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Most currencies have no underlying value. The value of a dollar is drawn from dollar supply and trust that others will accept and value the dollar.

When a currency goes through hyperinflation, that generally happens because the government goes crazy printing the currency and the trust that others have in accepting the currency goes down.

If crypto collapses, it will likely be because it just becomes computationally infeasible to work with. The problem with the blockchain is that every action on the blockchain requires the whole blockchain. As time goes on simply storing the blockchain will be something that's simply not reasonable.

An issue specifically with bitcoin is that as time goes on, transferring a single coin in a day, month, or year becomes computationally impossible. Bitcoin is quickly rushing to a point where holders of bitcoin will be incapable of trading it.

That, IMO, will be the collapse of crypto. If you can't move the currency, it doesn't matter how much others value it. It'll become a game of hot potato. with the last few holders getting more and more desperate to unload the potato for money.
How does decentralized proof of ownership better provide for developed economies than modern monetary policy with robust tooling to e.g. ease economic downturns, prevent high (20%+j inflation and prevent hoarding of capital to incentivize investment?
It's not clear that the impression is false.
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I always thought we only owned things because a central authority says we do.
Probably a nice framework but if you're not using SLF4J you're toast when it also has a backdoor. SLF4J does not have an issue. Swapping out log4j for a different logging framework is a day work for all my applications at work. Not that we where using log4j we where using logback that's the current industry standard anyway.
Is it so unclear if it's objectively an insurrection that they have to have polls about it?
It appears the article URL changed while I was replying to it. But the new URL contains even more things that seem odd to me.

"I found my way through an abusive upbringing, leaving home at a young age, subsequent homelessness, and sexual assault in college"

That is horrible, but in the context of the letter I would be surprised if it will not affect how one experiences the world. It's easy for me to assume that people are acting in good faith if they do stupid things because I have never had any of those negative experiences. So the same people doing the same action might be interpreted as "stupid fun" by me and as "abuse" by her.

"I had to continue living in the residence with this man."

That sentence reads weird to me because I assume that SpaceX will not require you to live at any specific house. So based on my experience of the world, it should have been easy for her to move. I can fully understand if she wants that guy to move instead of her giving up the apartment, but then she should say so instead of claiming that it was impossible to move.

"Elon Musk’s behavior bears a remarkable similarity to the behavior of a sadistic and abusive man who had previously been part of my life."

I do feel sorry for this person, because she clearly had many bad things happen to her, which never happened to me. So maybe that's just me noticing how privileged I am. But if her goal is to push SpaceX towards objectively improving their work environment, I wonder if it would have been better to not mention this. Because like I said in my first comment, this makes it very easy to misinterpret her (probably valid) criticism as a personal vendetta.
I don't, but the answers are almost certainly going to be:

1. Money.

2. Work on interesting problems.

The rest will be commentary.

Someone will then analogize Meta/FB to $bad_company, and someone like me will then say, "When users stop using it, developers will stop working for them." Outside the NYT media bubble, normal everyday people love social media. I personally don't, for the same reasons someone is going to enumerate, but my preferences aren't universal.
It wasn't so much that `any` was forbidden as that `interface{}` practically meaning "any value" fell naturally out of Go's existing type system rules, so there was no need to introduce another concept.

But having `any` as syntactic sugar for that concept is a good idea.
I'm not a Web3 hater - but I think VCs lighting the fuel with money is to blame. Now, every wantrepreneur is launching some sort of "decentralized" product and trying to capitalize on the hype. We'll see most of these projects die in the next 18 months as people move on to the next hyped topic.

I think at the end of the day, Web3, like VR, will have certain use cases that will make sense but won't have a huge effect on majority of the population.
What nonsense the only ones that have made masks political is the right-wingers of the world for whatever convoluted "freedom" reasons they have come up with.

I don't wear a mask because of my political beliefs. I wear a mask due to the abundance of evidence that it helps prevent transmission. If you assume my political affiliation from that not only would you be wrong but you know what they say about assuming.
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Yes, we need to know how severe the illness from this variant is.

It was never a question of transmission. When we got news from Norway where 120 vaccinated negative tested people came into the restaurant for a couple of hours and at least 60 of them came out with positive omicron test - it became clear that we are fucked. Also, news from South Africa, where two people were quarantined in a hotel their rooms was across the corridor, and virus got from one to another, despite they never get out, just opened the door to take food and make tests.

So it looks like everybody will have this variant in the next year, except maybe people in distant places. The question was how many will get seriously sick and how many of them will die. Looks like numbers will be lower than expected.
Not in my experience: there are typically specific project and program managers. The job of the Staff/Principal Engineer is usually to perform some kind of technical leadership: guiding code reviews, mentoring, architectural or technology guidance (what framework should use use?), remember the lessons learned from previous projects, and also serve as a liaison between the technical and non-technical departments in a company.

And in most cases, that's in addition to writing code. One of my last job descriptions as a Staff Engineer had me writing code about 10% of the time :-(
That anyone finds terms like 'whitespace,' 'whitelist' and 'blacklist' problematic is an outrage. They are not racist, they have nothing to do with race (look up their histories!) and a charity should not spend even a single penny of its donors' money on trying to forbid their use.

Folks should be outraged at this misuse of their donations.
I have dozens of GUI programs—commercial and open-source—and even more command line programs and I'm like 99% sure the only one I installed in any way other than `brew install [name]` was homebrew itself. Oh, wait, not quite true: Apple's software (Numbers, Pages, Keynote, et c.) I manage through the App Store. That's it.

The fact that Brew's package selection is one of the most complete that exists (I think Arch's and Gentoo's get fairly close, maybe with a few not-enabled-by-default ones added in?), is one of the main reasons I like it so much.
What classified it as "critical IP"? Was there some oath or some papers he wasn't supposed to use any of these practices?
It can, within reason. Also source machines (and more importantly, source media) are much faster in the first place this side of 2010.
The argument from climate/eco concerns is the most insipid, bad faith argument of them all. It both misunderstands how electricity is generated and consumed, and how necessary POW is to any of this. I feel strongly that nobody can make a nuanced, rational, good faith case against crypto on this basis without also condemning a host of frivolities we take for granted (and make life worth living).

But tbh, I feel that's probably the point.
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"Justify your existence, Facebook employees" threads are presumptuous. Facebook has enabled many people to make or restore connections that they would not have otherwise. It has generated a lot of wealth for shareholders and employees. If someone has an article with a specific criticism, they can post it.
Love the activity in this space. We are on the lookout for a tool like this with built in runtime performance monitoring (frame jank, composited layer size, long tasks, component render times, etc). Would happily pay for a service that could do so.
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For home use, you can probably get an LTO4 setup going for less than $250 (including some used tapes). LTO-5 will remain write compatible with your tapes and LTO6 will remain read compatible, so there's a forward migration path that will keep things cheaper.
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I'm into webdevelopment since 1999 but I still don't know what web2 is.

As a matter of fact the internet did not change that much as most people think. Ofcourse CSS changed and made things easier, Javascript is making application development more easy but in the end we are still transferring text and media.

Maybe the biggest change came when browser plugins started listening to http traffic. The change to https was one of the fastest on the internet and right now almost all our interactions on the web are 'secure'.

While I think blockchain tech is in some sense a new idea, I don't think it will change the internet very soon. I think it will come as soon as ipv6.
"web 2.0" = centralized web application servers providing usually-json API backends for javascript clientside applications running in a browser. Usually written in Python, Ruby, Java, or PHP. Sometimes written in Perl or Go or Rust. Clicks are not usually full pageloads (that is, SPAs).

Many (maybe even most?) of those web 2.0 applications are written in Java and those that are, almost all of them use log4j.

(web1 was serverside rendering of html, sending down complete html pages for each user interaction.)
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The safest thing to do is stay where you are, but seek available shelter. It doesn't take much.

I'm not saying what the manager did is correct. Being out in the candle assembly floor is probably the worst place as the main killer in tornados is flying debris.

But an interior office, a restroom, a cooler, a safe, a kitchen pantry, under a desk, any enclosed space, or even a low lying trench is sufficient to save your life.
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That's a good public example, here's a post for anyone that missed it: https://zeptobars.com/en/read/FTDI-FT232RL-real-vs-fake-supe...
I've worked on and off in the crypto space for 4 years, and I've often said that crypto attracts some of the best and the absolute worst of humanity. The key, I think, is to realize that it's still very much a "wild west" industry, and there will be heartache to endure. We continue on because we believe in the unrealized potential of decentralization.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29547458
there's some cool stuff going on in the NFT space, e.g. my favorite band has been selling NFTs that come with access to stuff like concert videos and private events. the idea of NFTs as access to a community i think has merit - hey, if you buy a Porsche, you can go to Porsche owners clubs and stuff. nothing wrong with that.

that being said, the main reason I haven't bought one (i'd love to see the concert) is you have to use ether. that means taking on something like forex risk, plus costs money and time for what feels like the sake of costing money and time. if i could buy one of the things in dollars with a card or paypal, i probably would.

i get (at least some of) the ideas behind using a value token that's endogenous to and therefore in the control of the software ensuring trust, etc., but it seems to me that the cool parts of NFTs are somewhat negated by the cryptocurrency part of the implementation.
You have described what a home computer was in the 80s. It found many problems.
This comes across as a bad faith interpretation of the comment you’re replying to. I read it as providing additional context and a (slightly?) different perspective, not as an attempt at misrepresenting the article to push an agenda.
Missing link to the original research (not in the article): https://discovery-holdings-ltd.mynewsdesk.com/pressreleases/...
AUX is just a synonym for COM1, i.e. first serial port in DOS/Windows.
Thanks for this feedback, johndough. The copy & paste problem is likely a bug that only happens with Firefox and we'll fix it. More details here: https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/8567
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> Decentralized proof of ownership is the core merit

But it's neither decentralized nor a proof AT ALL. NFT literally can't facilitate anything by itself, without adding some centralized DB to it and some centralized humans governing all interactions between clients.
Letting a worker leave DURING a tornado siren will _definitely_ get you sued.
People aren't saying it was republicans. People are saying it was Trump and his people. The normal republicans weren't involved.
My tape setup cost less than a single external hard drive. Older tape techs come down in price in time.
Are you asking me about 'a' qualia, or a 'type' of qualia?
China stole a lot of the fighter jet blueprints like this stealth one. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/hacked-how-china-stol...

What is the US response? I don't even know.
There is lots of tutorial-style documentation on modules: https://go.dev/doc/#developing-modules

There is also a tutorial on generics: https://go.dev/doc/tutorial/generics
They did not. They did get fined in France but not for what you're claiming.
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> Capitalism needs to be ripped up from its roots before we can have a hope of a free in all senses world for all. Until then, maybe we first take control of the machinery by replacing the currency with which the state does its business of violence.

I agreed up until your last sentence: is the state the bigger problem (versus multi-billion corps and capitalists)? is currency the main lever of states (versus diplomacy, infrastructures, military, etc)?
I’ve spent enough time in fintech to know where this ends.

The interest in it is purely because of the vast problems it creates are opportunities to gain something. These are numerous compared to the roughly single benefit and the technology itself.

It’s yet another market created to manipulate arbitrary wealth tokens. The masters are different that is all.
I don't think that's the most provocative thing in the comment. Frankly, this is pretty binary. She brought up two possible things that could have resulted in discipline or not. The other claims all appear to be denunciations of a political nature - or something that is objectively easy to disprove. Did SpaceX investigate the matter? Was there any discipline? Did others disagree?
> sea levels worldwide would rise by more than 2 feet (65 centimeters) .... "And it could lead to even more sea-level rise, up to 10 feet [3 m], if it draws the surrounding glaciers with it," ... But the timeframe for those changes will be decades rather than a handful of years, according to the briefing.

I wonder. If sea level rises 65 cm, will it help to loosen other glaciers elsewhere in Antarctic and Greenland?
> I remember that Trump was not much in fighting about climate change but much more into fighting against air pollution

You are going to have to source that. Trump championed coal, eviscerated the EPA, rolled back air quality regulations, etc.
If the buyers are engineers that understand the concept of storage space measured in bytes, this 'estimate' does not help them. If they don't, it only serves to mislead.

The fact that buyers may talk to salespeople is really not an excuse for the deceptive behavior.

"well, in our restaurant medium rare means well done and rare means medium rare, but that's okay our customers are well-paid professionals, they'll talk to waiters to get a more accurate picture"
Tomorrow Iowa is under threat for severe weather including tornadoes and a high of around 70. This would be the record high for the month of December, and there have only been 4 tornadoes in Iowa in December since 1975.
Jup – this is an example from the demo dataset in the docs: https://link.semi.technology/3DPcphe
I am exactly how he describes. I cannot visualise anything and I don't have an internal voiceover. I do however recall abstracts and concepts. So if I saw an elephant before I'd be able to bring up the concept of the elephant. Nothing visual, but conceptual. I've discovered this is a thing (that people actually visualise) past my 40s. For a while I thought I missed out on some special fx, but it had no detrimental effect on my life. Maybe even it does help me see complex software as abstracts easier. Who knows. It is what it is.
a family member went through a traumatic substance abuse incident a few years back and went to rehab. when he came back, what you're describing here was his new, apparently instilled mindset toward life. ignore unhappy things, enjoy happy things, begin to exhibit increasingly, worryingly, alienatingly bizarre/erratic behavior, arguably worse than the initial (legal) substance abuse. this mindset seems to be the new generalized prescription these days and I hate it.
The two states mentioned are near the bottom of my list but I think your nod to ideological homogeny notes that you are on board. I personally find the policy decisions (and elected leadership) of both to be third world, backward, and dangerous if not outright fraudulent and refuse to entertain offers that would put me there or working for companies there.
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What if we think it might succeed and the world would be worse for it?

That's where I'm at. I don't want that vision of commercialization and commodification of everything.

I think there is a possibility that all of that crypto stuff might succeed and I'm terrified of it throwing us into an even worse capitalist dystopia than the one we already live in.
How is that not "when it's happening"? I would agree that they communicated that change better but to say that they didn't communicate it when it happened is false.
> Speaking of disingenuous, since when is log4j “web 2.0”?

Let's assume Web 2.0 is 2008 to the present day. Every single big corp I worked at during that time was a Java shop (serving via Tomcat/Jetty), and log4j is ubiquitous in every Java shop. Minecraft (a gaming epitome of Web 2.0), basically blew up because of Log4j.
The other post linked from the one you're commenting on (https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2020/11/an-archivists-perspe...) talks specifically about the problems of preserving and reverse-engineering dual-fork files, so the problem is not what they're unaware of, Charlie. You just aren't aware of the problem they're trying to solve.

The LOC, the Internet Archive, and the UK National Archives don't benefit from proprietary compilers for proprietary operating systems like SuperCard; their remit is to preserve these files for centuries or millennia, not until the next update of macOS X. If SuperCard interprets a HyperCard stack differently than original HyperCard did, or SuperCard on a new version of macOS X displays or behaves differently than it did on the previous version, that's a failure of digital preservation. Unless, that is, you notice --- and to notice, you need to emulate the original HyperCard environment and/or be sufficiently familiar with the semantics of the file specification. If https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29555959 is to be believed, SuperCard is 32-bit-only and so will not run on the most recent version of macOS X, which lack 32-bit support, which if true demonstrates the enormity of the problem.

As for streams of bytes, a disk is a stream of bytes, or rather a collection of fixed-size blocks of bytes. HFS is looking at flattened HFS files that have been "squished" to fit on a medium that does not, itself, implement HFS. Therefore anything that you can represent with an HFS dual-fork file can also be represented losslessly in a stream of bytes. (You do of course benefit from understanding the dual-fork structure.) HFS+ actually went further, implementing files with an arbitrary number of forks, like sections in ELF or PE. As GeekyBear points out, NTFS did the same, leading to path traversal vulnerabilities in early Microsoft web servers.
Looking at the data I would also be very sceptical on the other given source, could be politically influenced. The outlier is huge.

But the self-given data looks also suspicious, given the history.
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pets.com was just a bit early, so the economy of scale didn't kick in. chewy.com made the same model work 20 years later, with 100x the potential userbase people comfortable shopping online.
Pretty cool, just wanted to point out the pencil cursor doesn't really map to the cursor location properly in Safari (confirmed this works properly in Chrome). The pencil appears down and to the right of the cursor, so you end up drawing up and to the left of the pencil, and it also makes it hard to click HTML elements like the checkboxes in the projects section.
how come you need a blockchain to assert your identity, doesn’t public key cryptography solve this?
I get the flu shot every year, to help reduce transmission and reduce the severity if I get it myself
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You know, maybe it's really good! I never considered this possibility because of its hostile UX.

Any service that pops up a login and won't let you access any content without logging in I just nope out of and have for many years. Especially user-hostile on mobile (Twitter and Reddit websites work really really hard to force you into using their apps and/or logging in on mobile, much more than on desktop). But maybe we're missing something and Pinterest is super awesome. Maybe I've been using this anti-user UX pattern as a signal for "crapware" but it's not accurate. Maybe fantastic services are hiding behind this pattern.

I'm not gonna sign up to find out but it's interesting to think about.

Or maybe I'll setup a VM for this and finally get FB/Insta/TikTok/Pinterest/Twitter, check em all out, and find out what the rest of humanity has been up to.
Who said anything about being confident in our ability to adapt? I’m totally fine with the worst case possibility that we’re facing an extinction-level event here with the looming climate disasters. If that’s what nature is going to give us, what choice do I have but to accept it?
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Not sure what you're trying to imply with this comment. Outside of the workplace, I don't think anyone considers it inappropriate to get chatting with someone (read: NOT a coworker, especially not one you have power over) and later ask them out on a date. This happens probably millions of times in various settings every single night.