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Back in the day... I used to maintain and manually scale a platform that ran a regionally large social site. It was written in PHP, by two geeks in a dorm, served by Apache and had a single MySQL database and host, in a respectable datacenter. At it's greatest moment, it had a pair of keepalived-hosts in front of around 7 Apache hosts and still that single database host.

That was expensive, but not in maintenance. The amount of moving parts in that, compared to all the doohickeys of modern times, seems like 1:100.

As someone who understands very little of modern web-doohickeys, I'm very afraid of the direction we are going in and it seems like my job-security is quite high, because schools don't produce infrastructure people any more... Just happy-go-lucky developers who know how to run things on top of a credit card, on someone else's computer.
There is an emacs mode/plugin called Proof General which almost all Proof Assistant can use (and some practically require). That was a barrier to entry, certainly, getting used to emacs editing conventions. So I'm not surprised a jEdit alternative came about. For many years, jEdit was by far the best emacs alternative with modern CUA conventions (these days, I got to admit VSCode is hard to beat).
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In my case there isn't curiousity left. I was curious at some point, learned and explored about the subject, and made up my mind. After that there was also a period where I was curious why people were disagreeing with me, but that's gone now too, mostly because I repeatedly find their arguments make no sense.

In a nutshell, I'm all for cheaper money transfer, but I've never seen convincing arguments that it follows that bitcoin should be worth X. If I write a cheque for $60,000, that piece of paper is still worth $0.50. Just because it can be used for a transaction, it doesn't follow that it's worth as much as the amount being transferred.

Fundamentally on the one hand bitcoin has loads of negatives and very very few positives. On the other hand I can never find anyone addressing my objections in a manner that I find convincing. After much trying, I just ran out of curiousity.
Renewable are also not free. The technology of crypto (as it exists today) is more energy consuming than a single computer processing all the transactions centrally.

No matter how you cut it, that delta is waste if the additional functionality is useless.
Your argument lacks a modal operator I think.
>From a technical point of view, sufficient progress has been made

The ancient greeks used to think that they have reached the pinnacle of human progress and that there is no use for further developments because of how comfy life has gotten.
I'm also curious about this but don't really understand this explanation.

Can you elaborate more on what "uncloneability of digital assets" means exactly and why it's a pre-requisite of proof-of-stake? Happy to take some links if there are any that explains this well.
Traditionally (and when/where possible) the way a house is (should be in theory) oriented is/was definite (at least here in central Italy), places where you live during the day (kitchen/dining room/sitting room) should face roughly south, bedrooms should face roughly north.

This way you have most of the light (and warmness) of the sun during the day, while bedrooms are colder (but you have blankets) in winter and fresher in summer.
Imo it basically became more of a money-grab and less about the potential of the technology. It also doesn't matter if ultimately all the networks or it's endpoints are centralized.

Then you also get into the government's implication (see Biden's plans), which more or less rots it.

Saying it's useless or entirely a scam is not accurate and we've seen that, but depending on how much of the hype you ate up, it either stagnated or only now some develop upon their promises(and there are a few).

Assuming we fix the complexity,effiency and speed problems, you still have a lot of work about implementing the technology from start to finish.So far we've only seen the vast majority of the development being top->down.Crypto networks that rely upon centralized services are a joke, to put it mildly.
How and why does it feel like propaganda? What is being compared is averages with and without CO2 induced forcing.
Shouldn’t the latest openjdk release with ZGC be a better option for low-latency?
"..And the fact the the Big 3 make shitty cars..."

From a quality perspective. Tesla makes the shittiest cars.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-reliability-model-s-3-...
How do you see bitcoin fit into that axis, i.e. how does bitcoin help the unfortunate (that is VERY late to the "game") ?

That might disprove my "nothing interesting to discus.
Yeah, I'd say your entire approach is antithetical to healthy discussion: insinuating anyone who is interested in crypto is technically inept, and turning the discussion into a 2-sides polarization. There's no use in talking about crypto in a sincere way now because of the way its been politicized.

I tried recently to explain to someone that cryptographically codifying law and contracts can be beneficial in a lot of ways (like transparency/enforcement in governance), in a purely theoretical sense - but they just kept making disgusted faces and saying bitcoin is a scam (?). I'm not sure there's any rational energy behind any of it, it seems to me like any other political "issue" since 2016, like the Rittenhouse trial.
That’s not a straw man. It’s literally how huge portions of crypto are mined right now. Were you trying to say “red herring”?

Regardless, energy is a market and even if crypto used purely renewable energy, that’s energy that wasn’t used for replacing fossil fuels in some other use case. Literally any technology that massively boosts energy consumption has the same problem.
>There is no reason to trust IBM not to include a silicon backdoor

Yeah ok now we are in the religion side of things, since you cannot check the silicon...well i stop here, not worth my time.

BTW: The power microcode is opensource.
I did Vätternrundan in Sweden in 2019. 300km, used 8:44, so avg speed around ~35km/h.

The moment we finished, we all fell asleep in the grass. So weird how the body can go on and on, but the moment it knows it's done (/safe), it shuts off.

Him holding the same speed for three times as long and solo is mental.
> one group yells how great everything is while the other one is warning of the impeding doom and zero use cases.

When one side is yelling and the other side is giving warnings I think it’s fair to say that this is not really a situation where one would describe as ‘divisive.’
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Yeah, but the author does not use a dynamically linked executable.
Do you mean that without crypto the bad guys are unable to perform exchanges of value?

How is crypto different from a
Big bag of cash? Both are anonymous/trustless transactions.

Cat memes and mindless YouTube videos use more bandwidth and cpu cycles than crypto ever will…
Something that keeps being forgotten, those legal issues were settled in 1994, after USL also getting a counter lawsuit for their own use of BSD code, while Linux itself was a target of a lawsuit a decade later thanks SCO.
Energy is fungible, we don't have 100% green energy and won't for a very long time, we make up the difference with fossil. Even if crypto used green energy only, it means more fossil burned.

To continue human civilization we need to stop fossil burning as much as possible, crypto is unnecessary and should therefore be stopped.
Good to see that there is some 21st century craft skills in the west still (have only seen similar things from Asia on YT)

So, general question: where do you go to get the schematics? (would come in handy so many times!)
Because there is mainly two kinds of eth smart contracts: identification/verification (there was still lobbying for crypto ID being recognized by law courts last time i checked), and "new" crypto, which is 75% scams (maybe a bit less lately, but still). Sadly the ID/verification part was dying last time i checked.

It's a bit of shame by association, and irrational, but i've put all crypto related-stuff in a box called "scams until proven they're not".
It's not as bad if one gets a proper bike fit, and gradually increase mileage.
All kind of trade depends on value and value depends (mostly) on scarcity.

In the real world cloning money (historically precious metals) is really really hard (and btw. much easier with paper money that the metals that have a basket of physical attributes that cannot be emulated at once).

Digital bits on the other hand are indefenately cloneable (by design, that is one of the base properties of "digital").

Just for you to see my text here, along the way somewhere around 20 perfect copies were made by various routers (i.e. computers)..
I don't think it's on purpose. I think the problem is that in a modern society, you are so far removed from the habitats that our ancestors evolved in that a lot of people simply can't cope. We're designed to spend time grabbing food, building shelters, making and taking care of babies, those sorts of things, all in small social groups. We're designed for immediate needs and feedback.

You could try this series: http://rickroderick.org/200-guide-nietzsche-and-the-postmode...

Seems like Nietzsche already saw this coming with science dealing a death blow to the old myths that kept people going, and with the advent of mobile terminals and apps optimized to keep our attention, I think we've just gotten closer to that vision.
Svennek said it well, there is not much of interest left to discuss, the remaining ambiguities are up to taste, not novelty. The only interesting things are talking about whether decentralisation is a value in and off itself without e.g. equity and whether people actually inherently care about it. But those are charged topics, also because people who are all in on crypto have a material interest in pushing the idea that YES it is and YES they will. So you can't have that remaining interesting conversation in a detached manner. (In my analysis the no-coiners have much less to lose in this and so are able to have more detached conversation because if it turns out that people really go for decentralisation we can still hop on board, we won't get rich anymore but we won't drop much either - it is naive to assume that systems which wield material power and are intricately tied to the foundation for the private property rights crypto builds its use cases on would simply collapse. The same way we had banks and commodity billionaires before microsoft and google, we will have old wealth smoothly migrating into the new system - otherwise the old wealth wouldn't adopt it).
So, what then? The state owns all the land and all company stock? Non-middle-class persons own all the land and all company stock?

Sounds like a great way to force everyone except the wealthy elite into poverty cycles. Maybe there is a reason that those countries that implement what you are talking about (no property ownership) are locked in either perpetual poverty or perpetual war against their own citizens.

Doing away with property ownership is a great way to join the ranks of the third world.
But that is solved with a price on carbon. That would make mining without renewables unprofitable.

How do you argue that something is unnecessary? Aluminum uses heaps of energy… we haven’t needed in for 1000s of years, is it neccersary?
I'd argue that's not a problem that cryptocurrencies somehow uniquely solve, and in fact even this is solved inefficiently by them. Enormous amounts of energy have to be expended to facilitate a fairly low number of transactions. There are zero technical reasons why non-crypto/non-blockchain technologies wouldn't allow instantaneous money transfer. And in many places of the world, they do. I can instantly transfer money from one bank account to another in Europe. The only reason this is not the case in many parts of the world is that the banking system still runs on archaic technical and procedural frameworks.

And finally:
> without the need to rely to the "system" of banks, governments etc
I consider this a severe bug. When hackers empty out your wallet, you'll wish there was a system of banks and governments that provide some sort of insurance - like most western banks and governments do.

The sole case that can be made for cryptos is that alongside enabling money laundering and tax dodging, their unregulated nature allows people in oppressive regimes to funnel out money. I'd say that may be a valuable tradeoff, but somehow it's not the one being discussed usually.
Fascinating story and the use of virus to repair genetic anomalies. What other uses can there be of similar conditions? And why aren't we hearing more of it (if the approach is viable)?
I actually belong more to camp three than the "no/scam" camp... But I do lean towards no real purpose, that cannot be better (i.e. more efficiently) done otherwise...
Wait until you get older. I can't do anything on small phones because my eyes don't focus that well anymore.
Solar panels aren’t complex composites. They are silicon with some coatings on it. You can definitely recycle them.
There is no consensus on this topic because a lot of people just want to "get rich quick" ignoring the question of the source of richness.
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Further than that: one camp believes in collective action and the welfare of an extended population, encompassing the worthy AND the unworthy, and the other considers that there must be penalties for being unworthy or inferior, and rewards for being worthy or superior.

This is a genuine difference of ideology, authentically held. To insist on absolute freedom for the individual, including any penalty or consequence for any lack on any level (and any degree of reward for any superiority no matter how it's arrived at) means you do not care about the unfortunate any more than you'd care about the pile of chips produced whilst making a great sculpture. Not only is the sculpture the point, but it's actively harmful to insist on leaving the superfluous chips stuck on: some waste has to be disposed or you're just poisoning yourself/harming your sculpture.

This is a position often held by sculptures and people not often thought of as waste. People who get thought of as waste, frequently would like this assumption re-examined.

People who are garbage but occupy categories way beyond their inherent value really REALLY don't want that assumption re-examined…
We can say that when it will be easy to withdraw the transferred coins (convert them into real, offline currencies such as dollars, euros, and so on). Right now you need to confirm your identity, pass the KYC procedure - no difference in comparison to real banks.
Bitcoin is an unconfiscable, permissionless inflation hedge. It's a big deal for people that live in authoritarian countries that coincidentally always have huge inflation numbers.
Day 20 last year was definitely the most time-consuming and longest solution. If I remember correctly, the inputs for that day have a guarantee that's not mentioned in the instructions, so you can just write a naive brute-force-ish solution and get the answer in a reasonable running time.
Isn’t that supported by default using alt-left/right?
lots of PoS chains are live today.

As I regularly post whenever it comes up, SPL USDC is a dramatically better payment experience than wire transfers or debit cards or whatever, and I wish I could accept all payments this way and pay all bills this way.
No, that’s like arguing that it’s bullshit to expect people to keep fighting whether SCRUM is bullshit or not.

When I go work for a company that does SCRUM, they inform me and I accept or not. I don’t expect to battle on ideas and wits regarding the subject and then one of us to declare defeated that there’s no longer curiosity regarding scrum mastering.
> I tried recently to explain to someone that cryptographically codifying law and contracts can be beneficial in a lot of ways (like transparency/enforcement in governance)

There's another trend with crypto discussions which relates to this idea you said. I see a lot of discussions on applications that follow the template: X has not been done, and X can be done with crypto, so now that crypto is available X will be done. It is very hard to discuss that maybe X wasn't done before not because of technology, but because of other issues.

For example, the problem of transparency and enforcement in governance is not that we lack the technology: it's that we lack the initiative and the detailed procedures. I also see a lot of discussions around NFTs being used to sell used digital games: again, it hasn't been done not because tracking ownership is difficult but because allowing that would take a large bite of game sellers/developers profits. 99% of the applications I see discussed can be done without blockchain, but people never seriously ask themselves why is that and instead say that crypto will solve it.
Actually I agree with you that a "blockchain of law" would be great..

But that could also be done just by putting all law on somewhere public like github...

Or by having a block chain with a hard limit of 10 khashes/second per country (detecting cheaters is easy as far as I understand) and you can have a network of 200 raspberrypi zeros running it for around a single kilowatt..
So, there is a camp of people who think that cryptocurrencies are inherently bad. For these people the interesting discussions left are moot, because they do not address their main problems.

At the same time, nuanced discussion / curious discussion requires talking about downsides. Any mention of downsides also draws in the people who think its a bad idea. Moreover, it is my sense that a lot of discussions are filled with people trying to hype up their investment. These people will try to play down any downsides mentioned. The people who dislike cryptocurrency notice the people trying to downplay the downsides, and that overpowers any other discussion.

Edit: A point made by ThalesX also seems quite on point to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29295405
In summary, people are tired of the over-hype that existed. Making them suspicious of any new discussion.
Not op but will give my thoughts-

The only theory I'm aware of, which the "proof-of-stake" approach is based on, is some form of "game theory", my translation - "people won't do evil stuff since it's against their interest", which generally aligns with people being rational and basing economic theories on top of this thesis.
That's a bit like saying that paragliders allow you to fly from one country to another, without the 'system' of aviation, airports, passports, customs, etc. Apart from the fun of it, or for smuggling drugs, it's not that practical for everyday use - just use 'the system'.
Yeah, for a while it was some work to get it working though. Not jEdit's fault, but the JVMs/system defaults. The distro packaging wasn't great for a while, you would often get something fairly broken if you just went with the defaults.
Burning electricity as heat just so our currency is little bit more resilient doesn't really seem in anyway efficient way to do things. And any efficiency gains are negated because we will just do more of it.

Any other industry including financial one will try to minimise the waste if it becomes unreasonable. Not so with proof of work crypto.
56% of energy used for Bitcoin mining is coming from renewable sources of energy.
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> But my point was that many of these decisions are made not because of evil approach to making more money, but because of very practical and down-to-earth things.

You make these decisions for these reasons, and others do it so they can charge me at the end of a free trial. I don't have time to figure which one of these companies you are.

That being said, if I got redirected to a CC company website so they could verify my identity and give you a token, so you can prevent free trial abuse, I'd be down with that.
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Norway only has something like 3% arable land, so fertilizer is a pretty nice thing to have.
Could you elaborate on the design?
Given the very limited scale of cryto currency, and limited usability in the real world isn’t it pretty much a failed revolution?

Bitcoin is still the biggest crypto currency, and compared to Euro, dollars and other currencies, it’s practically useless. The network can’t compete on scale, compared to VISA, MasterCard or AMEX. The crypto currencies try to solve problems much of the western simply don’t have.

The tech will live on an small pocket, such as money transfer between banks and large organisations, but it won’t be useful to the public at large.
Did they ask you to explain it? Did you talk about shortcomings of it?

Most of the crypto related posts feels like advertising/preaching. Issues with their proposed solutions are rarely focused on and when they're brought up, hand waving begins.

I think this is a consequence of crypto proponents using mostly same talking points, usually decentralization/some libertarian dream. Technical discussions are rarely initiated. I've been following this since early days of BTC and I'm so tired of it. I don't see anything in it that would help our society. Maybe due to your political leanings you do.
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Reading the headline, never heard of champbell (sure 'soup' ^^) i thought this article may be about calculating (there was something about harmonization of markets) between us-mile, feet, inches, trillions and billions... and the metric fixation (in Europe for an example).

But BTT, won't sound offending - 'Reflexion is not everywhere a fountain for respect", not ?

Maybe i was wrong on the toppic... P-:

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As a teenager I did something similar. Lived up in the mountains in Norway. Started the ride with ~10kms downhill. Decided that day would be the day I broke 100km for the first time. After biking a further 80kms on the flats, I had the steep hills back home left. I got about halfway up before I had to get my mom to pick me up. Then I did small laps in the village afterwards to still reach 100k, heh.
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Bitcoin was the only way for WikiLeaks to accept donations back when they were cut off from all payment processors.
>> With soldered storage and RAM onto the boards becoming nowadays fairly common, the author can probably open up a business and do this as a side-job or full time!

Especially if they can figure out how to upgrade certain Mac models.
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I knew it was up but that is a LOT
That is one _massive_ URL full of tracking parameters, etc.