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by ATsch 5y ago
Hoarding money on exchanges is the only thing you can do with cryptocurrency aside from buying jpegs and maybe (if you're lucky) drugs. E.g. https://www.nber.org/papers/w29396 points out that only 10% of bitcoin t
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I think you'll find it rather hard to trade the abstract concept of physics and math for some food or shelter.
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I think, given a language that supports elegantly catching exceptions, it is inevitable that things like that will be written. And why not? The language makes them nice to write, which signals to users that it is something you should be usi
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Have you had a look at ZoneFS? It exposes pretty much exactly that model to userspace: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/zonefs.ht... It does need support from the storage device though.
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"can be run on a profit" and "should only be run if it is profitable" are very, very different things. Infrastructure like trains or roads are a huge net benefit to society already, if they can make a profit too that&#x2
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There's really two problems here: 1. Contemporary mainstram OSes have not risen to the challenge of dealing appropriately with the multi-CPU, multi-address space nature of modern computers. The proportion of the computer that the &quot
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I'm not sure what part of my message lead you to believe I didn't think people enjoyed cars? The problem is that it wasn't enough for cars to be a useful tool for those that needed it, but that they needed to be a source of e
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by ATsch 5y ago
> Was telling people about trains and cars creating a need where there wasn’t one? That's a great example actually, because the reason you can't get anywhere without a car these days is marketing campaigns by the automobile and
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Yeah I admire all of the efforts people are proposing, but they are bailing out a sinking ship with a spoon. Let's say we claw back /8 networks somehow and let's say we can free up one of those /8 networks per year. Pret
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I think one has to be very careful with taking the narrative of lower class, "hillbilly" republicans too much at face value. While yes, these people definitely do exist, the perception that this group is representative of republic
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It wasn't even really decided. Like most current worker protections, it was arrived at through struggle between industralists and the then still powerful labor unions. They won the 12 hour workday, then the 10 hour workday, then the 8
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All of this. There is a reason why NextPNR, the project mentioned in the article, uses custom code for every architecture instead of a fixed database. There is also a reason why almost everyone uses nextpnr instead of the alternatives that
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The last time I spoke to a blind person it was quite a different picture, she was more or less forced to exclusively use apple products because nobody else took accessibility seriously enough.
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Even better, there's one specifically for the corporate capture of journalism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model
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Not quite. Google still has access to those IPs when it receives the request from the browser and could be compelled to store them by US intelligence. Thus data are being transferred to a party that can not adequately protect them. So in th
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"protectionism" is morally neutral to anyone except a hegemon. A nation can decide to protect itself from free expression and abolition of slavery just as it can protect itself from unsafe food imports and price dumping. It all de
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Just that two ships are departing from a location does not mean they heading in the same direction. It is true that both the EU and China are swiftly heading away from this unprecedented era of technology companies being able to act as they
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This is a totally different question, in this case what matters is that Google can be compelled to release the full IP address by US intelligence agencies.
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> Why limit it to the EU? Shouldn't every country have their own AWS, Azure and Google Cloud? That is completely unrelated though. The only thing this ruling confirms is that you can not process data of EU residents when you can not
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There can never be, for two simple reasons: 1. Making the whole world agree on something is inherently slow so there is limited capacity. 2. Every decision has to be made by a computer so the only solution available is some variant of aucti
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It is, however in this case innocence means having a complete paper trail of your data processing as defined under GDPR. Not having such a paper trail is one of the things the IAB was found guilty of in this ruling.
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They did get a 250,000 eur fine, however that is based just on IAB membership fees. This ruling should make it a lot harder for advertisers to hide behind the IAB though. One would hope that opens members up to more substantial fines in the
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For it to be informed consent declining must, by law, be as easy as accepting. Yes, this is being widely violated, but that's just a problem of enforcement.
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The problem is not that it is possible but that it is done without consent or oversight.
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That should work perfectly with multiple structs. Define #[repr("C")] struct MyThing { length: usize, data: MaybeUninit<MyInner> } Then initialize with sizeof(data) and MaybeUninit::uninitial
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Yet he did not address his scientific papers to five-year-olds.
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A much better way to do partial initialization is by splitting up the struct into multiple parts. This can be easily done in safe rust with Option, or MaybeUninit if you're really desperate for performance.
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> A model is proposed for the evolution of the profile of a growing interface. The deterministic growth is solved exactly, and exhibits nontrivial relaxation patterns. The stochastic version is studied by dynamic renormalization-group te
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Just that it is possible to explain something with simpler language doesn't mean it is always desirable to. Somehow a standard of comprehensbility is leveled at philosophy that no other field is expected to meet. There are very few p
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It's important to note the target audience of these writings are usually academics who already familiar with the field. This means they get to use a lot of jargon and concepts established by their peers without having to explain them f

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