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"upgrade" is a misnomer. It's a "fork" There will be 2 competing versions of Ethereum after this. Actually there will be 3 because there's already ethereum classic from the last time Ethereum hard forked.

My first 100% remote job was w/ invisionapp.com a few years before the pandemic. Best decision I've ever made.

"partially legalize" - I would say currently legalized drugs are "partially" legalized (aka regulated with reasonable restrictions like minimum age of purchase and not selling to intoxicated persons)

Referencing alcohol prohibition, that led to a large black market which gradually shrank until it almost completely disappeared about a decade after prohibition ended. About 10 years after prohibition was enacted, alcohol consumption was at ~70% of pre-prohibition levels. Making alcohol illegal decreased consumption by 30%. I would guess alcohol consumption levels would have continued to rise if prohibition had continued. I don't think anyone today still thinks a small reduction in consumption was worth all the violence and corruption created by prohibition. Today the "black market" for alcohol pretty much consists of asking your older sibling/friend to buy you a case of beer.

> When you make a resource harder to get you decrease the supply, when you decrease the supply, prices tend to go up and access goes down.

I argue it's extremely easy to get illegal drugs in the US. I don't currently use any but I have complete confidence I could acquire some within ~1-3 days by tapping my social network if I wanted. Another very convenient alternative for acquiring drugs for those so inclined is the dark web (assuming you know how to use cryptocurrency and tor - something I'm sure the vast majority of young people in the US can do)

We're going to eventually get to a place where drug decriminalization is widespread. If we're not going to punish people for using drugs, lets just take control of the drug market away from criminals, regulate it, tax it and use that tax revenue for something good.

Continuing to make drug sales illegal doesn’t actually do much to limit the availability of drugs. Drugs have never been more accessible or cheap and that trend is likely to continue.

I think the government should legalize all drugs so they can control the drug markets and take them away from violent criminal organizations. They can also ensure the drug supplies are safe (devoid of contaminants) as well as tax them to fund social services.

There’s always going to be a market for illegal drugs. It gets bigger as time goes on. Better to have it under the control of government and taxed/regulated than underground under the control of cartels

Criminal prohibition of drugs just drives sales underground where there’s no regulation or testing of substances for potentially lethal contaminants. It also creates a huge economic opportunity for violent cartels/criminal organizations which can destabilize entire regions. Furthermore it does almost nothing to reduce the supply or availability of illegal drugs - we’ve been fighting a war on cocaine for 50 years and cocaine has never been more readily available or cheaper. The only thing criminal prohibition of drugs has accomplished is an explosion of the prison population making America the country with the highest level of incarceration in the world.

The war on drugs causes more death and damage than drugs. The only way out is for the government to legalize, regulate and tax drugs just like alcohol and cannabis. If heroin were sold at a pharmacy there would be laws against selling to minors... dealers today will sell to anyone.

That sounds like a good idea, currently when "zoning out" or getting distracted I don't record it I just try to jump back. For quality, the best thing I've come up with is making spaced-repetition flashcards w/ Anki. My confidence is higher that I've actually retained the information.

I've somewhat shifted my focus from plain note taking to making spaced repetition flashcards (using Anki). I find it to be a lot more effective in aiding memory retention of details.

For me, personally, my goal is to maximize the amount of knowledge and understanding I can acquire per unit of time. As part of this I guess I'm testing myself to see how long I can focus for each day I devote to studying, and to see if once I've quantified it, if I can beat it.

I guess after thinking more on this, I'm not so much focused on "how many pages can I read per day" as I am "how long can I stay focused and study per day"

Also, since I wrote this I've started using spaced repetition flashcards (with Anki) to better retain details as I read through books. I've found that spaced repetition flashcards let me relax a bit while I'm reading because I don't feel like it's so important that I immediately remember everything as soon as I read it since I'll be revisiting it later. This seems to work much better than just taking notes.

I thought this was a pretty good idea so I make a little reusable Github Action anyone could drop into their TIL repo to get an autogenerated README: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/til-auto-format-readm...

I would classify this article as typical FUD that consistent observers of the Bitcoin/cryptocurrency space see quite often.

To anyone reading this, I wouldn't infer that privacy and fungibility in Bitcoin are not improving. The recent activation of segwit enables practical lightning networks, which do provide a layer of privacy, and also makes it easier to add a feature called schnorr signatures.

Schnorr signatures will lead to something dubbed by some as "incentivized privacy". https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/the-power-of-schnorr-th...

How will countries like China that aggressively censor the internet respond?

I feel like I can boil this post down to:

1. There's no escape key! 2. It has roughly the same specs as existing MBPs

ergo now totally useless for developers

Anyone sw developer that cares about the escape key remapped it to the caps lock key years ago