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> A thought exercise you should undertake if you're thinking about / talking about crypto/NFT/web3-related projects: If the financial instrument that underlies the project were to stop going up in value XX% per month, would you still be interested in the project?

There are hundreds of ways for that answer to be yes, and this is what is attracting so many builders to the space and why it builds so fast.

Many crypto enthusiasts and the skeptics that surround them are looking at linear bets. Put in X capital, receive X+Y% of capital back, or lose X-Y%. Although very popular approach, it is basically the tip of the iceberg of what's going on.

You can start with no capital and earn the crypto. You can earn lots of it. The price of what you earn can stay flat. The price of what you earn can decrease and you still come out ahead, because you are earning a lot. Not different than earning shares at a FAANG (or NAAAM these days?), except in crypto the earning is is waaaay faster than FAANG vesting periods, and every project has waaaay more upside without wasting decades of your life praying for exit liquidity at a private startup.

So the basis of your question is really project dependent. If I found a way to earn Axie SLP, NFTs, or Axie tokens fast, I wouldn't care about the exchange rate of any of those (unless the dilution outpaced the point of earning) and I think you - and many others - are missing that.

A lot of people stand up smart contract products that accept existing assets as deposit, and take a few basis points of the assets upon deposit or withdrawal, and thats the whole business model. They all do different things thats usually solving an interest or need for the people with the other assets. Completely passive income. I've even seen code that will accept an asset, take the cut, and immediately exchange the cut for a stablevalue asset, all initiated and paid for by the user that made the deposit.

There are many non-linear earning opportunities in this space. Many rival what the largest tech companies offer, even if the exchange rates of the things earned stayed flat. So the calculus is pretty clear: smugly exploit yourself for an ad conglomerate, or directly earn and build in this other even faster moving economy.
Those Hyundai and Kia Fire Recalls Might Be More Serious Than We Thought
The mall:Victor Gruen's grand urban vision became our suburban shopping reality
I'd be pretty surprised if uBlock Origin had been exfiltrating data since 2017 without being caught, and (as the sibling comment points out) I'd expect a lot more than LastPass to be compromised.

I think it exists at an intersection of (relatively) trustworthy and necessary that makes it extremely popular among the kinds of people participating in these discussions.
I went to their event for free pizza
This mostly comes down to parents who have more traditional cultural values than their children. It’s like watching two sports teams argue about who broke the rules, but they can’t agree because fundamentally one team is playing soccer and the other is playing baseball.
"Judas and the Black Messiah" was a wonderful, uncompromising view into the radical black politics of the 1960s. As I was watching it I couldn't help but compare it to the weak-sauce Sorkin film "The Trial of the Chicago 7" which Sorkin ends by having the government prosecution stand up and clap for the defendants (lol); compare this to the brutal assassination of Fred Hampton by the FBI and CPD. Also compelling was Martin Sheen's heel-turn as a particularly slimy J. Edgar Hoover, given how America knows him as Sorkin's inspirational speech-giving president from the West Wing.
Every social network is discovery engine but TikTok power lays in short videos of 10 seconds, that's how much attention span of todays people is. Netflix is also discovery engine but the problem is people are more willing to watch 10 seconds videos all day long than to be mentally exhausted by 2 hours movies. In another words believe it or not TikTok is worth more than Netflix right now. But then again TikTok can be replaced and displaced by some new social network that prays on people's attention with highly engaging content.
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If your point happens to be correct, this is particularly important, because by posting like this you end up discrediting it. Your comment would be just fine without the first and third paragraphs.

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Edit: you've unfortunately been doing this repeatedly (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29549948) and we've had to warn you about it at least once before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109123). Would you please stop posting like this? We ban accounts that keep breaking the site guidelines and ignore our requests to stop, and I don't want to ban you.
> Did you witness lgbtq or people of certain skin colors being run out of town or receiving some sort of prejudice?

It's been a pretty consistent report of people I know who are visibly not “straight and white and ‘normal’” and whose prior US experience is limited to relatively cosmopolitan coastal areas who visit the Midwest (urban areas other otherwise) that not only does the WASP-normativity seem higher, but even minorities engage in more and more aggressive self-segregation from visibly different minorities, to the point of active avoidance on the street.

Oddly, people who are or pass as “straight and white and ‘normal’” are much less likely to report this, and often seem surprised to hear it from others.
I didn’t read the article. However, personal anecdote, my girlfriend was a victim of parental alienation. She had a child at 18 and everyone in her life conspired against her to separate her from her child. Her mom tried to separate us. She would pull me aside and tell me her daughter ( my girlfriend ) was a narcissist, etc. I knew she wasn’t. She is a loving, caring person who cares deeply for her son. She was undiagnosed high functioning autistic and no one took any time trying to figure out how to interact with her.

If it wasn’t for the fact that my salary affords us the ability to adequately represent ourselves in court she would have lost all rights to her son.
You should probably examine the comment at the top of the chain he/she responded to and think it over a little harder.
The history of your past purchases is highly personal data.
Yeah. I see people defending these companies, or companies defending themselves by hiding under "AI" and "ML". That does not absolve you from the consequences. You made the AI sub-optimal, it is harmful. Shut it down if it is not working properly, or assume responsibility for your crap.
Watts are not energy.
For what it's worth, I haven't received a notification of an attempt to login to my LastPass account. My LastPass password is horrendous and for sure not used elsewhere, and even if someone does gain access, I don't store passwords to major financial or email accounts in there.
Just to clarify a little, I'm not making the case that it was the right thing to do to post the NFTs, it's purely on whether unapproved portraits are allowed. Things like caricatures and satirical pictures do appear to be enabled on the same basis: caracturists do not need to seek permission, and it's not because they're satirising the subject that they get to do it. I'm pretty sure the same broad principal applies, but I'd welcome input from legally minded people here.
I don't understand why people quote the murder rates as any kind of indication of the city itself. Murders are far and away being committed by people you have no association with to people you have no association with.

Are you in a gang? No? You're fine. It's horrible and awful, but the way you've quoted it here is as if your personal likelihood of being murdered has meaningfully changed, when it hasn't (or maybe you rep tre tre crips or something, I don't know your life).
Shifting goalposts here:

At first, you said that if any CC could achieve net-zero emissions, then it would be significantly more cost-effective than rebuilding infrastructure. Baseless assertion without any specific numbers to cite.

Now, you're saying that if any CC could be net-zero and more cost-effective, then it should be welcomed. Well, yes, obviously.
It depends on individual priorities. Some folks just enjoy stacking cash. If you can do that, and maintain the status of being a top engineer at a well-known company, why rock the boat?

Additionally, it’s really hard to step away from solving large scaling issues, and go back to trying to finding your first customers/building an MVP.

I’ve been at startups and large companies. I like the money and challenges at large companies, and I don’t have crazy hours.
Apple doesn’t have PMs. SWE has EPMs but they have no power.
I've initiated "process improvements" a few times. It's always unpleasant since you're rocking the boat (kinda like when you report a security issue to a company with no established process.)

- got Royal Bank Canada while I was there to star out account numbers on ATM receipts. Had to find a competitor's receipt first (CIBC) and show a senior manager to "prove" there was an issue.

- shortly after leaving Netscape found email parsing bug and submitted that to a an ex-coworker who channeled it to the right developer.

Stay tuned for some more in process.
It generated a pizza shop for me :D

http://shan-shui-inf.lingdong.works/?seed=1640730920030

Seed: 1640730920030, view: 200, and I went right a few clicks.

Uploaded svg: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chris-ux/images/ea0801790f...
Take a second look at those imports, they only did that when nuclear was unable to meat demand which was every single weekday.

Exact numbers get tricky as they would export and import at the same time due to grid balancing still they needed to export ~1/5 of all nuclear power generated at a loss and import ~30+tWh just to meet demand. Even then utilization tells the story it was in the 60% range in 1988 while the US saw utilization in the 90% range, and again that’s with exporting below costs. Low utilization increased prices by about 30-50% depending on year and that’s with heavy dependence on fossil fuels and a relatively low percentage of nuclear consumption in the country. Nuclear simply doesn’t scale across an electric grid unless you want to more than double the price of electricity or provide subsidizes on that scale.

Just look at what happens to the EU grid if Germany and every every other country outside off France was 1/3 nuclear.
So most of what these panelists say can't be easily confirmed. But the last one told a story about when he was at Duke's Rhine research center; there was a guy who could guess remarkably well which cards people drew from a deck or which random lights were shown behind a screen.

Who is this guy and why didnt they get more evidence of these psi abilities? I assume there isn't any video or well known third party skeptics who conducted controlled experiments.

I looked at Rhine's website but couldn't find anything.
I personally completely agree, but let's play devil's advocate:

Many safety regulations exist for precisely these circumstances: grey areas where an intellectual consideration of the situation would cause the safety feature to not be needed, but people rush, are careless, or just stupid. And we deem that even hurried careless stupid people deserve to be safe.

There is a second factor: How do people treat navigation direction (from Google Maps or otherwise)? I think when they first came out, they were an assist - an augment to the existing driver's careful consideration of their route. Not so anymore.

I have friends that will absolutely never overrule Google Maps under ANY circumstances. Even if they are visiting a city that they don't know, and are driving with a local, and the local says "Oh don't take that road, it'll be terrible, turn here intead", they'll say "no, I'd prefer to follow the nav".

Some of this is occasionally justified. Local wisdom and old wives tales about faster roads and shortcuts do not incorporate active live traffic conditions like Google Maps can.

But a lot of it is simply that the thought process has been reversed. People are defaulting to trusting the sat nav to make the navigation decision COMPLETELY - and they focus on the moment to moment driving conditions.

This level of trust has been EARNED by the quality of the product. Which means it's entirely reasonable for 2 people to face a snowy mountain road, have one of them say "This looks sketchy, maybe we shouldn't go", and have the other respond "Yeah but Google Maps wouldn't have recommended it if it was. So it must be safe".

And that would be a logical counter-argument.

So no, the Google Engineer's defense isn't actually very good. In situations like this, yes, it MIGHT be better for a mainsteam product to default to "no safe options", similar how you can check "no toll roads" in your settings and only get directions for free roads.

Suggesting sketchy back roads should be a setting that you opt in to explicitly.

Of course the next step is detecting what is a sketchy mountain road and what isn't, etc. "Paved" might be the threshold I would use. "Include unpaved roads" is the setting I would add - defaulted to off.
so, they are outdated
What is your bar for "audited"?

I've reviewed both the design and implementation for age in the past and only found nitpicky things to improve (mostly related to HKDF).

I can take a fresh look and make a pretty PDF on paragonie.com if you care so much.
Can you elaborate? I can get an eSIM with service in less than 5 minutes and never leave my house/hotel using Apple Pay.
> Do you understand what a hypothetical is?

Yes, do you understand that making predictive conclusions about hypothetical alternatives is itself a claim that such conclusions can be justified (which is true, that's pretty much the whole point of science) and invites a call for the justification of the particular predictive conclusion you have offered?
A self-hosted password manager works for me; I only ever log in with a password from a single machine, so I use a local password manager that is completely unintersted in networks. I don't use a plaintext file, because like most people I have secrets; and because I trust people, not bureacracies (so I don't trust either the police or the government to hold my secrets safely).

That isn't going to work for most people, obviously. Most people want to be able to use their credentials from arbitrary machines. I don't have that requirement.
That's a really interesting scenario. But I'd imagine if double-spends became a persistent threat, they'd just hard fork to a slightly different hashing algorithm. That would brick all the pre-existing ASICs.

In the 2018 bear market, BTC lost 82% of its market value peak-to-trough. Double spend attacks by dark ASICs didn't become a factor then. So most likely you'd have to see BTC fall by 95% or more before this became a threat.
If you've been impacted by these log4j vulnerabilities, have a look at aegis4j, a Java agent that completely disables platform features you don't use, before an attacker uses them against you (including e.g. JNDI and Java serialization).

https://github.com/gredler/aegis4j/
You need to pay the miners just to be able to transact with Bitcoin. Gold on the contrary, you can just hand it over to someone else.
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Yes, probably the best example is driving down Route 66 between Joliet and Wilmington. Wilmington greets you with this: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3094815,-88.1413858,3a,47.3y...
Burning as usual is clearly not sustainable. If you think massive degrowth is the only way out then I’m afraid we’re totally fucked.

Massive emissions reductions can also be paired with CDR to have even more impact since reductions alone — basically no matter how steep at this point — are not going to get us to where we need to be.
I wouldn't mind but there are a bunch of people in this world who have no idea what those ASCII symbols even mean, and who might prefer using symbols they understand ^^
In the near term, no. Long term, with appreciation, yes. The bonus is paid as equity, not cash. If the share price doubles, that bonus is $360K, not $180K. The hope is that you’ll be incentivized to stick around for the appreciation.
Apple products are mostly still 10x better than their competitors products.
I didn't look too closely, but I'm wondering if this is Python's GIL. So instead of nginx -> multiple ~independent Python processes, each async handler is fighting for the lock, even if running on a different core. So read as 700 queries / core vs 700 queries / server. If so, in a slightly tweaked Python server setup, that'd be 3K-12K/s per server. For narrower benchmarking, keeping sequential, and doing container 1 pinned to core 1 <-> container 2 pinned to core 2 might tell an even clearer picture.

I did enjoy the work overall, incl Graviton comparison. Likewise, OS X's painfully slow Docker impl has driven me to Windows w/ WSL2 -> Ubuntu + nvidia-docker, which has been night and day, so not as surprised that those numbers are weird.
If I could have have changed the title I would have added something to make it give less PTSD
like almost every other state in America, Wisconsin is majority white unless you’re in the cities. Milwaukee is majority minority. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Americans
I feel like I'm reading the same article, but drawing very different conclusions from other commenters. I might be missing something - of eleven projects, three were reasonably successful implementations of an improvement to existing infrastructure that can slow climate change. Not terrible for new technology.

Although there is likely a better allocation of $1.1B in isolation, that is not the world in which this investment was made - $1.1B amounts to <5% of the annual DOE budget. It also does not include comparisons to other investments e.g. over $1B goes towards electric vehicle tax rebates every year [1]. Build Back Better proposed $555B of federal spending for renewable energy.

Are we going to discuss budgets in absolute dollar amounts, or discuss them as portfolios?

I will simultaneously applaud efforts to develop electric vehicles while applauding efforts to increase the MPG rating of an ICE vehicle. The same way, I'll applaud any serious effort to reduce our emissions at coal power plants that do indeed help load balance our somewhat fragile power grid - a fragility we need to address while also ensuring our existing infrastructure serves us well.

[1] https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/IF11017.pdf
OH MY GOD. Thank you, sincerely, for the link!!

I left out the hiring story because it sounds so apocryphal I was sure I’d made it up or was embellishing my memories. So much niche drama I’d completely forgotten about.
This is what a friend did in the exact same situation. He just moved into the house he built with the dough. Life is weird now.
It’s likely after some number of years, most people will have lost their Bitcoins and there won’t be many left in circulation.
I've just started looking, and I'm not an expert.

The key point here is log4j can get configuration a lot of different ways, including a network request. Based on https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/configuration.ht... control over dns would let you rewrite sections of config, and thus run arbitrary code.

So, if you've got some access, this would allow you to escalate that access to a full RCE. I think that's why it's only Medium severity.
Depends on the state. Some have no fault allocation systems to avoid these lawsuits.
Python - been using it for more than 10 years and every time I get the change, I teach it to my students (Python, flask, Django..).
I started recently a website to share some articles, micro-courses and ebooks on Python programming [0].
That's how much it is my favorite programming language! :)

[0] https://pylearners.com/

Edit: There's a why in the question! Basically, I like the explicitness of the language core, the fact that is very high level (and easy to teach), and it's easy (and fast to get feeback) while testing things in the REPL..
If by diversity you mean segregated:

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2019/01/...
Music streaming is a terrible business to be existentially all in to because the record labels own all the actual music and have all the power over you. But you can’t do anything about it either. So there’s not much reason to invest in it.
> You make the assumption that the device knew it was being used by a child who was unsupervised.

That the device didn't know it wasn't being used by a child is all you need to know.

> This thread and the some of the responses in it are just getting absurd. Before making outlandish legal claims, maybe read up on the law. instead of just making hyped up claims.

Since you claim to be so well versed, perhaps you have an argument to make besides calling names?

The entire point I was making is that it is blindingly obvious that this is a defective behavior. Amazon immediately acknowledged that. The question that is unanswered is the degree to which these sorts of defects are inherent in the software design or the degree to which they can be fixed without a fundamental rework of the design.

If this is a fundamental type of defect in the design, Amazon needs to take steps to secure their devices against unsupervised children.
During one interview he was told, “We don’t waste time with the dumb.”

"And something tells us that might include you. Otherwise we wouldn't be dropping you this gentle hint."
> For tech, yes, those days are over for at least for another 5 to 10 years, is my guess.

I'm kind of wondering are half of these comments from an alternate universe. Most tech companies either are planning to reopen their offices or have already reopened their offices. There are a few companies going remote-only, which I suppose is nice if you like that sort of thing (I would quit immediately) but most companies do plan to go back to the office, albeit likely with more flexibility and some permanent-remote employees.
Title insurance is only required, to protect the lender, when you purchase a house using a mortgage. If you choose to buy with cash, you have no obligation to purchase title insurance, but imo you’d be wise to do so.

Similarly, you are only required to have auto insurance for the damage you may cause to others. The only time you are required to insure the value of your car is when you have a loan since the lender is putting up the money/risk.

There are many great examples of when to purchase insurance and many terrible examples (phone insurance comes to mind). I would argue that much of the problem stems from people not being educated on exactly what coverage levels they’re buying.
The point is that you're arguing the metaphor rather than the point of the metaphor.

Your additions are bullshit. They add nothing but to somehow point at the poster and go "ah-ha". Because you're really just making the same point as the poster: Important details that change the story can be left out.

It doesn't matter which party in the hypothetical scenario is actually correct, only that one of them is not because they left out significant details.