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Cryptocurrencies and web3 demonstrate promise as ways to escape from the VC-funded walled gardens that are more typical of previous eras of the web.

Ironically that means that excessive amounts of money are being thrown at them in order to obtain any kind of small angular velocity towards funders that believe they can capture the next generation of the market -- or simply to prevent it from happening, for those with existing moats.

Simply wait. Give it another five years to a decade or so and the tide will recede and the valuable technology will remain above the silt.
Yes and the Tories will pay for it eventually. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
>And the big cryptos have no monetary tools...

Dai
That condo prices are staying flat is fantastic news.

Now we just need to build condos that are appropriate for all stages of life -- not just young singlehood and coupledom.

Building up will not solve the "not enough SFH/townhomes" problem, but it will fix the homeownership problem. And it may help with the former, if there are enough current SFH/townhome owners who would prefer a really nice condo close to work/downtown/parks/amenities/etc.

But one issue there is that we currently build condos but don't build the public spaces that serve to supplement them and make them comfortable for, e.g., families with kids. As a result, they're full of a certain demographic, and less appealing to others, reinforcing the issue.
By design, you should be open "IDE" chest to get enough gold to go to Git Island. Didn't you open that chest?

The "invitation code box" is a fallback when people happen to use up their gold.

```
I'm learning programming in a game, come to JavaIsland coordinate (BJ, 94),
open the chest with my invitation code 5ZwPT6OWwipmHRG,
you and me can both get 500 gold.
Join me at ByteLegend https://bytelegend.com !
```

> Even though I can't walk there, I seem to be able to click the challenges and do them

It's intended. You can finish the challenge there, but you can only get a "key" but can't have the chest open immediately. You have to go close to the chest to use that key to open the chest. The intention is to allow people do challenges without going through the whole story. I'm not saying this is perfect, but this is what current it's designed.

> I did all of the challenges for "Java Reference and Value" and received only 2 stars on the second challenge. I suppose this means I did something wrong/sub-optimally, but I did not see any feedback on what that was.

When you do the challenge, you actually create a pull request on github. There's some comments in the pull request telling you what's the issue in you code. However, I shouldn't have told you this if this is a well-desgined game UI. Thanks for the feedback!
The tail end of that article mentions the 68000 based products.

Unfortunately looking up the part numbers for the reproduced ones on digikey has them marked as obsolete.
Uh, no. 'Alpha' as in before 'Beta'.
Not great company - though you have to escape Eritrea in the first place, they don’t allow young people to leave (coworker I used to work with escaped and would talk about what it was like).

In practice no way anyone living abroad pays taxes to Eritrea (and probably few would go back given the risks).
Do you know what I'm hoping for? I'm hoping for more natural, for more "organic" communities.

Walking around the residential areas of Chelsea or Knightsbridge I found it to be some of the most boring places in London. Beautiful houses and no one on the streets, pedestrian hostile roads, generally boring perfection.

I think optimising the city for the wealthy when these wealthy are not invested in the community kills the spirit of the city. London doesn't have particularly beautiful nature or weather, so if you make it about perfect streets and expensive buildings you can build something much better somewhere else. What London actually offers that is extremely valuable is a great culture and institutions and all these rich people who occupy a place in London without being in London are undermining it.

London has much more to offer than hiding the elites money, just as the Switzerland. These are advanced communities that has a lot of more going on for them beside accommodating the rich people of the world. The accumulated wealth in these places is not like the wealth in Silicon Valley, it is stale.

IMHO the dilution of the artificial wealth saturation will result in talented people having their impact amplified.
> One of the biggest drawbacks for blockchain is that transactions can't be revoked after the fact (with the only exception being costly forks of the entire ledger), and there's no additional human oversight (like I'd get when sending a large amount of money through a bank) to protect me.

I believe this is viewed as a feature in the blockchain / cryptocurrency world.
> Have you ever seen a therapist?

Yes, twice or three times depending on how you would count occupational therapists/group therapy. For many hours. Enough that learning that professional training is much less important than the therapeutic relationship was not a surprise.

In plain language it is vastly more important that you vibe with the person you spend hours talking with about your problems than that they have training.

My condolences on your loss.
Search isn’t Google’s moneymaker, advertising is. And those shitty SEO’d sites are choc-a-bloc with advertising. Google has little incentive to downrank them.
Super-heavy and long article, at least for me (italian mothertongue). Still, quite interesting.

Personal random excerpts (not pointing to anything specific, they just popped up when I read the article):

- these oligarchs were mere capos, who answered to the don

- England itself has been a silent and handsomely compensated partner in Putin’s kleptocratic designs

- “We must go after the oligarchs,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared after the invasion of Ukraine, doing his best to sound Churchillian. But, as the international community labors to isolate Putin and his cronies, the question is whether England has been too compromised by Russian money to do so.

- At a fund-raising auction at the Tory summer ball in 2014, a woman named Lubov Chernukhin—who was then married to Vladimir Chernukhin, one of Putin’s former deputy finance ministers—paid a hundred and sixty thousand pounds for the top prize: a tennis match with Johnson and David Cameron, who was Prime Minister at the time. Johnson defended the match, decrying “a miasma of suspicion” toward “all rich Russians in London.” A Russian magnate told Catherine Belton, “In London, money rules everyone. Anyone and anything can be bought.” The Russians came to London, the source said, “to corrupt the U.K. political elite.”

- Libel tourism is another chronic English problem that everyone bemoans but nobody does anything about. This has meant terrific business for the oligarchs’ morally flexible attorneys; according to the British trade publication The Lawyer, some law firms charge a “Russian premium” for their services, of up to fifteen hundred pounds an hour.

Disclosure: I work for a swiss bank (therefore a potentially indirect antagonist to the London Exchange/Marketplace - but I'm just an IT-guy :P ).

During the past years I kept reading in the news and saw on TV some docs about russian interests in London (they never mentioned anything about other cities/regions, it was always all about "London", I don't know why), therefore none of these news should be surprising, but apparently they still are?

Additionally I'm totally/absolutely surprised by UK's government's attitude change:

not just a sudden 360-degrees change from "welcome investors" to "don't you dare to talk to us" but even a "what you owned here is history" (maybe I'm mis-interpreting but I understood that that's the general direction of where things are going there - maybe I'm wrong??).

Cheers
Sounds like a regularly scheduled tender offer. Good for them, but not really an innovation.
I'm not 100% sure what the situation is, but I think the issue is that if some car manufacturer tried to import a large quantity of LFP cells from China they might be sued if they don't pay the patent licensing fees. Thus the price of LFP cells in China isn't the same as the price of LFP cells anywhere else purchased through legitimate channels. (I'm not sure if the cheap-ish cells you can get on AliExpress are paying those royalties or if they're kind of flying under the radar.)

I'm hoping to see sub-$100 per kwh LFP cells sometime soon in the U.S. through some channel that ordinary people can order from. It would be a huge boon for EV conversion if the batteries weren't hugely expensive. I think that's probably attainable. LFP batteries aren't fundamentally expensive, you just need to have good automation, cheap energy, and economies of scale. The input materials are relatively cheap. China's main advantage besides the patent thing is that they've been quietly building their battery manufacturing capabilities and supply chains for a couple decades, and it's hard to compete with that.
> One of the biggest drawbacks for blockchain is that transactions can't be revoked after the fact

You can transfer money to an escrow smart contract that reverts the transaction if a third party confirms malicious activity.

> They can block transactions if they think it's stolen, and if I report it as stolen I can claw back money from fraudulent purchases.

Certain DLTs allow you to secure your account with SSI/DPKI methods. You can create complex multi signature authorization and revocation schemes.

> With crypto, I have to triple check the address I'm sending coins to because I can't undo it.

With time the UX of wallets and wallet integrations will improve. Many wallets already offer address books, where you give addresses names. Also, decentralized name service is being worked on (but still an unsolved problem).

> With crypto, I have to spend what's sometimes a significant amount of money just to complete a transaction, and transactions can take minutes or hours to complete.

Crypto isn't Bitcoin or Ethereum, crypto is much larger. The field is constantly evolving, and things like txn costs are non-issues for sophisticated architectures.

> I think there's a future in crypto but we're in the dotcom boom days of it where most of the value is in speculation. I'll wait for crypto 2.0.

100% agree. This field is full of speculation. The version 2.0 however will absolutely find impact.
No one is being forced to sell their shares. Employees can decide whether they like the price being offered or not.
Don't forget everything in SpaceX is built around the Mars mission. They could reorganize the business and "simply" be a profitable orbital launch provider if they wanted to.
Or gold. Or any other property.

Bitcoin is simply digital property. And like real world property, you can mess up and lose it irrevocably.

If you give your gold to the wrong person or drop it to the bottom of the sea, you're probably not getting it back.

If you under fund your military, and someone else comes in and takes control of your land, you're probably not getting it back.

If you send your bitcoin to the wrong address, or mismanage your private keys such that they are stolen, you're probably not getting it back.
"This procedure involves collecting a patient’s mitochondria—tiny oval structures that provide cells with energy to function"

They didn't say it the right way!
> The flagged comment suggested "sociopath" is better...

FWIW, enter "sociopath" in Wikipedia and you are redirected to the "Psychopathy" page.
Another point I’d add: isn’t it telling that we haven’t come up with use cases for crypto that aren’t in some way speculation in the last decade plus?
Yeah I think you’re right, but I’m American so haven’t looked into it that much since I wouldn’t give up citizenship for it.
The beauty of crypto is that those tools are exposed and not required, and that the underlying rules are universal. Banks and custodial services built off of shared liability, insurance, reversions, any useful thing a bank does are still possible with crypto - in fact they aren't even that complicated.

The difference is that while allowing a (properly set up) crypto bank to transfer funds you may also at any point and for any reason take full custody over your coins. The private key which enables that should not be used for anything other than emergency (minimize attack surface) and keeping such a key secure is not all that difficult. With this combination you get all the benefits of a normal bank yet they are powerless without express authorization to do anything with your funds. You can withdraw at any point for any reason.

Services and practices securing your private key will need to be widespread before adoption seriously takes off. Storing a seed phrase in your sock drawer is not acceptable: Vitalik Buterin secured his billions via two physical pieces of paper which summed to his private key; surely a step in the right direction. An n of m scheme with each n being held by parties unlikely to collaborate is another solution.

This is all not even mentioning massive private banking and its relationship to the economy and bias towards the wealthy. Crypto is FOSS finance, it works for the people as stated and expected. As I said, you are correct - using your layer 1 sovereign access for everyday use is a security blunder - you now know where progress points.
Is there a search limit for Kagi during beta? I don't see it documented anywhere, and I've been using it as my primary search engine for a few months and haven't seen any sign of a limit.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's some limit to prevent abuse, but it hardly gets in the way of my normal usage.
I wouldn't put it past myself to forget an endpoint I implemented yesterday, that's why I document them as soon as I finish.
via Pandora Papers:

> Zelenskyy’s and Kolomoiskyi’s companies made a transaction worth $40 million in 2012.
YouTube Down?
I am getting no or very slow response from YouTube. Anyone having this problem? I am in US.
man ?
Heh, way lower than accelerated GPU for me. If you really hard up get a USB dongle that works well with Linux.
This would imply that minority groups make up 126% of TV actors. Even if that number weren’t mathematically impossible, reasonable people would agree that we’re not even close to even say 90% representation of minority groups on US TV.
What are the bounds of that though? No place that I have lived in California gives me the option of continuing my lease under the current terms (never once did they not increase my rent)
Has anyone been able to take a ride in a cruise mobile yet? I'm still on the wait-list.
If you want the best experience on your DECBook stick with VAX imo
This book about Berezovsky is also good:

https://www.amazon.com/Once-Upon-Time-Russia-Oligarchs_A/dp/...
It's working fine in San Diego...
Most of the other things you mentioned are collectibles. They're either rare, non-fungible or completely one-of-a-kind and therefore fought over in the niche markets in which they trade.

Gold is a commodity with genuine industrial uses, and ingrained appeal to humans through thousands of years of being adorned and traded as jewelry. Sure, it's been diminished, we have so many materials now that can be used industrially and fashioned in to shiny trinkets, but comparing it to a completely synthetic, abstract instrument like Bitcoin is a bit disingenuous.

I definitely think there's room in the world for a completely decentralised peer to peer digital cash equivalent, but I think it remains to be seen how valuable everyday people in this world consider this utility.
The conclusion of the actual paper doesn’t quite support your argument: “ We document that, on average, adults in the
developing world work about 50 percent more hours per week than adults in rich
countries. Average hours worked are higher in developing countries both for men
and for women, for all age and education groups, and along both the extensive and
intensive margins. Within countries, hours are decreasing with income on average
and particularly so in the poorest countries. In the richest countries, hours worked
are flat or increasing in income. One implication of our findings is that aggregate
labor productivity and TFP differences across countries are larger than previously
thought. Moreover, ignoring hours worked also leads to misleading conclusions
about the extent of welfare differences across countries. Put simply, residents of the
poorest countries are not only consumption poor, but leisure poor as well.”
"non-citizens as well as agents of foreign adversaries" sounds a lot like enemy spies. To my knowledge we still try them in court, not summarily execute them.
The tiny minority of black bloc protesters aren't anyone American politicians constituents, and you're attempt to associate them with anything I've said just shows your bad faith in taking the rest of my words seriously at all.

One side is making laws banning speech and criminalizing identity, yet every single article about this talks first and foremost about some nebulous threat to free speech, and when questioned for real examples, real measure of the phenomenon, are only met with dissembling.

I absolutely do question liberal politicians; their failures are extremely frustrating. Far left antics don't touch them at all; as for The Squad, they're some of the most responsible politicians in this country. Those are my judgments. What I don't countenance is that anything like the problems with liberal and left-wing politics measures up against the systemic assault on human freedom being waged around the world by right wing political parties, making actual policy.

If you had an example of a liberal or even left-wing law that suppresses speech I feel like you would have supplied it. Some things are not balanced. Some things are not true. Some things are not right.
Crypto enables illicit transactions.
> "if you want it roll your own"

Yes, and every other mainstream OS is: "No, this is not supported.". I don't see how Linux is seen as worse then that answer. If anything this post proves how rapidly the Linux community moves. Within a year there is working Linux on FULLY proprietary hardware. And not just a funny PoC. No, you can daily drive this thing. Let's see how long it takes for Windows to run on the M1...
Unfortunately as usual, most people only saw the clickbait about the email and not the subsequent clarification about how he meant that while it was unlikely, it wasn't impossible in the event of a severe enough global economic downturn, pointing to examples of much bigger companies which went bankrupt during downturns: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/30/elon-musk-warning-not-first-...

Given his net worth right now, he could very likely carry SpaceX through some economic trouble, but in the event of a big enough downturn, his net worth will probably drop hard due to it being mostly Tesla stock, thus his concern.
1Password 6 for Mac won’t fill or save in Chrome 99 or later
The problem is ultimately how well the courts handle liars.

The middle ground is to investigate the situation and establish facts. And do it quickly.

That costs money, and poor tenants can’t afford it.

So many courts adopt the position of believing one side over the other.

This isn’t limited to liars … it applies to all bad faith actors. For example, in parts of the Midwest, it’s really hard to evict someone in winter.

So bad faith tenants will sign a lease in September, pay for a month or two, then stop. Can’t be evicted until spring.

And by “can’t be evicted” I mean can’t begin eviction proceedings. If the proceedings can be stretched out (“I’m in the hospital and can’t appear in court”) you can get to the next winter.
Sorry, I don't understand, why are the inkjet nozzles so hard to make?
Thanks for the reminder and feedback. Issue created here: https://github.com/ByteLegend/ByteLegend/issues/119

I totally understand the copyright risk. The reason I use it was that I love RA2 so much - that's almost the only game I played when I was a child. I'm proud and happy to put the sprite into a game I design and write. If there's any issue from EA, I'd immediately roll them back, sadly.
I'm sure librewolf's intentions are good, but I think the gemini crowd has it right. If you want privacy, security, and freedom on the web, you not only have to fork the browser, you also have to fork the web.
Most people obviously want a family home, but it would be an improvent if they actually have an alternative.
Is there a reason no one is talking about Hawking? If I had to pull a recently deceased genius off the top of my head, he would be it.
Feedback: Information as a Basis for Improvement [pdf]
> What’s the magic way to avoid complying with this new government edict without escalating to violence?

Move to the mountains and farm turnips.

If you mean "how do I avoid complying with laws while still participating in polite society," you're right, that one you can't do.
It's more complex. If you just move to Dubai you will be considered a resident for tax purposes based on your links back to the Old Country. Examples of such links include if you own a property, have a bank account, have healthcare policies and registration, or if you are a member of a society or group. So, having links boils down to either owning a substantial asset back in Canada or continuing to being a part of day-to-day operations there.

This use to be popular with working at sea for 6 months to avoid taxes until it changed. You could be sailing around the world for the next two years any income you make would be taxable even if you renounce your citizenship (unless you take another citizenship or become a resident in a physical location)

So you could do this but for the effort you would be better off trading cryto from Canada avoiding popular exchanges and not reporting
> a PR failure

Warning: puns

… Yes, in the sense that it's not open source and therefore you can't make a pull request on it.

Seriously, the server part of Pocket is closed-source, and that's why I'm suspicious of it. I don't trust that it's operating in my interests.

Teach a man to fish and he'll thank you. Hang around all the time offering him some fish you caught that's totally free to you but don't worry it's really good fish and you'll love it why don't you try it, and he'll start to think you're a bit fishy.

And I don't understand why Mozilla would buy a closed-source service in order to compete with the open-source Wallabag.

It's emblematic of Mozilla turning into “just another digital lifestyle brand” and losing the ideology that made Mozilla what it was, radically user-empowering. It's pathetic, in the classical sense that I pity Mozilla for how faint a shadow of its former self it's become.
It's not quite the same. With cash, I have to meet them in person. I probably know their name or where to find them again. I can file a lawsuit, a police report. They have incentive to make things right for me because it can have real life repercussions for them.

I'm not saying that it's an impossible problem to solve, but our society and legal system aren't structured in a way that makes it easy.
> Claim 2: Blockchain technology has no non-monetary applications (Confidence: High)

I would replace "non-monetery" with "non-financial". I think it's a perfectly reasonable (albeit, imperfect) solution as a ledger and exchange mechanism for new financial assets.