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As we head towards a burgeoning climate catastrophe, no-one should be using Bitcoin.

Another better one, synthesized rather than recorded: https://youtu.be/idXYwYgcFEs (Cylob)

> On Friday, January 8th, GitHub separated with an employee.

What an absurdly passive corporate euphemism for GitHub wrongfully firing one of their employees.

If so, what you describe isn't what happens for the vast majority of people. We need income to pay for rent (or mortgage), food, utilities, and other essentials. With a bit saved over, where we can. There's no scope for estimating the profitability of the business or anything like that, we just need money to live. I'm sure it's the same for Apple's factory workers in the article.

I'm not certain what you mean here. When does this happen? This doesn't sound like the usual method or motivation for job seeking.

Everyone working for Apple, including indirectly, i.e. all the way down its supply chains, are collectively generating wealth for the company.

Just imagine how much fairer it would be towards all these people who did the actual work, if the profits generated from every iPhone, every iPad, every MacBook sold (and so on) ended up in their pockets instead.

Ideally, workers would be paid a wage for their time, and later have the profits of their work shared amongst them. After all, they are the ones responsible for generating this wealth.

This is also why unions exist, to try to redress that imbalance via collective action.

But as you say, that's not the world we live in.

> To refine my initial point: there will be many horrific costs to this mess. Some poor sod will end up paying the cost. If owners think they can escape full liability, they will continue to take risks because they can privatize the profit and socialize the costs.

Thank you for elaborating, I entirely concur with the sentiment of the above, even if we differ on terminology.

To refine my original my point too, please consider it a comment on the unfortunate connotations of using the term 'balance sheet' for this concept - without further information, it's unclear if it's being used in a purely business financial context or not.

A sadly common motif through, particularly on HN.

> Where a mentor was paid to mentor you, you are now forced to mentor other students and vice versa.

So Lambda School is essentially an bait-and-switch pyramid scheme purporting to be an educational institution?

For-profit schools are scams in general, but this one sounds particularly scammy and unpleasant.

I'm not surprised to see it's being backed by YC. Yet another example of venture capitalists using their vast wealth to greedily build even more wealth, no matter who is abused in the process.

> However, each of these guarantees relies on one fundamental property — that the proxy and the target servers do not collude. So long as there is no collusion, an attacker succeeds only if both the proxy and target are compromised.

I'm not sure how an end user would be expected to assess this any more than they could ascertain whether any particular DoH/DoT provider is as trustworthy as they claim.

The amount of energy being wasted (reportedly more than seven nuclear power plants worth) on what is essentially an unproductive project is quite absurd.

In a world where we should all be increasingly concerned about the looming climate catastrophe, it's wholly irresponsible for Bitcoin to exist other than as an academic curiosity.

Also I reckon if recreational drugs were legalised, there would be no real reason to use Bitcoin at all. I mean what would be left except for just buying into the pyramid scheme, and ransomware payments?

Quite ironic to see the high priest of HN commanding his devotees on how to think for themselves.

I've found that resting something heavy on one of the modifier keys, e.g. Ctrl, does the trick nicely.

In my experience it was much more useful and engaging to learn by doing things (creating, writing, experimenting) that the facts were related to - then the most necessary facts would become deeply embedded in my memory, with others at just the right level of vagueness necessary to look up the details if needed.

There's really no need for this, you could have made your point without being unpleasant toward those who have fallen upon hard times.

Also attempted Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King and got this, not quite what I expected but close enough: https://youtu.be/e1kwr-C78mI

And there remains plenty of interest in academia, there are still many fascinating areas of research in this space.

There are no 'first amendment' issues here, as no new law has been passed compelling Facebook to do this. It's simply Facebook saying they don't want this sort of antisemitic rubbish published and amplified via their platform.

Are there any downsides to using this?