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> How is crypto better lubricant than the current financial system?

That's easier to answer, but it's not what's usually asked. The OP asked "what's the use case of crypto" which is kind of like asking "what is the use case of financial instruments" and that's pretty difficult to explain to someone who has zero background in finance.

So why is a financial ecosystem based on crypto better? It's permissionless and makes the same services globally accessible to anyone in the world. It can to move and evolve faster because everything comes with open composable APIs allowing developers to implement new ideas quickly. It can be significantly cheaper due to eliminating middleman, which is already happening with AMMs that have liquidity and volume comparable to centralized counterparts. It's transparent in that you can see the current state of the market (e.g. collateralization ratios) and protect yourself accordingly. And it can protect you from bad centralized actors that manipulate monetary policy for their own benefit.

These are pretty convincing pros for me. Of course they also come with cons. If anyone can create financial instruments by copying & pasting a token template you'll end up with tons of scams. If you need distributed consensus to make decisions things move more slowly. For some people the cons will outweigh the pros. But there aren't many "consumer use cases" like Twitter on a blockchain that are easy to explain because it's fundamentally a financial infrastructure layer.
Well, if you've made dozens of people learn something, then that's surely better than filling millions of peoples heads with nothing but vapid nonsense, isn't it?
Is a bartender morally obligated to leave because they acknowledge the harm alcohol causes to society?

Is the crypto dev more or less obligated than the bartender?

Really I agree with you, but also feel like this is a thread that people aren't that keen on unravelling or talking about because it leads them to realize that their job probably isn't as 'un-shady' as at first glance.
In my home country where these things are more valuable relative to income, there are people running around scamming companies by joining them only to collect the macbook, sell a couple of days later and repeat. Apparently it happened enough times that recruiter started complaining on linkedin. I don't understand why anyone capable of landing a tech job would do that, they probably cheated on the interview process somehow.
Or is it actually fortunate? The delay in properly incorporating Arabic into the IT environment gave the rendering infrastructure time to enrich and develop more elaborate textual representation such as advanced ligatures. This means Arabic text rendering has not had to be bent into the plain linear forms that Latin text more naturally falls into.
There is a serious problem that is not much discussed. Bitcoin is susceptible to a 51% hash rate double-spend attack. As Bitcoin has grown, this has never been a practical issue. No miner or consortium has had that much hash-rate compared to the rest of the market.

But when the hashrate drops below 50% of its previous maximum, that means that there are idle mining resources enough to carry out the attack. And owners of those resources may not mind throwing the whole Bitcoin system into chaos if they can get one last big payday.

The lower the active hashrate grows, the smaller the consortium required to make an attack.

So watch for chain forks and double-spend attacks. Maybe not this month or this year, but my expectation is it will be part of the eventual Bitcoin downward spiral.
Electricity is usually much much cheaper than food calories — 2500 kcal is about 3 kWh, apply your local energy and food costs — so electricity won’t be the limiting factor, but construction cost/longevity and AI quality will be.

Assuming equal capacity (not any time soon but might happen eventually), anywhere that electricity was cheaper than Germany’s famously expensive average of US$0.45/kWh would be able to afford to replace any human labourer with a robot, even if the humans were at the UN threshold for abject poverty (US$1.90/day, which is why I gave German electricity in USD rather than EUR) and that human somehow worked productively for 33h45m per day.
The primary key is, in effect, an index. Specializing on the latitude field of a table of geographic data seems like an incredibly small thing to nitpick.
Maybe, others who left first.

But space is big. [citation needed]
so, btc about 2x the growth rate of one of the best performing stocks in history, even when cherry picking the end of a crash for btc? good point

btw btc 15,100% growth in that time period
The path separator, drive letter and text file line endings get me. But back when I switched to Linux for development it was the very slow file searches on Windows. I am fine with either macOS or Linux. Not windows.
Quit. It’s a scam.
As you already know quite well, heavy industry produces useful products and jobs, and is not a get-rich-quick pyramid scheme.

Take a step back and look at what you're doing: lamely attempting to justify and carry the water for Bitcoin's horrible energy waste and pollution, when you already know quite well what the counterarguments to your ridiculous shilling and apologetic whataboutism arguments are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Your arguments have been thoroughly and widely debunked already, in glorious detail, and claiming you don't have enough time in your busy online shilling and gambling schedule to educate yourself by watching a factually accurate video about reality is a cop-out that shows you're afraid to look at the facts because you know you're wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

Surely you don't actually believe what you're saying, that factories are as useless as bitcoin, and already know why that is an invalid argument, so I should not have to remind you.

Or do you really not give a flying fuck about the environment or public health? Then say so.

I'm bending over backwards trying to give you the benefit of the doubt that you're not that dumb to believe your own argument that heavy industry justifies bitcoin, so if you've simply lost a lot of money gambling on cryptocurrencies and you're just trying to trick other suckers into covering for your unforced mistakes, then just admit it and stop pretending.
Mining a block is just brute-forcing until you find a SHA hash that is small enough.

Or until someone else mines a block, in which case you have to start again from scratch.

It's not some sort of race to find a block, and as soon as someone finds a block everyone has to start again.

If miner A and miner B are both mining, and miner A mines a block, then miner B has to start from scratch with a new block because in all likelihood miner B was including transactions in his un-mined block that are now already mined by miner A.

So yes, as soon as someone finds a block, everyone has to start again and that's why mining is in fact a race to find a block.

If I give you £100 every time you find a random number that satisfies some property, the amount of £100s you get is independent of how many other people are making money with the same scheme.

This is not how Bitcoin mining works. The "random number that satisfies some property" is dependent on the transactions included in your block, and if other miners include those transactions that are mined in blocks before yours, then you have to start from scratch.
This is absolutely terrible for US competitiveness.
Please give a list of companies (Europe/Japan) where I can apply for such a salary. I started working recently and I'm at more than 10 times less than this...
I don't know if you can say that without the trace cache and super long pipeline (31 stages!). More in general, the problem with Netburst was that it was extremely inefficient (high L1d latency, steep branch prediction cliffs, smallish L1i trace cache) and tried to solve the inefficiencies just by throwing transistors and hertz at it.

That's absolutely not how Sandy Bridge is designed. It's clearly a Core derivative with a uop cache, if you look at the overall structure of the pipeline. Yes, other ideas have been successfully integrated into Core derivatives such as SMT, better branch predictors and the Alpha-like OoO engine, but then even the first in-order Atoms had SMT.
Use container registries and automatic pull deployment. AWS fargate, Azure App Services both allow this method of working.

I.e. github action to do your build, test. Dont do the docker push to the repository unless it passes the tests. Always do your docker push from the correct branch. If you need approval for release, build that into the pipeline.

Azure pipelines pretty much the same deal.

You don't need kubernetes for a few services, it only gets useful when you have a lot.
As someone who deeply agrees with this, and yet just spent most of the day in A&E thanks to a car driver who was not looking, we as a society need to rethink our built infrastructure.

Over the next few decades we have to change so much infrastructure to solar / electrification that we have an enormous opportunity to make it not just a question of survival but a better civilisation - more human.

Cities where every child can cycle to school on car free paths, every worker can get to work on car free paths.

Hell it even makes carbon sense to get rid of petrol cars in favour of diesel buses.

The design of our lives environments is a force multiplier for our quality of life
> banks typically provide, U.S. or not

or not. Very much not. So DeFi protocols were my only option.

> you just wanted to keep the exposure

Correct.
It’s the opening line from Catullus 16, actual humans have translated it as “I will sodomize and face-fuck you”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16
The best thing is to fork it, use your fork, get as far as you can through their process, but give up quickly if it looks too hard. That way you don't have to deal with overly complicated processes and you still get to use working software.
Dropbox's use of python was a very weird choice. At the time, other distributed filesystems were written in C++. It makes a lot of sense to move to rust.
You can hack and customize a "phone" minicomputer, and I believe you can still find pure cellular telephones with basic OS in case you prefer to keep telephony and personal assistant separate; I am not informed that you can do the same with cars, and I very surely do not want an internet connected door, fridge, vehicle, wife to begin with.

The more reliable it has to be, the least possibly connected you want it.

I am not sure it is so possible to remove or disable the «junk you don't want from your car». Already for the mentioned 'e-call', that law mandated that it has to be installed and cannot be removed by the user - only by the manufacturer. And you will very probably have to struggle to get that done ("We cannot" // "Yes you must" etc). I suppose those vehicles will have a high degree of integration - you cannot just remove pieces.
I came from windows and found fewer problems when working on Linux. The problem with deleting files is something everybody will run into at some point. I don’t think what you describe is as common. I have never had it or heard it described as a problem when working in an organization which made software running on Linux and Windows.
You need to vote for people who have policies to increase tax on the rich.

Government will pass climate change measures on to those that squeal the quietest.

Globalization is not the cause of climate change, it's a natural effect of economics as our technology and capabilities improve.

No one is saying to do away with oil, but that also means that oil companies don't have a social license to extract excessive profit. So tax them.
The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior or Midlevel Software Engineer
Risk of a negative spiral if this continues and energy prices remain high…
> The only reason competition matters at all is because of the difficulty adjustment.

Which seems relevant here (I think you’re both right?) because with more competition the next adjustment will be very quick, and will adjust your expected returns to your hash rate fraction of the competition?
PHP was already ductaped at the point of PHP/FI 2 [1], when it became more or less a proper programming language. PHP survived despite its ductape nature.

[1] https://www.php.net/manual/phpfi2.php
It doesn't matter if they ignore the PR. You've got a working fork. Merging your changes back into the upstream is a happy side effect.
Vala hasn't really caught on outside of the GTK world, since it's based on the glib object system.
As a startup it is very important to spend as much time and money as possible on the features not the tech. If the tech is not the feature that is. Most startups should build one single monolith API running on some default offering in the cloud. Serverless services can be used as compliment for some workloads. Building, running, and maintaining containers is unnecessary for this and it does slow down the dev process.
The complexity of Kubernetes is overstated, so I think they can. However, it doesn't mean they should. Personally I would just start with a docker-compose.yml and run it on a VPS. In the starting phase you probably don't have much traffic anyway and docker-compose can nicely progress to Kubernetes when you need it. Another upside is that any developer can run the entire stack locally on their machine, which a huge upside as well. This means you can fully focus on producing working code and don't have to bother about infrastructure too much.

Then again, I've never worked in a startup so the above approach is purely theoretical. Curious about what other people think.
The race to produce green steel
Last local company I worked for, they sent a carrier to pick up the laptop and send directly to liquidator. It might worth it if you pack up everything together not just a monitor.
If you are constantly pumping CH4 into the atmosphere over the long-term then you have a long-term climate impact as a result.

This is without even taking into account whether the increased heating from the "short-term" impact of CH4 over a few decades causes us to hit tipping points sooner than otherwise, or that in the best case scenario we may have been able to avoid hitting at all.
Having looked into this myself recently, why would I use this project over bluelinky?

https://github.com/Hacksore/bluelinky
It would be hard for me to agree more.

But Java, Kotlin, and Typescript types are very weak sauce. When types can do more, we can do more with them.
Something I believe is overlooked that is relevant here is the effect of large volumes of feedback, even positive. Sara Chipps wrote about it in her blog post on Stack Overflow[1].

I don't believe we as people are desgined to handle feedback and opinions from a large number of people, and it's very easy for even neutral or benign questions ("is this planned for a release?", "any news on this?") to become grating.

Kinda similar to when kids go "Mom, mom, mom, mom" - nothing harmful is being said, but the cumulative effect is exhausting.

IMO it's a good idea to question, has someone else asked this? has someone else already stated this opinion? before posting on forums.

1. https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/07/18/building-community-inc...
https://libcom.org/article/paedophilia-and-american-anarchis...
Thanks. My remarks were about normal employment; insubordination in the military is probably quite a different matter.
Thank you to the author for writing this.

Entitlement in open source is a massive problem, I have experienced it first-hand many times. The problem is that it discourages contributions not only from the existing maintainers but also from people who may volunteer to fix issues in the future. Would you be willing to contribute if most of the issues are just asking for things (often rudely) and not even saying thanks when an issue is resolved?

Unfortunately I have seen far worse examples than the one linked in the article[1]. I would encourage people to not only think twice before acting this way but to also call out people that are acting entitled in open source to discourage such actions.

1 - https://github.com/dom96/httpbeast/pull/35#issuecomment-7218...
Yeah, but my key doesn't have a nuclear generator strapped to it.
"Rigorous journalism"
> What stops someone doing the same thing with the car, motorcycle or scooter?

For the car:

> In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.

> On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.

* Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

* https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/313360-in-a-car-you-re-alwa...
Here’s an idea.

Australia builds out lots of solar power to provide the electricity to process the iron ore into steel and export it.

A case of embodied green energy, and climbing up the value chain.
"realizing you were mostly wrong about your analysis" is a wonderful WIN. Just imagine if you had run off, started a business and discovered you didn't have a viable product/service. That would have been a fart worse outcome.

Having balance in life is far more valuable than a couple of more technical skills to add to your CV.
https://archive.ph/Bvutv
> You apparently learned all about microk8s and spent time configuring it. I assume you did not get it right at the first time.

What? With Ubuntu, microk8s works pretty much right out of the box.

The only thing you need to learn is how to install it with Snap.

What are you talking about?

> I assume you did not get it right at the first time.

I did, not because I'm a rocket surgeon but because it is really really that simple.

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-a-local-kubernetes-with...

What exactly leads people like you to complain harshly about how hard it is something you never even tried before?

You're literally wasting far more time complaining in a random online forum about how hard a technology is than what it takes to not only learn the basics but also get it up and running.
I don't think you'll get effort. But you might get quality by limiting the posting rate. Something like 1/day. That's not enough, so you also need to encourage the community to highly regard quality posts, rather than just evocative ones. Imagine Twitter where only moderating, calming tweets are liked. It would be a different place!
Is docker swarm still maintained?
For some projects there's no way around it, you have to build Kubernetes on bare metal/virtual machines. I've faced the same issues, the project called for Kubernetes, we can debate that requirement, but it was specified in the contract. Some project simply requires you to build Kubernetes on-prem, mostly for legal or political reasons.

I do question the logic of picking Kubernetes for scalability in those projects though. To make that work, you end up with a lot of excess capacity, unless you can scale down one workload, while scaling up another. E.g. scaling down a website or API at night and use the capacity for batch jobs.

Honestly building the cluster isn't my main concern, that pretty easy, I managed to write Ansible code for deploying a cluster in less than a day. My main concern is debugging and maintenance long term. Reading about companies that spin up a new cluster, because it's easier than figuring out while the old one broke, is an indication that Kubernetes might not be completely ready for production use.
I've gone to a few different bike fitters over the years, as well as physical therapists. A proper bike fit did finally fix my knee issues, but the agony I'm talking about is the kind you experience from riding up and down steep hills all day in the hot sun, the saddle soreness, the general full body aches, pains, cuts and scrapes like you've been getting beat up all day.

That said I'm also a big whiny out of shape baby.
I haven’t studied these much but If your car doesn’t have Bluelink there are things like autopi and probably some others.
For what it's worth, transfers within Europe using the local currency are usually free for consumers and have a small charge (€0.20 or so) for small businesses. I don't know if large businesses get a discount.

'Low' amounts (varies by country, call it under €20,000) are processed at evenings and weekends too.
I guess so, the tendency is towards abolishing the "ß" altogether, the current state of affairs is merely a compromise, which may be rather temporary.

Regarding the "long s", this has been in use in German writing until the early 20th century, as well. One of the best things about "ß" is that there is no consensus what this actually is. Historically, it's a ligature, probably of a long s and a round s, and it can be found in renaissance Italian cursive (e.g., in samples by Palatino). Also, in 17th century type setting, it can be seen as a compositum of long and round s. This also explains, why there is only a lower-case form, as there is also (mostly) only a lower-case long s. So "eszett" or "&szlig;" are probably historically wrong and it was only in Fraktur (non-Latin broken letter type) that "ß" became split into "s" and "z", and ever since, there is this ambiguity. Both "SZ" and "SS" are viable capitalizations, with the former being more authoritative in the mid-20th century and a strong tendency towards the latter (which is about the only form used nowadays).

(Does the ambiguity matter? Not at all. Mind that probably only a minority knows that the ampersand (&) is a ligature of "et", or that "@" is literarily "at" and that you can write "it" the same way. We're perfectly able to use these things without knowing what they are.)

Regarding letter forms, there are plenty sources of worry in German writing: There's Fraktur in books, mostly from the 18th century until 1940 (contrary to common belief, Fraktur was not the preferred typeface of Nazi-Germany, rather they abolished it), there's Schwabacher typeface, which was Latin characters, but still with broken forms, there had been long hand and short hand Kurent cursive, various national forms and epochs of Latin hand writing, even after WW II, etc. Fun!
I don't know where you live, but the other thing I've noticed people who have never cycle toured really fail to notice is how many thousands of small roads there are, at least in Europe, which link everywhere.

Agrigultural roads that you'd never bother (or even want) to take your car down. Residential streets that only the residents would drive on.

I'd guess that on the average 5 day cycling tour in the UK and Europe, I'd see less than 1000 cars total, and often go for many hours without seeing any. Its glorious.
The elastic license isn't quite open source by the normal definition.
I half agree with you here. It is actually quite simple, but everything in Kubernetes is very explicit, which is good, but also intimidating. If you've never worked with Kubernetes before then it's a lot of added complexity without clear benefits.
I get the sense the name is being used in a general way like a “Karen”, but I’ve never heard of a “Brent”.
There's a lot of nuance as usual. Firing you over provably true statements or things you said strictly as a private individual can have harsher consequences for the company (you can be let go but they'd need to pay a pretty heavy severance)

I am not a lawyer, but I'd expect you'd need to be revealing company secrets, or have a public speaking position in the first place (e.g. you work for PR) and your declarations make you unfit for the job, or leave proofs that your goal was to damage the company, to be in a position as weak as in the US.

imagine otherwise how tough it would be to do political or ideological activism on your private time.