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Scarcity by itself is not sufficient to make something have value, completely agree. But scarcity is necessary for value, so it is still important!

There are two notions of scarcity: Scarcity of bitcoin themselves (21 million), and scarcity around being able to create different cryptocurrency. Clearly the only weakness is in the later. Two points on this: Bitcoin commands a majority of proof of work energy. This does tie the digital scarcity of bitcoin to something in the physical world. You can't create another bitcoin without spending a similar amount on PoW. It's not that the scarcity of energy consumed translates to value in bitcoin directly, but rather it gives a high cost for creating an alternative to bitcoin. This is not unlike state issue fiats-- the Yen has value because Japan is a large state. I wouldn't trust a fiat from a state that was just created and had no citizens. So the scarcity of powerful states translates into a scarcity of fiat. Second, Bitcoin was the original invention of true digital scarcity. This makes it a natural place for a focal point. This by itself does not mean bitcoin has value, but it should be better at becoming valuable than other cryptocurrencies.

But bitcoin is also used for transactions and payments. It has growing links to the real economy just like other fiat currencies. The trend here is growing. If the trend continues-- meaning more and more businesses and workers take bitcoin as payment, surely you must conclude at some point bitcoin would then have real value, just like the Yen example?

> Bitcoin is not a real currency, is just a very complicated bank with extra steps, based on an asset whose value basically depends by the biggest Ponzi scheme ever known to man.

I think this is disingenuous-- A ponzi means that through intentional and planned deception invested funds are stolen. Sure, bitcoin is volatile and might crash again. But there is no structured fraud here, it is a free market, nothing like a Ponzi.

You still didn't define a falsifiable goal-- What would have to happen for you to consider cryptocurrencies to be successful, what is the end of the tunnel? It feels to me like you are assuming it will fail (it is a ponzi!), and then working backwards from that assumption to find how to justify it.
Do you have a recommendation for a good microwave? Mine is at least 15 years old and was bottom shelf when new.
Look on the bright side: if you think self-promotion is unique to social media I'd argue that you're definitely not old. It didn't introduce this behavior, it just displaced some of the old channels and supplemented some others.
But that's not a software update, so my understanding is that it is still allowed.
> I can't understand why people tolerate spoken instruction

Not only do people tolerate it, some people prefer it! I'm going out on a limb here as I have no data to back this up but I'm willing to bet that the average person has not done any dense reading since they finished their schooling. With that context, it's probably not hard to imagine why most people prefer video instruction over blog post and what not.
When they say to tuck your head, tuck your head to the side so you roll over your shoulder. Don't just tuck forward so you roll over your neck. Think of it as putting one of your ears on the same shoulder.
The topic of slavery in the US is something that is not very familiar to me. One characteristic difference seems to be that the structure in Europe was largely that of serfdom. In that respect the massive forced movement that you mention is something that I definitely did not consider. The economic impact of slavery, and in the context of stability, especially that of abolition, is interesting. I should read up on that.

I completely agree that the Civil War was a major conflict with a lot casualties and it redefined the society. But around the same time, there were four equally bloody and society defining wars in Europe (one of them resulting in the genocide of more than a million Circassian people, two others to the birth of the German nation state), and many more before and after those.

As a matter of fact, Europe continues to suffer from a lot of instability, it seems like another war may break out between Russia and Ukraine any day now. I'd much prefer people made and used nails instead of raised conflicts.
I grew up in lake tahoe, I am 47 years old.

One of the things I learned very early in life in the winters of tahoe was how to consciously raise the temp of my feet/legs in the cold winter nights by just thinking about it.

I am far less good at this as I have gotten older, but I am familiar with raising my body temp by thought alone.

I've also meditated to instant healing before.

I was ~18 at the time and I had done a crap load of sit-ups to the point I damaged my abdonminal muscles, to the point where I couldnt even stand up straight and was just hunched over.

I went to meditate and breate, very similar to WHM...

After some time meditating my body got the super tingly feeling one gets right before astral projecting, my body took in a swift breath, my back arched and all my abdominal muscles tingled and were instantly healed.

I have yet to do this again though, and I have been meditating in earnest recently to attempt to do the same thing again.
Well it's lack of professional assistance, but they are not providing a path forward for me to actually exercise my shares.
Reason for the highlighting this above all is how the bike/bike+ are basically bricked until Peloton is back up and running. I wish these connected devices were not built in such a way that they prevent you from working out.

Is this the future of technology we really want for ourselves?
It sucks in that you can't edit the image attached to a message. Only text..

WTH? Why not?
i have a Samsung TV, altough it is an older model it is a Tizen one. It does have ads but my dns adblocker (AdGuard Home) block then without problem.

But i have my routed configured to block and redirect any DNS traffic to my AdGuard so even if they try using a different DNS server it will be force redirected to my local DNS.

Just hope the day they start using DoH to go around that take a long time to come.

EDIT: I have my AdGuard set to force secure search in youtube and it is working, so i know that it is using my local DNS and not whatever address it has hardcoded.
Sorta obvious they knew what the game was and that's exactly why they backed up the dump truck of money on Keanu
Economic consequences should be more than just NordStream.

RU is both strong, and fragile in terms of economics.

Their energy exports are strong, so that is clearly the biggest target.

But depriving them import/export of non-energy stuff would probably cause significant economic impacts.

However, the RU economy/society is resilient to contraction, being a quasi-commie society.... One only need look to North Korea for an example of how economic sanctions function, and dysfunction.... The RU is large enough to sustain a level of economic sanctions.

If the western world only has economic consequences, well clearly that's a gambit RU is willing to accept.

A new cold war will take decades to play-out.
> On power loss the drives will immediately lose power, they have little capacitors in them that allow the head to safely rest on power loss. (it used to be that the head just crashed into the spinning platter, can you even imagine).

I remember as a kid running PARK.COM to park the heads before powering off the computer every night; I continued this habit for many years after I got my own computer, until I learned that hard drives now have mechanisms that make this unnecessary.
There is no "should" work. Law is full of contradictions, because law is not science.
>You compare a free license with slavery....no one forces you to work on a project that uses BSD/MIT/ISC, also no one forces you to live in the US, that's the "small" difference, no one takes your freedom away.

No, I am not comparing that. You are doing the "comparing" of things that are not comparable. and I am failing to explain , maybe if you know math you understand this

(1,-1) and (-1,1) are not equal but you can't define a natural comparison, if you ignore a component of the vectors you can compare them or if you invent your custom subjective comparison rule you might,

Replace those 2 vectors with BSD and GPL, they are not the same and you can't compare them because there are 2 dimensions, user freedom and dev freedom.
If you ignore a component you can compare them, or if you define your own metric then you can say "from a dev point of view BSD is better" and if you say this I will say "True". What people do is something like "BSD is more free then GPL" but ignore the user, the GPL requires you do the decent thing as when you use a GPL code you don't make it less free. so you are not free to make something free less free, you are not allow to remove freedom from something.
Ah but ctrl-v while highlighting text with a URL on the clipboard creating a link is such a nice experience. I honestly wish I could do that everywhere.
> At the start I usually pick the quests carefully and watch all the cutscenes. By the end I'm hammering the skip key and just want to be done with it.

I've felt the same with many games. I don't think length is an issue per se, rather it's that they achieve that with filler and padding. I can imagine a bunch of young lowly paid game developers mass-producing low-effort side quests and other stuff to fill the world with. Like its only purpose is to give the player something to do (and some reward, for the loot & xp addicts) rather than to tell an interesting, compelling story and make you part of it.

Length is an issue for other reasons but the urge to skip forward and just get on with it is, for me, 100% due to repetitiveness and boredom and lack of lasting quality.
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Mine still doesn't - this whole thing is going to come down as AWS outage IMHO.
This is my primary concern. Less of looking to sell, but just exercise. Although they are not telling me how to exercise. I have a feeling they are going to try and just see if I forget about it and if not tell me a few days before the 90 days are up.
> If you decide to go off "merit" - well, there are some people who were born on 2nd base and when they advance to third the claim they hit a triple. Meanwhile there's other people who weren't born anywhere close to the field, had to get the equipment to play, learn the rules of the game, and worked their butts off to hit a double. Which of these two people have shown more "merit"?

Only problems

- is "merit" an indicator of knowing to do the job better?

- are you able to evaluate "merit" - specifically whether a person started from second base or not?
I recall thinking that my friend who had decided to gamble on Objective-C as his specialization in '95 was being foolish, because NeXT wasn't doing that well, and the hazard pay for being one of the last N experts was probably fraught.

Less than 2 years later NeXT merges with Apple, and Steve Jobs has begun the biggest comeback in tech history, including switching Apple to Objective-C. Well then...

This sort of thing is a lottery ticket. You likely will not win, but if you do it could just make a couple extra car payments, or you could be set for life.
yes, that's the main point why the US doesn't count as safe harbor and any "contractual agreements" are not worth much as US companies can't "opt. out" of US law.
That country is the UK. The EU has an "Adequacy Decision" for the UK, meaning that GDPR does not restrict data transfers to the UK. And the UK's Adequacy Decision for the United States still exists (Schrems II happened after Brexit).
As I said, I am open to explanations that this is a mind/body effect.

I am not open to explanations that breathing fast/deep in itself, through the extra blood flow that it can obviously generate, are directly therapeutic for arthritis. This was, by my understanding, GP's preferred explanation.
Then why would you say something like this? It obviously isn't true.

> In the Swift project as it is currently run, those contributions have withered on the vine; the core team doesn't particularly welcome or support anything that didn't originate internally.

It's also a very niche objection to complain that it's neither fully open nor completely closed. Most people are totally fine that the development is mostly open, with some new features kept hidden for business purposes. The vast majority of Swift users see it as a tool, a tool mostly to write Apple software, and they are more or less pragmatic. Almost all additions to Swift have been very positive for people that use it in their day job.
Absolutely positively one would expect different outcomes here than there. Even if the exact same people see this comment here as there, the platforms systemically optimize for different outcomes.

For example, this forum is moderated, Twitter is almost completely unmoderated. This forum allows for longer replies but bans pictures. Twitter forces you to create threads, but allows pictures.
How can a corporation "protect European data from US access" when a European intentionally requests the corporation to publish the data to a US audience?

How can anyone be legal, when the laws of different countries are in conflict?
My fear is that the legal advice might make the value of exercising not worth it.
ctrl+k should be "kill line" and I'm constantly frustrated by the "create link" behavior in apps like Confluence.
Right, something I learned from this thread.

I'm asking if there are ways to be more precise with radio emissions given omnidirectional antennae in the hypothetical case where the only restrictions are Mother Nature's, sort of like the question "can you arrange magnets to produce stable levitation?" (BTW: no unless they're electromagnets.)
Before I started writing Flutter I had the same feeling. My first reaction to the Flutter design was "haha, it's not gonna work". But when I tried to make my first app I was shocked how good it was.

Since then I learned that most users do not give a s...t if it's pixel in pixel perfect copy of native components. Especially when Flutter team makes it literally pixel in pixel perfect to the native UI. I mean, it really doesn't matter in 99.99% cases in my experience (I have around 12 apps in Flutter atm).

So I see this Flutter design feature as huge upside, not a downside.
Not really, you can leverage your work very widely, but your rate of change to the program is limited.
You’re more concerned with Autopilot versus your average human driver? That seems like a terribly uneducated position to take, statistically speaking.

Tens of thousands of people are killed annually in auto accidents where 94-96% are caused by human error. Twelve deaths, total (as of this comment), are directly attributable to Autopilot being active.

I would suggest you reconsider your approach to risk management, as it seems to be emotion vs data driven.

https://www.tesladeaths.com/
Costs money and burns reputation.

I would give a couple of calls first
I actually tried to get back to skis last year, rented a pair and went up on the red slope, but damn I had forgotten how to do it :) Felt so strange, it was definitely not any "like riding a bike" feeling of motor memory. I guess my cache was flushed. Kind of froze on the slope and couldn't get myself to go down :)

Eventually I did and I didn't fall but it was really scary. I think I need to try again for a day on a green or blue slope...
Slack does a good job with threading. The side panel allows you to watch a thread while you continue another conversation. It also puts together an above average notification system, where at a glance you can see if there is no new content, new content, or your name mentioned. It allows you to ignore slack without risk of missing somebody shouting for you.
Sorry, but dropping Markdown support in favor of an input UX that is to this day atrocious gives me little faith in Slack's user stories moving forward. I'm fine if they want to make the default mode more intuitive for a broader audience, but I have yet to hear a good argument for not having a little button to enable raw Markdown mode.

EDIT: See comments below for instructions on re-enabling Markdown mode.
I probably mildly prefer reading... but I very much prefer all the advantages that a game without narration has. It's like the difference between a movie and a book. A movie can have spectacle, but it's expensive, short, and constrained. A book is limitless.

Same with narration. Narration requires a fixed script; don't dare try to give your character a unique name. Text can be generated and modified on the fly to reflect a dynamic game environment. Adding a new sidequest doesn't require actors and studio time; just a gamedev.
> morally necessary if it reduces average-level disparities between racial groups.

How can introducing more disparities reduce the average of disparities?
Thanks (I'm in France, so it's 218 working days, 436 hours).

On the education side, my first 3 years as a maker, I didn't grow beyond 1 paid user on any product I sold. I still learned with every failed launch, and every product I shut down.

See "Year in review" at https://maxrozen.com/

The learning has been cumulative.

I went from "Hey if I just copy Pieter Levels, I'll be rich immediately" to "If I build it, they will come" to "Maybe if I write about the problem, people will come?" to "If I talk to people about their problems, maybe I'll understand them well enough to solve a problem for them".

I'm not trying to convince you to take up the life of a bootstrapped founder, I just wrote an article about what I learned from a couple spare hours before my job each day over the last 12 months.
I've been using Twitter for a decade. I don't follow anyone for their popularity -- I follow people whose work or insights I admire. I've used Twitter to follow more than a few people whose opinions I find controversial in order to understand their thinking.

I've actually changed some of my own opinions based on tweets. The tweets expose me to new ideas or perspectives, and lead to research, reading, and in-depth discussion with people. This is valuable to me! In my current life, getting together with people and being exposed to this kind of intellectual stimulation is not always easy. Twitter allows an asynchronous, distributed way of having this kind of discussion.

I have met a few people IRL from Twitter, including authors, activists, and "makers" I admire.

I don't know how peope build a following, but that's not really my goal. I post on a variety of subjects: technical, artistic, political, and lots of random photographs from my walks. I have very few followers (although I am amazed and impressed by some of the people who follow me).
> these people post still every few hours or days the same take on public outcry and nothing changed. They do this for 8+ years now, you can scroll back by years and it's the same over and over again.

> Imagine looking back on your life when you are 60 and seeing that you tweeted stuff with no effect WHAT SO EVER and you did this for 30 years of your life. Isn't this so depressing?

"You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it." - Morpheus
Agreed. Major pain point for me. Can't reshuffle image order, either.
I think simple html+js running in a browser component or on a mobile browser remains the most popular cross platform UI on mobile. Not very fancy. But it works pretty much everywhere and you don't need dedicated development teams for each platform or a lot of specialized development tooling. I'm currently involved in a small startup where this is the only thing we can actually afford. We don't have IO/Android developers just front end developers. We have no bandwidth to develop three UIs concurrently. Our customers don't care. Our UI is pretty slick and responsive. And we have some good designers that make us look good.

I've seen several startups fail that spent way too much time obsessing over native UI/UX and ended up building the wrong product three times in parallel for three platforms at great cost as opposed to shipping something good enough much earlier and iterating on that. If users care about your app, it being native won't be the deciding factor. It's what it does; not how it does it that decides these things.

People obsess about native too much when they should be focusing on functionality and design instead. Form over function is a classic design mistake.
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This is true, but the comparison also raises a further question: do Twitter, HN, other places support kinds of discussion besides this, and to what extent? And depending on the answer, are they worth participating in? I think that part of the OP's point is that Twitter is strongly inclined to this kind of interaction, which has to factor into a person's decision whether to use it.
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Mine seems to accept it and just strip it. I'm not sure the exact HDCP version it accepts but I can capture a Blu-ray from my PS3 with it which you are not normally supposed to do (it won't even play Blu-rays over component).
I run an IRC network in my spare time that has had 13 minutes of actual downtime in the last 15 years (and about 20-25 additional minutes of degraded availability).

The degraded availability thing is because I run multiple servers for latency, normally an IRC outage is super clear, except with netsplits where IRC servers themselves unlink from each other. (I average about 3 of those a year and they last about 30s roughly).

It's not video though, so that doesn't answer your question thoroughly.
Does it matter if you’ve turned off all PII collection? If that’s your threat model to your own app though (ie, doing stuff that’s illegal in the US but not where you serve traffic), self hosting is probably the way to go.
Young Sheldon in 2017: "Statistically always punting on 4th down makes no sense."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZffa_Z_Cxs#t=17s
How does renewable energy double the gas price? That does not make any sense.
This advice used to work years ago but user expectations have risen massively and you can no longer get away with a shitty cookie cutter MVP. You must do the big work upfront and come out very polished out of the gate, or else users will sense you don’t really have much skin in the game and not bother investing time in your niche project. This often means you must leverage the latest and greatest tech to get an edge, such as React.

Users have been burned too much by “lean startups” and “mvps” and have become wiser to their tricks.
Even if no one is there?

I'll send you a horn and flag in the post, for the next drive.
I interviewed for a place called Nava. Seemed like interesting work and a company that cared. When using dig deeper, there seem to be some issues. There are definitely some in the Glassdoor reviews. Others are evident in the policies or the answers in interview.

For example, medical has great coverage for the employee, but only 50% coverage for dependents. It seems they're selecting for single people, and indirectly young people as they're less likely to have a family (the people I remember in their videos and media are mostly very young). Then there the whole "billable hours" switcheroo - making you think extra hours are rare, but really you're expected to work extra on non-billable projects (internal company work).
This hasn’t been my experience. I’m like the ‘happy map guy’ in the discussion above. My happiness helps me be incredibly patient and optimistic about possible improvements to things. Have submitted over 100 global patent filings (in materials science, not software) and some of my inventions are being deployed globally :)