overthrow

Police often manipulate or coerce people into making false confessions. 29% of DNA exonerations in the US involved a false confession.

https://innocenceproject.org/dna-exonerations-in-the-united-...

Nor does the Rust compiler.

Rust's build system, Cargo, does however. And many C build systems do as well, e.g. https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/guide/using-dependencies...

It is true.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40794287/cannot-write-to...

https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/img_5be...

> I think the only law required here is "do something useful for real people"

It did something useful for the Venezuelans. But you don't care about that because, why? Because you made up a story in your head that someone somewhere probably scammed everyone, somehow? And even with complete transparency and a publicly auditable ledger, they've kept it a secret for years?

All publicly available information points to the project being a success. Is there even a shred of evidence for your accusations? Or do you not need evidence to ignore events that don't fit your worldview?

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https://www.reuters.com/technology/lse-teams-with-digital-tr...

What about the London Stock Exchange? Do you think they're just a bunch of filthy scammers as well?

This message is devoid of evidence lol

Look how hard some governments have tried to stop this movement, and none have succeeded. That's real life evidence that they simply aren't capable.

I think this cloud will outlast the old men yelling at it.

Also: I hope one day someone calls my company a failure because it "only" has hundreds of thousands of users

> They're not using it, at all.

This is obviously false. Just look at the transaction rates on the publicly available ledger.

And: Moneygram has all but publicly admitted that crypto remittances have grown large enough that it's affecting their core business, and they're trying to re-insert themselves as a middleman. https://my.linkedin.com/posts/moneygram-international_moneyg...

If you actually meant trading volumes (which matter zero for adoption btw), those haven't changed much either. Zoom out to 1w: https://bitcoinwisdom.io/markets/gdax/btcusd

> Lightning

The naive routing complexity is quadratic, yes. GPS routing is also quadratic. So is IP routing. But practical implementations use heuristics to decrease that complexity. In practice, you just need a good enough path, not the theoretically optimal path. The internet and lightning are still working fine as we speak.

> It's literally down 60% from a year ago

Bitcoin's current MVRV is 1.457[1], meaning the average holder current has a 45.7% profit. I guess if you cherry pick a high and low price you can imagine some losses, but anyone could cherry-pick numbers in the other direction too.

The 45% profit is nice, but for those living paycheck to paycheck it unfortunately isn't a huge help since many people wouldn't have been holding long enough for the gains to accumulate.

[1]: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/charts/mvrv

Petro is an attempt at embrace-extend-extinguish. If that "Reception" section is to be believed, nobody is using it willingly. Do you have evidence to the contrary?

Look under "NiceHash-able", if the number is less than 100% it means (to an approximation) not enough idle hardware exists on the planet to perform an attack. This means any attack must start with a manufacturing project that must stay secret for a decade+, then outpace growth and eventually surpass the capacity of the private sector. And then you need the energy to actually run the chips - no country would ever consider diverting that much energy away from their population.

If it were possible to compromise a $xxx billion dollar system, with only $x million, don't you think it would have been done by now? Maybe even by some bored billionaire just for fun?

And trust me, I don't think posting in a dead HN thread will speed up or slow down crypto's success in any way, lmao. I just enjoy the banter.

> I think if people have working mobile phones then they're able to be sent electronic cash without a p2p system. Indeed, more easily than having a VPN and relevant skills to received crypto assets.

Spoken like a true first-world armchair warrior. Maduro shut off the non-p2p systems, as dicussed. He then failed to stop crypto payments. Do you think it was his "preference" all along to fail to control the flow of money?

Don't underestimate people's ability to figure out a VPN. It's not hard, and the prospect of literally starving to death can be quite motivating.

And since you mentioned magic, the real magic would be any country stopping its citizens from accessing the internet. Even in North Korea, there are people with unfiltered satellite internet, because Kim Jong Un has not yet built a Faraday cage around the sky.

> Venezuela already has extensive digital payment systems

Sure, but those systems had been sabotaged by a politican/dictator named Nicolás Maduro who rejected the results of an election.

> What in this process requires (or even benefits from) blockchain exactly, or cryptocurrency?

A decentralized payments system is one that cannot be shut down by Nicolás Maduro.

Do you think the Venezuelan crisis was just a big conspiracy theory?

GPT is a generic acronym - the wikipedia article writes it out in lowercase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transfo...

gpt4free means "gpt for free" and also predates GPT-4. I don't think it was meant to be obnoxious or cause confusion.

Maybe instead of saying what people should and shouldn't be doing, you should ask yourself why they're using it anyway despite the obvious downsides.

Lightning fees are less than $0.01 - much better than the alternative of $20 for cashing a check. And the volatility is a small price to pay for financial control, for someone who (with good reason) doesn't trust banks or the government that's failing them.

Actually the easiest way the government could kill crypto would be to get rid of the corruption and help those "undesirables" with their problems, instead of making them fend for themselves. I'm not holding my breath, but in a way I hope that happens.

You're right, this is a job for the government... but the government isn't solving the problem. "Let's just" have the government do their job. Call me when that happens.

While we sit around waiting, the private sector stepped in with a (interim?) solution. What's wrong with that?

The fun part about such bombastic claims is they can be disproven with just one counterexample.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/us-government-enlists-usdc-f...

> US Government Enlists USDC for ‘Global Foreign Policy Objective’ in Venezuela: Circle CEO

Even the US government is willing to admit there are situations where crypto is the best option available.

Under-banked does not mean they have no money. They obviously have some money or they would starve. Many live paycheck-to-paycheck and give 3% of their wages to a check cashing service. If it were as easy as you seem to think for them to get a bank account, those check cashing businesses all around the country would not exist.

If there's a difference I'm open to someone citing a source quantifying it, but I won't quite be convinced by unsourced blanket generalizations that go against common wisdom

The majority of CVEs are due to memory exploits. For C/C++ code that holds true across companies and OSs

Microsoft says 70% https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...

Google says 70% https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...

I'd live like this if I could. I did it for a good 5 years, and then my hands just stopped working. I tried coding by voice for a while, that lasted for a year, then I lost my voice. Now I code for at most an hour a day, until the pain sets in and my fingers become too weak to press the keys, and I spend the rest of my hours on other things. I wish I had diversified my hobbies more when I was younger. But I'd also rather spend 8 hours a day coding for a lifetime, than 16 hours a day for just a few years, and then it's over. I have so many projects in my backlog that will never get built. Not sure why I'm even saying all this. Take care of your health.

We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.

WebGPU is a low-level interface close to the hardware. If you don't care about having control over those details, it's not the right API to use. You'd have better luck with either a high-level wrapper or something else like WebGL.

I'd argue we passed that point once civil forfeiture became common. Your property can already be seized even without a debt that needs settling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

Windows has an analogue to futexes called WaitOnAddress.[1] Zig's stdlib claims SRW locks are faster than a futex-based implementation.[2] But the futex-based implementation a few lines down that should run fine on Windows since it uses the cross-platform futex abstraction, so it wouldn't be hard to benchmark.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/synchapi...

[2]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/295b8ca467da36cd1066395e...

I think egui is complete enough to use in real apps. Layout can be a bit weird, but I haven't found anything that's impossible.

I might even prefer it for cross-platform apps since startup time is so slow for GTK on Windows.

For a cheaper setup, I have a right-handed vertical mouse (Amazon $20 special) to the right of my keyboard, and a second left-handed mouse on the left, and I switch between them throughout the day. It makes my desk look a little silly, but it works great!

At least WASM is first-party code written by the browser developers. I'll take that any day over a pile of third-party plugins.

The minimum wage is beneficial because employers tend to have more leverage than employees in the relationship. It's actually similar to the leverage Apple has over its users. And they've used that leverage to control what apps people are allowed to use. So the EU forcing Apple to let users install apps serves a similar purpose as the minimum wage - both are curtailing potential abuses against a group of people with little power in their situation.

Maybe that's how cash will go out - not with a ban, but a whimper. Once a cheeseburger hits $100, people will probably collectively decide that dealing with bands of cash for small purchases is more trouble than it's worth.

The last few times I asked for $100s, the teller counted it once, and then ran all the bills again through a counting machine. I'd bet a kidney the newest counting machines also log serial numbers now.

Thanks I wasn't aware of that, I stand corrected

Probably license issues - same reason Linus won't add ZFS to the linux kernel. https://itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-zfs/

If Linus is afraid of Oracle, MS should definitely be afraid

I'd love to see a benchmark of NTFS on Windows vs NTFS on Linux. Unfortunately ntfs-3g uses FUSE so right now it's not really a fair comparison.