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Is there ANY system that there is not an element of risk? Even if you have money in bills or precious metals the value can change day to day - inflation and exchange rates see to that.
PHP was my gateway to _everything_, most importantly employment.

I don't use it any more, but in 2002 when shared hosting and deploying by uploading files via FTP was the thing it was a lot easier to get started with than Perl or Java (which I desperately tried to get into back then).
> In fact, taken to the logical conclusion it would mean killing retirees instead of paying them pensions (imagine what society could spend all that money on, right?).

I'm strictly talking about people who are getting support but didn't chip in. Most retirees have saved up for their pension in the past, in the expectation that they'll get it in the future.
It is until it isn't. The base demand for USD comes from the federal reserve. Bitcoin has a similar base for it's legit uses (like international currency transfer) so both have a demand floor. After that it's all dependent on use and further down market demand.

I think when we all are dead future generations will see crypto as a basic value store like gold. No one will call it a pyramid scheme either cause it would have been around since before they were born.
> Do you have any counterexamples?

There's an entire blockchain-based industry being built in the gaming space as we speak, to allow player to trade NFT's (unique items in games).

There are many more.

> other than illegal money transfers

To address your point more directly: depending on the regime you live under, illegal money transfers are a life-saving device, so just that use case makes Bitcoin worth it.
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> Have you ever written and edited a significant document with pencil and paper?

I'm from 1979, so yes. Now that you mention it, before writing a huge document, you had to think up front what you were going to write and how to write it.

So now that I think about it, the computer is actually a step backwards in some way.
If you have a better reference I'd be happy to change my mind.
> Online casinos predate Bitcoin.

You missed the "provably fair" part.
I wonder if it will have any block rams?

If so, it becomes big enough for mini CPU cores. Little CPU cores enable far more usecases - for example "upload this thing to a server via ethernet" isn't practical with 5000 gates of hardware logic, but a CPU core with 2kbytes of block ram and a little hardware logic on the side makes that kind of thing practical.
«Taints can be enforced»

You can't. You would need to control 100% of miners.
>> The whole technological basis is flawed.

>> The weak link is not SHA256, it’s the rest of the cryptosystem.

> Yes, in multitudes.

> We’ve seen forked chains, theft, mysteriously reversed transactions, 51% attacks.

Really? This feels overstated. The core software has been remarkably (some might say unreasonably and implausibly) solid. The software is supposed to be a pile of amateur C++! It would be so easy for something like a trivial buffer overflow bug to break block validation and unravel the whole system. But it hasn’t happened after ten years and a multi-billion-dollar bug bounty available. Why is it so good?
This is a very surface-level understanding of the concept of the economy. We could all use river rocks instead of dollars and fundamentally the economy would be unchanged. We could all (try) to use Bitcoin tomorrow and the economy would be unchanged. It's about using a medium of exchange which works best for all parties, which today is the US Dollar.

Bitcoin is just additional, unnecessary carbon and e-waste on top of the existing economy. It's fatal flaw is that it's deflationary, which in a world of rational thinkers would have doomed it from the start, but instead it seems to have attracted those yearning for a system free of "money printers".

Inflation can make things bad for an economy. Deflation utterly destroys economies.
Please, we know how that works. Youtube age filter? Will be mandated for anything controversial as soon as such a system is in place to protect the children. Meanwhile we spend trillions on e-commerce. There is crime, but nothing that warrants such an ID scheme.
Isn't it how YouTube works now? It's not 2005 anymore; Cringe thumbnail, Click-bait headline and more cringe in the Video is the standard operating procedure for someone who wants to make a YouTube career, eventually making enough revenue to do all that in a larger scale with Michael Bay movie budget.

There are very few left on YT who continue to make unedited video in the maker space[1][2] and obviously get punished by YT algorithms for that.

Cringe is part and parcel of YT, If we don't like it we should be watching videos on PeerTube, LBRY etc.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/MrTeslonian/videos

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv1xxFkEiAdCVy6foEEUIvw/vid...
Perhaps, but you don't have to know or care about that that to use it.
Any system where you can prove who you voted for (a receipt) has de problem that it allows people to buy votes. In this case, they could pay you after verifying who you voted for.
From a coding perspective taking over these houses of cards are my favorite kind of project. If the spreadsheet (or whatever) is used to build a system that people start relying upon then the proof of concept is already done, the underlying domain model is fleshed out and the task prioritization is obvious.

Greenfield projects where requirements are vague, priorities are vague, the underlying domain model is vague and the need for the project to exist at all is dubious bug the shit out of me.

One of the most successful companies I ever worked at kickstarted many new business processes with a few guys importing, munging and exporting data from a spreadsheet and sending emails. It was manual and often repetitive. But, all the iteration happened in the background until they nailed down what was needed and then came to me with a set of crystal clear, validated requirements.

It was quite a contrast to all of those other companies where I was given a feature to write that took a week to knock out because a powerful customer said it would be cool to have. Inevitably, even they only played with it for 5 minutes before never using it again and nobody else even touched it once.

Or the other companies that went to the other extreme and treated random excel spreadsheets as fully fledged production systems that would trigger catastrophe if you looked at them funny.

I can't help but feel that there's a sweet spot somewhere here that most people (& low code companies) miss.
I'm a PHP fan, but I think the following needs clarification

> package manager to install dependencies (PHP apps are self-contained)

PHP has Composer, which is one of the best things to happen to the ecosystem. Chances are, the piece of software you install will manage its dependencies in this way, and I'd be reluctant to install it if it didn't, as you wouldn't be able to update the software easily.
Gold can be confiscated by the state also as happened in the past.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
Keep in mind that HN is also oriented towards VCs and finance people who see cryptocurrency as a rival.

Some evidence for this is that the environmental argument is easily dispatched with: Cryptocurrency is on the demand side and the climate change problem is on the supply side. We need to switch from fossil fuels to non-fossil fuels, which we need to do independent of whether or not cryptocurrency exists, and then people mining cryptocurrency powered by solar panels is not a real problem. Pass a carbon tax.

There are also cryptocurrencies that use proof of space (e.g. Chia) or proof of stake, which don't have the same energy footprint even on the demand side.

But people who say this are regularly downvoted here by people who presumably dislike cryptocurrency for other reasons and see the alleged environmental impact as a strong lever for getting undecided people against it.
> Because people really, really, really want it to.

Reminds me of a dialogue from GoT: Power resides where men believe it resides.
Suggestion: Layers and pasting images from clipboard or uploaded ones would make this a lot more useful too.
Majority of modern readers are CCID compatible, limit it to that.

libccid.so is 111KB, UsbccidDriver.dll is 81KB, I'm sure they would've managed if they wanted to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCID_(protocol)
I agree. Any anti carbon solution needs to be global.

That's a a tricky problem since some countries, maybe Russia and Canada, could theoretically come to the conclusion that climate change will actually be a net benefit for them by way of opening up access to resources in their lands. And other countries might come to the conclusion that the benefits of burning lots of carbon fuels to develop and modernize their nations outweigh the risks of climate change.

Our ability to actually reverse the trend of atmospheric carbon seems grim to me.
> a) in fiat terms

It's true that if your measuring stick is toilet paper, the current price of Bitcoin doesn't tell you much.

> b) has been up till now

Past performance is no guarantee of future ... etc

Sure, that's what every traditional investment prospectus says in the first paragraph. They usually then proceed to explain how well they've been doing and why you should therefore invest.

There is something called Baye's rule. Ignore it at your own (opportunity cost) risk.
And, what rate can you clock them at?

You can use these to replace a microcontroller doing a simple job it was not fast enough for, or burned too much power for, or you can't buy any of just now.

It feels funny to write this, because we used to say you could put a microcontroller in, in place of custom logic if it was fast enough. The best 6502 project I have seen put an 80MHz microcontroller on a 40-pin DIP format board, that bit-bangs out a 6502 on the pins. It has enough RAM to copy 64k in and execute from, where timing isn't critical.
This entire program can be created in weeks. You vastly underestimate just how fast these companies can move when necessary.

They don't need to task thousands of people for this, just a small internal team. It's no different than a highly focused startup, except with the resources and connections of the parent company to ensure they don't fail.

And as far as this announcement goes, there's very little tangible changes. It's mostly saying that even more things will eventually be announced in the future.
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> Docker on fighter jets. Now all we need is NodeJS on nuclear submarines.

We have electron/NodeJS on spacecrafts. Close enough.
The key is literally the bitcoin. So if you own the key, you own the bitcoin. Duh! And if you lose your key, you lose your bitcoin. That's what it means to own something.

And if you lose your gold bar or coin, you also lose your gold.
Have you heard of Nest.js? It's the laravel of JS, and I can assure you it is rock solid.
Anyway, the main point is to give it a name that is as informative as possible. If I read "transpiler" I immediately make the connection with the fact that it translates a high-level language into another high-level language (which is what prometeo does)- but maybe I am biased.
The most relevant use case I can think for reactive programming is data transformation between formats.

Say you have two departments that need to share data, but their data stores are structured in different ways. You can build an automated process that reads data from the first data pool and converts it into the format needed at the second pool, where the other department can use it.

This is a quite common use case in machine learning for example, where data from numerous different sources need to be stored in a centralized pool ('data lake') where the ML process can analyze it to build predictions.
PHP is a lot better. But it still has a lot of the same old issues when you look beneath the service. Good luck remembering what all the str* functions they invented do and what order their arguments are in. Same for the array functions (don't get me started on implode's three signatures - but that's mostly fixed in 8!).

And may His Noodly Appendages help you if you come across a function being used which has no documentation and a single decade-old comment from someone asking how it works...

And so, to plaster over it's many flaws, people start layering framework upon framework upon framework, each of which slows down the language significantly from all those shiny PHP performance benchmarks you see. And then they wonder why their shiny "what's an array? we need to transit 20 different chained method calls for that" is so slow...

And half of them are documented even more poorly than PHP itself. At least their code is in the same language you're already writing, though.
Yes! The API reference is automatically generated, consistent and complete for each version. It’s a shame it’s not better known.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-ap...
It's really surprising for any player in the IC design world to publish anything using free software. Normally the software is proprietary and costs $10k/seat/year at a minimum.
No problem, Google!
Locals/Rumble is rapidly becoming the Republican/Trumpist and MRA YT.

Even Fox News has to disable comments on YT videos to avoid "problems" with YT "fact-checkers."

The MSM/established social media had a serious reputation problem before the Rittenhouse trial coverage, but now what little respect they had remaining has been completely shattered. It looks like the family will sue Biden for the biased comment he made, which potentially was made to influence a murder trial.
The difference is VISA doesn't get a dime from you. Also if you use something like SWIFT and want to transfer money on the weekend you are stuck till Monday. It's also not unusual that oversea transfers take days to complete. Volatility for Bitcoin over 10 minutes is negligible.

So it's a) faster for most people, b) you don't pay big corporations for the transfer itself, c) it works 24/7, d) doesn't track "well" as of now. Those reasons are enough for some people to prefer it over traditional remittance.
You can do trust on first use. Just... throw away the EK certificate and just trust the EK's public key. After all, you have physical access to the chip and... you trust your supply chain, right?
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Does Firefox actually get hate? I don't think I've seen people actually make digs at FF.

For me it would be Edge that gets the most laughs but I find is a better performing browser, at least in terms of UI than FF or Chrome. Side-bar tasks, grouping, integrated screen-shot, etc.
Can you imagine that guy's place, with crystals growing everywhere?
It's interesting, the original article is one giant Appeal to Consequences fallacy. The arguments are structured like "If Bitcoin succeeds, X will happen, and X is bad, therefore Bitcoin will fail" or alternatively "Bitcoin undoes policy Y, policy Y was a good thing, therefore Bitcoin is bad and will fail." And then the epilogue here finally acknowledges that yup, all the bad stuff did happen, and yet Bitcoin still succeeded, and the future will probably involve more bad stuff but that's the way it goes.

I feel like one marker of maturity is understanding that not everything true is going to be good, and not everything that we want is something we're going to get. So many timely debates take the form of an Appeal to Consequences fallacy. "Hyperinflation would be bad for everyone, therefore the government will not allow hyperinflation to happen" - ignoring that the government may not have the mechanisms to stop it once it begins. "If it's too late to do anything about global warming, we're all fucked anyway, so let's proceed on the assumption that it's not too late" - ignoring that "we're all fucked anyway" may mean many different things and some of them might be significantly more pleasant than others. "America is a great country, so it can't possibly collapse", ignoring that many once-great countries have collapsed before.

I found my predictions got significantly more accurate, though significantly less comforting, when I realized that good doesn't always win out in the end.
Why should the EU? Mozilla doesn't decide that, it gives you the option while suggesting a standard to make surfing the web feasible, but you can revoke that trust at any time. The EU wants to change that.
I'm not sure I'd build a website or something with R

Have you played with Shiny (shiny.rstudio.com). If you're building a website for interactive data exploration and analysis, it is very hard to beat.
What was the goal in the gaming example?

You could have a goal which is to compete at the highest level that you can and push your abilities to see what you can accomplish, which you might enjoy doing. If you aim for this there's also plenty of scope for losing the deeper goal of just, having fun and enjoying your life.

In this respect I think the gaming and cycling examples can be qualitatively similar.
Neglectible is not 0.

And I'm not a pre-miner
Do you have some examples of that disrespect from "other parents"?
Most arguments against PHP miss the point. You know why you should use PHP? Because it's fun and you can get something running much quicker than figuring out the Elixir, Ruby, Rust, whatever ecosystem and paradigm. Maybe PHP is not so good at WebSockets or async worker threads, but most projects don't need that. There's no shame in doing long polling, users can't tell the difference anyway!

PHP shines when you're trying to get a server-rendered web app off the ground. It's the VB6 of the web. Nothing else matches its development velocity, from keyboard to working code.
Still not sure if we'll have web3. It kind of seems like a great way to suddenly make 50% of web infrastructure carry nothing but transaction data from node to node, and when you think about it with private data storage it makes laws like the GDPR unenforceable so there might be considerable state backlash. Well, we'll see how it develops.

A more important concern is whether we need DOIs with the current W3C standards for Semantic Web. We already have a multitude of absolutely giant databases such as Wikidata, but also many others linking together semantic information from all over the web into a giant machine and human readable network: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q686797. Do you really need an incomprehensible centralized system such as DOIs when you have a multitude of separate incomprehensible IDs linked together by human readable semantics?
except - that's not really what happened though [0]. So maybe now we can all agree that those core democratic principles that Greeenwald mentions are paramount?

[0] "It was Intercept editors who pressured the story’s reporters to quickly send those documents for authentication to the government" https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-int...
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You're presenting statistics in a biased way which fits your narrative.

It's very common to hear "most of the illegal transactions are still in dollar". But that's a biased way to see it.

If USD represents $100T of transactions amongst which $1T of transactions are for illegal activities, this means only 1% of the transactions are illegal.

On the other side, if crypto represents $1T of transactions amongst which $500M are illegal, this means 50% of transactions are illegal.

In absolute, in this example, most illegal transactions are in USD, but crypto is much much more likely to be used for illegal transactions, therefore showing that it has little/less use for legal transactions.
Hopefully someone here can hack the data stored in the Uber app (in storage) or site (json responses) and see if the registration number is in there somewhere. It wouldn’t surprise me if the meta data is in there even if inaccessible via normal means. The data would have flowed through the app to show you the name of the driver and plate number at the point they agreed to the pickup.

Obviously they can only hack their own app but then once successful they could publish how they did it so you can repeat it for yourself.

Also try this https://help.uber.com/riders/article/request-a-copy-of-your-... and see what they send.

A long shot perhaps.

Another long shot - was there any nest cams in the near vicinity? Do your own police work, but a silver platter, and hand it all over to the police.
The environmental impact is tiny compared to that of the banking industry.

Of course, we can always strive to reduce emissions in every facet of our lives. However, this argument applied to Cryptocurrencies didn't hold any water at all, once we make the proper comparisons.
> The advantage of a blockchain is that a third party (eg someone joining the ledger at a later date) can verify the previous transactions and continue the chain with a good level of trust that the previous entries are true.

You don't need blockchain for this. I've worked in this space (the non blockchain part of online trust), tamper proof logs is already a service provided by central Certificate Authorities. All you need to do is to continuously sign a log and the CA can keep the chain of signatures, and thus provide proof that you didn't tamper with the log. That way the CA can both validate the identity of the signer and validate that the signer didn't tamper, meaning it is a better service than blockchains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tamper_software

There is great value in software signatures. But that value is already captured and used everywhere, in SSL, software signing, document signing etc, blockchains doesn't add any value at all to that space as far as I've seen.

> Using a signing authority requires everyone to trust a third party. That can be difficult.

Finding a third party both trust more than they trust each other is trivial in almost every transaction. When you buy from Amazon you trust your bank more than you trust Amazon, and Amazon trusts your bank more than they trust you. Your bank is the third party. Can you name any significant usecases where there isn't a third party both participants would trust more than they trust each other?
If aesthetics are the main issue, then that's validation that we've come a long way :)

The iOS app hasn't yet been through a thorough visual review, though it is planned in the coming months (a number of fixes are already in beta builds though).

Thanks for the feedback!
Not the browsers will be reprimanded. That would be webservices like Youtube that only allows browsers providing a certified ID to let users look at the more controversial cat pictures. It is an extremely transparent power grab.
And now the whole 'separate TPM' thing is obsolete, because newer processors will come with their own TPMs. This was a bad idea from the start if you ask me, with UEFI and shoving all sorts of things into it.