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Treasuries are considered zero risk in the sense that if they default, the rest of your portfolio is going to be worthless anyways and you're probably better off investing in guns, water, and cans of food.

Because the US government prints the dollar that the debt is denominated in, there is no risk that they would be unable to repay the debt, so it would have to be their explicit choice.

Technically the USA's elected congresspeople might be able to repeal or sidestep the 14th amendment and pass legislation causing the government to willingly default on their debt, but a move like that would likely cause a global financial panic and potentially even a collapse of the dollar itself, very quickly costing them many, many multiples of the amount of "money" saved. That's if the dollar is even still considered to be money at that point.

The government would start hemorrhaging money in the bond markets far before a bill like that could actually pass, due to investors pricing in the possibility of willful default. The first moment a congressperson even proposed it seriously in a tweet, the rates would be affected in a small but measurable way.

Even in a crazy hypothetical where the USA were entirely annexed by a foreign nation, it probably still wouldn't default on its debts, because the annexing country would want to preserve the asset of the USA's reputation for repayment.

So, what's the chance of the USA repealing the 14th amendment by a bipartisan 2/3 vote, then willingly choosing to surrender all of their power to other countries on the global stage? Like I said, the word "risk" starts to lose all meaning at that point. You're better off buying some books for entertainment, because you'll need to stay in your bunker for quite a while.

When you say "there's a non-zero chance that the US Government defaults", you might as well be saying "there's a non-zero chance that everyone comes to the sudden realization that money is dumb and we should stop using it".
> The same order of magnitude of energy is expended to ensure the security of the blockchain whether a large NFT mint happens or not so long as the blockchain exists.

That's not completely true. The amount of resources wasted per hour are proportional to the value of the coin. Lacking any genuine uses for for cryptocurrencies, people determine coin value by things like transaction volume, market capitalization, influencer endorsements and active wallets instead. Thus every additional user, transaction and especially the common million-dollar wash trades designed to pump their respective projects, contribute significantly to the waste that is generated.
Yes, definitely! I put it in the past tense only because I don't use it these days.
Rational actors acting rationally
Its probably not for you then, people makes Zettelkasten look like a magical thing that will help you get more organised in life.

You would've "gotten" how to create a workflow that fits you by now if this is what you really wanted.
I still havent see a regex for ECB though!
In a lot of areas, thriving has nothing to do with society's reaction. Leaving kitchen cupboards open and then ramming your head into them isn't something that society blames or stigmatizes someone for, it just hurts. Having a difficult time pursuing one's own goals isn't about how someone fits into society's expected roles—it's about not having the executive and organizational skills to design a path forward and then (remember to) stick with it.
Why would they do that?

You've already stated that an essential part of your plan is eliminating parking lots.

You think that a world without parking lots, a world where people mostly carry stuff and otherwise rely on delivery services, is best. Aren't you going to at least followup with "people buy too much stuff anyway, so shopping centers that sell less are better."?

Surely you can defend your vision instead of just giving up when someone summarizes it.
It's all limited by fees. Typically, users would see the high fees and choose not to interact with the contract. It seems during this sale, FOMO outstripped the incredibly (negligently) high expense.
Or more like someone is depositing millions into their bank account in small coins and it’s occupied all the tellers in the bank and no one is available to deposit your granny’s 20€ check
I wonder what would happen if we (as a society) took each case of got-rich-through-a-get-rich-quick-scheme and analyzed it like we do post-mortems--with "the social contract failed here, what went wrong?" kind of twist. No one's to blame. We just want it to be more effective and productive for everyone next time.
At what point do we say 'it is part of your product/service' versus, 'you must provide unhindered access'?

How deep do I have to grant access to 'everyone' within my product?

(and no, I do not attend the Church of the Fruit)
> I'm guessing they are about as resource-hungry as compiling things?

Pretty much, plus the GPU is in use.

> Would you be able to have the laptop in your lap with just a thin garment between the laptop and your skin?

Yes, that's what I originally meant as well. I'd prefer an actively cooled machine in such cases, obviously, but yes.
0.1 % of the world's energy is used by this, and growing. It is no longer ignorable.

And anyways most mining is inaccessible to regular people. It is gigantic corporations doing all the mining these days. Etherium runs mostly on AWS.

E: AWS claims that 25% of ETH workloads run on AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/blockchain/
I spent a few years at an investment bank, not in the US, and the only people on serious money were some of the top managers. But my overall opinion of these people were that they did very little but the lower downs I met were some of the most talented people I ever worked with.

The top ones would spend all their time traveling the world to the offices and meeting with staff in each location and the sending emails to the rest of the department about what the staff in that location were working on. They would harvest ideas from the staff as they went and then present that as their own or approve projects that staff have suggested to them.
I really didn't see how they were worth the $5M they were earning since they didn't come up with the ideas for what would be done and didn't do any real work.
Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com and we can take a closer look at this business?
I don't think it'll ever happen because the miners don't want it. They've invested millions into GPUs and they'll all become worthless once Eth switches to PoS.

Or they'll find another coin to mine.
Two out of three arguments of the GP are implementation details. You can tell that they are implementation details by the way the language is used.

“It’s difficult to do A given B”

As a user I don’t care about B. I just want A.

For your example, the concept of explicit pointers are orthogonal to threads. That’s why you can have OS threads with explicit pointers.

Just because it’s difficult to make them work together doesn’t mean they are incompatible as concepts.

It’s still an implementation detail.

For example, during Win95 one could argue it’s impossible for a crash program not to crash the whole system.

As a user I don’t care what’s going under the hood. I just don’t like it when my Windows 95 app can crash the system. It is an implementation detail
> I personally just create atomic (single-topic) notes, with tags in the YAML front-matter, and store them in a folder structure along the lines of the Johnny Decimal System[3]. I store checklists, procedures, howtos, concept summaries, cheatsheets, and a daily log stored in a YYYY-MM.markdown file.

You must be a very organised person, any sort of Zettelkasten or knowledge-based linking system for me is too complex, I'd rather just take a simple note, maybe with the date in the filename, to each their own I guess.

I rarely write TODO lists.
> Well, to be fair, the 0/45/90 deg traces are a byproduct from early days of EDA CAD products. Aside high frequency busses (which you're doing EM analysis on anyways), traces can be all sorts of shapes.

The constraint is still there. Curved traces make your GUI ridiculously unmanageable. Ever tried to manipulate font outlines? It's like that on a PCB, only an order of magnitude worse. You have to operate control points for every single segment rather than just dragging a trace. All for effectively no benefit on 99.9% of all PCB designs.

In fact, the only good argument for using non-Euclidean traces is in the ultra-high-speed arena (think DDR4 bus or multi-GHz RF). If traces are small enough that they fit between the PCB weave, different traces can have enough difference in electrical permittivity that it will screw up the matching (trace 1 has an FR-4 fiber directly underneath while trace 2 only has cross fibers underneath and so has about 50% air underneath instead of 100% fiberglass). Consequently, you have to swing the angles to weird things like multiples of 7 or 13 degrees to prevent that.
> or gender

Gee, I wonder if the advertiser can take a guess.
Nomura has been around since at least FF5, and Kitase before that. Long before the Enix merger
We go further than that: we glamorize the get-rich-quick schemes even after they're revealed as scams. The scammers get to keep their money, and launch successful careers as motivational speakers / authors (of books detailing their crimes) / etc.

The Wolf of Wall Street was widely admired even though he was a criminal.
> It feels like ETH has been “about to be PoS within a year” for like five years now

Likely because you don't actually follow the development milestones, and are just synthesizing a conclusion based on social media headlines/comments.

Successful testnets for the merge have been launched and merge execution from a shadow-fork of the mainnet to a PoS testnet have been completed in the last 2 months. As far as I am aware, no merge date has ever been set and all previous timelines were speculation, not missed deadlines.

I would recommend people sign up for an ETH feed or newsletter (e.g. the ETH Foundation blog https://blog.ethereum.org/2022/03/23/finalized-no-34/) and stop letting naive comments on hacker news/reddit/twitter dictate their opinions on the state of things like crypto.
> what exactly does that do to justify massive compute requiring fees 10-100x greater than the transaction value and associated use of real-world energy?

You're confused. Bitcoin does not have such fees. Ethereum, while it does have such fees, is moving to proof-of-stake and the energy argument no longer holds up. There are numerous non-PoW chains already actively used, for which the energy argument does not hold up.

This is the only way we know how to avoid double-spending in a trustless, permission-less way. If you know of another way that maintains those two properties, I would love to learn about it.
I miss the old Peace lovers and Hippies. these woke war mongers are terrible.

ANTIWAR means all war...not just one side hypocrisy is everywhere today.
When I was talking about metrics I meant metrics of the model (accuracy, precission, recall, mean square error, etc), not performance.
Is crypto mining heavy industry?

All those poor miners with black lung and cave-ins and such…
Amazon Kindles finally support the ebooks everyone else sells, sort of
This is a good maxim for oneself, but a poor one when trying to understand or improve systems.
The smart thing to do is to bet against the herd on HN. Otherwise, facebook would've ceased to exist, everybody would be using ruby and crypto would be worth $0. Bookies love to bet against the herd for a reason.

> I see a lot of criticism/hate of C++ lately

Should tell you something. It's not like agenda driven PR campaigns are new to social media. Whenever I see a wave of criticism or praise on social media, I think to myself, what would paul graham do?

If your job is Python/Golang/C why do you want to learn C++ or Rust? Learn neither. Why not learn a functional language or SQL instead? Or delve deeper into python or go or c.
What do you make of the research concluding that MRI can identify ADHD and distinguish among subtypes?

https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2017170226
Equating CO2 emission with Amazon-rainforest-lit-on-fire is deliberately inflammatory and grossly misleading.
Consumers normally won't tolerate insane prices.
thought this was a prank, but it's real
Another lightweight github-based approach is to just link together a bunch of gists: https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/fdac60efe210d1cee263...
> risk of crippling lawsuits because an illiterate bee thought it would be cool to pollinate two fields on the same day

AFAIK, this has never happened. Monsanto states they have policy against it ever happening. The infringement lawsuits I'm aware of, including the ones the anti-GMO crowd like to trot out, sure seem like pretty clear cases of wilful infringement.
When was the last time you read an article about the CO2 output of the finance industry?

I can first hand assure you there are a lot of very expensive CPU cores sitting in datacenters all over the world shuffling money back and forward for fractions of cents on the dollar.
It improves the efficiency 10000-fold. You can run a Ethereum validator node on a 10W celeron, underclock it, and still be fine.

There are ~380k validators on the beacon chain now. There are 20M PS5 + Xbox sold already. A video game console consumes as much as 300W during usage, and even on idle can consume as much as a validator.
At any respectable speed in a well constructed car with a mechanical steering linkage, power steering is basically unnecessary. My old car used to have glitchy power steering— at 35mph, I could generally tell when it wasn’t working, but it wasn’t very obvious. At 5 mph it was quite obvious when it wasn’t working.
Yes and in 2017 there hadn't been a proof of stake network running in parallel for a year and a half, with 10% of all ETH deposited and locked in place until after proof of work is killed off. Nor had there been multiple public testnets for the merge process.
I completely agree with your points and they also relate with me a bit, Zettelkasten systems don't work for me at all, nor do TODO lists, it depends on the type of person, it doesn't work for everyone; I think what the author is trying to say is that Zettelkasten or other knowledge-based linking systems shouldn't be advertised to everyone as a "way to organise your thoughts", mainly because of the fact that it depends on the type of person, like an example is that as you mentioned, it works amazingly for you, but for me it doesn't really make sense with how I do things, I think that is what the author is trying to say.
There are already a hundred different crypto exchanges (more than regular ones, possibly)

We do not count the people working on these exchanges as a part of crypto energy cost. So your argument is wrong, actually.
i would focus on just taking notes on related topics, without much structure for a bit. try to link them together if they are on related ideas a bit. once you have a network of notes that feels a little less manageable (~100), i create a "map of content" where i link to all notes related to that concept, and in it i essentially tell a higher level story about how those notes relate to each other.
Hope you don’t use public transit, electricity, plumbing, or breathe central air.
Its worth it - turtles can snort PFAS paper straws, no problem :)
*"sub-nanoampere electric currents"
The big hole I think that's missing is something to manage policies for all those device and enforce them, as well as roaming profile and account management. Microsoft basically has a monopoly on this right now with Active Directory. I can't think of any open source projects off the top of my head which offer something similar.

For a modern IT environment used by a business, such a system is absolutely necessary
A more optimal contract would just mean it would happen faster, with a higher gas price while the sale is ongoing.

I think this was also intentional - as a way to make the congestion last longer.
Naked shorts can and do exist on crypto exchanges
Right, but the default position is just small packs in disposable containers. As long as you have to make substantial efforts to so otherwise, like finding a special company or paying for Costco (and getting there, who lives in walking or cycling distance of one?), it will remain what 99.5% of people do.

And it's not even an unreasonable position for those people. Making an enormous effort to just find a bottle of soap is not sustainable.
"supposedly still on track before EOY"

Nice way to say "never".
I want to see more Tomb Raider, but I absolutely don't want to see more AAA Tomb Raider.

If it is a future of squenix, maybe it would be better for them to stop making games.
> The exact same amount that got burnt on a slow cheap day

How much is that? And what percentage of it went toward powering this event vs the value in $ created by it?

> And orders of magnitude less energy than bitcoin uses.

It's not even 1 order of magnitude less. More like 1/2 of bitcoin's energy consumption.

https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption/

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/
>Isn't this something someone can already do on established markets in the physical world?

Name one trustless, permission-less system that avoids the double spending problem. I would love to know about it.

>Isn't this exactly what just happened in the article we're discussing right now in this thread?

I don't know what you're saying. Participants could do their due diligence and fully understand the risks before participating. Who paid for someone else's screw up?
It depends on what your objective is. I assume you want to expand your skillset for the future. C++ is good because there's tons of legacy C++ code out there, and companies will need people to maintain it for decades to come. Rust is good because it's trendy and looks good on a resume. Do note, however, that C++ and Rust skills are unlikely to be valuable at the same kinds of companies.
> Populism doesn't work

By definition, if the way to recognize it is that it sells "silver bullets" (pseudosolutions).
One more issue is that realistically 0 crypto in it (amything cryptographycally interesting), and sounds just like another VC pump and dump.
Yes, that's less ambiguous. You could also use the term "devops" or even SRE to describe what you're looking for.
Some of the transaction fee is literally burned/ceases to exist. Some fraction of it is also printed but some goes away completely. As I understand it.
Have you tried TPU?
I’ve emailed you :)
Sounds like you could very easily get a job somewhere else then. Given the current job market I bet you could have a job in a month!

Also I bet they would be able to find someone to replace you a lot quicker if they thought you were leaving
Just history repeating itself, honestly. It's been delayed so many times, even the optimist in me is starting to doubt this is really it.
Inefficiency costs money. Every operation on the Ethereum Virtual Machine costs “gas”. They’d have to get someone to pay for all that gas used.

Yuga is able to get people to pay because they have the top “brand” in NFT’s currently.
Oh man, I loved doing cryptopals back in the day. I should try again.
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US “I” bonds to deliver a record 9.62% interest
async/await doesn't solve anything with concurrency, working on a single thread does.

you can do that as a design choice in languages that aren't exclusively single threaded.
A fair fight in this case, laptops, is one that takes dissipated heat and cooling into account.

Intel might beat the previous generation of their competitors, but at what cost, absolutely impractical in reality. Scorchingly hot or noisy as hell, with poor battery life.

It's not magic and Intel is losing in a lot of aspects.
Even these new, who-knows-what additive laced straws start falling apart after 5-10 minutes.
Cryptocurrency is worse than electric cars because cryptocurrency can be mined everywhere in the world, whereas electric cars require the use of the electrical grid near the location they're being driven. This means that local governments can mandate cleaner sources of energy and actually have an effect on electric cars, as you can't just import electricity from overseas as easily, while cryptocurrency mining can just move to more favorable jurisdictions in response to any inconvenient regulations. The incentives of cryptocurrency mining create a race to the bottom, where mining operations simply relocate around the world to wherever the regulations are laxest.
I started up a job a few months ago and threw myself into Obsidian, and it has definitely been paying off. Here's how I work, ymmv of course:

- I create a "Work" folder. Inside it are folders for Weekly Notes, Tasks and Information.

- At the beginning of each week I make a new Weekly Notes page. I have a subheading for each day, and a subheading in each day for a todo list. After the todo list, I put down a heading for each of my meetings/activities that I want to take notes for and fill them in accordingly.

- When I begin work on a non-trivial ticket or project, I make it a note in my Tasks folder named with it's Jira tag. That makes it easy to link to from my weekly notes, and gives me a loose idea of when I was working on which tickets through backlinking. I then use these notes to plan out the problems, store personal research and organize code snippets.

- The Information folder serves as a kind of "Misc." folder. I have sections for travel, guidelines, best practices, and I even store some PDFs relating to my job in there.

A few other general tips for Obsidian:

- Create a group in your graph view for "Work" and it will highlight all of the notes in your work folder with a specified color. Pretty handy.

- Make heavy use of linking, both internal and external. Tags are also nice, but don't be afraid to break out your notes when things get too heavy; that's what it's made for.

- Liberal use of the keyboard shortcuts is a gamechanger. Ctrl+O to open notes, Ctrl+P to open the command palette (which I mostly use to split panes), and hold Alt+Arrows to quick-switch to adjacent panes.

- Plugins are nice, but it's easy to get carried away. Mind Map, Tasks, and Admonition are the only ones I keep enabled.

Hope you get as much out of it as I do. It sounds like a lot, but it feels like second-nature to me now. Feel free to adapt this to your own needs or skip it all together, this is just my personal workflow and what made me fall in love with Obsidian.
True. Fidelity was mining bitcoins for years before other institutional investors were involved and they likely hold massive reserves. I just hope they’ve insulated themselves against the risk.