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> So for less than $13 billion, the NSA can create a new BTC mining network

The NSA doesn't go to the NVIDIA store to buy $13 billion of GPUs. Measuring only the monetary value conveniently ignores the bottleneck of underlying resources to build the hardware to do the mining. Where does the NSA find $13 billion worth of top-shelf GPUs or ASICs? Having money is not enough if there is no one to sell you.

That hardware takes natural resources, knowledge know-how found only in a few companies and a non-negligible amount of rare earth minerals to build. That's a serious bottleneck and not something you can stealthily enter in in that capacity, NSA or not.
A town of 8000 definitely warrants a bus line or two. In addition to inter city buses to nearby towns and cities.

I live in what I consider a rural American town, 10,000 people spread around 200 km² (but US census still considers it urban (!) so you are right about that) and still we get regular bus service from 2 lines and a couple of ferry lines to nearby cities.

But to raise the point of your parent home, we do have a car in our driveway ready for our convenience, but a bicycle is actually way handy (especially when coming home from the bar) and then the bus is actually very well used, and has been increasing in frequency over the past decade. It is simply way more convenient to ride the bus to the ferry then drive during commuter hours.
Yeah, I can create files in ~/.config/environment.d/ to set some environment variables. My problems are that (a) that syntax only allows very simple variable assignments, not complex things like "run ssh-agent and add the environment variables it prints to stdout" and (b) those environment variables aren't available to the Wayland compositor or applications it launches.
I feel like you and I are visitors from an alternate universe, because everyone else seems to find this the best thing ever, whereas I couldn't understand it at all. Initially the animals can't move at all, just snapping back to their original location when you try to move them. Then when they do move (you can move them to blue spaces), they end all stuck and you cannot continue. OK then.
It’s a terrible move, and everyone should ignore the email. (Obviously, not legal advice, just my personal opinion.)

I don’t recommend anyone do business with them, whether as a customer or anything else; I was CEO of Fog Creek when we decided to sell FogBugz, and if I knew the difference between what we were told ahead of the deal and what happened after, I never would have approved it. I didn’t see that they’d done this latest shitty thing until now but I really lament that they’ve sunk to an even lower new level.
I started in the "these people must be conspiracists" camp, but I've seen too many things come out of WEF to believe anything but the conspiracies now.

Without any other info than a ZeroHedge article I read yesterday, this does seem legit. And in fact WEF typically puts their plans in the open (check their site or Klaus' books). It almost seems like a way for them to mockingly let us know we can't stop them.
All good points, but…

This is a clear case where he needs to look for another job IMMEDIATELY.

Here’s why…

1. The problems listed are too technical and almost impossible to communicate to a non-technical audience meaning business or c-suite.

2. The fixes will not result (any time soon) in a change that’s meaningful to business like increased revenue or speed to market. Business will not reward you if you are successful or provide resources to get the job done unless the value is apparent to them (See #1).

Employment is a game. Winning that game means knowing when to get out and when to stay.

It’s time to plan your exit both for your own sanity and the good of your family.
I don’t think this is at all the reason that it’s not a store of value.

It’s not a store of value as the supply is infinite. You’ll read in many places that only 21 million tokens will be produced. This is false. You can freely create as many new ones as you want by copying and pasting the source code any time you like.

That one is on the “real” chain and another is not, hasn’t actually mattered at all - as long as another chain can be perceived to have any value, the original is undermined.

Satoshi wrote about this at the very start - the notion that if it ever came to have any perceived value, even a minuscule value, then it’s achieved its goal of being transferable. That’s true of any and all others too, though.

This has been seen many times over the decade since: any time the perceived value climbs steeply it’s seen as being “overpriced” and money starts flowing into smaller “underpriced” tokens, nullifying it’s use case as a store of value.

Slowly and eventually I think the passive speculators will come to learn this, it’ll stagflate, then it’ll decline back close to nothing when it’s not producing the 300% CAGR it’s holders demand.
Totally. I've moved my addiction from soda to La croix, and noticed a big difference.
I think you forgot the best one: Arch.

BTW, I use Ubuntu. But for documentation I go to Arch.
Relevant: Why Nokia is not afraid of the iPhone (2007)

https://www.mobilementalism.com/2007/01/11/why-nokias-not-af...
Ahh yes, just yoke and impoverish tomorrow's youth. Those kids'll be wishing for another covid- clear out some of the leeches.
This makes no sense. If you change your name you loose all papers and citations in Google Scholar and other academic networks for example. It’s not an easy fix. Everyone looks at google scholar stats before interviewing.
It's disabled until you manually re-enable it. That documentation page's wording suggests otherwise, but that seems to just be an artifact of trying to really hammer in the advice that you should only keep it disabled temporarily.
A great example is Measure A which was passed in the last election a few months back in Santa Clara county:

> Shall the measure amending the Santa Clara Valley Water District Ordinance 11-01 to limit Board members to four successive four-year terms be adopted?

Term limits? Heck yes! Voters agreed: term limits are A GOOD THING. Measure A passed!

What wasn't mentioned AT ALL, anywhere in the question put to the voters, is that Santa Clara Valley Water District board members are already limited to 2 terms in office. This was extending term limits from 2 consecutive to 4 consecutive terms. It was getting rid of/weakening term limits. A blatant misrepresentation on the ballot.

Who wrote the text of Measure A? Why the Santa Clara Valley Water District board members who wanted their terms extended, of course.
Is Taipei 101 the greatest building of all time?
> The delay of 50-80ms introduced by the network is not terribly much (everything under 110ms is fine for playing Dota)

I don't think you're giving the Dota client enough credit there. Game clients don't wait for network to pretend to respond to user input, because it absolutely is noticeable at 100ms latency. Instead, they predict as much as they can client side and display it as fast as possible. For this reason, the client is not at all thin. It knows how to run the whole program by itself. Not so with remote X11. With remote X programs, the client doesn't know what happens on click for anything, so the user really does get hit with a 100ms delay for every interaction with the program.
I think they must have a lot of trouble hiring, or maybe they’re a meat grinder, because they advertise here so often, like every week or more.
I'd also add: ultra low power consumption. If you really want to use as little power as possible to do a specific task
Not in Taipei, the subject of the article
> are actually really nice and important security features

I don't underestand how Apple getting a list of everything i run is "security". But everybody is doing it (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook) so it must be good.
> "As an ... your livelihood is dependant on an algorithm, not skill, not intuition, not experience, not even track record."

Does this say anything about AI in general?
It seems as though there is some sort of avocado industrial complex thing happening here.
In addition to the reply, he mentions gdm so he likely doesn't login from the console. This is a bit extreme but one day they might (for security reasons) remove that too.
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When you research a new product, on what platform is it the review hosted and do the reviewers make a living out of reviews?
I believe that that the line between advertising and reviews are increasingly blurred
>"I’ve spent most of the last 10 years earning my living from an e-commerce business I own. The online advertising industry is unrecognisable from when we started."

Could you elaborate on some of the things that have changed to make it unrecognizable? Wasn't it still targeted ads 10 years ago by the same players mentioned in the article i.e FB and Google?
>- Miners fall off the face of the Earth. Bitcoin is still valuable so others rush to their place because there is money to be made.

Your logic does not follow. What I am saying is this: You cannot continue to halve the mining rewards while maintaining network security.

At some point you reach a point where the cost/benefit of attacking bitcoin (whether that be a deliberate 51% attack or a selfish mining scheme) outweighs the cost/benefit of mining faithfully.

There may be some irrational agents who continue to mine at a loss, but they will be outnumbered by rational agents with more capital.
And any program not made with goddamn XMotif will be slow as fuck on anything non-ethernet.

It is a strictly worse solution to remote desktoping than what followed it — we are no longer drawing things with CPU and the things we draw are not 3 rectangles. A bitmap crossing the wire for an icon/image/whatever is insanely inefficient through the X protocol, you want to compress it with a modern compression algorithm for much better outcome.
Using a mouse for an extended period makes my hand hurt
The idea that anti racism means anti white is demonstrably false and trivially disproven.

There are actions you can take that do not have anything to do with whiteness.

If you tell a racist joke or use a racist slur, and I tell you not to do that, I am acting in an anti racist manner. It cost white folks nothing.

All antiracist means is "actively against racism", meaning when you observe racism you take action.
> That man's father is still alive

At this point you are just writing fan-fiction.

> We should still love our family and treat them with respect,

That may be what you believe, which is great, but that is just not what Jesus is saying. Leaving your family without saying goodbye is just a really horrible thing to do.
Can we stop conflating one cryptocurrency with the other?

Using the argument of what happened to one coin as a proof that blockchain is necessarily bad is like saying the Internet is useless because there are scams that happen online.

OpenSea and NFTs have nothing to do with Bitcoin nor blockchain, the technology.
It's absolutely an optimisation that people trying to achieve maximum performance from C/C++ expect. It's impossible to have the same degree of performance without such optimisations, hence why new language Zig has even more undefined behaviour than C.
If you run an always on server on every gadget you have at home, don't be surprised if you energy bill starts looking like a datacenter.
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Burning world’s fossil fuel reserves could emit 3.5tn tons of greenhouse gas
A federal judge approved a search warrant against me because supposedly an unnamed dog told an unnamed officer who told a (named) detective that it smelled "potential contraband" up my ass. Not even the testimony of an officer, just 3rd degree anonymous hearsay.

FISA warrants are bad and the regular federal warrants process isn't much better.
The literal hashrate is irrelevant. What matters is the comparative cost/reward of an attacker performing an attack on the network, which will continue to decrease for the reasons i've stated.

Sure, the protocol will adjust for the falloff in hash-rate as miners ditch their hardware- a perfect opportunity for a malicious entity to buy up their hardware and use it to attack the network.
marin has their own rapid transit now with a different gauge
I’m puzzled by your comment because I observe precisely the opposite: in Sway (Wayland) I have `input * scroll_factor 0.35`, but in i3 (X) I can’t reduce the scroll speed.
Isn't it another JsonWebToken?
There is some strange irony when watching people using quite expensive IBM X Windows thin client terminals to manage xterms, each being a different talk session.
Philadelphia Flyers mascot appreciators. I'm guessing you didn't mean to capitalize 'Gritty' but it's too late now.

In the more conventional sense, it's a bit of a red flag. Grit as a character trait implies extreme self-sufficiency and tenacity.This can sound very appealing to managers when they want to despatch someone to do a job, but may prove awkward when that someone returns with unwanted insight into the origin of the problem.
Making the best mouse trap and assuming this creates a great business is the first fallacy of enterpreneurship.
I have that quote printed out and hanging in my work room. With the running baboon next to it, smiling, looking at his watch and the sun shining behind him. I've never watched that show, but the quote hits home and was welcome during hard times.
There's thankfully some room in the market for pay reasonably comparable to typical SWE payscales, but most embedded developers live in their own little worlds largely disconnected from trends in the rest of the software industry. They're often simply not aware of what they're worth to demand it and the kind of companies that need embedded developers tend to be both unable and unwilling to pay those rates.
I’m not a designer. I use a trackpad full time, even on desktop (on macOS).

For me, it’s a couple of things. First, gestures are awesome and not easily reproducible with a mouse. My keyboard is full of shortcuts for other things, I don’t want to take up hotkeys for something my trackpad can do.

Second, it’s consistent across all my computing devices. My laptop experience is identical to the desktop experience and I don’t have to carry a mouse in my backpack for my laptop.

Finally, my hands are closer, and on the same plane, as my keyboard. With a mouse, my hand has to move from a small claw shape back to flat for typing. With a trackpad, my hand stays flatter.

Bonus, I need less space for computing. I know you can adjust the sensitivity for mice, and even for trackpads, but in practice, for me personally, I tend to need way more space when using a mouse. I still play computer games so it’s not like I don’t own one, but for productivity, I’ll use a trackpad when possible.
Some people in this industry think dropping f-bombs constantly makes them edgy.
At the moment, there is no official definition for web 3.0 but this era of the web is the next evolution of the internet services for websites and applications. This is the web that will be powered by AI, Blockchain, IoT, 5G, Metaverse, NFTs, Cryptocurrencies all combined.
Given the ambiguity of the term and the fact that I don't know who exactly wrote the job ad (could be some HR person completely divorced from the actual work), I'd shrug it off as standard marketing speak and see how the interview went. Might bring it up as an aside when asking about how my day-to-day would typically go
Kind of. It means that the person making the offer already has the cash - if it’s a corporate/business purchase that cash may indeed come in the form of financing elsewhere, however the cash is already available so by definition isn’t secured by ownership of your property and so is not a “mortgage”. In a practical sense it likely means something like failing to make a repayment doesn’t automatically give possession of the property they bought.

All that said, in the Bay Area at least a cash offer from an individual means just that: the person buying it likely just sold a ton of stock, or their startup got bought, etc. I personally know people have done that (in some cases out of necessity: sellers favour short closing and no financing issues)
They might be able to tell I cut my meat with sawdust, so I pass on them.
We all know bitcoin uses a lot of energy, there is no debate about that. But, on a global scale of all energy used, it is just a tiny tiny sliver of the pie (see my previous link). Just because something uses energy doesn't mean it is inherently bad. If you want to extrapolate and say that wasting energy on PoW is bad, then you also have to compare that against all of the other wasted energy. If you do, bitcoin doesn't look that bad either.

Of course plenty of people here like to fixate on telling people what a good or not good use of energy is. Which is so ironic to me given that here we are using energy to have this debate and I'm sure someone out there thinks it is equally wasteful.
People are so quick to dismiss cryptocurrency now because it isn't "green", but disregard the enormous infrastructure, capital, and resources that the global fiat industry uses that is completely automated away by crypto.

Even if you only factor the value of human life alone, just the time saved by the hundreds of thousands or millions of worldwide fiat employees who's positions largely would not need to exist anymore should surely be factored into these discussions about resource consumption. And that's before factoring things like wages. Or the ultra-weathy executives. Let alone physical infrastructures, skyscrapers, data centers, private jets, marketing, R&D, legal teams, IT/security, fraud depts, and loads of other internal costs.

I just don't buy that it's much worse than many existing costs we already turn a blind eye to. I believe that the growing use of safe nuclear power and other future alternative energy sources make this a moot position in these arguments anyway.
How exactly do you define rival?

There are tens maybe hundreds of embedded cpus for every human. While riscv products exist, they are still mostly a novelty. I dont think riscv has even 0.1% of the embedded market yet.
To be honest I am not sure who those dabbling in software actually are. A lot of the embedded software running in safety critical environments on certified compilers and is build and tested to a much, much higher standard than most people would think. This is so much closer to software engineering than what can be observed by "software developers" who pull in unchecked dependencies like there is no tomorrow.

Sure there are also electrical engineers who don't actually know how to program and they indeed dabble in it in a very naive fashion, but you got those people in software developement as well and they are also naive — just in a different way.
Remote GUI code works quite well on RDP sessions.

That is how we have been giving development machines since 2011, Windows workstations on whatever cloud vendor the project is taking place.
And somehow this is entirely unrelated to the stigma associated with researching anything that has to do with race.</sarcasm>
Using a wayland desktop, remote login into a Linux server, start a graphical text editor like gvim, it fails. This is a very common way to dev on Linux, I too have been doing this daily, and with ssh+X11 it works out of the box. I wonder what is the best way to do this with Wayland. Should I ask an admin to reconfigure the remote server to run a VNC or RDP server, and then use a specific tool to connect? I wonder if VNC/RDP can integrate apps as windows instead of all-in-one window.
Why do you expect them to add captchas?
I must admit, I don't really run into any of these problems that people call out on laptops I use.

What, specifically, is the problem with touchpads on windows?
Yet gold also has a huge cost for secure storage and has throughout history. Gold remains a store of value, thus the argument seems quite weak.
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> They can’t - rent prices are set by the market

Landlords are part of the market.
This wasn't a stupid comment until the bit about captchas.
Not working in FF (Desktop stable, win)
While we can't predict the future precisely the future isn't completely unknown either. This allows us to say beforehand that some investments are better than others, regardless of what the actual outcome of such investments will be.
Lately I've seen a strong tendency, where I work, to see people with less knowledge "up the chain". Is there only where I am.
From your comment, seems to be different where you are.
If I'm stuck with something, the LAST place where I search for answers is "up" in the hierarchy.
>Either case, I don't see why austrian economics get more dirt than say, MMT.

Austrian economics is explicitly anti-central-banking, and most economists are funded by a central bank or a government with a central bank. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it".
No interest in reading the article, but I'm curious who still thinks an asset that can experience a 27% drawdown in 3 days is usable as either a store of value or as a currency?
Also, network latency has a quite imminent physical limitation, the speed of light. Serial computations do also have a limit, and we are close to it with current technology, but parallel execution doesn’t really have any, and GPUs take massive advantage of that. We can continue to increase resolution /frame rate basically arbitrarily (of course with very diminishing returns after a point)
Added, thanks
For those like me who were unaware:

> The main task of SIP on Mac is to protect the safety and integrity of the system files and directories, preventing them from modifications or attacks from unauthenticated processes. It brings a high level of security to the entire system.
The storm was perfect?
>very interested to hear a convincing argument for having a trackpad as none exists in my universe

Good for you, I hope your egocentrism continues to serve you well.

You really can't think of a reason why someone might prefer using an alternative input method?
On X when in a Zoom call, if I drag any window around the whole DE starts tearing wildly to the point of it being very distracting. On Wayland, it's smooth as butter (or Windows or MacOS for that matter).

This is just one very easy to replicate example. There are a bunch of other seemingly simple tasks that lead to some rather hideous tearing in X.
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One upon a time (or long forgotten concepts?) there did exist a window system with full client-side scriptability, .i.e. it implemented what nowadays is "the browser as a thin client" with Javascript for client-side rendering:

Gosling, James; Rosenthal, David S.H.; Arden, Michelle J.: The NeWS Book: An Introduction to the Network/extensible Window System

NeWS used Postscript as the language for client-side tasks. Seems it was way too early for this good idea at that time.

https://books.google.de/books/about/The_NeWS_Book.html?id=Dd...
For it to make up a third I’m guessing corporate/private equity purchases in which case I _think_ it is considered good practice to use borrowed money to finance asset purchases if the cost to borrow is lower than the expected return. But plenty of these corps have the cash - depending on where you’re buying houses can be cheap (I had a friend going to uni in Merced, ca and many of the houses there had a list price that was less than just the down payment on my home in oakland). But from a business point of view the average capital gain+rent would probably be above interest on the loan to support it.