Is there an opportunity to make a cheaper Dropbox? Their paid service is very expensive.
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Linux is a monolithic kernel.
One drive of course, is to have a micro kernel that will allow you to update your operating system as needed, without the need to reboot.
Can this still be accomplished with a micro kernel system, or is this now an obsolete method for operating systems design?
Something has value, because a certain group of people believes it has value. These are the people voting for it. Then over time, this value becomes worth its weight in gold. Maybe it starts to provide other useful services. This is the weighing part of it.
Bitcoin can retain its minimal value threshold if a bunch of rich people and rich institutions all collectively buy into it, to establish a baseline support for it. Or a bunch of normal people collectively holding a few coins here and there.
The only other institutions that can mint money, which are internationally recognized, are sovereign countries.
I suspect that someone found a way to hack this process, and in turn create a new ability to store value. And in turn, created Bitcoin.
It’s like the Tulip mania, but slightly more useful.
The only way to make Bitcoin illegal is if all the major governments collectively ban and make illegal the usage of Bitcoin, and its mining process. This is the nuclear option.
What is the end goal? Who knows. Maybe these rich people want to go off somewhere and create a new country, and Bitcoin then becomes their sovereign currency, because they hold the majority shares in it.
Maybe they create a new man made island somewhere, and declare that to be their new country, and then move there to become citizens.
Or they create a rotating space station, and declare that sovereign. Like an Elysium.
Or they go to Mars, and declare the planet to be a new independent country, like Elon Musk.
Then they build an army and a military for defense, and to enforce their Bitcoin value, and get the nuclear weapons to protect themselves from other hostile nations. Now, they have a sovereign country, with a sovereign currency, and they are the super elite rich with all their ownership of Bitcoin.
And Satoshi must be the alias name for some cryptography expert, or experts, inside the NSA itself.
Hah, and even if you rearrange the words, its acronym is NSA. Like, Nakamoto SAtoshi. I just noticed that.
And maybe the architect behind it, used a Japanese origin name, to throw people off their trail. To pin it to some foreign country, instead of the United States government.
After all, who else can keep a big secret like this? And laugh all the way to the bank. While trolling the entire world, at the same time.
Some ideas:
1. The Satoshi Nakamoto guy on the message boards, wrote in perfect colloquial American English. Even his sense of humor was American. His grammar was perfect, and similar to a Millennial/Gen-X aged American. Like, he grew up chatting on AIM and ICQ back in the 90s and 00s. And probably on BBS message boards back in the 80s and 90s.
2. Satoshi mined the originating Bitcoins, and they are incredibly valuable now, and worth around $8.8 billion dollars in mid 2020. Who wouldn’t cash out on it, and realize all the gains, or even some of the gains? How about some super secret organization, that specializes in cryptography. And especially an organization that doesn’t immediately need the money.
3. Bitcoin mining is consuming a ton of electricity. Increasing carbon pollution, and depleting natural resources. There is only one other country that is generating so much electricity, that a large percentage of it, goes straight into Bitcoin mining. You can guess for yourself which country this is.
I don’t think this was intentional, but maybe a side effect is that it will bankrupt other competitor countries that the USA does not like.
4. Maybe another strategic end goal is to trick others to put their money into Bitcoin, and wait until it becomes very very valuable. Like, 100 or 1000 or 1 million times more valuable than it is today, it’s a very long and patient wait, then the US Federal government will pass a law declaring the Bitcoins to be illegal tender. And will then pass another law to forcefully seize all private Bitcoin assets, like the way cops take candy from a baby, with their Civil Asset Forfeiture policy.
Who knows. All this is just fun conjecture.
Maybe there really is a Satoshi Nakamoto out there. But, I’d probably believe Santa Claus is real, before I believe that cover story.
Hence, there is no point to have any conversation. It just becomes another echo chamber.
It’s better if HN just self-censors all China related news, technology, and discussions.
Just focus on Western technology, and all is well.
It’s a really infuriating situation. And quite a terrible UI design.
And by hiding the side scroll bars, it removes your ability to quickly page jump down to the bottom of the page, or to anywhere else on the page, from clicking on the white space of the scroll bars.
America, a country and a people that shits on China. Daily.
Just ask anyone here on HN or Reddit. And Twitter, especially Twitter.
The politicians themselves are benefitting from the situation. So why would they change it?
Most of the stuff in the middle of a supermarket are dried goods, which are easily warehouse-able, given temperature control.
Fresh fruits can be easily packaged, and marked with pick date, and freshness date.
All this can be picked by robots now, and packaged for delivery to your front door.
It’s much harder to do the same as a programmer.
Haven’t had much use of that lately.
He made the proton positive, and the electrons negative. But this mistake became a historical embarrassment, but ultimately stuck, because the world was too entrenched in it.
Instead, he should’ve made the proton as negative, and the electron as positive. Intuitively, this may have helped people understand how electricity flows better.
An alien extraterrestrial society in a distant galaxy would probably be wondering why we have our electricity signs all backwards.
Such as: why must we disconnect the negative cable from our car battery first?
There goes 25% of Apple’s profits. Who needs to sell iPhones in China anyways. And 50% of GM’s profits. Who needs to sell American cars in China anyways. And Boeing. And Intel. And AMD. And nVidia. And Microsoft. And Tesla. Sweet sweet Tesla that just opened up a gigafactory in Shanghai. Profits vaporized. The list goes on..
There goes the fake stock market while we’re at it. A huge chunk of that value is from China. But, let’s go ahead and decouple.
After all, it was the west that wanted “Free Trade” with China, so that they could shove opium down their throats.
But for some strange reason, the West is upset that the Chinese got upset, and kicked them out. And they had to turn to an alternative political model, in order to survive, so they can remove all western influence on them.
At that point, the surviving Taiwanese will wish they weren’t so stupid, and had accepted the One-China policy to begin with, instead of being the sacrificial pawns of the Americans.
And nukes.. if you want to play with nukes, then the Chinese has plenty of nukes. Who’s going to blink first and launch them? China or the United States?
We know for a fact, that the United States cowardly dropped nukes on civilian populations. Twice. So, there’s a high likelihood that they’ll be the first to launch them. But this time, China has nukes of their own too.
You’re being too emotional. Take a chill pill and relax. A shooting war between China and the United States, will result in all the major American cities turned into a nuclear wasteland. At that point, is your pride still worth it?
And hope that your own American city doesn’t get atomized in the exchange?
I’m surprised it grew up from 6 to 400 support staff working on this. This would’ve been a fun job as a teenager.
That’s about USD $90,000/year.
This is good money, if you live remotely in a lower cost of living, foreign country. But it’s a mediocre salary in the United States. You can barely pay your expensive rent with $90k/year. Actually, you’d be at poverty level. And there is zero possibility of affording a house with this salary. But you might be able to eke by if you live in the less competitive Midwest.
I would’ve never thought that was a thing, much less a little career while it lasted. But it provided some jobs to people, whose purpose was to just play a bunch of Nintendo video games.
I don’t have the link, but maybe someone can find it on YouTube somewhere.
Then came the iPods and the rest is history.
But once, after a few years of perfect usage, the program crashed. Then it started crashing more regularly. Then finally it completely died. Data corrupted. Completely unusable. Major system malfunction.
I lost all my photos and videos in the Photos app.
But because I was always paranoid of it, I had the original pictures backed up elsewhere. So data saved. But I never trusted the Photos app again.
You mean the increased rents won’t affect my purchasing ability??
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