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> That's my optimistic forecast for what happens after the current speculative bubble pops. We'll be left with e.g. universal sign-on via crypto wallet that's not owned by any corporation and can be used for cryptographic signature / voting / &c.

This seems entirely self-contradictory. How do you certify that a nominally anonymous cryptographic ID represents a particular individual for the purposes of signature/voting without some real-world (likely centralized!) entity establishing a connection between the two?

This seems like fundamentally the same problem that SSL certificates are trying to solve for website identity and I don't see how blockchain removes the need for a central authority somewhere if you want guarantees like "one person, one vote".
This is what I was referring to: https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1195528833157386240

I feel like my interpretation of that quote is fairly accurate.
The thing is, there isn't a bigger grifter than Stephen Diehl.
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Once again, two years ago I would have believed it. But considering a sizeable amount of people think that the Covid vaccine "allows governments to track you", "has 5G" or whatever other nonsense has permeated that discourse, I'm not as confident.

Especially if it happened right now with all the controversy around the Covid vaccine, it'd surely be spun as the Covid vaccine in disguise, or the government forcing its way into tracking us all with nanotechnology.
Every time you take it?

It's basically a window into a malfunctioning brain. You bounce back when it wears off, but you can definitely change from tripping too much. Have you never met someone who has done too much acid?
Indeed, people outside of USA (and France, Germany, and a few others that dub everything) have lived with this their entire lives. Even today my wife and I watch with subtitles as it's not always easy to hear all of the dialogue over the other noises in movies/shows.
Turning on the camera for any reason would creep me out
> hell bent on world domination

Is there any evidence for this?

I hear it often enough. We used to say that about Russia, but when the cold war was over and everyone got to look at the historical documents it turns out that they were terrified of the U.S., more so than the other way around, and not as much of a threat as we made them out to be.

Historically China has not been as adventurous as Europeans in this regard, although of course they have exerted a lot of influence in their region before the Europeans dominated them, and later the Japanese. They are dominating minorities in Tibet and the Uyghars, similar to how we've screwed native americans and black folks. It seems like they have been expanding their influence in Africa lately.

Or maybe I don't follow what is meant by domination here. Maybe you mean the way the U.S. dominates the worlds oceans and trade?

I assume that China wants to get out from under that, along with a number of other countries. Nobody likes being dominated by others. I assume they, and others, have been saying the same about us.
Colo is great.

Sure all the cloud fanbois will tell you that you should only ever use the cloud. But frankly if you have decent tech competence in-house and you do the math honestly, the cloud is far more expensive than colo, particularly for 24x7 loads over a multi-year period.

If you buy quality kit and you put it in quality colo facilities then your hardware management should be minimal.

Your main problem is going to be with your "How do you select a colo and what do you look for?" question.

Whole books could be written on the subject of choosing a colo facility.

If you are serious about colo, you should start by doing a few site tours with different operators. Doing that you can (start to) develop a feel for what differentiates facilities.

There a lots of things you could look at, but the two near the top your list should be:

- Connectivity: Ideally you want a carrier-neutral facility with a good selection of carriers to choose from
- Power: Self-explanatory really. How much do I get ? Is it true A&B feed ? Are two good starter questions.

If you look at those two items first, then you can start to draw up a shortlist from that. Once you have the shortlist, you can start nitpicking between the options.
> Is tech really that different?

Every profession has problems around social social proof. There are limited resources for recruiting and so heuristics that work get used. But I really can't think of any field that does better than tech in terms of keeping those barriers low relative to possible income and prestige.

I know people who dropped out of high school making >300k/yr as software engineers, and god only knows how many college drop outs (myself included) who are also making that kind of money.

Conversely, people I know who went to law schools that are not one of the top 10 in the country are never even considered for high paying jobs in their industry. If a path to those jobs is available, it does not appear to be widely known, unlike the path to big tech.

Yes, without social proof getting your start is harder, and all else being equal ivy league grads will always have a leg up on you, but these are some truly phenomenal opportunities for people to climb the ladder.
Germany in that case, I simply have a hard time imagining how you could mis-use a test center address.
15 years ago I worked for a company that only delivered internal mail once an hour. Was a really good system that I’ve never seen anywhere else.
You can get the PCB a lot cheaper if you don't have it made at OSHPark.
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That kinda just reinforces the point though that all of this cryptononsense is a scam. Sure, here's a group exploiting Bitcoin Iditiots LLC for a good cause, but they're still exploiting.
This may not be the case in Europe. Sw engineer profession is roughly as male dominated, but I think you'll need a msc/PhD level in EU and with that kind of diploma IT pays vastly less than in US.
Don't do it, the last thing you want is a raid card malfunction whilst you are on holiday. You'll be talking downtime of days not minutes.

You have to plan for worst case scenarios and how your team mobilise. These things are the "insurance" you are buying when you make the hardware someone else's problem.
I think you misunderstand placebo. The placebo is needed foremost to reduce falsely reporting positive and negative effects after the study. E.G. for most drugs not beating placebo is essentially the same as zero or even negative effect. The rare exceptions when giving sugar water actually improves something because person thought they got a cure are themselves very anecdotal.
Yes, this is for this year.
There's also "legal" wash trading, e.g. the same institution/person putting in large BTC spot buy orders and then shorting the BTC future. This is how companies like crypto.com, celsius, blockfi, etc are now able to give investors 8%+ on their USDC because the investors need the cash for expensive futures contracts. The companies loan the cash out to hedge funds at high interest rates, take a cut, and give the rest to you.
And there are designs that are simply impossible to build with traditional machining. This is most certainly a valuable technology.
This is crazy. Bribing is illegal, but lobbying is legal. How many laws are created for the convenience of corporations and select people at the cost of ordinary because of lobbying?

Why no one in the US brings up this to the political agenda?
I can also confirm.

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2020 iPad Air (iPadOS 15.1 / A14), displays image perfectly.
Their idea does show a pretty stark difference b/w "regulated" and "unregulated" exchanges, however, as would be expected if that activity is fraudulent in some way.
+1 for bella canvas. I get unisex t-shirts from them because I'm a skinny male and those are the only ones I've found that aren't baggy. "Quest" is also the word I would use to describe how I arrived there.
Benford's law does not apply here. Benford's law is designed to separate human generated numbers from truly random ones. The numbers generated by exchange trades are generated by humans choosing trade sizes. This entire methodology is a complete joke.
> "Don't do it, the last thing you want is a raid card malfunction whilst you are on holiday. You'll be talking downtime of days not minutes."

Erm ... you do realise it is possible to fit more than one server into a colo rack don't you ? ;-)

N.B. Some might also say "who uses RAID cards these days ? ZFS FTW !!"
I wonder how much is just automatic arbitrage bots trying to squeeze out pennies.
What a cop-out. You were beaten and you know it.
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I'm restating the article in response to a comment that I thought misunderstood the article at a fundamental level.

It's idle speculation but sometimes idle speculation is interesting. Should everyone wait until they have conclusive evidence from prospective randomized controlled trials before writing?
Very inspiring. Best of luck!
Why wouldn't the exchange just lie and say that volume is higher than it actually is?
This is a real problem. with out the media how do you have whistleblowers?

what's the difference between a crackpot and and whistleblower?

I think the world needs more ethical journalists not less.

Can you argue that the current media has a bias and ethical problem absolutely. So, you fix it how? throwing it out?
I do not disagree on your points, but do on the basis of premise.

I do not believe we're any longer in a situation where people can achieve a critical mass of solidarity (even on the lower bound) leading to action. It seems to me that time has passed, and what public goods or you could say rights we have are on their way out.

It follows that an adaptation, a shift in personal thinking is required. I would have agreed with you in December 2019, but not after the summer of 2020.
Yeah, I get it, but unlike stock transactions crypto exchanges generally take a % of volume traded unlike stock exchanges which take a per-transaction fee instead (I think options might be an exception where there's a per-contract fee..not sure).
Welcome to the art world.
Wow, this is such a great answer. Thanks for the information!
> Automated trading strategies (e.g., "grid trading") are really popular

Why? After buying and selling side fees, is it easy to make a profit in an automated way with crypto?
Why not rent one or more dedicated servers rather than collocation. That way you don’t have to tend to hardware issues while still being cheaper than the cloud.
In case you want to play around with it, here's a Blazor version.

https://fx.hidekisaito.com/
Nootropics is a very vaguely defined categorization. There are certainly vitamins and amino acids that improve brain function (especially in cases of deficits) that are underexpressed in modern food because of our optimization for size, shelf stability and appearance.

However, the idea that there could be chemicals like psilocybin or modafinil or piracetam that used to be in our produce seems highly implausible.
The golden age of blog was long ago back, which was not only before current kinds of social media but also in a time when it was literally impossible to make a living from writing a blog, even a quite popular one, because the monetization options simply were not there, and the total addressable audience was smaller as well.

So going back to that certainly would not (by itself) mean the death of blogging.
He's a grifter through and through.
I believe the author was referring to The Emperor's New Clothes, which he also mentioned in the article
Yeah but how can I merge all the breakages into one commit, so I can break the most things for my users? I couldn't even do that without merge.
I came looking for your comment. Someone applying some common sense to the “research”. Yet, the post has >400 points.

Feels like these days anybody can post a paper and get uncountable widespread with 0 backings for their research.

In nutrition this happens A LOT. Things like: “meat causes cancer in 70% of the population”. And then you read the paper and they did the study on 80 people between 60-90 years old. There’s just no scientific/statistic rigurosity.
It can work for some usage patterns, but it’s important to understand the trade offs

Hosted gives up easy hardware replacement, easier redundancy, 24/7 monitoring etc

But a hybrid approach worked well for one place I worked at.

Their work pattern was:

Job scheduled by scheduler and pushed into queue (all AWS systems)

Local cluster of 20 machines pull from that queue, compute the job, and store the result back.

It worked because:
1) if a job failed the scheduler would re-schedule it

2) the local machines were treated as disposable, if one broke it was repaired or thrown away

3) deployment to the local nodes was simply copying a binary and config file

4) the latency didn’t matter as most effort of the jobs was compute

5) the bandwidth didn’t matter because the jobs were small and didn’t require much data

6) the tasks were embarrassingly parallel, so throughput scaled linearly with nodes

Sometimes it can work, but without knowing the specifics of your compute jobs the best I can do are the above generalisations
This is urgently missing "Oil refinery gas flare" which competes with the moon in brightness around here :)
Wow, tone it down a notch. It was an adult microdosing on psychedelics.
Well, you had me until you brought up Fidenza.

It’s something somebody with less than a CompSci or SWE bachelors could do. It looks like something a nerd who can program that just took an entry level mechanical engineering fluid dynamics course & thought it was cool made.

In other words, practically worthless, and hardly art. You would put them on your wall? Poor wall.
Answered in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29279685
> Tumblers contribute to this to some extent I presume.

How are tumblers related to exchanges?

Not sure I understand. We're not talking about onchain stuff here, but just money moving around within an exchange.
Everything is gravely dangerous if you ignore looking at bad outcomes.
what if the diagnosing and treatment were done by different doctors?
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Having seen two laptops side by side displaying different prices for the the same package holiday until the cookies were cleared on both I'm not so sure that there's no pain involved in ubiquitous tracking.

I think for the most part people just aren't aware of the consequences of corporate surveillance.
We have to not vote for the corporate politicians.

Which ones are those?
Assuming you are actually asking the question in good faith about why people would defend speech you dislike, here's a possible explanation.

Your personal values, sensitivities and comfort zone are not universal. You placing a label like "humiliation" on speech doesn't make that interpretation universally agreed upon, in the same way that someone labeling criticism of the Thai royalty or the prophet Mohamed as unacceptable speech may not be something you would agree with.

The internet brings in incredibly diverse viewpoints. Some people would censor referring to Taiwan as separate from China. Some people would censor stating that humans evolved from apes. Some people would censor sexual comments.

To be clear, I'm not defending Musk's comments. I'm trying to get more people to recognize that subjective assessments of what is offensive are deeply culturally and individually biased, and someone having different taboos or 'drawing the line' in a different place on the same taboo doesn't make them objectively bad or wrong.
Possibly. It's not a space I want to be, but there's a lot of tempting aspects. New niche languages (Haskell, Rust, etc), language writing and design. So I'm sure some of the positions are fun.
This is a nice step for Google to promote scam awareness, but it shifts the responsibility to the victims.

Google has an enormous role in enabling fraud and malware. They reap huge profits from malicious advertising and it's been a problem for more than a decade. Just about any fraud gets a good amount of exposure before a takedown.

Google should do much more than slap their name on a campaign and tell users to take care.
I think you're exactly right, another poster raised the interesting point of whether where those lines are drawn is inevitable based on the circumstances or if we have a lot of collective control.

I'd be curious to hear your thoughts.
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I think Lawrence Lessig was trying to focus on this before 2016 presidential elections.
If that counts, then my flight of a demo Aerotech aerospike HPR reload counts.
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If you're about to dump $10,000 to $100,000 worth of fees upon an exchange per month so that you can perform price manipulation (or whatever), you give the exchange a call.

They'll answer. You explain to them that you want to give them $50,000 / month (or something) for 10-million trades/month or whatever.

If they let you, you do it. If they don't, call up another exchange and give them the same offer.

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Its called business. When the $$$ amounts go up beyond a certain amount, you make it worth their while to treat you specially. They want the volume, you want the trades. Old-school business, just talk with them and things happen.
It's nearly impossible to get your name on a state-wide ballot without taking corporate lobbying.
Funny, I know people who could use some exercise in that skill.
Yeah, white supremacists usually do their best to ignore that part.

Do you believe race to be a real thing? Like there is some unifying trait between "white" people or between "black" people, besides a vague notion of skin colour and cultural similarity? Bear in mind that Italians and Irish used to be called nonwhite, that there are numerous different ethnicities in both Europe and Africa (including many African ethnicities that you likely would not call "black"), and that its extremely hard to isolate ethnic causes of variance from cultural ones?
I checked on the Quicklaunch design (https://vimeo.com/29822477) and the only solid moving mass in the gun is the projectile. So apparently you don't need to "bring [...] driver/piston to a halt extremely quickly" since there is none. They did propose to recover most of the gas by closing the muzzle just after the projectile exit, though. That might be complicated.
I misunderstood. I thought activities within a exchange were still on the chain.
Is it lulz, or is it a desperate attempt to find a financial/economic foothold when traditional footholds (bearable careers, houses, etc.) are increasingly out of reach for Millennials and onward?
> And have we scrapped the idea of space elevators?

If you're looking at sci-fi fixed infrastructure for access to space, the orbital ring looks more plausible.

It's out there, but unlike a space elevator it doesn't require gigatons of unobtanium cable.
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There are some extreme but isolated examples of people who are disposed to this opinion, but more commonly the objection to fields being dominated by one gender or the other is because those workplaces, as this study points out, can't seem to stop themselves from discriminating and gatekeeping against those of the other gender. While it should in theory be no problem that a workplace is 90% men and 10% women because they live in a platonic ideal where they've been free to attain to their true ambition that is influenced by biological traits related to sex, in reality, once one gender gains enough dominance in a field or workplace, sexual discrimination, harassment, and gatekeeping end up deepening the imbalance. This feedback loop ends up pushing out people of the non-dominant gender who want nothing more than to work in that field but are constantly and systemically met with prejudice and disenfranchisement.

It would be nice to deftly and precisely ameliorate this issue by just being able to say “stop acting in a sexually discriminating way because you're impeding someone's will,” and have it be so. But there are still far too many people who are willing to abet the discrimination either silently or willfully, writing the disparity off as a “natural outcome of biology.” So the alternative way to establish justice is the sledgehammer approach that equates the unequal representation with inequity. Because that is _also_ true.
We have to look at them and find out. We have to _constantly_ look at them, politics isn't a single transaction - you can't have democracy running by itself, you have to always practically support it with attention and resources.
Not so useful for an embedded system.
Only if you assume "automated" == "fraud", which is the distinction that grandparent is getting at.

Imagine you have a completely manual market which follows normal statistical distributions, including Benford's Law. Now you introduce one grid-trading bot with a large amount of capital. (A grid trading bot is basically a piece of software that automatically buys when the price falls below a certain level and then automatically sells when it goes above a certain range.) That one bot is going to make up the vast majority of transactions, because it's effectively "clamping" the price within its trading range. When random fluctuations take it below, it buys and sets a floor on the price. When random fluctuations take it above, it sells and sets a ceiling on the price. If you make the range small enough that most ordinary trades would end up occurring with the bot, it's going to take up the vast majority of volume.

There's nothing illegal about grid trading. They work to dampen random price fluctuations in a market. In exchange, they take on the risk that fundamental supply & demand might shift enough that they're left holding the bag, eg. they run out of inventory to sell and then the price jumps sharply higher, or they collect all the inventory and then the price drops.

But because they're non-human and take one side or another of most trades, they are going to account for a disproportionate amount of volume. This isn't fraud, it's that you don't understand the structure of the market.
What does super common mean? Do I see these bugs once a month? No, I do not. Null exceptions are common I agree with that. For me its not enough to appreciate something like Java or Go but I understand the argument.
Full of shit is short hand for.

I'm asking you for evidence for which I have confidence that you do not have.

Meaning instead of saying "you are full of shit" I say "can you provide evidence for that" knowing I'll be delightedly surprised if they do, but not being disappointed when they don't and not making them immidiatly defensive with hostile language.
I'm pretty tired of this trope about blind self-interest being "rational", as if acting in the public interest is somehow "irrational"

There are perfectly "rational" ways of defending placing value in either.

Further, public interest and self-interest are not concepts in direct opposition. In fact, I'd go so far as to argue that the best socio-political systems are the ones which best align the two.

edit: Further thought: consumer protection laws exist to bring those two into better alignment. In a market where there are many small competitors, it wouldn't make economic sense for any individual to lobby to destroy these protections, as everyone is subject to the same rules. Amazon is large enough that tipping the scales in favor of the self-interest of its business affects it in an outsized way. I think a big part of the problem here is the size of the market actor.