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I'm in the market for a tablet upgrade because my Galaxy S3 Tab is feeling quite laggy and is years out of support. I was excited to give the iPad Air a shot as I've heard so many good things about about the M1 chip. But the locked down nature of iOS made it impossible to recreate my workflows and seemingly failed to really take advantage of the M1, so I returned the Air and am currently looking into the S9 Tab.

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Flash Boys by Michael Lewis was a good read, IMHO.

I think your second comment is the explanation for your first. There are certainly cheaper boards available, but the form factor of the Uno allows for use with a whole host of hats and shields, and releasing an updated board with more powerful hardware allows for more complex projects using those hats and shields.

I'm sold. Where can I buy Moonball swag?

I was surprised to hear that he uses GitHub Copilot. I'd assumed that with his understanding of the language that it would be easier/faster to just type what he wanted, but he said that 1) he's not a very good typist and so it can safe him some time and 2) Copilot can help fill in code for concepts that he's learned but would need to look up as a refresher.

I love this comment, especially your last line. It sounds so peaceful!

Thank you. I also love the verb "inmiced" given how often that's relevant for studies that are posted here.

Oh cool, I didn't know they had this feature. I wish they had feedly integration, too.

Could you share your settings.json file? I'd be very interested in your setup.

I had similar thoughts and can recommend this video that helped me understand why the sharps/flats exist. It goes through a brief history of western music before harmonization was a thing, and then needing to introduce new notes in order to have perfect 4ths and 5ths. https://youtu.be/r7aQQQsvxho

What would you recommend?

Agreed. I came to the comments looking for the acronym so I'll add it here. CBDC: Central Bank Digital Currency

Given the geometries of modern gerrymandered borders, maybe it's not so bad to rely on borders drawn a long time ago.

I understand that giving a percentage of the company to investors is the way modern venture capital works, but attempting to create a global currency and then giving 10% to a handful of investors seems like a bit too much centralization right out of the gate. Given the current state of the economy, I have no doubt that the majority of the wealth will eventually be centralized in the hands of a few, but I don't think we need to start there.

An office I worked in had a microwave that had only a single dial. The dial had time increments on a pseudo-logarithmic scale from 10 seconds up to tens of minutes. Turn clockwise to turn on, turn counterclockwise to turn off/clear. It was nice because you could also decrease the time mid-cook if you decided that you didn't want to as long and were fine eating a slightly colder lunch.

That concept is used in the Neal Stephenson book Seveneves.

I really wish the Raspberry Pi form factor hadn't become the de facto form factor for these kind of devices. I much prefer the Beaglebone layout with power, video, and networking on one side and USB on the opposite,

I've read (and enjoyed) "Winners Take All" but I'm still having trouble understanding your argument. Could you explain what you mean by the "government-controlled economic environment" and how giving to charities "just harms capitalism." Thanks.

A related book that I found very helpful is Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach. It introduced to me the idea of "self-compassion" which has been much more beneficial to me than self-esteem, and has also discusses meditation as a way to better understand one's self.

Wow, you're right, I guess that kind of kills my theory. I knew that flu was which explained why there's a new vaccine every year and it's often not effective against the current strain. But I had thought that polio and measles were DNA viruses.

My understanding is that we're unable to created effective vaccines against RNA viruses as RNA replication doesn't have the built-in "checksum" mechanism that DNA has. When DNA replicates, because the two strands of the helix are essentially mirror images of each other, it is easier to create an exact copy without mutations. RNA, not having this property, allows for more mutations during replication. This increased mutation rate is what causes the viruses to change so quickly and what makes the vaccines we create quickly useless against the changed virus.

This seems to be a rather short-sighted view of the 2008 financial crisis. Even conceding that the bailout of the too-big-to-fail banks was a good thing and saved the economy, and that this was possible only because of the centralization that this article supports, it was this same centralization that did things such as repeal the Glass-Steagall Act that allowed for such zany behavior that led up to the crisis in the first place. So yeah, at one moment in time centralization was very beneficial. At many other moments in time before and after that, maybe it wasn't so great.

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This isn't exactly the Bitcoin community per se, but Ethereum is working on a proof-of-stake algorithm to replace proof-of-work. This is a much less energy intensive intensive algorithm, and while I'm a bit skeptical that it's as secure as proof-of-work, I'm glad they are trying something.

The "vision" of low fees isn't really distinct to either chain. Low fees are due to a low amount of traffic on the network and blocks that are not full. Bitcoin Cash certainly scales better than BTC with 8x block sizes, but if it had traffic anywhere near the magnitude of Visa then it too would have high fees.

While I'd agree that Ethereum was not created with an intent of scammyness, I wouldn't single it out as an outlier for good behavior. The dream of Ethereum was "code as law," yet key players have demonstrated the ability and willingness to implement hard forks in order to undo unpopular outcomes of valid Solidity code. So while I don't believe Ethereum was created with a scammy intent, I think it is certainly too premature for public release, and attempts to "fix" issues caused by this immaturity has let to some scammy behavior.