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That seems extremely unlikely, there's only so many hours in the day and while I'm sure that he has a keen eye on what's going on the odds of him being personally involved in the actual engineering are close to zero. If he's spending time doing that it'd actually be a huge failure on his part, there are more important things for him to spend his time on.

Basecamp came pretty close to this recently, I'm not sure whether it had a material effect on their business or future direction.

I'm surprised to see this reaction from a sales person, isn't this a major part of your job?

This is genuinely unsettling. I wonder if this will need to be extinguished by using explosives, as the scale of the fire looks certain to overwhelm the capacity of the pumps on those ships.

hardly anyone cares, hardly anyone is going to choose your product over a competitor's because yours has dark mode. For most companies this stuff is a distraction from the real work that matters. See also: achieving 100% lighthouse score

Author of ts-sql here. Shin Ando has forked my proof of concept / toy implementation and made it much more practical, if you're thinking about spending time on this idea that's probably a better starting point: https://github.com/andoshin11/sqlpture

let's not humour that guy by using his stage name

When tether collapses it can take the whole crypto economy with it, including Compound. If you want to short it you have to do so in an indirect way, e.g. by shorting MSTR or COIN.

I've heard a lot of credulous people describing these reports as proof of aliens. To me the idea that aliens exist is unsurprising, but aliens being here would imply FTL is possible, and that would be a huge discovery!

V8 has an interpreter now FWIW https://v8.dev/blog/ignition-interpreter

Common telesales advice is to smile before you pick up the phone, because people can hear your smile and are generally more receptive to whatever you're going to say if you sound friendly. I wonder if this trick works in Russia?

I feel like they're pretty strongly incentivised to not improve it. They want to push people to the app, and they have enough traction and community lock-in that they're not really worried about losing traffic

No, I want us to stop wasting energy on anti-social ideas. I want governments to end an industry that produces a net-negative value and is at least 75% powered by coal.

Shame on your defeatist, destructive attitude.

"We were heading off the cliff anyway, so I put my foot on the accelerator"

PoW and PoS are both Proof of Waste. It's evil, especially so in this environment.

Humans need to co-operate to survive global heating, we cannot avoid trust, we need to make it easier to trust each other. If you buy into cryptocurrency you are implicitly abandoning hope of humanity surviving this crisis, in fact you're hastening our downfall.

this sounds like "the beginner's guide to surviving the coming zombie apocalypse". Maybe you can prepare for a few days or weeks of isolation, but climate change does not just go away and get better. How long are your bullets really going to last?

What is a suitable way to prepare in your opinion?

Banning crypto mining would be a far easier solution and better for the world and humanity as a whole. No one is going to push for "100% renewable crypto mining", so just ban it completely.

Honestly it is absolutely unforgivable that people still push cryptocurrency in the face of the existential threat to humanity that global heating presents. It's a completely immoral, destructive, evil.

there's a chance, but whose jurisdiction is it, and who is responsible for investigating the fraud?

The purpose of a military is not solely to provide continuity for a currency, it is to provide security for the interests and inhabitants of a nation.

Also, regardless of any morality issues, having a military _creates value_ in a way that Bitcoin cannot. The employees of a military are paid, they spend their wages in the country's economy, they must be supplied with equipment which must be manufactured, those manufacturers & soldiers pay taxes, the enhanced security of a nation makes it less risky for investment and business growth etc etc.

It's a naturally occurring, negative-sum pyramid scheme. All money extracted is coming from subsequent entrants to the scheme.

I think this is a really bad look for Sebastian. He started babel and made the most contributions overall, but he hasn't been involved in the project for 5 years at this point. He left to join Facebook and babel would have died if it weren't for the efforts of Logan, Henry, Nicolo and the other contributors.

The original post on the babel website was written in response to him investigating the babel funding situation earlier this year, and so the babel team have made changes to make the situation fairer in their eyes. This apparently doesn't go far enough for Sebastian's tastes, so he has publicly called out by name one of the contributors who he feels doesn't do enough to justify their salary. The metric he uses for determining this is the number of github commits and comments that are shown on that person's profile. This is not a fair measure of someone's contribution to a project, and it's exactly the kind of behaviour that Sebastian would criticise if any other company was evaluating people in this way.

In the meantime, Sebastian has started another competing project, Rome Tools, which was recently VC funded.

The whole thing stinks. Will Rome Tools employees get called out and shamed in public if they don't have enough visibility on their github profile?

Reading 100Gb from disk costs $0.50? this is absolutely incredible to me, how has this become acceptable to the industry?

Presumably a vast majority of that cost is in R&D rather than manufacturing.

There was discussion about it here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892135

cryptocurrencies could easily go away. They have almost no adoption and the US or EU could look at just how much power and wealth is being controlled by Russia and China, how they're used for money laundering, or how Iran and so on use them to work around sanctions and just decide to ban them. It would be trivial.

you cannot generate electricity from bitcoin

It's an offensively transparent attempt at greenwashing from a company run by a morally vacuous bitcoin proponent and an investment company with a large position in bitcoin.

this is just another disingenuous propaganda piece for cryptocurrency proponents to link to whenever people bring up the environmental impacts of bitcoin. Shameful.

I think you're underestimating the scope of the impact and just how vital software is in the modern world. It's not just that people can't login to a system, it's that they simply can't get their work done, and some of that work is really very time sensitive and important. Auth0 is depended on by hundreds of thousands of companies. Tens of millions of people will have been impacted by this outage today.