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Crypto right now, while being used by under 1% of population use, uses 40% of the energy of the global banking system[1].

In other words, if it were to increase to even 10% of the population using it, it would use over 4x the energy of the global banking system. If that increased to 50%, it would be 20x.

This would be somewhat mitigated in the case of Proof of Stake, but would simultaneously give major players in the market complete control of said market. Y'know, like a government.

1. Research report from Galaxy Digital, a decidedly pro-crypto source, page 8: https://docsend.com/view/adwmdeeyfvqwecj2
I am an independent developer at present. I started with AWS, and was using Azure ML extensively in my previous company. I moved to GCP and never looked back. GCP feels like a polished offering which even a single person can work his way through. Thought has gone into the tooling and it shows in their API & pipeline quality.
CNBC is just really shoddy in general with details like this, in addition to having a strong tendency towards negative reporting and negative headlines in general.

https://bulloakcapital.com/blog/is-cnbc-biased/
And ransomware was making a LOT of money before crypto, so we can't blame crypto for it. Magnitude matters.
This word keeps coming in this comments section: "spam." Spam was never mentioned in the Tweet, the source of this discussion. In fact no one in the comments section is talking about spam either, unless its a pathetic debunking attempt. They are talking about genuine results being down-ranked based on their ideological, even morally unscrupulous content, and why that is harmful to intelligent people who don't need their information retrieval service helping them form thoughts.
There's really nowhere reliable on the web you can get non-Western sanctioned news about the Russia-Ukraine conflict. If you are interested in alternative viewpoints, don't bother with any of the search engines. All the sources I've seen are on, e.g. Telegram.
I registered just to get a freebie, and got 3 separate captchas, with the same "click on the vertical river" selection with seemingly same options... why? why??
Not necessarily — maybe the error is an incorrect argument to a function that’s never used, for example.

The issue is, what should the browser do if it encounters a type error? Should it just refuse to interpret the entire script? That’s super heavy-handed when it’s possible that the error doesn’t even matter in practice.
You aren't wrong, but that is a symptom of how screwed up things are.
Weights + Cardio in the morning before ANY food intake. Studies have shown "fasted" exercise gets rid of fat more efficiently than exercise after consuming food, even when the SAME calories were burned. I lost 40 lbs 3 years ago by exercising before work, not after work.
There's no safety aspect, so they really shouldn't be. There's a big difference between "I didn't mean to go 120 in a 65" and "I forgot to change the switch on my billing transponder to '2 people.'"
I don't use it at all. I sit in front of my computer monitor a minimum of 12 hours/day and don't have any problems with eye strain or sleeping.

I wonder if the people that like f.lux are also the same people that claim that light themes are blinding, because I'm of the opinion that if you find a completely white screen is blinding, then either your brightness is too high or you don't have enough ambient light in the room.
That is true. You must keep long term in mind tho. Long term all real estate prices have gone up and up with short term crashes. This is people needing to park money, which will eventually backfire when no one can afford the prices anymore.
> Good Food Institute is estimating that about 10% of global meat consumption could be switched over to cultivated meat around 2030. While 10% is low

10% in the next 8 years seems very impressive to me. Do you have a link to the report? I searched but their State of the Industry report has a question mark instead of a date

https://gfi.org/resource/cultivated-meat-eggs-and-dairy-stat...
I've watched US propaganda from WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc. I don't trust the US government or their news agencies anymore than any other propaganda. They'll pick the facts that support their side and mix in lies without a second thought.

There are three truths in war: My side, their side, and the truth.

If they feel compelled to do something, poison the well by marking sites as suspected Russian propaganda. Otherwise, let me read what I want and make up my own mind.

If I wanted my search engine to play politics, I'd just use Google.
Accepting RoHS was in my opinion one of the most idiotic environmental initiatives that was rammed through without much thinking about long term cost / benefit analysis.
A Serious Proposal on US Energy
Could be anything from creating and interpreting basic Google Analytics reports to advising or implementing A/B tests to tracking largely business KPIs to classifying data for AI/ML pipelines to actually training AI/ML models and data science.
The storage device doesn't matter - it's the seed words that generate the wallet that matter. If you memorize them you're good (short of someone beating it out of you or legally compelling you - even then they'd have to be able to prove it existed in the first place).

You can trivially prove your gold ingot exists because you can just find it. It's also way harder to move your gold ingot out of your war-torn country, harder to transact with it, etc. The storage device does not hold the actual coins, just a private key that lets you update the public ledger that determines ownership (thinking the storage device holds the coins is a common misunderstanding).

I'm an open-minded skeptic, but there are real technology advantages to blockchain and cryptocurrency, there are a lot of scams too for sure - but that's not the interesting part. The HN median opinion on this is wrong as it often is (it was wrong about EVs and Tesla too).
> The article doesn't do the slides nor the evidence justice.

That's an understatement. A close reading reveals that it misrepresents the position of Tufte's writing, the conclusions of the investigation board, and the report of the subsequent return-to-flight group.

And it uses "sweetened" (fabricated) figures, to boot. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30622688>
Estimated 5 billion in 2021.

How much was it before crypto?
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> Doesn't seem incompatible.

Of course they are incompatible to some extent. Otherwise, explicit downranking of Russian sources would be pointless.
Yes, all fasting is intermittent or else it becomes death by starvation which is something different.

I think the term "fasting" has become more severe since the term breakfast became commonplace. It comes with baggage that implies religion (fasting during Ramadan), medicine (fasting before surgery), or protest (fasting due to hunger strike).

They needed a term to reduce the severity and it probably could just have been "moderate fasting" or "scheduled fasting". "Intermittent fasting" won because the English language is cromulent.
It also tends to prioritize recency a lot. Good luck searching for something with terms that have been in the news lately.
> Rust is also very focused on performance, and Rust users do care about making such trade-offs consciously. You care about binary size, I may care about inlined autovectorized code.

Everyone can agree with this. The question is whether this ought to be a property of the target platform or whether this ought to be a property of the software itself. Rust implicitly takes the stance that it is a property of the software.

Suppose we had a chip today that runs poorly due to icache thrash, so you rewrite portions of it with dynamic dispatch. Then someday we get a chip with an insanely large icache that would benefit from static dispatch. You rerewrite it. Or today if you work on embedded linux and want to use a rust library whose primary users are on powerful servers.

I will concede that I have no idea whether it’s possible to come up with a reasonable abstraction for this, because you certainly know more than me.
In the northeast we have E-ZPass which is equally evil.

- They too have a stupidly weird replenishment algorithm where it takes what feels like weeks to adjust. Then out of nowhere, it will increase many times even if you only increased travel temporarily. It went from maintaining a $26 balance to $180 which will take forever to use.

- "It is so hard to check and contest charges." - We used to have a business with two delivery vans with E-ZPass. We received a very high bill and it was full of "toll violation" charges which were 2 or 3 dollars that accompanied nearly every toll, some with two violations. I called them to inquire what these violation were and they flat out told me "we dont know." I forget the details but we wound up having to pay though the charges never appeared again. I feel like they robbed us using a computer glitch.

- "There is _NO_ way to check the transponder" - Yup. This is really frustrating because Ive gone on trips where the vehicle was supposedly on the account but the tag wasn't registering at the NJ tolls on I95 during a road trip. So I got a bunch of unpaid toll violations I had to manually resolve through their awful web portal. I then check the account and find the vehicle was not on the account - huh? I am sure I added it. Who knows...

I hate E-ZPass.
Not quite. Off-gassing begins at a bit under 400F. And the assumption that it's "really tough" to reach either temperature (400 or 500F) is wildly incorrect for the realities of cheap stovetops around the world. Gas / propane is widely used and can cause teflon to begin smoking within a minute or two.

But yes, it's probably fine on your fancy glass induction stovetop.
There are many problematic aspects of DDG's decision, but here are just a couple of angles.

Both sides in the conflict spread disinformation. DDG desides to downrank only results related to disinformation from one side. This makes it a decision based on a political bias and not search quality bias (which would cause all disinformation to be downranked - which is OK and actually a desireable thing in a search engine). By not downranking disinformation from the other side, which is equally bad content, this steps out of the scope of what a search engine should be interested in doing.

Secondly, how in the world would DDG have the resources or capabilities to determine what is disinformation in the first place? Much larger companies like Facebook failed at this. It is generally considered that the 'fog of war' is a real thing and there is no single source of news on this planet that did not spread some disinformation at some point. DDG would probably have to downrank half of the sites in its results, and probably every site that ever published any information about this conflict, if they were to be consistent. Something like this is basically unenforcable from an engineering/algorithmic standpoint.

So basically from a business perspective, this has to be a bet that the publicity from this act would net them more users than they started with in the markets they care about.
You echoed my thoughts and thanks for the alternative. Ive been a user of DDG for years and have recommended it to people constantly.

Unfortunately since DDG caved today, they’ll certainly cave in the future. Its just a matter of time.
Not quite. We understand that we can't build an anti-gravity device and don't even know how to go about thinking of one. Understanding that something is impossible (or likely impossible) is understanding. We might not like the answers (I sure didn't at the time) yet they are a based on knowledge and decades of research by some of the smartest scientists I have ever met.
I think this is exactly right. The implementation of the technology has necessitated all of these different layers, each of which create new opportunities to take a cut.

Many of the crypto businesses in the ecosystem talk about removing financial friction and control, but it seems they are only interested in introducing their own versions of them, and building their own little Wall Street while they can still get in on the ground floor.

Here's a great example: how are you going to "reach the unbanked" in the third world if you have transaction fees, paid by the user, inherent in your architecture? That's just nonsense. It's a step down from cash in every way. Cryptos which aren't feeless but talk about the "unbanked" are full of hot air. And this pattern of false promises is all over this space.
> What really bugs me right now is that the lanes are not hard-divided or at least 4-stripe divided from the regular lanes like they are in Southern CA.

I actually think this is fine, but the signage is _awful_. In a bit of inverse awfulness, look at the 10 in the SGV. They converted a bus lane to an HOV decades (and now Fastrak). It's almost worthless unless your goal is to get from El Monte to downtown. There are virtually no exits/entrances. Also, I resent the effort spent on it because none of its glaring problems have ever been dealt with and my understanding is that it was basically converted to a toll road to comply with some federal requirement to lower travel times. So, the local agencies were able to claim they saved 2 minutes on the commute to downtown and got to keep the federal funding. Way to target the metric there.

The difference between how NorCal and SoCal does it is really bizarre. NorCal also has a lot of timed carpool lanes which are slowly being converted to these inane Lexus lanes. The timed carpool lanes felt like they were never a good idea because it seemed to generally cause confusion and instead increased congestion as people weren't sure whether they could use them. Also, I remain infuriated that the on-ramps in NorCal have carpool lanes enforced 24/7 instead of like they are in SoCal--only when the meter is actually on.
Last I checked, Ukraine is not Afghanistan, for a few reasons:

1. It's not a constantly feuding cornucopia of tribes, regional warlords, and militias that have spent 20 years fighting eachother in a never-ending civil war.

2. Prior to the star of the war, it had fully functional, developed-world logistics networks.

3. Russia borders it, it's not trying to project power across an ocean.

4. Russia is far culturally closer to Ukraine that the United States ever will be to Afghanistan.

5. People accustomed to developed world lifestyles get war-weary much, much faster.

In light of those four factors, Putin was banking on an easy victory, with Ukraine choosing a bad peace over a protracted, bloody war.
> I think it is immoral for some business executive to make sweeping decisions about what the commoners are / aren't allowed to see

I used to have this point of view, but it's clear lately that certain types of information do not result in good outcomes if processed by the uneducated.

The U.S. is already going in the direction of a dystopia if you haven't noticed.
More free speech isn't going to help gas, housing, or educational prices, but it does enable various actors at little to no cost to themselves to freely shit out emotional, illogical, and invective dreck on various platforms and prevent honest analysis and discussion from happening on numerous issues. If all of this is a guaranteed benefit to society it's getting harder and harder to see to lately.

I think the young people growing up today, who cannot afford a place to live, who have to go into years of debt just to get started, who are being looked down by previous generations for not starting a family when they literally don't have the resources to do it, are going to look at things vastly differently and really care less about this sort of thing from a hard absolute perspective.
Agreed! That was the first one I've seen where I felt it was basically "passing". Like if I didn't know, I wouldn't know.
analysts and historians saying "it's complicated"
Don’t transactions (should) show up in your online account pretty much instant? I thought they did for me.

I also hate fastrack and the “fast lanes”. Only good thing is they send you the transponder pretty much for free :)
The “ecological damage” is a rounding error and being mitigated in several ways. This is not a serious concern for cryptocurrency, despite how often and blindly its repeated.
They are pounding the Ukrainian cities like Grozny right now (where they have the ability)
I tried DDG for a few weeks... Google is still better, even though its as bad as it's ever been. Really need some disruption here.
Germany's Olaf Scholz Demands cease-fire in call to Putin
You can also bury your ingots/drives deep in the wilderness and only memorize where they are at
I can't agree more.

As a child I was brainwashed by US propaganda living on the western side of the Iron Curtain. The 'home of the brave and land of the free'. How lo g it took me to remove this naive Hollywood image of our friend the US from my mind.

It took many long evenings of talking to actual people from the US while in university to learn more about the individual truths and lives instead of my rose tinted image.

To me personally for many years now the US were the biggest danger to peace on this planet. Now - taking a page from their playbook their old arch enemy is rearing its head and using the frigging same arguments the US used back in Iraq to sow war on European soil.

I am already only "allowed" (I know I can access other sources - it just isn't easy nor mainstream compatible) to watch western news.

Russian propaganda is more or less banned from German viewers (with RT and others being banned). I am not allowed to try to glimpse the way Putin wants to be seen internally.

And now - after Bing and Google - DDG follows suit and declares me too naive to be able to deal with Russian propaganda while still listing all the Western BS that should fill my head instead. Because in the end most 'news' currently is nothing but propaganda. Most news have an agenda.

There is nearly no good signal. Nearly only noise.

But few of the best sources to understand the mindset of the power elite in Russia I read in the last months were Russian sources read with the knowledge of the intended reason of publication. Aka reading it as the propaganda it is.
Since when is aggressive driving a virtue? Some people are more patient than others, that's all.
I had a problem with someone else having registered their car at my address. Fastrak matched the address and automatically charged their tolls to me.

I used their terrible web portal to remove the other car from my account. They just added it back.

I called them and told them it wasn't my car, that I did not consent to the charges. They didn't care.

I ended up just cancelling Fastrak entirely and now I pay tolls only for my own vehicle manually. I can't use carpool lanes because of this.

I've been considering registering a Fastrak with someone else's address, just so I can use carpool lanes again.
A number of stores here in Kitchener (Canada) use the single queue approach, particularly to feed a bank of self checkout stations. But I've also seen it at Old Navy (clothing), Winners (discount clothing), Indigo (bookstore), and others.

I think the main thing that's maybe a bit annoying is just that it's easy for the single line to stall if the people at the front of it aren't paying attention or don't know what to look for. So the store often ends up having to have an extra attendant who just stands there and pokes people for when a till comes available.
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So is mine. But that seems accurate to me. Searching for 'drudge' returns drudge.com as the first result. If users are clicking on that link, and saying there, then that must be what they were looking for.

Searching for "drudge report" brings up drudgereport.com.

Also, after having searched for both "drudge" and "drudge report" several times in a row, drudgereport.com is the top result for both searches.
I am incredulous whenever I see these solutions. Can’t you trivially change your DNS server?
Is it possible they missed a "to" in the title? Should it have been "Inflation rose to 7.9%"?
> Making equivalences between sports only takes you so far here, but seriously: Imagine if Tom Brady were being held by Russian officials right now.

But Griner isn't Tom Brady.

The theory that Griner isn't more nationally prominent because she's a woman (or her race or sexual orientation) is odd, considering that there are sports such as figure skating or gymnastics where the women are far more famous than the men. If Simon Biles were being held in Russia it would almost certainly have been a much bigger news story than if it was some male gymnast. Conversely, if Lionel Messi was being held in Russia, that probably wouldn't register for most Americans. (I had to look up “famous soccer star” in Google.)

Sports is culture-specific, highly local, and highly influenced by network effects. I follow college football because I went to an ACC school for college. College football season is a time for me to reconnect with my college buddies.[1] By contrast, I have no cultural or geographic connection to any WNBA teams. None of my friends follow any WNBA teams either. I knew who Brittney Griner was for idiosyncratic reasons--my wife likes WNBA (and minor league baseball) games because she can get floor seats for a song at major venues--but otherwise I never would have heard of her.

[1] Even among people who watch football, there is far less awareness of college football among folks in the northeast compared to folks in the southeast.
Sincere respect to the engineers who risk their lives to restore the utilities in war zones.
The photo at the end of that article deeply impressed me, indeed “Your Best Internet”.
Well, yeah, but I need it so I'm not sure what you're getting at? I didn't just turn it on for funsies, tax remittance sucks. There are APIs you can use, but they're more expensive/complicated than stripe's tax solution that they acquired. Paddle (or some other merchant of record) makes it even easier.
Drink copious amounts of yerba mate. Use three dinner spoons of mate per cup and prepare it in a aero-press. Drink two servings every night.

A high stress and dysfunctional workplace also was an effective way to loose weight for me personally.
> Besides, what's so bad about access to "disinformation"?

Disinformation doesn't just try to present an alternative view, it also tries to drown out other viewpoints. I don't think it's possible to accurately and neutrally present search results when bad actors try to subvert rankings.

I think propaganda can be interesting, I don't think it should be banned. But penalizing it seems fair to me. I don't want other searches to get flooded with clickbait.
So, once again, no one is neutral. Companies decide who's bad and what's true. I'm not pro-trumpist, but a few years ago it hurt pretty bad, and it continues.
> One thing that inflation does that is rarely talked about is how it affects time preference

I don't really understand how you got there - it may be left implicit in some conversations, but essentially the entire discussion about monetary policy wrt inflation rates is about managing this preference trade off. The general consensus seems to be that swinging too hard in either direction is a bad thing, hence targeting nominal 2%-ish.
The way you posed the question implies that the West and Russia are in a employer-employee type relationship, with Russia being the subservient employee, where the boss can fire, replace, demote, etc, and them have little to no control over such events.

I think this is a poor analogy.

(For context: I despise this aggressive Russian government.)