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> We are all unappreciated beta testers.

What makes it worse is that you are PAYING to test their buggy software.
There is no money or smart contracts involved in my scenario. I just want to host a random site.

Put another way – is there a use case for Web3 which doesn't involve touting Web3? What is the "killer app" for the average user who isn't obsessed with crypto/blockchain?
> We're not smallpoxing Covid out of existence without a much better vaccine.

Are you sure? At this point we can vaccinate almost everyone, and we wouldn't have to reduce the R factor by all that much.
Alternative voting schemes sound good, because we all can recognize that our democracy is broken. But the underlying problem isn't the voting scheme, it's the lobbying and corporate money in politics. Changing out the voting system while leaving Capitalism in place would just have the corporations buying different politicians. Not surprising that the economist doesn't mention this angle.
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I’m struggling with exactly what you describe. I literally LoLed at your code-janitor and pointless meeting comments. Something that would take a day at a small shop takes a week. It’s sad. I can’t do it for much longer.
Yeah, the problem is Mom-and-pop shops just can't survive on the customers who are willing to spend extra to make sure they get a quality product. It's not just that there aren't enough people in this country who're willing to pay extra... it's that you can't even get those quality products anymore. Stuff made ten years ago in every category from mattresses to washing machines is more durable and will last longer than stuff made today. A mom & pop shop has to find and source stuff that's not garbage, and hope people are willing to shell out extra for it, but where can they even get the inventory? Most of the quality manufacturers have been put out of business by the tidal wave of Chinese-made garbage, and the few that haven't still source most of their parts from China, which makes them less reliable than they were even a few years ago.
I think we can argue that Hitler's power _was_ indeed given by the people. Hitler tried to overthrow the government in the 20s with a march on Munich [0]. He ultimately failed because he didn't have enough support and was driven out. After this incident he pledged to get into power the legal way, and by that time he _did_ have the support of the people. He appealed to the masses. If people did not support his rise to power and immediate control of the government through the Enabling Act [1] they could have marched on the government themselves to try and overthrow him. Higher ups supported him, and the working class supported him.

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch
[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933
Also a Rust "fanboy" and I would disagree. I'm amazed how productive I am in Rust (about 6 months in). I've written tons of Go as well, and I write Rust faster (What I was expecting was to write better code, but have it take longer, but turned out not to be true). I also thought the language would be too "low level" for the type code I write (I wrote in Go and Python mostly before, though I've written in many languages in the past), but I found it scales very well up and down to low and high level challenges (Serde _rocks_). At this point, I use Rust for everything except a couple hundred line script (Python for that).

I'm not saying everyone would fit in that camp and it is a harder language to get started in for sure, but I think the borrow checker scares away too many people. It is a learning curve, but when it clicks, you will realize that every language has ownership and borrowing... you just didn't realize it because the GC allowed you to be sloppy about it. Once you do, it makes you a better programmer (just like coding in Haskell does).
Very cool project, and impressive he got it working!

I feel like possibly a better way to deal with the communication though might be to put a dual-port RAM [e.g. 1] in-between the gameboy and the microcontroller, and load in a program to it so the Gameboy is just waiting for certain areas of memory to be updated (with flags that one side sets as 'new data' and then the gameboy flips). Basically some kind of circular buffer of commands, and as long as there's enough space in there and you only fill it from the microcontroller slower than the Gameboy can process them, you wouldn't need to have careful synchronisation. The microcontroller just has to check that the next slot in the circular buffer has had its status bit flipped to 'processed' (or hasn't been used yet) before putting the next command/data in.

1. https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/memory-logic/multi-po...
How would recurring transactions or metered billing work? Does this only apply to merchants or providers that are not PCI-DSS compliant and cannot safely store cardholder data?
> Amazon has no interest in fixing this problem, because they know that well over half their "inventory" is now from knockoffs, IP theft and/or bait-and-switch scams.

That sounds very much like they'd have an interest in fixing the problem. Short-sightedness does not appear to be one of Amazons issues.
> Many COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers have required that countries indemnify them for any adverse events suffered by individuals as a result of the vaccines, the United Nations says. Where governments are not in control, that is not possible. The concerns affect people, such as those displaced by the Myanmar, Afghanistan and Ethiopian crises, who are beyond the reach of national governments' vaccination schemes.

Stateless humans have more legal protection than stateful humans?
Do you know what ended up causing the driver to break?
Why would the GOP even want to run San Francisco? San Francisco deteriorating under left-wing politicians has great propaganda value for the GOP in the rest of the country.
The difference is the spirit of the law but you are correct in that it is technically following the law. But breaking the spirit of the law garners you no public sympathy. So though we see possibly Black Cube didn’t break any laws and therefor are not liable, no body gives a shit that they were kicked off of Facebook.
> Scamazon, Wak-Mart, and Turget

Are those nicknames for major retailers or are they knock offs themselves? After shopping at Wu-Mart in Beijing, I really can’t tell anymore.

> This is why we can't allow the concept of mom-and-pop shops to die off

In Beijing, I was much less likely to get scammed at Walmart or Carrefour than at the many local mom and pop shops.
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we use a cherry pick model

all developers develop features, we then cherry pick what features we want in the next release, do a release branch, merge in features, test (and if necessary, fix) then merge into main.
Well yes, you either play whack-a-mole with every single IPFS server, or you live with it, because you have no choice.

Like I've said elsewhere, this is "for better or for worse," depending on your political sensibilities. Again, I think Tor is a good example here. Lots of CP on Tor, or so I hear. But also persecuted journalists and whistleblowers, and safer drugs than you'd find on the streets. You can't realistically say "I want X to be outside the reach of tyrannical governments, but not Y." It's an all-or-nothing deal. By its very nature, these sorts of libertarian technologies will attract all the illegal parts of society -- for better or for worse.
So these companies get swaths of subsidies. They get price agreements with the liberty to bump it with double digit percentages. They get waivers for any and all responsibilities and orders en masse. Yet helping the hopeless and poor is too much to ask in fear of lawsuits. What a shameful situation.
You have two options: (1) quit or (2) "renegotiate the relationship", as the saying goes.

Specifically, it's perfectly reasonable for you to say "OK -- if you're willing to provide me with a dedicated laptop". They can say no of course, but so can you. Or you can request a rate increase (which they would probably say no to, if they won't provide you with a laptop).

Either way, those are you choices. Yes it sucks to a degree, but that's what work does generally and which is why it pays money. All we can do is moderate the suckiness-to-money ratio as best we can.
It is due to shortcuts. It is very hard to keep things modular under the pressure when violating is easy.

Micro services make it hard.
Like I said with the comment about poor people vs people with money, different people have vastly different expected retirements
It won't. Like it should be. No one should be able to take your money without your consent.
So is your parent post on how monitoring will take over if devs don't unionize.
You appear to be enraged that a specific open-source project you chose doesn't have good enough documentation for a specific feature you want, which is not the main aim of the project. Not sure I can help. Additionally, all the answers to your question are contained in my first comment.
I don't know first hand, but I would suspect it's more common in financial services and/or with government contractors.
I'm pretty sure TRIM is supposed to prevent this problem, but TRIM is often broken in VMs.
Even if fees are $50, it's still useful as a competitor to ACH and other payment systems. Commercial bank to bank transfers costing $50 in total fees isn't unusual.

I heard the Fed is working on lowering bank transfer fees.

> For one thing, it’s likely that transaction fees will rocket, as miners try to replace revenues no longer provided by the emission of new Bitcoins.

Difficulty readjusts every 2016 blocks, changing money needed to mine a block. Congestion would be temporary.

> The hope was that by having a hard-coded limit on the number of Bitcoins ever to be produced, the value of a Bitcoin couldn’t be inflated away by an endless supply of new coins.

Technically not true, the code was written incorrectly so as to trigger undefined behavior / underflow, allowing far more than 21 million bitcoins. This was corrected in a non-controversial hard fork.
Everyone knows you're a slacker, except management. Because management sucks. It's pretty much an axiom at this point.

>Do people regularly run into coworkers like me during their career and simply ignore it because they find it too awkward to criticize them?

There are other ways to reason about this. My favorite pet theory is that slackers are useful for offloading schmoozing duties. If a hard worker befriends a social butterfly, that worker no longer has to directly socialize as much.

But everyone around you who does your exact same job knows exactly how worthless or worthy you are. Don't kid yourself into thinking you're some master con artist.
Nice. The MIT Media Lab was trying to do that years ago. Somebody finally did it.
Now to solve the cost problem.
Hm not even a camera recording of a gun? Something?

The protestors did poop on the walls.

That's insurrection of lunch thinking about it.
What was the root cause and what was the fix?
I hope we can all agree that NASA pays NASA costs to solve specific, low-N problems. The problem with the blockchain is it wants to spend NASA money on basic translations.
That's too complicated, the worth of a bitcoin can be defined in the following two ways:

1. the price the last person paid to buy a bitcoin

2. the price the next person is willing to pay to buy a bitcoin

Until human beings figure out the Truth of the universe or at least the meaning of life, the word "value" means nothing. We don't deserve to use the word "value", because we haven't being able to define it.
It is not the users' data but Facebook's data about the users.
And Facebook doesn't protect the the users' privacy but its assets.
I meant that with respect to blockchain specifically. So the relative costs are higher, but that's only a difference in degree, not in type. I mean

> This is great, but I don't need it at 10^9 times the cost.

Like I said, good for you. You don't need it at 10^9 the cost. Some others do. Why hate that a solution exists for those who do?
That service model purchases the available version of the product without any updates (patches are free for some (3?) months, but needs a recurring SLA if you want to update anything or call their online API).

That quickly turns out to be even more expensive than the subscription if you realistically want to develop something on that platform (for e.g a data analytics course, mapping overlays, queries - pretty much anything standard which one needs to teach or demonstrate to students. It isn't even a power-usecase)

PS: I made that mistake with v11.3. Abandoned it later.
> ... in ways that are several orders of magnitude more efficient and more capable.

Another thing that gets bandied about, emphasis mine.
Well, you have to be aware of the potential quirks in the system, and Australians are not, they uncritically know their system is infallible and the best.
Not exactly this, but "Dragon's Egg" by Robert Forward takes place on a neutron star with a surface gravity billions times that on Earth.
> No one can save you from your own deadly mistakes.

Well yes, that's kind of the point. Freedom to choose what you want to do with your money -- including the freedom to make your own mistakes and shoot yourself in the foot.
I mean sure, you can, but it's ridiculously inconvenient.

If an online service like eBay, Facebook or Uber required this level of verification, people would (rightly) tell them to piss off and use a competing service instead.
How can approval voting suffer from this defect? Is the idea here that we factor in people who don’t vote for things they actually favor because they’re hoping to avoid tipping the result away from something they favor even more? Or do you mean an election could end up selecting a result that is favored by the majority even though there is a different result that is more favored by a smaller majority?
I imagine this is quite normal in the non-startup world. At most "established" companies, as long as you are in charge of ONE THING that saves other people some trouble, it is hard to get fired. The expectations at a lot of jobs are just really, really low.
Surprising. We do a PR and review for nearly every block of work we commit. Most pass without comment. The ones that have comments usually have good suggestions, or actually catch an error.
Chipmakers' nightmare: Will shortages give way to a supply glut?
I just showed this to my 32 year old son. He used to sit on my lap and watch as my hard drive defragged. Made him smile.
But the fake reviews, throw-away brands, and counterfeit items are gradually corroding Amazon's credibility and brand identity among customers.

Amazon are very good at making money. This is not a problem for them; it's an opportunity.

Before Amazon lose all their credibility they'll introduce something like "Amazon Assured" that sells customers a guaranteed real item. They'll charge sellers for the privilege of having the "assured" status on the product page, and make filtering by assured status something that's only accessible to Amazon Prime users.

Users will believe Amazon are doing this to protect them.
I believe that they were interns fresh out of the academy so they _are_ teenagers that were thrown into war.

No excuse for Michael though, she really put me off.

To their credit they did joke about get behaviour in season 3.
Every architecture makes trade offs.

Creatively showing how expensive and slow Ethereum is is entertaining but not entirely relevant. It's like comparing a passenger airplane and a tank, claiming transportation is their sole purpose and since airplanes are both faster and cheaper than tanks, tanks are fraudulent.

Ethereum is architected to be a decentralized, permissionless computing platform. Performance is one of the trade offs.

It's much more productive, and more challenging in my opinion, to discuss whether or not the trade offs being made are worthwhile.
falling inflation rate !== deflation
I think raising this concern is a great first step into seriously thinking about bitcoin. Learning about bitcoin is a string of epiphanies and concerns, much like the actual bitcoin price chart over time.

No one gets to "maxi" without first going through all the ups and downs and common questions and misunderstandings
Why do they waive responsibility though
Where's your "Google"? Where's your "YouTube"? Where's your killer app? Everything you've listed is just different ways to throw away cryptocurrency. The average Joe is going to look at that list, chuckle, and go back to browsing Twitter on their iPhone. There's no main attraction here.
Also quieter. I remember the satisfaction I felt after defragging the drive and no longer hearing the driving thrashing around on the smallest read operation.
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This change just says that only the card issuer or card network can store the card number (PAN). Everyone else in the processing chain can only store card tokens.

This isn’t a surprising change and was always going to be the future of PCI compliance.
I am old enough to remember when "defrag days" were part of my job.

Literally nearly an entire work day lost spent waiting for defrag to finish on my FAT32 hard drive. We used some program with a very minimal UI that was supposed to do it faster/better than the utility built into Windows.
To be clear, they are doing this because of a California DoJ mandate to encrypt traffic to prevent transmitting PII in the clear. San Jose did this not too long ago as well.
Might vary from region to region I guess. I’m in Europe and the following page indicates that it’s on Disney+ here currently https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/series/dopesick/vaEHfF8OZHU... but it might redirect for people in the US or say not available or something.

Also I don’t have Disney+ so I don’t know if the page applies to all of Europe even.

Edit: Yeah I tried to archive a copy of it and for archive.is it got redirected to the Disney+ home page so probably that’s what you will see too. Meanwhile, archive.org was able to capture it without being redirected. So whether the link will show info about the show or just redirect is probably region dependent. Those kinds of redirects are the most annoying btw. At least they ought to give a message like “this show is not available in your region”. Kind of surprised that archive.org didn’t get redirected actually – I had thought the servers archive.org used for capturing pages were in the US. And I thought archive.is were capturing from Europe.
To copy paste other comments of mine:

> Assuming you live in the US, the government can swoop in at any time (provided they have a legal reason to do so) and demand that AWS or whoever's hosting your servers shuts them down. If you're hosting them yourself, they can raid the physical locations where you host them. If you're not in the US, I'm sure your country has equivalent security forces that would be more than capable of doing the same should the government find a reason to.

> Good luck raiding every single Ethereum node in the world to take down a smart contract.

> Also, you didn't address code immutability guarantees. You can change your server code at any time and your users would be none the wiser. The darknet markets, once compromised by federal agents, did exactly this, and stopped actually encrypting user messages with PGP while continuing to pretend to do so. A smart contract, unless it has upgradeability built in, offers just this sort of guarantee to its users.

> Oh, and if your app deals with finance, and the US government (or your own) wants you to stop letting John Doe use your app because they just placed new sanctions on Mr. Doe? You'd better code that compliance feature up real quick or see yourself getting heavily fined or even imprisoned. Tough luck doing that sort of censorship on the blockchain -- as long as a single miner is willing to include that user's transaction, they're basically in.

And when it comes to "That doesn't seem to leave any 'Killer features' for me to care about", I'll also say what I said to somebody else:

Good for you. These are not killer features you'd care about. They are, however, killer features that some others care out. Why is it a bad thing that an option exists for those that do care about these features?
There is no exception for recurring payments. Also unfortunately this applies to all online merchants and Payment aggregators regardless of size and certifications. So as it stands a separate auth is needed for each transaction which is completely regressive and precludes a lot of convenience use cases. My guess is that they are doing this to make Upi more convenient in comparison. But I won't be surprised if its just another short sighted we know it all mentality decision from the regulator who has a history of u-turns.

Edit: Looks like they do allow card tokenization (not part of original proposal) which should address a lot of use cases

Here is the commentary about the original proposal:

https://www.businessinsider.in/finance/banks/news/rbi-wants-...

Here is the one after push back from industry (Which allows tokenization):

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...
>> "Butts on seats" means "employees who are present, and hopefully intrinsically motivated (rather than driven by a bad KPI) to add value to the company in a way that's not fully specified by their manager."

Does the company gain value in employees being present? Sure, if the employee is a security guard. Not so much if it's a dev.

"Hopefully (something else happens)" feels like you're saying "we need a KPI, this is -a- KPI, ergo...". Hoping an easily measured KPI correlates with what you actually care about feels like a -really- bad choice of metric.

I'll also mention, pre-COVID, I've worked at places where attendance wasn't tracked; we had high performers we kept, and low performers we let go. I've never worked at a place that actually checked or cared about attendance, so I can't speak to that, but I can say highly effective workplaces didn't need it.

How did we determine low performers? Well, the tasks they were given didn't get done, nor did they raise up the fact they were stuck. When asked they got defensive. When it eventually was handed to someone else it was done quickly. When they were asked to work with someone else on something, the other person ended up doing all the work. Etc. None of those are "hard KPIs". They're all data points that indicate "this person is not actually moving the work forward".
The headline is kinda misleading.
They can store credit card information, but they can only do that in tokenized format instead of the current way of storing.
Tokenized format hides the number and other information making it more secure.
You can read more about it here https://www.thequint.com/explainers/rbi-allows-card-on-file-...
not to mention lightning, which is where a majority of transactions would actually be occurring.