dzamo_norton

> which can do all these things and can even serve as a laptop

If it could only also serve as a smartphone I'd have one already.

The expected return in a negative sum game is negative. We can call such schemes investments but then we're going to have to call PowerBall tickets and roulette wheels investments too.

So she was in a strong negotiating position, it just took 1-2 months for the negotiations to play out. I hope she bumped her rate up before returning.

Shareholders are at the back of the queue in a bankruptcy.

Presumably he hoped to warn his network that they should lower their risk profiles and get into a defensive position. Without specifics no one knows if that means withdraw from exchanges or trade into fiat but people do have some general idea of where safety is and isn't.

Once there are regulations that are penned and enforced by a centralised authority what is the use of cryptocurrency?

It's hard not to think that's a team writing secretly under an individual name.

Europe disarmed massively after WW2, understandable if you look at scale of the damage that was done. That left the US as the bouncer (street name: NATO) for the West, an arrangement that's probably by and large worked, some questionable misadventures on foreign shores notwithstanding. WW2 is no longer relevant and Europe should rearm and share the defense burden, even Germany. Ideally there'd be no defense burden at all, and a defense budget of $0, but if you neglect it then, even in enlightened 2022, you get raped and pillaged c.f. Ukraine.

Currencies are not for hodling. You're supposed to spend them in the same year you get them, not compare their values to assets after 100 years. Their job is not to appreciate but to facilitate efficient commerce in civil societies.

A definition of "adoption" would also help here. Are we counting the zero-sum game speculators as "adopters", or are we counting something like flows enabling the legally compliant exchange of goods and services in the real world?

I did not feel it with Nim at all, so I guess the team have done a thorough job of separating concerns. I'd happily write more Nim actually, just checked and the compiler is still there :).

Thanks I'll drop in there some time, always up for learning something new and it doesn't sound like it's ... the laser eyes crowd.

Also to be found out there, and which would need attention, is use of 0 as a sentinel

    if time = 0
      // handle missing data case
    else
      ...

The kind of thing that makes you wonder "what sort of a day was 1 Jan 1970, actually?"

Did you know that Ukrainian devs are a super talented bunch? If you're reading this my guess is that there's a good chance that you've used some open source software that contains their contributions. At Apache Drill we miss and worry about our colleagues daily. Many being male and of draftable age, they will have to see this thing out to its end in Ukraine.

41 yo fart. Rational at times. The tinge, in general, comes from the huge number of crypto projects that are indistinguishable from Ponzis, vehicles for what would be a financial crime if done with regulated instruments, or just the counterproductive inclusion of a blockchain. Nim itself never felt tinged to me back when I tried (and enjoyed) it. But I generally won't touch anything "crypto".

I think this is a big part of the aesthetic similarity. Without curly, or ordinary, brackets delimiting code blocks you get that nice clean look. Having used Python a lot for a period (and having made one toy app in Nim) I now find especially curly brackets visually noisy.

Cannot reproduce. Android 9 on Nokia 8.

A wide variety of sources queryable through standard SQL, including some not found in alternatives. The competition for querying the common data sources is, as you note, stiff! We want to do those well, but also chase the long tail of more obscure systems, interfaces and formats that are out there and still contain stuff people are interested in. Even people who'd like to run query or two before they're required to declare a schema, though admittedly this latter trick is helpful for exploring but no magic wand once you need start doing computation (and data types really do become indispensable).

socat

> thats basically what uber did to the taxi system and it worked.

Modulo any discernible path to profitability.

> Or calling any trade in crypto "shady". This one shows his true colors. A huge amount of people just deposit dollars on a KYC exchange, then buy and sell whatever crypto they fancy.

> None of this is shady. It's fully legal, taxes are paid, it's like stocks. Yet according to him, any trade in crypto is shady.

True, there has been a lot of activity that was no worse than gambling. Let's tally up everything that's come out of the space, good and bad, and ask where it comes out on net. Somewhere in region of "a giant casino with a mad electricity bill on an island with no cops, teeming with scumbags who busy themselves with fleecing the innocent suckers in there desparate to come away with one of the lambos on stage". Yes, you pay tax on your winnings when you get back to the mainland.

> Or, the claim that the 800 billion market cap of Bitcoin is solely based on Tether. That's an absurd statement.

"800 billion market cap of Bitcoin" is already an absurd statement.

Secretaries aren't an obvious case in my experience. A good number of them appear to me to work as hard as the boss they assist. And in some cases they appear pretty much as capable (but they never carry anything like the same responsibility).

E.g. Python

This is a tunneled scenario. By definition, you cannot not sensibly use it draw conclusions about network layers.

> Bitcoin transactions are irreversible

Surely the reversibility of transactions by a trusted, appointed authority is a feature, not a bug. It's an important safeguard against fraud, money laundering, etc. I've never heard of it being abused, while cryptocurrencies are (so far) a paradise for fraudsters and launderers.

Where I live we had large scale state capture for years. A pivotal moment in clipping the kingpins' wings was when all of the South African banks simultaneously cut off their banking in 2016. That was a good day, now we only have medium scale state capture.

Each Bitcoin transaction costs the electricity to power a home for three weeks, and that's just the mining. If it were ever subjected to rigorous AML, exchange control checks, etc., it would also accrue the overheads which apply to fiat.

It's really not that bad. Most of the investment is early on, after that servers just run. I use unattended updates to keep patches coming in while I'm doing other stuff. Updating from a Debian stable repo won't break your stuff.

To someone who doesn't know better this looks a bit like: "We really like funding you but we don't like this project of yours that looks like it will eventually produce a fast browser without memory bugs and into which we cannot seamlessly introduce data collection, etc. If you can... make that go away then we'll just sign this cheque."

And the final possibility, namely both, probably happens a fair bit.

That... just ain't so. So many of the GNU programs written for the command line are in C, are performance sensitive and would be crippled by any of the scripting languages you've mentioned. You don't have to look far: grep, sort, sed, find, base64, tar, ...

This laundry bag of personal grievances could only have made sense at a coffee machine on the premises. It is worthless in a public forum.