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> The "change my mind" criterion for this would be actual price stability.

See you in 5 years when Ethereum has flipped Bitcoin, then.

You may even have to wait until Ethereum forks again, honestly.
It is fraud, it is called wash trading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_trade
Right, but the use value (both for primary homeowners and for, Allah forgive me for using this word, landlords) stands as a backstop to the resale value of real estate.
Thats an interesting narrative about the CAD/USD exchange rate. Conventional wisdom would have said that it was that the high prices of oil raised the canadian dollar compared to the us dollar. If at the time you thought the price of oil would come back down then it would be an opportune time to sell canadian dollars and hold USD.

In your comment it seems that you are suggesting there was some kind of squeeze from retail holders that caused the price rise in CAD to USD... I find that tough to believe but have not considered it.
For those who believe "crypto is too big to fail", or the genie is out of the bottle, or that crypto concepts have become so engrained and popular that it's not possible to stop, I'd like to point out that Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scam lasted for 30+ years. People built entire lives on his very professional-seeming "business". Scams can go on for a very long time, and very large numbers of people can build their whole lives on a lie (even successfully).

Crypto is probably the most brilliant scam in the history of mankind, because it combines plausible deniability with techno-obfuscation and meme-driven popularity to a degree that makes it nearly impossible for democratic governments to regulate (good on China for banning it!), and this state of affairs may continue for quite a while. But even if it doesn't all come crashing down in my lifetime, I still won't touch it with a ten-foot pole as a matter of principle, no matter the potential gains. There are some things I won't get involved with as a matter of principle, such as certain illegal drugs, even if they were legal.
> So what I hear you saying is that NFT concept only works if everything becomes an NFT, immediately upon creation. Any hold-outs or delays gives room for fraudulent minting, which means you don't have a trustless system.

No, as long as it's known that the address that created the NFT is owned by whichever public figure created the artwork, you're good to go.

> You can't say that NFTs are a trustless system when the origin of the NFT requires trust.

That's like saying PGP is not a trustless encryption scheme because you still have to trust that the person you're exchanging encrypted information with is who they say they are. Nobody (who is informed anyway) has made any sort of claim about PGP fixing that problem. It is entirely irrelevant to the value-add.

Now, whether you believe the value-add actually matters given the caveats is another topic of discussion, of course.
Offering fixed interest while achieving variable interest in underlying assets carries inherent risks whether Celsius has a shortfall or not.

Crypto Lending services are just like banks in the sense that they pocket a spread. This article is incorrect in the sense that Celsius doesnt have much higher DeFi yield earning opportunities.

I can go fetch a highly volatile 60% right now (the rate is highly volatile but the principle is not necessarily highly volatile), actively managed, and offer users a super competitive 8-12%.
How is anyone supposed to trust the police?
What is even the purpose of showing these tiny islands in a larger size? It's not like they are the backbone of China's economy or that they prove that the party still has the mandate of heaven.
The complexity is an issue (but sidecars are plenty complex too), but the security not so much. BPF C is incredibly limiting (you can't even have loops if the verifier can't prove to its satisfaction that the loop has a low static bound). It's nothing at all like writing kernel C.
More like "Google AI murders user, sends notification to Android phone."

"Android 14 is here! Android 13 had some bugs that led to an inadvertent use of deadly force. The error has been rectified and lethality should decrease in this version."
Watching this documentary made me wish that they did that with all their records. Since Get Back was a relatively stripped down record, it didnt really show a lot of the techniques they used on their more produced records. I am a bit of a gear head and it is pretty cool to see a brand new silver top Rhodes piano getting delivered and seeing it with all its Tolex looking brand new and not showing years of being beat to death like most Rhodes pianos look now. I do agree that it seems like the sessions look generally like they are having a good time, and the memory of the Get Back/Let it Be sessions are most likely conflated/clouded by the breakup around the time it was finally released.
When you buy the car you own the car. When you buy the NFT you typically own the title but not the car.
Crypto is a very volatile asset, it doesn't seem good for actually storing value.

It would be great if the demand was organic and driven by consumption. This could stabilize the price. Right now it's mostly speculative.
I saw a car commercial where the driver appears to divert their attention from the road, lean over the center console towards the passenger seat to swipe across a large, wide touch screen while operating the vehicle.

Meanwhile 10-12 years ago my cousin was ticketed for distracted driving in the midwest because the trucking company he worked for bolted a laptop to the dashboard of his semi tractor. Though somehow these mostly useless screens are okay to have? I dont get it.
> There are always people dismissing any new thing - the value of that signal is near zero

Crypto is too old to play this card.

Could you have gotten rich off investing in Enron? Sure, it made some people fantastically rich. That doesn't mean Enron was a sound company.

Nothing with the word "currency" can experience 5 digit deflation and call itself anything but a failure in that regard. Nothing cynical about that take, and it's a useful signal for those who expect to treat it as a currency.
I also love Clickbait Remover (1) to get rid of the customized thumbnail and instead show a random snapshot from the middle of the vid. These days the thumbnails are all noise and no signal anyway.

1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem...
Thats why I specified I was in Europe... I think that here even the front camera is not providing any kind of video feed to the computers for "privacy reasons"
Blockchains are just databases with extra steps. Very slow, inefficient steps most people don't care about.
It all depends on how many different entities you are talking about. If N gets high enough, "meaningful names" will break down.
ClockMock: A convenient way to mock date and time in PHP
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An autopilot that fails as soon as you end up in a low-visibility situation sounds like a really, really bad idea, especially with pilots who don't know how to fly by instruments.

We have better technology than that now.
Free Universal Tuner, by Dmitry Pogrebnyak.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.aterlux.gui...

I appreciate that you can choose the microphone source, change detection parameters, and easily select off-440 tunings. It's responsive and accurate enough for my playing.

The only issue I ever had was on the Fairphone 3. Starting a few months ago, if I had Google Assistant always listening, the tuner would stop working. I've since disabled Assistant and changed phones.
Blowing on the cardridge? It didn’t work for the Famicon, and it has even less effect with the Switch.
>> except for Trump, but he's not representative of the class "US leaders"

> He was the last elected US president and was almost elected a 2. time.

1) "US leaders" encompasses more than the presidency, and 2) at this point Trump is an n=1 aberration and no one can say if any patterns have changed.

The overall US leadership class has internalized the dogma of free trade, to the point of openly and uncritically accepting the national-level negatives (de-industrialization, etc.). I'm extremely skeptical that any other Republican besides Trump would deploy protectionist policies like tariffs or bully business leaders into doing something that puts the nation in front of their shareholders.
In Valve's defense, not a ton of games make it past a decade with a healthy playerbase, right?
Much of the US is subject to strong earthquakes, and the construction regulations require buildings that can survive a strong earthquake. Old masonry buildings tend to be damaged, sometimes severely, in earthquakes. If you visit regions with large numbers of brick buildings from the previous centuries, you will notice that many have a steel frame that was added in the last several decades to keep the building from collapsing during earthquakes. A lot of money is spent on seismic retrofitting of old construction built before modern earthquake-safe building codes in the US. Most of Europe doesn't have to worry about this.

For earthquakes, "sticks" and steel are the most durable materials so Americans build with them.
I like the idea. I wonder what requirements should placed on its use: 911 has features that could lead to denial-of-service https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29495078 (e.g. if a flashmob decided to 822 at the same time).
Small money company - while there might be impacts to the economy the scale of these companies is small. Ripple effects contained in China. Once something happens to a US company I'll start paying super close attention.
Surely if someone is killed (either the occupant or another driver or bystander) and the accident could be blamed on some kind of driver error or carelessness, or could have been avoided if the driver was more attentive.
Then if the driver was playing a game there would be a good legal case that they were distracted by it and Tesla could be deemed at least party responsible by providing that game in the front of the car - at least enough to be sued by the families for huge sums.
tell me you don't understand crypto without telling me you don't understand crypto
> In terms of high-quality art, the Picasso is artificially scarce in the sense that there are reproductions so high-quality that only experts can tell the original apart from the reproduction.

Except that those are also scarce because they take the labor of expert hands to make too. People actually would pay money for known forgeries because of it. Absent copyright law and a desire to fund the artist, no one would pay for digital art because copies are as close to free as makes no difference.
It seems relevant that Jimi Hendrix only made it in the US as a "British invasion" act, after breaking through in the UK and securing the enthusiastic backing of McCartney, Clapton etc.
if the company that serves the image your NFT links to goes away you can completely lose access to it
> I am genuinely curious as to why you seem to assert that "Orwellian" can only apply to governments.

Because that's literally how it's use in the book.

> Why, in your view, would it be incorrect to apply the term to the actions of these private/publicly traded companies?

See point above.

From 1984:

“Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’.”

The Party is a political party.
Are there any third party search interfaces? Seems like it would be pretty easy to add automatic checking for ads.
Well, I understand that, but if you look at his account history it is only pro-Amazon comments. It feels like propaganda more than information, and all I am saying is that the throwaway does not add credibility or a feeling that his opinion are genuine.
Byuu died too? I didn't hear about this!
When did I say the rich don't have taste in art? I said the rich won't know whether they bought an original or a fake, because the fakes are high quality enough to pass as the real thing to the untrained eye. The art is worth that much not because of the aesthetics qualities, but because of the provenance and the high-status signaling and bragging rights that come with said provenance.

> Look - MBS bought that fake Da Vinci for $450M or whatever.

Case in point. That's why you hire an expert (or perhaps even a team of experts) to help you out.
If I try, and focus, and am in the right mood, I get some pretty good-sounding symphonies, just kind of happening. Never any other kind of music. Which is weird because I mostly listen to various forms of popular music.
I'm sure Google has more testing for 911 than you have. There are billions of devices running on Android.
"No ads" isn't editorializing, though. Unlike "best" or "#1", it's a statement of fact, and a fact that is probably useful to shoppers.
Slightly tongue in cheek, but that's probably what the CIA prefer you think.
What about legal drugs?
If any country can be treated as a coherent entity, it's China.
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Thanks for writing this! We're all so different, socially, stage in life (kids for instance), ways of working, etc. not to mention thinking of how this applies to hiring women. "What? You don't want to grab a drink with me?" Lost for words.
Can confirm: This is my main tech interest at the moment and if I consider how long it's going to take, I want to die.
Pardon me, but letting alone the notion that any reasonable person with the means to follow those stories would have cause to dismiss them, the Hunter Biden stories have hardly been addressed. Hard to be part of for-profit reality TV without being covered.
Hi HN

After releasing a Python config management library (https://github.com/Zuehlke/ConfZ), I now wrote an article on how to use it together with FastAPI and SQLModel (all three tools are based on pydantic in the end) to build highly configurable and powerful APIs with ease.

Would be very interested in your thoughts / comments / ideas (or even pull requests ;) )!
It is, of course, complete coincidence that it would be really easy to offer 10% APY if somebody is selling you dollars for 90 cents each.
Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes.

... "alleged". .... haha. hahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

Ask Anderson "Mockingbird" Cooper over at C(IA)N(EWS)N(ETWORK)
True, but it is fairly unlikely he passed away from COVID unless he got extremely unlucky. There’s very few cases in Japan right now.
Hi Stolenmerch, I'm so sorry to hear what you are going through. As a parent, there's nothing more heartbreaking than seeing your child is not loving learning. I really do feel for the people trying to organize education at scale for 55 million kids across the US and maintain some level of base performance, but honestly the whole thing does not work. As you've experienced, in lieu of having values, everything has turned into a bland disguise day so no one is offended. That (btw) is kind of a metaphor for everything. I was a teacher in public, private school and a private tutor and rarely saw a school that was able to individualize learning for kids in the way that was needed. In public school, there is huge pressure on everyone to perform well on standardized tests, and in private school, there's huge pressure to get kids into Ivy League schools (so that they will get more donations). Worst of all, as you point out is the patronizing attitudes to parents. There's this attitude that you don't know what's best for your child which is total BS. If you like, I'd be happy to talk you through some options, modular learning, homeschooling, various learning apps, starting a learning pod, other alternatives. Of course, it's always a balance of childcare and education, but there are some really exciting options sprouting out there - and there is hope for you. If you want to chat, you can email me at manisha[at]modulo[dot]app. I've seen it all and I love talking to parents about alternatives, it also helps me learn as I'm working on building a decentralized school system, so it's great to hear about people's hopes, fears, constraints and see if there are ways I can be of support.
But the need does not exists in a void - the store does not allow to filter in searches apps with ads or microtransactions.
To be fair, though, what would you do if you were the decision maker?

Would you really give up one of your yachts this year just to save ten thousand lives?
If the Feds clamp down on this, but not on FSD, then we'll know for sure that we have meme regulators. One of these is marginally worse than having access to a modern smartphone. The other literally drives the car, and has proven repeatedly that it is incapable of performing anywhere near the level required to avoid accidents in the real-world.
What does that even mean? You can produce a copy of Picasso that is indistinguishable from an original. You can produce counterfeits of most "real world" items that are indistinguishable.
Then use your phone as a passenger. I have trouble seeing visual distractions unrelated to driving like games, videos, or books on the console as anything other than an "attractive nuisance."
You could say (almost) the same thing about fiat money though...
Yep. Stability is really the only gap in the market for a "store of value". Shares are fairly fungible and have a "number go up" tendency as well, but there's actual reason for their numbers to go up other than convincing more people to believe they're a share of value than believed last year.
I may be a bit cynical, but at least in my former field (experimental physics), the main purpose of papers seems to be to "lock in" a finished achivement. You do the actual research, pass internal reviews and peer review, and then publishing the paper is just to make it "official". Unfortunately, many papers are never expected to be read. The crucial information exists, but you usually get it from personal communication, internal wikis, or review articles. You just need the paper to copy a formula or graph, and to cite it in the end.

There are papers that are well-written and useful, but there are at least as many that are just drivel (I probably contributed to both kinds).

Unfortunately, the prevailing attitude is that outside people will not understand our stuff anyway, so we often make no effort to make papers understandable, or to publish data. (There is a lot of great outreach and science communication, but not so much for students or researchers from other fields who want to follow the technical details.)
>Considering how much worse off African Americans are socio-economically, on average, than white Americans, it's a no-brainer that their kids end up worse off on average as well.

It's worse than that. There's something about the American system which forces black families to be not just stagnant economically, but often to move backwards (at least in the transition from Boomer/Gen X to later generations). Both of my grandfathers provided a strikingly middle class life for their families, leaving the military after WWII for decent careers: one as a stable, unionized factory employee, the other as a nuclear physicist. All of their children went to college. Both of my parents hold advanced degrees. Even still, they face financial difficulties that their white peers don't seem to, and my generation of siblings and cousins, while along a spectrum of affluence, seems to have inherited a magnified version of their parents' diminished prospects relative to their achievement. On average, the families that were middle class mid-century are now working class, even with degrees.

And we're outliers, in terms of educational attainment in the black community heretofore. That's changing, but to what ends, when black professionals must have a more advanced degree to be considered for the same job as a white applicant with a less advanced degree? When our houses are worth $50k less, our access to credit is restricted, our tax burden relative to income tends to be higher, and we are actively sought out for discrimination by many bedrock institutions of American life? It's not a level playing field.
Seems it's just blocking accounts on Twitter. Not radical enough, blocking Twitter itself is a good first step.
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> Instead of taxing land at a few percent, Georgism says we should be taxing it at 100%.

Property tax percentages are from property value, while georgism is taxing 100% of imputed rent, not value. Relation between rent and price, as mentioned in the article, is described by capitalization rate, which is estimated to be 5-8%. So georgian LVT would be 5-8% of original land value.
I think people underestimate how long fraudulent / ponzi schemes can last. Madoff's ponzi scheme ($65B) went unnoticed for ~50 years until a whistleblower got the SEC to take notice, and it could have potentially gone on a while longer if that hadn't happened. There's a lot more money in the crypto-sphere, and no great way to regulate. I wouldn't be surprised if lots of these entities are able to run on for 100+ years before they implode.
WASM isn't a valid target for many languages, that's one thing.

Two, the case is about the library to interact with the network, so...
There's also implementing the protocols.
I find the opposite, I can pace myself with books, take notes in the margins, interact with the harder concepts, cruise through the easier ones. Answer the questions at the end of the book in-line, it feels much more interactive. Since I can physically visualize all the sections/chapters it's easier to skip around. Video is so linear and passive; I have to go at the pace of the video and it's harder move alinearly. Also I have much more stamina for reading than listening to audio, the words start to blur together after a while.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Foone/status/1457749433844568066
I cannot talk specifically, but it's likely (ime) down to metrics.

Someone somewhere is incentivised to increase the number of people using emojis. Or someone ran the numbers and realises users who use emojis are more likely to continue using the app.
Like it or not the socket has become the demarcation mechanism we use.
Therefore all software ends up deployed as a thing that talks on sockets.
Therefore you can't/shouldn't put functionality that belongs on the other end of the socket inside that thing. If you do that it's no longer the kind of thing you wanted (a discrete unit of software that does something). It's now a larger kind of component (software that does something, plus elements of the environment that software runs within). You probably don't want that.
That's essentially exactly what a Ponzi scheme is. You have an asset with 0 intrinsic value that only goes up in value due to new investors buying in.

You will only ever make more money if somebody buys in after you.

Unlike stocks where owning a share entitles you to profit stream of the company (intrinsic value)
Classic populist modus operadi. Push the pendulum to one extreme and move the perceived middle ground along. He does the same with goal posts and timelines. I have to give it to him so, he gets away with it for years now. And he ultimately delivers product, something most Musk-wannabes fail to do.
Jealousy/FOMO/feeling like they missed the boat.
Even MacOS, honestly...