ValleyOfTheMtns

Very few: https://btcmap.org/map#4/-36.84446/-66.35742

But that’s not really the point though, is it?

As the earlier poster from Argentina said, pesos are used for the “last mile”. Whoever you’re trading sats for pesos with are likely to be familiar with Lightning and willing to do the trade with it because it’s fast and cheap.

As for the issue of broader adoption, that’s just a matter of education, trust, time, and the right incentives to make the switch in a hyperinflationary environment…

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Any company would be right to have a "low" opinion of their average user. Have you seen how the average person uses their computer?

Curious to see more studies like this on other hallucinogenic drugs like psilocybin (psilocybe cubensis i.e. magic mushrooms).

I got a few lines down and couldn't keep going. It's such an irritating way of making an argument.

Yachts on the methane oceans of Titan and dirigibles in the skies of Venus.

I hope I live to see all this.

"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Apple doth protest too much, methinks

I believe they are attempting to criticise the author's writing style by invoking the stereotype of the neck-beard adorned ültra-geek who tips their fedora to a fair maiden and says, "Milady."

Late reply here, but in a recent post Juan said that he would begin working on the Vulkan port in May.

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-32-will-get-new-audio-... (at the bottom)

In the post I previously linked he said he expected the port to take a "couple of months", so we could expect it in any release made in the 3rd or 4th quarter this year, maybe as early as July?

I would love to see a version of this with the "noise" of the stars cleaned up and the brightness/saturation of the clouds increased.

"Chaos is a ladder." ?

If you want to dabble with prototyping games, Godot is the way to go in my opinion.

I've played with Unity and Unreal a bit, each with their own pros and cons, but for me Godot is the one I found most intuitive and easy to test new ideas with. Worth checking out.

It's coming up.

https://godotengine.org/article/abandoning-gles3-vulkan-and-...

It's a photo of the absence of light (in the middle) and light/particles swirling around the black hole that haven't passed the event horizon (yet).

So he should've named the naming problem.

Wait, is that what it's called? The Naming Problem?

Yeah, I feel the same about podcasts and audiobooks. Would prefer to have it in a written medium.

So, in a way, the Moon has an adopted/hijacked atmosphere?

I feel somewhat vindicated by this story. I was talking to a couple of work colleagues about the "I'm not a robot" box and they were convinced it worked purely as a time delay, to slow bots down. I had a feeling that there was far more to it than that, but I didn't know how/where to get that information at the time.

"If you want peace, prepare for war."

As a hobbyist game developer I can attest to the quality and ease of use of Godot compared to Unity and Unreal (note: I've only dabbled with making 2D games). It "clicked" much quicker for me and I can quickly prototype ideas (most of which are terrible, but that's not the engine's fault).

Why not provide this as something the user has to give permission for, similar to providing access to the microphone or camera?

Wow, account age dick measuring... didn't think I'd see this on HN.

Also, what does account age have to do with actual age (which is what we're talking about here)?

> You can't bequeath it to your heirs when you die, and you can't give it to a friend when you're done reading it

Related to this, something that has bothered me about using an e-book reader, and having a 2 year old son, is that I don't have the books on display for him to "stumble upon".

For now he's too young to discover new books off the shelf and read them to himself, but I'm conscious of this limitation with e-books. They're all "locked up" on the device. I got into reading because The Hobbit was on my parent's bookshelf and the cover of the dragon caught my attention.

I've thought about it for a while now and my solution is to read new e-books on a reader, and if they meet my ambiguous criteria of being "shelf worthy" I'll buy physical copies and put them on the shelf, in the hopes that my son will find them.

The Hobbit is already on there.

Seems like that's conflating actual meritocracy with an exploited/fake form of meritocracy.

Actual meritocracies are rare, but that doesn't mean we should redefine "meritocracy" to be the the distorted (and more common) version of it.

Those are really good points.

Impressive, but there's a couple of things I'd like to see them try one day.

Plug AlphaStar into a robot that physically interacts with a keyboard and mouse to control the game. This "robot" should only have what's relevant for playing the game and emulates a human i.e. a camera that looks at a screen (this is the only knowledge it has of the game), and two arms & hands with five digits that control the mouse and keyboard. Then limit its APM to the best a human can realistically do.

The other thing I want to see them address is the virtual training time. 200 years of StarCraft is insane. LiquidMana has been playing for ~20 years and of course he hasn't played the game 24/7. Lets pretend he has played StarCraft like it's a full-time job since he was 5; 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 20 years. That's ~42,000 hours of playing StarCraft.

Develop an A.I. that is only trained for that many hours of virtual game time.

If they can create an A.I. with those requirements, that can defeat top-level players, I will be completely blown away.

> Beyond the local galactic cluster though -- quite possibly nothing.

Do you mean the Local Group?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Group

Or the Local Supercluster?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgo_Supercluster

I dropped my 2 year old son at day care this morning. Should I have not had a child if I can't look after him all day, every day?

You're changing the meaning of the word to suit your philosophy.