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> Bitcoin isn't figuratively a store of value, it actually is.

It's a speculative, negative-sum MLM token. I suggest reading up on what a store of value is. [1]

I'm not saying there aren't ways of monetizing it within the network - which may indeed create value, but intrinsically, it is a negative-sum asset, a mechanism of redistributing real cold hard dollars from new participants to old entrants and miners. It creates nothing. Systems built on top of it might, exploiting let's say regulatory arbitrage, facilitating crime or gambling, but intrinsically, it creates no value.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/storeofvalue.asp
> I don’t care how exactly the owner removes the tenant. It is immaterial to me. What I care about is that no tenant occupies the property I am purchasing.

Landlords can't legally evict a leased tenant who hasn't violated their lease.

That there are tenants in the home would be part of the MLS listing, along with bed/bath. If you've gotten as far as inquiring about the property, you would know you're buying tenants (at least until their lease is up or they accept your offer to break it).
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This shouldn’t be surprising. Permissionless systems often innovate orders of magnitude faster than permissioned systems.

So many of these threads are filled with comments of the form “well why do we actually need a blockchain for that? Can’t we just do the thing with centralized databases?”

But the point is after 50 years the centralized databases haven’t built those systems. Smart contracts, and instant finality transfers, and a public identity tied to private keys could all exist on ACH. Yet they only happened when blockchains came along.

Blockchains aren’t a technical innovation, they’re a sociological innovation. They remove the responsibility of a centralized administrator if shit hits the fan. Visa won’t allow smart contracts in its network, because it has too much to lose. In Ethereum if the DAO breaks there’s no one to sue. Result smart contracts exist in Ethereum but not Visa.

Same story holds true with the Internet. Do we really need a decentralized network designed to withstand a nuclear war? Surely a single telco network could just as easily serve up websites. Except it never did. The Internet won because it was permissionless and therefore innovation occurred much more rapidly.
> Feels like an unanswerable question, but: could we ever see something like this in mammals? A virgin birth, for lack of a better phrase?

The question is easy to answer. Yes, this is a development that shows up from time to time. Species displaying only asexual reproduction all tend to be evolutionarily young, which implies that adopting the strategy rapidly leads to extinction, but it has short-term benefits which mean that there's usually something around trying it out. (And then there are species with obligatory parthenogenesis and also obligatory sexual reproduction, like aphids, which don't experience the problems that pure-cloning species do.)

By way of examples of sexually-reproducing species shifting to parthenogenesis, there is a species of lizard that can only reproduce that way. We can be certain they originally reproduced sexually since they still engage in a (pointless) simulation of copulation.
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It Britain it's common for there to be "traffic light labelling" on processed food. It makes the nutritional value of these products very obvious, as it's facing you on the shelf.

Although this article says it's less useful than I thought, and might be replaced with something else. (Though it's a food industry publication.)

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/health/has-traffic-light-health-...
If the server is mediating that proof-of-work system, then the server is building a list of contacts, and not doing that is the #2 goal for the whole Signal project.

If the client is doing it, you need to come up with a system that is resilient to people using a bunch of different devices, getting new phones, etc.

This is a theme about building Signal: they're doing everything on hard mode, because they start from the premise that they don't get to know everyone's contacts. Virtually every other mainstream messaging system, including the ground-up E2E encrypted ones, keep a complete plaintext contact database serverside.
Please no. I am also half deaf and wear hearing aids full time. If the tech companies make hearing aids they will inevitably find an excuse to make “always connected” required and somehow siphon data from it. I’ll keep my 6k offline only hearing aids for as long as they’ll last.
> You can get H+ by cracking water. You “just” need a source of cheap energy.

Well aware. But we don't have a source of cheap energy. And guess what, whatever source of energy we have, it is very wasteful to produce hydrogen.

First, you need electrolysis. Around 80% efficient. However, in order to get any usable amount of energy per volume out of it, you need to either compress hydrogen (using more power) or liquefy it (way more power, boiloff problems).

Now you need to transport it, physically. This uses more power, usually with some big trucks driving around, just as we have today with gasoline and diesel.

This will get stored into some gas station equivalent. All the while losing mass, as those protons are hard to store, indeed.

Now you can drive your vehicle and refill. Some inefficiencies here too but we can ignore them unless you need to travel long distances to refuel.

This hydrogen will generally be used in a fuel cell. The output of the fuel cell is... electrical energy (+water)

You could skip all that, use the electricity from the power grid to directly charge batteries. No hydrogen production plants needed, no container challenges, no diffusing through containers and embrittlement to worry about. No trucks full of hydrogen going around. Electricity is found almost everywhere, even in places where there's little gas infrastructure.

Mind you, hydrogen has another disadvantage, other than thermodynamics: it ensures control is kept with the existing energy companies. We would still need to rely on their infrastructure to refill our cars (much like gas stations). They would like to keep it that way. Ultimately it doesn't really matter what's the fuel we are using, as long as we keep driving to gas stations.
Netflix is a saint, I'll agree with you. Microsoft less so. They had market dominance in the 90's and got hit with antitrust for, e.g. preventing users from uninstalling and replacing internet explorer. I remember reading that the only thing this changed about their behavior was they started donating more to political campaigns.

The real offense is that it's been 20 years since then and congress hasn't trust busted any of these companies that have committed way more egregious sins. Apple has your device locked down such that you can't get an app on your own phone unless it's been approved by them. The charger changes every few years so you need to buy a new one, and iphone screens crack notoriously easily. Google and Facebook are competing for who can collect more data on users, but Google's more entrenched by providing services that people need to use like email, search, internet browsers, maps, a phone. Facebook's trying to have a monopoly over your online social life.

Microsoft's brand is strongly B2B, which is lucky for them because businesses 1. have a lot of money to spend on your service, and 2. are unlikely to make very public critical statements about you the way an average Joe consumer would. It's a great position so they're doing everything they can stay entrenched. It makes sense that their biggest sins are in being anticompetitive; they hit the jackpot and are trying not to share it.
The linked article modifies the tree in-place.
> Our government, as you've proved, is completely asleep at the wheel here.

Um, and not the driver?
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When people defend cryptocurrencies online, sometimes it's because they're invested in it and they're hoping to get rich.

(Only a real Sherlock Holmes could notice something this subtle. I eagerly await my upvotes!!)
And, how, pray tell, are you supposed to do that? The police are rarely on hand when it occurs.

Furthermore, what level of force are you willing to authorize to go recover a couple hundred bucks?

The "Big Box" stores optimized their stores to minimize staff and now are suffering the consequences. No sympathy. Redesign your store to deal with the issue and put the staff back.
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- Smaller market so fewer sales to spread fixed costs over

- Some of this software was novel so little or no competition
The difference is that the LHC is a proton-proton collider, and the proton constituents (partons) that participate in the "hard" collision only have a fraction of the total energy, given by some probability distribution (parton distribution functions). For an e+e- machine you essentially use the full energy in the hard collision.
Wish the article had more details about the actual rendering techniques, though. Or did I miss something?
> And the way to fix that is to give in to said pressure, which are just network effects, until everybody and all their kids are on FB or one of their platforms?

The solution is to balance your kid being ostracized while also educating them on how to be safe online. That can only come from exposure. Unless you seriously expect other kids and teenagers to not latch onto their lack of social media/phone/anything trendy and turn it into a bullying vector?

> ...

Every time a "think of the children" argument comes up, the default opinion of government is to usher in sweeping, authoritarian changes to the whole internet, e.g. ID cards required, criminalising misinformation, etc...

Messenger Kids is literally a free market solution to give parents another choice and avoid authoritarian overreach in the process. The standard NSFW web is still available for those parents who trust their kids are able to handle it. And others can totally pull their kid off if that's also preferred.

None of these options are perfect, but it's important there is the space to choose. And at least with Messenger Kids you're giving the kid balanced privacy from their parents and safety from strangers.
MongreSQL flows better on my end.
Still AWS and DigitalOcean offer managed MongoDB, am I missing something ?
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If a recession is bad enough some will panic and pull it all out.

The reality is that crypto is not essential—it’s convenient and has potential but it’s value is backed by what? Other financial assets are backed by stuff like voting rights in a company or a physical asset.

Hence: people will dump crypto first.

I suppose Ethereum is different because it is backed by the functionality provided by the distributed Turing machine and all applications which rely on that. So the folks who wouldn’t pull their money out would be product owners who rely on the blockchain as a revenue stream.

My question would be who holds the price up high? Institutions or the broader public holdings of ETH?
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Hm... the flakes are still experimental. I wonder when they are going to be finally not marked as such.

I switched to them exclusively (removed all nix channels) and haven't had any troubles yet.
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mate.. it's a matter of perspective. for people that have nothing left... prison doesn't sound that bad.
If I have to choose between ending up on the streets again or prison... I'm pretty sure I'd chose prison this time around. I was young and lucky the first time. Now...
Have you considered that the difficulty of transacting might be by design?
They may not be in production yet, but they are asking $200k for the Roadster (and $250k for the founders), which might be the super car I presume parent is talking about. The plaid while not $200k still clocks in at $150k
It's not rare for crap to come out after a sale, often w/o knowledge of the seller. Liens are the most common (HOA, contractor, tax).
It would probably read better if they focused on the science benefits and were less overtly "need jobs for particle physicists or no-one will go into our field".
> you have intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain

I don't see anything on on MangoDB.io that would result in commercial gain. Maybe I'm missing something though.
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>As long as you continue treating everything as if it’s still lined with bacteria, why not wash?

Exactly. I'm not a least-common-denominator that these public health recommendations cater to. Give me the real info please.

I am skeptical that they would rinse the chlorine off of the chicken at the factory. That seems like an extra step adding not only cost but risk of a bacterial bloom occurring between the factory and the store/home.
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>If those people don't believe in the whole thing, why are they members in a church about it?

Usually they inherit the religion from their parents. They grow up with the church as family so even if they don't believe in the tenets/beliefs they still participate.
> it requires a specific decree or order by some government body

That person is a random clerk

> possibly after appeals

I can 100% gaurantee that this case goes to court (if it is not settled to the now previous owners satisfaction).

I also suspect that the original owner will come out on top, by likely more than the 150k that their 'house' was worth.
That’s a bad rule. The purchaser had the ability to thwart the fraud and the true owner did not. The better rule is that an individual cannot pass a better title than he has.
POSIX isn't very relevant, but the set of basic Linux tools with generally expected features and behaviour is. The difference is that the latter evolves. For example, when GNU tools appeared, people started to prefer them to POSIX tools, because the GNU tools had useful extensions. POSIX never catched up.

So we have seen more friendlier set of tools than POSIX would force on us, but it was evolution, not revolution. Why, maybe because people see value in continuity and acquired knowledge and don't want to start using obscure new tools like ag or exa, even if they could be superior.
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For some time now DAI has been backed by a basket of coins precisely to mitigate the risk of one coin dropping.
Half right. The job is indeed thinking. But to think we need to interact with the code, the spec, the documentation, and the other devs. All of these often require using tools on the computer and the interface and interactions of these tools can be crucial to effectiveness.

The chording keyboards can, with the right software, enable greater efficiency at these other tasks, which is what Engelbart was trying to show.
I run a website that shows immigrants how to settle in Berlin.

These days I'm thinking of codifying more things, so that people could fill a form and get answers instead of reading a long article. For example, a simple calculator that replaces pages and pages of information. I made a German health insurance calculator last week that saves a lot of reading and gives accurate results.

Aside from that, I'm building a timeline thing that puts all the personal data I can get my hands on onto a browsable timeline. It's a sort of enhanced journal.
> Yes, the USD is backed by the most absurd proof of violence the world has ever seen. No organization of human civilization has ever been able to summon as much death and despair as the United States.

That has nothing to do with the currency. I'm not saying its good, or bad, I'm saying you've stapled together two unrelated concepts.

The US army is a small fraction of GDP and exists to support the defense of the US as a nation, and to further its interests abroad. That will remain the case whether the currency is fiat, gold, BTC or shoelaces. Unless you think that the army will be disbanded because BTC is going to make Xi Jinping come to the table with Tsai Ing-Wen over Baijiu and apologize, that the Sudanese are going to lay down their arms, Kim Jong-un is going to find Jesus and so on. However that's completely unfounded.

The US army predates the fiat dollar by two hundred years. World wars were fought on the gold standard.

Further, the backing of dollars is only in limited part due to "the army" - fractional reserve lending means that each time supply is added, demand for that supply is also created as the loan issued must be repaid with those same dollars. This is what actually fully backs the dollar.

It's also why countries that use the USD, like El Salvador, have their own armies. And why some countries that use fiat dollars don't have armies at all, like Japan and Iceland. There is no causative relationship between fiat money and armies. There is a causative relationship between the existence of militaristic states and armies. There are hundreds of years of proof that the backing of the currency has little or no bearing.

This theory is a pile of misconceptions stacked on top of each other.
> imagine investing in, say, a new fast-food franchise joint

Let us imagine instead that you want to invest in Burger King. You buy some shares in Restaurant Brands International (QSR). When you own those shares, what does that actually mean - how is that connected to the purchase of burgers?

I think share ownership is often a better metaphor for many cryptocurrencies than fiat currency. Especially when considering shares like Tesla, Hertz, or GameStop.

Where does the value of a share come from? Can a company steal all your money? What actually records your share ownership? How are profits calculated, and how do you get them?
On the one hand we have Donald Trump, which proves the rule, or is the exception. Then we have HN: plentiful in confidence, not so high in incompetence.
Money is not essential either, mind you.

Oxygen, heat, water, food. In that order. At least crypto is 'backed' by math. I expect the currency to dump will be related to who, and not what, is backing each asset class.
It's a simple statement of fact that the United States has no jurisdictional authority over the actions Chinese citizens take in China against American citizens and vice versa. This is a serious problem for reasons such as this, but you cannot refute it as a basic statement of reality.

Put simply, American courts have no authority over Chinese in China, Chinese courts have no authority over Americans in the US, and our courts do not cooperate reciprocally as they do in other countries with alternative diplomatic and legal relations.
In Latvia, nowdays you cant visit restaurant without a covid certificate verified by ID card or passport. Or to receive parcel at post office. Or when dealing with bank or gov. Etc.

However I can do the following: use digital identification, that uses multiple factors along with an app, that requires using digital certificate from id card to setup. Afterwards its just my device and that app PIN that is required to impersonate me (well and semi-public national personal identification number)… this applies to almost all gov services with few exceptions like operations with property…

Drivers license has been invalidated years ago as an identification mechanism. Let alone for dealing with property - notary is mandatory along with proper identification.
By selling it for fiat on an exchange and then sending that to my bank account. Same way I'd cash out shares. Whatever your beliefs about it's support, it's not comparable to Squid Game which you literally couldn't sell from the start. And to be frank, if you are exaggerating that much I'm less inclined to believe you are evaluating it honestly .
> all our modern CPU's exploitable microcode, if not backdoored.

I wonder how the M-series Apple chips will do with this over time. The predecessors have done OK so far, but are definitely not bulletproof. As these move up the stack, I wonder how it will go.