instrument as buying a house (for a short period of time), but even if you think of it as something different, as some external source of inherent value: You can rent out Bitcoin as well.

When you buy stocks, you are speculating, that someone is going to buy the stocks at a higher price from you. You can base that speculation on the fact, that the company behind it is using your money [1] to buy something from a third person [2], that some fourth person [3] is going to buy back from them. And since they have done it in the past successfully and overall companies are doing that, you call that inherent value.

I would call it the same, but in the end, "inherent value" is just a concept created through abstraction. It is turtles all the way down. There is no difference. Some investments are just a bit more complex, but in the end it comes down to whether you think something has value or not.

It comes down to whether human nature makes enough people feel the thing you are ultimately betting on has value.

There are many businesses, whose value really depends on similiar mechanisms as Bitcoin. E.g. you might think Bitcoin is a scam, but companies like Adidas or Nike are serious established businesses solving problems for humanity and are therefor inherently valuable. Well, those two companies can sell shoes at their prices, not because of the desire of people to go running, but really because of their desire to own a shoe with these brands printed on them.

And who is to say that the desire to go running is something better than the desire to own something called "Nike" or "Bitcoin"? I know where I want to base my retirement on,

[1] simplification, only true at IPOs, reality adds a layer of abstraction here

[2] employees, business partners, a government

[3] customers
With apples to oranges comparisons often made like you have, I'd urge people to brainstorm the longest list they can of similarities and differences between the two.
Now that I think of it, Emperor "Cleon" is a nice wordplay on "cliodynamics".
This is covered in the essay. An art piece is creating value by providing entertainment to those who view it. You can even put it in an exhibition and people will pay you to see it. This does not apply to Bitcoin.

However, i slightly disagree with the author because Bitcoin does provide some value: The ability to digitally facilitate transactions (albeit rather slowly, with huge environmental damage and with high fees - clearly if this attribute were to be seen as the major contribution to its value, more advanced coins ought to be more far more valuable).
Having been exposed to upper management in different sectors, most of what you're saying is hyper-inflated, and can be distilled into one singular category: communication. Helping people understand their fit, describing a common or specific goal, convincing investors, giving speeches and reassurances to technologically ignorant people, maintaining a veil of trust in some...thing, is just simply communication. And probably a fair amount of psychopathy, at least in some cases.

What this event in particular shows, and will likely continue at other organizations, is that absurd executive pay is absurd, and workers that are underpaid or given inequitable compensation for their work can demonstrably cease operations. The company does not hinge on a single CEO. The inequality is despicable, and the amount of paragraphs here defending that gap is beyond strange, at least from a hacker perspective.

And yes, of course, there are CEOs that are idiots. There are also moderately capable CEOs that surround themselves with idiots to insulate themselves from criticisms like "do you really need a $2MM raise?"
Well, hi neighbour!

Certainly other graduates from my year have said they thought it was worthwhile - but I always wondered whether their opinion is rooted in sunk cost psychology.

I know two fantastic makers that have no higher education, yet they should have been mechanical engineers due to their skills. One was dyslexic, and both would not handle the academic structure, yet it was a waste to see that their talents were never used properly.

Mechanical engineering seems like a dark art to me!

I hope that you found a niche…

I wish I had been smart enough to quit my degree early. Some of the most savvy people I know well, quit school early because it was constricting them.

I was lucky to fall into software which is really easy and financially it has been astonishing. Apple ][ at school and home, writing 6502 assembler as a teenager, helped immensely.
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Too many ideas given the time, but now I'm focused on two:

1. Building an open source bicycle computer. It's been over 20 years since they arrived at the scene, and there still isn't one that you could hack! An outrage! No published sources yet, I'm getting stuck on not having much experience building physical things.

2. Getting rid of the directory hierarchy. I have 10K photos, 30K emails, 10000km of GPS tracks, and 10 years of chat logs. Why can't I find anything among them? I own a computer, after all. I have 10 folders called some variation of photos/Cologne/2020/flowers! Having to organize them myself is tedious and a fool's errand, so I'm leaning towards using a database as a file system, to let me just query for files. Geo queries using a map? Yes please. Selecting bounds on a timeline? Oh yeah!

Turns out I'm not alone, Microsoft tried this with WinFS, and failed. But the idea lives on: https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organizatio...

3. Writing. I hope I can find the time to expand on the above on my blog.
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now that sounds like a boomer opinion ;)

The size of that generation and the great increase in lifespan ensures that "boomers" will stay dominant longer than any other. Millenials don't want to wait until they 're 50 to start making wealth
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The only JS I need on my blog is Mathjax. Is there a static site generator that can render latex equations into svg's automatically?

On the one hand, I want to get rid of JS. On the other hand, I prefer to keep the plain text equation in my markdowns, rather than generating and linking to an image.

I feel like I'm one long weekend away from building my own SSG to do this.
consider starting a family :-)
I also got there a few times, but always got robbed.
I guess for the Van Gogh, the argument could be made that it could generate revenue by selling access to see it.
I have read similar accounts, only to later discover that the reviewers are vegan/vegetarian etc. If these are to displace beef, to kill the beef industry, then they need to win over the BBQ crowd. When the not-meat hotdog starts competing with the meat version at US ballparks, then I will take notice.