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No. I have no idea if North Korean society has the necessary conditions, like globally integrated internet communities of appreciable size, where cryptocurrency can effect change.

I'm saying that censorship resistant finance reduces the impact of repressive laws around the world. It helps individuals circumvent laws like those instituted in places like Venezuela and China, that give the state enormous power over private citizens by controlling how they move money.

Stopping North Korea from using cryptocurrency would require very repressive laws to shut down entire global cryptocurrency networks, which in and of itself would make for a less free world because of the extremely heavy-handed enforcement actions that such a campaign would require. On top of this, the end result of such a campaign were it to succeed - of these censorship resistant networks not existing - would further undermine the goal of creating more free societies, for reasons mentioned above.
Don't limit yourself to technology and computers. These systems are political in nature; that is, they concern the basic fabric of how society is structured. One of the biggest tricks any new field has is thinking we're way different, won't repeat the mistakes of others. Both of these make it hard for me to recommend anything good here without getting myself into an internet argument I don't want at this point in time, but at least start reading some history of labor, of capitalism, and of corporations. A People's History of the United States is widely recommended as an intro to these things, and I might as well give it a namedrop here.
As someone with incredibly bad eyes, going from my 2015 Honda Accord's stock headlights to a Tesla Model 3's brighter LEDs have been a big boon on my driving confidence at night. Just offering a different perspective that I actually like the brightness race since it's improved my ability to drive.
You are in the minority. As evidenced by the proliferation of overlay ads in their smart TVs, people are extraordinarily price-sensitive when it comes to something they can put a hard monetary value on. "This costs you $50" is something people are significantly more hostile toward than "This costs you some of your time, attention, and peace of mind" because in general we're really bad at assessing the value of our own mental well-being.
I'm skeptical that crypto tokens are capable of allowing NK to effectively evade sanctions. The reality is that cryptocurrencies are terrible currencies and doing business with a sanctioned country is far less risky using fiat cash than than using any type of blockchain.
> Supporting independence is not illegal in Spain.

This is debatable. Speech is not illegal, rioting in the streets or putting a log in a railway to stop a train and deploy a banner is definitely illegal. Spending millions of public money in a fake ridged election without any guaranties is 100% illegal, and it feels so close to a disguised coup that it hurts.
I think it is consistent, banks are built on legal frameworks. If you so chose to, and you were in certain countries, you could "hack" the legal system to steal the money yourself [1] and it would be perfectly 'legal'.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/20/how-bill-browd...
Plato wrote about it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timaeus_(dialogue)

“Let me begin by observing, first of all, that nine thousand was the sum of years which had elapsed since the war which was said to have taken place between all those who dwelt outside the Pillars of Heracles and those who dwelt within them: this war I am now to describe.

Of the combatants on the one side the city of Athens was reported to have been the ruler, and to have directed the contest; the combatants on the other side were led by the kings of the islands of Atlantis,”
There’s a decent amount of maritime trade, especially for oil. Fishing is also important for the domestic economy.
> According to cryptofees.net, BTC transaction fees average 4%

That site hasn't been updated in almost a year. (Check the prices and recent transactions it links to.)

Here's a more accurate way to estimate bitcoin's fees. Go to mempool.space and look at the current estimated Low/Medium/High priority fees. That is based on current pending transactions and most of the time, unless you are in a hurry, "Low" is enough to get a transaction confirmed in the next hour.

At current writing, and for most of the past year, those fees are a few cents.

And this is the expensive way to transact bitcoin -- on-chain! Nowadays most commerce is moving to the layer-2 Lightning Network, where transactions are instant and typically nearly free via payment channels that are settled on-chain in the future.
"Cash App Taxes" is owned by Cash App which is owned by Square/Block Inc. It used to be owned by Credit Karma, which was bought by Intuit, but they (were forced?) to sell it.
My take is that everything about their lives would have to be focused and hyper-optimised towards the goal of producing such structures, so from a human perspective they would appear incredibly dull and featureless in every way.
Yes, it seems to me that if interviewers are going to be annoyed about this then they should stop using leetcode and/or using generic interview questions.
To be clear I agree with you. I use Unity for my hobby stuff because I have 0 interest in using either their subset of C++ nor Blueprints (the only things that visual scripting style things appeal to me are 1. Shaders and 2. content generation in Blender). Just the way you phrased it made it sound like he was against UE as well.
I had a m1 mbp and have used three external monitors from day one. Used a startech 3x4k hub for that. It uses display link - which is sw-based rendering. Worked like a charm for dev work. You likely couldnt tell that from directly connected monitors unless you wanted to push rapidly changing content (like scrolling through logs at 60 screen-heights per second) - then compression would be indeed visible. For work, videos and occasional session of gzdoom it was a-ok.
Oh, great, one more thing to soil the age discrimination problem we have throughout society. Even if this is all true or whatnot, it's still a pretty terrible thing for people the older they get.
God damn I hate twitter. This is super interesting but having to go down tweet after tweet seems so dumb.
LISP even has its own song.

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/eternal-flame.en.html
> considering how many more people this impacts?

people who want to repair their laptops is likely a lot more people compared to those capable and interested in running anti-DRM software so that they can get hardcopies of movies from Apple TV.

legislation that would impact a lot of people and be a big deal would be requiring the various streaming providers to allow transferring someone's purchased content between platforms for free or significantly discounted price. that is, a law which allows anyone to pay for their content only once would impact hundreds of millions of consumers, rather than a law that lets relatively few technically sophisticated users bypass their DRM. The difficulty in gaining support for such an idea should be fairly self evident.
I've never met a 10x engineer. (Does that make me the 10x engineer? I doubt it).

Personally I believe that the myth of the 10x engineer comes from the very real and very visible fact that often times, one engineer will be 10x as productive as someone sitting in the next desk over. Why is this? There are numerous factors, and certainly innate skill and programming practice come into play. But I think that only gets you to, at maximum, 2x the average. To get to the perceived "10x" you need luck, the right mindset, and a the buy-in from management to push others aside and take on the most juicy projects (which is self-reinforcing once management sees you as a "10x engineer"). "Stealing the Corner Office" is a good book on such tactics (although it ostensibly applies to middle-managers).
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Awesome! I've been eyeing up a Vizycam (https://vizycam.com) to do bird identification but via visual recognition. Sounds like this would be a great addition and would pair nicely with the Vizycam, both run on Pis, too!
> Synthesis is essence of software engineering, whereas abstraction is the essence of computer science. Your job as a software developer will be to synthesise something new from composable pieces. What you create should be simple to understand and extend.

Loved this.
“Do you want to play a game?”

Text based games on main frames.

The influence could be the parallel time lines of the rise of swords and sorcery and computing in the 1970s and 80s.

And what makes a good hostname anyway? Obscure (not to be confused) unique, memorable?
Schrodinger's civilization :).
a lot of desktop use of ubuntu ...but android tablets and phones are getting so powerful and cheap, why use a desktop PC at all?
This was an interesting article along those lines:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/whats-left-for-the-w...
Ah. Oof. That's a bummer of a mistake.
And now people are learning the practical reality of what can happen to their investments when there is no mom and the dad is MIA.

The sad thing: These aren't just anonymous crypto bros on a beach losing their tokens through theft, rugpulls, crashes, or other vulnerabilities. A lot of ordinary people are burning up their savings on these schemes (enabled by platforms like Coinbase and OpenSea and even Venmo) even as they urge other suckers and family members to get in on it.
Banning an entire site that is potentially full of primary sources is a poor idea.
The only thing missing in the "dilemma" is someone, teary, begging us to "think of the children."
You mean like that time he cobbled together terminal emulator in a week running at >1K fps after some MS drone called it a doctoral thesis project level of difficult?
The History of LearJet: https://youtu.be/x_VVyx9GXFo
The Internet became mainstream because folks could use modems and phone landlines (circuit switching technology, that the new TCP/IP end-to-end packet switching stack would eventually replace) to get online.

The path for mass adoption of the new, p2p and interoperable technologies is the same: make them work on web browsers (using the browser as a full peer, not a client). It is the ubiquitous VM: JavaScript, WASM, IndexedDB, WebRTC+WebSockets, all the pieces are there.

The building blocks for a representation / data model are all in the air as well: CRDTs, Merkle-ized structures, content-based addressing, etc.

I'm a believer.
Until they decide they want our water / oxygen / etc and they take it all without any thought given to the the impact on a few ants.
Thank you! I will look at that.
I got locked out of my Gmail over a decade ago when it was just another webmail service (but with 1GB of free storage.) I believe there was some sort of unauthorized log in attempt, I couldn't find any answers or get any help from Google until I started googling for random Google employees and found a phone number for one.

He was a bit put off by getting my rando phone call, but I explained my predicament and he took the time to look into it and helped get my account restored. Thanks Google engineer guy!

This probably doesn't work in 2022 though. ;-)
Can synthetic data help a human learn? Sure. Hopefully it doesn’t learn you wrong.
How can this be a thing since 2008 and I didn't know? Thank you!
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> more lighting can help reduce crime

It works on a hyperlocal level, but on as whole city it's a zero-sum game.
Yeah FreeTaxUSA is amazing. They organize their UI in income and deduction sections labeled with the form name so it's easy to link them to whatever forms you get from various sources. Took me a couple hours to file my taxes in a single sitting even though I had like 5 different types of forms to put in (W2s, HSA, 1099-DIV, 1099R, DCFSA).

All this for like $13.50 federal and state filed online. Can't get cheaper than this.

I love how they ask you again if you enter something that's "not common" in case you misunderstood what something is for.
As soon as Europeans got big boats they ended up commiting genocide on everyone they encountered, so there's certainly reason to fear aliens behaving similarly.

That said, it seems reasonable to expect any civilization that gets interplanetary technology would also develop ICBM's along the way if they wanted.

Perhaps a certain amount of cooperation and kindness could be expected by anyone who makes it out into deep space. There's good reason to hope they'd be kinder than us I think.
Have anyone actually tried to file a lawsuit to get Google's attention in a case like this?
Correct. Their interest is more aligned with cultural power and country club status.

They also draw huge salaries for what amounts to a nice part time job. Elon's response to that:

"Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so that’s ~$3M/year saved right there" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1516056299376623626
Thanks for correcting this. Can you explain the layer-2 network? Is this a separated kind of chain?
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=apple-ma...

Does a low end desktop trounce the previous generation Macbook Pro?
But why does the amount sim cards matter for this scam? How many hundreds of sim cards do you need? Surely it’s easy to find other people to buy sim cards for you?
They haven't listed the books banned or given examples of the content they find objectionable. Until they do this is just political theatre that relies on peoples imaginations to fill in the blanks.
> Or do you think people lying about what they do is common?

Probably depends on the offered salary range.
Nah, we cant go with 1.0. Bad for adoption. Since we can push 10Gbps easily, and maybe up to 40Gbps if we try hard, lets call the first version usb "ultraspeed" and let the marketing guys work with that!
The two most recent large US mars rovers, and James Webb all seemed way too complex to ever work. All 3 worked!

Shows what I know.
> Is this just money laundering? Lost money ain't taxed the same.

No. How would that even work? Did all the beanholders conspire together to frame this hack? Even if they did, what they'd end up with is transforming a bunch of clean money into a bunch of dirty money. The point of money laundering is usually to do that thing in the other direction.
Ever read/see any sci-fi at all? Lots of them have provided story lines of humantiy not handling this information well. From religious cults to doomsday preppers to all sorts of irrational behavior, the way humanity accepts we're not alone is not always thought to be positive.
> He/she

Use "they" when you do not know the subjects gender/sex/whatever. Much cleaner to look at and read.
Why would anyone want to be a member of an organization composed of people stupid enough to waste money on NFTs? That seems like something I'd want to actively avoid. Like I'd pay money to block those losers from my life.
Check out The Silence of Others (2018) on Netflix, produced by Almodovar for more background on the Franco atrocities and how it still is echoing today.
Well, for one all those religious people that believed they were the centre of the universe will be doing some random scrabbling to explain the change in the status quo.
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They’re used a lot to maintain uniform exchange rates across Defi projects etc. In theory allowing anybody to borrow a lot of tokens to exploit arbitrage opportunities means that the rates will converge simply due to market forces (because if one project offers a better rate than another it will quickly be arbitraged away).
I dedicated most part of a day to migrate most of the subscription to a new email. Iirc, it took me more than 8+ hours.
don't have access to the full papaer, but here are some analysis it seems on some group differences (including male/female)

https://github.com/stefanradev93/DataSizeMatters/blob/main/I...
tl;dr - They are different platforms, but they are still direct competitors, and Twitter is getting crushed.

I imagine the total addressable market (roughly) to be:

- humans with an internet connection

- Total their clock time

- Subtract all the time they are otherwise necessarily occupied (sleeping, working, etc. etc.)

The remainder is the time over which all media companies are vying. Twitter is competing against Netflix, Tiktok, physical books, etc. Some of these things can be done concurrently (watching Netflix while surfing the internet, listening to radio while driving), so add that time back or double it, whatever. But, basically, this is the state of play.

To say that Twitter is not competing against Tiktok, Snap, IG, etc. is to obscure the true state of play and competitive landscape. In 99.9% of cases†, you cannot scroll Tiktok and Twitter concurrently. So one or the other (or neither) is displaying ads to you. One or the other is generating revenue from those impressions. It is not really users over which they are competing. Rather, it is the ad inventory. The ad inventory is a function of time on site/app. Of course, ad inventory is definitely also a function of users–hence the focus on active users (xAUs). On that front, Twitter is a small fry[1]:

- Facebook (Meta): 2.9 Billion MAUs

- Instagram (Meta): 1.5 Billion MAUs

- TikTok: 1 Billion MAUs

- Snap: 557 Million MAUs

- Twitter: 436 Million MAUs

So, Twitter would have to generate a heckuva lot of engagement per user to generate anywhere near the inventory of other social media platforms. But we know they don't, as evidenced by their revenues and ARPU [2].

† I'm swagging here, but you get the point

[1] https://blog.hootsuite.com/snapchat-statistics-for-business/

[2] https://stockdividendscreener.com/information-technology/com...
> studies show fairly consistently that well lit areas have lower crime rates

It works on a hyperlocal level, but on as whole city it's a zero-sum game.
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> That's a gross simplification

Sure it's a simplification. But it is the truth. AAA are generally that way now, because people don't want to bet a lot of money without it being a sure fire bet. And it's same for game mills in mobile land.

> Not to mention that very often good gameplay also requires appropriate performance.

Yes, but point is good performance. Casey insists performance is thing to optimize for. When in reality it's like n-th thing to focus-on.
> Doubled productivity… 10x…

Since we’re putting numbers on things, how did we go from 2x to 10x?
The reliability of postal mail is circular. I only bother to check my physical mailbox because it's used for official notices, like ballots, jury summons, and tickets. If I could direct those to email, I'd lose the key and not regret it for a moment.
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It's not a problem when you're immersed in a particular field: It's mostly a problem for cross-silo communication and new blood. I'm sure the statisticians feel that the many uses of 'p' are perfectly unambiguous. :)

Lowering barriers to understanding is inherently a good thing, and might even help some useful knowledge leak out of deeply isolated corners of academia.
Interstellar "rods from god": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment

A civilization powerful enough to make mega-structures is almost certainly able of landing on one of its endemic large meteors, attach thrusters and over the course of decades accelerate it towards us in a collision path with the earth at a decent fraction of the speed of light.

By the time we'd notice it would essentially be impossible to stop.
Do you think a 15 year old Dell is going to match the performance of any new machine? "Old" is not the same thing as "low end".
Really? I remember being taught about pilgrims and indians in elementary school and then they simply stopped being mentioned. Nowhere did I ever read the native americans were genocided. I certainly never read we were the bad guys exterminating the natives. Everything was couched in terms like pilgrims, settlers, explorers, etc. Nowhere in any history book are we portrayed as genocidal villains like we portray the nazis. We are portrayed as the good guys. But then again, I'm from a very blue state. How many lines were dedicated to george washington and his family's history of exterminating native americans? I'm betting 0 lines. If native americans took the country back, do you think the history will remain the same?
Believe it or not, we already have a technology for nighttime bird migration monitoring: weather radar.

https://birdcast.info/migration-tools/live-migration-maps/
Do you mean build a list of related threads? One would think so, but it wouldn't be simple. You'd need to choose keywords, figure out relevancy.

This case is a good example of the difficulty—the only word that (sort of) appears in all these titles is "tax", but searching on that alone would cast too wide a net.

My sense is that we'd be better off writing software to allow the community to collaborate on a list of related URLs. That's the plan anyhow.
Writing C or C++ completely without undefined behavior is a daunting task. Signed integer over/underflow in particular is so easy to get wrong. Doing it manually is a recipe for disaster. In C++, one can leverage "safe" or "checked" integer types that look and behave like regular signed ints, except they ensure no undefined behavior by checking potentially undefined operations before hand and appropriately handling the case where the checks fail by, e.g. throwing an exception or aborting.

What makes this more insidious is that you can't just look at a function in isolation, you need to look at how it's invoked to consider cases for UB. Consider: `int add(int x, int y) { return x + y; }` Does this have UB? `add(1, 1)` is fine. But what about `add(1, INT_MAX)` or `add(-1, INT_MIN)`? Yup, these are both UB.

Yes, developers should strive to eliminate UB. But, it's a hard problem. Tooling helps, but unfortunately the default settings for every compiler I'm aware of don't help. One really needs to use external tools and sanitizers, but let's be honest, the ergonomics of having to know about and use a separate tool, such as ubsan, isn't great. The tools are wonderful and need wider use, but they'd be of so much more value if they were integrated more tightly in the compiler/linker toolchains and on by default.
Gitpod is fantastic. I used it when I was running an online workshop a while ago - I gave the workshop attendees instructions on how to use it to get a reliable Python development environment, skipping the horror that is getting 20+ people to a place where they have a working environment on their own computer.
Not sure why it makes sense to have a group with a financial incentive to take more of your money be the ones doing the calculating. The IRS can be a nasty, evil organization — In 2013, then Acting Director of Exempt Organizations at IRS, Lois Lerner, apologized to a room of tax lawyers for the IRS’s inappropriate targeting of conservative political groups.

If the IRS is in charge of doing people’s taxes, there is a non-zero chance that the IRS will not be completely trustworthy.

The real conversation should be about moving to a consumption tax and eliminating the political power that comes from income taxes. The current system is intentionally complex — designed to give politicians power to favor and disfavor behaviors and industries.