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I'm flabberghasted at the amount of hate this space is getting from parts of the dev community and in particular HN. Web3 has its fair share of issues, but there's community and energy in the space that I haven't seen online since the early days of the world wide web.

Consider this: if you are absolutely, 100% convinced that all of this is bogus, is going to go nowhere (despite the high number of talented individuals flocking to it...), fair enough: bet on it disappearing overnight or over long cold crypto winter.

But if you think there's a slim chance that web3 may persist, and that it's not all just the bad bad things you think it is, do take a look, play around, join a community like Corruption(*s) (https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1470525607104684032) - I assure you you will reconsider your stance if you look close enough, and it'll position you in a much better way for what's to come compared to continuing to ignore it.
While I agree with all your sentiment here, I think it's ok to be critical of web3 and still see a future for crypto. With all of the hyperbole and real issues both technical and social around the web3 ecosystem I'm reminded of being an outsider spectator of the dot com bubble crash. I was a senior in high school living in the east bay and something that kind of blew my mind at the time was grocery delivery. The idea of ordering some food online and getting it delivered was very exciting, the reality was it wasn't a tenable service. 12 years later with the advent and proliferation of smart phones the idea had legs and now I can and do order groceries from a variety of stores. Including a local speciality asian food place. I feel like the promises of web3 is in the phase of some good ideas that aren't ready for mainstream, similarly to grocery delivery in 1999
> No re-downloads of past versions will be provided

Far, far bigger films get away with nonsense like this. But IMHO it's a violation of the CJEU case UsedSoft GmbH v Oracle (paragraph 85).
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This isn’t true, and the lack of testing during the phase 3 trials to see if there were non-symptomatic cases was a deliberate design choice to avoid answering that question.

I’m all in on vaccination, but let’s not rewrite history.
This is the same kind of organizational naivete displayed by armchair middle-manager wannabes that think stack ranking is a great idea too.

Once you start trying to codify potential or current employees into buckets delineated by simplistic and frankly silly metrics and not by the value they produce in a given set of domains and contexts, then you've already lost the game.
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This doesn’t really work in a democracy. Look how high gas prices have turned so many Americans against Biden, and that isn’t because of some anti-climate-change policy. Try to fight climate change at the ballot box, next election you lose all your seats as more people want $2 gas than care about the environment.
I spent a long time thinking about this. My conclusion is that the simplest way to achieve this, at least in GCC, is to create a #copy directive that allows a macro, together with its stack, to be copied to another. GCC already allows stack expansion with push and pop but it can only be expanded once; the #copy directive would fix that.

If you get anything close to that working, that would be a godsend. It is the last remaining piece of the puzzle for me to implement complete RTTI in C. It would certainly help to minimize glib boiler plate code too.

I'd really like it to be part of c2x, but I think it is too late now. If it is implemented by either GCC or Clang, the remaining other would certainly it too since it is too useful. So getting it to work in any of these would be good enough for me.

How can I track/follow your progress?
I agree that there needs to be a balance between testing and cost. One one side, QA managers can become chicken littles who define the only acceptable level of risk as zero. On the other are project managers who let cognitive biases help them rationalize the answer they want in order to avoid cost overruns.

But the issues above aren't that. I can think of very little reason that valve command mappings on a human-rated rocket were not adequately tested. The larger point is there needs to be good testing on credible risks, not that risk needs to be driven to zero.

I would say someone who thinks "the risk was considered avoided because the code was tried and tested tech on Ariane 4." doesn't actually know the nature of the risk in order to determine if it's credible. The risk was not mitigated because changing configuration added an untested interaction risk.
Largely in antivax communities though.

It's not a problem in any area with high vaccine compliance.
The sooner it dies, the less carbon we'll dump into the atmosphere so people can buy monkey jpegs
In Germany you can vote for lowering taxes without voting for AfD, while in USA the entire right wing block gets the same hate as AfD does in Germany. That makes the American situation extremely different, most people who vote for Republicans aren't racist etc, they just care about lowering taxes and Republicans is the only party that you can vote for to get that. USA's political system causes this issue.
Shantae is a GBC game. It's a different kettle of fish. Of course others could write a GBA emulator or BIOS but mGBA is widely regarded as one of the best.

Why isn't it entitlement on Analogue's side to offer so low a bid and with ridiculous restrictions?
> Seriously though, can you tell us which Web3 technologies, specifically, are disrupting existing technologies in a way that really benefits the end users instead of speculators?

Distributed systems where you own the data and there's no single point of failure.

> That's not how mining works. Layer 2 networks don't reduce the energy consumption of the Layer 1 network. They still produce 1 block every 10 minutes, and they'll continue mining as long as their costs are lower than the combined block reward and transaction fees.

I'm not an expert on the mining mechanics, I might be wrong but not due to the reasons you claim, transaction fees will approach zero as more people move into lightning and block reward will keep getting halved.
Isn't the first one usually the precursor to the second?

I mean I might be totally wrong and the US is much more puritan than I think it to be, but here in Europe, people usually first start doing the fun things and then later figure out if their character and life situation is compatible for a long-term relationship.
GNU/Linux with the monolithic gigakernel, user based security, and all the attendant security faults.

Virus scanners, firewalls, "trusted boot", and all the government regulation that results from the security holes generated above.

I'm not sure if unlicensed general purpose computing will be available to the working class, or if we will have lost that war in 20 years.
> Should we not look at every source of emissions?

Absolutely. But right now, the solutions for land travel aren't available for air travel, and air travel is negligible, compared to land travel.

My point here is that air travel is receiving a lot of hate, when it is not the main pollutant when it comes to modes of transportation, not by a long shot.

> As I mentioned in another comment, how many consultants were flying twice a week to and from clients? How many flights were for handshakes and quick flights home?

I agree with this position. Work travel has been pushed by the belief that face to face meetings are mostly indispensable, and COVID-19 proved that they are not.

I also think that there is a component pushed and exacerbated by patronage networks.
Natural immunity is the ONLY way back to a sane planet. It's time you take a step back, look at what happened for two years now, and realize we don't need this insanity anymore.
Oh damn, I didn't notice that. Yeah, that changes the economics a lot.
And you are able to manipulate complex equations without any visual tools, just by "thinking about what they are"? For example mentally multiply a term into nominator and denominator of a rational function? That's just inconceivable to me. Where's your "scratch pad" essentially. To me it works pretty much like it works on paper, only that the "paper" is in my head, and the visuality of it all (being able to "focus" on a particular part of the equation etc.) helps in keeping the problem tractable, otherwise even a relatively simple equation quickly becomes overwhelming to manipulate.

(To say nothing about the other meaning of the word "complex", i.e. complex numbers. Getting a good grasp of Fourier or Laplacians without a complex and/or s-plane in my head is fruitless. I admire anyone who just "gets it" without visual aids... real or imagined ones, because that pun was also too good to pass up).
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I try to convince others of the enormity of the situation. It is not easy, and people are ignorant, often times willfully so. However, the efforts are giving some fruit - convinced my coworkers to go and vote at the last election, to attend the protest marches in our town and to be mindful of their energy usage in the office and at home. Even managed to convince my bosses to switch the offices to renewable energy and get some e-bikes for the people that were a bit farther away to be comfortable with a regular bike so they don't commute by car that often.

However, I still believe that all these efforts are like a band-aid on a dying whale. It takes one colleague to take a trip to the Bahamas for all these small efforts to be washed away. And unfortunately most people don't want to try harder than that. They want their comfort, their cheap burgers and EasyJet flights. If all of this comes at the cost of screwing the future generations then so be it...
IMO this is technically true in a totally uninteresting way.

People aren't going to stop doing stuff. That's just fairly obviously not really on the table, despite the minority of people who are into ideas of going back to some pre-modern agrarian societal model.

So, how do we let people continue to do stuff without totally messing up the planet? That's the crucial question humanity is interested in solving (or, maybe more accurately, needs to solve).
Scientists Create Self-Powered, Aqueous Robot That Runs Without Electricity
It's not bullshit but it's also not very useful compared to existing alternatives (compare latency, availability, and reliability), and it requires juuust enough technical knowledge to understand why that you can still build a convincing narrative about it for laypeople. Which you are incentivized to do when their buy-in makes you money.
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I can close my eyes and see a picture or even video of any scene, from any angle, that I have seen before or that I could arrange the details of in my head, as if it were real. I don't even have to close my eyes, but it's more vivid if I do.

However, I have trouble visualizing faces in great detail, or even much. When I try to recall a face, the harder I try to recall it, the more blurry it becomes.

Aphantasia seems... hard to imagine. But evidently it's real. I imagine closing my eyes and being unable to summon a mental image of objects or persons. It's almost like being blind, but only when one's eyes are closed, and that's very weird.

The most interesting question about aphantasia, for me, would be just how much it affects one's ability to deal with concepts, especially visual concepts. It's a question one might have about visual impairment as well. But it's clear that it doesn't seem to matter much. I know brilliant blind people -- it doesn't seem to slow them much if at all, and even seems to help them to some degree. The effect on conceptualization must be very subtle indeed -- a testament to the neuroplasticity of our brains.
I've heard that but then why do people say we need to get vaccinated to protect the most vulnerable members of society if the vaccine isn't actually slowing the spread and doesn't prevent infection?

EDIT:

To be clear I already had COVID and didn't have any serious symptoms so the argument about a hospital bed doesn't necessarily apply to me. Beyond that I actually got vaccinated, my question centers around the disparity of treatment we are giving individuals who are vaxxed and those who are not if both are capable of spreading. Further it brings in the question of vaccine mandates if they are much less effective then we were led to believe.
Perhaps the new part is that it's now accessible to everyone and not just tech-savvy/nerd-types/households with enough income to blow on a PC.
> At least the type of inflation modern monetary theory has provided in the past several decades

I wouldn't characterize the past several decades as modern monetary theory. Rather they were traditional post Bretton Woods monetary policy of monetary creation primarily through the financial industry. I believe that MMT will actually help control overall inflation - the government printing money and injecting it places besides the financial industry will create quicker consumer price inflation, which will stop the Fed from continuing to create asset inflation by lowering rates.
> But the math and incentives are there.

Cui bono as they say. Crypto won't fail because of the group that is driving most of the demand. It's a small group of people with lots of money. If it was a big group of people with little money, you could make the case that cryptocurrencies will fail. It's success has little to do with the math and quality of the technology.
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Go is very stable, and 12 years old.
Which of the things the parent listed are for "tech-savvy/nerd-types"?
Most people are willing to draw compromises, even on abortion. Most people who favor the right to an abortion will accept a line somewhere; many are content to accept the trimester system. Most people who wish to ban it still allow exceptions, such as rape, even though that seems inconsistent with it being really about murder.

It's an issue that easily admits being amplified by tribalism, but it doesn't have to be. We don't have to be at war over it. There exist compromises that aren't internally consistent but satisfy the moral intuitions of a large majority of the country.

Instead, we're at war -- not because of the issue itself, but because the issue is presented as one where we have to be at war about. They're not looking for a compromise, even among their partisans who would accept one. They're looking for a war, because that war is used to keep their opponents out of office on all issues.

It's an effective strategy for winning. Compromise doesn't make you run out to the polls. It doesn't matter how many parties there are. The winner is the one with the most votes. It's easiest to get the most votes when you believe that you are the only ones who are morally righteous, and everybody else is guilty of the one crime that every single person thinks is wrong all the time -- murder.

So I believe that it's not stronger than "identity". Identity is how you win elections. Abortion happens to be a great issue for sharply defining identity, but if it weren't that, it would be something else. And along with it comes every other issue that you've managed to agree with your partisans on: you win every argument for free.
> It would hard for me to make a case that eventually cryptocurrency will fail.

It's easy for me to make that case. Ransomware aside, there's no underlying value in cryptocurrency, unlike currencies which have the full faith and credit of governments. This is a fundamental problem that I see no way around.
I'm not saying if makes a difference to his point, but when you pick 2009 at the starting, which was the bottom of the Great Recession, your graph has a much different slope than a 10, 15, or 20 year chart. Also his first chart is QQQ, not really a proxy for the entire US economy.
The math is there, yes. Its cool and exciting. But thats all. All the incentives are to control the plane and grab the next big thing, like Facebook and Google grabbed the Internet Advertising. Any form of decentralization is not possible, it won't work. Just look how hard it is for people to agree on anything very basic. The higher the stake, the more people will try to grab as much as they can. How would imagine for people to get a consensus about upgrades and changes in the protocol. Just look how much bitcoin staled because of that. Everything is controller by developers of given technology. If there is a reason, they will force their agenda. It's been happening over and over.
The "cost" view is bound to fail. Non renewable energies are free, the only cost you pay is extraction, the real work was done by nature during billions of years and is infinitely more valuable than anything humanity has ever made.

There is no way to pass the cost to airline companies, because the cost is infinite. We're playing a losing game, and we know it, it's just a matter of time until we either run out of renewable energy or until the damage done to the environment is so bad that we physically can't continue. There is no winning combination for us, we have to accept that earth won't be able to sustain 8b+ people living like the average westerner, especially once we phase out non renewable energies
i feel like words no longer have merit.

How can you continue to call yourself "The linux foundation" and contribute so little?
This. I’ve even considered buying a large swath of land and letting it go fully natural.
Please walk me through the steps to buy any US security, say some Apple stock, btw I'm Venezuelan.

Here's the steps to buy bitcoin:

1) Create wallet
2) Buy from anyone in the world who wants to sell.
> But the math and incentives are there. It would hard for me to make a case that eventually cryptocurrency will fail.

This strikes at one of my primary complaints with crypto/web3 discussions: Advocates switch between specific cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency in general, and the concept of a blockchain in general as convenient for their arguments.

The concept of a cryptocurrency will always exist, but that doesn't mean that we can't be critical of the current financial shenanigans going on in the space.

If it helps, remember that the thing people talk about the most when discussing cryptocurrencies is always the price. But cryptocurrencies don't have any built-in notion of price. 1 BTC is 1 BTC. What people are really excited about is the exchanges and the on-ramps and off-ramps, which have nothing to do with the blockchain or cryptography.
> It's almost completely a staffing issue at this point

So these politicians should treat this like an emergency and drive dumptrucks of money up to healthcare staff not working and get them back. Get nursing students. Do whatever it takes. Think outside of the box. This is supposed to be an emergency, is it not?

I mean, if it was an emergency and healthcare was truly an issue, why aren't those hospital tents and hospital ships docked in the harbor of every major city? "Lack of staff" is just an excuse in an emergency. You work around it. Make it happen. It's an emergency, right?

And if it isn't an emergency, why are we mandating anything at all? Shouldn't we all be going about our lives like we did prior to march 2020? If it isn't an emergency why are governments still using emergency powers to push mandates onto citizens instead of actually dealing with hospital shortages?

None of this makes any sense at all when you really start thinking about it. Absolutely none of it... Never did, never will...
It doesn't and I really wish it did, although probably not enough to set up a scraper.
Certainly there is variability, evolution is fundamentally a random walk, but no strain since 1918 has come close to that one's severity, and the genes causing cytokine storms in infected individuals, which was why that strain was so deadly, seems to have been quickly lost. Subsequent strains that were highly virulent seem to have evolved new mechanisms.

Viruses can pick up genes from lateral gene transfer. Basically in the process of copying their own genetic material while replicating, they might inadvertently copy some extra genetic material that was just lying around in the host cell, and it gets incorporated into their genetic code, producing recombinant strains. Further, just as animal strains can jump into humans, human strains can jump into animals. So for example in 1968 the H3N2 flu lineage started in birds, jumped to humans where it recombined with 1918's H1N1 making human H3N2, and then jumped into pigs to make Porcine H3N2. Indeed there's evidence that H1N1 started out as an avian strain that jumped to humans and swine around the same time, but this is still an open academic debate.
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Waiting decades with government policies in place and altered behavior is not a realistic option. Most people would rather risk infection over the long term.
Ah yeah, I guess I've never done the migration assistant thing. Seems dirty not to start with a clean slate, but maybe that's just my hangup.

But, you can also just copy your home directory on Linux for the same kinda process.
Contracting != Consulting. There are roles at both big firms (McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte, Accenture) that deal with a broad set of technology issues across strategy and implementation, as well as smaller boutique shops focused on specific technology problems. Here's a representative job posting for a big firm: https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/search-jobs/jobs/softwarear...
> But this is a subset of the useful papers to be written, and in my experience a small one.

Certainly. I never claimed otherwise.

But bloaf's and lonesword seem to think such papers are of only superficial merit at best, and that detailed steps to reproduce the research are essential.

I disagree with that viewpoint.
That sounds awesome. I remember trying to create a setup using touchegg some years ago, with very little luck
In short - there are no binaries and it's relatively hard to compile these manually, so I recommend to wait until the Linux distributions picks these projects up. This usually takes around 6 to 12 months.
Trying the free trial - this is awesome! And it actually read my truly awful handwriting quite well. The website design and the technology is inspiring. Thank you!
This is the problem: if you blame every extreme weather event on global warming, global warming could be totally made up!
Web2 was born from the ashes of Web1, which crashed under the weight of expectations, cash, and inexperience.

Web2 is still booming. I don't see that bubble popping anytime soon, unless world governments get super serious about regulation.

That's not to say that a web3 couldn't come into the world while web2 is still going strong, but... it seems less likely that we'll see any real transformation until web2 and the tech oligarchies it gave rise to start to falter. Web3 has expectations, cash, and lots of experienced people behind it, but there's little space in the market to occupy because web2 is still thriving. To take a leap, this casually makes me think of the theory around disenfranchised nobility causing the fall of the roman empire...
This is a pretty nice summary. Could use some pointers on what to do next. Like making sure the characters are not printed from last to first when the letters are not properly connected. Or using dir=rtl if it's aligned wrong.