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Mining does not validate transactions. It settles them. Even in proof-of-work cryptocurrencies proving the validity of a transaction is a mere signature and unspent outputs check.

This should not be a blanket ban. Actually I don’t think they would even need to implement any policy at all. By 2030 I would expect electric cars to be so economical that it’s the only viable choice for the majority of people.

Not to mention that there will still be plenty of valid use cases for ICE cars in 2030. Need to go anywhere without the charging infrastructure? Need to travel a long distance? Need to travel in an emergency like a blackout?

The other part which is just kind of sad is that this is another nail in the coffin for the hobby of building and modding cars. Parts supplies will dry up and working on older cars will just become more and more prohibitively expensive. It’s already happening. To be honest when a car is just another computer it ceases to be interesting.

> Why is it just expected that boys can’t pay attention

According to this [0] boys have a 4x higher chance of being diagnosed with ADHD than girls. I think you would have a very difficult time arguing that that's because of how we socialise boys.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3101894/#:~:tex....

Besides the fact that DMCA was probably created specifically for the RIAA, is it possible for the EFF to push for the RIAA to be stripped of their right to use DMCA due to their abuse of it?

Coinbase was never about the original cryptocurrency vision anyway. They always wanted to be the crypto ‘bank’ and be the middleman collecting fees. Even the name ‘Coinbase’ [0] was deliberately chosen to confuse people and make them think that they are somehow core to Bitcoin.

0: In the Bitcoin protocol a transaction which generates new coins and issues them to the miner of a block is called a coinbase transaction.

You're right, the real reason is the high density of companies and the talent they attract to the Bay Area. My point with cost of living was that companies need to pay $(CoL + X + Y) for people to be willing to move out here. Where X is whatever they need to pay to entice the employee away from the other companies. And Y is the amount of savings/discretionary spending the employee wants to have.

I always wondered why the FAANG companies don't move their main campuses to somewhere with a lower CoL (call it CoL') so they only need to pay $(CoL' + X' + Y) to keep the employee. Paying X' (where X' probably less than X) because they're no longer in local competition with the other companies. I wonder how long it would take to recoup the cost of moving the company in savings on compensation. There are countless places which have better quality of life than the Bay Area, while also having lower CoL. I chose to move to the Bay Area because Y was greater than what I could get anywhere else.

I moved to the Bay Area in mid 2019 from another country. I've had discussions with my American colleagues where I asserted that we were overpayed for what we do. They insist that it's deserved because we're the top engineers of the world working at a top company. But I'm 100% certain the only reason we're paid as much is because of the insane cost of living in the Bay Area. I know many great engineers, or even my former-self, in my home country who are not paid even 1/3rd of what we get paid in the Bay Area. I think this WFH revolution will be a real reckoning for the software industry and the entitlement of many Bay Area engineers.

Relative pitch can definitely be trained. And I've heard people with perfect pitch say that when they hear a note they just relate it to a known note. Though I don't know if that's true perfect pitch or a different means to the same end. Then again I've heard other musicians say that perfect pitch is like seeing colors. You and I just know red is red, they might just hear C is C.

Major eyeroll at this. This site conflates algorithms, data, machine learning, math, and specific applications of any of these.

Math _is_ neutral.

Algorithms _are_ neutral, and are simply instruction sets for operating on data.

Data is certainly be biased, but any researcher, designer, engineer, etc. worth their salt will try to minimise the inherent bias.

Machine learning is basically brute-force statistics on data. Or alternatively, iterated application of an algorithm on data. In and of itself it is neutral. Any apparent bias in the results will almost completely be a result of bias in the data, _not_ the design of the algorithm.

All of these (except data) are tools. What we should be worrying about is the specific applications of these tools. Which, I agree, should be subject to some sort of ethical review before widespread use.

Stop trying to drag math and algorithms into this political quagmire, and instead focus on the actual problem. We don't outlaw knives because they are still incredibly useful tools. We outlaw stabbing people.

You already mentioned shipping cost, which is improved by better shipping density with the smaller boxes. Shipping is a huge carbon producer, so it makes sense to me that increasing density both makes it more cost effective for Apple and reduces the amount of impact on the environment. It's not only about e-waste.

I thought this as well. FB and Twitter are themselves the misinformation networks.

Short for "resurrect" maybe?

Are you thinking of dynamic programming? It's the most poorly named thing in CS, in my opinion. The name tells you absolutely nothing about what it is, and IIRC the name "dynamic" was chosen because it's difficult to use as a pejorative.

That's true. It's more accurate to say the primary consumers are men, rather than that the primary producers are women.

I think it's unlikely you will get any recourse here. However what you can do is the following.

1) Find one of the input addresses for the transaction(s) you sent to the scammers

2) Use that address to sign a message like "alexander1100 owns this address" (but use your legal name) to prove ownership of the address.

3) Attempt to follow up with the FBI about recovering your lost funds. This is the step that you will have the most trouble with.

Good luck.

Nothing, really. Except that it would be a taxation nightmare, since every time you spend some you need to report the difference in price between when you acquired it and when you spent it, and pay tax on the gain/loss. It would also be a lot of effort to find people willing to accept bitcoin for things like groceries.

I don't use Facebook but I hope they can do this with Instagram too. As a non-citizen, and hence non-voter, living in the US I'm sick of being bombarded with political campaign ads.

Yeah, this article is almost completely devoid of information.

Something I want to experiment with is IPv6 DNS. IPv6 has enough address space that individual devices are universally uniquely addressable. With an AAAA record you can point DNS at an IPv6 address. So I want to try setting DNS to point to a specific device... though I haven't gotten around to it yet.

We should definitely be beginning to examine the mental health toll the lockdowns are having on people. Changing our behaviour for the sole purpose of extending our life expectancies as long as possible is not living at all.

I hadn't heard about this law. Seems it came into effect after I last filed a DS-160 in June 2019. Can anyone provide a reasonable justification for any non-nefarious reason for requiring the social media handles of all visa applicants?

It seems pointless at best. Downright evil at worst.

Jeremy Kun also has a good blog series on ECC. Although from memory it gets pretty technical into pure maths pretty quickly.

https://jeremykun.com/2014/02/08/introducing-elliptic-curves...

I don't think it's fair to say it's pure populist though. A _huge_ portion of Spotify users don't actively select their music, they just select an autogenerated (or even manually curated) playlist to go in the background. So the most streamed will inevitably be songs from whichever record company has bought algorithmic favour from Spotify.

One nuance about facts is that they change over time as we learn more about whatever the fact is about. Take SARS-CoV-2 for example, our best scientific knowledge about it has changed significantly since the start of the year. Some _facts_ from January would be considered _misinformation_ now. You might say that the actual facts are the underlying truth, but even that doesn't help. Our current view on the underlying truth are what is widely considered to be factual. The underlying truth can also change, for instance as the virus evolves and takes on different characteristics. Fact checking is most definitely not solved and I would posit that it's fundamentally intractable.

It's even worse if you watch stuff that's not popular. Hollywood is not really my thing so I usually watch more arthouse or vintage movies. Eg. 60's French or Italian cinema, or 80's/90's Asian cinema. Not only are these simply not available on most streaming/rental platforms, torrents can be incredibly hard to find without access to a private tracker. And even if I can find a public torrent it usually doesn't have many seeds.

It's really quite saddening to me that some classic cinema is essentially dead, completely inaccessible.

I eventually found Mubi, which is a relatively cheap arthouse movie streaming/rental service. So at least I have that for now. Until they go out of business because they're not popular enough.

Ah I see, thanks for explaining.

That's actually a really interesting thought. I wonder if you can just serve a tiny JS torrent client and a magnet link and automatically download the content. You would need to have a way for visitors to seed the content too, otherwise you still have to serve everything anyway.

I'm not familiar with the SAT, so I might be misunderstanding. But how is returning to an earlier section of the paper after you've completed a later section considered cheating? In all the exams I took over high school/university we could complete the paper in any order we like.

Time to archive all clips from Youtube and all old episodes from his website.

> I feel like firing a worker for running a NSFW OnlyFans account (or similar) would, if not should, run agrounds for sexual harassment or unlawful termination.

I don't think it should be considered unlawful termination. Someones behaviour outside work definitely has an impact on the business they're a part of. Unfortunately, whether we like it or not, SW has a very real stigma attached to it that could hurt the business reputation. That's a risk the business must take into account. It's like if someone were to attend white supremacist rallies on the weekends. It may not directly affect their ability to perform their role but I suspect we'd agree that it's justified if a business terminated someone for that reason.

Reputation is one aspect, but another aspect from a business perspective that I haven't seen discussed too much is the effect it could have on coworkers' performance. Say a woman has an OnlyFans and somehow her male colleagues find out. It would be at least a little bit distracting for them and could cause their productivity to drop. This is again a liability the business has to consider.

I'm not saying the stigma or termination is _right_ or _just_ in this case but it's just the reality of the world we live in and it will take generations to change that.

EDIT: To add a little bit about the sexual harassment aspect. I'm not sure where I fall on this. Say a woman works a side job as a stripper and one of her colleagues accidentally visits the strip club where she works. I would say it's not sexual harassment to visit the club the first time when they are unaware she works there. However if they were to solicit a private dance from her then I would consider that sexual harassment. I'm not sure exactly how that relates to viewing someones photos online accidentally vs paying for their only fans but I think it's somewhat similar. And what about repeatedly visiting the club/public photos? Visiting the club again probably is harassment depending on whether or not she is working that night but viewing the photos again probably not if she's not aware of it. It's a pretty large grey area with this part and it's difficult to form a solid opinion or even a rule without assessing things case-by-case.