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So, delegating both responsibility and power to people with an agenda (because those are the only ones to step up when they get formal power, in addition to or rather than just informal responsibility), rather than adopting practices of de-escalation that everyone is responsible for? Paring down non-constructive and non-called for should be the responsibility of everyone in the room and not a special distinct set of people.

I'm all for training project members (i.e. people who are involved in organizing conferences or summer schools) in practical techniques for better organizing the community, and I think holding everybody responsible leads to better results than having activists with an agenda write the rules and just delegating authority to them.


I was assuming someone had an attack on the Alpaca altcoin.

So if you throw in a random word, it could be either or all of a garage rock band, an indie game, an altcoin, or a software vulnerability. And probably there are three or four academic software systems with that name...


Most likely they wouldn't stay at home but either would start their own small business (which would be more competitive now since people with employees have to pay them a livable wage) or, if they can be supported by their partner and not work, do something that's important for society but doesn't pay well (e.g. caring for your family, or for people in your community, writing, creating art).

I'd call it a wrong conclusion to assume that the thing that people do to unwind after a busy workday or what people do who are unable to work due to depression is the same as what people undertake when they can sustain themselves without spending the majority of their waking hours commuting and working.


Agree that it's exciting to see, but what's the actual potential? Flutter developing into a latter-day Macromedia Flash?


It’s genuinely hard to tell if you are serious about this or not. Either way it somehow perfectly encapsulated the kind of thing this website is famous for. Congratulations?


If you have a Masterclass subscription, they have a course on making sourdough bread (from the owner of a Parisian bread shop that has been making sourdough bread for some >100 years).

Or Joshua Weissman has you covered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJpIzr2sCDE


One subtle difference/fact: Brezeln are different between Bavaria (southeast) and Schwaben (southwest) - soft Brezeln are common in Schwaben, whereas Bavaria mostly has the salty hard stuff that was the parent of the salty hard stuff you can buy as a specialty in the US.


I’m not sure if you made this up or were misinformed but this is not true.


Ok, I've lived in Schwaben but only ever visited Bavaria, and never ate Pretzels in the US. So Bavarian Brezeln are not completely hard and dry but they're definitely less squishy and soft than Swabian ones.


Or they just mixed the two up.


there's no operator precedence if you don't have (multiple) operators that could precede each other. In LISP-like languages these are simply functions (or more correctly, forms) which have other expressions as arguments, like any other functions or forms. LISP works just fine without much of the things we take for granted in ALGOL-like languages.


A wallet is two things:

- a private key or set of private keys which are used to sign transactions - hardware wallets store this inside the "hardware wallet" thing

- a program that interacts with the Bitcoin/Ethereum network, can display balances on a (public) key or make transactions that need to be signed by a private key (those are different, you'd use e.g. Electrum for Bitcoin and Metamask for Ethereum)

Obviously both of these can be the same (you can store your private key in a file accessed by Electrum), but to reduce the probability of getting hackes people often separate the private keys from their wallet programs.

A coin-denominated account on an exchange is often also called a wallet, but it's just an account on the exchange like you'd have one in your bank.


err ... it's kind of what you'd get from Textkernel or LinkedIn Recruiter, probably at a similar price. But with nicer fonts, so ok.


does gold qualify as a ponzi scheme? Tesla stock? Google stock? 2000s dotcom stocks?

There is a difference between overbought assets and scams, and it usually goes along the line of, the easier it is for a small group of people to walk away with all the winnings the more likely we are to call it a scam.

Cryptoassets are a suitable vehicle for scams just as bits of paper with holograms on it or devices with touch screens can be - all it takes is a suspension of disbelief and caution which we also see with overbought assets. And there's a fair share of altcoins and ICOs that look quite scammy to educated people, while BTC/ETH/LTC and some others have survived a decade of people trying to poke holes into them.


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