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Ristretto adds complexity over just using secp256k1, which also has very good Rust support, is quite fast and well-optimized, compiles to WASM, and supports ECDSA, ECDH, and Schnorr key aggregation, so it's quite full-featured.
Funny timing that this particular topic made it to HN. From the recently-released Season 4 of The Dragon Prince, this is one of the reasons Claudia is so infatuated with Terry, an Earthblood elf.
If you're interested in saving in Bitcoín, Strike recently expanded to supporting Argentina, and they have low fees.
If the unit cost is higher than the maximum a manufacturer or retailer can charge, it won't be produced at all. This results in a market failure, similar to the one China's experiencing with their energy market, where the price of coal is 4x what it was earlier this year.
These figures aren't adjusted for Delta-V, or inflation, but here are some dollar figures for asteroid and lunar sample return missions:
Hayabusa, 2005 - $100 billion dollars per kg
Hayabusa 2, 2019 - $33.3 billion dollars per kg
OSIRIS-REx - 2020 - $491.7 million per kg
Chang'e - 2020 - $104 million per kg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY6aCg5InzY&t=170s
Seems to be trending downward... Who knows if it'll be enough.
I was curious if a similar downward trend existed for solar panels...
"In 1956, solar panels cost roughly $300 per watt. By 1975, that figure had dropped to just over $100 a watt. Today, a solar panel can cost as little as $0.50 a watt."
https://news.energysage.com/the-history-and-invention-of-sol...
So, that's a factor of 600 to get to present costs. Gold currently costs $56,500 per kg. So, $33,900,000/kg. So, who knows where we could be in 50-70 years. Plenty of time to switch the entire global economy to Bitcoin, I suppose!
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Some RO systems include an alkalinization / re-mineralization stage. I use this one: https://www.expresswater.com/pages/ro-alkaline-uv
"Builders still have to clear their inventories of having purchased higher-priced lumber. It takes a while to clear the system," Lee said. "Yes, lumber prices from the mills came down dramatically over the summer, but that's unfortunately taken a while to reach the rest of the industry and consumers."
Lee said when it comes to new home construction, pricing is being complicated by ongoing pandemic-related supply chain challenges. While difficulties related to lumber have eased, home builders are still dealing with delivery delays and price inflation on everything from plumbing and electrical products to kitchen cabinetry.
"It doesn't compare to the three to five times price increases we saw with lumber, but I'd say on average, we're seeing 10 per cent increases on everything, including the kitchen sink," Lee said. "And we are still seeing delays on closings, just because of an inability to get products and materials."
Meanwhile... August 27th, 2021:
"...households, businesses and market participants also believe that current high inflation readings are likely to prove transitory," Powell said.
https://www.reuters.com/business/why-fed-chair-powell-still-...
Sigh.
Nobody believes that, Jerome. Nobody really believes that.
Agreed, I wish we'd have gone down that road. How is it more efficient for my signals to go a thousand miles away and back just to talk to my neighbor across the street?
I've often thought, the web isn't designed for efficiency, it's designed for scale. Scale around big tech giants, to concentrate wealth, exploit gray areas, and magnify harm.
I used to love JavaScript, but when I look at what it's become, I'm glad I left it. We weren't doing the world any favors by contributing to a massive body of casual execution of untrusted code.
The web was a mistake, but I think the internet, good old TCP/IP, still has a few tricks up its sleeve for us yet.
The argument those points are supporting, as the article explains, this is an ineffective way to fight CP, but it's being done anyway, and can be used for nefarious purposes.
Could a government not have a different level of interest in law enforcement over CP vs, say, political material that undermines government authority?
Proton is already pretty good. I expect it to get better. I've been daily-driving Arch on both a custom-built PC and a ThinkPad for 3 years and I haven't looked back, not even for games.
A powerful piece...
For the privacy-minded Apple users among us (I mean, that's who they marketed to, yeah?), I'd recommend turning off automatic software updates... For as long as it makes sense to. I hope they reverse their decision, but I'm already looking for alternatives. I'm certainly not buying another Apple device, even though I'm about due.
They really lost a lot of fans with this, myself included.
Can confirm, played an old Windows copy a year or so ago, it still holds up. Endless Sky doesn't quite have the same magic for me.
Not sure why. It's a very valid point.
Bitcoin is deflationary, Ethereum is not. Even with the changes in EIP 1559, that just introduces instability in supply. ETH 2 introduces inflation, which is what made wealth inequality so bad to begin with. People holding assets that outperformed the money made out better than those who didn't have the capability to do anything with their money as it depreciated in their bank accounts as they wait for the inevitable bills to come.
Bitcoin will take care of fiat money, and Ethereum, too. It's solving for the $1 quadrillion dollar problem, and after a few decades or generations, wealth around the planet will begin to be a little more evenly distributed, since even the Bitcoin billionaires will eventually need to spend their Bitcoin.
I've had 2/8 Seagate IronWolf drives fail on me slightly outside of the first year I had them. I'm using them in a Synology NAS. I've never had such problems with the WD Reds in my last Synology.
I guess I'm asking a question of crime priority, and whether some crimes are more likely to be punished because a disproportionate amount of policing is put in place towards that sort of crime.
If the same resources that were dedicated to the numerous policing agencies in the US were given to a smaller number of more generalized agencies, those agencies would be allowed to prioritize where their time and resources are best spent protecting the public.
This. This right here. Every word.
I would even go so far as to say, there shouldn't be specific immigration cops, or alcohol, tobacco and firearms cops, since if there were actual crimes committed by immigrants or gun owners, the crimes themselves should be dealt with. To allow cops to go snooping around by widening jurisdictional responsibility, it has a very "pre-crime" aspect to it, which is often subject to prejudice and bias.
When you put it that way, it sounds oddly poetic.
Wouldn't that just be interviewing a candidate based on their capability to prepare for interviews and not actually interviewing for candidates who would be effective at their jobs once hired? Could this be a false assumption that these are correlated, or a decent indicator of one over the other?
Not really into Vi, but thank you for using this name for something better than whatever Google might want to do with it.
Filecoin, for one. Long-term data storage is essentially a byproduct of its mining algorithm, much like waste heat from Bitcoin miners.
Also, there's utility in a trustless, predictable, uncorruptible source of scarcity. Meanwhile, the supply of gold is difficult to audit, we have no idea to what extent nation states are manipulating its supply.
The value of a deflationary monetary policy cannot be understated.
...served from a Warp server written in Rust...
They say the brightest rockstars die the quickest, but are the most beautiful. Rest in peace, it was a life not wasted.
What, so Google can just go ahead and delete them?
Crushed :(
Wow, what a toxic person. I think counterculture is an important part of the tech community, and for this to be removed is... Saddening.
It not only ended the man's career, it tarnished his legacy. He worked 50 years, and this is what he'll be remembered for. It's really screwed up. The Times really mishandled this one. I hope those involved one day come to regret what they've done. Sometimes... Regret is the best form of karma we can get.
It's a reaction to fear. In this case, an overreaction. People are afraid to say the wrong thing. People are afraid of having once said a wrong thing, to potentially sully their legacy or impact their career like a ticking time bomb. Or even be peripherally responsible for harboring someone who once said a wrong thing. This social movement towards accountability has created a sense of paranoia and friendly-fire, and it's not healthy for anyone.