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Ask HN: Will banks inflate Bitcoin just like they inflate fiat money?
One main strength of Bitcoin is that it is supposed to be limited to 21 million. Which would make it a good store of value and an inflation hedge.

But what will prevent banks from creating it out of thin air, just like they create Dollars and Euros?

Let's take a look at it in terms of dollars:

Entrepreneur Joe wants to build a business. He goes to a bank and "takes a loan". Which means the bank writes down in their computer "Joe's balance is 100,000 dollar". Then Joe hires Sue. Sue works her ass off for one month and gets "paid" 5000 dollar. Joe tells his bank to "pay" Sue 5000 Dollar. So, the bank writes down in their computer "Joe's balance is 95,000 Dollar. Sue's balance is 5000 Dollar".

The story would work the same, no matter if you replace "Dollar" with "Bitcoin" or "Purple Diamonds" or whatever. The bank's computer does not care how many Bitcoins or Purple Diamonds are out there. It's just an SQL database.

So if Bitcoin become the new currency, soon people would collectively "own" billions of them, right?

Am I missing something?
Not necessarily. Job hoppers help spread industry knowledge, which can be beneficial to everyone. That's part of what makes new employees valuable: they bring outside knowledge.
The animation is _incredible_ in The Wind Rises.
Yeep back sliding into ranch flavored Afghanistan.
Where is HN being ridiculed?
It's not mutually excusive. I think risks from hostile powers need to be called out, and I think we also need to be calling out this bad behavior on our side too.
It's almost like we would need a global rise from the consumers (99,9%) against the bank moguls & wef. If we only knew who these ~1000 people were..
I recently threw $100 at jvns because of this model. I wanted the docker zine and it was $10 for one, or $100 for the lot.

It doesn't take that many $100 purchases to be a respectable income source
Thanks for your feedback. You can see the equivalent C code for any statement pretty easy. For example, if you go to "tutorials", then "tutorial-stock_app", and follow the tutorial instructions, you can always see the generated C code, which would be in:

/var/lib/vv/bld/stockapp/__stock.o.c

(so here "stock" is the application name and there's "stock.v" file).

For example, when you see this Vely statement in stock.v (which obviously obtains input parameters from either GET or POST request):

input-param stock_name

this is line 9 in stock.v.

All you need to do is look for:

#line 9 "stock.v"

in the generated code (which is
/var/lib/vv/bld/stock/__stock.o.c), in this case it's:

char *stock_name = vey_get_input_param (vey_get_config()->ctx.req, "stock_name")

So in this case, it's just one line of C code. In other cases, it may be many lines. For example, Vely statement which apparently runs the INSERT SQL query:

run-query#add_data@db = "insert into stock (stock_name, stock_price) vaues ('%s', '%s') on duplicate key update stock_price='%s'" : stock_name, stock_price, stock_price

This is on line 12 in stock.v, and you can simply search for

#line 12 "stock.v"

in /var/lib/vv/bld/stock/__stock.o.c file. In this case, the generated code looks like:

VV_UNUSED (_column_count_add_data);
vely_get_config()->ctx.db->ind_current_db=0;
static void *_sql_prep_add_data_stock_v_649 = NULL;
_is_input_used_add_data[0]=1;
_is_input_used_add_data[1]=1;
_is_input_used_add_data[2]=1;
add_data = "insert into stock (stock_name, stock_price) values ('%s', '%s') on duplicate key update stock_price='%s'";
const char *fname_loc_add_data = "stock.v";
num lnum_add_data = 12;
vely_location (&fname_loc_add_data, &lnum_add_data, 1);
vely_make_SQL (&_sql_buf_add_data, 3, add_data , _is_input_used_add_data[0]==1 ? (stock_name) : NULL , _is_input_used_add_data[1]==1 ? (stock_price) : NULL , _is_input_used_add_data[2]==1 ? (stock_price) : NULL );
if (_qry_executed_add_data == 1) {vely_report_error("Query [add_data] has executed the second time; if you want to execute the same query twice in a row without a loop-query, use different queries with the same query text (or variable) if that is your intention, file [stock.v], line number [12] ");}
_qry_executed_add_data = 1;
vely_execute_SQL (_sql_buf_add_data, &_arow_add_data, (const char**)&_err_add_data, (const char**)&_errm_add_data, 0, 1, 0, &_sql_prep_add_data_stock_v_649, _sql_paramcount_add_data, _sql_params_add_data);
_nrow_add_data=0;
vely_db_free_result ();
vely_free (_sql_buf_add_data);

so about 16 ines of code.

This way you can see what actual C code is generated for any Vely code.

And you can also step through this code in gdb by using --c-lines option in vv.
There are various Linux distros for this, Webconverger for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webconverger
Apologies! Yes, the Pillier article. Unfortunately I can't correct the original comment.
It's a bot riddled echo chamber because there is influence generated here.
It has been several years since I've seen a paperclip.
All the replies so far seem to focus on Bitcoin and not XMR (Monero). Monero does a better job at solving the problems that have been mentioned about Bitcoin:

A blocksize that scales which also leads to reduced fees, transactions and address balances are private.

(Disclaimer: I own some XMR, but not much.)
> Note the goal of zero consumer travel by 2050.

I'm not seeing where it says that? It explicitly says, for 2050, "Road use at 60% of 2020 levels" and "Electric trains the preferred mode of travel for people and freight over all significant distances". If you mean "flying and shipping are at zero" then yes but that's only because they don't envisage having net-zero planes and ships by 2050. If electric planes and ships arrive before then, they'll be usable under this plan (as it says under "Beyond 2050").
On-premise, open-source, customer-owned remote attestation servers are possible. Avoid outsourcing integrity verification to 3rd-party clouds.
It's very explicitly an academic exercise. From the same page:

> In response, this report starts from today’s technologies: if we really want to reach zero emissions in thirty years time, what does that involve?

The UK has not made it an official policy to reach zero emissions in 30 years. The might have a policy to reach "net zero" emissions by 2050, which is completely different.
Of course cash is better, but with cash the government is in charge of issuance.

What are you going to do if governments decide against issuing any more cash? Bills will eventually break, or the currency itself will lose too much value due to inflation that the bills won't enough.

With crypto you don't rely on your government issuing cash.
Pycom: A Python compiler, down to native code, using C++
Figured out on the fly hackernews markdown. Pretty neat.
You must be an amazing asset to a business.
Jeopardy decides to let both Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik stay on as hosts
Yes, but they still evolve. Looking at this concept, all of the city will be within two walls. I doubt it will be that way. It will soon start to sprawl outside.
I've been doing that for the last 12 months and tbh, it does not work unless you already had an audience before.
Highly likely I am the worst social marketer on the planet. But in terms of RoI your advice doesn't work for 99% of the population.
Just imagine leaving the Earth system and nothing you ever cared about matters anymore. Only thing is being alive.
.NET, Go, Java, Eiffel and Common Lisp all expose ways to do pointer arithmetic, either via unsafe code blocks, or unsafe runtime APIs.

I bet there isn't a language around (with GC) that tops their GC implementations.
> It does say that all airports would close by 2050.

But that's only because they can't see getting net-zero planes etc. in sufficient time that everyone can switch over before 2050.

"Although there are lots of new ideas about electric planes, they won’t be operating at commercial scales within 30 years, so zero emissions means that for some period, we’ll all stop using aeroplanes."
I think I get what you're saying. The wheels would stick out more on turns. I'm not sure how much of a problem that would be. I could see it potentially being a threat to bicyclists if you're passing one on a corner.

Also, if you tried to turn the wheels while at a stop it would cause the wheels to skid. There'd be a lot of friction in general. Ccoordinating the right and left wheels might be complicated enough you'd need to give each wheel its own power steering unit and have drive-by-wire. (Canoo is making a drive-by-wire car, so I guess it's not a regulatory impossibility these days.)

Other drive options include electric hub motors, or just sticking with rear-wheel drive.
Trump's use of this strategy far predates Paris Hilton. In the 80s and 90s, he was a master of living rent free in everybody's head because of his ability to constantly create scandal and spectacle.
> Another exception applies to PA Arabs, although according to attorney Uri Goldman, this situation will be rectified by the end of 2022.

To be absolutely clear here, “PA Arabs” refers to those governed by the Palestinian Authority… as agreed to by Israel, so excluding the Gaza Strip… and “rectified” refers to subjecting anyone under that agreed authority to Israeli law rather than any agreement with any party. “Rectified” here means effectively acknowledging that PA governance is effectively squat. Which it has been for some time, but the other consequence is that there’s no denying Israel is a colonial occupier of Palestinian territories.
> The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

If there were only dystopic uses of this technology, its development wouldn't be able to go on internally. They are specifically taking this path so they always have plenty of good reasons to pursue their agenda.
> Imagine, I go to get groceries:

> checkout machine: “sorry, you used all your carbon credits this month”

> You: “but I need food!”

> Checkout machine: “if you need food, remember cricket powder is carbon net neutral”

> You: “guess I’ll eat that this week.. grumble”

> Yeah, that’s literally and explicitly what is being discussed. Maybe this scenario is exaggerated, but carbon tax credit and restricting purchases inbound.

This is trad "RETVRN" conspiracy BS verbatim. Nobody is going to force you to eat bugs or live in the pod. Let's try and do better, folks.
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I would call it idiotic. They call for no shipping by 2050. Like a country in the modern world can survive without getting goods shipped in or out.
I hadn't heard of this before today, and I think the same is probably true for many other people, so I found it interesting and notable.
Ok. This guy is unhinged. I very much doubt this goes much farther beyond CGI.
Just don’t fund rail AND tickets over rail
Huh do you mean via headset or just using mouse and keyboard? It works fine for me.
I’ve been considering “laundering” my own crypto through a handful of bespoke smart contracts that I write myself since I doubt anyone on IRS salary would actually read my source code.
It’s so frustrating that my iPhone 12 Pro Max could be a perfect platform for playing serious games, but instead I have to haul around a Nintendo Switch.

I know my iPhone can render excellent graphics, I played to level 60 on Diablo Immortal then got out before they could extract more than $10 from me!
> UK Heathrow recently tried to impose a 50% cut in daily passenger air traffic, from 200,000 to 100,000

Not sure why you bring it up, yes they did, but in a completely unrelated manner to emissions.

LHR wasn't prepared to handle the influx of passengers once travel picked up because of lack of staffing/readiness and they're trying to force the problem on airlines to handle.

Of course airlines would reject this. Take the PR brunt of LHR's problem?
I would contest that in this sense VRChat is just a VR version of Omegle in this sense. If a parent lets their young children onto a VR headset unsupervised, well they probably would also let them onto Omegle unsupervised. In both cases I'm inclined to think the parent is somewhat negligent in letting their kids talk to random strangers on the internet.

To go even further, it seems the same issues occur on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok, and those sites don't have to install kernel level anti-cheat to ensure you don't look at illicit content. At the same time, I would argue that this shows that kid-unfriendliness is an internet-wide problem and maybe we should be doing more in general to build an internet that works for kids.
Bitcoin is censorable, and it has been censored in the past by miners refusing to include transactions that they viewed as spam. Because Bitcoin transactions are public, they can be discriminated against.
Excellent idea, and in theory others could create better alternatives for centralized moderation.
The impact of iOS 16 Lockdown mode in Safari
Do you guys even think or look closer before spouting this stuff?
2 years is exactly the time I expect for employees, as a founder, especially if it’s their first job. Anything above is a godsend, but it limits the employee’s skill variety, so it must be duly compensated.
> Does "marketing," as a paid business practice, cause more harm than good?

I would have criticised it more as a false dilemma than strawman :) But I did that because I think it shows exactly your question. Imagine a world where there was zero marketing. I suspect you'd see far more entrenched companies e.g. as how does the new start-up get the word out fast enough to not flame out while they hope the market realises they exist. Far less competition as companies cant promote their prices leading to the entrenched companies charging higher margins and all that entails. It democratised many services like watching videos or email as this is ad funded so all people can utilise these services rather than the people that can afford.... though I guess you could position this is a bad thing due to the rise of social media.

There's a few... how much better do you think the world would be without marketing?
My understanding is that it can't just be recompiled as an ape, it has to be rewritten as one.
And is illegal in many countries, including Sweden. If you want to send for example a Christmas present to one of the customers, it can’t cost more than something like $30, and there are similarly limitations on what is considered a reasonable business lunch.
> "This was my reason when I first joined, but I have so many more reasons to want to work here at Reforge now. My personal goal is to turn it into a $100M company. (Now they answer)"

Love this style. Acts as much better persuasion tactic than simply asking them, "why do you want to work at xx?"
linear prison
> all of the city will be within two walls

Almost zero chance the labourers and support infrastructure is within the walls. Similar to how Manhattan (or any functional urban core) outlays low-value facilities.

(To be clear, I think none of this will be built. But it’s not fundamentally unsound.)
Neo has a nice video on this, though without the new design update from the tweet. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=41sgRP0G6y4
> UK Heathrow recently tried to impose a 50% cut in daily passenger air traffic

Yes, because they don't have enough trained staff to handle the current volume[1]. Absolutely nothing to do with climate change, just trying to stop bad PR from delays to people going on holiday.

[1] https://www.heathrow.com/latest-news/heathrow-implements-sum...
The links on the page seem broken, I did quick hunt around to get this better central link:

https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/freepoplo...

Or direct to the primer:

https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/primer/

Both of which seem like they are more reliable
Other than the fossil fuels already being used, there doesn't seem to be anything energy dense enough for commercial air travel coming any time soon.

Maybe some kind of in-air carbon capture on the engines?
AirPods' Dirty Secret
Yeah, Bitcoin doesn’t typically make sense for avoidance purposes while you are still interfacing with centralized entities. It was always supposed to be p2p but has largely failed at that because there’s no real need for most people’s use case (speculation.)
And this is where technologists totally fail to understand the implications of the technology they push forward.

Okay, get a drivers license, OK submit to speed limits, OK submit to random searches for a failed bulb, OK submit to automated license plate scanners, OK submit to marketing companies tracking your car in the parking lot.

Most technologies do not exist in a vacuum, when one becomes entrenched in society, it is impossible to operate as a human without one. Even the Amish have telephones now.
Maybe it is beneficial for the knowledge of those who didn't know about the original screws in the first place.
I live in the east end of Regina and had an interesting experience with someone driving east and looking for a Royal Bank. The only Royal I could think of is downtown, both our phones were on the Rogers network and I didn’t even know where to find a phone book.

It was amazing to think that one provider could go out and that would render me completely useless in my own city. I’ve outsourced memory to my phone for so long that I only know places I frequent.

He ended up using a TD. I failed prairie hospitality.
Why I Chose Angular to Build a URL Shortener
Ignoring all the baggage that of comes along with who is planning this, this gives real strong Sim City 2000 Arcology vibes.
Been seeing WEF pop up all over the place in contrarian, mainly right circles lately - what's the deal with that? It was traditionally a bogeyman of the more left-leaning global conspiracies in the 90s and 2000s
They are planning to pay a mighty high cost for a bunch of views of desert and stony mountains. Not that I am knocking the views, they have a certain serene value to them, but it is not that hard to get those types of views in Saudi Arabia.
As opposed to how green it is to build a solar or wind farm?
If you're refering to dark ages it's only applicable to Europe just like Black Death is mainly European based pandemic [1],[2]. When Europe is in their dark ages the rest of the world seems fine. Heck it is only applicable to certain parts of Europe because some of the European countries and regions are doing really well [2],[3]. You probably know this anyway hence new account for trolling.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople

[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B3rdoba,_Spain
This, for those who aren't aware, is a somewhat more eloquent rephrasing of the "Great Reset" neoreactionary conspiracy theory[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Reset#Conspiracy_theorie...
Yeah, the commie housing blocks were actually practical, unlike building something so tall.
Why is an insidious erosion of rights and liberties better than a sudden one, and why does that (if that's why, it's unclear) make it surprising to find on the front page?
> To evade taxes, one merely needs to trade in such IOUs without actually cashing them out.

So because the law about bounced checks is so strict, checks are essentially as good as cash? That's an amazing unintended effect.
Why are you in so much pain?
Could it be because people switch job because of higher wages?
The disruptor ring-buffer for providing lock-free parallelization for multiple readers/writers: https://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html
House of Cards was never a theatrical bit of content, so not quite the same thing for this discussion specifically. Episodic content was still "TV Programming" by the feature types. In 2013, episodics were still getting people used to the serial or limited series type of content. This has been my favorite format for some time now. More time to tell a story than a single feature, yet short enough to avoid filling time with cruft just to reach an arbitrary episode count. The 8-10 episode hour long series are great for really in-depth stories.
One thing can be both a point of ridicule and an opinion forge. Pitchfork music reviews come to mind.
This is such a dark future (and present for some apparently).
Please change

code {
font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';
}

in your CSS to

code {
font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono', monospace;
}

For people without DejaVu Sans Mono installed (or for browsers doing a good job at defeating font fingerprinting), which would be most people, the code sample is rendered in the default proportional font, which is very ugly.
The same enterprises asking for this stuff are also asking for it to be taken out of their hands because they don't trust themselves to operate it securely or reliably.
From the Atlantic profile of MBS earlier this year:

“What struck me was that Neom’s vision is really an anti-vision. It is the opposite of the old Saudi Arabia. In the old Saudi Arabia, and even to an extent today, corruption and bureaucracy layered on each other to make an entrepreneur’s nightmare. Riyadh has almost no public transportation. No matter where you are, you cannot walk anywhere, except perhaps to your local mosque. No one in Neom mentioned religion at all. Even Neom’s location is suggestive. It is far from where Saudis actually live. Instead it is huddled in a mostly empty corner, as if seeking sustenance and inspiration from Jordan and Israel.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/04/mohamme...
Mixing languages increases the code complexity and hiring requirements for anyone that has to touch the code.

Everyone on the project has to learn two languages, two ecosystems, because naturally F# folks either reinvent or create idiomatic wrappers for what .NET already offers, a typical side effect in guest languages.

And then there are the enterprise support teams that explicitly only give support if the issues are reproducible with C# when giving example on tickets, increasing the costs to submit support tickets.
Exactly, who cares about theoretical efficiency when we have so much surplus insolation. What matters is cost per gallon.

Sure, improving efficiency may be one way to get cost down depending on how it’s done, but it’s not the end metric we should be chasing.
The law applies to the Israeli not the PA Arab.

> no denying Israel is a colonial occupier of Palestinian territories.

You are seriously messed up. How can a native to the land also be a colonizer?
"Tax avoidance" is what rich people do by exploiting loopholes and aggressively taking deductions. "Tax evasion" is what you're talking about here.