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"Can they get similar talent with draconian social policies like abortion bans? If I suggested moving to Texas my wife would (rightfully) tell me to go fuck myself."

- I am very much against TX's policy on this. However, how many people are affected by this policy Vs how many kids will be denied Algebra in CA now?

It is never 100% all good or bad policies in any place. It is always a mix. Rational people chose what's best for them and their loved ones overall.
So, do I understand correctly that these are the main benefits of a CBDC?

- A centralized ledger which is maintained by the central bank in question.
- Instant payment clearing - no ACH or other steps. You simply request a transaction and it happens immediately if it's possible.
- No fees - presumably you can send large amounts without paying for a wire transfer.
- Convertible into "regular money" with no fees or intermediaries. You can exchange this currency for traditional deposits at a regular bank, and vice-versa.
- Easy transactions with the government. You can pay your taxes, or get paid (stimulus payments, paychecks, for example), instantly.
- From the central bank / policymaker perspective, there are many benefits because of the gigantic amount of data they gain access to.

Would this be essentially like Fedwire, but for everyone rather than a special service for banks?
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its most a computer case(sound of drums) of production of scales the only ones who are mass produce are the ultra basic, the others are design for enthusiastic hobbyist who can pay a premium for their hobby.
That's... unsettling.

10 years ago I had my bank account wiped/stolen in Brazil (!!!):

- went to the police, then to the bank (same day)

couple days later: all the money was back in my account.
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As an AWS user I'm a bit disappointed with this. I was hoping their answer would be to cut or eliminated some prices across the board vs just increasing the free tier.

I find most apps are pretty binary. Either they are high bandwidth (like video and backups) or not. If you use 1TB there is a good chance you will use 2TB.

This will certainly make it less likely for the low bandwidth users to get a surprise bill but if you're doing video $85 per TB will get expensive fast. You better make sure your business model can make a profit at those prices. But even then, if the average user pays you $20 a month and only streams 100GB of video you make money but you'd make more money outside of AWS.

It's almost as if AWS wants to active discourage those use cases.
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What’s economically authoritarian about workers democratically controlling more of their production? A bunch of lazy coke heads at banks chopping up and selling companies to squeeze out a few more dollars seems to be a much larger concentration of actual economic power than any trade union
> Chromebooks are going in the right direction, and not by chance. They’re an attempt to fulfill Google’s vision of “everything in the cloud”. I don’t think, though, that they could ever be a great machine to code on: terrible keyboard, terrible screen, terrible shell experience.

What? There are chromebooks by many different manufacturers, and they all have a terrible keyboard and screen? As for the shell experience, that's not going to matter if development happens in the browser.
"You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant."

Sometimes understanding long term effects requires long term observation.
> All these schemes while claiming to be immutable are really not, firstly the last block is always subject to being overridden by a longer chain with more blocks, thus everyone waits for multiple blocks(confirmations) before accepting a transaction as committed

Not in chains with synchronous consensus and instant finality. No forking.
Huh, today I learned! Thanks for educating me.
I imaging taking on a TX job would feel a lot like collaborating with an invader.

I mean, I get that some folks are into that but still.
And a population that understands how to respond to it if they see it. The typical response now is to vote for the other guy, no matter how obviously worse they might be.
Nobody needed laws about automobiles before they were invented, and it took quite a few years before those laws became settled and close to universal.

(E.g. every jurisdiction will require you to drive either on the left or the right side of the road, but they differ. Nearly all the world now uses red stop signs and lights.)

Laws change in response to technological changes; this is normal. The spirit of a law is often more important than the wording, in deciding what changes to the law are appropriate.
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That's the right way to go. Like IntelliJ or not, Java is a legacy technology. I wouldn't want to depend on that.
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It is designed for desktop use, actually. Many of Alpine's developers use it as their primary PC distro :)
Correct. Inflation is when the dollar gets weaker for the masses because the elite are printing themselves dollars. Deflation is when the dollar gets stronger for the masses because the elite's proportion of the national currency is decreasing. We have pro-inflation, anti-deflation economic ideology because the elite fund the economists' "research."
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Creative, open people are heavily geared toward left thinking, it’s a question of personality.

People in new tech, in journalism, in art are thus far more left leaning.
That is good, this is thoses that push the boundaries of what is possible, that explore and inquire. It also explain why all the news tech corporation are heavily left leaning.

But at some point I think it became too much and become self destructive.

On the other side conservative are more interested in traditions, in what did work for a long time. Our world is changing faster than ever, this put the conservative in disadvantage in the market.
> Given that transferring crypto is hard, slower, more expensive, riskier, public, and more wasteful than real banking, I don’t see why these would be related.

This is partially true, but I think a bad blanket statement.

Bitcoin has outperformed all other asset classes over the last decade.

You can get crypto credit cards that remove all complexity you aren't forced to deal with anyway. And even if that wasn't the case. Banking is hard, too, so that's a moot argument.

Ethereum and others are moving away from proof-of-work.

Upgrades like taproot and zkrollups improve privacy and can be used today.
"Rates" is the operative word, and I of course mean "in the vaccinated population", because antivax people will die from COVID; this is well-known. Seems to me that most EU countries are in a fourth wave of COVID with total cases surpassing anything in the past, yet the graph you link shows deaths below all the past waves, and it doesn't discuss vaccination status. Please read a bit more charitably, it makes no sense to post this graph as if it shows something relevant.
how would you direct private capital to maintain/build living spaces then? Unless you are thinking to have government to be responsible to do that, building more to keep up with the demand + maintenance of the existing ones. It does work in places like Singapore, but I am not sure I would trust the US Gov's execution.
They will certainly try, but if they pick the wrong spot it will be prohibitively expensive compared to other locations and so they will be more inclined to pick another location, and the market price of the land will price this all in
I don't think you are up to date.
There are "cash" crypto's out there such as Nano, with sub second transactions, 0 fees, and can run the network on the power of a single windmill.
The thinly veiled ad hominem stuff against Diehl is uncalled for.
That may well be the case but you still have to deal with the realities of the market which doesn't give a hoot about your profitability.

Of course if you aren't making enough then you won't be able to afford to hire somebody but that has nothing to do with the market rates.
Sure. I was just pointing out that if you really wanted to use 254, you could use fd00:ec2::fe and write it as fd00:ec2::0.0.0.254 -- though mainly because I wanted people to know that doing so was possible, not because it was in any way a good idea in this case.

(At least, I was trying to point that out, but re-reading my post it's obvious that I didn't do a very good job.)
After enough confirmations a transaction is final and I can trust that the transaction is final and my account balance on the ledger is correct.

Present forms of digital cash do not offer this. A payment can be reversed if the buyer claims the transaction was fraudulent and the banks involved agree to reverse the transaction. Money can be accidentally withdrawn from my account and I have to ask the bank to return it. In both these cases if the institutions involved refuse to return my money then I have to take the issue to court and I am deprived of using or investing this money in the meantime.

If consumer protections are your concern these laws exist in many countries regardless of the payment medium.
why is it more unsafe than equivalent C code? I always thought it's simply a way to enable C-like real pointers/native memory ...
I've used Shenandoah GC with great success and I recommend anyone considering ZGC (specially on Kube and container environments) to try Shenandoah first. You won't have to do additional work to enable large pages, yet your performance is pretty close.
We save 7TB per mo egress because of Cloudflare's free cache (through Workers) and pay nothing for it.

Granted Cloudflare, the CDN, has Enterprise plans for higher TB bandwidth (esp video), but Cloudflare, the Cloud platform, has more than generous free-tier, batteries included. AWS' value-based pricing has them extract fees for things as trivial as builds and deploys, and their bills are nothing but nightmare to parse or estimate. This is in stark contrast to the simple and straight-forward pricing with Cloudflare, which we pretty much prefer as a small dev shop. So much so that we choose to pay Cloudflare money to host our services even though we've got 5-digit AWS$ credits.
Let's get real for a second and be honest about the very real problem we are discussing:

Political activist teachers are pushing their agendas onto students. This has been quietly happening for some time, but has become harder for the teachers to hide as children started completing more instruction and schoolwork in the home.

These are not isolated incidents and the examples of this happening are everywhere in the US. In fact, many teachers have been caught openly bragging about trying to create "radicalized" students. This is precisely why we've seen a grassroots push by parents against teachers and admin.
If this was 2013, I would agree with you, because the risk of it being worth nothing was much larger, but today the Bitcoin blockchain moves thousands of bitcoin per day (worth billions of dollars in value) and it's network effects are stronger than ever before and you can see usage go high through on-chain metrics (like # wallets, transfers) and increase in lightning network usage (1ml.com).

So I would say, investing in Bitcoin in 2013 probably has the same risk as investing in pets.com, but today, it would be like investing in Amazon a couple years after the dot com bubble when the trajectory is clearer. Just my 2 cents.
Don't forget that there is still nothing backing the bank deposits themselves. So yes, extra steps, and extra risk. Which also means extra room from intermediaries and fees.
I don't care if they're "exactly as their designer wanted them to be" — I don't want them to look weak and pixelated. I want my screen to appear as close as possible to print, with text equally easy to read. Windows does not provide such an experience.
Until you realize that you are fine with the same stuff being done by US.
Yeah that seems to be what is happening:

SELECT 20171201 <= fb.date <= 0, COUNT(1), MIN(fb.date), MAX(fb.date)
FROM facebook_event_checkin fb
GROUP BY 1

returns:

0 6302 20171201 20180501

1 13709 20170101 20171130

.

SQLite has some completely bonkers unexpected behaviors. The above query with the "GROUP BY 1" line removed returns:

0 20011 20170101 20180501

instead of throwing an error, which is an absolutely bonkers decision.
There will likely be many national currencies, the Digital Yuan comes to mind as a major contender. A global currency increase the risk to larger scale domino effect in the economy.
Good news. The momentum is becoming irresistible and irreversible.
> This is the second time this week I've seen an article from Diehl on the front page that is critical of cryptocurrency but has next to zero substance. Weird that people regard him as a crypto expert, he doesn't seem to understand the space very well.

What is stated without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. These unfounded personal attacks is not what HW was about, I remember.

> Comparing Bitcoin to doge and shiba is laughable

such insight!

> - Re progcoins, he says "After twelve years of these technologies existing" - Ethereum is only 6 years old...

Damn, you got him! By reading the text as literally as possible... I'm impressed!

> - Like most other crypto skeptics, this author doesn't understand the value of decentralized value transfer, so his analysis entirely misses the pro's of these technologies. It's like someone trying to understand why candy is popular by only looking at the nutritional information - never tasting it.

Didn't you get the memo of his article(s) that crypto is anything but decentralised? The good thing is that you yourself didn't proclaim to be a crypto expert. Fair enough!

> I'd bet 1000 SHIBA that one of Diehl's friends tried to convince him to buy in years ago, and now the cognitive dissonance of that rejection costing him hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential gains is forcing him to double down: his ego cannot tolerate crypto success - or else he'd have to admit to himself he was naive and short sided by discounting it years ago.

Is this just psychological projection?
Is that really all you have to offer?
> I don't waste my time on bad faith.

I think it’s more that you simply don’t have a good response to the points, and making an accusation of bad faith is a cheap way for you to avoid facing that.

I’m not making anything up. Let’s take a look at what you wrote:

Me:

> what has been proved is that Marx’s theories don’t limit the effects of the machinations of assholes

You:

>> What a weird test. No system of government does

There is no difference between limiting the effects of the machinations of assholes, and holding power to account.
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Also, "antivax" is unnecessarily pejorative. There are plenty of people who are hesitant toward covid vaccines exactly for the reasons you mention, while they're not at all against vaccines in general. The communication habits of all major governments haven't really encouraged trust. Fauci is on record as having lied to the public deliberately.
Have you looked into mbsync (isync) and notmuch?
Yes, rationality is better than irrationality.
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I'm somewhat bullish on the promise of permissioned blockchain systems, but the Facebook/MySQL example is misleading --

* Facebook doesn't need MySQL to interop with other systems in the same way that blockchain enables.

* Relational semantics are way more complex than what most distributed ledgers technologies offer. A blockchain is more analogous to the MySQL binlog than to MySQL itself. I would guess that Facebook's DB transaction log is orders of magnitude larger than all the blockchains in the world combined.

* Facebook's challenges with MySQL are most likely due to their unprecedented scale. If one were to layer on the governance challenges associated with distributed ledger systems, I would think an upgrade like that would basically be impossible.
Sorry, but you are making politically charged arguments. I am stating facts. COVID is defeated by Pfizer/Moderna when it comes to an increased background death rate, i.e. if 100% of the population had Pfizer & Moderna there would be approximately no excess deaths in the population vs pre-COVID times. The remaining issue with the disease isn't so much the people dying from it as it is the fact the unvaccinated population gets very sick and overwhelms healthcare systems, resulting in triage situations that were easily avoidable.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination#unite...
> Option #2 is typically the best one and is pretty easy to do

Your app's manifest is more important than you realise and I wonder if the OP is aware of this? Its SxS not SxSW. :-)

http://tinyurl.com/y3q8h3ks

This might be useful as well
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dlls/dynamic-...

IIRC Windows has been UTF-16 for ages which this link suggests has been since 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_in_Microsoft_Windows

I always treat UTF-8 as internet territory like web pages because its reportedly easier to recover from corruption which occurs more often online than with the components inside a computer.
That one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_77 also doesn’t look like either Tropfenwagen or Schlörwagen.

I don’t doubt there are many cases of blatant copying in technology, but I am having trouble to see any connection between either Tatra and the cars discussed in the post. Also: the “Czechoslovakian” Tatra linked to was designed by an Austrian and a Hungarian.
It's really more of MLM than Ponzi at this point.
Why in the world would Samsung choose Texas? Does that seem like a state with a functioning stable government, and well informed citizenry? No.

So, Texas most likely won this investment by loads of tax incentives, side deals, offers to cut red tape (like those pesky environmental impact reports), and massive, massive graft.

I guarantee that in the future we're going to read about how this particular investment is an environmental nightmare, in the end cost taxpayers billions, added little to the economy and only benefit was to make a few local politicians insanely wealthy.

Remember, Texas went to the supreme court in an attempt to INVALIDATE the democratic votes of other states. They are barely part of the US any more, so I don't even consider this a win on a national basis.

I really hope Samsung pulls out of the deal.
For sure, I agree that interpretation is critical for computing systems like operating systems and compilers. I have been extremely pleased that most of the recent popular SysML research readily trades correctness for understandability. Likewise,
I have also been pleased that correctness is often traded for performance.
Eris, obviously. The pursuit of some poorly conceived, irrelevant metric destroys all harmony, derails any progress, and leaves smoking wreckage and bad feelings in its wake. From which arise the next generation of efforts which inch progress along yet another bit, maybe, if we're lucky.
Except you just wrote a long comment telling me that I should be using government intervention if I want to actually trade bitcoins for goods or services.

You hinted that somehow a general user of bitcoin might have the power to influence or extort a third party to offset risk - but the reality of the situation is that the only entity I'm in contact with that can provide the resources to influence or extort a 3rd party is my government (doubly so if we assume I'm still bound by my local laws and rote violence isn't an answer).
Potentially bad apples in the leadership does not equate with Catholics, nor does it equate with Christians as a whole.
It is for you because you've given up.
If you misquote just a little, their argument can be just as useless at supporting any shitty or illegal industry.

> But, and this is a key point, that doesn't make us right and [the people who scam old ladies by extremely pushy sales tactics for vacuum cleaners] wrong. It's just a different kind of market, one that I am not very good at, but it is for sure possible to make money in it. You just need to be a different kind of person. We can say our way is "better", but who are we to decide that?
Wait why would LOWERING the tax rate on improvements INCREASE the amount of building inspections? Are you assuming that this would lead to an increased reliance on the cost approach for assessments?
Also the AWS free tier expires after 12 months (unlike, say, GCP).
Yup, this is one of several reasons I just pay the $5/mo for a similarly specced VPS with another provider.
did they succeed though? And if yes, did it came at the expense of "actual science"?

An important lesson a parent should teach to their kids is that not 100% of what is taught to them is true and that some stuff taught to them is non-sense/political propaganda. In CA it is CRT, it TX it is Creationism.

But which place will still teach them Algebra?
There’s astroturfing on HN, like every other open social media platform. The tilted dissonance around crypto, whether it’s the counterintuitive market behavior or climate change advocacy, is one of lacking curiosity, a hallmark of innovative cultures.
https://twitter.com/WAHa_06x36/status/1463456861978599426?s=...
They've reduced my chance of dying from COVID (when I'm infected, not if; it's happened at least twice so far) by around 95%.

That's more than nothing.
"Smart engineered gold" is an oxymoron. Gold is a terrible platform for economic activity, because it is expensive to create and difficult to move/transact with.

Just because it was the best financial technology hundreds of years ago does not make gold, artificial or not, the best financial technology for today.

"Faster horses"...
All of us, but the Swedish are doing it without using coal or other fossile fuels. [0] Iron's going to be a bit harder to remove from the process though ;)

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2021/08/19/how-swe...
> I am very much against TX's policy on this. However, how many people are affected by this policy Vs how many kids will be denied Algebra in CA now?

I'm not sure these two things are meaningfully related.

> It is never 100% all good or bad policies in any place.

This argument works for about any systemic harm one can think of.
hindsight is 20/20
I think that all depends on how much longer people give money real value.

Edit: And I’m not insinuating people would instead give something like crypto real value. More along the lines that as these economic systems fall apart, the abstractions they were built upon will mean less and less until a house is a house and farmland is farmland and no amount of tokens or gold will buy that from somebody else.
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But, who's going to archive archive.today?
I do in general agree with you. but it occurred to me - how many of the behaviors we take as signs of advanced cognition in humans are the result of evolution to improve mating outcome?
Nope, it's money. We don't fund tech education, we don't fund women to get degrees in tech, and overall we could not care less as a society if bright students fall over dead in a ditch. Plenty of women that want a compsci degree despite stereotypes, despite the problems associated with being surrounded by a bunch of socially inept men. But will Microsoft, Google, Apple fund this? No.

*EDIT: downvote with a response. Go through the education system and see the truth for yourself or be apart of the problem.
Exactly! The intensity of the smell is a perfectly fine consistent heuristic.
The policy that caught my (American) eye is the reduction of the voting age to 16. I imagine the idea has been bouncing around for some time, but my first guess is that the motivation might be related to the environment?
Everyone's moving to Texas. Here's why (NYT)
Is this not demonstrating Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?