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Government monetary systems are all inflationary, for a lot of very good reasons.
And we do! Also, I don't think the court scam will work this time. Even Marc Elias realizes the implications at this point.
Isn't it funny how the very word "culture" is sort of related to "cult".
I'm more concerned about actual human brain tissue ("mini-brains") being cultivated in lab beakers. This is happening now! Can anyone say for sure that these things aren't sentient?
> In this instance Standard Chinese or any sort of literary pronunciation is essentially useless to me since people aren't speaking that way

Thank you for creating this! But I'm afraid this is the misunderstanding -- words like san1 cing2 申請 are very much everyday words, even though the reading of the character is deemed literary. You should think of characters like 請 and 聽 as just having multiple in-context pronunciations, some of which you should learn, some of which you probably don't need to.
Have you seen the economy lately?
But they should see what their home country calls it? I am totally against this, but don't really think Google is bending the knee or hard-coding a name here.
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Fame is part of it, but it's more that it's IMO probably the only truly decentralized cryptocurrency. Not just in terms of the nodes and miners being well spread out between organizations and parts of the world, but also in terms of its development and governance. Sure, there's a relatively small group of core contributors to Bitcoin, but they don't have much fame or personality cults around them like Ethereum's Vitalik does. They are really just restricted to maintaining and adding well-agreed-upon new features to Bitcoin. Eg when Segwit happened, a lot of miners held out on supporting it for a long time becasue it was a bit controversial. Meanwhile with Ethereum, if Vitalik really pushed for some controversial change, it would probably happen. Once you go further down the list than Ethereum, things get really bad, with many cryptos' development being entirely driven by a small group of people in a for-profit company, with miners and users that will blindly update to the newest version regardless of what's in it.
I bought a container full of Chinese electric excavators. Here's what showed up
> Just build a JSON API! It's not that hard!

I agree that a JSON API is a better approach, but it's possible for AAA game developers to screw that up too: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/03/developers-to-update-...
The Sahara is on a regular-ish cycle going from green to desert about every 30k years. It's had multiple green eras. The last one is called the African humid period
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I’ve lost all interest in my job to the point where it’s hard to even show up to the office. I’ve been doing full stack engineering for about 5 years now and I’m just utterly and completely not excited about anything related to web dev anymore.

I still enjoy programming but only for things that I’m interested in like side projects and game development which both have very little to do with my day job, and I don’t necessarily want to pursue employment in the few programming related fields I still enjoy lest they become like my current job.

What do I do now? I have to work but even thinking about interviewing for a new job or continuing to work like this makes me sick to my stomach. Preparing to do interviews by grinding leetcode is also not something I want to do anymore, and the result would be the same even if I change jobs.
The way I understand it, billionaires would hold it if they could, but then they'd actually have to pay tax when they spent it.

This way, they get to control unlimited assets without paying any tax.

Personally, I don't think that's so great "for the economy", because I actually don't care about the economy...

I care about people, and having 500 billionaires owning everything and charging everyone to use it is not the economy I want for people.

I'd rather that everyone pays tax, especially the super-rich.
> It feels like similar things happen in other govt buildings in the USA all the time

That is a laughable assertion, most importantly because the job that Congress was doing on Jan 6th, and which the deliberate goal of the protesters was to stop, was the peaceful transfer of power, which is probably the most important (and historically rare) job in a modern democracy.

Saying "but hey, some left wing protesters surrounded a police station" is a ridiculous false equivalence, because what they were trying to accomplish was orders of magnitude different.
>The interesting thing about audio chains is that they do NOT follow the "as bad as the weakest link" principle. A poor quality MP3 will be much more listenable on an overall crappy setup than on a high-end setup, mostly because the crappy setup will cut out both the lows and highs and leave you with an OK "background music, more or less".

As someone who sometimes listens to music digitized from analog sources, this has been my experience, too. Tape hiss, cracking/pops and distortion are easier to notice on my headphones+DAC than on my (somewhat cheaper) IEMs.

At that point, it doesn't matter whether you have FLAC or MP3.
Yeah, but they accumulate dollars for a lot of very specific reasons.
They aren't the same thing at all. We've had Presidents ask for authorization without asking for a declaration since the 18th century - the Quasi War was the first I believe.

The precedent is well understood. The President may ask for authorization for any extended war and for a formal declaration, if desired. Then, and only then, will Congress act. Congress will not issue a declaration absent being asked by Commander of the military, for obvious reasons.

This idea that Congress is somehow not doing its job because it's not issuing a formal declaration that were not requested nor required, is simply nonsense.

Frankly, if requesting authorization was the same thing as requesting a declaration, then one could just as easily argue Congressional approval of funding for a war is a declaration.
That may be one of the problems with bitcoin as legal tender and official state currency but not a problem with Bitcoin itself, quite the opposite: as evidenced by the genesis block’s embedded message: “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”
> advertising for scams

> racism

these are examples of flavors I'm talking about. I should have said "flavors" instead of flavor.
Waste of paper and ink and space, for 1 minute clip getting 60 frames and printing 60 cards to flip 60fps
> AFAICT the idea that there's something constitutionally unsavory about them is very new.

I don't think anyone's claiming that they're "unsavory" - just that they are creatures of the executive that were created by the executive and may be abolished by the executive as well.

And I don't think it's a new position either? The Ron Paul types have been complaining about them for literally decades.
Especially when to maintain their Ponzy scheme, crypto players need to use an enormous amount of electricity that could be used to benefit humanity. It is a huge waste or energy and time.
Trump and almost all of Congress doesn't want to touch the entitlements. Bush Jr tried to reform social security and got trounced for it. Since then no one seriously tries to change it because the other side will beat you over the head with it, even if they are half truths.

Voters like to vote themselves "free" things, even if it might destroy the economy.
Agree with this. Not to condone Jan 6, but the prosecution of those protestors was punitively harsh. People who should have been given simple fines for trespassing were instead given custodial sentences.
And like many devil’s advocate positions, it doesn’t make sense. Like, how exactly does the procedure prevent people from expressing their will? If there were truly popular support for DOGE, they would be able to conjure up the required votes in Congress and amongst the states.

But they can’t, because that support doesn’t exist. You’re starting from the presupposition that this is “the people’s will”, but voter turnout was less than 2/3 and Trump only won a plurality of that. That’s not to say that he didn’t win, but you’re talking about whether we should amend the Constitution to satisfy less than a third of eligible voters.
>>Perhaps one reason startups work so well is they are one of the few places that still let young people exert agency.

As some one who just turned 40. This does make sense. Perhaps the biggest deal about aging especially in the downswing is the countdown to death keeps getting closer as you go. You do tend to care less about things around you.

Im beyond the point I would take offence on anything, but Im also beyond the point I would do something to impress somebody. There is no trying twice from here. Things either work with something/somebody or you move on to something/somebody that does/do.

I definitely was more tenacious as a young man, with projects and relationships. I'd move heavens to make something work. Now they have work or something new is sought. As an aging person I care more about less noise, bullshit and more stability. Guys like me are needed for continuity of life. Whereas younger men are needed to bring about big leap frog changes.

The world needs the young and old for both progress and sanity.
Your comment seems to omit the recent arbitration in regards to the quota system under the Biden admin, which indicates they ARE out of line with the 2018 agreement.
in an environment where the government isn't clearly working at cross-purposes to the people, the argument would be that the country where the leading AI companies are based will be the country who has the most power to regulate AI.
People need systems. Oh, I forgot to pay that bill on time. Oh I forgot again. And again. And again. Maybe I have ADHD? Whoops, forgot to pay the bill.

Maybe they do have ADHD, maybe they don't. Maybe they should get diagnosed so they can learn more about it and find strategies for dealing with it instead of blaming it.

But regardless, just find something that works for you and stop making excuses. I used to forget my wallet, keys, and/or employee badge. Now I keep a wooden bowl near my front door, and keep those items in there and only those items in there. When I leave, I put those items in my pockets and go. When I come home, I puts them back in the bowl. Simple routine. Prevents forgetting.

Bills go on autopay. If you can't autopay for some reason, put it in your calendar. Forget to check your calendar? Set an alarm that you have to dismiss.
He can save a bunch of money and fire everyone! The amount of money doesn’t matter if what is gone is critical. When those things are lost, we will have to rebuild at a higher cost than maintaining.
In my book, anything that improves the quality of the output that a person can produce, or decreases the time they spend doing falls into the bucket of adding middle-class jobs. (When things get cheaper, we end up using more of them -- See Jevon's Paradox.)

Of course, there are lots of companies trying to eliminate job positions because they think AI can do it. That won't work at all (and if it does, the result will no longer be competitive than companies that use AI to help their workers do better), so those companies will be ripe for disruption next year.

You're reading this comment on HN, so you can probably figure out the next chapter of this story on your own.
"challenge the dictator or speak out against them"
No chance of that.
When I think of the "properties" of gold I don't think of how the price behaves, but rather that the total supply of it is limited (though Bitcoin actually does a much better job at limiting supply, since gold'll keep being mined for a long time and the supply is hard to predict) and that, other than theft, there's no way for someone else to take it from you (compare to eg money at a bank that can collapse or in a stock of a company that can go bankrupt)
I also just wanted to add that I have plans to add more features, products and retailers!

1) Conversational AI shopping assistant
2) Category specific filters
3) Price Drop Alerts
4) Price History Tracking
5) Loyalty/Rewards Program
6) More US retailers and way more products!
https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/lamont-v-postmaster-...

This case shows that there is a first amendment right to receive.
THANK YOU
Pops died of Parkinson & Mum of Dementia.

My sole (selfish) aim on this matter being 500% certain my son be not burdened by my own demise. Brought a GOOD Lad into world I struggle to make sense of...

Consult:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QxIIz1yEsA

Thanks also for re-enforcing my silly notion that with few exception humanity are by nature GOOD, aside "Under Duress" ...

This is the sort of data (shove it under the rug) which profit-seeking 'studies' overlook. Inclusion could affect the bottom line, ya see.

Fossils (old folk) retired, what tax revenue do we generate?

It is terrifyin' being my age. A "dementia" diagnosis is very profitable to INSURANCE as in Medicare (EN-US) see?

Invitation for curious minds

Please AUDIT "treatment guidelines". Center for Medicare Services. FOLLOW THE MONEY

I close with HAY'LL NAW, n0t on our Watch. Should only myself stand alone, no problem at all... WE ARE NEVER ALONE

https://youtu.be/8QxIIz1yEsA
Why throw them in jail when you can just run them over with tanks then deny it ever happened?
Using uprobes to hook the SSL library, would it be possible to filter content by inspecting and modifying eg the decrypted HTTP response ?
Just the extensive list of academic partners is a major difference with any existing effort on LLM's.
While that's conceivable, Merkle-graph systems like Bitcoin are surprisingly resilient. It's been almost 20 years since MD5 was thoroughly broken, but still nobody has published a second preimage attack. For SHA2 and SHA3 nobody has even published a collision attack. And SHA-256 (what Bitcoin uses) is post-quantum-safe (Grover's algorithm still needs 2¹²⁸ time) though AFAIK there isn't yet a post-quantum cryptosystem deployed for signing transactions, which will require a hard fork.

Presumably if quantum computers (or better DLP algorithms on classical computers) start breaking keys, that will become a priority.

So I think there's an excellent chance that even if the math is solved Bitcoins will retain their value. Perhaps even without many of them getting stolen in the process. This is a big difference from many other uses of cryptography; if someone breaks IDEA 20 years from now, they can decrypt your PGP messages from the 20th century, and there's nothing you can do now to prevent that.
The last two admins already "stole" it via inflation. Do you have any idea how many dollars were printed in the last 5 years?

Cutting federal spending is obviously not the thing that will lead to more inflation (though tariffs certainly might, but that is not really the subject of the current discussion).
Do I need to remind you that Elon Musk has gained unauthorized and illegal access to the federal payment system? It is very possible he will be arrested for doing this if a democrat gets elected unless Trump pardons him. But then his US citizenship can be revoked.

EDIT: "Wasn’t he authorized by the President, the chief executive?"

The President doesn't have the authority to do that.
We need to use our skills to build platforms that have both high retention and diffuse ownership that uplifts its users. We need to build a media ecosystem that isn't just a toy. My generation treated social media like it was just an amusement, and didn't notice it slowly turn the flow of information back into AM talk radio until it was too late. There have to be genuine alternatives to Tiktok and X and Instagram that are just as obsessive about UX as the proprietary apps are, but can't be owned.
It smells, looks and quacks like a loan.
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Did you find a legit use case for blockchain? Nice work bro!
I've been on Reddit since at least 2007. I've not seen any swing in political views. I think it's just that the sort of people that use Reddit are the sort of people who are typically more left-wing.

I'm just glad we have social networks which are left-wing to bring balance to the system.
I was planning on doing a lot of writing when I retire. I'm starting to feel like it might not be allowed.
They didn't take over the police building. They protested outside it, and the police boarded it up and voluntarily vacated it.

This was basically a very long street protest, which is fundamentally different from taking over the US legislative buildings by force.

No children were shot. A 19-year old named Horace Lorenzo Anderson Jr was shot and killed. His killer, an 18-year-old mentally disabled person with a history of conflict with Anderson, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

No matter your ideology, I'm not sure how you can believe this is the same category of thing.
the ’ and — characters are kinda giveaways, besides the advertising feel of the text, maybe if they were using gpt it was as a translation aide?
This is moot for El Salvador. They’ve been dollarized since 2001 and USD is effectively the only legal tender.
The 40% estimate is for fraud and waste combined. "Waste" being things like unnecessary MRIs.
The Republican party could pull a 180 and stop instituting policies that prove CCP anti-American propoganda correct, and pass universal health care, free education, civil rights, and all those other socialist freedom crushing commie pinko ideologies.
They also use USD as legal tender. Is their USD experiment a failure too?
> I've not seen any swing in political views

That’s like a frog saying the water isn’t getting warmer.
They were trying to overturn an election that they lost. Historically, failing to overthrow the government is unhealthy.
Does fractal here imply complex or simple? (they're visually complex but mathematically simple)
And do you think a law will prevent that?

The law will only ensure good companies like MistralAI or Black Forest Labs will stay in the shadow.

This is same idiocy like the Republican senator who wants to prohibit Deepseek usage in US.

About legality, what's the illegal thing AI shouldn't do? Many of that knowledge can be accessible already from books, even how to build weapons or explosives
So, this sounds like you could use a pure logic programming notation - specify intended functionality without any implementation details at all - that is basically what I am doing - I am attempting to create an ideal language notation for expressing general relations. I wonder if others might find this useful and if others are working in this space? If not, then why not?
this is the funniest way to reply
We can also just say flat earthers exist. That equally proves the point.
Thanks for pointing this out! The calculation should be fixed now.
He’s already done that
In all fairness, I did recently take a 30x zoom video of an animal using the pixel, and it got compliments specifically on the zoom capability of the phone when I shared it to the people who had been there at the time.
Building the wall....
Because people are mortal.
https://www.theverge.com/politics/605609/musk-trump-doge-tak...
Who would want to receive payment in a currency that can lose 20% of its value in an afternoon? Only speculators are interested in this.
and USD senselessly burns up entire countries... e.g. most recently that giant, and very destructive money loundering operation in ukraine...

somehow everyone forgets that wars don't make sense and shouldn't really be financeable... and yet they are.

BTC can burn orders of magnitude more energy if it makes financing wars just twice as hard as it is today...
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seems like there are lots of stories like this. X creature, not seen in ages found again.

Could it be genetic engineering. Some prankster billionaires scientist wanting to repopulate the world?

Or are we just getting better at finding them with more tools. (better camera traps, drones, data mining tools with AI?)

I'm curious, does anyone know? Is my billionaire prankster concept plausible? or totally implausible?
I wish you the best of luck. However, this is basically a still just a European joint research project (admittedly compatibly well funded) with similar partners that have been also connected before in other research projects. To really compete in the space it will require new ideas, great talent and good leadership towards a common goal. I have myself been part of many EU funded projects and know the difficulty of realizing this within such a project. Public funding sadly has adversarial effects sometimes.

As for computing cost: as EuroHPC gives resources to research for free there can be more budget for computing. The EuroHPC joint undertaking has just decided to invest hundreds of millions of Euro in new AI clusters and supporting services. So this can come on top. Actually projects like this are much needed to also make good use of the money.

Disclaimer: my lab is involved in one of the new AI Factories.