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>So why would one want to have Luna when you got Terra?

There are 3 different things: Governance related, market module related, and staking related.

You can spend 50 LUNA to submit a governance proposal. The second is to stake your LUNA. When your LUNA is staked the first benefit is that you can vote on governance proposals. Proposals can be onchain changes such as modifying a parameter or an offchain change which people should respect even if there is nothing technically forcing them to follow it.

There is a limited amount of UST that exists so what happens if more people want UST? You can burn LUNA to mint new UST. In times where the demand for UST is strong enough to make UST go above $1 it may be profitable for someone to burn their LUNA to mint UST.

Every transaction has gas fees. Any swaps between stable coins have a tobin tax. Using the market module to exchange UST for LUNA has a spread fee. All of these fees are collected and then distributed to the stakers. To help protect against times when the protocol is less active the fees are actually spread out over time. Right now every 5 blocks 5/9400000 of the reward pool is paid out to people staking. 9400000 is how many blocks there are in 2 years.
I can second that.
Customers really love the very simple and clean UI and I love the Developer experience :-)

But yes it would not be a replacement for WordPress if you want to click together a site with themes and plugins
A deflationary currency was never going to be viable as money.
I only have a handful of Jest unit tests, but they each take nearly 30 seconds nowadays and I don't really know why. Maybe because everything is wrapped in a Formik top level tag? Maybe it somehow pulls in and executes all my code multiple times over? There's probably something silly going on there.

Anyway as just the one developer on this project, I don't see the value in writing unit tests for every one of my components. They just work, I'll leave them alone for a few years until someone else builds a new UI.
> Are there many companies that operate under a freemium/freeware business model that provide free support to anyone?

Does it matter that it's freemium. Google make obscene profits. They have plenty of money to fund support if they wanted to.
watch out the fine print though:

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1524615058688724992

34MB firmware

Good, but I'll try to stick with AMD. If only AMD's opencl support was better...
Which is why the proposal was always to have it behind either a runtime of compile time flag. It has never been their plan to unilaterally change the way this works (py2>3 style).
Hmm, I guess it would somehow outlaw my xubuntu desktop? Seems hard to implement.
To some extent it's just a name, and it's used across the industry. Similarly, "accessibility" doesn't scream "allow people with disabilities to use your product as well" - at some point, you just have to assume people either know what something means, or will figure it out as they go.

(In fact, "a11y" might even be better in that regard, in that it's clearly not a regular word, and thus might cause you to wonder what it means, whereas "accessibility" might lead you to make incorrect assumptions about what they're doing.)
I came across this problem when working with ASP.NET Core. Sending nested dictionaries is very verbose and nontrivial to serialize and deserialize.

So I rolled my own solution to parse JSON parameters and integrated it with the framework for validation and OpenAPI support.

https://abdus.dev/posts/aspnetcore-model-binding-json-query-...
Great New Features Coming to Thunderbird 102
> I suppose you mean a larger group of people than my closest family and a bunch of friends?

No. I mean exactly on that scale. It could be friends and family, it could be your employer and your co-workers. It could be you and some members of your church.

My recommendation on Hub20 is "don't open an account in any instance unless you and the operator could knock on each other's doors".

> more than an established physical bank?

Trust is a sliding scale. It's up to you to know how comfortable you'll be by leaving funds on the hands of each.
Speaking from personal experience I found the process of using dart to be VERY painless. I'm mostly a web developer, but have taken some Java courses in college and have dabbled in a bit of C# outside of my normal PHP/JS work.

We decided to take on an app project at work. We had made one using nativescript-vue, but the experience left much to be desired and I wanted to look for alternatives.

A friend had talked favorably about Flutter so I decided to install and check it out. Within a few hours, I had a pretty good looking MVP of the app we were building (it was very basic to begin with). The experience developing a Flutter
app was really good.

It felt like I already knew the language from the get go. It worked pretty much as expected. I only had to google things like async/await because dart writes their functions like `(arg) async => expr` while javascript puts the async before the function `async arg => expr`.

YMMV if you're not using the languages which Dart draws inspiration from I guess. But I'dd be surprised if you feel you would need to spend significant amount of time learning Dart.
Always keep in your mind that the money invested in cryptocurrencies is wasted money!

Therefore, never take credit to buy cryptocurrencies!

Would you take out a credit to buy a lottery ticket? Probably not! It's the same with cryptocurrencies! It's your fault for losing your money!
NATO has been on Russian borders for almost 2 decades (and way longer if you include Norway, but that border is arguably too remote to really count). So what plan, exactly?
My new phone was a Nokia XR20, headphone jack included
>Most finns, especially the young generations, feel most affinity towards west in every sense.

It's true that most finns feel affinity towards the west, but same can't be said about the USA. Especially the younger generation sees both Russia and US with somewhat strong dislike.
As an executive member of a nonprofit, this was exactly the kind of headache I hoped for. You can do as lot of good with $100K. Definitely worth the trouble.
Cryptowatch has a trollbox right next to their charts.
https://cryptowat.ch/charts/KRAKEN:USDT-USD?period=1h

Click the chat icon (under the bell icon) on the rightmost sidebar to open it up.
The decline of Heroku is a shame, they were the first to really make cloud accessible to all.

Over at Northflank (https://northflank.com), we're trying to continue that trend and great developer experience is our main priority. We address many of the same points you mention - simply `git push` to build and deploy (using Dockerfiles or Buildpacks), instant free DNS & TLS, one-click addons (Postgres, Mongo, Redis...), environment variables inherited from databases, and much much more - all with sensible pricing.

Feel free to check out what we've been building at https://northflank.com/changelog
WSL? It was developed jointly by Canonical and MS,and makes Windows better.
I don't understand.

How do you ensure you have enough Luna to maintain the exchange? If you hold enough Luna but then the price of Luna goes down, where do you get your extra Luna from? A run on your promise kills you.
Thats not really how it works either :).

If you and I both agree to trade 0.000001BTC @ a price of $1,000,000/BTC, meaning the total value of our trade is $1, and we both know that the supply of bitcoin is 19,000,000 coins. Does that make the "Market cap" of bitcoin 1.9Quintillion dollars? Obviously not.

Market cap is a historically bad metric to track when comparing things like this.

So back to your question at hand, how would a $80B USDT market cap topple a $500B market cap. Well, first we realize based on the above silly example, $500B isn't necessarily the real value. If Bitfinex (tether) has been printing USDT and using that to buy bitcoin, then the market cap of BTC is inflated by an asset effectively worth $0.

Once this realization sets in, panic selling starts, and there is an overwhelming greater number of sellers than buyers, and it doesn't take $500B worth of trades to topple a coin with a $500B market cap (if that market cap is inflated by hopes and dreams).
What the hell are you talking about? You can't compare any EU country to Russia. Putin is an evil dictator who's opposition gets murdered or thrown in jail. And what's with the neo-nazi talk, don't think many of us EU citizens encounter neo nazies in our daily lives. But Russia has gone full nazi now invading other countries, raping and murdering civilians while wearing their new Z symbol.
How do you get in touch with VCs in SV or other serious ecosystems?
The background: I split my 30y career half & half between investment banking and startups. Yet I am located in Italy, an area where VC is in its infancy.

After having devoted 7 years to my own startup () I started helping other startups for funding and business development with a few friends. We are all ex bankers with lots of international exposure.

We got ourselves a Pitchbook subscription to find intelligence on who was active in the relevant sectors, made sure the pitching material for our first startup was solid (it's a world class tool for genetic diagnosis, just confirmed by a US competition where the best global players attended) and started reaching out with the infamous cold emails, with Docsend links.

Not that I am particularly good at replying to cold emails, but if they are personal and carefully written I will probably oblige.

Yet we basically received one (most likely) automatic answer and a second immediate refusal out of 25/30 attempts. One of the two opened the links. Period.

What can we do to have reasonable chances to get in touch with relevant people?

One thing that we, as a team, ensure, is that we do our work on the "item" that we speak about. Both from the startup side and the candidate investors one.

After all if banking teaches you something is that you are supposed to go really deep on the topic if you want to make it work.

Thanks for any pointers you might share.

() which has never been able to get funded even if it got a grant and a Seal of Excellence from the most competitive institution in the EU (EIC)
Thanks! I wasn't familiar with a couple of these, I will definitely check them out.
Congrats!

Most importantly, will they open source Optimus? Even though the drivers work, getting everything to render on the GPU, and output to the laptop LCD, has always been an inconsistent pain.
dunno whether your comment is sarcastic or not... But it is definitely not safe to visit china. After the case of the two canadians, it is always a risk and there were some incidents before that also.
I really loved it the first time I read about it. So I added it to my private page for every (close) relative that is already and dearly missed. <3
> resume driven development node modules

Hahahah!!! So true!! ;D .. i think i've written a couple of those!
> it quietly pits users with special accessibility needs against the rest

Not just that; it pits users with one accessibility need against users with another. (Or I guess, not "pits" so much, sometimes needs just conflict.) For example, for someone with motor impairments, having to control the mouse (or pressing Tab a lot) to focus an input field rather than being able to use their keyboard right away is not a great experience.
It doesn't count as real crypto until zionic has heard of it?

Irrespective of your attitude to an unheard-of coin, the situation rather epitomises the problem many have with crypto. They start off as penny stocks, but people expect them all to rocket to Fortune 500 levels for no good reason other than all the other gullible idiots pumping their savings into them, forgetting in their greed that it's quite as easy to start a run if you have enough.

Before you know it —and I very much mean you there— they're trading at $120 with a cap of $32bn before the floor drops out. I know a cap isn't tangible value but none of this stuff is. That didn't stop this being a top 10 crypto currency at one point.

It's all Monopoly money. You can get rich trading it, but you can also lose everything. A lot of people are getting fractions of a penny on their dollar investment. All because, what? It stinks of pump and dump. It all stinks of pump and dump.

Pile on the environmental disaster that is proof of work, and you should be able to see why people hate crypto. It's weirder that more people don't but on investigation that's usually because they have skin in the game.
Politely, I would point out that the makers of Ubuntu have said that as far as they are concerned Flutter is the future of desktop app development on Linux and all their projects moving forward will be using it by default because they believe in it so much.

They just started in Ubuntu 22.04 by rewriting their installer (I.e the very first thing users see when coming into contact with Ubuntu) to be a Flutter app.

It has proper first class support rather than the hacky and unofficial (and possibly poorly maintained) workarounds you suggested to do cross platform development.
Theoretically, they could guarantee it by just holding all dollars they are given originally.

A price is just an abstraction for the willingness to buy and sell. If you know there are 1000 of some token in the world, and you have 1000 of some item, you can guarantee that people will always be able to buy one item for one token - by selling your items to them at that price.

But of course, just holding the dollars makes it hard to profit.
Don't you struggle with old/obsolete packages? Stuff like Docker, Wayland, but not only, need recent kernels and libraries.
Thanks! I stumbled upon your post earlier this year when I ran into the exact same issues
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A lot of pro-crypto users avoid USDT like the plague and assume it will at some point come crashing down (and drag the market down along with it).
I am still pissed off since buying a Chromecast just to realize there was no way to watch videos on a harddrive on the home network.
It’s hard to find a bank to take your money, since you’re something that rhymes with money laundering. Tether had a bunch of money stolen from them because the money launderer they used turned out to be a crook.

It also takes a long time to get this going and there are moderately high costs to a minimally viable financial entity (reporting, compliance). A few years ago they only had a couple billion which makes it hard.

And all of that sets aside the allegation that tether has been printing tethers it’s entire life — that it’s basically never been fully backed by dollars.
I never thought I would ever see this.

I hope this is what Fins want long term. Tensions are high now, but this is a commitment that may last decades.

Perhaps more worriesome is that I think there are still terrotory disputes over the lands taken in the winter war.
What about GTX 16xx users? I have a GTX 1650 which is based on Turing but doesn't have the new NVENC encoder, I wonder if the new OSS driver will support this GPU, if it has that RISCV chip that everyone's talking about.
It's not great even if you pay for it.

This was the Google One support email I recieved for trying to cancel a Youtube premium sub on an account that got wiped for spams/scams that prevented access to the subscription page... which is another basket case of drama since the account doesn't post any content or interact with Youtube other than view videos. Just deleted out of the blue with no prior warning.

>We'd really love to help you regarding this concern, and I also can imagine how important this is to you. It's just that we don't have the proper training, or the updated knowledge (regarding this topic) for us to help you effectively.

Yeah. BTW this was from Youtube support after One support forwarded them the ticket. NVM they wiped all my uploaded music migrated from Google Music and 20 years of playlists. Even Google Takeout for services seem to be gone. Appeal was also denied without any explanation, so have to wait another couple weeks to try again.
You just mint Luna at will.

The problem occurs when the amount of Luna that trades for $1 becomes undefined because nobody is willing to do the trade anymore.
> Maybe I am wrong, but couldn't this effort be put to rewriting parts of it in a more performant language like Go or Rust?

This is absolutely a valid point, and I'm slightly perplexed as well.

Pragmatic (and smaller) companies like GitLab have indeed approached the system by rewriting part of their product in more performant languages (Golang in GitLab's case).

Another pragmatic approach is Stripe's AOT compiler, which is (I suppose) much less resource-intensive to develop, and it's, in a way, the "optimize-the-bottleneck" approach, rather than trying to improve the performance of the whole language.

> they could have probably build a very Ruby on Rails like framework

This would cost a lot in terms of community and support, it would take a very long time to release, and it would also cost them a lot to migrate to.

All in all, it's perfectly possible that Rails itself is hard to optimize for, and that for large-scale monoliths, splitting out microservices (with moderation!) may be not be effective and/or efficient. But I'm still curious at why GitLab's (moderate!) microservice approach wasn't chosen for Shopify.
When the git push process finishes, do you know that the deploy succeeded without running any other command or looking at other logs? Does the push fail if it the deploy itself was unsuccessful?
I see in a different way, my take from comments read in the past here about Google employees, is that they build new products to get promoted, when they get promoted they jump to another project and then soon you will see the product in the graveyard[0].

[0] https://killedbygoogle.com
Why I’m Bullish on Britain, and Betting on Its Future
This makes the formal application next week a foregone conclusion. But, it already was.

Perhaps more interesting is that it makes the swedish application almost inevitable as well, and it might happen at the same time.
Look at the map, the NATO doesn't have much land borders with Russia. With Finland joining... the length of land border will multiply. This will surely pose a challenge.
In poor countries regulations are often much more lax. Especially when it comes to harmless things like glasses.
It's dual-licensed MIT/GPLv2
Those days are long gone. Just working hard is not sufficient anymore.
Finish president: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhLNBxpo8zY

> Russia, you caused this.
"The Foundation for the Study of Democracy is led by Maksim Grigoriev. He is the Chairman of the Coordinating Council for Public Control over Voting at the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation. The organisation started working on discrediting the Ukrainian side in 2013, when pro-Russian president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union."

The document they provided is pure Russian propaganda. It doesn't need excusing.
Terra does not move in value. It’s like owning cash vs owning stocks.

The cash is less risky but it’s value does not change (apart from inflation).

Stocks are more risky but may give you profit over time.
More accurately why would you want either when the whole thing is propped up by marketing hype.

To properly answer your question, Terra has no upside: no way to 10x. So yes, gambling.
In theory you should be able to do it if you always have reserves worth more than the total number of outstanding tether. If you distribute 40b tether and have $50b in liquid cash, you can guarantee that you will pay exactly $1 for each tether. Obviously everyone holding your coin is exposed to changes to the value of your dollars, but you can always give them $1 for 1 tether. The problem is of course that you can make a great deal more money for yourself if you invest in riskier ways than holding liquid cash.

I don't think the Black Wednesday situation is similar, because the UK was never going to be able to hold enough of the currencies it was supposedly pegged to to make that same promise. Definitely not my expertise there though!
I think on balance Approval Voting would be an improvement, by removing the spoiler effect and allowing new parties to emerge (and old parties to split), but you're right that burdening voters with difficult strategic questions is not a decision that should be taken lightly.

Of course, FPTP has its own strategic problems, leading to people having choose whether to vote against their actual preference, but this is at least a familiar problem for people that have experienced this type of election before. I suppose that voters who are confused by Approval Voting could continue to treat their ballot as if it were a FPTP ballot, but this does feel like it is giving more voting power to people who are more intelligent (which some people here might undemocratically see as a positive) or more devious (which people might not see themselves as).

For me, though, the biggest issue with Approval Voting is that it makes the counting process harder, which risks entrenching the need for untrustworthy electronic voting machines. Approval Voting does at least satisfy the Summability criterion, but, if counting by hand, the ballots ideally need to be divided into 2^N separate piles (for N candidates), or there needs to be N separate running tallies of votes, as opposed to under FPTP where there only needs to be N piles, and the piles could even be weighed to count them.

I don't believe that it is an unreasonable requirement that an electoral reform proposal allows easy hand counting of ballots, as MMP can be just as easy to count as FPTP. (If a separate ballot paper is used to express party preference in addition to candidate preference, that effectively means 2N piles, but the Zweitmandat system allows the party preference to be inferred without needing the second ballot paper).