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You are technically correct about the origin of 'concentration camp'. But this point in relation to the Holocaust is so pedantic as to border on denial.

Most people who died in the Holocaust did not die in 'concentration camps'. About a quarter of them were killed in mass shootings and buried in mass graves. Another quarter were sent to something better described as 'extermination facilities'. There was no camp and no concentration - all victims were gassed to death on arrival. The most famous concentration camp - Auschwitz - also had a facility like this where around a million people died immediately on arrival. While Auschwitz did have the standard features of concentration camps - imprisonment, starvation, forced labor, and brutal punishment and torture, most people who died in Auschwitz never experienced any of this - they were simply executed on arrival.

So, while the 'concentration camps' were of course unimaginably terrible - and not to excuse other crimes against humanity such as the Boer camps, the gulags, etc - to compare other atrocities to the Nazi Holocaust simply because of the presence of concentration camps erases and minimizes the true extent of Nazi crimes against Jews and Roma.
Intuitively to me it seems that PoS can never work.

With PoW the physical reality of scarce energy secures the chain - you can’t spend energy on one computation and another.

With PoS we secure it by holding Ether, but what determines who holds Ether? The chain! But that’s what we are trying to secure. Is this turtles all the way down? Can anyone enlighten me?
Great to see the University of Kent getting some publicity on hacker news, even if the BlueJ reviews are somewhat mixed.

Ian Utting and David Barnes gave my first CS lecture.
Which is what the Worldcoin project tries to do with their retina scans. The idea isn't bad in principle.

On the other hand they want the same amount of their virtual currency for themselves as 2 billion people.
Frankly, I'm not interested in "critical mass" whatever that means. I want the benefits of free (as in speech not beer) digital products and services. I don't need a critical mass of the population to do that. Bitcoiners talk about critical mass adoption because they want to replace the existing system. I view crypto as in addition to it, not instead of it.
> Coins don't pay dividends. They don't represent any kind of underlying assets.

Every honest crypto market participant has long admitted that no one currently knows a good model for valuing crypto tokens. Indeed this is widely accepted. As a result, there is such a massive speculative premium placed on them and their prices are extremely volatile.

However, Ethereum will now pay a yield native to the protocol and so discounted [cashflows][1] apply in "Eth" terms. To try to value that ["internet dividend"][0] in USD is, however, still speculation and so ultimately reliant on global [liquidity][2] conditions (how much banks "print").

[0]: https://link.medium.com/HGOCQMUbltb The Web 3.0 Yield Curve

[1]: https://ethereumcashflow.com (pdf)

[2]: https://twitter.com/42macro/status/1550487881956802563
Yup, just started as an embedded software developer for 50k€ in central Europe, same as most of my friends. It's basically the same as 10 years ago from what I've heard, but COL has increased A LOT since then.
I used bluej for a while - it was fine as your first IDE as it does not have tons of bells and whistle that overwhelms you. Obviously, as time passes and your skills improve, you will look for better tools. But BlueJ does its job.

I sailed away from java world, which IDEs are being used now? IntelliJ, Netbeans, Eclipse?
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That's a hard question. I'm in Denmark, which is notoriously expensive, and I'd say that even $120K for Sr DevOps is a bit on the high end.

There where a period of time with large "year on year" jumps in pay from 2010 to 2018 (something like that). That does seem to have cooled of in the past four years. I did see a brief surge in positions offered and higher wages last year, but that stopped in during spring time this year.

My guess is that it's either a reaction to salaries already being high or the general economic slowdown, in some areas.

Again it might very well depend on your location, but the positions offered are also changing. I see more and more operations related position, and generally jobs postings a from companies that aren't software companies as such,. They are just companies that needs developer for internal project or software as part of a larger system. The positions I see are very much: "We have a job that needs to get done, and just need an additional developer (or systems administrator)". There are much less of crazy "We're changing the world and are looking for ninja-pirate-elite-10x-super hackers", and the former simply pays less.
Very true. Postgres is a good product, using it in prod without much maintenance is very doable, and the planner is a good thing that regularly outsmarts me with a strategy that is better than what I had in mind. I am sitting on a 1TB db with it right now, expected to grow to ~10TB in the next few years. I like what postgres brings to the table for me.

But it's not all roses and rainbows. Draupnir seem cool, but it can't help you avoid the problem, only fix it faster.

At the core, there is a trade off here: Performance for predictability. You see the same thing in compilers, JITs and sometimes even processor cores. There is an optimizer in these things, that works 99% of the time, and makes things clearly better than human effort alone allows. But once in a while it guesses wrong, and you fall off a performance cliff.

Meanwhile, predictability is valuable in production, even to the point you might want to trade a serious dent in your performance for it.
You are the one that taking liberties with interpretation. The exact quote thaumasiotes argued against was "Nothing will happen to the business if the owners don't get any dividends." My italics. So, they was clearly not talking about the economy in general.

And if you go back in the thread, it was not a general argument about society. If thaumasiotes wanted to do it about that, that would be the straw man, because no one argued for prohibiting companies for paying dividends, and no one argued that society would be fine if no company ever were allowed to pay dividends.

Finally, if I show some lack of patience with thaumasiotes, it is because they are shouting "Communism!" instead of actually presenting any coherent argument. And that in discussions about economy is the reminiscence of Godwin's law.
BlueJ is really not something one would ever want to code in. It's really just to teach the basic concepts of OOPs.

The title here is kinda misleading, since it's not really a practical IDE that anyone would ever want to use for actual coding.