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Node has a more robust standard library than Rust, which forces devs to download third party libraries to compute a regular expression or generate a SHA-256.

For now Node is a richer target due to its popularity but the same issues will hit any language ecosystem that suffer the same flaws should they become popular.
This. It is indeed a joke.

I highly doubt there'd be any immediate weeding out, but it would begin to restore some accountability and make it less police vs the world and more about police vs incompetent/corrupt police.
Well, Resurrections was a cash grab. Not sure if this was true, but supposedly Warner Brothers told the Wachowskis that they were doing another Matrix movie with or without them. One of the Wachowskis chose to participate.
Looking at your replies to previous suggestions, I'm gonna assume your previous messages weren't reported as spam, like you say. So why not try emailing people who use Gmail and Google Workplace (née GSuite/GApps/GAFYD) and asking them to find your message in Spam and mark as Not Spam?

I'll happily help. Email me at ST.CyberRabbi@richi.uk (temporary alias—will stop working after a few days). Then reply here, so I remember to go look for it.
That's fair, I just pulled that number from thin air to try and portray my point. The actual crime stats in the US is 47.7 per 100,000. Unless there's hard evidence to the contrary, it can be assumed that those number also apply roughly to police.
>Unfortunately, it seems cryptocurrency is a just an extension of the many of the systems we already have that are described in fiat amounts.

Because cryptocurrency is also a fiat system where the money holds no real value and is manipulated by various entities, only the fiat is declared by a private group of computer nerds instead of the government.
Perhaps you have never experienced mold issues due to excessive fallen foliage then? Or a copperhead nesting in a pile and biting one of your children? These things happen frequently. Or perhaps your neighborhood has a nice tree canopy, but the excess foliage causes a safety concern to motorists and cyclists alike. There are good reasons to clear excessive leaves that don't involve only looks.

In fact most of the times the city will provide a truck a few times a month that will vacuum the leaves from the road, provided you push them all to the curb.

Not every suburb is this desolate, cookie-cutter hellscape like you see in places like Texas. Many of the historic neighborhoods, especially in the northeast, have real reasons to manage foliage.

And if you think leaf blowers are bad, just remember, people just used to collect them into huge piles and just burn them (still do in very rural areas), or worse yet, just toss their bags of leaves into the trash can. Leaves and landfills are a bad combo. With yard waste collection, towns will compost them and turn them into compost or rich soil: https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2017-12-18/you-asked-we-answere....
So, you are suggesting that bitcoin is or has been a bad investment? You clearly didn't look at the charts.
A lot of folks inexplicably defend these "DJs without headphones." I've seen some go so far as to claim being against them is an act of, yes, racism.
The early on profiting from late fools is partially what a few very old trading techniques describe (so called smart money vs dumb money). Not a crypto exclusive.

Now of course crypto operating on the web, more newbs can be influenced faster.

The cult aspect of crypt to me is more about the YouTube crypto millionnaires who are near idols to most. Every one has a chapel (patterns, mean reversal, or whatever pseudomagical formula one manages to sell to his audience). It's impressive to witness and even more so to succomb to (i felt like a fanboy few years ago) yet it seems to tap into primal neural réflexes (silver bullet, path to your dreams, having faith, it always worked until it didn't but it's ok no one can predict the future)
Err.... not quite. What you're describing is preferential attachment... ie., those with a large stake can multiply that stake producing ever larger amounts.

This isn't a scam. If I give everyone in the comments $100k, by "next year" some will have $1m and some $0 -- and, in general, we'll all be a little better off.

Its the nature of any advantage that it compounds, and compounding advantages of any kind produce dramatic inequalities (of sex, money, creative achievement, etc.).

Bitcoin isnt a scam because it produces an unequal outcome -- any system which works to increase the general welfare will necessarily operate on and compound inequalities.

It's a scam because as time passes the general welfare *does not increase*, indeed, it plummets!

People holding coins arent opening factories, building houses, teaching people, etc. Nothing is happening. They're litterally just twiddling their thumbs.

What's actually happening is that poorer fools are joining late in the game, whose money comes from actual labour... and supply the initial parasitical early-stakes with exit-cash. Ie., they wait for 10yr do nothing; you work for 1mo and do lots. Your productive labour becomes their exit. It's welfare for the rich.

Inequality isnt the issue here. It's the particular type of "theft" taking place. It is, in a very real sense, an actual scam.
They’ve been estimating some place or another would be underwater for years. And it still hasn’t happened. What did Al Gore say in 2009 about the ice caps in “5-7 years?” Gore wasn’t even close to correct.
These anti-crypto articles coming out lately are just a feedback loop of negativity designed to get people sucked into a mini online tribal conflict so that they don't start build parallel economies and free themselves. Even though this outlet went and found some of the most fringe and inflammatory advocates for blockchain technologies, they still managed to sneak a few truths through.

Cryto-currencies are generally good for two things: Making transactions almost impossible to stop and difficult to track, and storing wealth in place where the powers that be can't easily steal it from you. This is why the owners of legacy financial institutions and the mass of corporate serfs on their payroll hate it.
a major reason people recommend broad market index funds is that they have been proven to outpace inflation in the long run.

As with all things, the key to making money in a capitalist system is having money to begin with.

The stock market has in fact led to more people growing their wealth. While not perfect, it has come a long way from the days where only the wealthy could access it.
syncosync – secure peer to peer backup synchronization
syncosync is the code to set up a backup appliance to receive local backups from systems via rsync or sftp and to to sync those backups with a partner syncosync box remote to achieve backup redundancy - without using expensive cloud services.
Ready to run images for Raspberry Pi4 and Banana Pi exists but also a Debian package.
For more information visit https://syncosync.org
It's why the monks go to live in caves.
Truth Social doesn't seem to be that popular. Trump himself hasn't 'truthed' on there in over a month.
I think you have to appreciate the history with node to know why there are so many packages. Node’s growth coincided with GitHub’s and node’s community really adopted the “social programming” trope. You could really make a name for yourself with a popular node module. Javascript had more limitations to work around at the time, and then the desire to reuse code in node and the browser created even more need to abstract common tasks. The “modularize everything” philosophy resulted and it became a kind of game to make as many modules as you could think to make; after all, isn’t code sharing the joy of the FOSS revolution?

That era has since peaked and declined. Now I see people make way fewer modules because of the difficult of managing them all. There’s much less cred to earn from a node package. People who did gain social capital from modules are now stuck as maintainers, gaining very little additional value — thus more conversation about paying maintainers with monetary capital, along with abandoned or ownership-transferred code. And, of course, we’re now suffering from the security issues.

It’s still an incredibly valuable corpus of modules, but it’s post-bubble. It wasn’t just “js programmers are too novice to know better.” It was people having fun, playing the social game, trying silly ideas, and chasing a meme-wisdom of programming (modules = good).
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And perhaps, at least with scams where money is concerned (I suppose all of them?), a greater cultural emphasis of evaluating men on their net worth.
The main framework the author presents - will it work if everyone does it? - sometimes produces reasonable results, sometimes not. That's the commons for you!

Imagine someone in the global North building an annual net-zero home with solar panels. That will not work if everyone does it. There are not enough minerals, not enough land, not enough batteries... it won't work for people living in the arctic circle, for hunter-gatherer societies, on and on. Doesn't mean it's not a good thing to do for the individual guy building the house.

In short, the framework proposed by the author is helpful in evaluating things, but not dispositive. He has rightly shown that offsets cannot work for full decarbonization, but so what. No one thing will.
> Author here! I didn't even know that existed. Thanks for the link!

You're welcome! To be fair, Policies are still experimental. That's probably why they didn't get much press despite being in Node since v11.

> I want to explicitly give permission to a library, not to the process as a whole.

You can enable/change/disable imports for a given library, though this might be quite cumbersome for a wide or deep dependency tree.
"crypto people are dead-set on explaining everything except how this works as a currency."

I consider myself a "crypo-person". In that I see a vision of the future where crypto is a major part of it. But I don't personally see it as a currency. Not in the origional vision that bitcoin seemed to envision. Personally I view the bitcoin vision as obsolete.

Bitcoin always has, and always will measure it's value in dollars. It's just a place to sink dollars. It's not even a good vehicle to transfer to other "modern" crypto's. At least ETH enables you to easily bridge. Still bridges are wonky regardless.

In my vision of the future, crypto is a seperate purely digital economy. Where as bitcoin imagined a future where it is a currency for the meat world economy, i see it as something seperate. I'm a regular user of Avalanche (AVAX). When I perform transactions I measure my gains/losses in AVAX. To me dollars are foreign exchange. I monitor the forex market, because it can change demand and market conditions, but it's not important to me beyond that. I almost never convert my AVAX back to dollars.

Crypto is exceptionally good at transferring digital value. Better than any singular alternative in my opinion. I view it as the future platform for the AI-to-AI economy. People will probably continue to participate in it, but they will be foreign citizens.
People don't move to cities for "conveniences". They do so because it's necessary for their livelihood. It's also dramatically better for the environment and economy for people to live in denser settings. Life shouldn't be so miserable, and the idea that the city is an ~aesthetic~ rather than a necessity needs to die as soon as possible.
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Fully agree. Leaves happen. I'm just pointing out (apparently in a too sarcastic manner) that the technology is the best we have right now for clearing a lot of leaves within a ton of manual labor (raking leaves over a large area is a decent workout). Banning a technology when its overuse is due to poor landscape planning is a knee-jerk reaction that doesn't address the underlying thing that's really causing the frustration. I.e. we'd all be better off if houses had gardens designed with lower maintenance requirements in mind.
And an even more convenient and more safe option is to use rootless containers via podman or [toolbx](https://containertoolbx.org/)
This is a common misconception, money is not valuable in and of itself, but only as much worth as it has as the "grease" that keeps the gigantic economic machine rolling.

Value is being created all the time. The "total value" of the world is not stable, it's going up, and to make sure those arriving later at the game are not disadvantaged just because they arrived late, currencies need to be slightly inflationary so that they don't keep pooling in the hands of those who got there first.
Rest of the world is a very neoliberal rag. Typical bay area socially liberal but fiscally conservative crowd. They will shake their fist and yell at the sky about alleged oppression elsewhere and praise the technocratic policies at the same time. Think New Yorker/The Atlantic for the SV crowd.
Note that this separation is necessary if you want to achieve somewhat parallel compilation in Rust. Every proc_macro needs its own separate crate, so I end up providing two crates for macro-based stuff. At least, the stdlib seems to have enough batteries included for the dependency count to not be as high as NodeJS projects.

From my experience I would rate the count of dependencies in this order:

NodeJS > Rust > Python > C/C++

Though I cannot explain why this is ordered this way between {Node, Rust, Python}. Again, batteries included? Language popularity? Beginners-friendly programming language?
On second thought, I don't know what you mean. What are you arguing? All keyboards are the same?
> Why shouldn't the government provide these services for the taxes people pay?

It is very common for government's to tax exchanges of money/property/goods. We see this in the sales tax, estate tax, transfer tax, cash app transfers, monetary gifts above $15k, income taxes, etc.
There are definitely issues with providing companies with a lot of fuzzy legislation that allow them to effectively dodge taxes. Big companies are good at tax evasion in general. And carbon taxes are just yet another tax with a lot of very sketchy and rushed through rules and legislation where people have lobbied heavily for all sorts of loop holes to be in place.

Carbon offsetting is one of those loopholes. Company X gets to burn a lot of coal/gas/whatever but it's OK because they put some trees in the ground in a place where that absolutely adds no value whatsoever. The trees probably won't be there in ten years. The only thing that counts is the hypothetical and typically vastly inflated carbon offset that this company gets to dodge their taxes with. The higher the better it gets for the tax dodging company. Offsetting is just a fancy word for tax dodging. Mostly it means spend a little to avoid spending a lot.

But take value added tax for example. It's a pretty normal thing around the world and people love avoiding having to pay that. VAT used to be easy to dodge with online shopping: just sell/buy your goods from a place that doesn't charge any VAT and you are good to go. They closed that loop hole years ago and it's a lot harder now. Reason, governments did not like missing out on that income and they closed a lot of the loop holes. So, now when you buy something on Amazon, you pay the appropriate VAT.

Carbon tax is not any different it's a tax and we need to make sure it gets paid by the people and companies that owe it.

There are no easy answers here but taxing definitely inspires behavior for minimizing cost. And sometimes the smart thing just becomes minimizing the carbon intensity because not doing that becomes costly/risky once you close all the loopholes.
Reading DMARC reports it's pretty interesting to see just how often spammers attempt to use others' domains. The forensic reports should show the full contents of what they attempted to send, IIRC.
more spitball -- the term "AI" changes the context from machine-side to application-side. "AI" implies to the listener that the machine is doing something that only thinking humans could do.. emphasis on the humans, while sets of math that seek minimized error, emphasize the behavior of the functions.
This doesn’t really answer your question, but gleaning it from job descriptions is one way I do it.

If I’m curious how a company did something, searching for their job descriptions can turn up interesting stuff like what languages and frameworks they use, and often from there you can infer what their architecture might look like.
This had me in peals of laughter as a student. It was probably the only passage of the book I really enjoyed, being too young at the time to understand the rest of it.
The apps that power this sort of tracking are private entities which I’m sure check very low bar compliance checkboxes but have very little practical security or privacy engineering behind them.

They are absolutely abused by black hat resellers of this access to a broader audience for profit, and I would bet a large sum of money that there is more than a few groups who have infiltrated these companies simply to retain the ability to query this data for their own (nefarious) means like kidnapping/ransom/blackmail.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/tracking-firm-locationsm...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gykgv9/securus-phone-trackin...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-acces...
> Node specifically doesn’t have this constraint, though, as A’s C and B’s C can be loaded independently into the same VM, each one hermetic and only visible to its parent.

Rust can do this as well, though most version variation is handled via semver rules wrt. compatibility. I think this exact requirement led to some controversy in the Go community at some point? Though they should now have a module system that allows for this?
When was that? KY requires a road test now. Also, it requires you to prove KY residency. I'm surprised people were able to get KY licenses without being residents before.
> I'm also pretty sure (I'm not an accountant) the first year you're self employed you won't get penalized for not paying quarterly taxes.

I'm only chiming in here since I've become somewhat of a reluctant expert on estimated taxes over the years (assuming we're talking about the U.S. here; apologies to those outside the U.S.). And it happens to be fresh on my mind, since I tackled my Q1 taxes yesterday. ;) I've never heard anything about an exception for one's first self-employed year, so be careful with this. (But hey, the tax code is huge and complex, so I may just not know about it.) Although if you also have withholding from a W-2 job, it may cover you.

Generally, everyone is supposed to pay a certain amount of estimated taxes throughout the year, self-employed or not. But for most people this will happen automatically through W-2 withholding. I suppose it could be a rational move to not worry about estimated taxes the first year, focus on your business instead, and eat any penalties/interest. (You wouldn't be the first to do this.) Or you could just make a guess on what you might owe, and send some money in advance of each estimated tax deadline. If you underestimate, I suppose the penalties/interest would be a lot less than if you avoided it altogether. If you overestimate, you get a refund (or if you choose, a carry-forward to the following year).

Or you can do what I did 15 years ago, and spend a weekend studying IRS documents to understand how it all works, set up spreadsheets to calculate estimated taxes using the annualized method, and perform some minimal maintenance on it each year thereafter.
I think it pays to be more specific. Carbon is a generic term that can include all carbon-based lifeforms, including humans. Also, taxing normal people for CO2 emissions just gives more money to the people who designed these systems in the first place.
>Why am I constantly told that mindless consumption is some great evil

The history on this is amazing. The rules were written in the 1700s and are still true today. For example, The Law of Nations by Emer de Vattel
Founding fathers of the USA used much of the Arab world's recent experiences, at the time, to understand these natural laws and why decadence is the problem.

Consumption isn't evil, it's decadence that is evil. The video game Crusader Kings follows this: https://ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Decadence

What modern day commies are failing to see the distinction and so they see all consumption as decadence. Marx argued against this; but modern commies dont agree with marx. Unnecessary to go into this but this is what you're seeing.

>yet the entire of society is designed to encourage consumption through constant devaluation of the currency? I see no argument why stable value is not the best of all worlds.

Why is inflation pegged at 2% as opposed to say 3%? It comes from gold inflation. There is technically a finite amount of gold in the solar system. There's even less on earth. There's even less accessible via profitable mining. There is a production of gold which dilutes/inflates their value and it averages at 2%.

After governments dropped the gold standard, they artificially kept 2% just because they dont want to be the one to mess with that # and cause something bad to happen and take the blame.

Now step back. Why suddenly is crypto such a big deal? The USA dropped the gold standard, they remained a reserve currency because of their debt ceiling and low debt. At least back in the 70s-80s.

The European Union on the otherhand has debt ceiling defined at 60%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_and_Growth_Pact

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/government-debt-...

Does that look like 60%? They knew they couldn't stay in the EU. Brexit happened.

https://tradingeconomics.com/france/government-debt-to-gdp

Does that look like 60%? France will be leaving the EU eventually as well. As well as bring their own currency back in order to print money.

These are all natural laws between nations and why it keeps failing. It's decadence. It's decadent deficit spending on things they cannot afford. This is what modern day commies dont seem to understand that Marx did explain.

>Deflation and inflation both have economic warping side effects. With a constant price I only invest when I truly believe there is a real return, not just trying to keep up with inflation.

USSR collapsed and we have so little communism today because communism fails to handle decadence. Though yes it did function for so long because the decadence was in the 'black market'. Mind you, capitalism doesn't seem to do a great job neither. Not many countries have the mind to control their deficit spending and limit their decadence.
The process of uploading packages onto Maven Central is... not modern. npm (arguably?) makes this a lot easier than any other language, therefore npm developers do more of it.
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Debian has ~20,000-30,000 packages total. NPM has well over a million. Contribution frequency and overall contributor numbers are also much much higher.

NPM is a victim of ease of use and popularity. It's a bigger target.

But both systems would benefit from a holistic approach to supply chain security.
> The part you’re talking about, actually registering the title, is usually between $20-50 usd.

And, for context, the average Ethereum gas fee right now is $48. So you're nearing the upper bound of the usual range for every transaction (right now--it's been higher, and probably will be again!) unless now we're going to play "well actually, this happens on the TitleCoin chain, which boy howdy I hope anyone actually pays attention to and not the TitleCoin Cash chain and not the TitleCoin Classic chain".
When I need to get a ride someplace, I find myself calling a cab more than uber/lyft these days. The taxis are significantly cheaper than the alternative and are required to take credit cards. A side benefit is that the airport has a fixed price to the city, while rideshare services will often cost double or even triple with demand pricing.