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This is why I like the idea of solarpunk architecture being the catalyst for social/political change.

"Life cannot be delegated; it must be integrated. Solarpunk is not just about beautiful green futuristic cityscapes, it is about projecting an image of the future free from authoritarian technics."
Do you understand that the interpretation of unlawful purpose is left to the enforcement agency at the moment of possible infraction? Note that many municipalities in the US openly publish the names of people who are arrested, and what for, but then don't publish that people got off because they weren't guilty.
I'm honestly curious, how did/are bitcoiners using BTC and crypto tech to help people in these regions? What's the methodology? And also for actually spending/using the coins.

Also, from your wider comment, by the way you phrased it, I can't quite tell who you're saying is shelling ethnically Russian men, women and children in these areas a crime against humanity, the Ukrainian military or the Russians?
Haha, I just noticed, I got him mixed with another author!
I’ll buy one. Agree with the comments that you need to put a little time in to describe this thing in a lot more detail!

That said, I would love to have my calendar always just sitting there on my desk. This is the perfect item for anyone with adhd or similar. I would target that niche.
This seems completely conceivable to me.

You're not allowed to use a playground unless you're with a child (new york): https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1128/705238326_dd2bad6ea5_b.jp...

There's plenty of stories of men being yelled at for taking pictures of their own kids, e.g. https://www.arlnow.com/2022/04/13/acpd-woman-pepper-sprayed-...

British Airways wont seat an unaccompanied minor next to a man traveling alone: https://www.bbc.com/news/10401416

If you look like a dude, and are relatively near children, you're a suspect.
I was jogging on the bike trail and passed by a class of kindergarteners the teacher was taking out into the park from the nearby Waldorf school. A friend of mine's daughter was at that school and I thought she might be amongst the kids. However I knew better than to slow down and scrutinize them, looking for her. I just averted my eyes and ran on by.

It's sad that we have to be like this, but it feels necessary, in a world seemingly full of child molesting creeps.
> Half of this thread believes we should protect people from themselves.

> The other half believes people should have the freedom to screw themselves over.

Nailed it. It comes down to principles. Do you believe in personal freedom? Or do you prefer authoritarian governments?
How easy is it to your solution?
The problem is expecting an average salary for all the majors to be a meaningful number.
> You just need sufficient assets to cover them

Oh, is that all?

To have a zero-risk peg you need to have as much reserve currency as you have issued currency; if you issue 1e6 fun-bucks that are pegged at 1:1 with the USD, you need 1e6 dollars.

If your country has banks, and you allow those banks to engage in fractional reserve banking, and you make guarantees to depositors that you will make them whole no matter how terrifyingly bad those banks are at their job, then holding dollars at 1:1 is insufficient. And depending on what kind of reserve requirements you have, the multiplier can get very large very quickly.

If you allow commercial banks to operate, then, as they say, you can fuhgeddaboutit. No amount of assets backing your peg can possibly be sufficient. You can push the tail out further, but such guarantees will only make your commercial banks more aggressive and increase the systemic cost of a failed peg.

If you choose to issue sovereign debt in your pegged currency, or support pension funds for your citizens, or anything like that, then ... don't peg your currency. Issue your own sovereign currency and get yourself some nuclear weapons.
> As an aside, this is also a great example of TikTok turning a corner. I now have 184 educational videos saved, along with dozens of science videos. I learn more on TikTok than any other source now, which I didn’t expect.

I too have been surprised with the amount of genuinely educational and interesting material on TikTok. It won't replace Wikipedia but it's a great companion to it.
> How specifically could that play out in this instance?

As AI is famously bad at matching against dark skinned individuals [0], all photos of black kids now flag as CSAM, whether or not any part of them is even dubious at all.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/24/21301759/facial-recogniti...
As someone who produces electronic music I kind of dig the limitations of the op-1. At a 2k price point though with those limitations in mind I can't justify the price. Even at ~1300 or whatever the old model is going for I can't justify the price. For cheaper you can get both a digitakt and a digitone, which I own the latter, and they sound 1000 times better than the op-1 although each respectively do quite a lot less. I was actually pretty excited to see this until I saw the price. I have spent a lot of money on electronic music gear, way more than 2000, and I'm a bit baffled about who this is for exactly.
This may not have an answer, but... why is a random former actor the leading advocate for this?
If you /truly/ believe that this is about CSAM, you've got your head firmly entrenched up your own ass.

This is -yet another- power grab by The State; that's all this is.

Every human on earth should be firing the SoBs that suggest these things. Every single legislator that champions these types of privacy invasion should be fired; period.

Their names are on a big list now. Fire these assholes.
Oh that's a different question IMO. Crypto is making it easier to bring dollars from abroad so I get it does lower the black market cash dollar's prices in that sense. Big international crypto exchanges like binance aren't yet regulated here so technically the crypto world IS part of the black market anyway
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Announcing our startup project a little unconventionally - with a family story.
I'm glad we can all take away from literature something personal to us. Your view is no more or less wrong than anyone else's, and I'd like to hear more.
Yes, it is always difficult to use dates in SQLite... DuckDB makes dates easier - like they should be!
Conversely - it'd be interesting to investigate whether other statistics have improved over the past decade with parents being increasingly responsible for their kids after school - reduced shoplifting, reduced graffiti, reduced smoking/drug use, reduced teen pregnancy, etc.

Its quite possible that increased organized sports and after school activities (particularly robotics, math, computer science) could actually improve the capabilities of society as compared to just leaving the kids unattended after school.
> I don’t begrudge any American who wants a country of their own, just like Indians and Bangladeshis do.

Anyone who is a citizen is already an American. Or do you mean only white Americans are "real" Americans?
Whether or not you will eventually win the case will have little bearing on how your day goes that day. If everyone tried just hanging around a school and asserting their rights to do so the number of folks that would be the rightest person in the morgue would not be 0.
Yes... but how fast like?
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Those stock accounts are not looking so good now. S&P 500 almost 20% off highs, Nasdaq down 30%. Home prices have done really well though, contrary to all the doom and gloom by the media for the past decade about bubbles.
> So I don't understand the frequent assertion that Chomsky's arguments or his general political views are invalid when it comes to Ukraine or other European countries.

That because those complains come from people who do know about history and politics of countries he talks about. And he has really hard time to admit that something like genocide can happen for reasons that are not caused by Americans. I mean, he has hard time to call genocide the one when it happens (unless done by Americans).

Specifically with Ukraine issue, he is one of those people who cant even hint toward non-Americans having agency or own ideas about future. If you talk about Eastern Europe as if only Russia and America existed, as if no one else was even involved and could not had ability to make own decisions, then you are the one trying to create false worldview ignoring reality.
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They walk up to you and ask a bunch of aggressive and threatening questions. You will obviously react in some way, either by getting nervous or upset at their questions. It doesn't matter which reaction you have, they will then say that your reaction made you suspicious, so they detained you.
Well, as I understand it he literally was an anarchist, correct?
WorkOS doesn't really own the user management database. It's more like an agnostic API to connect with multiple IdPs through protocols like SAML and OIDC. Identity providers such as Okta, OneLogin, and Azure AD are the ones responsible for storing that data.
> similar line of argument about alliances and treaties preventing war was used before the First World War

NATO was formed with that in mind. A single treaty document publicly ratified. No secret pacts. No back-alley alliances.
Bluey is the only show that made my kid want to turn the TV off so he could play whatever game Bluey and her sister were playing himself. We still play Silly Hotel from time to time.

It’s very different tonally (much more serene), but fans of Bluey should check out the BBC kids’ show Sarah & Duck, which is aimed at a similar age range and also contains much for parents to love as well as children. It’s gentle and surreal, and I’d have been happy to watch it on its own merits even if I didn’t have a kid who loved it as well.
No, it's a retcon. Every kind adult in my life would have retroactively become groomers if they had later molested me. It makes being nice to kids a suspicious act, which is fine for me because kids annoy me, but is not good for kids.
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It’s even less the fault of the kids, who bear the brunt of this monumental stupidity— particularly if their parents face consequences that separates them.

Edit: spelling
What are some potential long-term liabilities we might see in choosing to adopt duckdb today?

Obviously there will be a desire to monetize this project, if not for the very simple reason of subsidizing the cost of its development and maintenance. I love everything I hear and see about this project, but it makes me nervous to recommend this internally due to it not only being in such an early stage, but also bc of any unforeseen costs and liabilities that it might introduce in the future.
Hey, cool idea. I like it. I made a Go implementation for fun/practice - https://github.com/joemiller/prefixed-api-key
Ukrainian air force is probably all destroyed by now. It's the Turkish drones that are still flying. They are easier to hide and don't need the same level of infrastructure that airplanes need.

I don't know if drones count as airforce or something else. It's just semantics.
>Dude, if you’re going to go all in on conspiracy theories you can’t just say things like “I don’t think Obama was being disingenuous”.

Sorry I'm bad at this.

>Here, let me drop in another element of this theory for you: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en

Now you got me. BRB need a aluminum hat asap.

>(If it was aliens, why the hell hasn’t the Air Force ever run into them? Only the Navy, which by sheer coincidence is the exact same branch that sponsors Dr. Pais’ research?)

Ok back, Preach it Phil!

>But if that was the case, why would they patent it and release the gun camera footage instead of telling the pilots to STFU? It’s because someone is meant to believe that the Navy has a secret aircraft development program. That someone being a geopolitical rival of the United States who would presumably be terrified of falling behind in the arms race and thus react by investing their own time and resources into the sorts of pseudoscientific impossibilities that the Navy has apparently already developed.

Makes a pretty damned good argument about 'dont screw with us, we have ultra drones.' scaring foreign opponents.

But realistically we are past the phase of direct attacks between major states. China can never declare war on the USA, the risk of WMDs is impossible to deal with. So we are now dealing with just proxy wars.
I am very sorry that I had only one upvote to give you.
Picturesque small town America. The sort of place with a general store still selling picture postcards of the downtown area. 15th-safest city in the state of around 10 million.
The current existence of the SEC I believe is sufficient to reinforce my point.
Haruki Murakami is particular that way. Western culture references are the reason he gets "exported" so much. But that cultural cross pollination isn't as ubiquitous as one would think.
> everyone interprets as an anti-government manifesto

It's been a while so maybe my memory is just flawed, but my feelings about 1984 are more that it's a cautionary tale of living in a dystopian surveillance state.

That's not the same as anti-government. I actually expect my government to assist in preventing such outcomes considering there's obviously lucrative and powerful corporate interests pursuant to these machinations.
There is no genius compromise or middle ground with end to end encrypted private messages. It's basically mathematical proven. Either you do surveillance (of course with best intentions) in any form or you don't do it at all.
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The issue is 10AM has real meaning but you’re only actually at 10AM for an instant mostly you want to know how long until something happens.

Think of a meeting at 10AM with an analog clock you can get an intuitive feel for how long you have to finish what your working on. With a digital clock it’s easy to do the calculation but that distracts from the task at hand.

It’s most noticeable with a seconds. Many analog clocks include a second hand because it’s actually useful, while few digital clocks do so.
tattling used to be followed up by a fistfight in the school yard. Snitches get stitches. It was one way that children used to learn good boundaries. I wonder whether kids are better off today, in our anti-bullying world where even a harsh word can be punished with detention or suspension, whereas snitching is encouraged. What kind of adults are we producing? So far, the results don't look too good.
Yes, I think course notes or textbooks are a great candidate for Notafication. I sadly don't teach 242 anymore since I just graduated, but I'll certainly use it for my next course.

I would be happy to support y'all in using Nota for the new course. And I hadn't heard about Diderot, I will reach out to Umut for sure.
It seems to me, or I imagine that the solarpunk vision just breads authoritarianism out of its design..
Assuming a human even watches it as opposed to some ML algorithm.
Hungary has already signaled they won't veto.
> give Putin an offramp

Thing is, Putin has boxed himself in; he's said publicly that Ukraine is not a thing, that so-called Ukrainians are in fact Russians, and that he aspires to a Peter-the-Great-style Russian empire stretching from Vladivostok to the Baltic.

The only "off-ramp" I can see being halfway-acceptable to Putin would be for Ukraine to surrender their claims to Donbas and Crimea, in exchange for Russian security "assurances". Even that would make Putin look weak; he's declared that one his goals is to "demilitarise" Ukraine. To do that he would have to conquer the whole of Ukraine.

So any promise by Putin to accept a proffered "off-ramp" would be seen with a very jaundiced eye by Balkan, Central European and Baltic states. And by me, actually.

I'm no warmonger; far from it, I've been mostly a pacifist most of my life. But any "off-ramp" plans would either be unacceptable to Putin, or they would lead to a new war.

I'm afraid it looks pretty bad.
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That's not what the post you replied to said at all and you are being intentionally obtuse. There is a reason the SEC exists. It's not to keep people from making bad decisions.
Thanks, it does help! I understand SQLite might be better/ideal for OLTP (?) but would DuckDB also work for use cases where I query for specific records (e.g. based on primary key) or would I rather use SQLite for OLTP stuff and then read SQLite from DuckDB for analytical workloads?

Basically I'm wondering: if I go all in on DuckDB instead of SQLite would I notice? Do I have to keep anything in mind?

I know, probably difficult to answer without a concrete example of data, schema, queries and so on.

The SQL query features in the article seem really neat. Kudos @ shipping.
Ok :) Best of luck then, I hope you will make out like a bandit. If you do run into trouble feel free to reach out.
It's not about money. Foundation stewards without any attachment to the project are like political appointments; no skin in the game. Money doesn't push a projects requirements and demand it continues to evolve, diverse users do.

Sending it off to the Apache foundation in this state to me sends a signal that it's good enough, innovation is no longer required, and therefore is not worth the investment to continue to maintain.
One would think that groups like cartels already have access to this system, since access seems to be available to quite literally millions of law enforcement employees nationwide.

I think Krebs misses the point a little with the discussion of MFA and PIV cards - sure, this system should absolutely have MFA, but what it really should do is not exist in the first place, and barring that, at least have scoped access control.
Agreed. It's a conversation stopper for me. Sorry. When I hear that term I have to remind myself that people of color automatically get a lot of racist crap, as a matter of course. But still I block or mute. Just the other day I saw a tweet beginning with "Hey white girl" followed by some diatribe. I immediately and reflexively muted this person. Call it my white privilege.
By normalising surveillance of course?
I bought an NFT of the Brooklyn Bridge, and I am very happy with my purchase.
crypto currencies need an FDIC

Which would defeat the point of crypto currencies
There's an actual law for that? Or was this an empty sort of threat?

I live in NYC and when my son was a 9-year old I would let him play out at the park and on the sidewalk. I had some anxiety about it at times but never thought there would be any legal trouble from letting him be a 9-year old.
> You will laugh at the people who bought into FOMOCoin or sent thousands of dollars to a refund scammer... only to click on, say, a fake FedEx tracking link you got e-mailed and wind up getting hit with some 0day malware that drains your bank account or encrypts your files in seconds.

Terrible comparison.

FOMOCoin is not pretending to be something different than FOMOCoin. When somebody invests in a shitcoin, they know exactly what it is they are investing in.

When you click on a fake FedEx link, you believe you're clicking on a FedEx link. You've been deceived by blatant deception.

A better comparison to your FedEx example: Investor believes they're investing in FOMOCoin when in fact they are investing in SHITCoin or no coin at all. It was a trick.
We see that the added confidentiality provided by BlindAI creates a minimal slowdown: we observe negligible added latency, to 20-30% more latency in some complex models
Hey eis, you are correct. We do not support index storage in our latest release.
I am currently implementing this, and it is in a fairly advanced stage. So it should be featured in the next release.

This took a little while because we use a fairly modern index structure with no literature definition on how to buffer manage it.
> Meaning that at one point and subsequently, Tether did match their leel of review, and at one point was backed 100%. Tether has had skepticism from the day it was created nearly 10 years ago, and a US authority got all the information was like "well that one time in 2018 we didn't like that". Tether is not 100% backed by dollars, it mostly is though.

This is some serious spin and misinformation. I can't believe you'd post this with a straight face.

The "100% USD backing" was at best more like 67% at the end of 2021, the rest is "commercial paper".

The "US authority" (OAG) was more like: you lied repeatedly about how you were backed, here's a big fine and you aren't allowed to do business here (New York) anymore.

Edit: The only reason we know that Tether was 2/3rds backed at the end of 2021 is because they are required to share that information as part of the settlement with the OAG.
Those all sound like really good reasons that the teacher should NOT engage with anyone they think is up to no good.
The police can arrest you and take you to jail for a day. Then they can release you without pressing charges. That's perfectly legal. There's a time limit when they have to press charges or release you. They just release you before that time limit is reached. That's how the police prevent you from doing anything they don't want you doing whether what you're doing is against the law or not.
Perhaps there is some truth to the dark rumor that this is price manipulation, but not by the mega-whales as in previous sell-offs, but by the institutionals, the Citadels, the Blackrocks of the Earth, that are now backing up with dumptracks for their clients pensions funds 1% crypto exposure?
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I totally agree that police at the moment would not likely respect the finer points of that law and may well detain you. I would not advise testing them. However, it's not likely that the DA would eventually be able to convict you. I was sharing what I found interesting about the actual law in question, which was a different impression than when I first read the claim that loitering at a school was illegal (which is technically true!) It's not actually illegal to watch kids play (with no other criminal purpose), even if we both agree that in practice you're likely to get a negative response.
Technically correct however courts can hold you in contempt. There was one case where a suspect was arrested and refused to give up passwords to hard drives. The prosecution had reasonable evidence (allegedly) that those hard drives contained child pornography, however since the defendant failed to provide access the prosecution could never prove it.

Other good points were brought up - why not dismiss the hard drive as evidence and use other “proof” such as network logs, computer thumbnails caches from the defendants personal computer, etc?

Personally I’m not sure if those ideas were ever explored.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/man-who-refused-...
> Except Ukraine was on the friendly list [..]

Once, maybe, but not since the revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity
Actually Tether was released in 2014, and there's earlier stablecoins.
Wow, I hadn't heard that AMD added that check. Between that and their unending reset problems that makes them a completely inferior choice for GPU passthrough. Before Nvidia stopped the passthrough blocking you could make a case that AMD was a better choice.
I propose this to politicians homes since they are the greatest risk vector for nations. It sounds justified.
Nah. As posted elsewhere, "Market cap" is a nonsense term in the crypto world, just utterly meaningless. I could create a new coin right now, call it MarketCapCoin, with an initial mint of 1 billion MCCs. If someone buys 0.01 MCCs for $10, that would mean the "market cap" of my shitcoin was $1 trillion. Does my stupid shitcoin represent 6% of US GDP? Of course not. There's no liquidity or economic value, it's just cosplaying with a spreadsheet.