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Sure. I’ll bite as someone who was formerly “into” crypto.

> Bitcoin is essentially a permissionless (third world citizens, political outcasts, people governments don't like are still able to use it without the government being able to cut them off)

It is not substantially more useful than any other transferable assets for those that need to worry about governments. At the end of the day, those governments still have the ability to jail or kill you. Bitcoin won’t help. Ironically, the more accepted and “integrated” with the financial system in the West it becomes, the less this holds true.

> non-inflationary (inflation is everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon - the result of too many units of currency chasing too few goods and services, almost always a result of rampant currency debasement, not possible with bitcoin's hard-coded 21 million cap)

There’s been an infinite number of arguments written about inflation and why we moved to fiat currencies in the first place, I won’t rehash them. Instead I’ll put forth my pet definitions.

Money is the ability to get work done. A country’s money supply should grow with their ability to get work done, otherwise the pressure is deflationary as the economy becomes more efficient and capable. We know all the reasons deflationary currencies are bad.

> universal (every country can trust it because no one country can control it) currency.

As long as they can control you access to the internet, they can control your access to your crypto.

> currency

This is where we diverge most. Bitcoin isn’t a currency and the network will not support it becoming one. It is, as bitcoiners love to put it, a store of value. Which makes it like any other commodity, except it has no intrinsic value which makes it a purely speculative asset and it’s price is directly correlated not with usefulness but with capital seeking (higher risk) returns. This becomes more clear as institutional money goes into bitcoin, not for the purpose of transacting, but to seek gains/hedge other areas of the market.

Ironically, the more people invest in bitcoin, the worse it is as a currency, and the lower the value is to me.

> This enables a framework for the working class to start saving in ways government cannot steal back from them through inflation.

There are other assets for this.

> This enables trustless

This is the one that drives me nuts with crypto. Somewhere in a transaction, something has to happen in the real world. There is not interface between the blockchain and the real world that is truly trustless. You must depend on reality being correctly reported on.

In fact, almost all of the rent seeking in our existing system is built on adding buffers based on the amount of trust in the transaction.

Everything in the real world either depends on either trust (and the associated systems to manage risk) or power (where the whole government institution part of money comes in).

> It's worth acknowledging in good faith that these computational costs have electrical load costs, which often do have carbon emitting costs, too.

Kind of downplaying the sheer size of the carbon emitting costs here…
*gradual and accelerating
Wait till you see what he does to the USA....

His partner is a six times bankrupt.

We are going to get very tired of winning.
> I guess another angle is that he is best buddies with Elon who could potentially do some interesting things there.

Elon is comoditizing space. If that's profitable, he will get SpaceX to a point where people go on holiday in a rocket. That's exactly going in the wrong direction in terms of climate.
> Shielding non-senior engineers from organizational politics not just stymies their growth, but also hinders their visibility of the skills they’ll eventually need to learn the hard way.

I don’t agree with this at all. Some people aren’t cut out for dealing with politics and if you don’t help them out they will just get burned out and quit (or, even worse, stay around with low performance). Moreover at my employer we even shield some senior engineers from politics because they are best served to focus on deep technical problems. I don’t want my AI specialists worried about random bullshit, I want them focused on actually doing innovative work.

Of course that doesn’t apply to everyone—we need some people to deal with the politics that inevitably arise. But that’s why I dislike this sort of one size fits all advice.
Do you have examples? I'm genuinely asking. Just started reading online after going to bed last night.
That would be true if there was a change with that population. Right now the numbers are that Trump won with slightly less votes than when he lost in the 2020 elections; and Kamala lost with significantly less vote than Biden got in the 2020 elections. There are almost 20 million of voters that didn't show up on this year election that showed for the 2020.
Everyone is a fool but you I’m sure
Really? Are you still buying all your stuff from China where they are standing up new coal plants every day? Just because the pollution doesn't happen here doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Trump and his supporters will say anything and accepting their framing again and again should be already seen as proven failure strategy. It just does not work.

It is not dirty fight, full stop. Dirty fight would be to act like Trump and his supporters do or approaching it.
I would say, hiragana and katakana, in a way.

Each nominal syllable sound in Japanese can be written using a characater in one of these two scripts:

Roman transcription: a i u e o ka ki ku ke ko

Hiragana: あ い う え お か き く け こ

Katakana: ア イ ウ エ オ カ キ ク ケ コ

There are some rough parallels between upper case and katakana.

- Katakana is used less than hiragana; "katakana heavy" text will be something that is loaded with foreign words (like a software manual) or terms from zoology and botany.

- It is sometimes used to denote SHOUTING, like in quoted speech such as cartoon bubbles.

- Some early computing displays in the west could only produce upper case characters; in Japan, some early displays only featured katakana. It needs less resolution for clarity.
Why? Men make fun of themselves and each other all the time. It's how we talk. It honestly isn't negative; it's almost a form of banter that tells the truth in a low-key softball way where we can all laugh.
Why is banter not acceptable? Who went and took the fun out of life? I'm not talking here about purposefully mean banter or taking things too far. But come on, who made these "rules" you speak of?
> continuing the Republic

We're a democracy.
As jammmety said; for AAC encoding yes, but don't worry - you can have ffmpeg use that encoder to get the best of both.
It's smart to explore your options.
Its increasingly difficult for me to believe that climate change is a critical issue when the attendees of World Economic Forum + Al Gore + Bill Gates + Leanardo Dicaprio all fly around in private jets while lecturing me on why i should be not be eating meat.
It's ok. His boss is a stable genius.
I mean, it definitely doesn’t go both ways. The repubs made an issue of a tan suit as I recall.

Again - the Obamacare-Romneycare example. One party tried to reach across the aisle, to bend over backwards to build common ground.

The republicans refused to cross the aisle, even when their points and desires were incorporated.

From the Gingrich era, it’s been a clear goal to stop any bi-partisan behavior. That only winner takes all policies and behavior is acceptable.

That dems started to do this, for DJT, is kinda sad. They should have started a lot earlier.

I request, that when policy is brought into the picture, let’s not forget that policy is fundamentally irrelevant to the Republican Party. It’s nice to discuss policy, yes. But policy is a treatment for real world issues in a working legislature. Not one where good policy must be rejected if it’s brought up by the Dems.

At this point, the game theory solution is for Dems to respond by also rejecting bipartisan efforts, and copying the republican playbook.
Im not even a trump supporter but last night he said he was leaving the white house after this term on live TV, so i think the whole trump-wanna-be-dictator thing goes out the window - no ?
It will just make solar more expensive and increase the attractiveness of US oil and gas to the US electorate further entrenching Trumpism.
Same here. When I was into running, I never really ate much when I got back unless it was some big race. Unfortunately injured now :(
I've considered it many times and I cant afford to make so much less money when I have a family. Presumably we'd end up back in the US at some point basically broke.
Here's an example of why I think this would work.

GDPR.

How many breaches of privacy by large orgnaizations occur in the EU? When they occur, what happens?

On the other hand - what's the story in the USA?

Alternatively what would have happened if we simply said "data privacy cannot be maintained, no laws will help"?
this is extremely out of touch with reality. trump is not going to run for a third term. he didn't even pardon himself when he was last in office, which he could have done, but didn't. he also could have packed the courts and didn't. trump sucks but he's not fundamentally trying to operate outside established powers and traditions of his office. if he was gonna "fuck all this i do what i want" he would have last time
I haven't read your entire reply, but the top link has a graph relating CPI with M2 if I'm not mistaken. Is'nt CPI a terrible measurement since it uses units that change constantly. Bit like measuring distance with a meter stick that changes in length everyday.
Dutch also has a digraph-which-counts-as-a-letter, "ij". But that doesn't get title-cased internally - there is a city called IJmuiden, not Ijmuiden.
I think solar is only cheapest at point of production. Once you factor in transmission costs, grid congestion, intermittent supply, etc. Solar is still expensive at point of consumption.

It's not to argue directly against your point but just that we still have a lot of work to move over to a sustainable electrical grid. And that will be helped by favourable policy
> in my book that's as bad as it gets.

In the book of world history things have been way worse[0].

In the book of world futures things could get way way worse[1].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extin...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_holocaust
No, the reverse. Tariffs Trump style mean that final goods get imported not intermediate so production moves away especially for the global market.
Yes, all parties did horrible things that nobody appreciated in that war which the SU and China supported North started.
"so far"
What makes people think Trump is going to run the show? I have a feeling he's going to be the rubber stamp while Vance, Thiel and Musk and gang will run the show behind the scenes.
>https://www.statista.com/statistics/329256/alien-apprehensio...

Trump’s first term and Obama’s second term were fairly steady, then you see a massive bump under Biden.
Our political system is dominated by a group of voters who are basically Sideshow Bobs wandering around yards strewn with rakes.

https://giphy.com/gifs/season-5-the-simpsons-5x2-3o6Mbtdd7dh...
> that all of the crypto tech is a farce

Kind of. I would say blockchain hasn't really worked out. Walmart/shipping industries isn't forcing their suppliers to be on some public blockchain, that's for sure.

The on ramp and off ramp stories for crypto to/from fiat are pretty gross. I can send money with Venmo, CashApp, PayPal, etc. domestically

As soon as you talk about (probably breaking some laws) international transfers, it's an interesting tech that's getting adopted.

The blockchain aspects of it kind of don't matter. People just want to send USD-backed-something over country border walls, right?
let the courts decide

A large part of the Republicans' strategy is to appoint partisan judges & let them legislate from the bench for the rest of their lives. Talking up thread about "the biggest problem", this is probably it. In the context of climate change, recently we can see SCOTUS shooting down environmental protections. This happens in lower courts too, but those don't make national news.
claß is much more concise.
correction. Putin is the second strongest man, because Chuck Norris :)
If we ship all our jobs overseas we can increase profits significantly. The poor and middle class will suffer in our country, and so will our economy.
I lost my job a few months back, and I feel like the messaging from Harris/Biden was everything's great! Keep doing whatever is happening. Voted for who spoke to me.

Every company I join literally has an arm in Mexico, India, Pakistan, Colombia or Ukraine - and it always started feeling like at any minute those people would have my job. And they do. I want an administration that makes it so that those people don't have my job. And yes, I have always been willing to work for a lot less, but all the other Americans want more and more and more, so that it's expected for a programmer in the US to make 200k, so these companies decide to hire someone in Colombia for 80k. I'll take 100 and work a lot closer than that person in Colombia. But no companies here will listen to that. And I'll do it as someone with 20 years of experience.

But the only thing people on the left care about, as usual, are issues that actually don't matter. Yes I get it you want Gay rights and you want Abortion rights, but the reality is those things are not going away in the states you're already in. But on the other side, American people are being pushed into a terrible economic state.

Go ahead and not listen, HN doesn't. It's WAAAY to left.
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“Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely. Disregarding all of bitcoin's shortcomings, a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won't change the world for the better.” —https://www.arscyni.cc/file/crypto_cult_science.html
This is a terrible take. Everyone wants to believe that this result will vindicate their pet peeve about the Democrats.

A lot of people want this loss to prove that Democrats should have been stronger on Gaza.

A lot of people want this loss to prove that Democrats should have rejected identity politics.

And there's a long tail of other things that people think a Democratic loss will push the Democrats towards: protectionism, isolationism, socialism, etc.

The Democrats are going to lick their wounds, crunch the numbers, and probably move towards Trump on economics. Or something else. 95% of people who are hoping that the Democrats are going to suddenly see the light on their pet issue are going to be disappointed. They aren't going to go hard left on Gaza. They aren't going to go hard right on identity politics. The loss is going to cause a whole bunch of damage, and we're going to get very little if any long-term benefit to weigh against it.
It's digital gold. For whatever that is worth.
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This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. Nintendo has had a trend for the past couple decades of releasing "sequel" consoles that are essentially a modernized version of the old one with extra features, compatible with everything that released on the predecessor.

With all three major console manufacturers prioritizing backwards compatibility, and the rise in PC gaming (universally backwards compatible), people are starting to catch on to the fact that old games don't "expire" after 10 years. I wouldn't be surprised if backwards compatibility just becomes the standard for all gaming consoles going forward.

Tangential, but I'm also interested in seeing how games that released on old consoles and are continued to be played, like Fortnite, will support aging hardware. I don't like that Epic can one day announce the game just no longer works on that console, rendering your purchases null and void until you upgrade your hardware, but I can't expect them to update that version of the game forever.
If the average "CIS white male" feels this way and is checking out, you've got a problem, whether you're the cause or not. It's perception more so than truth that's costing "the left" the elections.

If people are rather loudly letting you know they feel left out, you'd better come up with a strategy that somehow resonates with them, rather than saying "we never said that" and continue to lose their vote. Whether you think that's justified or not is not really relevant, not if you want to win, at least.

The same thing goes the other way 'round, if the democrats would win because too many women would have felt left out from the Republican party stance, something I can easily understand too.
Tbh I imagined it less as nuance and more as attack ads which focused on reminding people that 2020 was a really shit year for people's incomes and that Trump didn't actually deliver on his promises, not even the wall.

Would have been more effective to remind people why they didn't vote for him than remind them of his behaviour afterwards which he's perfectly good at doing himself.
by that logic people would not buy TVs or memory cards
Yes. All the time, just not for the things you and I buy such as groceries and transportation.

Instead Bitcoin is used to buy illegal products and services such as drugs, weapons, politicians and hit men
Isn’t that obvious? He knew he could only get to the position he’s now in (or at least have the best chance of doing so) if he joined in with the MAGA brigade.

He clearly does align with the movement in some ways, but he also is responsible for SpaceX, for example. Don’t you think that marks him out as being a bit different from the others?

Also, there are observable actions. If you listen to some of the podcasts he’s been on recently (as painful as they can be) you’ll hear him very flatly rejecting suggestions of quackery and ‘vaccine scepticism’. He’s so obviously not stupid, even if he’s degenerated somewhat, as many of us have, by constant exposure to poisonous social media.
I would say that you should replicate the environment your product will run as closely as possible.

So for a lot of us that means a web app of some kind running on a Linux server. The simplest way to reliably reproduce that regardless of the native OS on the workstation is with a Virtual Machine. A container based solution is a distinct possibility (if the host is already Linux) for a lot of workloads but that still introduces more potential for unexpected differences, because now it's sharing kernel that isn't necessarily what's on prod. I think if you're using system containers like LX{C,D} to simulate a regular server environment it's probably fine.

For those doing desktop app development, I assume VMs are more about testing procedures, but that regular daily development would just be "local" on the native OS.
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> Sure there are problems with ACA

That’s putting it mildly. Sure, the ACA was, in many respects, a big improvement over what came before it. But it’s still outrageously broken. Let’s consider the perspective of a person who wants health insurance:

1. You mostly want to be insured via your employer, and you mostly get screwed if you leave your job. The financial disincentives to insuring yourself are huge unless you qualify for the subsidies.

2. For some bizarre reason, you can use only buy insurance at some times of the year.

3. You more or less have to buy insurance through a website that is massively and incomprehensibly bad. Want to figure out what that insurance covers? It’s sort of doable, but it sure isn’t easy.

4. Whether or not you will get to fill a given prescription still seems arbitrary and vaguely malicious.

5. The whole system rubs the insane list prices of healthcare in your face, almost continuously. For drugs, even small amounts of Internet searching points out how much cheaper they are basically anywhere else.

It’s really hard to be excited about the ACA.

(For added fun, and this isn’t really the ACA’s fault but it sure is a failure of affordability and sure seems like a massive failure of government: check out hims.com. Pulling a random example, “generic for Cialis” is at least 3x the price on hims.com as it is via GoodRx.)
The difference is that owning bitcoin doesn't give you partial control over the world's largest companies.
It's one thing to not lean into the use case, a completely another thing to make this group of users suffer through captcha just because you don't like them.
The Democrats are firmly centre-right when compared against most of the rest of the western world. They wouldn’t know far-left if it slapped them in the face.
Unfortunately, it will get really grim and bad that even if literal extinction is improbably (humanity seems to have already bounced from less than 10k people) it seems to be bad enough to warrant this hyperbole.

Like, if most of the tropics reach wet-bulb temperature and more than a billion people live there - that will be grim.
Is there a better link for this? For me this page says Bitcoin is now priced at 73,889,189.67 Argentine pesos, which is not even correct (they're using the government's fake exchange rate, which is not the one anyone buys or sells Bitcoin in) nor especially notable—peso inflation has produced "new all-time high prices" in Bitcoin in about half of all months over the last ten years. And tomorrow or next week the link will go to some other irrelevant Bitcoin price, even for people in the US.
You need to account for indirect emissions. Because all the factories are in China means that China emits more, but those iPads are not being sold and used in China.

When you import goods, you import their emissions. It's just super hard to measure (and we like to blame it all on China).
Go take a look at this list[1] and come back make the same claim. Are all these bans to protect the children? Or is it simply that these books go against the politcal views of these so-called "free speech absolutists"? If you're willing to get out of your bubble, type "maga book burning" in google and hit enter.

[1] https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/more-than-350-books-banne...
How do you know the root enclave key isn't retained somewhere before it is written? You're still trusting Apple.

Key extraction is difficult but not impossible.
Why the harsh words and insults? I understand the headline immediately, so as a smart person you probably did too.

Though this phrase has a literal translation to my native language. Maybe the person who wrote this is not a native speaker? But definitely not illiterate, come on.
Japan isn't an outlier, there are other countries with universal healthcare that are also high functioning, like Canada (Ranked 7th in public health and 5th in quality of life), Norway, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Sweden.

Not to mention if it was on the median so bad for citizens you'd see more broad support for repealing it in countries where it is supposedly isn't working, but that isn't really happening either.
Okay, I hear you. But can you tell how Trump is gonna fix it? Pizza price won't go down from $15 to $10. If anything, it will be $25.
What does the dialogue say in Japanese? Neon genesis or new era?
Because people interact? Offensiveness is not "harassment".
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True. The world is certainly in trouble. I’m just saying it might not be as bad as it immediately looks.
Even leaving aside the human trafficking component, a lot of berry picking looks like a scam in Sweden. The costs to travel and live in Sweden rarely cover their earned wages. Their per hour earnings are surely far below Swedish minimum wage laws. Why do the Swedes allow it to continue?

I highly recommend this DW documentary if others are interested to learn more about this very specific issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW1QWG3xSNg