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Yet another useless Bitcoin puff piece from some random tech bro that doesn't understand economics.

"Bitcoin is awesome!" article concluded by, "my friends in Argentina save in stablecoins". Wait, why don't they use Bitcoin if it's so great?

>Lucky for them, bitcoin will always be there, waiting with open arms… immutable, unwavering, eternal, unbiased, welcoming, and untamed.

It will be hilarious when they see what happens to transaction fees and/or network hash distribution as mining rewards dry up. Or maybe they ignore that because the vast majority of Bitcoin changes hands off-chain through exchanges. Which makes:

>To really get crypto, you have to have been fucked by some third party with power over your money. Be it a government, a bank, a business, or an ex-employer, it will come.

Quite ironic because most activity in crypto is being facilitated through 3rd parties, and even if one uses an offline wallet the vast majority are using exchanges to cash in/out as needed. I'd wager a bet that more people have been screwed over by some crypto entity than their government or banks.

But yeah, Bitcoin/crypto is great as long as the wash trading, price-pumping sham can continue and "number goes up." Good thing all the cryptobros price things in their local currencies and not BTC! Hmm something about inflation again...
Not only is it nearly impossible to use anywhere... but a huge component of BTC's mythology is making fun of someone who ACTUALLY spent it as money (Bitcoin Pizza)
I think a lot of people aren't necessarily happy because they're highly skilled at it, but because its a default state of being. If it was purely a skill then environmental or biological factors wouldn't play any role.

If anything, we learn to be unhappy. It's no secret how toxic academia can be - I would say the original commenter's personal observation that only 1% of people are happy is probably because many people around them are deeply unhappy.

I know I felt this way when I was in a different career. Once I moved out of that field, I was astounded to find out that people are actually not depressed most of the time. I won't lie, the improved financial situation that followed was a big factor - it's definitely easier to be happy when you're not poor!

So, I agree, a recalibration is in order. But that might involve removing yourself from certain social groups as much as it requires a thought pattern adjustment.
Yes it was. There was an era when MBAs avoided tech companies like plague. Techies ran tech companies and being an engineer was required to be a CEO of Tech companies .
this year i watched a company buy a hypervisor company and jack the renewal rates 5 times knowing that it will take 4 years for their biggest accounts to ditch them. and that the twenty years of renewals they get in 4 years is worth destroying the hypervisor to get the money

imagine a company that purchases space shuttles and lights them on fire in a field because it's more profitable than launching them. as much as it makes sense using math it's heartbreaking to watch as an engineer
> That is why there are function attributes and #pragmas to control what the compiler is supposed to do.

Which basically reinvent gcc's syntax to set input/output/modified registers, only worse. No thank you.

The compiler you are most likely thinking off still does not allow to set multiple output values from an inline asm block, for example. Something the gcc/clang syntax has no problems with. These details all make the "ffi"/interface between the C world and your inline asm slower than it could be.
Did you read the post? making money is not even mentioned... sigh
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Thank you so much for sharing your experiences, lots of useful suggestions here!
4-day work week is a "gift" to keep people in the office, and I hope it FAILS miserably because being in the office in 2024 it's not different than dress like ancient Celts to go to a court. A nonsense.

Some want slaves and to ensure them, to reach the "in 2030 you'll own nothing" they need the city, tall buildings used less than half of the day moving between them for the rest of the day only to keep people busy and unable to own. This is simply untenable: a city can't really evolve and we are in changing world and in a changing society, cities to change needs to be rebuild, something impossible for actual available resources, we must be no more than 3 billion to have enough planetary resources to evolve in cities, while we can be the double to live spread and have more intelligence and ideas being more in a spread model where we can evolve and sustain the climate change as well.

That's why ruling class want cities https://kfx.fr/articles/2024-04-26-onnewdealexp-contrapolis/ and we should say no thanks.
> FWIW I sort of agree with you.

> [describes self, story completely contradicts parent post]

I'd say you're a perfect example of why "Leetcode problems are a good filter for getting the top 0.X% of talent" is false.
I think 4chan’s model is actually really underrated. Replies can be indicated by referencing the number of a previous post, and a post can link arbitrarily to as many posts as needed. Posts include a header with links to all posts that reference it. This allows posts to form arbitrary graphs and allows following a single thread of discussion while still maintaining a linear structure without disjointed branches.
I often attribute this to free layoffs, but the problem is that if your _senior_ leadership and employees leave, the problem is that you're in a bad situation. Laying off some people who recently joined, are a bit underperforming, etc is a great way to do layoffs. But losing your top talent is the best way to sink yourself.

However the effects are felt a few years down the line, and these big orgs usually praise the CEO for doing this genius maneuver and saving a bunch of money, only to later leave in a few years when shit is about to hit the fan. Overall its a weird time. And to note, I do like working from the office, so I happen to be in the minority who likes hybrid. Though even I cannot deny the benefits of being able to WFH and get to a doctor appointment or take care of my kid when she's sick.
Womeone is paying me to do a thing. Therefore, what I'm doing must, at least on average and over the long term, be so valuable to some number of people that it's worth continuing those payments.

That's not that abstract to me, and it certainly feels meaningful.
This adequately explains the imbalance.
By that logic stocks of companies that don't issue dividends are the same.
> Crypto people tend to have an infinite dose of "f* you got mine" even if they didn't get theirs.

That comes from the hope of recovering their loss one day and dumping the bags on somebody else.
At some point long ago, an online music shop decided to embed the credit card details of the buyer into the MP3 metadata.

If the original user kept the song to himself, "no harm done". If not, his credit details would be all over Napster and eMule.

I don't remember the details now, as that was way back when the 'Net was the Wild West, but it was all the rage on IRC....
The counter argument is that such cases contribute to scarcity, which reduces supply and therefore those who sell can demand more.

I don’t know though how sound this argument really is as I don’t see what value bitcoin has outside its monetary worth.

Can you really use this stuff? Not really. At best is a difficult to scale — if at all — database for transactions.

Though similar things could be said about paper money as well — that it is nothing but the agreed upon value — but at least that can exchange hands far more easily in a much more scalable and flexible manner.
Seeking a better design pattern than "microservices"
My team is looking for new ideas for setting up a complex system that would be much simpler and more scalable than “microservices”, which still seem to be a standard, even though we have been using this pattern for a decade.
if i had the ability to vastly influence what people read about me everyone would think i was pretty amazing too
Well that's the question isn't it -- clearly, many people feel that the thing that private equity does is bad, but how do you quantify that thing well enough to ban it?

The most broad brush would be a complete and total ban on mergers and acquisitions, an idea that I find mildly interesting but I suspect would fail in practice. Perhaps M&A could be restricted somehow, with particular criteria disqualifying one from being able to accquire?
You're thinking too far ahead: governments define the currency that can be used to extinguish debts, particularly to the state (taxes).

You can't pay your taxes in Bitcoin: you can only use Bitcoin to buy enough local currency to pay your taxes from someone else who has some. Which they get from the state.

While the endpoint of this is jail and the monopoly on violence of government, it's also just regular economic reality: you can't buy something if you don't have anything the seller will accept. And the government doesn't accept Bitcoin.
I guess the argument is if you have good wealthy person genes you are going be better at making money, but that seems tautological.
The day when Gaben retires.
my bg: I have done a few robotics projects: a warehouse robot and a surgical arm.

About ROS: that's fair, but to be fair, it was an ambitious first attempt that began hmm decades ago? and has some great parts (the 3d simulator, the robot construction, the python interface) and some less great parts (bags). It's a great place to make the next generation from.

Unfortunately, the scope of robot design pain is even larger than TFA! the definition of "robot" is so broad it includes factory robots with hardly any sensor requirements and intelligence, as well as devices with intense vision input, or even large network requirements, micro devices, stationary devices, mobile truck-like things, robotic systems composed of numerous robots, humanoids, etc.
I'd like some feedback from those in the know.

It seems to me we've been building "robots" since the industrial revolution. An assembly line is a series of "robots" performing highly specific actions on highly constrained inputs.

So for "learning robotics" I would personally recommend starting with something like assembly lines. Highly constrain your inputs and limit what the robot is supposed to accomplish and you will have an achievable goal.

You wouldn't teach programming by telling someone to write a highly scalable dbms, neither should we teach robotics by creating a general purpose "6 degrees of freedom" robot which can grab any object and do something useful with it.

Does this resonate with anyone else or am I alone here?
You mean a back-formation. "Warf" as "warehouse at river front" is a backronym, it totally has the same feeling as those other famous nonsense backronyms like "fornication under consent of king" or "port out starboard home".

...except that "wharf" has an 'h' in it, so it's not even a backronym.
OK, that doesn't actually appear to be necessary because mine works without opting in.

"2. Go to https://{username}.at.hn?refresh." did the trick.
Mars makes sense to Elon Musk because it would be the culmination of his multi-decade strategy of pumping up companies on government largesse. Whether it's fat government contracts or tax credits and grants, every single one of his ventures have relied extensively on the taxpayer. Musk correctly has identified an international effort to Mars as the most lucrative, multi-governmental contract that ever existed.
> and the government is restricting access to your funds and preventing you from holding USD, then Bitcoin or Stablecoins are a pretty good option.

If your government is going as far to prevent you to own USD, they aren't going to view cryptocurrencies any more favorably anyways.
A decentralized "Ponzi scheme?" Do you understand what Charles Ponzi or Bernie Madoff did?
for every buyer that is a seller

if the seller is happy at the price they are selling at and the buyer is happy at the price they are buying at, where does the "someone had to lose a dollar" come from?

if the seller sold to the buyer, then it went up, the only "dollars lost" would be hypothetical opportunity cost had the seller decided to hold instead.

am i missing something?
I'm saying that the safety of suburbs is overstated due to the higher number of vehicle miles travelled.
I wear hearing aids and could always hear them as I passed near them. Obviously not the same as real sound as it was just interfering or something.
The Wonders of Maxis
That doesn't seem to be necessary, https://jstanley.at.hn/ works fine?
When Solaris 2 came out, they gave us the choice to buy their C compiler or to install the free-of-charge open-source gcc. There was no pressure to buy. If we were private users rather than corporate users, that was especially the case.

And a lot of Java stuff was sold to us for a very nominal sum (probably just the cost of production).
Different countries have different regulations and differing levels of permeation within society. Nobody in the US will take crypto as payment (other than a few niche retailers), but it's a pretty popular payment option in places like Argentina, Estonia, El Salvador, Vietnam, India, Singapore, and Nigeria. So popular in Nigeria, in fact, that it's displacing the local currency and the government is (unsuccessfully) trying to ban p2p transactions.
> These are now stuck with the desperate second rate employees who are forced to RTO because they're not good enough to find a job elsewhere

It's always that. My opinion is it is more likely is that most people hate job seeking and don't want to switch unless truly forced. So you end up with people quitting and dissatisfied workers.

I have nothing to back this up but the majority of people I suspect don't think of themselves in the "bad" group and thus this argument is mute by default (as it assumes the employees know they cannot or will not find a job).
Valve, the gambling company?
Money isn’t like your house. It’s like the roads and other infrastructure that connects your house to other places.

You can’t drive at 100mph on the wrong side of the road. You can’t mess with the plumbing and electricity in ways that would affect the grid, even if you do it on your own property.

There are of course places in the world that are so empty or so undeveloped that you can make your own rules off-grid. But most people don’t want that because it’s a lot of work and means you’re largely disconnected from others. Bitcoin as a currency has the same problem.
It's easy and effective. What company or outfit do you work for, I can vet the board members or superior officers or agency supervisors for you. I have access to lots of data on lots of people.

EDIT: I'm completely serious, persona.
> People find satisfaction in toy making as well (especially at nerf, from what I hear), even though toys are not inherently meaningful.

I think toys are meaningful. They encourage exploration and fun. That's certainly meaningful and fun is a basic human instinct. What isn't meaningful is that which does not contribute to an increase in human happiness in the long-run, such as the creation of new iterations of phone models that last only a few years just so people have to upgrade.

It's difficult to define meaningful, but I would include that which allows people to enjoy their life in a sustainable world that is compatible with creating opportunities for freely exploring all aspects of human existence, while maintaining respect for other living beings. Much of what we do in the modern world is not that.
Maybe but in theory those stocks are ‘usually’ tied to some other econmical activity other than mere speculation that the price will go up. In practice though, a lot of stocks have no fundamental value tied to their prices…
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)) The AI-thumbnails will be removed in a few weeks. Totally agree with you.
I mean, that ability of Google hasn't changed. If anything, Google has more influence than it did in those days. And yet, their corporate image has taken a nosedive.
If they sell before that, mission accomplished. Many startups don't plan ahead too far, they know they aren't exactly the next Amazon.

Large, established companies is ofc a different story.
Yeah, it’s called greater fool theory for a reason.
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"And I believe the conversation here starts with accepting a simple truth, which is that Weird Nerds will have certain traits that might be less than ideal, that these traits come “in a package” with other, very good traits"

I think the point here can be strengthened by removing the issue of "weird traits" entirely. The simple reality is, if you are hiring someone to be very, very smart in their field, at a world-class, there is literally no one who can just parachute in and replace them, level, you need to minimize the amount of other things they have to do in order to operate at that level.

Why hire a world-class irreplaceable expert to do anything if you're going to require them to spend 90% of their time doing things other than being a world-class irreplaceable expert? Even if the expert is the nicest person in the history of humanity, it's still a complete waste if you can't support them and they have to do all this other stuff just to be allowed to function as a world-class expert.

In local parlance, this is no different than hiring a senior engineer and then 100% filling their schedule with meetings. Or expecting to hire a unicorn that is an expert in seven distinct languages and is also a manager and a high-level sales person. If I put that job listing out HR would laugh and send it back to me. Essentially making "world class scientist AND good manager AND expert sales/politician" the baseline for functionality in the sciences is just a recipe for futility.

There doesn't even have to be a correlation with "weird traits"; even a population-average distribution of the ability to me a manager + politician + sales + something else is a very, very tall ask. Add back in that there are certainly good reasons that outlier personality traits are fairly likely to go with outlier skills and it just makes it worse, but it would be plenty bad enough without that.
Fair point on #1 but I imagine the probability of a meteor strike that literally boils the planet is a lot lower than a strike in general.

Regarding #2, the solution for self-sufficient agriculture in Antarctica and on the Moon/Mars is the same: hydroponics.

Only it's much easier to do hydroponics in Antarctica. You can melt that ice for fresh water. You can harvest all kinds of nutrients from the ocean. The Antarctic seas have huge oil deposits to provide limitless energy. An Antarctic colony pretty much just needs lots of weather-hardened infrastructure, it's tough, but well within reach of current tech.

Self-sufficient Moon/Mars hydroponics is way harder. Water is far more scarce. Where do you obtain the nutrients for plant life in situ? Not sure it will all require exotic systems that haven't been invented.

My premise is basically that the political will for a self sufficient colony that "backs up" human society doesn't exist. If it did we would just have some countries agree to amend the Antarctic treaty and do it. It could probably even pay for itself by exporting oil. But no one genuinely cares so we just write scifi stories on the Internet instead.
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Dell claims 27h battery life for Snapdragon XPS 13, https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/dells-new-xps-13...
> by Americans and Western Europeans

Exactly this. People in these countries really don't know the problems from the rest of the world.

When an international fintech player get into market (TransferWise, PayPal, etc) they always optimize the experience for users from the US and western EU first. I doubt many people know you can't send money to Ukraine via Paypal unless you mark the transaction as "for Friends or Family", which means you lose all the customer protection. Paypal is worse than crypto in almost every aspect in this case.
That's really nothing new. Most people get to a point where they don't quite understand the generations behind them.

You grow up in a different time with different norms. It may be easy enough to understand at a more surface level what younger generations seem to care about, how they talk, etc but it's much harder to deeply understand what it's like to be that younger generation and how, therefore, to fundamentally adjust the way you work and interact or even view the world yourself.
A thing that tells you to run away fast.
AFAIK most VPNs are ipv4 only and disable ipv6, so it's a non-issue.
Since marked doesn't do it for you, make sure you sanitize the user input (the text on the user profiles) before rendering it to visitors.

Some libraries for doing that with good defaults:

- https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify

- https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html

- https://github.com/bevacqua/insane

(right now your site looks vulnerable to XSS)
I dunno, there's probably more gainfully-employed people with the opportunity to go shopping during weekdays than there were 5 years ago. Home working often comes with flexitime, as if a company doesn't care where you do the work as long as it gets done, they usually don't care when as long as you meet your deadlines and show up for meetings.
The internet ruined the entire foundational business logic behind "a respectable company".

Instead of building just the tools, these companies now have the means to pry into our data too, so that is what they do.
> Womeone is paying me to do a thing. Therefore, what I'm doing must, at least on average and over the long term, be so valuable to some number of people that it's worth continuing those payments.

I feel that is not a logical conclusion. What if someone paid a hitman to kill their boss because they got into a fight with them and they aren't emotionally stable enough to have a discussion?

Yes, an extreme example, but consider this: not every increase in perceived value is necessarily good.
Marketing as I was taught in a fortune 500 is the end to end process of delivering a product/service to the target customer.
Good product is the table stakes. (entry requirement)
Everything else is in the marketing plan.
Too many sites are missing security headers
If you run into a car head on at 50mph you're going to decelerate to 0mph, not -50mph and go flying backwards like a rubber ball. If you happen to be a rubber ball, then you will, but you also would on hitting a static wall too.
"The ASD spectrum has become incredibly broad to the point where someone who likes just programming too much is being classified in the same group as someone who can hardly speak, let alone look after themselves."

This isn't true at all. The ASD grading has different levels based on the level of assistance needed. Unless that programming is significantly impacting your abilities in life, you would be told that you display some ASD like behaviors but that you don't actually have ASD.

I know a therapist that specializes in adult ASD and they believe that many people in technology fields do have undiagnosed mild ASD. The strong logical basis to the work and other characteristics of the job may play a role in attracting people whose minds work a certain way. It also seems the few people I know who have been diagnosed later in life tend to be in technical fields. The observations and the theory behind it seem to make sense. But not everyone has it, and there is criteria that need to be met to diagnosis it (disabilities).