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Cryptocurrency in its purest is money not issued or controlled by a government. Instead the supply inflation is controlled by transparent rules that are plain to see. “Protocol-based finance” vs. the existing government-based finance.

Now there are all manner of divergences from the above paragraph. Coins that are totally controlled and issued by a small group or company. Black box rules rather than transparent.

There are also huge trade offs with not having a central entity - lose your private key and lose your money for example.

Does this make the entire industry a Ponzi? No. There are legitimate uses for crypto, and even if I listed a whole bunch here the HN skeptics would disagree, but certainly buying drugs online is a real use case, which crypto excels at. You may say that’s morally wrong but it is still a use case, for better or worse.
> whether I should start my own server

This is the right answer. All the questions about moderation, resources, choice and whatever will disappear and you'll be part of the Fediverse like anyone else.
They were banned a few days ago, it seems -- unclear why, it sounds like the called for violence (against Tesla no less), but it's so full of "the capitalist fascists are murdering us"-crazy-level rhetoric that it's hard to find out what happened.

I don't know who "that Friedman guy" is, but I did read that Musk announced a general amnesty. No clue if they are included, I assume it depends on the (given) reason for the ban.

It's hard to tell. Whenever I look at something on Twitter, I still see left-wingers posting, but I assume if they're not banned they're not real leftists and that's not a counter-example etc. Movements should really go back to officially recognizing members so we can discuss these things more easily!
There is supposed to be due diligence on the issuing of loans, like a person getting a mortgage for a house, but for an entire Country. It is well known that the likes of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, etc, have been acting immorally in this regard. As far as I'm aware, Western loans are recouped through assets seizure, and there are large programmes in place to write off debt for those who would be perpetually bound by it.

That said, the idea of a 99 year lease seems particularly troubling. It's essentially the time frame where everybody whom agreed to the arrangement will be long dead, and generations of people would have been raised not knowing the land was in fact leased. I suspect kicking people out of somewhere they have been for almost 100 years is not easy.

Worse still is that the land acquired via the 99 year lease will be highly profitable land, with all profits and resources used for China's benefit. This further entraps the local Laos economy, where mining appears to make up major portion of their exports. Not only will they still be saddled with debt, they will now be less capable of repaying it.
Possibly, it doesn't hurt to try to reduce the attack surface though.

A lot of the stuff I wrote on old popular, public websites (that still exist) can no longer be found via search engine, and I did not take any action, it just disappeared on its own.
Actually it just means you were part of the few that profited from the ponzi scheme not that it wasn't a ponzi scheme.
The IMF and World Bank regularly forgive loans.
This is a cool write up, I think since his death people did not carry the legacy, and when I look at ai and machine learning it feels like the opposite of SPC.

There's a podcast I listen to by the Deming institute, the presenters talk about his legacy and work and rarely about new applications or techniques. Feels like the world of data driven management is heading in the wrong direction.
And if they do, they're likely to start with Twitter or Facebook - something useful against more of the population. HN users are still very much a minority.
When I was a kid, my mom's theory on pencil purchasing was that if she bought enough, the house would be so saturated that you could shake a curtain and a pencil would fall out.
If you're going to join Twitter, turn off contact discovery, use a throwaway e-mail, phone number, preferably post under a pseudonym, and disable the ability to look you up with an e-mail address. Also login with a VPN that you trust. This limits the blast radius in the event of a breach. I don't like blaming the victim here, but if all those people in the breach took those precautions, such a leak wouldn't have much of an impact.
Then you send them GDPR right to be forgotten requests next. Alternatively, HN can force them to delist to the content.
> This is of course far too good to be true. But no doubt some suckers will believe it and hand over their dollar stablecoins. And that is exactly what the platform wants.

summary of all crypto exchanges
But enough about the U.S. Federal Reserve.
This is terrible advice to follow blindly. We would all end up with metaprogrammed everything that makes understanding, navigating, and diagnosing code unnecessarily difficult. It also doesn't distinguish between factoring along seams that are stable (domain concepts) vs implementation details which leads to a brittle codebase.
It's always funny people don't seem to get you don't own your data on HN.

The algorithms used are also not transparent.

Whether that's good or bad is a moot point to discuss while people are to stupid to even get the basics.

Let's talk about whether the cia could scape archive.org and use stylometry on single comments on a system we don't even get the basics on.
Looks like pretty standard “lamp wire” to me. Single insulated and rated for 120v ac.
Road deaths aren't limited to just highway fatalities.

Or are you suggesting that collisions at higher speeds, or from running red lights won't increase the chances of injuries for both pedestrians or occupants in cars?
> There is economic value in a piece of equity in google.

It doesn't entitle you to profits, it doesn't entitle you to assets (except in bankruptcy), you can't eat it, and it's only worth what other people will pay you for it. Unlike a rothko, I can't hang it in my living room. Where's the value?
Human-free farms could solve a major food problem
Now there are two competing proposals, with luck maybe one of them can make it to C++26. or maybe not.
Yes. Also Bitcon =/= Crypto.
At the startup that I work at the biggest complaint from customers is no 24 hour support, but my company doesn’t want people to work on weekends or work overnight. Doesn’t four hour week mean even less support? You’d have to deal with crappy AI - automated bots with canned response, awful self checkouts at groceries and restaurants, waiting even longer at DMV for an appointment, etc.
Maybe the Real Tech Debt Was the Friends We Made Along the Way
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The process itself is straight forward but I had to work in a really tight space under the sink. That was really what made it a pain in the ass. I had to lay on my back and cram myself underneath the sink in the cabinet to reach everything plus I'm a 6' tall goon so that definitely wasn't helping either. You're just stuck in an awkward and uncomfortable position most of the time.
I'm in final interviews, so no signed offer yet, but travelling for a multi day interview at a red flag company is a waste of time when there's other options to prioritize.

Yes, I know they are going through large layoffs, and know the % in two cases.

I didn't vote on your answer, just saw it now and replied.
Can you take an AP level English extension class at a local high school?
France has strong labor unions. Likely, it wasn't Mr. T who handled the case but his union's lawyers. They may even have decided to litigate rather than settling out of court to create a precedent that would cover future labor disputes.
Actually pex is probably the most durable. Water is corrosive and will slowly dissolve metal pipes .

Pex has zero UV resistance though, sp if exposed to sun at all it is the least durable.
> You have not explained sufficiently about the maximum mass limit

Yes, I have: I said it applies to objects supported by degeneracy pressure. Ordinary stars are not; as you note, they are supported by thermal pressure. But thermal pressure never lasts forever; eventually any star will stop being able to produce heat and will collapse until it is either supported by degeneracy pressure, or forms a black hole. The maximum mass limit is a limit on the first alternative.

Also, as I said, an object supported by thermal pressure will be easily visible since it will emit lots of radiation. The objects that we believe are black holes are not doing that, so they can't be supported by thermal pressure anyway.

> The same thing would happen with a quark star or a strange star, the degeneracy pressure would keep it from ever becoming a black hole

Not if it is over the maximum mass limit. Sorry, but you are simply wrong as regards what the actual physics says. For the gory details, look up the Harrison-Wakano-Wheeler equation of state, or consult the classic textbook by Shapiro and Teukolsky.

> at least until the pressure was overcome but we don't know what that pressure is.

The whole point of the maximum mass limit is that any pressure, no matter how large, will be overcome if an object is over the limit. That's why we don't need to know what the actual pressure is.

> What I'm saying is we cannot distinguish between a black hole and a quark star, not with our present observations.

And what you are saying is wrong. See above.
This is kind of interesting but "fractional indexing" doesn't seem to be a computer science topic, and I think it might be clearer to treat these indexes as lists of numbers (or ordinals in ω^ω, if you prefer) rather than fractions. Those are simpler to generate and compare than arbitrary-precision fractions. Or as jitl's post suggests, using trees as indexes (I haven't yet looked at jitl's linked articles). Those would presumably have order type ε₀. It's not clear to me why you'd want that, but it seems doable. In all these schemes you might occasionally want a "stop the world garbage collection" where you reset all the indices to be ordinary integers or maybe pairs of integers. I guess that is also doable without having to pause all the updates, at least if you use pairs.
Someone with more experience of French labor law should chip in, but in Sweden as an example, it's literally almost impossible to fire people for such reasons.

Most termination of employments here happens due to down scaling and then there is a first-in-first-out principle (which of course is skirted by categorising people differently so that different FIFO queues apply).

But being bad for just being slightly bad at ones work, or difficult to work with or something is almost unheard of after the up to 6 month probation period (during which the employment is basically at will).
No, post-1.0. I don't remember exactly why I had to roll my own with unsafe, but it was essentially the same thing.
You know how much it sucks to google something, find a super relevant reddit thread, then because its old and half the accounts are gone it's just one deleted user replying to another? It would be sad to see HN become the same. Some of the most interesting content are old threads that are re-linked in new comments.
Amazon retail (the operation in question) is not wildly profitable.
Everything will remain available on the Wayback Machine even if HN nukes your account
> This. Today's stock market bears little relation to "a thing where you can buy shares of a company, and if it does well you can get paid by selling it."

So speculation? Seems like that is the primary way it works today. Also, dividends represent a major source of market returns. Some searching suggests as much as 30%.
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There is economic value in inflation resistance, censorship resistance, and privacy. The fact most get-rich-traders do not care about these things and -also- speculate is irrelevant to the fundamental value.
Interesting analogy. It is true that much, if not most, high end art is purchased as a speculative investment, just like crypto.
> unless they or their admin has blocked you or your instance. Just like any federated network.

That's kinda the part i'm questioning though. You as a user have to look at how each server handles federation to know what is visible.. maybe?

For sake of argument, it might be possible to one-way-federate. Ie read posts from mastodon.art, but if i reply my post might not be seen by mastodon.art users. This is just an example, i have no clue, but i'm illustrating where confusing could arise as rules get more complex on how federation works.

Hopefully it's black and white. If i as a user can see mastodon.art posts, then they can see me. Anything more complex than that (like one-way federation) would be prevented by the software for sake of a simplified UX.
Little nit pick. BSP is British.
Have you come across it before? I found it in 2019 and my life completely changed as a result.
This is one of those distraction comments that really adds nothing to the discussion. The article has real points about how crypto is deeply seeded with ponzi schemes all over and the entire currency in fact looks like a ponzi scheme, and the response is just "yeah but sometimes other things are kinda ponzi schemes".

Yes, the stock/bond markets resemble ponzi schemes particularly for certain securities (cough Uber cough), but the existence of other things being sorta ponzi schemes doesn't remove or forgive all the evidence of deep-seeded ponzi schemes throughout the crypto ecosystem.
All good points, but I think more important than any of them: lacking billions of dollars for growth hacking. These gigantic social media sites didn't become huge organically, they've all dumped boatloads of cash into growing the user base, something a federated social network can never do.
I still don't understand how OTP doesn't already address that case?
The point is that journalists formed this whole story from a tweet. Elon probably spent less than 15 seconds thinking about it before he threw that tweet out. The journalists that treat this like a real story are insanely gullible.
I think the biggest factor is high fronts on trucks and SUVs that seem to be designed to crush pedestrians, together with increasingly poor visibility.

We have the same problem in the EU. Pickups are not as popular here, but even small cars are getting SUV styling with pedestrian-killing hoods.

I had high hopes that Tesla would make sleek and pedestrian-safer cars popular again: the Model X has a pretty low front for an SUV. Unfortunately Tesla threw all that out the window and designed the most effective pedestrian-crushing-device I've ever seen -- I hope the Cybertruck is delayed for a few more years....
From the piece:

> But while many people in their 50s and 60s thrive living solo, research is unequivocal that people aging alone experience worse physical and mental health outcomes and shorter life spans.
As a lay person who hasn't followed cryptocurrencies since Bitcoin was invented, could someone help correct my understanding of how modern ones work?

It seems like owning a crypto token in a blockchain is conceptually the same as owning a share in a company. You purchase or mine a voting stake in that blockchain, correct? And the process by which new tokens can be minted is laid out ahead of time, like a gradual continuous stock split.

Are there fundamental differences that I'm missing, or has the genius of crypto been to put enough window dressing around the idea to avoid being regulated as a stock market or traditional corporate entity?
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Well you see at some point in the future I can hope to sell it to somebody else for more money than I paid!
I'm not sure he is able to understand blockchain concepts like proof of work etc.
The extremely conspicuous Twitter story currently in everyone’s face provides a very easy to understand counterpoint.
If it involved drinking and sex as the lawsuit claimed then this is obviously good.

Perhaps this may be frowned upon here - but I think a manager is absolutely justified in letting someone go if they refuse to be a good teammate or socialize. Perhaps it seems silly but I absolutely have worked harder at companies when everyone was friendly versus ones where the work was atomized and impersonal.
Step one was to transfer me off of client engagements entirely. No more pentesting. Which raised the question of what exactly I would do at a pentesting shop.

His particular solution was to have me write security documentation and recommendations for clients deployed on Azure, then to say that the resulting documentation wasn’t satisfactory.

I actually noticed one morning my access had been cut off, so I snagged a few chat messages from my laptop. I went in and was called into the side room to be lit on fire.

In reality it’s not so dramatic, though at the time it felt like the end of the world. I was putting my wife through college so she could be a developer, and without a job we’d have to abandon those plans. None of that matters to an employer; they’re not here to accommodate people, they’re here to make money. And I say that with seriousness, not cynicism.

Your problems are your own. When I started transitioning to that mindset, I became both more professional and tougher. I expect to be laid off within one month as of this writing, and it’ll roll off my shoulders like I’m laying in a river letting the water flow by. It doesn’t phase me, precisely because this time around I planned from day one that day next-month would come.

I could have taken them to court, but I was a mess at the time. Getting on Prozac and taking care of my mental health really turned my life around.
> doesn't entitle you to assets (except in bankruptcy)

Of course it does. When the company is sold, you are entitled to the proceeds. M&A is the ultimate enforcer of equity value.
> Then eat only veggies for your first meal, then veggies and a deck of cards serving of meat for dinner.

> lot of people have suggested keto and low-carb diets

Just always remember: while rice, pasta and bread are vegetarian they are not vegetables.
If the idea was to do away with the centralized institutions but overwhelmingly people use centralized institutions which frequently act like ponzi schemes, perhaps the "idea" no longer matters and the actual real-world situations matter more.
If they would have invented aluminum die casting then yes, but they didn't.

They built a bigger maschine, impressive but not revolutionary.
Well I have been in many meetings where folks would continuously drop F bombs just to shut others up or to be strongly opinionated. Many years ago these behavior would have been deemed as unprofessional , now in some places people don’t bat an eyelid when these happens. I see this culture as toxic which ultimately harms full inclusion.
This is so incredibly speculative, it's borderline outrageous to even make the claim without something to back it.
> When reusing coffee grounds to make another coffee the next day you risk ingesting unwanted fungi and bacteria.

> These are attracted by the wet grounds and it’s possible that the microorganisms start establishing their colonies in less than 24 hours.

> Therefore drinking coffee that’s made from yesterday’s grounds could be potentially dangerous while also having an unpleasant taste.

Storing the spent grounds in the fridge would be a good preservation method.

Personally, I think putting boiling water in the grounds as an initial treatment should kill off any initial bacteria.

Fungal spores aren’t killed by boiling, but they might germinate after soaking and then get killed after the second hit. This was an early method of killing fungal spores before pressure vessels: tyndallisation.

Coffee grounds (without any sugar, etc.) isn’t a very nutritive media.
I agree with [this][1] idea:

> an autocomplete has one chance to reorder per keystroke. if you got it wrong and you have a better ordering a bit later you must “swallow the sadness” (as per the original author of this wisdom) but never change already displayed items

[1]: https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1470751551568363530
And deleting your account here would signal to bad actors to look there.
IANAL, but closest French equivalent to Supreme Court is Conseil Constitutionnel. Cours de cassation is about breaking judgments because they were not made to the letter of the law. They do not pronounce general opinions about the law itself.
at the end of the day it all comes from the same place, web3 just democratizes the path

there are a small amout of scams that are overblown by people trying to control the narrative which won't work because the blockchains are decenteralized and free for all to investigate
You can email them and they will remove the content. Unlike HN.
Classic crypto-enthusiast denial.

Your dreamt of, decentralized system that was imagined by Satoshi is gone. It will either never exist anymore and be gangrened by said centralized exchanges (which are the only things that are artificially prop up the value of your coins), or it will go back to the days where you can pay 10 000 BTC for a pizza because someone decided it would be fun. ETH would be worthless without exchanges (because its current value is only propped up by "what bullshit can I sell that mimics real world services but without any legal repercussions when I commit fraud and exchange it for cash, disappearing in the Bahamas in the process?"), doge would be worthless, USDT would be worthless, etc.

A system that has no real world value will not exchange anything, unless scammers like Binance and FTX come in to sell get-rich-quick dreams to suckers and artificially bring in money and "volume". When 99% of your volume is just big traders sending money to one another and keeping the price high (because it makes cryptobros feel good when they see their big number go bigger), you don't have an economy, you have at best a really shit game of Monopoly.
Inaccessible from the machine doing the attack.

But is it preventing the node from communicating with the rest of the network?

That's a big doubt from me.
> not sure he is able to understand blockchain concepts like proof of work

Which is irrelevant to the value of a consensus-based currency, other than as a smoke screen for naive investors and catnip to the technically minded.
Yes, and it's even less forgiving when it's a gas, or worse a flammable gas, or 3000 psi hydraulic fluid.
I'll try out an extreme point of view here. Modern culture has failed, we need to replace it. One third of 50 year olds living alone is as good a symptom as any. You could mention the birth rate also. The two are obviously connected.

Am I right? Is that too nuts? I just don't see how this ends well. We have effectively socialized old age care, and now we are expecting future generations, an ever-shrinking group, to pay for the pensions of people they have never met.
It absolutely does entitle you to profits, either in the form of dividends or stock buybacks.
Ad hominem != arguments
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