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What's the difference? From what I'm reading online geometric is just the discrete version of exponential

I'm not so sure.

Centralization (on Binance) made the attack appealing, but decentralization (of crypto broadly) is the only reason it's possible, and centralization (of USDT et al) is the only path to recovery.

Re: the marketplace: we'd want to be able to revoke teacher access too, and sometimes we may need to roll back transactions (Goods not delivered? Wrong goods delivered? Wrong goods purchased?), and then I have to ask... why involve a blockchain at all?

The only compelling real world use case I've seen is helping people navigate hostile governments or dysfunctional economies.

Isn't this incident a case study in how immutable smart contracts are exactly what you don't want in a trustworthy financial system?

The stolen USDT will likely be returned because Tether can do manual freezes like a traditional financial institution.

Where code is law the funds are just gone.

Like even in your example of the marketplace I don't see the benefits over having a central authority. Who determines who is a student or teacher? Who kicks out bad actors? Who resolves disputed transactions?

I use the Stylus extension for site-specific CSS in Chrome. Usually end up with a big comma-separated list of selectors getting the { display: none !important; visibility: hidden !important } treatment.

You've either got a typo in there or DNS issues.

Well this was a fun little journey.

https://augros.org/home/html/www/site/web/files/root/public/...

I'm not using the plugin, but this hides the code in the browser:

.cm-line span { outline: none !important; color: transparent; background: transparent !important; }

This is good advice for the LSAT too, and baked into LSAT Demon's app. If you can predict an answer before looking at the choices, you're probably on the right track.

The obsequious default tone is annoying, but you can always prepend your requests with something like "You are a machine. You do not have emotions. You respond to exactly my questions, no fluff, just answers. Do not pretend to be a human."

Aseprite is free if you compile it yourself [0], and can still be used for commercial purposes if compiled this way [1]. But I recommend buying it anyway to support the project.

[0]: https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/

[1]: https://www.aseprite.org/faq/#can-i-sell-graphics-created-wi...

How do you know which way the red sphere is facing? A fun experiment would be to write two prompts for "a person in the middle, a dog to their left, and a cat to their right", and have the person either facing towards or away from the viewer.

Wasn't this the whole point of the Bill of Rights? Without it, some states wouldn't have ratified the Constitution. This was a concession (a weakening of federal power) made for a non-dominant political arm that nevertheless needed to be brought into the fold. That seems to me like it was "explicitly developed to resolve the problem of heterogenous goal vectors for a defined political population."

More broadly, "resolve etc." in the above quote sounds like a mathy expansion of "compromise", which happens in almost every legislative body every day. Although maybe that's done implicitly and not explicitly.

Even those with Adobe stock are not happy; Adobe's shares are down over 15% since the announcement.

I don't get it either, but there are distributors out there that make the process fairly cheap and painless.

I used CDBaby[0] since I had only one album and don't expect the 9% revenue cut they take to amount to more than the one-time $30 fee.

If you're more prodigious and commercially ambitious, Distrokid[1] charges $20/year and takes no revenue cut at all. (It was even endorsed by the founder of CDBaby on this very site[2]!)

[0] https://cdbaby.com/ [1] https://distrokid.com/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6519175

And is this desirable? How does hacking your copy of a single player game harm anyone?

Also, SimCity eventually got an offline mode.

> Btw, everyone says these are unproductive because they don't see the hard work that goes into them. It is easy to throw stones when you think only the things you do has value.

I'm sure it is hard work. The question I'm more interested in is whether it's work that should be done at all, and it's not obvious that "it's worth doing if people are willing to pay for it" is the right answer. That's more of an ethical concern than an economical one, though; I'm probably conflating "labor that is good/bad for individuals/society" with "productive/unproductive labor" since other comments mention exploitative pricing and rent-seeking, which weren't what I had in mind.

Thanks for the reply.

Could you link a book that has shaped your thinking on this? Or some keywords to search? I'm not too informed on economics but the distinction between productive and unproductive economic activity sounds plausible to me.* Do you disagree with this distinction itself?

* Naive examples of what I think of as "unproductive activity" are high frequency trading, gambling, and most advertising.

> It's the complete lack of organizational structure, other than date, that make my log files so useful.

A thread here about a week ago on bookmark management reinforced this idea for me.[1] When it comes to general knowledge management, complex, predefined taxonomies don't feel worth the overhead when retrieval is so often ad hoc and messy. Grepping about in log files for keywords usually does the trick. Tags are nice, but like you say, getting good at including searchable keywords performs a similar function.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23228861

I agree that it should be just as easy to suspend your account as it was to sign up, but irretrievable deletion should be harder.

Companies ideally want to stop fraud at both ends, but I would be more upset if, for example, my Airbnb account were fraudulently deleted than if someone fraudulently made one in my name.

Granted, deletion requires access to the account in question, so maybe that's enough of a hurdle already? In that sense it's already harder to delete than create.

I've had a similar experience.

I used to meticulously sort and tag individual bookmarks but rarely review them. Storing sessions and other "playlists" of bookmarks puts them in a form that I actually return to.

Plus this method takes far less time and effort than tagging and bagging pages according to an ever-expanding set of custom taxonomies.

I'm sure others have been using bookmarks this way for a while but it felt like a revelation to me :)

People are not simple cost-benefit calculators, and even if they were, it's easy to screw up that calculation when 1) companies spend billions of advertising dollars each year to shift the perceived benefit (+ network effects reaped from years prior), and 2) you don't have experience with potentially addictive substances. Once you're hooked, it's no longer a fair fight, particularly if you have a susceptible personality.

I'm just going to copy pattpass' response to a similar comment here, because the decision to use Chromium makes more sense with this context:

What benefit does Microsoft have by using Mozilla instead? Earnest question.

Electron, the software framework VSCode uses, runs on Chromium. Github maintained and developed the framework and they are currently owned by Microsoft. If Microsoft contributes to Chromium and improves performance they benefit in a lot of places: their new browser is improved(Edge Chromium), their own framework(Electron), and their own product (VSCode).