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> What do you think will break the network effects of Bitcoin?

Which network effects are you referring to exactly? What does BTC have that the RMB or USD don't have? Or do you mean that having no counter party risk is a network effect in itself? I'm not sure I follow.

Why would country A supplying country B with something it really wants accept a contract denominated in a currency other than the one of their choosing? Why would they choose a volatile currency they don't even control?

I feel that the network effects are playing in favor of the dominant currencies. By definition, network effects only exist once there's an actual network, and it seems we agree that BTC doesn't have one comparable to e.g. USD yet.

> It only makes sense to me that volatility will decrease with time.

So you think it will start decreasing this year?

1. as I pointed out, numbers still don't show a decrease
2. lack of regulation means it's prone to market manipulation, with some parties playing simultaneous roles to an extent which would be forbidden in a regulated market. These manipulations tend to increase volatility (you don't make much money if the price remains the price, but you can make a lot if you have an idea of where you'll send the prices)

In turn, that means that:

> As the institutions and sovereign wealth funds start to pile into crypto, they're going to want to choose the most secure and stable good in the space to hold for the long term

is not necessarily true. Elon Musk can send BTC either way with a simple tweet. Why would big players buy and hold when they can benefit from the volatility they themselves generate and make a quick buck instead?

3. BTC hasn't gone through a crisis yet. As you wrote, it seems to be correlated with tech (risky) stocks, with higher swings, either way. I'd be surprised if that changes during a crisis.
I do not understand. What are fines if not deterrence?
India has a huge wheat surplus that is available for export, and the next couple weeks will be crucial for a good harvest. It will be known whether the crop is good this season, soon. India could very easily step into the breach to supply wheat but the problem is that the country is not set up to move out such massive quantities of grain, i.e., terminals, ports, loading facilities etc. That's going to be the bottleneck, not actual production or existing stores of grain.

Sunflower seeds, on the other hand, are going to be a major problem. They are used to extract cooking oil, and Ukraine was a major supplier.
If there was a law that said "white people get 10% off of every purchase." If it was being repealed for some politically motivated reason, and white people said "I am being harmed!" would you agree with them? Or would you say "that law was unjust to everyone else, there is no harm to you."
> They didn't say it was due to their opposition to this bill but for misbehaving.

Not precisely. They clarified Disney's misbehavior was having "CA Values" in FL.

It’s time for them to remember that we are not CA. They are a CA company. And we are not interested in their CA values here in this state.

This and other "We're going after Disney" statements were made days/hours after Disney voiced it's objections to the Don't Say Gay bill. The legislators' messaging is fairly unambiguous here.

The implication that dissolving RCIC was already destined to happen at this time, that seems disingenuous given that the Governor's staff had - only last year - carved out Disney from FL's unconstitutional SM law.
"The Space Shuttle had cost considerations (obviously, not great ones!)."

It absolutely did, and great ones too. The program was too costly and never lived up to the original expectations of fast and easy access to orbit.

Falcon 9 + Dragon is the first American human-rated launcher and ship that can be labeled as somewhat cost effective.
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I cannot agree enough. I think anyone who has dealt with a puzzling condition quickly learns how limited the "expertise" of these supposed authorities is. Sure, insurance companies are terrible, but so are most doctors. Great, quit, you probably sucked anyway.
It makes zero sense for a person to consider straight-up nursing as a career in this age. The school is too competitive to get into, the pay isn't worth it, the job at the end is laborious, the culture is vile. If one does go into nursing, becoming an NP, CNA, or travel nurse are the only logical options from a time invested to income and burnout standpoint.

If a student wants a health care professional job, medicine and dentistry are better options and require just as much academic competition. Failing that, the student is better off going into tech or law.

If they're not smart enough for either of those? I dunno? Onlyfans? Permanent serfdom? I fear that our new society will have many who are left behind and struggling.
My frame of reference on this topic is that my family is mainly medical doctors and I started and run a yc backed Series A stage startup.

In my experience, the administrators are often doctors at hospitals and people all the way to the top have to have strong medical backgrounds. That's not to say there aren't do-nothing administrators, but those do-nothing administrators are often doctors. They tend to adhere to the way things are and always were as an orthodoxy, like 1st year residency is the worst and at these points quality of life improve, but it's almost like a fraternity hazing justifying the insane hours, complete loss of work life balance just because this is how it is. Candidly, there does seem to be a guilty pleasure there.

There is little to no real discussion on how to improve not only the work conditions but also the user experience of medical care. In my view, it starts at the top; organizationally, they are lacking an entire skillset to make any improvements what-so-ever.
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English pangrams:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog -> Fox is expected to become Fox's knowledge

The five boxing wizards jump quickly -> Scientists were quickly thrown.

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. -> Put five wine calls in my box and release.

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow -> Quartz black crane support, my marriage broke

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Spanish pangrams (translated to English after the final step):

Young man poisoned with whiskey, what a figure you display! -> The young man who nurtures murder is his fire!

José bought an old panpipe in Peru. Excusing herself, Sofia threw her whiskey down the sidewalk drain. -> Buy a glitter in juice in Peru. Sofia Sophia asked Sufia.

The swift Indian bat was happily eating thistle and kiwi. The stork played the saxophone behind the straw palenque. -> Fast Indian on Wali and Kiwi. After the saxophone, Somka played the balconies.

Benjamin ordered a kiwi and strawberry drink. Noah, shamelessly, the most exquisite champagne on the menu. -> Enlie someone asked to get rid of the events and stress. Noah's knife, Noah, leaving them and led them to leave.
I really wish keurig would just have a big capacitor inside to insta-heat the water beyond what’s possible from mains in real-time. But I guess there’s too much risk of shocky shock.
> But this program is rather clearly not aimed at repair shops but seems much more for the retail DIY crowd.

Yes, which is the point. They are offering a compromise for a tiny market (self-repair) in hopes of this distracting from and preventing laws that would benefit the market that actually matters (independent repair).

It's like throwing your underpaid demoralized employees a pizza party so they don't quit, nothing but a damage control gesture that deliberarely doesn't actually help.
Honest question- why can't people sue for this?
I think we should all be going in for our weekly blood filtering. Or maybe we can develop a wearable blood filter which we change periodically. Just be careful when you change it though.
That's also the problem with Lisp (and other powerful languages). They are far too malleable. They can be changed into unrecognizable blobs by people with lots of intelligence but low wisdom (I include myself in that group).

They don't _have_ to. They can lead (and often do) to clean implementations. But we tend to like 'cleverness'. The larger the team, the more detrimental the effect.

That's why we ended up with Java. And more recently, golang. As much as I like Go on its niche, it's a straightjacket. I'd often think to myself "this whole file I've been working for a week on would be 5 lines of scheme or lisp". But then if I get run over by a bus the company could theoretically replace me the next day (they couldn't because there's far more knowledge required than coding, but they think they could).
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Prototype.js + Scriptaculous was what really started the JS craze IMHO, followed by jQuery. Then came the increasingly more complex MooTools and YUI and Ext.js and friends, though nothing really took off nearly as hard as jQuery did.

You forgot Dojo, which was the first big javascript framework.

We have a different recollection of the order of events. I was doing web dev professionally as of 2004, and how I recall it is this:

Originally people had utilities files with a bunch of javascript convenience functions copied from random blogs that they would use to enrich server-side generated pages. This is how I wrote web apps in 2004-2006: php-generated html with hand-rolled js to enrich it.

Out of those grew the first generation of libraries (not frameworks) like prototype, mootools and finally jquery (which was so good at being a web swiss army knife that it replaced every other library).

The libraries were ok to add a bit of interaction but not at building entire UI. The “write your whole UI in JS” approach I remember being popularized by dojo and yui / yui-ext / extjs. GWT was a big hype but indeed not used by many. Lots of people used dojo and extjs though. I switched to ExtJS as soon as it arrived on the scene in 2007.

Those early frameworks only solved the UI problem, they were not great at page lifecycle and backend interaction, so they relatively quickly got replaced by application frameworks that did, like backbone and angularjs. Their mistakes became the inspiration for the second generation of SPA frameworks that we are still using today.
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GWT was used pretty widely by "the enterprise" outside of Google. For a long time, it was a large community with heavy traffic on mailing lists and stackoverflow. GWT was featured prominently at Google I/O for several years.
Socially, I'm not sure they'd do well starting traditional college early.

Speaking as someone who went to university at 13: Socially I fit in better with my intellectual peers than my chronological peers. Which isn't to say that I fit in well... but at least there was a level of mutual respect. Few educators appreciate the social distance created by a large IQ gap, probably because they haven't experienced it themselves.
> Im tired of learning new programming languages.

Hear hear! Building bona-fide compilers that have interesting concepts, or just for fun, is a worthwhile thing to do. But these one-off languages are becoming ridiculous.

* buildah shows just how much of a headache Dockerfiles are. We already have a whole ecosystem of awesome scripting languages, such as bash, fish, zx, etc. Instead, we have to deal with the incredibly constrained (and harmfully magic) behavior of docker build.

* the whole implerative YAML ecosystem. I have been playing around with Dagger (CUE, a language built to solve real problems), and what a joy compared implerative CI.

* lest we forget how JavaScript came to be: https://thenewstack.io/brendan-eich-on-creating-javascript-i...
May be. I probably seek jacket on <15C~20C. But I think it also depends on the body mass, and probably this is the reason people from cold climates are often taller/healthier. With that size the the amount of heat that those bodies generate can only be sustained in an environment that cold.

This was very apparent from the dress and shoe sizes available in UK and I have seen the similar from US.
> Sure, but nurses are more like 30-40k/yr. Plenty of room for improvement.

“Nurses” can be used to mean many things (CNAs, LVNs/LPNs, RNs) but this is specifically RNs, who, make much more than that, generally (median $77.6k/yr)
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/mobile/registered-nurses....
Previously, that wasn't entirely true.

In the very early nineties, insurance companies lured doctors in with promises of referral if they would just accept certain terms. Originally, this was to the benefit of the doctor -- more referrals. But only originally: once lock-in occurred, the insurance companies began to set their own terms. They couldn't have accomplished this without some greed on the part of many doctors early on.
Wait, wait, wait--you're saying that we need to solve issues like regulatory capture through legislation... so that we can have a market without governmental interference (aka a "free market")? Huh?

You can't on the one hand tout the "free market", while on the other complain that we don't have the "right" kind of governmental interference.

Even if you could square that circle, it still sounds disingenuous to argue that we could have the most efficient system if only we were to eliminate _thing that said system actively encourages_. The failure is baked into the game, my friend.
It is definetely a (big) part of the reason, but if it was the only one, things wouldn't be in a similarly terrible situation in other countries. Take the UK as an example which has a single-payer system, and morale is overall really low, too, and nursing isn't an enticing career. (On a side-note, the BBC show "This is going to hurt" is quite good and on topic)

Apart from administrators and insurers, I think a large problem is that the job has become substantially more difficult and technology intense, while support and pay hasn't kept pace. At the same time, liability is more serious these days, which I don't think is a bad thing, but certainly sucks for the workers who have to constantly justify themselves and can get crucified for mistakes.
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Hmm I still work in education. Honestly it has really ramped up in the last couple years.
Upvote for a Practical Scheme book.
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It should still be doctors. Just makes administration a career path that a doctor can choose to move into. There would be plenty of takers from the ranks of those burnt out on patient care. They could even find new meaning in being able to help people without going through the bedside wringer. If professional administrators have a place in the system it’s in positions under experienced physicians where they can help with implementation of policy, not shape it.
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Wow I didn't know cli-fi existed as a new genre now.
Yup. Spam is the root problem. With an enormous amount of complexity between that and the mail admin's day to day experience.

I hosted my own mail for more than 20 years. A couple years back I just got tired of trying to solve deliverability puzzles, plus the fears that deliverability issues generate. (E.g., "Did that potential employer get my email about the job?") Especially since some of the puzzles are not solvable, like why GMail does what it does. I even had friends at Google, and I still couldn't find out why GMail occasionally didn't like my server. And arguably, that's the right choice for them, as the more spammers know about how they work, the worse it is for Google staff and GMail users.

For me, switching to Fastmail hosting was a big win. It's not like I'm out of technical challenges to solve, but I get to apply that to things where the upside is greater than, "The thing everybody expects to work still works."
I still use jQuery. Code is maintainable and theres no frustrating, inconsistent, security-fraught, frequent-breaking-changes NPM situation. I have maybe two dependencies instead of literally thousands. Pages load fast and the foundation I'm building on isn't moving faster than I can build.
The point I'm making is about harm, which has been the whole crux of my argument. In my example, are white people being harmed by having the 10% discount removed?
The area of 'i barely know how to keep a server running' is a problem for everyone else on the internet as your mail server starts relaying a deluge spam and phishing emails
He could have and did: factories and craftspeople from Adam Smith's world are the epitypes of capitalist activity. Giant corporations that half-merge with the government are Marx's final, dying and barely capitalist stage of capitalism, that hardly involves markets at all. He thought capitalism (factories and craftspeople) would reach the end of its lifespan and give birth to $THC or $HCA.
When the consequences for the same crime can vary from [entire paycheck] to [below rounding error on personal finances], the effect of treatment is not equal.
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Strangely it isn’t always like this. Years ago I called a colleague on his private number and somehow we had an extremely clear connection.

Why doesn’t Apple make its voice isolation available in the phone dialer as well?
Do WGU accept international students? I just curious since I have 15+ years experience in programming, but having no degree of any kind does limit job options now when I had to immigrate.

Can anyone suggest some other options good to get a degree with reasonable price? I really dont mind studying, but I certainly dont have several years and tons of money to go to traditional university.
It's almost as if the constitution binds the Florida government while not binding businesses like Twitter. It isn't strange at all when you don't conflate two different concepts.

It is strange that the entirely of "the left" takes the blame for private actions taken by business, which is then used as some strange "well they started it" reaction by Republican lawmakers to do a much more egregious version of exactly what they repeatedly claim they are against.
You need to know the serial number of the phone before ordering the components. That means repairs will for most people take two to three visits to the repair center over a week, whereas apple can do it in one visit.

They know this makes independent repair uncompetitive, which is why they do it.
Seems to me that a Swiss name would be most appropriate.
Yea I suppose GitHub works. I've seen people create "tracking repos" since there's a big community on GitHub. But those are usually just opensourced somewhere else (gitlab, bitbucket, etc.)

You could also just drop in something like Sentry.io. You can add a Feedback button that emails/slack messages you.
There's an old Theodore Sturgeon story about this, where a man makes a tiny, ultra-fast civilization 'in his basement' and then learns from them, not-quite passing off this inventions as his own.
As two points:

1) A GED would be trivial for this kid. So the high school diploma, I'm not worried about.

2) Kid started doing (real, not Scratch) programming in 1st grade. I'm not worried about coding experience or computer science background. I am worried about software engineering background, but that could come later.
Nurses is a tough profession. They are required to work for longer hours and not paid that much. With Covid, dealing with anti-science patients must have been very draining mentally. On top of changing the working conditions and increasing pay, may be we should make the nurses training free to make the field more attractive.
I heard a different one, the Russian saying "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" returned back as "The vodka is good but the meat is rotten".
That's why I don't use systemd, kids!
Every office would have a machine in the break room, but there's always that one person who never changes the filter...
It's arguably the most famous song of all time so not that suprising imo.
I am hardware stupid, but I have thought about this exact solution for so long. I hope someone figures this problem out!
> Independent learners almost always develop gaps.

I think that goes for any leanrer, independent or traditional. Ask a random sample of college graduates to lecture for an hour on their degree focus and you will see the evidence of this.
Q: Are you worried at all that Elon will start banning funny people from the platform? Perhaps he feels threatened by your powers?

A: well hes very smart. i think he will figure out how to put a plug on whatever problems are going on with the site. and if he determines im out of line i will let him destroy me. for the good of his vision

Oh.....the irony, complaining about censorship and being cancelled when leftists have been doing that for years on Twitter.

I would say to this sn0wflake, no, Elon will not cancel you, he is pro-freedom of speech.
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I think you posted the wrong video. I’m seeing a video about building a monolithic telescope.
I was 'weeded' out of pre-med and landed in software. The problem with pre-med was the insane number of hours per semester I was going to have to take while I was also working. I had an interest in computers so tried out the first programming classes and it was relatively easy so the rest is history.

IIRC, for software/programming, any early class heavy with pointers/hardware/math served as a weeding function. So I'm not sure how students won't be pushed out at some point if they can't do the work.
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> You can’t do anything unless it’s exactly how insurance wants and only for what insurance will pay.

This is the part that makes the whole experience so sadly ridiculous. Nobody could ever tell patients what something might cost and let them make choices, it was (and is) "Sign here to acknowledge you'll ultimately be responsible for all charges, no matter what they turn out to be." But the insurance company doesn't operate like that, they say "Want to be part of our network? Guess what, you have to ask us for permission or we just won't pay you."

We need to rip off the bandaid, as it were, and reboot the damn system. Pick one of any number of good examples from other modern industrialized nations that have functioning healthcare, and copy it. Yes, everything will be a zoo for a while. We'll survive, and maybe even come out the other side with a better system. And maybe some bankrupt insurance companies, let me find my handkerchief.
While rolling code has now been the norm for some time, there are a lot of older garage door openers still in service. More concerning, commercial buildings like apartment complexes often remain vulnerable to these trivial replay attacks because of a "lowest common denominator" effect... they purchase gate controllers, door locks, tokens, etc from different vendors, and the only interoperable protocol may be a very poorly secured one. This is a major problem with door locks where very outdated ProxCard standard remains in wide use due to low price and interoperability.
> How doctors of all professions lost their professional agency to do-nothing administrators within a generation is quite puzzling and a bit terrifying to me.

Same thing with professors.