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>Regulation is the pretense which enables cronyism.

Sort of, if you narrowly define cronyism as government favoritism. But it would be more accurate to say that capitalism itself encourages cronyism---in the absence of regulation, there is no need to rope in government officials and so the cronyism stays in the private sector. But it is no less cronyism. The article misses the real problem, which is that the over-concentration of capital that develops naturally in unregulated capitalism starves the general population of economic opportunities that they would otherwise have if the capital were more decentralized. It's also corrosive to democracy, which depends on the assumption that people are more or less equally empowered politically, at least within a few orders of magnitude.
If we are discussing in good faith, the parent was probably talking about lobbying done by moneyed interests. Which is not necessary for democracy, itself a very broad term in its initial definition which does not include think tanks, political action comities and privately held mass media.
He isn't using the car's computer, he is using the car as a cheaper source of power to run various types of mining equipment. Basically the car is just a big battery.
See RSyntaxTextArea (open-source code editor) and the underlying JTextArea / swing code.

There are a few weird design decisions especially in swing, but overall it's very easy to read and understand.
Worth remembering that one reason electric cars are cheaper to run is that they're more efficient. More of the energy added to the car translates into moving you somewhere and less is converted into waste heat etc.

As a result 1MJ of petrol consumption replaced with electricity when somebody replaces their car with an EV is not 1MJ more electricity to deliver but perhaps 600kJ. This can mean guesses of the necessary infrastructure investment to deliver a fit-for-purpose supply network are significant over-estimates.

Cars are also an excellent target for "demand side control" in electrical grids. You'd be very angry if your refrigerator shuts down temporarily when the grid load is high, and pretty unhappy if your lights or TV shut down, but how about the tumble dryer? Most days you wouldn't care, and if you got paid for the option you might jump at the chance. However charging your car overnight who cares whether it charges from 1830 (when you arrive home) to 0340 (full) or from 2230 (as people go to bed and the network is less strained) to 0740 (just before you get in the car to drive to work) ?
TBH this is a big motivator for my code comments - “Ideally this code would do X, but because of constraint Y we are settling for Z. If you can think of a way to achieve X without the compromise then by all means burn this module with fire, and add me as a code reviewer so we can celebrate together.”
Do you make visualizations of the traffic?
We have a rule that if you have to leave shit code as it is for a serious reason (time constraints, shifting requirements) you must leave a TODO in the code which poins to a freshly created issue in the tracker which explains what's wrong with the code and how it can be fixed. The ideal is that these issues eventually get fixed, which is often not the case (new features are prioritized over tech debt etc.), but at least new devs will immediately see that it's a known problem and that there're known solutions.
He didn't force anyone to update their dependency, right? So at most you can blame him for enabling self-sabotage.
There is also a real reason for it not to be done with NFTs: it would take about thirty seconds for someone to be scammed and open a support ticket with [whoever - it won't be the right person, but I guarantee someone is getting a support ticket] and they obviously won't be able to reverse the transaction, and also unclear if they could even ban the scammer (right now, bans are per-server, unless server owners have coordinated otherwise, which they generally don't). Regardless, the user is going to have a bad time, versus a system using a mutable system, where a human could investigate and reverse the issue.

Obviously support agents make mistakes sometimes too, but that's a heck of a lot rarer than scams in MMOs.
I reached the same conclusion.

I just would add, that the urge to refactor things whenever possible, definitely introduced bugs for me, because also refactoring has to be done with consideration and some things were weird for a reason, you do not see at first glance.

And refactoring can also hurt you, or another person just used to that code in its old shape. And then missunderstanding things.
Capitalism is based on rules of property and ownership, basically that I can own something, that you can't take it away from me through violence and that I can hire people to improve that something and they won't have an ownership stake on it (unless I want them to.) Those rules come from government. If you think about a society with no centralized rules on property and ownership, it wouldn't be very capitalistic, it would be much more like an anarchic steal-what-you-can system.
‘Auction’ of India’s Muslim women shows tech weaponised for abuse
S'pore team shoots for new mRNA vaccines that work in smaller doses and cheaper
It's happened a load of times in the UK. I think often kids or young adults who haven't really thought things through and just think it is funny or "edgy" to their mates.

The distance to target can give a false sense of safety to the perp. so interesting to see this article. I can't imagine the look on that person's face when the police knocked at the door!
Nothing prevents them from turning the Olympic village into a quarantine ward, so to speak.
The best explanation of NFTs I’ve heard:

You are married. Your spouse is cheating on you right in front of you with multiple people. But you have the marriage certificate.
The mistake of Knuth is instead of "Literate Programming", he made it, or at least let most people take it, into "Literate + Programming". Depend on which part you focus on, it is either "code" with copious amount of "document", or "document" with verifiable "code". Many "literate" programs are in fact the former. The modern "Notebooks" are the latter*. Neither is "Literate Programming".

With "literate Programming", it is one product, the program! Ideally, it is just readable code, code that human can read literally. Since human mind works differently from computer, so the literate programming environment need transform the literate code into a form that compiler can optimize. I believe this idea is inside Knuth's LP. But early attempt is always limited by technology. For example, Knuth's system is based on token parser. Token is not the unit of comprehension for human. Thus he can't do much with the Pascal part other than "tangling" the code as is. Then he had to supplement his goal with English or "document". But if we start to develop the framework beyond "tangle",
we'll see a new page in literate programming.

* The "Notebooks" (the noun) implies we are emphasizing the product as documents. However, nothing prevent people to use "Notebooks" to program. Then immediately one will see how limited it is. "Notebooks" does not "tangle" code. Really, there is not much you can do with the code part. For example, try use the "Notebook" form on a C program.
Oh man, we literally just got new images from our new designer and I think they went a different direction with that one :)
But why. The source of the drop would be some centralised server anyway.

Adding crypto assets seems way more programmer work than doing in game trading, which you would want anyway as a player.
Hang your code out to DRY
I've also long been perturbed by the definition of capitalism largely focusing on markets, private property, and even entrepreneurship. Since those are like, as old as human civilization probably.
It's a consistent finding, usually measured in some form of healthcare outcomes per dollar spent.

Here's a recent report that measures:
- Access to Care
- Care Process
- Administrative Efficiency
- Equity
- Healthcare Outcomes.

US comes last in all but Care Process among developed countries.
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2...
Ha - that one makes us chuckle too! But we can't promise to not remove it.
LMAX Disruptor is living proof of that.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html
Read technical documentation for existing editors, for example:

https://sourceforge.net/p/joe-editor/mercurial/ci/default/tr...
Prior to the Disney takeover I would’ve argued with you, but now? :(
And money laundering! And ransomware! We don't need the same comment on every article about BTC. The only part slightly related to this article:

> Government action could shut down crypto tomorrow

"crypto" meaning...all cryptocurrencies? The ban mentioned in the article only applies to BTC. We've seen major governments try to ban it already and it didn't shut it down. Many currencies can't be mined and are much more difficult to trace than BTC.
Agreed. I think there’s a way to support the FSF’s mission while disapproving of and pushing against the leadership. What compounds this is that there are no direct alternatives to the FSF. The EFF comes close, but it’s different.

It’s a close call, to be sure.
Rails is quite pleasant. There is a reason it became so popular.

I’d recommend using rails without any front-end framework initially so you understand the HTTP calls going on. Just return HTML from your controllers (classes that run specific code when you hit an endpoint.) Build up from there and you’ll get the hang of it while understanding what’s happening underneath.
anything based on PoW has to fail long term. PoW benefits from economy of scale, which leads to centralization, which defeats the purpose of the thing being PoW'd
In regards to painted lines--they mostly do not pass the 'would you let your kids ride on them?' test. Drivers treat them as additional car lanes or a place to drift off into while texting.
US Police Warn of Parking Meters with Phishing QR Codes
Scammers are sticking QR Codes on parking meters in Austin, Texas. The victim scans the QR code using a smartphone and is taken to a fake parking payment site.

Personally, I think a better scam would be to follow clampers (parking boot in US), find cars that have been clamped and replace the release notice instructions with your own version and payment QR code.
Not if lockdowns are rapid enough, no. If cases are caught immediately, and whole populations are tested, there can only be a few dozen cases, and from there we expect few to no deaths.
I suppose the textbook Keynesian argument would be that everybody would have an incentive to save as much of their money for as long as possible because it goes up in value over time, leading to incentivizing less short-term economic consumption, which would be harmful.

Is it harmful though? Whether this is a good or bad thing might come down to how much importance you place on random consumption vs capital investment as the real engine of society. The Keynesian viewpoint is more favorable towards the importance of random consumption, the Austrian mentality would put a lot more weight on the value of saving for future investment and building.
I also took a while to get used to the typing in Crystal but once you do get it, it's worth the effort IMO. I occasionally still fire up Ruby but if I have anything more to do than a quick command-line command, I use Crystal, so many less problems.
I believe in "pain driven documentation" where you write up the the things that have you scratching your head.

Counter to that is the idea that documentation is opposed to "don't repeat yourself", that any documentation at all is a burden to maintain.
Yes, that's what was promised. https://www.va.gov/pittsburgh-health-care/news-releases/va-r...

...many more like that if you search.
Thanks, would be great to hear someone is taking a look at webview or other bugs to see if they are being neglected.
the MVP metaverse
Apple cooperated with AT&T's bullshit "5Ge" rebrand where they change the LTE status icon to "5Ge". Despite the appearances, Apple is absolutely in bed with the carriers.
I see the ethical issue as being externalities from the electricity, not the hospital or puzzle.
> So what is EA's incentive to join the Valve blockchain where Valve gets 10% of each resale?

They already can do this via the [non-nft-based] Steam marketplace where Steam itself takes a 5% fee from every transaction.
Yes, you are being silenced, because what does "anti-science" imply?

Science is a process about learning from the world. These people (who are scientists themselves!) have disagreements about how scientists are doing science, and they are called "anti-scientific" as a result of disagreeing with their interpretation of science.

That's a direct "censor this guy" threat.
The level of competition is such that you have to complete across multiple lifetimes. You happen to be in a large bucket with a lot of competition you have to be top 1% in that case to even go up to the next level, which includes successfully having children and putting them on a good path to be top 1% as well. Take risks and succeed.

The game is incredibly competitive and challenging and just understanding that is difficult.
I definitely think there is a lot of "grass is greener" thinking going on right now. Especially amongst those on the far-left who are pushing communist/socialist ideas on twitter.

I had a discussion on reddit recently with a communist and the gist of their argument was basically:

1. I'm having a tough time in life because I have skills that aren't very profitable under capitalism.

2. Under communism the idea is 'from each according to their ability and to each according to their need'.

3. This removes the profit motive so my skills will be valued more under communism.

The problem is that these people aren't thinking about 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc order effects of their ideas. For example, profit isn't necessarily a bad thing. Profit encourages people build more things and efficiently use resources. You can't expect the same level of prosperity without a profit motive.
Honestly, your comment is the most useful I've had so far.

I agree with what you've said. I don't expect any company to pay anyone with PayPal, BTC (or even lightning, can you imagine!), but I want to leave the door open for that.

Proper invoicing is key. And I think I can avoid the "kingmakes" problem you've mentioned.

The longer term view that I have includes a payment portal service. A company would submit a report (via the openfare tool) of the OpenFare licensed dependencies that they use. The service will then invoice them and facilitate a single lump sum charge via Stripe (credit card) or similar. Then forward to the developers or refund.

I think I can avoid the "kingmakes" problem because of the following: anyone could start a OpenFare payment portal. The OpenFare licensed dependencies report could be sent to anyone.
The triangles don't have to be similar to make it a real pyramid. They only have to be similar of you want the truncation to be made parallel to the base.

For it to be a real pyramid, you only need the side edges lines to meet at the apex, which always happen when the top and bottom triangles are similar.

Similar triangles are a sufficient, but not necessary condition.
Comments shouldn't be the default way of documentation anyway.
What about something like Stargate? There was only 1 movie, yet multiple TV series.
Additionally, the "race" in Bitcoin is a (partial) preimage attack on a cryptographic hash algorithm.

If someone truly "wins" the race in folding@home and finds an algorithmic shortcut to speed things up they've made a breakthrough in our understanding of biology and protein folding.

If someone truly "wins" the race in seti@home and finds an algorithmic shortcut to speed things up they've made a breakthrough in our understanding of signal processing, possibly radio astronomy as a whole, and maybe even found something life changing (or a much faster way to test the null hypothesis).

If someone truly "wins" the race in Bitcoin and finds an algorithmic shortcut to speed things up they've broken a major global security tool and possibly "won" internet security in general (by breaking it).
I use WPS for that.
So you lived in a communist system with cronyism. That doesn’t invalidate OP statement. Cronyism is going to negatively affect all governments.
> You've got that exactly back to front. NHS's immense buying power lets them negotiate lower prices for drugs, exactly as medicare used to (before pharma lobbying stripped them of that power).

In principle, you're correct. In practice the fact that they're the only buyer, means in many cases that they pay at whatever a drugs company sells at since there's no "but company X is only paying Y, why are you charging us Z" as a comparison, particularly in the case of non-generics.

> The UK public adores the NHS and is one of the few things polls say that people would be happy to fund with tax raises.

And that was exactly my point. The UK public might "adore" the NHS, but they have a pretty poor understanding of how it is funded. If the government kept funding the NHS by an extra X percent every year, we run out of public funds.

> The ruling party does not like it, however, which is why it has been slowly degrading service over time as preparation for full privatization in 10-15 years.

The ruling party, being the Tories, that have been "in charge" of the NHS for the majority of its 70 or so years? And who on earth would buy a loss making healthcare system that's funded to the tune of a billion or so a week? Apple?
The problem is not that they're not addressing it, or trying to, or at least thinking about how to. The problem is that criticism of crypto's electricity use is immediately dismissed with "but POS will solve that" as if it has already solved it. Which it hasn't.
Lobbying, as it manifests in our (the United States, in my case) current form of governance, is a direct consequence of the fact that 538 people control how 30% of GDP is spent.
I'm not sure how recent those articles were added, but at least as of a year ago when I tried to post something on ProductHunt, part of the post creation flow (which is quite intricate and a story for another day) explicitly encouraged you to post on social media and "share" with friends.

Almost every PH post these days has a little back and forth comment thread between the maker and the people who they've clearly asked to upvote and/or comment.
> cycling is not practical transportation for most people. It targets a certain demographic, people who have the physical ability to actually cycle.

That's… most people.

Like I get it, we have an obesity epidemic, but fat people can ride bicycles. It's not unusual. And a lot of them start shedding pounds fast once you get them out of the automated wheeled easy-chairs we call "cars."
There's little joy greater than finding a vast swathe of horrible code written by Past Me ("that asshole") and being able to delete it.
We could come up with some centralized entity or panel that could even be in charge of deciding which economic activities are sustainable and which aren't and prosecute people accordingly.
We actually have something like that in Germany for musicians: GEMA.

Unsurprisingly, it is a failed experiment. Among other things, every time you buy storage media that could be used to store music (burnable CD, DVD, ...), you are forced to pay a GEMA fee because you could use the medium for piracy (which, of course, remains illegal nevertheless). Everyone publicly playing music has to pay GEMA fees, because he might play something from the GEMA portfolio. As a musician you more or less need to join their club and pay membership fees. All the money, GEMA collects is then (minus a generously large administrative overhead) distributed among all members, depending on how big they are in the business. This means, small time musicians may actually subsidize the big names.

Just add additional paid services on top of your open source project, e.g.: https://raccoon.onyxbits.de/blog/bugreport-free-support/
> It was a battle won by blood.

This is the current battle in Toronto, Canada.

Last year, there were more people killed by cars than gun violence, but you wouldn't know it by the media coverage.

The city, largely due to strong local advocacy, has started to respond with physically separated lanes, but we're talking double digit KM/year, if we're lucky, when we need 100s of KM to link the city together like this Milan proposal.
There is 0 people in the world that want irreverability.
Always check git blame before winging out insults. Then, only blame people no longer at the company ;)
That covers the athletes but not the volunteers. I suspect that's what was driving the case numbers up during the Tokyo olympics.
But if Sears or others are replaced with other monopolies then the point stands. For example if you imagine a market where every 20 years the old monopoly firm gets beat out by a competitive new entrant which very quickly establishes it's own monopoly, becomes sclerotic over 20 years and then itself loses, it doesn't really matter to consumers that there is turnover, they are almost always existing in a monopolized market.
I can't read the article because of a paywall. If only there was some sort of token gated system to let me connect to the site and view it without an account that hands them my personal/cc data.
> We have a rule that if you have to leave shit code as it is for a serious reason (time constraints, shifting requirements) you must leave a TODO in the code which poins to a freshly created issue in the tracker which explains what's wrong with the code and how it can be fixed.

This seems like a really sane thing to do!

In addition, if you want to keep track of the commits and the context behind them, i've found that merge/pull request descriptions are also really nice for this!

Back when i had to struggle with an Eldritch DB schema that someone wrote and had to patch in new functionality, i ended up painstakingly mapping out how it corresponded to the business concepts/objects (which was pretty loosely) and threw that diagram into the merge request, because sadly otherwise the schema still wasn't all that clear...

...just to have that very same diagram save my hide when i had to go back to it months later to update some of the code, which necessitated rediscovering how everything works.

Now, whether things belong in the issue tracker or somewhere that's more close to the code repo is probably just a cultural question, but i'd say the main thing is to have some place to store information like that.
I don’t see how hashpower consolidation is a consequence of anything other than the usual economies of scale that lead to consolidation in different businesses. A large miner can negotiate better prices for hardware and electricity than a smaller one.
I think they wanted to talk about getting money out of politics.
They don't need to. These companies have self-sufficient intelligence operations, and they employ seasoned experts. At an outfit like Google, and that may involve too many people overriding checks to be worth the risk of a leak. It's hard to say, I've never worked for Google.

The Pinkertons are still active in union-busting, and they are retained by shiny "Great Place To Work"-type businesses. They're just covert now. When somebody is giving off too many pre-crime vibes at that kind of business, HR can easily get rid of them for unrelated reasons, and gaslight them into thinking it was their fault all along.

Never talk to HR. They are the secret police.
For the readers: the aforementioned "takeover attempt" has never been substantiated or validated. Using the past (and rather trite) CopperheadOS dispute to justify present misgivings is disingenuous.
I would hope that he wouldn't do that so abruptly w/o any notice to his users. That's disconcerting.
I'm pretty sure you are allowed to "rip dvds" (and circumvent their protection in the process) to do so, for backup, in Italy. I think it might apply to the whole EU, but I could be wrong