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Nice. This looks like a more comprehensive tutorial than the other STARK tutorials I have seen.

No. It's the center-left all the way to the far left I am referring to.

Poor Zuck. Can't have a day in peace from the people who want to control public discourse. The internet had a great run though: 20 years of relatively free speech.

What's their lobbying budget?

It asks me to get a captcha on https://signalcaptchas.org/registration/generate.html, but the site does not seem to work.

So arithmetization-oriented ciphers are used e.g. used in ZK-SNARKs? How long have these ciphers existed?

It's probably the responsible thing to do and Denmark is a 1st world country, so they can afford it. But would the same thing happen if this problem occured in a poorer country? Probably not. So isn't it inevitable that a similar mutation happens in mink in another, poorer country and that it then spreads from there?

It's probably the responsible thing to do and Denmark is a 1st world country, so they can afford it. But would the same thing happen if this problem occured in a poorer country? Probably not. So isn't it inevitable that a similar mutation happens in mink in another, poorer country and that it then spreads from there?

It was the first language that was taught in computer science at the University of Copenhagen until around 2015, then they changed that language to F#/

Judging from the activity on Stack Exchange, it seems to be pretty dead. Maybe a few universities around the world still teach it? It can't be more than I handful I guess. https://stackoverflow.com/tags/sml/topusers

Exciting stuff! Could you consider also making an elaboration on this blog post where you show how this parallel execution of for example the "square root if positive" function is parallelized?

Is the time it takes to generate an image the sum of 'BVH' and 'render'?

This is just what SML has been missing since the 90s! Awesome project. It seems to work pretty well already.

Russia did not agree to Saudi Arabia's proposal to reduce output so Saudi Arabia are now turning up the faucets to pressure Russia into a deal. Saudi Arabia has no intention starting a price war with US shale producers, this is pure tactics to make Russia agree to an output deal.

The United States has a net export of around 0 barrels, meaning that it is neither an importer nor an exporter of oil today. So macroeconomically the US should be more or less unaffected on an aggregated level.

Controlling the narrative is a lot of political power to have. And I guess alot of people don't want to see traditional media lose that power.

I think you mean lack of static type checking. Python is more strongly typed than e.g. Perl and JavaScript.

I wonder if this language has spread beyond Europe yet. Do any Americans use it?

Which university? :)

This sounds smart. I haven't programmed Futhark yet, though, but I really enjoy functional programming. Where is this language primarily used, at universities or also in industry?

I agree. Why pay for the energy to grow food when you can get the enegy for free by putting it out in the sun? This is an example that some scientifically minded people forget an important aspect in the world: economics. Can your New Way of Doing It^{TM} do it cheaper than existing solutions? If not, it most likely does not have a future.

Yes. US oil production fell from around 1971 until the fracking boom took off in 2008. Remember when everybody talked about Peak Oil? That's where it came from. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=37416

That's an amazing graph. The other side of the same story is the US production of oil:

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=W...

> Governments the last few decades seem to insist on the power to seize the electronic money of just about anyone.

Going tangential here but that is why Bitcoin is so powerful. Because it takes that power away from government.

I like that these things are being revealed and I previously read stories that these techniques were getting less effective since more people are aware of them. That's at least half the battle. Legal punishment of this behavior is not something I think I would support since I would be worried about it being impossible or at least very hard to enforce properly.

Beat me to it. For context, the web site is currently responding 503 Service Unavailable with a clarification that the server is too busy.

The opposite also applies: You couldn't buy up a large proportion of Bitcoins without the price skyrocketing. Prices are determined at the margin, what the marginal seller (probably miners) will sell for and what the marginal buyer will buy for. They are the best measure of "fair value".

The market cap of Bitcoin is above 120bn USD, less than Apple and Facebook but more than Netflix. But that is still only about 0.1 to 1 % of its potential. So, big but in its infancy.

This does not seem to include transactions on the Bitcoin Lightning network which are transaction that are handled offchain so they are not included in blocks. I don't have the exact number of lightning transaction ocurring but it is the Bitcoin Core developers' plan that the scaling to thousand of transactions per second will and should take place on the lightning network (this is where they differ from their competitor Bitcoin Cash which is aiming for bigger blocks and onchain scaling). Bitcoin is still a technology in its infancy ten years after being started.

Probably not but it is in my opinion very nice to have the ability to mock evertyhing if and when you need it.

I am designing financial software for the crypto industry and I definitely prefer the ability to 1) have a high test coverage, and 2) quickly be able to write regression tests. Without dependency injection with mockable objects, that would not be possible.

This setup is also what Google Cloud is using for their App Engine.