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And their average annual household income is little over 3000 USD. And they're currently experiencing temperatures around -15 C. I can only imagine the situation in the countryside. Not difficult to see why they're upset.

Yes, outfitting all poor villagers in Kazakhstan with highly expensive computers seems like a realistic solution.

I took the 22% figure from an article that referenced an overview produced by the University of Cambridge, available here: https://ccaf.io/cbeci/mining_map

I see now that their most recent figure has changed to 18.1%.

The electrical power figure was then calculated based on the total global power consumption published in the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/

It seems noteworthy that Kazakhstan represents ~22% of Bitcoins hashrate (~45 TWh/year of electricity), at the same time as people are out in the streets rioting over the price of heating their homes.

Agreed. Really surprised by most of the answers here. On my team, someone like the OP would be found out fast and wouldn't last long.

You'd be surprised: https://www.worldremit.com/en/zimbabwe/faq/cash-pickup

Indeed, and wiring money overseas has also never been easier. I regularly send money from Norway to family in Africa using online remittance services (there's quite a few to pick from) and it usually takes less than 15 minutes for the money to go through (and they get a pick up notice from their bank). Because of competition, the FX rates are very good. No crypto involved.

Regardless of Bitcoin itself, it seems the US has started looking at Federal regulation of stablecoins only this year. The way it looks to me, the existence of wildcat stablecoins are an important pillar keeping the crypto economy afloat. Just this week Tether was seen printing billions again, just as Bitcoin started going south.

Based on the fact that I've personally seen the detrimental effects it can have on some peoples mental health.

Well, then how many % of crypto volume happens on properly 'regulated' exchanges? And what are the requirements those exchanges must meet (are they held to the same standard as major stock exchanges, for example?)

I give them full credit for their EV technology, but I'm still pessimistic about FSD. How much of the current stock price is hinged on the assumption that FSD is 'right around the corner'? What happens if Elon pushes FSD out and it turns out to be a fiasco, possibly with catastrophic consequences?

I'm with you. The only thing = delete means to me is that I'm happy C++ isn't part of my dayjob.

Yeah, that was exactly what I was thinking. Getting PC games to run in the 90s was an engineering discipline in and of itself.

This was my favorite part, just wow:

> Further, at least until 2018, Respondent’s internal accounting system for tracking fiat balances, including bank balances for USDt reserves, primarily consisted of a spreadsheet (the “Reserve Spreadsheet”). The Tether executive team was ultimately responsible for the Reserve Spreadsheet. The Reserve Spreadsheet required manual updates and was not always kept up to date in real time. Respondents were aware of the limitations of the Reserve Spreadsheet. For example, in an internal chat on June 15, 2016, Tether’s then-Chief Strategy Officer informed Respondents’ CFO and other employees stated that the: “transparency page needs to be dealt with ASAP . . . I am surprised the issuance address is not updated dynamically, btw . . . and how often does the bank balance get updated?”

I'm probably a bit blessed, but I have a voice in all those facets. I think the key for me has been to work on a small product-focused team that defines its own microcosm within the larger org, where the roles aren't too rigidly defined and everyone mostly just does what is needed to move the ship forward.

> in the professional world, what you are going to do is dictated by your manager down to the last line of code. The feature and testing requirements would be specific enough to get rid of all creative freedom.

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've worked in a large software house for over a decade and I'm enjoying a lot of creative freedom when it comes to the code I'm writing.

To me this reads more like reasons not to work at this person's particular company.

Closer to 90%: https://netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.asp...

Apparently they had to bring in the angle grinder to get access to the server room.

https://twitter.com/cullend/status/1445156376934862848?t=P5u...

> not so great in others

I'm curious what you think is worse in the West now than it was a century ago.

Yes, but regardless of their relevance to our daily lives, Einstein's equations do have strong implications about the basic structure of the universe. And that structure is fundamentally not compatible with ontological presentism.

> I grew up very religious and when I lost my faith in my 20s, I tried to replace it w/ absurdism and existentialism, but couldn't shake the notion that lives deep in me that ultimately, even if humanity spreads across the cosmos and we're able to find meaning in our own individual existences, the universe will inevitably suffer heat death, from which there is no eternalistic escape.

Seems that this view of human existence as something inherently temporary underpins a lot of nihilist thinking. However, there is a lot of scientific evidence in favor of eternalism (i.e. the philosophy of time, as opposed to presentism) if you only care to look.

For one, it seems to me you have to basically reject all of relativistic physics if you want to maintain a perspective on the universe where only the present moment exists. This is because the relativity of simultaneity tells us that there is no such thing as a universal present moment. How can only a single moment exist when there is no such thing as a single moment?

I think a lot of people who despair in nihilist thought would do a lot better if they simply updated their understanding of universe from being stuck in the 19th century.

I've never written a line of COBOL, but pay me enough money, and I'll be up and running in a mainframe terminal by the end of the month.

I'd also add that groups and permissions are probably constant and can be cached with a long timeout.

And most of them are now deprecated. In fact, on .NET 5, there is no good desktop UI framework at all. It seems to me that if you wrote a Windows Desktop app in the last 30 years, the only way it would still be supported today (i.e. possible to maintain using non-deprecated frameworks) is if it was based directly on the old Win32 API (or the MFC wrapper).

Most companies operate on leverage. There's nothing problematic about debt in itself.

No, but I am a bit surprised that someone coming out of a failed marriage is so keen on giving family advice to others.

Another explanation is that EU is not a large cohesive economy like the US. In the US, startups target a potential userbase of 300M+. In the EU, a startup typically only targets a single country with a fraction of the population. Seems obvious that the potential profitability of a piece of software correlates with the population of its market. And only natural that developer salaries correlate with the potential profitability of the software that they make.

Looks like it's actually over 600M.

https://twitter.com/peckshield/status/1425104635984023560?s=...

If someones choice of values leads them to wilfully and proudly become a parasite and a burden to the people around them, then they are the ones with the mental disorder.

The market is the source. Just look at the market cap chart here, you can see that it's been flat for the past few weeks (after a long period of exponential growth): https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/