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> debunking the myth of barter coming before credit

Not debunked at all. How do people even agree what things are worth in order to offer credit before there exists any prices?

The issue with Graeber and others is they are looking for a historical account of barter pre-dating a historical record of debt, but they will never find it, because the record-keeping begin for the purpose of recording debt. Any barter would pre-date any record keeping, and would likely be very shortly-lived before people converge onto a common money. They have completely misinterpreted Menger's 'On the Origins of Money' to begin with, and are debunking a straw-man.

> "We have actual case studies of communities developing money prices from scratch: namely, prisoners who end up using cigarettes as the common medium of exchange. [...] The prisoners certainly weren't giving each other things from their Red Cross kits as gifts or as loans. No, they first were trading (in a state of direct exchange) and cigarettes quickly became the money in their community [...] The prices (quoted in cigarettes) of various items were posted on a board. If Graeber and his colleagues stumbled upon the ruins of this P.O.W. camp, they would presumably conclude that there was never a preexisting state of barter, because they only found boards listing prices quoted in terms of cigarettes." - https://mises.org/library/have-anthropologists-overturned-me...
Manufacturers keep stats of the number of kernel panics per year.

I was disappointed to find that on many models of phone, there was not a single active user who had not experienced at least one random reboot caused by a kernel panic a year after purchase.

The fact it boots straight back up to the lockscreen means many users will never notice that it's happened though.
Delivery standards are being loosened in many countries due to significant reduction of non-package mail during the last decade, this is not US-specific.

E.g. here in Finland the standard stamped mail service has been reduced from mostly 1 day to 4 days, and in many areas they are only being delivered on every other business day (so one carrier alternates between two routes, I think).

There are also significant yearly increases in stamp prices, which US has not yet seen I believe.

These non-US measures were also briefly explored in USPS Office of Inspector General report RISC-WP-20-004 in 2020 (https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library...).
Some questions come to mind I'd like to see answered before signing up:

* How does the platform ensure safety of the data? Where will it be hosted?
* Are any resources shared?
* Will there be a selection of different GPU available or is the assumption that one size will fit all?
* How does it differ from other GPU cloud providers that offer ready to use Jupyter notebooks? (E.g. https://support.genesiscloud.com/support/solutions/articles/... or https://saturncloud.io/)
The Fuchs surname means "fox," from the Middle High German vuhs, meaning "fox."

Google makes a foxy OS. Shame it's not a fire-fuchs
https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softw...
It's my favorite channel as of lately.

He's interviewed drug addicts, gang members, prostitutes, gangsters, pimps, inbreds, cross-dressers, skinheads, rapists, homeless, transgenders, native americans, kids.

It lets me meet people I normally wouldn't have the patience to get to know, and it humanizes them.
For sure. A recent smartphone can.
The US government can issue more fiat to repay bonds if necessary. It can literally print itself out of debt. Yes, this could potentially cause some devaluation, but it's still a powerful backstop. The US would only default by choice, rather than being forced to. This is the privilege of having the USD be the world's reserve currency.

At the level of the world's biggest economies, the concepts of debt (bonds), money, and interest rates are more abstract economic levers that central banks pull in order to keep economies chugging. They're not really the same things they are to individual people and corporations, e.g. in the way debt can cripple someone's finances.

The central banks and governments are the game masters who set the rules and issue tokens, and we're the players interacting within the game and responding to the environments that they create.
That’s a lot more expensive than an AirTag, but if you want to be sure they can’t discover your tracking device, it’s one way to do it…
If this isn't hacker news, I don't know what is.
For some reasons unknown to me my comment got deleted, perhaps because I'm more or less say that you are a conformist (witch is not really an insult, IMVHO anyway), so I try again in a different sauce: try to read the 1929 press. For most everything was ok or ok-ish at least and the few who say something is deeply broken just make a soup of different and not really connected things. The we know what happen.

That's the goulash. We can just wait and see. Personally I expect a new global war for resources and economic reasons and I expect hi tech gears will be of no help to win it, witch is unfortunate for us westerners because while we have hi tech gears and also nukes we largely miss a mass of young, loyal and desperate army that having nothing to loose just fight with the maximum effort to the death...
>He wasn’t.

He was.

>Das Kapital was just a bad book in terms of economic theory regardless of its anthropological value.

Das Kapital is a great book in both economic and anthropologic terms.

>Economists tended to discard Marx long before Lenin.

No they didn't.

>Hm. I am not sure I understand the connection.

You should try reading Das Kapital.
How big is the company? If they are massive and you aren't making money they probably won't see you as a threat, as others have said be careful they won't perceive any loss of secret sauce to competitors.

If they are small they wont have the money to make a case against you.

If you are brushing up your CV are you looking for a new job?

I don't think it's in your best interest to talk about that project with colleagues. Likely no one will even notice
> Xephyr

It's easier to use Wayland. Additionally, Toolbox does not sandbox the application.
Great story.

I have a friend that my wife met in language school. This girl was from New York and she had an insanely good CV, best uni education from Yale, investment bank and hedge fund experience. But do you know what, she kept getting fired on the corporate gigs she took here. The trouble was, she thought lying a little is okay. Which it clearly isn't in my Northern European country. Schmoozing while a great party lubricant very easily becomes lying and that is very heavily frowned upon in most Euro places.
I was once working at a place which was heavily invested in CoffeeScript (at that time, the syntax and the handy sintactic sugar were awesome compared to what JS had to offer). A few years later after I left the company, I had a chat with an excolleague of mine and asked they if they have migrated to JS + babel transpilation. They didn't. As of today they are still working with CoffeeScript. It's a huge codebase.

I see TS just like CoffeeScript.
well, depending on what you do, you usually need access to the dri-device, the X11-driver and X11 (socket). This is relatively insecure I suppose because it exposes a giant attack-surface. Everything trying to mitigate this (short of running VNC) unfortunately still has some, but I would expect noone targets these broad-spectrum. An interesting thing to do would be to run with VGL and a quadro/...-GPU which allows partitioning into different rendering devices.

Haven't tried reading about this with wayland.
Retro Lite CM4: a Compute Module 4 gaming console
I'm not sure I'd even call Blockly "No Code" - it is code and translates almost line by line to normal procedural code.

It gets murkier with node-based visual environments as you can express some things in ways that are very different to textual programming.

But Blockly is mainly just training wheels for code.
There are some ideas to implement negative interest rates on bank accounts only but keeping cash by introducing a second cash currency that explicitly does not follow a stable peg. I.e. inflation targeting only has to be done on cash not bank accounts. Bank accounts will get price level targeting which means no inflation.

https://blogs.imf.org/2019/02/05/cashing-in-how-to-make-nega...
What inaccuracies did he perpetuate?

That the national debt will never be "paid off" is hardly inaccurate. It's barely even controversial. It wouldn't be a good idea either.

Hell, I remember the news articles from the 90s during a brief period of budget surplus that fretted about what pension funds and insurers would do if they couldnt buy t bills any more. The mask briefly slipped as the reality of the national-debt-is-basically-just-a-savings-account before we returned to our regularly scheduled implied bankruptcy doom-mongering and budget ceiling theatrics.
See my other comment above. I'm think Blockly is quite different to the more common node-based visual environments.
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> so a company (or individual for that matter) would not just blindly pay more tax, and hope for the best.

Of course not, but I'm saying that you shouldn't even have that choice.

If you want to participate in the system and enjoy everything it has to offer, then you MUST pay taxes. It is not a matter of wanting to.

If you decide that the tax burden is too high, you always have the option of not operating in that system; but nobody will opt-out because even if they pay 80% tax, the 20% income that can be made in a G7 economy is SO MUCH MORE than tax-free in an underdeveloped one.

20 years ago I would have had a different opinion, but the system has been abused and gamed to a point where most of the participants are suffering, and I happen to think that a healthy society provides a stronger base for future prosperity, so I support taxation as a form of funding public health and education. I guess that's the caveat though, the tax revenue should actually boost standard of living for the bottom 80%.

It's a very difficult subject, far too nuanced for a comment section, but interesting to see the different opinions nonetheless.
Agreed, that looks heavenly
Russian tank manufacturer shuts down production
I did things like Nyquist/Shannon, things like Manchester encoding and stop bits, etc 20 years ago in an electronics module at university. Barely remember anything about them, and haven't used them at all. Some colleagues might as they deal with satellite clearance and uplinks, but I'm just nice simple IP, and it's not going to help me with my (presumably) BFD issue which is causing my BGP routes to one site to fail over in 30 seconds rather than a few milliseconds.

It's insanely rare in my industry to encounter anything that isn't ethernet, hell even ethernet with MTUs below 1500 are fairly rare outside of VPN provisions. Sure there are some, especially in the high end areas, but it's so rare and tends to eventually present as ethernet.

Far more use for almost everyone is an understanding of Ethernet, IP(4+6), TCP/UDP/ICMP and how routing works (the concepts more than the specifics - things like how traffic can route asymetrically, how packets can be sent on different routes, etc). You could include other protocols like LLDP and arp (maybe LACP as part of the different routes), mention about how a traceroute will hide information when routers either don't decrement MTUs, or just stick the entire packet in an MPLS packet and pass it through the network, mention how just because your traceroute shows 20% loss at hop 7 it doesn't mean hop 7 is bad, and again how the ttl expired response may be dealt with with a low priority, or travel on a completely separate network, etc.

I would think all of that is far more useful than knowing that you need Manchester to keep your clock or how you use PSK to increase the symbols through your medium
Which Sargent? I have fumée d'ambre gris hanging over me ;-)
But it's not useful because it says nothing about how much to give back or any rational way to determine whether someone has given back enough.

It's a platitude that can be used to justify anything.

It's like saying "All humans deserve respect". Ok, so if Jeffrey Dahmer were still alive, I should respect him? What does that even mean? If I execute him humanely is that "respecting him"? Is keeping him in jail "respecting him"?

Amazon paid almost $5B in taxes in 2021. Is that enough? If not, why?

Last year 57% of Americans paid no federal income tax (yes, I know they pay other taxes - that's beside the point). Are they giving back enough? If yes, why? They are giving back $0 in income tax. Why is tax the right measure for Amazon but not for individuals?
I already didn't like passwords before. But oh boy did I see the horror for normal folks when I observed my mother battle with a camera app recently.

She was so frustrated with the password it was crazy. Especially because there are 1000 rules a password must have to be "safe" these days. And even then, she would just use a slightly different version of her default password.

I'm 100% certain she wouldn't remember that password the next time she has to log into that account. So she has to go through the whole password reset nightmare with all this horror again. Terrible.
Sure, but central banks do typically promise to hit an inflation target, which is similar in the sense that it's a promise for the money to have a certain value.

If a bank bought and sold gold to make a currency hit an inflation target, would that be commodity money or fiat?
Currency is not given value because people "believe" in it or not.

It has value because the government decided that to operate inside its country, you must use this currency. This is enforced through taxation. It doesn't matter if you believe in the dollar or not, at the end of the day the government will tax you for a dollar amount and you're gonna have to pay in order to keep having access to the US market.

This is why cryptocurrencies have no inherent value, only value as it pertains to actual currencies.
Similar name different guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_Ferguson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Ferguson_(epidemiologist)
I'd even say that passwordless is an anti-feature because it means you're only secured by something you have, not something you know. For one it means you need backups because the physical object can be lost or stolen and two it's not protected by rights against self-incrimination.

What we really need is hardware tokens stills secured by a master password. I think yubikey optionally supports device unlock PINs, but they don't support unicode.
How does a signed distance field robustly allow you to select one edge out of many considering that these edges are an artefact the previous CSG operations you may have performed? These edges may or may not exist, their adjacent faces may or may not exist. They may be an in a non obvious orientation or be near or far from other edges or faces. Any query language or filter would need to be able to robustly handle such a system. OnShape has this but it is not for end users. It is for library developers. End users still get to point and click because it's the most obvious and simple thing to do.
To use them in a computer for logic gates, if you want to have multiple logic gates work together (such as an adder where bits propagate through many gates), does that then mean you'd need to convert AC outputs to DC control inputs for every single connection between gates? Or is there some more efficient way they did this?
You probably mean Soul Blade.
How the left is pushing property owners to the brink
That's... wow. This is incredible.

What they've found is that JIT can be disabled in most sites with no user-visible impact.

This, combined with WebAssembly, is a game-changer in waiting for browser security.
Parents should not be able to justify abusing their kids by homeschooling them either.

The idea that same-sex marriage is a "sexual topic" but marriage between a man and a woman is not is patently ridiculous and we need to start recognizing that it's a cover for a hateful ideology. If ignored we're going to see the repeal of not just Obergefell but probably even Lawrence within the next two decades.
Guess unless we have an implementation of modern days (emulation or …) not sure what we can do about a 1974 design.

Or compare with say ulisp etc
sounds like bullshit

given $1 millilon to mine ..who does that

somehow in 2014-2015 when btc is at 200-300 and already very hard to mine, gets thousands of btc with a supercomputer, which would not have worked well. he needed asics or gpu. and constantly upgrading hardware. the setup he shows would not have worked.

verdict: a great embelishment. maybe he mined some btc but nothing close to billions of dollars.
I only took a quick glimpse at a few comments here, so there's a chance I missed someone else say this already, but I'll post my two cents (sorry for the possible duplication): when I go to an interview, I'm not putting up a facade, I'm there to show 100% of me because if I pass, I'll probably stay there for the next year or so, meaning that being genuinely honest without thinking too much about putting up a fake persona is the best way to go for me. It's better to know incompatibilities right from the start than realise that you don't like the company 6 months in. So generally I don't get really nervous because I'm just showing who I really am, and if they don't like it, good, at least I know right from the get go.

Another thing I like to think about is that I'm interviewing them more than they are interviewing me. With every question they make, I think to myself "oh so that's what your company values as a good interview question" and I slowly start building a company profile in my head while answering honestly and to the best of my abilities.

I used to get a little nervous when I did exams at university, but I've come to realise that that nervousness came from me fitting a bunch of knowledge in my head a few days prior and fearing that some info would slip out of my neural pathways to make space for the color of the pen I was using that day, as brains do. I don't have this fear in interviews because, as I said, I'm not vomiting a bunch of knowledge I've forced accumulated over the past few days; in an interview, I'm just being myself and showing what I've naturally learned the past few years.

For those of you thinking that this is gonna decrease the amount of companies that I can apply for because of this "company profile" I build, yes that's true. Out of 10 companies I generally turn down 3 or 4 right from the first interview because I don't like them, not because they didn't offer enough money or because I don't like their tech stack. I just don't like their culture, and I make sure to confirm my ideas during the interview with some questions of my own. That's why I don't apply for most MAANGs, most of those have terrible company culture. If I'm gonna stay "married" to a company from 9 to 6 for the next year or so, I better make sure I actually wanna "marry" them.
The problem with user studies is that privacy-conscious power users (which are the majority of Firefox user base) don't like to participate in those studies, which make them really skewed.
Cookies but not location permission.
I'm 61 and average 211. I don't think my reaction time is bad, but my memory isn't as good as it once was.
High Assurance Rust: Developing Secure and Robust Software
QNX is for "big embedded", not microcontrollers - it's plausible to have as deployment a POWER9 cpu. So is VxWorks.
Scientific worldview is also great in the sense that it allows for openly admitting that the "beliefs" can be wrong, and if they are, they can be openly challenged. No belief system that's guided by a central authority can allow that.
so this company with 7 developers has the same amount of resources as amazon?
I'm surprised I hadn't heard about this before, although looking into it, it seems pretty infamous, and reminds me of many Scientologist documentaries. I got some second-hand PTSD from the comic that I wasn't looking for today, but I found the comic really well done. This was 100% a cult, and I'm sad to see that it had operated for that long. I wonder what happened to many of its residents; that is a crazy amount of trauma they had to deal with as kids that would definitely have long-lasting consequences -- I wouldn't last half a day there as an adult.
I appreciate your response and I apologize for the brevity of this one, but I worry that pretty much everything in the second half of your comments is based on a highly-idealized perspective of the situation.

What if you try and be fair with a kid and they just never understand fairness? What do you do if you need the kid to follow rules so they don’t get in trouble? What are the “natural consequences” for a kid who keeps hitting his classmates on the playground? Law of the jungle?
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If we're talking about 20 years from now, nobody cares about popular frameworks. Huge majority of websites use old code and they must not break. Backwards compatibility of web is a huge deal. So deprecation of JS just will not happen in that period of time.

What could happen is that browsers will support wasm natively and they'll translate JS into wasm. I'm not qualified enough to judge whether it would be possible to achieve current levels of JS performance with that approach, but theoretically it could be possible. In this case only wasm security will matter.

But I did not hear about any kinds of those plans, those are just my wild speculations. So deprecating of JS is not going to happen anytime soon. Wasm will accompany JS and that's about it for the foreseeable future.
Recoverable error handling at runtime is usually not what people mean when they say crashing.
What does Tesla use? (searching the web doesn't seem to yield a consistent answer)

Most of this thread has been focused on how Fuchsia will supplant Linux on Nest, Android and ChromeOS devices. However I immediately think about it will be used for Automobiles where RTOSes and prioritizing/scheduling operations deterministically is critical.

I'm sure Fuchsia could be leveraged for autonomous robots too, but since they gave up Boston Dynamics, not so sure anymore. Perhaps they extracted what they needed from BD before selling them off. Again I wonder what OS Tesla uses for their robots, both Grohmann and Optimus.

I have for many years thought that there was or so will be a battle in the RTOS space where Blackberry (QNX) would find themselves in a very similar situation they were in back when the iPhone and Android came onto the scene. (I know they were very different departments. Don't even know if they owned QNX at the time. Don't even know if you could consider them the same company anymore.)

There is obviously a paradigm shift taking place in the automotive industry where the incumbent/ICE manufacturers have to make a choice of continuing down the path to oblivion or pivot to compete with the likes of Tesla, NIO, Polestar, etc... The RTOS will play an important part in the transition, and Google knows this.

Google wants to be part of the stack and I believe they believe Fuchsia is the answer. Actually, I'd go so far as to say they want to own (or be the linchpin) the stack and again Fuchsia combined with Android Automobile (not Android Auto) is their attempt to move in while the incumbents are preoccupied with the other difficulties involved in this transition.

If I was QNX/BB, I would be very concerned. Imagine the world of Automobiles resembling that of the Smartphone... You basically have two choices; Apple or a myriad of others all running their own flavor of Android... think Tesla or all the others running Android Automotive (Fuchsia).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Automotive
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Is a recession coming? Alan Greenspan says the answer is in men's underwear
This inspired me to stop saying this as a joke lol