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No, people buy Bitcoin because line go up.
I once implemented tumbler, but always used the starting position and current position to determine the rotation. This make it behave the same way when the mouse follows a straight path, but also makes it path independent.
>It's very clear that Putin wants to annex countries that he considers Russia's property

Nothing more than fantasy that justifies the warhawk stance among liberals. It is completely disconnected from reality. What Russia wants is safety from NATO. NATO in Ukraine would have been a strategic noose from which Russia would never escape. Ukrainian neutrality lead to peace. Ukraine with NATO aspirations lead to this war. The simplest answer is the right one in this case.
Exactly. If, as a non-American who is non-political and didn't follow the elections at all, that's the only thing that I've heard, I guess there's your problem (assuming you lean democrat).

What I wonder as a complete outsider: how bad must the image of "the left" be that a shady right-wing populist megalomaniac businessman with sexist tendencies wins the election a second time?

Are the democrats associated with a handful of radicals and idealistic goals that don't apply to the silent majority, or is there a perception that they can't handle the current political and economical challenges?
I agree, but also think the number of voters that have the attention to be influenced by such a nuanced argument is vanishingly small.
I'm sure in some meeting somewhere someone floated that exact idea and then got promptly laughed out of the room by a bunch of people who live in a filter bubble in which protectionism is too politically close to populism to be palatable.
How well do investors understand the underlying network of computers required to maintain the public ledger and the trust and integrity of the digital currency, though?

Until nation-states fund and invest in the infrastructure, finding your confidence in cryptocurrency with little to no regulation is a massive risk.
All you posted are smoke and mirrors.

What it actually is a negative sum game and all such are inherently scams.

The only disagreement is about whether the differences to a Ponzi is insignificant or are significant and we have a new kind of scam, a "Nakamoto scheme".

It is in the interest of those who bought in to praise the game because the only way they can profit is by praising it and passing their loss to a greater fool.

And no, gold and stocks are not such. Gold has buyers who create value added products (electronics, jewelry and so forth) and stocks can create dividends. None of that happens for any crypto with transaction fees.
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In your opinion: Are those two things mutually exclusive?
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honestly feel like we're actively being lied to about how "good" the economy is.
Recently there’s been an influx of illegal immigrants from Venezuela including some associated with Tren de Aragua that have been highly publicized and politicized. While most people do want America to be a melting pot of people from everywhere, whether you want your borders so wide open to allow criminals and gangs to sneak in is another question, and also probably something we all agree on, but in this case one candidate has been in power and has appeared to have not solved the problems.
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Gold is used to make things.

You can argue what its value should be as a material alone, but it’s not entirely speculation.
Climate change won’t bring us to the brink of extinction.

It will cause huge amounts of human suffering though.
How did these respective groups fare in the 4 years prior?
Isn't "bringing us to the brink of extinction" rather hyperbolic? As far as I know there is no indication that climate change will be an extinction-level threat? What it will be is hugely damaging for all sorts of other reasons, both to humans and other life.

Beyond that, I agree with you, and it's one of my major concerns as well.
Yeah it’s hard to calculate a comparable figure on this when savings in one country is basically just temporarily holding money for the medical industry and getting to collect gains on it in the meantime, and in another, it’s actual savings.
If you are a white male (I am) then you almost certainly ARE privileged at some level and imo should be aware of that.

This is a completely separate matter from being ashamed of said privilege (I don't think this is reasonable or productive), or being held responsible for racism in general (obviously ridiculous unless you are right now a bona fide racist). But that level of nuance doesn't fit neatly in a 30 second inflammatory commercial.
Maybe. I would argue that while he is fully on board the trump train now, he was not a few years ago. When you are harshly criticized for a few unorthodox views, it’s not surprising you embrace those treating you legitimately.
I think part of the answer is to accept that we don't live in a democracy, we live in a republic, and simply getting 50% +1 doesn't give you the right to do whatever you want. We'll see if the second Trump administration acknowledges that or not. They had a Republican House and Senate in 2016 too and still couldn't repeal the ACA, for example.
Maybe you're right, and that makes me sad.
> I was quite surprised when recently I realized that the median (adjusted for PPP) disposable income in America was the highest in the OECD

That doesn't really tell you all that much useful. Disposable income just deducts taxes from your gross income. What really matters is the cost of those other things we're talking about: food, housing, healthcare, childcare, etc. When you subtract those out as well, you get discretionary income, and I bet the US is not leading at all there.
In all seriousness, recommend reading Broken Money by Lyn Alden. There are parts that go off the rails but the narrative about money-as-technology is solid and is very helpful for mental model purposes. There are ponzi schemes everywhere but the view that money is a societal technology, and BTC as a specific and "optimal" instance of that technology- for very precise definitions of optimal of course- is worth understanding, as the domain itself is very likely to grow under a Trump regime in the US, for better and worse. Cheers.
> Money changes hands so it's taxed with a purchase tax as a general rule.

That's called a "transaction tax". It has lots of well known issues that are incredibly hard to remedy.
Never.

Yet, btc price keeps rising.

Ergo, your model for understanding economics is worthless.
I don't really care how they price different spec'd models, as long as desktop units are user-upgradable for both memory and storage.

I thought I'd be excited for the Mac Mini announcement but when I heard it, I wanted to be excited but couldn't really see a use for me. If I want a beefy AI GPU machine I wouldn't buy from Apple, similarly for a gaming PC. Otherwise I'd use a MacBook or Linux desktop/server.
Can we in europe have some law making go in the other direction?
I wonder how many millions in bonus their CEO will receive...
One more to the list: Stop trying to twist science into conforming to political or social will.
> I'm not referring to the credit. She had [all these things]

… that people didn’t believe.

She ran for her first 50 days claiming Bidenomics was working. That term was so stupid I thought it was a joke that conservatives made up. Surely they weren’t trying to say the economy was good right?

Well, no surprises on my end last night.
I guess he is pro science indeed. And opportunistic too. He might also morally align with Trump more than with Dems, who knows. These elections were just an unfortunately ridiculous show.
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As noted by other commenters, the author addresses this, although I would have loved to have had a version of all the _statistics_ with name-based drops elided.
> This is what mass-optimized, gigawatt-scale space nuclear reactors look like.

A nuclear rocket and a nuclear power plant are vastly different things, for the same reason a jet engine and an oil power plant look quite different.

The reactor itself is a spatially small part of everything - the little doughnut in the middle. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EPR_1_EPR_2_perso.pn...
I don't vote for Trump. I don't know anyone aside from some crazy family members who like him. I'm in an extreme blue state that was called when only a few percent of the vote was in. I don't even know anyone who listens to Trump's speeches or sees this ads.

Every single person I know feels this economy is terrible. Of every age. From new graduates, to senior people. Even the most extreme Obama or Bernie people feel like things are going very badly.

Everyone on campus was consistently outraged when Biden would gloat about his economy.

It's not Trump. I have no idea what his message even is.

This is an own goal. Democrats believed the total bullshit that economists spew about how good things are. When people actually feel how terrible they are.
Depression as Gödel did suffer from and developed massive anxiety after the murder of Moritz Schlick, deserves a little more respect and above all help. Calling him "completely mental" doesn't help at all.
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Also the left's constant political games of trying to do everything and anything to put him in jail and etc the public grew tired of.. ignored unless you were on the their side. They tried so many things impeachment, pee pee tape, this trail, that trail.. nothing worked and probably helped him in the end. As well the economy yet as independent I voted for whom I've done better under financially and it just happens to be under the 46th so that's how I voted. But didn't care either way as a part of me wanted to vote for the 47th due my republican family legacy and the very distant hope home interest rates go down to 3 to 5 percent which I know that's a distant hope. But either way I'd been happy with the first woman or with the 47th as I too grew tired of the crap they threw on him, he survived an assassin and his no tax on tips, overtime or social security will help those in need. Get rid of income tax altogether sounds interesting yet crazy via the crazy comedian off hinged man who will surely say things people will incessantly talk about.
Right. You would want to do it immediately so that initial hits to economy can be claimed as belonging to Biden. And then you can cut the tarrifs and make things improve.
We didn't measure data size that way. At some point in the future someone would find this dialog, and think that we dont't have large amounts of data now, because we are not using entire solar systems for storage.
Sounds like it was a hard problem!
Thank you, that's really illuminating.
It was a reactionary response though. The fantasy of going back to low grocery prices is just that. Or are we actually going to pursue deflation?

I don't see any policy there, just platitudes.
I highly doubt it, but it obviously also wasn't happening under the Democrats, or at the very least it wasn't being perceived as if things were/could improve.

Eventually people get tired and listen to populists. That's why they get elected, because they'll tell you what you want to hear. Whether they actually have any plans of doing it or not is almost irrelevant when you're dealing with bullshit on both sides.

The only way to beat populists is to have actual concrete plans, which as far as I saw as a non-USAian at least, the democrats barely ever spoke of, and it seems to be the common sentiment across this thread as well.

Denmark is a good example of what I mean, they had a surge in right-wing populist parties due to people's ongoing and ignored issues with Illegal immigration (among other things). Know what the moderates, who were in power, did? They adjusted their policies accordingly with actual concrete plans that they set in motion. And to no one's surprise, the populist parties died down and people calmed down in general once they saw that action was actually being taken.
Transport is the 2nd sector in terms of CO2 emissions. If we solve that alone, I am happy.
Eastern Europe countries do have more than 2% GDP - and I don't think Trump will care about that.
If we had a functioning congress, laws could be set. The president really is not _meant_ to have a lot of power here. Administrations have been trying to do more, as congress really won't pass laws any longer. However, each administration just throws out the policies of the last administration. Actually passing laws in congress does not necessarily have this same problem.
Nice! Take a look at LiveKit they have a Python implementation too https://docs.livekit.io/agents/openai/multimodalagent/
Whoa. Insanely cool. Outstanding quality and theming, such a simple implementation. Only thing I'd want to see is theming for data tables, maybe even an interactive table that behaves like the lists and grids.
I thought it was more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8

The Urbit nock machine is very different.
OpenAI is surely a goner now -- with Musk holding the reins.
It does, thank goodness. Otherwise it would come from Saudi and other despots. We should be producing as much as we can in the US to quit funding horrible regimes.
The opinion I formed during the first few months of GPT4 release was that the society of the mind hypothesis was being disproved by the "maximalist" approach some were undertaking in order to build a true AGI. Turned out composing many LLMs into a cognitive architecture where each one had a specific purpose (memory, planning, etc ...) wasn't scaling.

On the same note, I suggest the following: training a transformer by "slicing" it in group of layers and force it to emit/receive tokens at each of those group's boundaries. What I expect: using text rather than neural activations should lead to decreased performance.

This is something you can observe in our societies: intelligence doesn't compose, you just don't double a group's overall intelligence by doubling the number of members. At best you'll observe decreasing return, at worst intelligence will decrease.
Now have a party telling you things were fine, and that at the same time they would fix them, while ignoring they were the party that was in power.

Add in a terrible candidate who nervous laughed nonstop, did almost nothing but attack the other side, and here we are.
The economy can handle the existence of both currency and securities.
no, but I am using my index fund on s&p 500 to buy goods and services
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Not sure what you mean by "sourced through the employer".

Usually you need to have enough qualification and a job offer to apply for a work visa that is bound to the employing company for two years. Switching jobs requires reapplying. Afterwards, you can usually get a work visa that is not bound to a specific company, and less time limited.

Normally it's you applying for the visa, but in some cases the company hiring you can file the application, which can drastically reduce the time you have to wait, but cedes some control.

Of course, all this depends on your nationality and the country where you are applying.
You know you're in trouble when Musk of all people is considered a moderating influence compared to your president.

I'm not convinced Musk cares all that much about the environment anymore, if he ever truly did. EVs were a bet that car buyers (and governments) would care about the environment.

Musk just wants to go to Mars and leave Earth behind.
That exact message has been tried and energy independence/stick-it-to-OPEC remains fairly common way of trying to sell it. Actual measures to onshore renewable industry were successfully demonized as corrupt, didn’t go over well.
can you make useful things with abstract art? They're not even good as toilet paper and yet people still buy and trade them.
"Crypto is dead, that's why it's more valuable than ever"
My experience w/ metal workers of all types holds true to this. I think it's the fumes.
Not everyone on HN is a software engineer.
> How about let people say and do whatever they want amongst themselves and stay out of their conversations.

Sounds like a great way of excluding people from the workforce.
> The reality is that immigration is not all good for the average person.

This statement is far too general. You need to divide high skill and low skill immigrants. Almost all economists would say that high skill immigration is good for your economy, and those immigrants are much more likely (than natives) to start businesses and create jobs. There are many, many academic studies about this type of immigrant in a wide variety of highly advanced nations. In 2024, a large number of highly advanced nations (all over the world) have active, aggressive high skill immigration schemes. Rich governments really want these people to come.

Regarding low skill immigration, it can help to supress labor costs (and indirectly control inflation) in very high labor industries, such as non-commodity crop farming (vegetables, fruits, etc.) and food processing. That said, if uncontrolled, it will have a negative economic impact upon low skill natives.
Ok, I'll acknowledge that I'm incorrect about this.
> 60 court cases with no evidence

That's the one thing in the list I'm OK with. Determining whether a claim has legal merit and factual basis is what courts are for.
Why should somebody’s attractiveness or looks be part of a “I need stuff welded” conversation at all?
Yeah he RBG’d American real hard. Not only the late drop out after the primary, but also he put in D- effort into selling his work during his term. I think he did many decent things, but sold them like a wet sock.

lack of good messaging around the economic policies was also a big factor during Harris campaign. They could have attacked Trump on tariffs but mostly gave him a pass. Also mostly gave him a pass on not debating. Was puzzling.
I think this is one of those cases where a strong majority of the population in question can handle the interactions just fine, but the ones who can not are extremely vocal about it. The complainers get their way and company policy is changed for everybody. Many people go "well, it was for the best I guess", but for others it is some whiner ruining the fun for everybody. In extreme cases we have national examples where people's entire careers have ended over a tasteless but largely harmless joke told decades earlier (See: Al Franken) and that kind of threat feels scary.
Crypto can be used as a store of wealth when crossing borders preventing search and seizure of your wealth against overzealous governments. See Russia in the early 90s which would regularly search and confiscate cash from people leaving. That alone makes it very valuable.
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I try to understand why Trump lost the 2020 election and won the 2024.

My reading is that people vote with a punishment mindset. Aka the only way to punish Trump for his horrible term was to vote for Biden. And the only way to punish Biden for his bad financially term was to vote for Trump.
To purchase goods and services with Bitcoin such as Lightning where fees are negligible. It is indeed being used worldwide. E.g., you can purchase a wide array of things with Lightning at Bitrefill.com
That's a disingenuous argument. I remember when the Anarchist Cookbook was banned from my public library. It has nothing to do with "banning books," it is banning wholly inappropriate content for children. Do we want manuals on the library bookshelf laying out how someone could possibly build a bomb? NO. So the book is banned on that, its content, not just a broad claim of book banning.

There's a big difference between banning books and deciding that some books, some content, is just not appropriate for kids.
I haven't figured out how to use genAI to improve productivity without decreasing quality, to be honest, nor have my coworkers.
If one is to believe that there is no other usage for a Bitcoin besides having a digital ticket worth 60k+ USD, then those people selling those tickets would be organizing one of these schemes.
In order for it not to be so, you need to believe in there being some other usage to a Bitcoin (indeed, there is more to your Nvidia stock than its counter value in USD).
If he has a sense for economics why does he want to put 20% tariffs on everything?
Turns out a majority of Americans agree with you.
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I'm trying to follow your logic, seriously please help me. You are suggesting that murdering people at a music festival and kidnapping children and kidnapping elderly and beheading civilians is a form of defense against other people hurting other people in a different geographic region? Please, tell me I'm wrong and do tell me how you see things.
> burnout recovery

I hope you're feeling better. Interesting how retro computing, like old games and operating systems, can be comforting and even healing. I've had similar experience with emulators - playing Gameboy and Nintendo games from childhood, or running Macintosh System 9.

Reminds me of Pico-8, SerenityOS, TempleOS. There's a common thread of a retro-style computing environment that can be entirely understood and controlled by the user.

I imagine there's deeper psychological dynamics to this, like a safe "sandbox" as a therapeutic tool.

It also says something about design with empathy and focus on user experience. There are so many hostile dark patterns these days in technology and society, that it's a relief to find some space (physical or mental) that's designed for your comfort.
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And if the economy starts to turn (or maybe even if it doesn’t) say good by to the relatively apolitical Fed and rate-setting. Which’ll bring a boom, more inflation, and a hard crash on the other side.
I agree. But GP said that everybody was feeling pain. That's not true.
The relative sketchiness between those two just had a significant change.

Prices are set on the margins. Not at the absolute values.
While it may avoid sleep, it doesn’t prevent inactivity, in my experience. For instance, my chat app at work will still show me inactive while running caffeinate. I have to do non-interactive training semi-regularly and need to interact to keep from looking like I’m away from my desk.
nobody needs media to tell them this. it comes directly from his mouth. it's hilarious that you think people get their opinions from media. no, just listen to what the politicians say. he said he's gonna do mass deportations? believe him
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"Puppet accounts" meaning controlled by some outside force like Russia or China? I think there's also a fair share of throwaway accounts being used to troll or share very controversial opinions
Yes, absolutely. But that’s exactly the problem. What is crypto - currency, investment, technology, religion? Apparently for all the crypto people I know, it’s somehow all of the above.