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A recurring thing in punk/cyberpunk culture is that the existing system is overbearing, and can't be removed. So the punk elements live in the shadow of that system, and thrive in the cracks, the neglected parts. That's usually why (cyber)punk characters are bottom feeders that do stuff that is either not well known, not profitable, or too risky.

Solarpunk usually describe societies where the negative aspects have just disapeared, and been replaced by stuff that the genre proponents enjoy. From what I read, the claim is that the "punk" aspect is the rebellion against negativity. But that's not something we can see in their production.
cloudflarer around here ?

Did you wrote the MQTT broker from scratch or are you using some existing broker (Mosquitto , Nanomq, etc). Just curious.
> Even if it's only backed at 50% (which would be really shocking to me)

Is it shocking? Aren't traditional banks only backed by a tiny fraction of what they give out?
Isn't that what the banks said before their first bank run and then the government had to step in to back peoples deposits to ease their worries. The government isn't backing these deposits.
There are so many ponzi schemes and other scams in crypto. In hindsight it shouldn't have been surprising that an unregulated tradable contract scheme would have immediately turned into this. One item that no one has spoken about yet, how much real money is actually tied to Crypto? Some of these coin implosions are as bad as Madoff's mess on paper ($36 billion).
When my son was little we used to watch "Bob the Builder" together, but apparently the producers didn't feel the same as the Bluey ones or didn't have as much sway. Our local station switched to a dubbed version with American accents and it was just awful and pointless. So now they say "soccer" instead of "football", so what? It lost most of its charm.
Hungary has backed all sanctions against Russia except oil, which Hungary relies too heavily on. So far, Hungary has accepted 700,000 refugees from Ukraine. There's really no evidence that he supports Russia's invasion, or that he would veto Finland and Sweden's application to NATO. It really seems like some people here don't like him due to unrelated policy reasons and just want to drum up negative sentiment.
Nothing is FDIC insured. All your Coinbase assets can vanish and you'll be at the back of the line. Crypto is all speculative especially if you don't hold the keys.
I've always thought it was pronounced like 'techniques' and at first thought the author was talking about the turntable/hi-fi brand
Any de-peg for a stablecoin like Tether is a bad sign. It indicates that Tether's price stability mechanisms are unable to cope with the amount of people trying to sell Tether. This may indicate one of two things:

1) There are an incredibly large amount of people selling Tether. This indicates low confidence in Tether, low confidence in crypto as a whole, or both.

2) Tether's price stability mechanisms are not particularly robust, and struggle to handle spikes in people selling Tether. This calls into question Tether's claims of stability.

Of course, it also may just be a momentary dip that is fixed after a few days. But the entire crypto market is balancing on a knife's edge right now, and this could be what pushes it over.
> incompetent

They are not incompetent. Their goal is to install a totalitarian surveillance state. They become exceedingly efficient at it.

If you assume your politicians are doing this because they are stupid or because you think they can not see the bigger picture you already lost. At centers of concentrated power everything happens for a purpose.
Oh yeah, just hold dollars - what an easy solution.
Yep, this fractional reserve scheme they're running sounds shady. Almost like what banks are doing when they create book money out of nothing. Which is of course perfectly legal if you're rich enough to set up a private bank but the difference is they're doing it on a public ledger where everyone can see exactly how much emission there is, while bank books aren't public. Doing it in the open clearly goes too far, they're giving away the bank secrets.
German data protection officer Ulrich Kelber thinks the proposal is incompatible with applicable EU law: https://twitter.com/UlrichKelber/status/1524738280171913218
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> Tether reserves the right to refuse registration to, to bar transactions from or to, or to suspend or terminate the administration of Services, Digital Tokens Address, or Digital Tokens Wallet for or with, any user for any reason (or for no reason) at any time

> Tether reserves the right to delay the redemption or withdrawal of Tether Tokens if such delay is necessitated by the illiquidity or unavailability or loss of any Reserves held by Tether to back the Tether Tokens, and Tether reserves the right to redeem Tether Tokens by in-kind redemptions of securities and other assets held in the Reserves. Tether makes no representations or warranties about whether Tether Tokens that may be traded on the Site may be traded on the Site at any point in the future, if at all.

https://tether.to/en/legal/
Why not use FPAT: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Splitting...
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury slotted in a place like you are in for me when I was a teen, good luck.
According to Coinbase 98% of their crypto is stored in offline wallets. So hacking won’t work. You’ll have to break into wherever they have the coins stored and hope the key isn’t destroyed when you unplug the device.
For something to be a blatant copy I'd expect when shown both samples of work, one could imagine how multiple people would have come up with the same end result based on the same inspiration, no innovation or invention of their own put into the process. When I look at the Casio products, sure, the general inspiration definitely could have come from those, but it's hard to see how one could honestly claim TE have not invested any innovation or invention of their own when coming up with their products even if inspired by Casio. "Blatant copy" is an incredible stretch.
I think thats another facet of the dream. The theoretical starting point of the American dream is probably the immigrant who comes to the country and has nothing. So that would be an achievement compared to that starting point as well.
Well- if they cement their hold on the separatist regions, expand them a little, and ensure a fresh water supply for Crimea, they can probably spin it as a win and declare victory.

Ukraine is also suffering a lot from this war, even if they don't mention it much. They will feel a lot of pressure to accept a smaller Ukraine in exchange for peace.
Are you a Jew that was there during the start of WW2?

Russians (USSR, potato-potato) at that time were exterminating most of people that had any kind of education - because those were potential "traitors".

Most Jews were intelligence class, which was considered enemy of the "working class".
I review "Century of the Self" every few years .. also by Adam Curtis iir
In the US at least, EssilorLuxottica owns a large portion of the eye glass shops (Target Optical, Lenscrafters, etc) and eyeMed insurance. VSP another eye insurance company has a similar set up where they own their own glasses maker.

There's nothing really stopping anyone from buying from discount eye glass companies online, but you have to guess at which frames you'll like based on pictures and reviews instead of instore.
And would it even be able to see past the dust clouds and stars and stuff in front of it?

I mean if they could, they could do another longer term observation like from that clip where you can see stars swishing around it.
...which is sort of like saying "the only people who hate Wordpress are the people who have to use it."

It's legit AWFUL. It's a reasonable blog engine, sure, but it's been forced into being a general CMS, and it was never built for that. Our corp site is on it, and I fucking HATE it (fortunately I rarely have to deal with it).

My personal blog (21 years old and counting) has been through a bunch of platforms (Blogger, Greymatter, Blosxom) before settling on Wordpress. As I said, as a blogging tool, it's mostly fine. I don't really HATE it there, but it's still too fiddly for my tastes.
A good and useful addition. There's a mention to CSVMODE, a gawk library. I wonder if it could be extended to support the functionality that goawk's `-i csv` has.
You should have established personal relationships with a few local agents and then offered to do all the work yourselves for free to add that service to their listings. If it worked well that would have given you some positive references, or at least feedback on how to improve.
Words are usually just removed from print editions to manage space. Otherwise they are just marked as obsolete or archaic.
Until he adds some actual facts, I’m going to assume the story is not true.
Beware the potential for death spirals, and the bigger you get the harder they are to see. Early on, this is easy; last long enough to get to a profit. Later, if you have several products and you're allocating overhead among them, you could be tempted to cut the one with the worst margin. Then the overhead gets reallocated to the other products and pushes a second line underwater.

If your output requires direct labor, it IS possible to sell your way into a death spiral because labor is short-run inelastic.

Know your experience curve and know where you and your competitors are on it. If the curve has flattened and you're not the winner, find a new curve.
Yeah this article seems to have a really poor understanding of 'cyberpunk' and it's motivations.

He also calls an underground, generally unpopular aesthetic "tired". Cue my eyes rolling to the back of my head so hard they snap connecting nerves...
Compare Iraq and Ukraine as countries. Are they remotely comparable as aggressors under international law? Recall both USSR and former SFRY sold weapons by the boatload to Iraq.
Can you say why you were prefer STV over simple approval voting where the top 5 vote getters win? Substantial distortions are still possible with STV, and it is complicated. By contrast "50 candidates are running, the voters get 50 votes, the top 5 vote getters win" will have distortions similar to STV, but the math is simple and everyone can understand it. What benefit does STV have?
> The same is also true for Turkish:

Something similar in Irish:

Tá úll agam = is (an) apple at me. In this case it's the preposition "ag" that gets conjugated differently for at me, at you, at him... instead of the subject as in Turkish or the object in the Hungarian example. Agat = at you.

Or for feelings: Tá ocras orm = is hunger on me. Ort = on you.

Children learn example sentences like these early in their mandatory Irish classes, though they don't start to memorize the lists of conjugations until a few years later. This seems like a reasonable approach, but the classes are staggeringly ineffective at actually teaching the language so we must be doing something wrong.

It's interesting how often m means me, and t or d means thou, across all kinds of European languages.
They want an exciting disruption to current theory.
Many papers/authors postulating something different to what Einstein did?
I'm certain that with billions of dollars on the line a creative lawyer will find some avenue to attempt to get the money back. At the very least there's an arguable case that they've committed some level of fraud by mis-stating how well backed it is. The question of whether you'd win, and whether you'd be able to enforce any judgement are different issues.
xterm, or urxvt, or bash, or nginx, never removed any advanced features, and they managed to do it without telemetry, and did it over the past few decades. amazing, how is it possible
The partners you work with can make or break the best idea; don't let your enthusiasm cloud a colder view of the people you'll be making important commitments with. I've read that it's like a marriage, and I thought that was an exaggeration but it isn't...don't be paranoid, just be careful.
I think they would like to be in control of everything and know/document everything they can about every person's life. I understand that makes their job easier, and maybe even they have the best of intentions. But just a couple of weeks a go a racist was running in France (Le Penn) and not too long ago the leader of the free world a known POS, likely criminal, and racist DJT was in office. I don't want any of those people to have free access to any and whatever information that they want. I am thinking of the children and of future generations of them. If we don't stand up for our freedom and privacy we are also not standing for theirs.
For the record, USDT was at its lowest point ~$0.91, sometime in April 2017, and seems to have recovered after that as well.

I'd never touch USDT for other reasons (why not use Dai?), but I won't say it doesn't seem like the money printer will go on for just a bit more.
Author of the article here, reach out to me (@theprincessxena on twitter, xena on keybase, Xe on libera.chat) if you want to commiserate
Yes, its pretty clear after a decade and a half of living in a German-speaking land, as a native English speaker, that the intention of a German-native-speaker switching to English is really to be more accommodating of the struggles of the other person - but for some reason, categorically it just doesn't come off that way. Its very frustrating at times too, because the switch mid-statement shuts down my attempt at communicating in German, and thus .. I don't ever really get better.

What I suggest to all my German-speaking/English-preferring friends and colleagues, is to CORRECT the German, in a friendly way, and speak friendlier German while I'm "getting the marbles out" ..

As for learning German - its a beautiful language and there is much literature that can be enjoyed in German, which loses its feels in English translations. I have a "German/English Shakespeare" volume, which has Shakespeare in German on one side of the page, and English on the other, and this has proven to me time and again that German can be just as beautiful, befuddling, frustrating and enlightening as English. I'm really glad I raised my kids to be German/English speaking too - having an intrinsic knowledge of both languages has helped them be better speakers of them both, too.
I want to emphasize an important distinction between Actual sales, and the sales department. Actual sales fix problems, the sales department may or may not be relevant to what causes that to happen.. although they will surely fight for the credit either way.

AFAIK Engineers have an axe to grind with the sales department, not actual sales. Giving credit for a sale is a very subjective matter, and more often than not every sales person who so much as sent an email to the opp want credit - effectively taking advantage of the subjective nature as much as they can get away with. Even if in reality the customer had to pretty much talk around everyone on the sales team and speak with an engineer to gain confidence in the product. Then the engineer has to go play catch-up from the 1 hour meeting while the sales member gets % of the sale.
France : "Loi no 2001-1062 du 15 novembre 2001 relative à la sécurité quotidienne, article 30 (Law #2001-1062 of 15 November 2001 on Community Safety) allows a judge or prosecutor to compel any qualified person to decrypt or surrender keys to make available any information encountered in the course of an investigation. Failure to comply incurs three years of jail time and a fine of €45,000; if the compliance would have prevented or mitigated a crime, the penalty increases to five years of jail time and €75,000.[21]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law
JWST is not large enough to have that kind of resolution. EHT collaboration has effective lens size comparable to the diameter of the earth.
GR and quantum field theory don't work together, so at least one of them is wrong, and it would be good to figure out which and how.
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We could have had Pebble, never forget what they took from you
Tether is a company and laws have been applied to it.

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-26/tether-ex...
Because it's old (over 10 years old), works well, battle tested and practical.

Trello allows for great collaboration and informal planning, even for daily life and for a single person. It allows capturing great deal of information under a card and showing a great deal of information without overloading your senses.

So, in short, "It works (TM)", and works well.
I haven't seen this as being discouraged. Rust does more things differently than most newer languages so the learning curve is there but the documentation is fantastic if you have the time or patience. I say this as someone who has stumbled my way through to competence/expertise on some good newer languages (zig, nim, go without RTFM very much, but I can't do that with Rust.

But there's also a relatively early moment when you get to a local maxima and suddenly it all starts coming together.
The floor for crypto is there it's just a long ride down
Stablecoins must be the must crazy investment in the modern era, right after NFTs: by buying them, you’re essentially betting that the stablecoin can maintain its peg. By not buying them and keeping dollars, you get the same outcome except safer.

It’s just nuts.
This popup made me panic that someone had gotten access to my account (like through some side channel such as calling google and pretending to be me) and disabled 2FA somehow...
Single-issue advocates are important because they focus on an issue more than most, but this is a great example of why you need to take their initiatives with a grain of salt... eventually single-issue champions will always lean towards authoritarianism. You need someone you trust to tell you when to stop.
Above the Curie temperature for a given material, the spin orbits of the atoms are randomized. When it was a "magnet" the atoms spin orbits were lined up.

A spinning barrel has all the motion of the atoms "lined up" in a curve. The curve becomes a frame of reference to the remainder of the Universe. Whether or not the individual atoms of the barrel are lined up with each other, or not, is irrelevant to developing a gravitational gradient.

Magnets pull together field lines in the extant magnetic field. These field lines either don't exist or are straight lines, unless they happen to intersect with a gravity gradient or a piece of matter, which is itself a manifestation of vibrations in various fields. These vibrations are assumed to have various alignments, depending. When the Curie temperature is reached in a particular piece of matter, those vibrations become randomized in direction. So, the field lines passing through that matter would then remain "straightish". They aren't bent significantly in one direction or the other.

There is another possibility, which accompanies the idea of divergent magnetic field lines. Crystalline bismuth will causes fields lines to diverge along certain directions of the crystalline lattice. Above the equivalent idea of a Curie temperature for dielectrics, the material ceases to diverge the field lines and they regain their "straight" nature. If a plate of crystallized bismuth is placed in a magnetic field, it will tend to spin to align its lattice to the field lines with the least amount of divergence.

So, take a crystalized plate of bismuth. Create a strongly aligned and coupled magnetic field with two bifilar coils. Rotate the plate through the field, aligned perpendicularly to the field lines. Ensuring the planes of the lattice, as it rotates, impact the lines of force at an angle that maximizes the divergence of those field lines. Increase the rotation to the point that the field lines, in the frame of rotation are diverged significantly to form an effect. This would be assumed to have proportional effects based on the inertial mass of the rotating crystal. This would be visualized as a circle of bent field lines within a larger lattice of straight field lines, which grow larger as the rotational velocity is increased.

The resulting effect should manifest as an inertial field dampener for existing gravitational gradients. In other words, it should nullify the existing curvature of space in a particular area around the device, in a particular plane, maybe in the form of a circle.

If this were possible, it might have significant implications for developing a gravity shield. Or not.
ithought this was old news from couple of years ago, did i miss something?
“Blatant copy” seems like a stretch to me. They definitely seem like they could have been inspired by the Casio designs you linked.
> metonymy

What a great word, thanks for sharing!
> Deeper nesting is not typically used. It would be very nontrivial to deserialize such URL parameters back into the object.

Did you mean to write “very trivial” here? This is the same formatting as used when submitting forms with array and/or dictionary data, and further nesting commonly adds further brackets `like[foo][bar]=baz`. IME the querystring [0] package is great for this.

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/querystring
The smallest "tiny violin playing just for you" ever
America is not the world; at least in the western world[0] there are more countries and languages that follow the German convention. Also, there is more to the world than software (although that seems to be changing).

[0] Yes, that shows my limited perception.
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There is no qualitative difference between claiming "coin is going to the moon" and "coin is pegged" (a.k.a. "coin is going to $1").

Trusting such claims without proof is stupid/financial illiteracy/YOLO investing (pick your preferred term).
Thanks. Can you please point me to some popular science article that explains why the two do not agree with each other?
The real problem isn't even gerrymandering, it's having a district system at all. Gerrymandering is merely one of the symptoms of a district system.

Having a district system will tend to reduce the number of viable parties to two. The article doesn't even question the fact that there's only a blue and a violet party in the example. In reality, lots of people feel badly represented by even the best of those two parties. For as long as I've talked to Americans about politics, they've complained about voting for the lesser evil. Why not vote for a party you actually agree with? Because it's not viable in a two-party system.

If you've got 3 parties: Green, Yellow and Pink. 40% of the people vote Green, 30% vote yellow and 30% vote Pink. However, Green is supported all over the country, whereas Yellow and Pink are more regional, so in every district, Green gets 40% of the vote, whereas one of Yellow and Pink gets the other 60%, while the other gets none. Despite being the largest party, Green gets no votes.

Or let's say Green and Yellow each gets 40% of the vote and Pink gets 20%. All votes are distributed reasonably evenly, so about half of the districts are won by Green and half are won by Yellow. This sounds reasonable, until you realise that the Pink voters get no representation at all. It's possible to have a system where even a majority of voters wouldn't be represented, as long as the two largest parties manage to keep the smaller parties divided.

And in the US, that situation has devolved to the point that many voters don't even bother to vote for the smaller parties anymore, because they'd be throwing away their vote. And instead, they vote for candidates they disagree with because the only other viable candidate would be even worse.

Just use proportional representation. That's the only way to ensure that all political opinions get represented. It's not perfect, because nothing ever is, but at least the system is flexible, and voters can vote for completely new parties if they disagree with all existing parties, and those new parties can actually win seats.