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> re: Greece, worth hearing Yanis Varoufakis on crypto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS0W-Whl0T0

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"How fantastic to let this man expose how incredibly dangerous governments are, without him even realizing [he's] doing it."

Also, the entire time he seems to conflate crypto with CBDC which are nothing alike.

>what's the problem? On the few times I've lost money to online fraud, the bank returned it to me.

How is that not a problem?! I really don't understand this sentiment. There is hundreds of millions of fraud occuring on these systems that employ thousands of people for flagging, eliminating, and reimbursing people due to it being a fundamentlly flawed system. Pull vs. Push here is an important distinction. Having a public private key, even within the current financial system (Not talking crypto here) would be an order of magnitude improvement and would eliminate all of this.
This would be perfect for zoom calls conducted at the gun range.
It's a lot for an insolvent company.
Nice how 9 judges and a grid locked congress can affect the whole world.

Is there any hope that congress can get a meaningful bill passed in the next few years or is it going to take another 4 years or even longer wasting precious time we don't have?
Cattle have all their needs taken care of them by the farmer: they are well fed, they have good shelter, and they are "safe" from predators. It is easy to make arguments for how the cow is better off than his ancestors; In every measurable aspect its life is "better" than that of a wild animal. It all comes at the low, low price of his complete autonomy and freedom.

Is it better to be cow or a wildebeest? The answer is simple: is life greater than the sum of its individual (hedonistic) parts?
> One difference between China and Europe is if you speak about the things you can’t speak about here, you get multiple warnings before any jail time happens.

This is a very interesting comment (you'll be paid exceptionally 10 maos for it) which resonate with an observation I made after reading a Wikipedia page about a LGBT activist academic. Not only he had multiple warnings, but he also get his position back at the university after publishing his self-criticism. Now, compare that with the US cancel-culture: got fired over suspicion, no warning, no trial and no job back even when proven no harm was done.
Starlink seems to be impacted by obstructions but can still function and this would impact Ookla's numbers significantly. I don't think it falls on SpaceX to go trim the tree that is impacting a customer's speed. The silliest part to me is that Ookla is ignoring latency -- it's not mentioned in the article at all. Other satellite providers are literally >600ms while Starlink is <100ms.
I worked as an 370 ACP/TPF Assembly Language Programmer in the 80s. I think this is referring to Gary DeWard Brown who wrote books about assembly language and JCL for example. Don't remember if they were blue though.
And the Senate?

You seem to try to imply that they are not important to legislation, which is just silly.
Your "more" section lacks a purpose. You mention price of "connection" without additional details. One could argue that the main benefit of the internet, both ways communication of information worldwide, can be fulfilled with very low bandwidth and today can already be priced at 1 dollar per month per person.
What happens when we allocate resources to enable 1 dollar per month per person internet with megabits of bandwidth and this group of people use it to consume social media and streaming (aka "old days television") old day long?
Your desk and your chair need a power outlet nowadays. What a time to be alive!

Looks interesting. Definitely too expensive for my personal use. I hope I'll get to test it one day.
Also, there are pictures on the website of people having quite non ergonomic setups. I know the focus is the chair but it's a weird contrast of a high tech ergonomic solution next to an obvious, bad work setup choices (example being the slightly slouched man, who looks at the screen of his laptop).
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I tried to do a few months ago some back of the envelope math about Starlink.

They are aiming for 12 000 satellites. A given satellite at the altitude Starlink uses should be visible at any average time from about 3% of the surface of the Earth. That would on average be 360 satellites visible from a given spot if they were all spread out uniformly throughout the sky. But the orbits are such that they don't go far north or south. There will be more visible in the areas they can serve and few to none visible outside those areas. I don't know how big the concentration into the service area is, so I'm just going to guess and say 1 000 visible to a given customer at a given time.

Their next generation satellites are specced at having 80 Gbps bandwidth to the ground, which is enough for 800 simultaneous downloads at the full advertised speed.

But most users do not go all out downloading all the time. I've read that most Comcast users only reach about 1/4 of Comcast's monthly data cap, which corresponds to an average use of 1 Mbps, which is 1/100th of the advertised Starlink speed.

Assuming Starlink users also use an average over time of just 1% of their advertised maximum, we get one satellite could support 80 000 users. Taking into account 1 000 satellites visible at any one time from any one average user location, and the area covered by those satellites, I got that Starlink could handle on average 11 users per square mile or 4.4 users per square kilometer.

Note that this doesn't mean that there can't be spots with higher user density. Just that the average density over the service area would need to not exceed that. Islands of density in a sea of very sparsely populated land would be OK.

My calculations assumes that any user could use any visible satellite. I think they are more constrained than that which probably means my allowable density estimates are a little high.
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Thanks still too expensive...
> Each state has the same weight in the senate because they are all equal players in that space.

Except they represent wildly different populations and all have equal say in the senate.

> The house has the bias towards population.

One that has been capped by the DC Admission Act and perverted by gerrymandering.

> Most regulation is supposed to take place at the state level.

Says who? How in the world does that work for things like pollution (which isn't stopped at state lines) or basic rights such as the right to love who you love and/or get married?
yeah, just a quick reality check for the codezillas here: The median US household income for 2021 was $68,000

There are places outside the SF Bay Area
Rust has a sort of meta aspect, in the sense of "programming the programming language", that other programming languages don't have. Each problem requires two solutions - the logical one and the programming language one.

It takes time and effort to adjust... a lot of time and effort :)

In my personal experience, there are two major hurdles.

Access model is the first (I believe it's what is commonly referred to a "borrow checking"). It just happened one day that I was understanding the access model, and not screaming in terror anymore :) The same may happen to you, so don't feel incapable in the meanwhile.

Lifetimes is the second hurdle, but even before fully understanding them, you'll be able to work on complex programs.
I'm afraid that feels like wishful thinking more than anything.
The C# code is open for read access here: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference
Running a simple gradle build was 10 to 20 times slower.
I was a big fan of GitLab until the recent changes they've made on regards to their free tier and the hoops required to qualify for their Open Source plans.

I'm part of a small FOSS project with about 20 contributors but the changes mean we can now only have 5 max in the Project without paying for licenses or moving the Project to its own namespace and going through an application process for GitLab Ultimate for Open Source (or whatever it's called) which needs to be resubmitted yearly.

I fully understand they are not required to provide services for free but this follows the CI runner allowance reductions - fairly - recently (which is understandable, compute costs money) doesn't give me much confidence for hosting smaller to medium FOSS projects without having to jump further hoops while shouting about how open source they are whittling down their offerings to the bone.
But even if you move away from GitHub it would be possible for them to train their models on your self-hosted open source code
Here's the thing: some of us start from the point of view that the Constitution might be bad. I know it's sacrilegious. But from there, all sorts of rulings seem like improvements on a baroque 18th century piece of paper. If you DO uphold the Constitution as being "the greatest legal document ever made" (faith-based view) then yeah all these conservative SCOTUS put-downs seem logical to restoring the US source code. It's just a piece of paper though being stretched to apply to situations unimaginable to their originators and badly need of updates.
We take our duty seriously to protect the digital asset ecosystem and its customers.

Ah yes, the "duty" to prop up the market that keeps your Jane Street trading games alive and pockets lined with billions, what a noble cause. I think if SBF pulls off his crypto market rescue he'll be richer than Bezos over the next decade. Depends how much Father Fed intends on crushing inflation.
I don't claim that all cryptocurrencies are self-regulating. see my parent comment.
Not really. The court's conclusion is that Congress didn't anticipate such significant consequences when they granted this authority, so the EPA has to wait for Congress to confirm they're ok with it. They're saying that yes the EPA has this power on paper, but "a decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself", so surely they didn't actually mean to do that. Maybe they made a mistake, we have to ask again to be sure.

Maybe they did make a mistake, but if so they can fix it. I think what the court majority is saying here is patronizing and wrong. There's a perfectly normal process for Congress to amend a law if it accidentally gave up too much power.
For years. In some places I didn't even had to sign a contract, in other places I would sign it but nobody ever checked my ID. Apparently nobody really cares much as long as you look and sound nice and pay them a deposit. They would only ask for the ID in hotels (which I'd vote to abolish as well).
For someone who claims to mistake the objective of the Urbit project as literally “terraforming Mars”, your other comments on this post show a remarkable degree of outsider familiarity with the project. One suspects that this “mis”understanding shows less than a good-faith reading of the text.
With properly inserted hardcore isolating earphones, and with music playing at low volume(important), I just don’t notice any other sound. Including landline ringing. Perhaps fire alarms too. It’s an auditory anesthesia. Like if I’ve put on a VR goggle, but for my ears.

And that is natural, after all it’s 40dB advertised isolation with ~15dB? sound on top. There’s no way those ANC earphones with small drivers powered from a toothpick batteries and thin rubber cap sealing the ear canal can beat that.

I also have a SONY WF-1000X, and an SE215 for that matter, both with Comply tips. They are nice, but no match against proper Etymotic dead silence.
> You can vote for those elected officials. This is democracy working as intended.

Not when elected officials can pick their voters and throw out the election results they don't like. Please join the rest of us in reality and not the la la land where our system is working or even healthy.
But the verb in the second clause is not the elided verb in the first clause, so it is not linking in that fashion. The two clauses are independent of each other.
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Siemens Gigaset DL500A. Has DECT & bluetooth, but that can be disabled. Has ethernet also.
This is not the US. This is a privately held corporation answerable to nobody. Whose benefit do you imagine they will exercise their power on behalf of? Yours? US voters'?
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i’d love to try it. do you need a beta tester in the US 10003?

i wfh, am a ux designer.
Yeah I think Nintendo, like Disney, benefits from a mystique that there are "secrets" of the company. They know they can monetize things by introducing scarcity and then officially releasing them, even if those releases are not as satisfying as the public clamors for. But if you release everything, some of the mystery goes away and it's inherently less valuable.
> When I need to identify myself, depending on the government I have to deal with, I have to use either my "FranceConnect" credentials, or my Belgian e-ID card.

That you even have to identify yourself as often as you do in the EU is a problem the EU countries created. So basically they create a problem (people needing to identify for basically everything: vaccine, going to the restaurant, going to nightclubs, maybe going to the toilet in the future, etc.) and then come up with a solution: "Look, it's going to get easier to identify yourself!" and everybody applauds.

But, wait, why do I need to be identified all the time yet?
I dunno about the findings from the 60s, but non-moving rotors would not keep a helicopter in the air... so at least some progress.

It's not clear whether this thing can steer (by changing ion balance?), if this prototype can't but the concept might, or if it's forward only. If they can steer (change direction at will) without moving parts, that definitely sounds innovative.
Minute -- you're often going to be better off eliminating the Arc/Mutex anyway. A (very) small but concrete win for some workloads.
To prevent this exact situation from happening.
US debt is skyrocketing, expenses like war paid for by debt[1]. Inflation in the US has been 2% but only because it was in a position of strength with the world accepting USD as the global reserve. That's changing steadily both with excessive printing and the world rejecting US debt instruments as a savings asset.

"Everyone being free to invest" is a bit of an elitist claim, as most in the US live paycheck to paycheck and are hurt by inflation. Cost of ownership of houses skyrocketing over decades, and CPI being oriented around very basic goods points to inflation being hidden away.

The US is incapable of paying their debt and must continue funding the economy via more QE. Other nations have moved to their currencies to trade with each other (Euro, Ruble, Yuan etc). This game won't last forever.

[1]: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/how-the-fed-hides-costs-...
> My gut tells me that if we could, there would be phones catching on fire all over the place.

If that was an issue you would see it already all around.

> Although a phone has tons of power, and can probably function as a low-end desktop, the lack of a sizeable cooling solution, or even just a plain heatsink, would cause it to throttle pretty quickly.

I would rather compare it to laptops and processing power of snapdragon 8 is rather in mid-upper segment of average available on the market laptop

ARM is also a different platform with way better computing performance per Watt ratio from regular PC, there is throttling, but when it kicks in it doesn't reduce your performance so significantly

> I have to believe this is the reason, or otherwise someone would have done it already (successfully that is) for such an obvious use case.

Believe, or not - the reasons why it wasn't done so far are far beyond technical reasons and we could have computer like capable phones long time ago already.
A large reason people use these services is due to them paying ridiculous and unsustainable interest rates for custody of the crypto atm. That won't last forever.
Actual originalism is impossible, even if you isolated yourself from social cults seeking to cultivate corrupt judges like the federalist society.

All humans have inherent biases and lenses and perspectives. Do jury duty sometime. Actual factual recollections vary in details and even factual accuracy
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Redact your personal details from your resume and post it. If we see that maybe we can tell you something useful.
malloc perhaps can't be implemented in the abstract dialect called ISO C. It can be impemented in GNU C, and others.
I'm pretty sure you have it backwards; the current configuration of going through one satellite is always going to be faster [edit: higher throughput] than going through multiple satellite hops.
Paralleled by many cheap vs. reliable tradeoffs when people have been discussing supply chain fragility recently.
> We had an implicit right to privacy for abortion,

RBG didn't see it that way.

“Roe isn’t really about the woman’s choice, is it?” Ginsburg said. “It’s about the doctor’s freedom to practice…it wasn’t woman-centered, it was physician-centered.”

“My criticism of Roe is that it seemed to have stopped the momentum on the side of change,” Ginsburg said. She would’ve preferred that abortion rights be secured more gradually, in a process that included state legislatures and the courts, she added. Ginsburg also was troubled that the focus on Roe was on a right to privacy, rather than women’s rights."

https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/justice-ruth-bader-ginsbur...
You may claim an old constitution is a problem - I see it as a reason for optimism.

The US is the world’s oldest democracy in no small part because of that document.
Eating less is easier if your choice of diet leaves you feeling not-hungry for longer after eating.

Staying active both burns calories directly, and iirc keeps your metabolism a bit above idle.

Both of these things make it easier to actually get that calorie deficit.
> if you tell me there are no concurrency gotchas for this then I’ll tell you that you have a single threaded interpreter or you’re lying

You are making a big assumption. Neither common lisp nor smalltalk specify the semantics of concurrent programs, but it is certainly possible to implement such a feature without, as you say, concurrency gotchas. Perhaps a better example is concurrently compacting gcs for java.
> It's being used by the Ukrainian military to pay their suppliers while the banking system is offline

Ukraine's banking system is both online and functional:

https://kyivindependent.com/hot-topic/ukraines-banking-mirac...

Regarding donations to Ukraine, the total value of donations to Ukraine has been around $900M so far [1], of which only $7M has been in crypto (according to your WSJ article), so less than 1%.

1. https://fortune.com/2022/04/15/how-much-donated-ukraine-war/...
For tax or other community money pots, sure. For my own -- thanks, but no thanks. I will spend it however I like.
You realize that they struck down "may issue" state laws because they violated the federal constitution, right? That is textbook rollback of excess.
Yes, a functioning government depends on parties acting in good faith and assumes everyone is working for the common good, not always achievable when vast sums of money are in play. This case is a great example.
From Kagan's dissent:

> Section 111(d) thus ensures that EPA regulates existing
power plants’ emissions of all pollutants. When the pollutant at issue falls within the NAAQS or HAP programs,
EPA need do no more. But when the pollutant falls outside
those programs, Section 111(d) requires EPA to set an emissions level for currently operating power plants (and other
stationary sources). That means no pollutant from such a
source can go unregulated: As the Senate Report explained,
Section 111(d) guarantees that “there should be no gaps in
control activities pertaining to stationary source emissions
that pose any significant danger to public health or welfare.” S. Rep. No. 91–1196, p. 20 (1970). Reflecting that
language, the majority calls Section 111(d) a “gap-filler.”
Ante, at 5. It might also be thought of as a backstop or
catch-all provision, protecting against pollutants that the
NAAQS and HAP programs let go by. But the section is
not, as the majority further claims, an “ancillary provision”
or a statutory “backwater.” Ante, at 20, 26. That characterization is a non-sequitur. That something is a backstop
does not make it a backwater. Even if they are needed only
infrequently, see ante, at 6, 20, backstops can perform a
critical function—and this one surely does. Again, Section
111(d) tells EPA that when a pollutant—like carbon dioxide—is not regulated through other programs, EPA must
undertake a further regulatory effort to control that substance’s emission from existing stationary sources. In that
way, Section 111(d) operates to ensure that the Act achieves
comprehensive pollution control.

That's pretty damn explicit.
And the NFT profile pics are disapprearing as well.

https://news.artnet.com/market/as-a-crypto-winter-descends-o...
It's highly directed radio signals, though, so it's spatially separated.
Then you should find some people that voluntarily (ie, not at gunpoint) want that society, and live there. That's actually one of the great things about modern western society, it's very tolerant of people who want their own societies (as long as they aren't trying to impose them on everyone else).

Obviously the Taiwanese aren't interested in living under the boot of the CCP. It's an interesting question what mainland Chinese would want if they didn't have the gun pointing at their head.

Also, what on earth is traditional western society? Like, Greek?
This is basically just saying that CEOs are allowed to lie because they're also lying to themselves at the same time, but honestly I think that goes back to the incompetence thing.

Two weeks between "no layoffs, we're doing great!" to "yup, we're laying people off" means that the CEO had to be optimistic to the point of delusion (or incompetent, as I said).
So you're competing with Azure Playfab... so are those services you mentioned just now available a-la-carte or is it an all-or-nothing approach? (as in, can you use your sessions/rooms without using your IdP / can we bring our own IdP (using OIDC? SAML?) - or is your room system built around your IdP?

Websockets are very different to BSD Sockets (TCP/UDP/etc) though (string messages vs. binary packets/datagrams) - if you're abstracting-away then that means devs are ceding a lot of control over the performance dials (TCP_NODELAY? Nagle?)

The example in the article using a Node.js-based game-server is fine, but what options do people needing to run a Quake-style game server (i.e. a ph-phat binary) have?
are you under the impression that Germany didn’t have a “rule of law” when nazis were in power then?

A “rule of law” is a tool that can be used for evil. I’m not sure why we’re being blind to this?
The idea of wearing a choker to attend meetings in my home office makes me smile.
Sounds cool, but the headline is pretty bait-y. First, the aircraft has no control surfaces, so it's limited to flying in a straight line. So the headline should read "MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts in propulsion". And then, even that's not true, since ramjets[0] have been a thing for a long time.

0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramjet
Cryptocurrencies have inherent value.

Would you say there is value in having the capability to transact with someone else? There is some value there, no matter how many alternatives and how little that value is. That value scales exponentially with the number of potential transactional partners because each additional partner gives all other partners a new potential transactional partner.

So at scale, even if the value of having the option to trade is minuscule, it balloons into real value when every single person on earth is a potential trade partner. That is the inherent value of a cryptocurrency network.
We disagree... about what I expect?
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