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> What's the point of a distribute ledger that can only be used within a game controlled by a centralized company?

The game is made by a centralized company. The items and economy in the game are on chain. Gamers can sell their items to other gamers. Or items can be interwoven into multiple games because the items / economy share the same "backend".
When I was a kid I was bullied by the kids calling me crazy, because of my overly imaginative approach to reality.
Fast forward a lot of years later i look at reality and find out that the bullies had no clue at all. The real world is far more bizarre than any of the imaginary worlds I created in my mind during childhood
In some cases, those lunches will lead to doing better work. Partly from having better, more full picture of the pressures your grand-boss is facing, from having direct opportunities to ask questions or get guidance, and partly (a minor part probably) from a willingness to give a little bit extra at a critical moment to someone that you have a more personal relationship with.
I'd add another sub-category: the so-called algorithmic stablecoins. Their biggest flaws being that they can blow up catastrophically in extreme events, something which may be hidden between a veneer of convoluted logic.
... and that is why the The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine ( https://www.amazon.com/Gale-Encyclopedia-Medicine-Set/dp/141... ) is on the list of books being removed ( https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/94fee7ff93eff960... )
I keep hearing about Park Geun-hye and all the crazy allegations, but it's always snippets like these or a reddit post, is there a good comprehensive resource that covers everything? Or should I wait for the eventual book to come out?
I have a (large) parrot and I agree with you entirely, though please don't undermine the amount of work good parrot owners put into their ownership.

> I can't imagine that anyone in love with birds is capable of putting them in a cage or on a leash.

Because sometimes there isn't a choice. Birds born into captivity do not re-hab well. Rescues (as is mine) are generally not able to live in the wild if they were just 'released', so someone has to take care of them.

> Sure you might think you treat him well, you pet him every now and then and provide it with some food and care, but is that truly an improvement?

Yes. It is. Over the fifteen Rottweilers, the aggressive man-handling, the forced breeding (even though he hadn't even hit puberty, thus why the breeder no longer wanted him) and the absolutely terrible living conditions he was in - yes, my place of living is a huge improvement.

Further, good bird owners do way more than "just pet him every now and then". You need to give them undivided attention for at least two hours a day. You need to look at every single poop they make around you because it's the first warning sign of health problems. If they're happy, they're generally content where they are.

There's a lot that you're missing here, I think, even though I agree with the overall message. Please don't dillute bird ownership to PETA-esque FUD.

> Is it better to provide a golden cage than to roam freely?

Sometimes, yes. Just like all animal conservancy. If we didn't care to give them better lives than what they had before, then we'd just put them all down wouldn't we? That's what PETA wants, anyway.

> I sure do hope that it will become a world wide taboo to hold birds as pets.

Let's instead put the taboo on _trading_ birds, first. That's the biggest problem. Many birds are ripped out of the wild and sold, usually illegally. These birds not only develop severe depression, but they're often horrible 'pets' as they were not brought up in captivity.

Lastly, birds brought into captivity often have no idea that a life other than their own exists. They're not 'missing out' on anything they're otherwise aware of. In fact, many owners take their birds out to free-fly quite often.

> If you're such an avid bird enthousiast, why not just stick with feeding the locals?

This isn't really a fair comparison, sorry. It's also not applicable in most places in the world - parrots generally come from a few specific places.
Would you ever consider using a credit card to run and grow your small business?
I am currently working on an idea which is credit cards for small business in India. I thought by posting this question on hacker news I can get valuable feedback. Please tell your honest opinion about my Idea in comments.
1. Communication ≠ Language

2. I said "complex tools", not "tools". Yes animals use rocks to crack things. Do they build spears, clothes, pots, pulleys, ships, buildings, bridges, computers? I don't think so.

3. Quite a limited study, but I admit it's interesting, thanks.

4. Building a shiny nest has a functional purpose of signalling sexual desirability to potential mates by building a big decorated nest. There is no evidence any animal has a sense of aesthetics as such.

5. Birdsong has a functional purpose of communication and sexual mate-finding. There is no evidence any animal has a sense of aesthetics as such.

6. First sentence of your link: "There is no evidence that any non-human animals believe in God or gods, pray, worship, have any notion of metaphysics, create artifacts with ritual significance, or many other behaviours typical of human significance, or many other behaviours typical of human religion."
> and pushing them towards adopting more off-the-shelf components instead of maintaining homegrown stuff

Are you spending your time second-guessing the developers and micro-managing them on the exact thing they are supposed to be experts?

Your phrasing has that "feel", but it's far from a sure conclusion. Anyway, if it is the case, you may need to reevaluate both your hiring (should you get more senior people?) and management (this is a clear "should never be done", unless your people are explicitly under training) practices.
If you have money, it's really hard to beat QoL in London. Brexit mostly affects the poor.

Sure, if it bothers you to spend ~8k USD/mo on rent, London might not be for you.
Actually I think he is wrong about that, crime can be done better on a centralized infrastructure. See all crime before cryptocurrencies were a thing.
Why use two files instead of one?
That's a silly argument "Our books are banned, so we want to ban your books". Fight to have your books unbanned, don't ban more books.

My old HS has Atlas Shrugged. shrug
If you want to read something wild: Rooftop sword master. It is a wild fictional comic based in south korea. I believe it may be a bit of a commentary to what you've written.
Ah yeah, the Blue Angels do the same. It’s all part of the show for them, with the aircraft parked in view of the public and a big deal made of the pilots walking to the aircraft and there being a smooth and rehearsed synchronised starting process.

I don’t really understand why they do it, to be honest. Most other military display teams, including the famous Red Arrows and Frecce Tricolori, just do regular startups with all the usual preflight checks.
I always looked at a computer issue as a challenge. How can I best handle it.

My brother built a 32 bit computer from bit slice chips, my other brother made a tv typewriter IO for it. I was the one who was going to program it. So I made a game.

I had no compiler, not even an assembler or linker. I had to write it in psuedo assembler and then hand assemble and link the code.

One issue I discovered early on was I made mistakes and it made lots of branch statements invalid if things moved. Not having a linker I devised a system where i put a jump table at the top of every module and then all other modules accesed that module via it's jump table. Just an example of approaching a problem.

I had the first ever Sphere computer (look them up! Amazing machine) It was a text only screen and I wanted to write a graphic game for it. So I designed an built my own graphics card, designed and built tank controllers for 2 players and wrote a tank war game for 2 players.

I never saw problems as a wall to walk away from, I saw them as an incredible chance to do something different to be able to scale it.

So when it came to writing a text adventure on a machine with tiny memory I had to get creative. I had not done anything like this before and i was just insprired to do the game, the language, the compiler and the interpreter all at the same time. It just felt right :)

I continue to push myself over walls and today I use Unity, C# and continue to do things that aren't supposed ot be possible.

For example www.finalPilot.com has an underlying network communication package I derived because I couldnot find a current solution that would totally fit the problem domain. It had to work on both UDP and WebGL with the same code base. It was a lot of fun coming up with a working system. WE are in the process of soon starting a new game with some new challenges and its network system will be much different from what Final Pilot uses.

Sorry if I rambled a bit and happy to fill in more details if needed.
Caring Less About Work Is Helping Me Survive
In many cases the amounts were written into the law so long ago that money was worth maybe 20x as much, or more.
I think that's a bit melodramatic. Lots of people can afford 5k without being part of waves hands "the rich."
I tried this last year but the version they shipped with IDEA didn't have ZGC and using an external JVM caused some weirdness in the GUI for me.
No. Backend development has a required skillset that differs from frontend development (although, obviously, there is an enormous overlap in that Venn diagram). It is not easier, nor harder. It is different.
But be aware the resulting catsplosion will grind the simulation to a halt at some point
When random teen can easily steal $46M from a "Bitcoin pioneer" what hope is that for regular folks could make safe use of said value store?
Communication ≠ language. My dog can communicate with me in relatively extensive ways. She cannot produce language.
Even new stuff has challenges. Integrating API's for other devices and services that your app uses. Working with analytics and reporting.
Isn’t that kind of like saying Real numbers are complete? Yes, it’s true, but we don’t have an infinite level of precision for each colour. So we have to, practically speaking, limit how many colours can be specified to some reasonable (and arbitrary) number, e.g. 10 million or 1 billion or more (in terms of number of colours in a colour space) and representation in digital bits. Also, since I conflated the two a bit, it is often helpful to restrict what the max range of a colour is so that you can get more useful data out of the same precision. It’s kind of like creating a dictionary to compress data, you can express more useful values with less data by choosing to display a subset of colours and by picking where the white point is for your display. These optimizations used to mean more than they do today, perhaps, but it can still take a lot of effort to transfer 10-bit or 12-bit raw pixel data at 4K resolution, 120 times a second… And it’s worth pointing out that while 8-bit is all you might need as precision for perceptually lossless HDR (with dithering), that kind of range isn’t good enough for colour editing work. It’s like starting a photo edit from the JPEG rather than the RAW file.
Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code
This guy has a personal brand by now for putting down crypto.

Like stop writing about it if you don’t like it!
Photographers have always had this obnoxious nature to them in many circumstances. Similar to journalists in many ways.

I think the US approach ultimately makes the most sense. There’s a societal benefit to being able to capture images and stories.
One of the graphs shows ZGC with almost 50% more overhead (in heap space) than G1, which could very well take some applications from "works fine" to "broken." So I can see why they'd leave it something to opt in to.
I feel your pain :)

Complexity kills projects and the will to work on them. It can be caused by either over or under-engineering. With the first you end up with extraneous layers of abstraction and badly applied design patterns that make it hard to understand or reason about the code...in the second you end up with a big ball of mud that's impossible to understand or tease apart.

In both cases the code gets harder and harder to change to the point that no one really knows how it works or wants to risk touching it.
It was a major exchange that did not understand what the 2 in "2FA" meant, yes.

Most exchanges did not have proper 2FA until the sim-swath-swoop of 2018-2020.
Perfect and infallible texts seems like picking easy straw man though. The new testament wasn't designed or intended to be litigated like a constitution or a bill, and arguably it was a Roman response to that very critical approach to the old testament. His most challenging (final) example was that it's better to select out in pursuit of compassion at the hands of a fearful mob than to become old as a member of one.

There is a simpler view that it is the best available reference we have for the intent of a creator, and it sets a pretty high bar. We can use science and other tools to interpret that intent (or even argue against its existence at all), but in terms of leading an exemplary life, we're probably not going to do better than that example, and even attempting it is universally more moral than not.

It's not so much that faith is immune to scrutiny as it's an axiom that criticism doesn't change. If you accept your experience of existence is an artifact of some other persons logic, you can be made to accept anything. The idea of working from a fixed divine example works as an innoculation against a lot of evils (deception as a means to direct cruelty in particular). I think what most atheists find so objectionable isn't the band so much as the fans, and I thought most of Hitchens' arguments reduced to this.

When we look at peoples faith as a conclusion, it presumes some prior logic or argument subject to language, and that logic determines its reality, but when you look at it as an axiom from which the rest of their experience flows, you just have to take it or leave it. We can all certainly reason, but what we are is not mere reason. So I think this difference is at the very core of how we experience identity, and everything that flows from the possibly irreconcilable logics of ideas about it.
Thank you for sharing that. It is always wonderful to know God used my gift to uplift others! Keep creating and achieving my friend!
You’re totally right, of course, but there’s a massive power in changing from one default to another. With remote working, the overwhelming default is not “I’ll have a casual lunch with my boss’ boss a couple times a month.” where a 50-person company with everyone on-site, you’re likely to eat with your boss’ boss a couple times a week in the cafe.
That's so many assumptions you might as well put on a robe and special hat and become a fortune teller.

The effective erosion itself is a policy choice, there is this thing called 'minimum wage' which you can use to make sure that there is more than just 'warm bodies' as the lowest common denominator in job requirements, and as a result everything above that has to be 'upgraded' to a higher standard as well, otherwise people aren't willing to do the work (just like is happening now). The examples are all around you.

There is no onshoring of talent or natural resources since they are not 'constructed' the same way and importing those are against the current ideas/fears of immigration and relying on third parties for goods.

In other words: globalisation isn't a choice, it's a side-effect from the needs of humanity. Reverting to a more primitive state that decreases those needs could be a path, but I doubt anyone would choose that willingly.

Besides those things, there is this concept of ideals or principles which are almost as important and it doesn't require any extreme form of meddling either. If people really care about something (say, the well-being of other humans and therefore not really being happy with an authoritarian regime somewhere) then that can be incentive enough. And if it isn't then some protectionism won't be enough either.
When I was younger I would do focus sessions for every waking hour of a day. I remember 14 hour physics homework sessions that would leave me exhausted. I think part of that is why I have so much anxiety in my later years. Sitting down and doing nothing every hour, even for a few minutes, is just so necessary to my sanity.
This is the sound someone makes when they realizing they're slowing down and everyone around them is speeding up.

Update: It seems I've triggered some sensitive HN'rs

Here's how to tell when someone has a real argument - they pick the best possible interpretation of the theoretical foundation of a system and then they disprove it.

Here's how to tell when someone is full of shit - they complain about meme coins.
But what is it actually used for?

Okay, you can donate to WikiLeaks ... But probably 99.999% of people who have possessed cryptocurrency are just speculators: buy low, sell high. And ironically, the exchanges are centralized entities :p
This is why I always have thought that election voting would be a perfect use case for a blockchain.

Imagine a way that you could look up the blockchain with your key (SSN?) that is somehow one-way-hashed to show you the result of your vote. The value param would be plain-text. Someone else wouldn't be able to see your vote without your key, but you could confirm yours was recorded properly. Anyone could tally the values to get the final value.

Because the blockchain is trustless and distributed, you wouldn't have to worry about an election machine flipping your vote.

Apart from currency, this seems like a great use-case! Are there any flaws in this basic structure?
I'm not a VC, but I'm not going to read your half an hour manuscript.

I sometimes read post here that take a long time, but it must be interesting. I'm using a modified version of the Crackpot index https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html but in my version you start with +5 points. So the problem is to get a few negative points before I close the tab.

(Published in Nature or Science is a -1.)

* What can you do now that nobody else can do?

* A nice technical graphic. (Or a table, but I prefer graphics.) I just skip the blah blah and go to the graphic.

* Did you publish it somewhere? Did you published something in the same field? Do you have a successful previous project in the same field?

Perhaps you will have better luck with a technical angel investor that already worked in this area and can skip the first 15 minutes of your summary. (Or at lest skim the first half and ensure it's correct.)
> Can't be true - the person who wrote it is a DBA

Not for long…
Don't forget Artix, Void, MX Linux, FreeBSD, Alpine, Gentoo/Funtoo..
For an average user, I'd guess they'd hit more issues with busybox than musl.
Any Facebook employee that wished to would surely find it trivial to use a VPS or something to mask their true location.
How does making something illegal counteract economic forces? Hint: Look at Soviet Bloc economics. They imported high tech goods even after spending loads of money on trying to build them internally.

I would agree that onshoring more of the supply chain makes a lot of sense, but I think it must be an economically viable solution. I don't know exactly how to do that, but things like having a guaranteed market (like we do for food) might be part of the solution.
This.

WiFi is the enemy.
>I don't think you'd find Ayn Rand in the average modern school library. Or a book that supports Trump, or a book that talks about socialism in an unflattering light.

My daughter's ultra left wing school in Denmark has Atlas Shrugged, Trump: The Art of the Deal, and Gulag Archipelago.

Are you suggesting that American schools are more left wing than a left wing school in Denmark?

Also, I got Atlas Shrugged from my school library in the U.S but that was in the 80s so probably you would think that wouldn't be possible today?
I would've really expected that any semi-decent school bans at least pr0n, gambling, sports betting and similar types of sites.
For a small number of operations, sure, but when you need to compress a million, or a billion images, the performance optimisations quickly add up.
Author's not wrong. I've seen some seriously cringe-inducing "talks" about what blockchain is and is not, and what it can or cannot unlock for you. I also find NFTs to be just...just...confusing.

But mostly I don't care. Do whatever you like as long as you're not hurting anyone. On average people are getting misinformed about some technologies, at worst willingly grifted. But I've seen worse technology trends come (and, by the way, go).
Shenandoah GC is conspicuously missing despite having similar availability to ZGC and competitive performance characteristics.
A blockchain doesn’t provide trust, though. A person who doesn’t understand technology doesn’t trust a distributed ledger, but they do trust their centralised bank because it’s regulated.
There are schools across America where, yes, I actually believe you would not find those books.

Remember that Dr. Seuss, benign of benign, having multiple books removed from school libraries is well-documented.

EDIT: I was wrong about this - it was the estate and a few vocal libraries - but most libraries did not remove.
Not sure I understand the idea. Can you describe it in more detail?

(It's better to add 'Ask HN:' to the title, see https://news.ycombinator.com/ask)
My point is it's such a rare purchase it doesn't really matter if the price even doubles for the cheapest ones, especially compared to regular quality items, that may last marginally longer but are a lot more expensive.

1$ socks 4 times/year << 20$ socks 1 time/year even if the socks double in price. And that's with the assumption that 1$ socks are 4 times more likely to break, which is incredibly pessimistic.

Not the case for bread! 1$ bread twice a week for a year starts to look bleak if it increases in price.
I interpret “early over engineering” not as adding complexity necessarily. It could also be about decreasing complexity but by taking too much time. Early on you’re supposed to rush to your MVP and add tech debt, not spend too much time to design something pretty and modular. Later on once you know your company can survive multiple quarters, then you can spend more time refactoring.
Automate repetitive tasks in Excel and let Python do the work for you
The difference is that you can't accidentally click a popup that takes you to a porn website in a book. If you want to talk about specific things that are blocked by that safe filter that you think shouldn't be, that could be a discussion worth having. But anyone who has ever used the internet should know that you absolutely need some kind of filter on a school's internet connection.

When I was in school, the only things online that I wanted to access that were blocked were flash games.
Aside from the maintenance and uptime issues, OP is actually raising a very real security concern; often an attacker will reboot the machine to restart all of the logging processes or to load in a LKM. Knowing why, and when (and which process) just forced a reboot is a very real requirement.

Systemd also seemingly randomly attacks my processes, and it's almost impossible to actually figure out why. (At least the kernel OOM killer actually logs "Out of memory, killed this process."[0])

0. https://linuxwheel.com/oom-killer-explained/
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