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>Where do you think that money goes?

Offshore. I think that money goes offshore. I even said it in the previous sentence, which you didn't quote.

>Another word for that is investment.

Well let's entertain the fantasy that the money doesn't flow away into offshore accounts for a second.

So you're saying that investing is good? Then instead of giving money to rich people (e.g. by tax cuts), the government should do what rich people do and invest. Domestically.

What do we have here? Ah, stocks and real estate. Got it. The government should buy companies and houses, the way the rich people invest.

Didn't expect HN to argue that we should socialize housing and nationalize corporations, but I'll take it.
You're basically saying - In a country of 100 people, concentration of wealth is great. Concentration like for every 100$, 5 people taking 95$ and the rest 95 taking the 5$ is fine. Your rationale seems to be the fact that the 95 people have more than 5$/95 than before. Now, you keep accelerating this and you'd notice a 99-to-1 ratio eventually.

It's interesting that you call this dignity and well being. You're basically saying that the time spent by the 95 people is orders of magnitude less valuable than the time spent by the 5 people.
This is just the effect of extremely low interest rates. When interest rates goes to 0 it means that the cost of any productive asset goes to infinity. That doesn't mean that all that value was actually created the past decade, Tesla for example hasn't created even close to a trillion worth of value, that is just the expected future value produced by Tesla including inflation. Do you think that Tesla will produce a trillion worth of value, not adjusted to inflation, in the next 50 years? Yes, I do, Tesla generated billions of operating profit last year, accumulated that over 50 years and Tesla is already worth more than money. Then Tesla isn't over valued.

So the lower the interest rates the more "wealth" actually means future wealth. If interest rates were 5% today as it was steadily 50 years ago then future money gets valued much less and asset valuation would go down. It would cause inflation of course, but I don't think that is a bad thing.
> Is this just protifing on a topical craze

Of course.

> What experience does in-game NFTs offer to players

The warm glow of feeling they're the trendiest kids.
Another wrinkle in the notion of responsible spending is that we know that giving money to the poor gives back a greater return on investment than giving money to the rich. Poor people have immediate needs to spend that money on, such as repairing their homes, investing in healthcare, purchasing appliances.
Personally I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. I strongly suspect less inequality is positively correlated with a host of beneficial outcomes (more access to education and healthcare, better quality if life etc.) which can in turn lead to a virtuous cycle that would in turn increase wealth.
Just out of curiosity, we are both thinking about 1995s "Hackers" with Johnny Miller & Angelina Jolie, yes? :-)
My non-scientific interpretation is maybe this has more to do temperature tolerance for individuals than weight gain? Perhaps the sunlight exposure only affects a very small close to surface level of fat and that's it?
Yes.

If there is economic demand (millions of homeless buying food) even a marginally efficient market will invest in the businesses that service that market.

A business servicing that demand doesn't really care if the investment money comes from one billionaire or thousands of small investors.
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Sorry, you're comparing $5 counterfeit purses to $40M yachts?

I'm unaware that nurses were popping off to Europe twice a year (unless you meant nurses that already live in Europe).

Meanwhile I see more and more homeless living along the freeways.
I mean, I am pretty far from all of that and I'm not really sure how it works. It's just generally a bit worrying when you hear from a few independent sources: "don't trust (X), they're behaving badly"
It enriches food producers, distributors, and servers. Assuming those functions aren't already consolidated into a megacorp I'd say it has been more beneficial than pushing up numbers in some billionaires account.
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That is not true, though. Coding is about writing code, whereas programming is the thought process that goes into writing code. The original comment establishes the same distinction, so it is not exactly a novel separation. The question was why then conflate them when they were already recognized as being different?
Ironically Android is the Linux distribution with more security knobs turned on (LinuxSE, seccomp, HWAsan, FORTIFY_SOURCE, userspace drivers,...) without being really Linux.
>Can you point to an actual application of crypto that touches the real economy? I will be very interested!

Yeah, cryptocurrency effectively replaced Liberty Reserve & co.
At best this is a misunderstanding of the situation with insulin. Insulin is cheap. Like $25/vial cheap without insurance or even a prescription at Walmart. However, as any diabetic (or anyone who has a loved one who is diabetic) will tell you, cheap insulin sucks.

And so capitalist pharmaceutical companies came in, invested in R&D, and created new formulations of insulin that work better. And they're charging more to recover their investment. And when it goes off patent (and if the ass-covering shitheads at the FDA don't fuck it up), those new formulations will eventually be the same $25 at Walmart.
You don’t need to code sign on the fly in order to append “config” data to an authenticode executable.

I’ve never done it myself but there was a posting here about 8 years ago about how Dropbox distributed their installer and I took a quick look at it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8204454
There's a lot of evidence already for that. But this article discussed blue light wavelengths.
>In everything I’ve read about direct giving, inflation is so insignificant, it isn’t even concern that’s addressed.

I'm not necessarily against you here, but I'm curious: How does your sentiment square with the fact that a significant amount of direct giving just occurred, and we seem to now have significant demand-pull inflation to the point the ports are all backed up and the fed admits to 6% inflation which we know is understated. It would seem that doesn't reconcile, especially since post-2008 loose fiscal policy and low interest rates did NOT result in significant inflation as a comparison.
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Their pay is pretty good in comparison to many others: "Under the rejected agreement, veteran workers, who Kellogg has said make about $35 an hour on average, would have received a 3 percent wage increase in the first year and cost-of-living adjustments in subsequent years. Newer hires make almost $22 per hour, according to the company."
I thought trickle-down economics worked because I have seen how much better things have become in my lifetime. The cheapest food available today is so much higher quality than the cheapest available in the 90s. A bog standard car today comes with features that would have been considered luxury in the 90s. But these are all consumables.

The difference between income and wealth has only become clear to me recently. I am a top 10% earner in the UK, according to the statistics. But it made no sense to me because I can only barely afford to buy a house (now in my mid-30s) and the amount that others seem to spend on cars etc. is truly baffling to me. So I look up the other statistic. Well it turns out I'm in the bottom 30% when it comes to wealth.

Having wealth means someone could afford my lifestyle on a fraction of the income. There are millions of people who are trapped in a cycle of renting and borrowing who aren't building up any wealth at all. Meanwhile, people who started off with wealth in the first place find it easier and easier to keep building.

I'm probably not the only person who makes this mistake between income and wealth. Income can give you a nice lifestyle today. But the moment you stop working, you're out on the street. Wealth is what really matters.
How much did the wealth of the minimum wage workers increase (on paper or otherwise)?
Huh. I wasn't aware of this vector.

My servers only have `root` and my own sudo user, (and other default system users). I also run all apps on Docker. I don't think this would be an issue for me.
What would a real Web3 look like?
Are you hiring juniors :) ?
Waste-maximizing mining farms only add to the cost (before you say "PoS": the model of a plutocratic oligarchy that can further concentrate their wealth by taxing all transactions doesn't sound cheap either).

Cost of hosting and bandwidth is asymptotically approaching zero. For most things it can be easily subsidized with pocket change. For bigger things, the pre-tollbooth-on-everything Web has already figured out Bittorrent and p2p protocols where basically the receiver pays/subsidizes it through their ISP.
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In my experience "normal" slopes (without using any kind of reoinforced earth) are 1:1 (base/height i.e. 50 % slope degrees) for excavation and 3:2 (base/height i.e. 66% slope), with reinforced earth (depending on types, soils, etc.) you can usually go to 1:3 or 1:4 or even 1:5.
You seem to be confusing the concept of money going into and out of the economy with "return on investment".
There’s a trial of e-scooters in Tokyo. They have strict rules: max speed is governed to 15km/h, they can go anywhere bicycles can go, not on sidewalks, and can only be parked at private businesses that host parking spots. You also need a drivers license and pass a short test about the rules to make an account on the app.

This seems to work pretty well and they aren’t strewn all over the place. There’s 2 things about Tokyo that make it work, I think:

1. Most streets are already mixed use and don’t have sidewalks. Pedestrians, cyclists and cars already share the streets well. Larger streets with sidewalks usually have a bike lane as well. Adding scooters is not so disruptive.

2. Car and usually bike parking is paid, and only in designated areas. So it’s not a big inconvenience to have scooter parking in designated areas. Actually they are much more convenient as there are far more of them.
You two are working your ways towards defining a zero-knowledge password proof:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_password_proof

I think SRP is the most widely implemented version.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...
> especially now that many have moved to proof of stake.

For tiny values of many.

There is no major cryptocurrency using anything other than PoW. Ethereum has plans to start moving to PoS in 2022, but isn't there yet.

And related to gaming: Bitcoin alone consumes more power than entire European countries - including all the gaming, smelting, heating, industry, finance, data centers etc in those countries. There is no chance in hell gaming alone, for the entire world, is consuming more power than even Bitcoin - not to mention comparing it to all crypto combined.
“Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.”

Seriously, though, I wish HN would go full Usenet, so we could track people we like.
As I noted upthread, the expensive insulin is a new and improved product that was generated via R&D.
Asking out of genuine curiosity: how does cheap insulin suck?
I use WireGuard and ssh together.

On my two VPSes I have one of them run a WireGuard server, and both of the VPSes have their sshd bound to the WireGuard interface only.

At home I have a computer running a WireGuard server. Two of the other computers at home are clients of both the WireGuard server at home and of the WireGuard server VPS. I can connect directly to the WireGuard VPN at home from anywhere and ssh into the other machines on their WireGuard interfaces of that VPN, but if the WireGuard server at home is down I can connect via the WireGuard VPN that runs on my VPS and still ssh into the other machines at home that way.

I also have WireGuard running on a physical server in a data center that I manage. On that server I use WireGuard only because it makes connections much more stable than connecting via ssh directly.

My three different WireGuard servers all use different private range IP address subnet ranges, so there is no conflict. I use WireGuard for communication between my own hosts but not for tunneling other traffic.

WireGuard is great and the perfect solution for a small number of machines at least. And I am sure that if you have a lot of machines you could come up with some suitable setup using WireGuard even then.
That's true. But it's also true that those that brush off the idea of whats essentially a checking account denominated in a currency of their choice (i.e. stablecoins) is unnecessary. They're usually well-paid, educated bros from a developed country where they have access to a well developed financial network, have banks in their neighborhood, have a stable currency and don't live under capital controls.
I mean, Player of Games has a pretty slow start too. I love that book, but the initial pacing is IMO its biggest flaw.

I know Use of Weapons doesn't depend on any of the other books for its plot, but is it a decent intro to the setting? If it is, that's where I'd recommend starting.
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Sunrise and sunset great and very safe times for sun exposure.
> That kind of monetary expansion is not possible with Bitcoin, which is entirely the point.

Yes, which is (one reason) why all of these new projects and initiatives skip Bitcoin altogether and instead invent new tokens and coins for each new project.

Bitcoin may not be expanding the Bitcoin supply, but the overall coin supply in the cryptocurrency world is absolutely exploding.

New cryptocurrencies pop up every day and each new project mints new coins for arbitrary reasons (so their founders can keep most of them, usually). Why can’t I just pay for a Web3 service using existing Ethereum? Why must we first trade some coin for arbitrary tokens and then pay for the service? The answer is because the founders and early adopters want to cash out as much as possible as quickly as possible, and the fastest way to do that is by minting new coins.
... do you not know what risk is?
I am only barely familiar with both MicroStudio and Processing so probably not the most reliable source, but to my knowledge Processing is for graphics programming whereas Microstudio is for games programming.

Of course theres a lot of overlap between the two, but I'd guess Processing is more powerful (or at least, more easily powerful) for pure graphics rendering than MicroStudio, but MicroStudio can do a lot more (or again, at least a lot more easily), like handling inputs and playing sounds and so on
There is two suspected materials, one being nickel.
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Windows has that API to. If you try to screenshot the Netflix app or video on some websites you get a black rectangle where the video is.
Yeah, that was just...out-of-nowhere gruesomeness.
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> BTC mining is just one of those operations that is resistant to a carbon tax since the price of BTC and therefore the mining rewards can just rise to compensate.

But if it's still taxed proportionally to the generated emissions, does it matter how big the rewards are?
A commenter in that Twitter thread claims it was banned "Because it was a dodgy account!", but doesn't explain how it was "dodgy" - any ideas?

> if they're acting on behalf of powerful state actors, how can we say that's not suppression on speech?

It's suppression of speech either way. The only difference state actors make is if the 1st amendment forbids it.
It would be an interesting experiment if commenting on all crypto related articles required you to disclose how many dollars(/euros/whatever) you have invested in crypto.
They probably could have also mentioned the power grids that were not designed to last as long as they have and certainly not designed to scale to everyone having EV's. That will have to be addressed sooner than later. Then there is the topic of methane gas distribution and water distribution. Some cities have aging pipes or worse have lead components in their drinking water pipes. This gets tricky because the budgeting for some of this is partially local and partially federal with a smattering of multi-agency bureaucracy. There is also an aging PSTN telco network that probably should have been replaced by a much more modern and high capacity network to support modern data protocols and rural internet connectivity.
Swedish people on avg have a much lighter complexion thus requiring less sun exposure for the same effect
I love the approach, specially not having to deal with WGSL.
If this is a raw NAND dump you're probably encountering errors and/or OOB (out-of-band) areas used for ECC interleaved with the data.

Look up the datasheet for the NAND chip you dumped from and look up the block / area / page layouts, then write a script to strip out the OOB sections from the dump. If you're lucky the errors captured in the dump aren't significant enough to break UBI extraction. If the datasheet isn't available you can visually infer the main / spare layout with a hex editor and by fudging with the column numbers, often there is a regular pattern of padding surrounding the main (where the data associated with the OOB is) and spare (where OOB is) areas.

If UBI still fails to extract, you might have to rewrite the ECC algo and ECC-correct the data yourself. ECC is performed either by software or by dedicated NAND controller on the CPU. Blocks containing bootloader code sometimes use a different ECC schema then blocks containing FS (i.e. u-boot might not have support for enabling ECC on the NAND controller or doesn't have the algo used by further stages of booting / runtime so it uses something else for ECC). Linux knows how to interact with these controllers, i.e. within Broadcom MCUs [0]. Common ECC could include BCH or hamming codes.

You might be lucky and have root access to a computer / machine with the same / similar-enough CPU as your starlink target, so you may be able to dump it through the second computer (using its hardware NAND controller) while running linux on a separate memory and dump a clean copy of the target chip through Linux's MTD interface. I've done this before, but the opportunity to do it is not common.

Right now I'm working on a different project which involves NAND containing UBI with an unknown (to me) ECC schema...

(no twitter so hopefully the author reads hn)

0: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/mtd/n...

see also for examples:

https://www.micron.com/-/media/client/global/documents/produ...

https://www.micron.com/-/media/client/global/documents/produ...
>“Serious question, where does this line of thinking end?”

It ends at the last pyramid scheme.
Fine..

> Ahh, the good old trickle-down, aka "piss in my eyes and tell me it's raining" (which is the only way trickle-down actually works).

Clearly hyperbole. Where’s the evidence for this broad claim?

> It was pure mythology from the start; there's never been any basis for it to begin with.

Is this not “free market economics” ? Seems there’s a non-mythical basis there.. I could be wrong though if that’s a fictional concept? Would love to be enlightened.

> It's a pity we even have to debunk it like that.

This is opinion/conjecture.

> Go figure, give a million hungry people $20 each, and see $20M return to the economy the next day as they spend it on food.

Appeal to probability, evidence?

> Give a billionaire $20M, see the money go into the fintech machine and pour out into offshore accounts, as the billionaire holds on to whatever financial product they bought forever as long as it appreciates faster than inflation.

Again, speak to probability, evidence?

> Oh, and they'll spend $200 on a fancy dinner.

Is that illegal? What’s the problem here?

> Cue Pikachu face when the economy doesn't improve.

Must I comment on this one?
> The FTC has long held that ads are deceptive if they imply information is being shared by an independent or impartial source, when it’s actually originating from a business trying to sell a product, said Jessica Rich, a former director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. Such practices could lead consumers to make uninformed decisions about their purchases.

I'd love to see this provision torpedo the "Amazon's Choice" labels.
What I mean is that while traditional stores of value are portable, they are harder to hide and easier to confiscate. A wallet or offline transaction is just a piece of info that can be scribbled on a piece of paper that a customs agent or border guard won't look twice at. Even if they do confiscate it, you've lost nothing because they can't change the destination of the offline transaction, or decrypt the wallet (if encrypted).

Not to mention that it's exactly as easy to smuggle and disguise a $50 worth of digital currency as it is to smuggle and disguise $50k worth of digital currency. This can't be said of banknotes, especially if all you have available is lower face value notes.
> The industry has gained political capital, too. In America, the congressional Blockchain Caucus counts 35 lawmakers as members. Cynthia Lummis, a senator from Wyoming, has received a big chunk of her 2026 campaign contributions from individuals linked to crypto firms. Last month she said she opposed Jerome Powell’s reappointment as head of the Federal Reserve because of the central bank’s “political approach to digital assets”. In October 2020 the Chamber of Digital Commerce’s political-action committee gave $50 worth of bitcoin to every member of Congress.

A constant refrain from those heavily invested in the financial system is that governments will "make Bitcoin illegal."

What's missing from this perspective is the possibility that as Bitcoin becomes more widely-recognized and doesn't vaporize in a puff of schadenfreude, it gains powerful supporters who can ensure that the clampdown never happens.

Ironically, there are those using Bitcoin who would like to see nothing less than a total ban of Bitcoin use in the US. They see this as final proof of the utility, value proposition, and when the ban fails to work, vindication.
Quick google led me to RFC4252[0], section 8 of which (as far as I understood) describes ssh auth sending password as UTF8 plaintext string (and the whole packet is encrypted at transport layer). While passwords in /etc/shadow are hashed, if someone got access to your server he can just put malicious listener that will catch this UTF8 string.

I'm not a SSH guru, so if I'm mistaken please shout at me ;D

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4252#section-8
The sheer breadth of experience and background on Hacker News never ceases to amaze me.

And nobody announces their creds up-front, making for some lively discussions.