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> why does virgin bitcoin hold a premium over circulated ones

Because people doing bad things are happy to swap their dirty coins for clean ones that can be spent in the developed world. The people mining the clean coins in Mongolia couldn't care less about the other party selling weed on the internet in Germany and happily take the generous premium.

> And why do coins seized by law enforcement sell for bellow market value?

Because the onerous requirements to purchase such bitcoin from the government adds cost and simply buying the same amount on market has very little friction or overhead.
Has anyone ever noticed how hard it is to criticize crypto?

Like, when you do it you wind up defending it from anti-crypto people that were going to agree with you no matter what except they have stupid arguments and you’re like “dude wait no thats not how it works”
Maybe it’s best understood like a Big Mac. One crappy burger after another, eaten for eternity because they are reliably average. There’s money to be made as a serial provider of homogeneous sustenance
Hi, I'm not the GP but I have a couple thoughts here.

I can't speak to the first point because I do not know enough about that statement on inflation to either confirm or refute it.

- The author singled out UST as their primary example of "stablecoins are anything but stable". This dismisses every other stablecoin out there which has not had issues, USDC being the main one I'm thinking of. Were they to make the claim that "algorithmic stablecoins are not stable" I would 100% agree with them, especially considering what may happen with USDD in the near future.

They also bring up Tether in this section, which as far as I am aware was not at risk of being insolvent at the time.

I do not like Tether. I find Patio11's take on Tether to be convincing enough and I would never consciously choose to hold any Tether.

But to claim that Tether was close to collapsing a few weeks ago is, using Hanlon's Razor, a minsunderstanding of what happened during that time. There was fear that Tether would lose its peg, it lost its peg on exchanges for a few hours, and the company which issues Tether continued to process cashouts honoring the peg.

If Tether Limited were to begin putting obstacles in the way of withdrawals, I would be incredibly worried. As of this time, it has not happend. And because it has not happened, this section was not factual.

- The author stated that the claim of "no one can regulate cryptocurrencies" has been broken, but presented one example of mining being banned in one country and intended (but not enacted) legislation in another.

This does not present enough evidence in my opinion to form a valid statement.

- The author makes several claims about the presentation of smart contracts, and refrences a category of protocols and projects which had fatal flaws in the coding of their contracts.

I agree that poorly written contracts and/or overlooked bugs have caused a lot of financial damage. But this point is made with the implication that all code should be perfect and flawless is a very odd approach to take. To be clear, I do expect better from the engineering efforts that come out of these DeFi protocols which get compromised.

However, there was always going to be someone writing the code for the smart contracts being deployed and that means that bugs were always going to happen.

Perhaps if there was more rigorous regulation in this space we will have protocols in the future staffed by hundreds if not thousands of individuals all working to ensure regulatory complicance first, just like big banks. But even then, I would never expect them to deploy code with zero bugs.

I can't speak to the intended definition of the term "smart contract" nor the author's suggestion that the implication of having the word "contract" in the term would betray trust in users, that's just not a can of worms I'd like to try my hand at.
The bitcoin cash fork is incomparable, because it wasn't done because Bitcoin itself was under attack.

It doesn't even matter if there'd be a fork. It would be a significant disruption at the very least.
Minor correction:

iff |a| < |b| then round(|a|) < = round(|b|)
There will be a vision statement published as soon as Mike Parker has finished editing it.
I actually don't think an e-paper Laptop is a viable product.
I totally want an e-paper computer, but just linux or windows on an e-paper screen sounds dreadful.

The problem with this kind of device is not so much the hardware but software. I think this is the reason we don't see many of these kind of devices and why we probably will not get them anytime soon. Software is a big hurdle these days and it makes quite a few specialized devices like tablets or small notebooks really hard to innovate on for small companies. You can build them, but they can't unfold their full potential if they just cram software made for other devices in a smaller form factor.

I think a usable e-paper computer would probably need to start at an ereader or a traditional pda and expand from there. Not to give up general purpose computing, which I think would actually be very important and is what hampers devices like the remarkable, but to have a solid foundation of software that works great on that kind of device and makes it useful even to casual users. That would then be a great base to expand on to get a good suite of applications and develop a more broadly useful e-paper OS/UI.
Colombian juggles and solves three puzzle cubes shattering record
While serde is the de facto standard for JSON in Rust, it's not actually in the standard library, so there's no one true "JSON document" type for the logger to accept. Anyway, the point of the JSON serializer taking a writer is so that it can push tokens straight to an IO device (the network, in this case), one by one, without having to hold the entire abstract structure in memory. And even if you had a dedicated "JsonWriter" interface for streaming that validates on the way out, you'd have cases where a string is already known to be valid JSON but to send it you have to pay the cost of an extra validation for no good reason. I love me some strong, static types, but sometimes you gotta let bytes be bytes.

The silently dropping bad input, yeah, that part was just bad developer experience on the vendor's part.
Writing both boring and interesting finance code is very nice in D. The contract programming in particular catches dumb mistakes very quickly.
> people who had been comfortably part of the upper middle class would lose EVERYTHING, and in many cases end up starving to death

The upper middle class own non-monetary assets, they are probably the least affected by inflation.

> For the Germans, this left an impression that resembled the Shoah for the jews.

No, not really and not even close. At least because the Weimar hyperinflation hasn’t caused mass starvation. Second because losing your savings is not even close to being stripped naked and beaten once a week and then being put on a cattle wagon to be slaughtered 1000 kilometres from home.
I think it is super important that you give this information to lawyer who makes your will and no one else. Especially not your spouse. Why? Statistically, 30% of spouses cheat and get deeply enamored in affairs where anything can happen. It's one of the most fascinating facets of human relationship. Most people think it will never happen to them but it is extraordinarily random with no rhyme or reason. There are people who donated their kidney to their spouse and even that didn't prevent affairs. So, when it comes to spouses, you are always tossing a biased coin, every day. In Western world, the chanced that you will be eventually end up divorced is 50%. The smartest and most desirable people, everyone from von Neumann to Brad Pitt, have ended up in affairs and divorces.
The solution to these problems is not to tax the person, but the company itself: every year a certain faction of stock is nationalized and distributed to the population of the county without which the company would not be possible.

It's the only realistic option to provide a UBI: in a world where human capital is quickly depreciating, provide people with financial capital so that they can still be a part of the resource distribution and consumption game.
This inflicted pain and damage appears to have no significant impact on adult quality of life though. Circumcision may also even reduce the bacterial load and hence reduce chances of infections and cancer: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/12/10/acc-is-infant-circumci...

It's a non-issue.
I paid people with crypto (a client paid me in crypto so I thought why not) for work and goods; these were people who were told by believers this will be a currency like you suggest. After (in 2018) they asked me if they could get money instead if they gave that crypto back to me. As long as people cannot actually buy flower and yeast with crypto from the wholesale supplier, it is kind of doomed.
Not sure how I feel about Twitter user HODLneverSODL as a source.
Doesn't make any sense - there's no benefit to Intel (why would anyone order more CPUs?) and there's much more downside from all other customers.
I think it's a specific cultural idiosyncrasy that comes from (I'm guessing) modern USA.

There's this strange "work-life balance" ethos, where the two have some sort of invisible barrier that holds them at diametric odds with one another. I'm still working out a theory, but I think it's a descendant of the Greatest Generation/Baby Boomer work values starting in the 1940s after practically every able-bodied young man became militarized.

Needless to say (or maybe needfully), it's tripe, as you've indicated. Work creates meaning in its own right, yes, but not if someone despises it, and a sense of duty alone will _not_ empower someone to sleep well at night.
Venture capital firms are often formed by… billionaires, at last check.
The Phobos/Tango thing has literally been settled for basically 10 to 13 years now.

Beyond that D is a good language for writing software in. all language communities have fractures unless the language attracts lots of either new or bad programmers who haven't formed opinions yet
> Has the whole 2-library thing been fixed?

If you're talking about the whole Tango/Phobos (2 std libs) thing, it's fixed and Phobos won. But now there are optional function attributes such as @nogc (checks that the code doesn't trigger the GC), @safe (memory safety checks) and nothrow that's causing a bit of a problem.

For example, not all libraries are @nogc. So if you want to use some library in your @nogc code and the library is not marked as @nogc, you can't use that library. This is not as bad as the two standard libraries problem but it restricts the libraries you can use.

The attributes are optional like I said, you can just ignore them and write code that uses the GC (not @nogc), code that is not explicitly checked by compiler for memory safety (not @safe) and code that throws exceptions (not nothrow).

Of course this is sort of expected in multi-paradigm languages, like some people disable C++ exceptions. But in D's case it feels like the compiler and library developers' efforts are spread thin.
What would be the best and seamless way to host this cheat sheet?
In German, a <z> always makes a /ts/ sound and in modern orthography, "tz" is only used after (short) vowels.
There are a lot of things that might be considered totalitarian about the UK, but this isn't one of them.
Are Microsoft, Google, and Tesla not doing basic research?
Not quite what you asked for, but this is a nice resource for at a glance assessment of supplements:

https://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-...
I read lots of (genre) fiction books but never heard of this guy before today, or any of his books.
LDC does a fairly good job of removing brain-dead GC allocations (mainly for closures).

As for style, we have very few issues getting non-D programmers writing D. They don't know the fancy stuff exists until we tell them when they need it.
> Last time I bought some bitcoin I had to scan my passport just to buy it on an exchange.

There are plenty of exchanges that don't care one bit about KYC. Of course, you get a significantly shittier exchange rate and sometimes waiting times of up to 90 days before you can do anything with your coins.
I don't get your point. You mean we should just keep on building a dystopia because someone positive aspects will probably show themselves along the way?
Well most high risk ideas fail, which is why it’s handy that we have billionaires willing to risk. Why should taxpayers be on the hook?
Chasing mass appeal AAA is a lost cause. For every Doom or StarCraft, there's 9 WoW expansions, 10 Battlefields, 11 FIFAs, and 12 Call of Duties.

After staying mad at the triple A industry more than a decade, I am finally content. The Boomer shooters scene is thriving. There are countless actually good platformers and puzzles. It's crazy, really.

"2 One thing I really don’t like about the general direction of “indie” games is that they seem more concerned with aesthetics. It’s often aesthetic progressivism mixed with design orthodoxy. A beautiful hand-drawn art style for a puzzle platformer less complicated than Mario."

Aha. If you say so, buddy. Something tells me even the smallest real world hypermarket or big supermarket has more junk for sale than what's on steam/itch.io + consoles combined.
Building a Second Brain: The Book
The issue with those promises is that they're pretty much empty promises because while they are true at their core, they don't hold much basis in reality for every day use.

"P2P money/value transfer, no banks, no intermediary => delivered;"

At it's core, yes. For any sort of adoption/usage ability for the 'average day person', there will always be a requirement for some sort of intermediary company.

"nobody owns Bitcoin network => delivered;"

At it's core, yes. However, having no 'owner' is rather meaningless as governments can regulate it and decide how Bitcoin is used; which has the same effects/problems as an 'owner'.

"no government with no amount of regulation can stop a transaction from happening"

At it's core, yes. However, again, this is pretty much meaningless because they can make it illegal for a transaction to happen or they can make transactions allowed but under their rules.

- everybody can take a part in Bitcoin network, you don't need anyone permission to join (ie. oppressive government)

At it's core, yes. But again it's not based on reality of life. If an oppressive government outlawed bitcoin, you wouldn't be able to take part in the Bitcoin network unless you wanted to break the law. Bitcoin would be on its knees if the only people that could use it were purely illegal users. (compared to its current situation)
I'd draw the line by trying to evaluate the utility of adding electronics vs. not adding it.

RFID tags on clothing and other such items - good and reasonable, because it aids with logistics and has no major downsides for the customer (and potentially adds value, e.g. by including washing instruction for supported washing machines that could warn you if the settings don't match the clothes the put in).

Adding internet connectivity to most household appliances - questionable at best, actually reducing utility at worst (see [0]).

AI-powered fridges [1] - bad value, gimmicky idea that drives up prices, makes the system more prone to failure (added complexity), more expensive, and adds little to no value:

So you want to know what's in your fridge while standing in front of it?

Good idea: just open it to take a peek inside.

Bad idea: adding an LCD screen to the door that activates if you knock on the fridge door [2]

So you want to know what's inside your fridge at home while grocery shopping, so you don't accidentally forget to buy something or buy something you already have?

Bad idea: add AI powered item detection and internet connectivity to your fridge that then communicates with your smartphone, may get bricked remotely [0], get infected by malware, or become expensive to fix.

Good idea: add the same functionality in the form of a smartphone app that either scans barcodes or uses (local!) AI to identify items (e.g. by taking a snapshot of the fridge's content) and that can auto-generate a shopping list for refilling the fridge or by matching its content against a weekly plan of meals (feel free to implement this idea and make millions of it, I'll allow it).

There's certainly more and better examples to be found if you look for them, but these are just some quick examples illustrating what a quick cost-benefit-analysis could look like.

[0] https://www.electromaker.io/blog/article/electrolux-accident...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/2/21046822/samsung-lg-smart-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4aeGzafgbQ
Printing seems safest. I wouldn't want to gamble on a pi not corrupting the boot SD card or something of the like.
How is "the community" going to switch when "the community" includes the 51%?
> Bars do work way better

Bars are great if you want to meet bargoing people. Personally, it seems more like selecting for an alcoholic, although that might say more about me than the people I meet at bars?

I am not sure I would recommend going to bars to find a partner.
Some people say stabbing someone with a knife is bad. Some people say you should ban all knifes, including your butter knife. Where do you draw the line?
That means dealing with exchanges that are likely involved in illegal activities so a kind of mute point.
That was the plan here at least for the truly sensitive data. Print it out with spaces and write on it by hand and store in a safe location.
This is very cool. He also dropped the VT-OS version, including his gfx library!!

Edit: also... SlashDot still exists? Wow...
Japan makes online insults punishable by one year in prison
That's why I have a problem with someone else managing my money (outside of direct fund managers, of course, who take a fixed percentage fee and are incentivized to have the fund grow, not to fleece me).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvZSpET11ZY
By what mechanism would they not accept? Sure you can leave and create a new network, as much as you can choose one of the many other cryptos already out there.
Maybe "Hit the ESC button" would be a better way of putting it.
The main issue with the nogc and nothrow flags is people taking a feature designed for careful consideration, and using them for building from-scratch code with often no philosophy other than a vague and usually completely unfounded mental model where GC == slow.

Write the code first then measure it.
More than 3. I am seeing 10.
The point is that like an .env file, you won't commit your information. Just copy the file and edit it or print it out.
While it may be trivial in implementation, its unrealistic due to the cost.

>In reality, the Bitcoin network has proven resilient enough to withstand a 51% attack over the years. In fact, due to the size of the Bitcoin network and the extent to which hash power is decentralized, along with the cost of mining equipment, it’s prohibitively expensive to attack Bitcoin. We estimate it would cost over $13 billion

https://learn.eqonex.com/news/what-51-attack-and-how-much-wo...
What is your workflow to bookmark in "bulk"?
So, in real life, you need a passport. Or all these other advantages are moot.
increasingly sure the crash was a whale dumping while the dumping was good. The market out to genuine actual dollar USD was always very thin, and it only takes one guy cutting and running.

also I'm quite pleased we called 3AC ... four hours ahead.

wonder who's next. USDD is obviously going down, but they're not systemic ...
This is true. It might be easier for in the interim while they don't have a death certificate though.
> e.g. the labour market, often revolves around free markets being good -- because it favors this typical HN's user position.

Care to explain? I'd imagine that something along the lines of unionization wouldn't hurt the salaries of tech workers.

> Thinking the imbalance is unfair is a mark of expected privilege as they have in other space

I find it interesting to refer to labor exchange value as a "privilege", as if it were something arbitrarily bestowed from some higher authority. Wage is the result of adversarial relationships between demand and supply and not one of some arbitrary authority doling out favors left and right with strings attached
No need to go so far back, this comic calling mobile phones a horror is from 1919.

https://boingboing.net/2018/01/31/century-old-comic-accurate...
One is allowed to hold right-wing opinions.
I was seeing Extreme programming being a thing and using DUnit for Delphi in the late 90's (possibly early 2000, but I left the Job I was using this for by mid 2000.)
This is good life advice also, the key is self-examination and having the open mindedness to see and act on errors.
That is the intended use for this as well. The markdown is just for a template that is easily extensible.
> The most common form of inflation is due to an increasing money supply

Not really. The money supply only affects inflation in that it increases demand for some things quicker than supply can meet demand. In that regard, untargeted stimulus money did that. Let's not forget though that there is also significant supply disruptions with covid, the war in Ukraine... There's also strong supply-side factors to the inflation we're experiencing.
>by storing different patterns of bits, Hertzbleed might be able to extract the system key from the timings to save data.

Isn't that practically impossible given the amount of random software running on a regular computer nowadays? This is not based on hdd write speeds but processor timings which are affected by every single cat video you are watching.
herd immunity
Not a good analogy. Tech can be used for good or bad. Cheap processors are not the equivalent of stabbing someone.
It's the SDK for Fastly's edge computing service, so not something you're likely to run into without getting paid for it. And no, still has the brokenness, still has the internal comment warning their own engineers not to do it wrong[1]. I'm doubtful that my support ticket about the issue ever made it to anyone who actually knows Rust.

(edit to add: the feature was in beta at the time and we were early adopters, so Support not knowing how to field issues about it was sorta understandable. Their engineers seemed cool when I had the chance to talk to them)

[1] https://docs.rs/fastly/0.8.5/src/fastly/log.rs.html#171
I guess it depends on the model, I can think of 2 examples:

1- A service that feeds on your custom data/integrations: Something like Algolia where you can limit to a usage quota without worrying about time because once onboarded, creating a trashable second free account is a pain (or not possible at all)

2- A service that is stateless or relies on generic data, think currency exchange API. Limiting by time will only cause users to just create an account every $X amount of time to keep using the free-tier.
Instagram is telling teens to stop doomscrolling. Will they listen?
Not killing spiders is actually a great thing, as if they are able to survive inside your house, that mean they have enough food to survive. Given the fact that they mostly eat bugs, mosquitos and other insects, they are quite beneficial indoors (that also means you probably have more insects in your house that you would feel comfortable with).
One problem for me is that I lose motivation after writing the documentation, thinking that burdensome implementation of the details should be left as an exercise to others.
Perhaps slightly off topic but playing with parallel numerical computations I found that C++17/20's "parallel for" loops are significantly faster than using manually created threads.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/execution_policy...