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>Actually I rather like it. In my first language it works like that too.

Yeah, it's easy for you since you grew up with that system, but as an expat in Germany it is a monumental pain when someone is dictating you long numbers (telephone, social security, insurance, etc.) in groups of two over the phone and you gotta scribble them quickly on a piece of paper since you tend to write the first digit you hear, but that's actually the last of the pair you gotta write so numbers get easily mixed up.

Example, dictating and writing down 23.45.67.89 in pairs over the phone, would sound like "3 ... and twenty", "5 ... and fourty", "7 ... and sixty", "9 ... and eighty" which is difficult to not fuck up and swap them when under pressure of writing quickly, if you don't count the same in your own language/culture, and you haven't agreed over the endinanness with the other party before the dictation starts.

So you're left with 2 choices if the other party uses this system, either you write the first digit you hear, which is actually the last, and leave a blank space in front, so you can write the "x_ties" number when it comes up, but that only works on paper but not on a dialing pad or keyboard as the cursor keeps moving too the right, or, the other option, you wait to hear each number pair before you start writing them down, then you start writing, but that can also causes mixups in your brain during the decoding of the reverse order from hearing to writing if the other party dictates the pairs quickly.

Or, you just throw in the towel and ask the other party to dictate it digit by digit and call it a day.

So, apologies, as I have to disagree with you. It may work well if you're counting incrementally to keep track of something, but for transferring non-sequential numbers over the phone, this is a stupid numbering system that causes more problems than it solves.
>> consensus will be set by the few whales, who will maximize their rent extraction at the expense of numerous small players

Aren't you just describing capitalism here? The people that created the system and own the biggest share of it have gigantic influence on it. Matter of fact, isn't that exactly what happened in ethereums PoW network, too? The developers decided to switch to PoS regardless of what the current participants want.

In general, isn't the idea of using PoS that if you aren't happy with the current system, you can easily fork into a competitor? If enough people think the current system is unjust, then you can switch to the new one, where you will be part of the development. At the beginning of the fork you also wouldn't need that much compute, as PoS is more efficient and you aren't going to have many users/transactions in the first place.

Since it's easy to switch currency (at least easier than privately setting up a Dollar 2.0), members of the original currency have to behave fairly, else people are going to switch. Note: The thing people are switching to doesn't even have to be better in any way than the original currency. It just has to have different controllers to influence the members of the original system.

The way I see it, is that there's no meaningful way in which PoS based currencies are worse than the current monetary system: large stakeholders in current global currencies also have gigantic leverage (think of money printing during the pandemic or bailouts after the 2008 financial crisis). The real advantage I see with PoS systems is not the system itself, but the tooling that comes with it and allows for the development of competitor currencies that check the power of each other. With current global currencies there's no checks-and-balances system inside the monetary decision making process, while a fleet of independent PoS has the chance for checks and balances to be induced through competitive pressure.
same here. I had an account that is now selling bras under my name. Tried contacting FB support so many times, nothing ever happened.
So... the consensus rules of the network changed, you need to make sure you have the correct client, and bitcoin is weakly subjective after all?
I keep bringing up smartcards in every thread, but I just can't help it. Car keys seems to be moving towards contactless, at least Tesla got a right idea, there's even open-source implementation as an applet for it https://github.com/darconeous/gauss-key-card.

Cryptography is math and you can't beat math, cost and scale will always limit complicated physical keys. And most existing electronic keys/tags/fobs/cards use cheaper not-quite-smartcards that are vulnerable to replay attacks and cloning, LPL even had some videos about them.
Half the benchmarks i see posted here are done on AWS instances or the authors laptop with power stepping/cstates, unisolated cores etc etc likely all enabled too, let alone basic rigour around hardware specifics.

We are very much entering the age where mechanical sympathy is waning
Does it matter if you want a bit for bit copy of what's on the screen?
https://search.marginalia.nu is another interesting search engine
And it's not just German either. If you take the word 175 for example:

German: einhundertfünfundsiebzig (one hundred five and seventy)

Slovenian: sto petinsedemdeset (one hundred five and seventy)

Which is weird when you look at all the other neighbouring languages:

Polish: sto siedemdziesiąt pięć (one hundred seventy five)

Czech: sto sedmdesát pět (one hundred seventy five)

Slovak: sto sedemdesiat päť (one hundred seventy five)

Hungarian: száz hetven öt (one hundred seventy five)

Italian: centosettantacinque (one hundred seventy five)

Croatian: sto sedamdeset pet (one hundred seventy five)

Serbian: same as Croatian but in cirilic

You get the idea.

Given that, I'm holding you Germans responsible for our also stupid number system.

Sincerely, a Slovenian.
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Not to mention that "half five" means 17:30 in most English speaking countries but 16:30 in Dutch.
A rapidly-growing 1% problem, one that has the potential to nullify other costly gains. Such problems need to die young, before they grow into 5/10/50% problems.
> Figuring out how to make spending your tokens irrevocable is the whole point of PoW/PoS.

Maybe I'm missing something... if miners are required to send the tokens to an invalid address, are these tokens not lost irrevocably?
Consider Indian consumer isn't with high purchasing power in comparison to EU, NA and APAC, Starlink can temporary avoid that and support Indian regional countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It is hard to believe Indian government able to tolerate that.
Neither does French, you're confusing 50 with 70. https://frm.wiktionary.org/wiki/quarante-douze

Edit: 50, not 60.
Danish is the worst.. “six half-fives” (6 + (5 - 1/2)*20)
It's not just a "kind of person" who wants personal relevance to what they're learning.

It's human nature for learning to take place naturally and effortlessly when there is a felt purpose and relevance. For all humans.

The problem with this in schools, is that you can't actually generate this sense of purpose (which is a feeling, emotional) for arbitrary subject-student pairings. What do when it fails?

The strategy is, they TRY to generate the sense of purpose (maybe not try that hard, after years of failure and burnout), but fall back to the emotion of fear as primary coordinator/motivator for everything.

They make students afraid to look stupid in the short term, and afraid of an abstract "bad future" ("flipping burgers") in the long term. They introduce the system of grades for 3 whole years of middle school, when the grades serve no purpose (they're not used by colleges) but to generate the fear-based emotional economy of the school.

Fear is the primary emotional mechanism of the school. For every kind of person, this is worse educationally than felt purposeful engagement.
Exactly most people don't even use N95 masks
I've never found a podcast that is not full of idle chatter. Admittedly I gave up searching after trying some astonishingly dull ones.

The only exception was a Linux kernel podcast but the format was really unsuitable for the topic.

Do you have any good technical podcast to recommend?
No, it isn't voluntary or pretend. For most people today it's a natural extension of their lives, which they use daily, if not hourly. Where two decades ago you'd call a friend to talk, or send physical mail to communicate or physically go to a store or send mail to pay your taxes,today all of those are online. Most young people grow up with all of those things online and have never known anything else. For them, and those who grew up while things were changing, being offline is a option like going in exile in Siberia.

Heck, many people make their self worth based on Instagram or whatever, and many make their livelihoods online. The Internet is not what it was two decades ago, and pretending otherwise is foolish. It simply cannot remain the Wild West, like the real Wild West couldn't and didn't. Real life people are impacted, up to and including death (radicalisation and joining a terrorist group, or driven to suicide through harassmwnt, to name two "fun" ones)
Our science is not that good.

Basically you want a virus that really is a vaccine. The current vaccines are far from perfect because apparently we don't know how to make them better. Expressing such a vaccine as a contagious virus would not better but would only create more risks.
Tesla got it wrong in the sense BT is vulnerable to repeater attacks and such could likely be used to steal your car, assuming you were targeted by someone trying.

Edit for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25187170
How does this hypothetical world not end up with people that can afford to hire the more powerful protection agency be favored in those settlements?

Not that I'm happy with the current system, but I can't really see how a privatized one would not end up with an even bigger class divide where the laws are only enforced against people that are on the same level as you or below.
No. Did you not read the comment you were responding to?
There's actually a direct mention of that in my post already, but it's all the way near the bottom in the "Weakening non-moveability" section. It probably goes a bit too far to link in the intro, so I inlined a quick definition as relative clause there instead.

The `moveit` library is interesting also because it would allow pinning containers to expose a wider mutable API, though there's currently no trait to update instances post-move, which would allow `realloc` use. I filed an issue for it about a week ago: https://github.com/google/moveit/issues/26

That still leaves the issue of callback targets though, which would have to be notified before a possible move to support one-step reallocation.
For some reason Italian flips at 17: sedici (16, six-ten), diciassette (17, ten-seven).
On the other hand, network byte order is big endian, so now we typically have a little endian devices converting to and from big endian to talk to each other.
Do you have some kind of cognitive impairment like dyslexia?

We have the same way of saying numbers and I can't imagine anyone being confused by it. Its normal to just say individual digits for large numbers in any language.
My parents emigrated to the Netherlands when I was young. In my native tongue we say numbers in the same way as they do in English. My 8 year-old brain struggled to understand this new way saying numbers when I started school in the Netherlands. I got there in the end but I recall it feeling like it took forever.
Given that in English, as well as in German, contrary to the roman letters, the numbers are arabic signs, I wonder in which direction arabs spell their numbers.

Does anybody know?
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It is impossible, because time, unlike electricity, is free.
I turned 42 recently and I went through a similar situation.
Good job, well paid and still interesting enough, but becoming more and more boring every month.

At some point I felt that I had just two options on my table:
- Stay in the company as technical director to continue growing but with limited expansion possibilities. Write less code and make more boring meetings basically.
- Continue doing more coding as senior developer and be happier with my life without all the meetings, but that would mean even more limited growth possibilities.

So like in most things in life, in the end I found out that there are not just 2 options, but thousands.
In my case the best solution I found was keep working with my daily job to have the stability that makes me feel "safe" when I go to sleep, and at the same time spend most of my free time in doing what I like the most: coding on some project that is 100% mine and where I have total control over.

I tried this approach a few times with some SaaS projects and even if they didn't became unicorns and some generated barely 30-50k$/year, they were totally worth the effort in creating them, because on top of the money, the most valuable thing you get in return is to learn how to create a project from start to finish, with all the non-technical components like marketing included.

Over time I found out that you'll need to be lucky enough to find someone good enough like you on the design and marketing side of it as well, but if you finally find the right team, then it will become 100x better than working on any company. Both financially and in terms of happiness.

Of course it's not a recipe that will work for everyone because you really need to be passionate about something to spend most of your free time on it, and you will risk of getting burned out, but from my experience is definitely worth the effort!

And the most important part of this, is that you will have the ability to jump into any technology you want!

In my case I felt like the web2.0 was getting pretty boring and repetitive for me after doing all the SaaS projects, but now I'm about to launch a web3 project that I built within 5-6 months without any prior knowledge of smart contract in any way.
You can't find a job that will give you the opportunity to make such drastic changes in your career and will allow you that level of freedom.

You just need to make it for yourself!
Interestingly, I have a German girlfriend who, when speaks English, sometimes reads numbers backwards mistakenly. For example, she reads 73, thirty-seven before quickly fixing it.
I consider myself very agile/test-driven-leaning and I got a lot out of the book. It provided nice restatements of many things I've vaguely thought over the years and some nice new ideas.
This assuming you know my SMS 2FA number, it not not that expensive to have second phone number and second sim on a phone.
In the US, I don't think most people would know what to make of "half five".

(I bet something like 20% of people would think hard and then decide you meant 2:30)
I recently realized that M-D-Y makes a lot more sense than we give it credit for. Date formats needn't be about the cardinality of the units, in this case it's about spoken language. The M-D-Y format simply follows the order of the words in (EDIT: American) English. We say January 4th, 1970. Try reading D-M-Y in (EDIT: American) English and you will quickly realize that it doesn't make sense. I suspect most other spoken languages use 4th January, 1970 so D-M-Y feels more natural to them.

EDIT: I'm sorry if I offended you by equating American English with English. Point taken. I misspoke. The point remains.
Legality requires to be tested in court. Until it is, anything is technically neither legal nor illegal unless you opt to not contest it in court when exerted by other parties.
Competition and ease of replicability matters a lot in the long run.

"Weak Competition" or legacy players are largely irrelevant, which is an important distinction to make.

I have no doubt in 10 years there will be numerous ways to sign documents electronically and margins will be thin.

Think about cloud storage and other areas with a high amount of competition. All of these things will trend towards margin compression in the long run, almost by definition of being in a competitive/free market.

Cost of switching matters a lot too. It's easy to move from DocuSign to some competitor. It's
more difficult to move from managed MongoDB to managed Postgres, due to having to define some translation layer.

The thing is that we're just early in the digitization cycle so all these first movers becomes pseudo monopolies. That won't last for more than a decade or two.

Highly likely that stock performance for a lot of these 20-100x sales stocks will be very poor over the next 10 years. But you may get a good stretch of high returns in the short/medium term.

Think about when Ford created the assembly line. Did that give them a forever Monopoly on cheap production of cars? There's this attitude that competition doesn't matter in technology, but we can clearly see in things like laptops, routers, hardware etc, that margins became very low after market got saturated.

It's only just the last few years that things like DocuSign were even possible to create.

This is especially true for software where once it's built, marginal cost to deliver value is extremely low. Theoretically, a well designed and cloud native/managed version of DocuSign could be run by just a handful of people in the long run. Do people really expect that nobody will accomplish this in the next 10-20 years?

Where there's margin, there's opportunity.
I have to acknowledge that my supposition that aphantastic people would have trouble drawing from memory or imagination was wrong. It was pure speculation, based, I presume, on the fact that I lean hard on visualization to draw from memory or imagination.

I must say, the truth of the matter is much more interesting than my incorrect speculation.
> It's a system with an immutable monetary policy.

Is it though? It seems minor protocol tweaks aren't uncommon and hard forks managing to eclipse the original protocol in popularity are also conceivable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bitcoin_forks
With one big assumption attacker know you 2FA SMS number, it is not hard to have second number.
I can’t see shit when I close my eyes but if you ask me to draw a helicopter I’ll ask you which one and I can draw it pretty darn well. That said my drawings would be quite “technical”. And I pretty much tend to draw by almost connecting dots. For example if I were to draw a helicopter it would start with a bounding box(s) then define the ratio lines, sketch the outline / silhouette and finish it up with the details.

People with aphantasia can recognize things visually still.

People have different levels of “visual imagination” my GF claims to be able to visualize objects as an overlay of the real world which to me is pretty freaky. It’s not that I don’t believe her I just can’t related to that at all.
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nonante!
ETFs represent an aggregation of many individual stocks, though, so money flowing into ETFs (indirectly) means money flowing into individual stocks.
It might be this page: https://www.slush.org/events/slush-live-stream/

I think they will be streamed publicly. Currently, it contains streams from 2019. Year 2020 the event was canceled.
At least in Belgium we fixed that with "septante"
and let's not forget our masterpiece "ten to half five", one of the most straightforwardly intuitive ways of saying "16:20"...
> could have predicted the success

Some wag, noting how economists were better at explaining the past, remarked they had successfully predicted nine out of the last five crises ...
It's important to remember that the direction of the causal link is from the value of each satoshi to the cost of electricity use by miners, not the other way around. People value sats, for whatever their reasons. Because they value sats, the mining costs can be financed. If people had no reason to value sats, there would be no mining. The best way to undermine Bitcoin energy use, would be to talk to your local central bank.
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He probably speculates, like the degenerate speculators, that it won't end up there.

Why push around everyone to consume differently while distributing vast amount of tax money that immediately go into more wasteful crypto ? It will not stay at 1% and I agree with the OP that it's going to be difficulty to reduce electricity wastage on one end while ignore the elephant baby in the crib taking over the room.

I'm a random internet person in Hong Kong. I have a friend mining half his rent in a hotel room who decided that he doesn't need to pay rent the "normal way" anymore, he can just sleep next to a cluster of mining machines in a hotel room. Is he the stupid one, or am I, paying 3000 USD of my own money monthly ? I have another friend who lost half his saving in shitcoin speculation, I have colleagues who made a 10x profit this year, I mean it's all fucking around me and it's very hard to say it's just a 1% part of an important problem.

I feel sometimes it's going to become the main problem. I can't wait for a mega crash to calm down all this excess. I can't accept I'm the idiot working the traditional way to make traditional money paying for traditional things while the futuristic gamblers mine their hotel room fees on a bet I'm going to eventually be forced into using their tokens at whatever cost when it becomes legal tender, locking the future price into making them billionaires.
It's weird form 70-79 as well! To say 79, you need to say sixty-ten-nine!
Well, like it or not, stealing is 99.9% of practical usage of bittorrent.
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For larger and longer running projects, I prefer sqlc.
There is zero magic involved, but it still generates the boilerplate for you. If for some reason you decide you don't like it, you can just pretend it never existed.
Dutch: honderdvijfenzeventig (hundred five and seventy)
I'd be happy to compromise so that Europeans ban decimal comma and Americans start using metric system.
I thought funders requiring that results be published in open access journals was making some progress on this problem?
Yes, we're stuck with that, at least for old protocols
> a Lishi key should leave little to no scratches on the pins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YFW0nh7h3I
> Car keys seems to be moving towards contactless

Moving towards? I don’t think you can buy a car that has a physical key anymore can you (except for the emergency key you can pry out.)
I'm sorry about your experience, but from what it seems, your problem was in your team. Any measure can be turned into a bad policy, code complexity is a red herring here.
Not just zip files, USB drives too.