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I've been subscribing to The Atlantic for years. It is entirely targeted at upperclass, liberal, college-educated whites. Which is exactly why I read it. Why would I read a magazine targeted at a culture I don't understand or am not a part of? I do expect The Atlantic to explain these culture groups to me in a language I understand, but any periodical simply targets its own audience for profitability reasons.

You are missing the point: it is endemic to the culture. It has nothing to do with personal choice. It's like blaming a sexual assault victim for what they wear: that's not the issue, it is toxic masculinity that is the problem, e.g., the culture, not the individual incident.

Why does that even matter? Or do you just assume everyone is a Javascript programmer?

If I say "need" people will tell me it's my fault and to change jobs.

If I say "want" people will tell me it's my fault and to change jobs.

8-to-5 is 45 hours a week. I'm still in the office, even for lunch.

Considering travel, it bumps up to 50 hrs/week.

I hate how this 10-hour "work tax" is always dismissed as part of 40 hour work week.

When will we know the bodycount? I swear, there is never a slow news-day with this jamoke.

How do you convert from Ed25519 to X25519 when certain bits have been masked off the MSB range? Do you mean X25519 -> Ed25519 or am I misunderstanding?

"There's a sucker born ever minute."

So, no, not the end.

I pretty sure had a PEM cert in a private repo and was alerted. Is this in their TOS somewhere?

I was told by a friend who has ~$30k of ether sitting in there either as ether or GUSD, I don't know which, we haven't talked about it since the crash for obvious reasons.

It is on their website, but you have enlightened me: it won't protect them from grubby Winklevoss shenanigans, only the failure of the bank, and apparently only for USD assets. From the website:

U.S. DOLLARS

U.S. dollars in your Gemini Account may be held at Silvergate Bank, State Street Bank and Trust Company, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. or Signature Bank and thus may be eligible for FDIC “pass-through” insurance, subject to applicable limitations. Please see the FDIC Insurance section of our User Agreement for more information.

EDIT: Oh, my copy-paste is from the very link you sent. Doh.

For one thing, they are rather transparent:

https://www.wolfssl.com/docs/security-vulnerabilities/

For another, I used them for an embedded project for 5 years and they were the most complete, competent, and up-to-date library of the open-source ones we surveyed (and had a TON of optimizations for TI, STM, Arm and Cavium MCUs).

GitHub always freaks out at me when I include text that even looks like a PEM cert. Too bad they can't scan for AWS key / secret variables too.

too bad, it's a great company name that inspires confidence... until you read a comment like this!

One downside is that you now have a much higher bar for hiring talent to do trivial things. If you don't understand FP at a fundemental level, you will have a hard time finding people to work on your systems. Junior/Senior engineers are meant to be fungible to an extent. This ups the bar to a new language: this ain't JavaScript, it's an entire conceptual framework on top of JavaScript.

EDIT: That being said, I really want to read this book!

Gemini is FDIC insured, but does that include if the value of their stablecoin (GUSD) plummets?

I expected farm-pest-control robots to look more like the ones in the film "Runaway" (1984) than a big laser turret you drag over a field.

It is not a crypto library, it is an Ed25519 EdDSA library.

It has nothing else in it apparently.

WolfCrypt is a better solution and is FIPS certified.

EDIT: I didn't know what GIMLI was.

Every point you make is completely valid. The debate over file formats, and efforts to preserve file formats algorithmically (ON PAPER LOLOLOL) is a crisis historians are raising red flags about all over the place.

To give you an example, a good friend of mine did her PhD on two 16th century French philosophers' correspondence. It was a very comprehensive analysis of all of their exchanged letters, diaries, and journals. She's in a complete panic about the fact that today, all correspondence is done via email, which is protected with passwords; and once people die their passwords go with them unless they make arrangements. Maybe this is OK with a few big brains that the world knows about, but what about all the quiet geniuses that haven't been discovered? Historians will never have access to these lost works. Of course there are analogies to the analog world, but the point is: digital media is causing a type of dark age right under our noses.

Amazon's ebooks or the database that holds them?

Two different things.

I believe every book amazon has in their database will never be lost, at least until WW3. They won't rot. They won't be eaten by worms. Acidic ink won't deteriorate the cellulose. We won't need to have gigantic buildings to house them all.

Meanwhile the world's cloud storage will continue to expand exponentially, and the vast databases of books will be duplicated over and over and over again.

Way better than what happened when the library of alexandria was razed and the intellectual progress of the human race was set back probably several centuries.

I'm bullish on the cloud, if you didn't notice. :)

Not if they are stored in the cloud, where the bits are constantly being shuffled around various media. It is never the case that a bit stays on the same sector of the same media indefinitely.

A personal library is effed, tho, because some flash fails if the blocks are not cycled. E.g., multi-level cell flash requires at least a refresh, of I think, 36 months (don't quote me)? Basically: the blocks need to be copied and erased periodically (this isn't wear leveling it is something else and I'm now out of my depth). Probably not an issue with lower density, thicker oxide single-bit-cell flash.

I still keep my favorite books in paper format. All of my digital books are loans from my library. If I really like it, I buy a physical copy.

As for libraries and DRM, well, that's a horse of a different color.

Two methods:

- duplicity for daily backups to the S3 cloud encrypted with PGP (about 1GB in the bucket, excl. most photos)

- weekly Time Machine backups to two different alternating disks (one rotational, one SSD)

I've been backing up for ages. I used to use floppies. Then R/W CDROM. Then I switched to RAID. Then I switched to cloud. When I discovered how awesome time machine is when switching to a new mac, I started using that about 8 years ago.

Storing valuable data on site with physical media is just far too risky.

My critical docs are in a single folder. It is about 1GB of data. Mostly docs, but some really important audio, video, and image files.

My photos aren't considered critical (well, some are), so they are on the time machine backups.

Music is 100% Spotify.

I know HN hates the NYT, but you are right!

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/business/dealbook/the-evo...

I thought it was just a flash new term cryptobros use to sound smrt.

I love the convenience and have had zero problems in almost two decades.

What's a good alternative?

I got screwed in 2002 on EBay using paypal: product never shipped but they kept the money. My CC company refunded me, but paypal wouldn't let me use it again until I paid the $500 that the CC company reversed. A few years later PayPal offered amnesty and waived the $500, so I started using them again in 2006, still using them. Damn, that's almost 17 years.

> U.S. fintech

Minor nit, but I don't think we need a neologism for 1,000 year-old institutions.

Sure it was suicidal of an employee to call out their boss in public, but even more destructive for a CEO to spout nonsense without researching first, because it makes him look like an incompetent ninny.

EDIT: Steve Jobs wouldn't have whined like Musk, if anything he would have denied the problem existed while choking-throats behind the scenes to fix it (unless the "bad thing" happened live during the Apple developer conference...).

> It is surprising and discouraging that a forum that is meant to be about start-ups, disruption, innovation and new ideas is so blind to one so revolutionary as cryptocurrencies.

This is what happens when you put beliefs above facts. Just because you believe something doesn't make it true. If you ask a bunch of domain experts to review something, and they say it is bogus, then you are the one acting in bad faith, not them.

Don't blame them for giving you the answer you didn't want.

Instead, go be that crazy visionary and prove them all wrong. That's how science works.

I would welcome it! :P

As an aside: I'm glad I've spent years getting used to roller-coasters, because I've found aging health issues are an entirely new comfort zone challenge that I don't have control over. I've had some "prep" so to speak, but they are coming and I have to be ready to just go with the new body changes, whatever they may be.

> But if you get lazy and lounge around for too long, you may forget how to get off your ass and do something.

I've had this conversation with my own therapist, and other therapists that I know over the years. It is a form of anxiety: "oh, no, I'll forget to be productive."

According to them, it is VERY common in engineers, apparently. Perhaps because of technology's rapid pace? Personally, I was able to control this little demon of a thought by looking at my entire life OUTSIDE of work, and how I simply can't stop learning: I do it constantly, I'm always picking up new things to try when I'm bored, and I revisit the same things at larger epicycles (know how many times I've picked up a big C++ project since the 90's, just for fun?)

Ah, excellent question!

Words are funny things, they have different meanings, and in the case of words with such broad opportunity it is my responsibility to clarify myself. That's why philosophy books always start out defining terms.

I put "purpose" and "calling" (and "mission") into a category of fixed, one-dimensional, outcomes. "My calling is thing X, that is all I do."

Same thing with "meaning". It is too big to be meaningful, ironically.

For me, what gives life value is experiencing peace of mind and detachment from suffering: it is what it is, along with novelty so that it doesn't get boring.

There is no "meaining" in there, no "purpose", no "calling", in this world-view.

I'm trying to steer OP away from a certain fixity, which in my experience (both in myself and in observing others, and in reading) only leads to more anxiety.

Start one level up: why do you want or need a "purpose"?

Purpose/calling is meaningless IMHO. I opted for "pushing my comfort zone". Something I learned from a woman I was dating when I was 20 (she was 9 years older and entering the Peace Corp). Now rapidly reaching the other side of 50, I seek to be content and without dissonance in my day-to-day life. I have routines I enjoy, no bucket list, and time to let my mind wander to whatever tickles my fancy.

Instead, expand your horizons as much as possible. Read. Study. Try new things. They don't have to be expensive things, this isn't about privilege. Anyone can try drawing, or writing music, or reading philosphy, or long distance running, or volunteering, or sexual experimentation, ... things that push your comfort zone and force you to see the world a new way. If you have the means, travel to foreign countries and get lost, skydive, surf, scuba dive, play in a band, take a dance class, take any class at a college that seems interesting, take a Toastmasters class and give speeches, change jobs.

The more you bend yourself (without breaking) the more you will learn about what gives your life contour.

You might never find purpose, but hopefully you will find peace and delivery from the restlessness you have expressed.