Is this how Stadia was supposed to work?

Sounds like the congressman doesn't care if the video is AI or not. What a loser.

Firefox does already have some tracker blocking built in, though it would be fantastic to import arbitrary filter lists.

Chrome & Safari are operated by advertising/surveillance companies, so no dice there.

Safari (desktop and mobile) also has tracker blocking built in. "Prevent cross-site tracking" and "Hide IP address from trackers" are two settings it has; I think the first is checked by default, I don't remember about the other.

In the DevTools network pane, it shows requests to known trackers, like Google Tag Manager, being blocked.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102602

Try using Amazon in Safari sometime (in Lockdown Mode, no less): non-stop ads (some which flash), sponsored results dominating the first page of search, random Dufus pop-ups forcing AI. You can hide "distracting" elements but they just appear again later. Safari is not a user-friendly browser.

Safari is my default browser. I don't know what "Dufus" means, I don't recall any A.I. references. On Amazon, it's all first-party stuff, what browser blocks that natively? It seems like you're comparing using Safari without an ad blocker to a different browser with an ad blocker.

I know the most popular ad blocking extensions don't make a Safari version but there are ad blockers for Safari.

Not compared to the uBlock Origin. You can't even import a filter list. Main reason I use Firefox.

Something that [1] AdGuard Browser Extension can do, it make you wonder why uBOL can't include such a feature.

[1] https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-browser-extension-v5-2.h...

Firefox on iOS has 0 support for Adblocking, making it hell to use.

That's not Firefox, that's Safari wearing a fake mustache

>Same guy dug the original ditch by driving back and forth with his jeep for an hour during spring rain.

wtf? how deep is the ditch?

When I bought, it was maybe 2 ft deep. 60s Jeeps weren't quite a wide as today, either.

I dug it out properly after buying. It was a perfectly good ditch though, but I wanted to drain more water at the back of the property, so I lowered it another 2 feet.

Is colocation not considered to be "self-hosting" in the cloud era?

In these times, even running your own software on a provisioned VM is considered self-hosting sometimes.

How do you allocate memory without an allocator?

The usual thing for languages is to provide a global allocator. That's what C's malloc is doing for example. We're not asked to specify the allocator, it's provided by the language runtime so it's implied everywhere.

In standalone C, or Rust's no_std, there is no allocator provided, but most people aren't writing bare metal software.

That creates problems when you need to use multiple allocators. IMO allowing an allocator to be specified is a superior design.

If you need multiple allocators, and you aren't already using lisp, who cares? Just use lisp. Anyone who can use allocators against the C abi can clearly see the benefits of using a language that can cater to the developer. Zig can never do this, yea even with its shallow macros. Zig will always be a shitty B knockoff rather than something artisans actually want to use

You call the use of memory something other than "allocation". Ez.

I thought that passing down allocators was core to the language. I was mistaken. This is actually quite nice for writing allocation code when you'd like to opt into it.

I don't think it is the same thing. Everyone agrees that mining the next block is valuable.

Unless they didn’t.

There’s nothing inherently valuable about crypto beyond what value people assign to it in their minds.

Same with all money. Please research more before parroting this argument. You are not the first person to think of it.

Fiat money has a difference: an army. It is issued by a government which has the legitimate right to demand taxes, paid in their currency, and deprive you of life and liberty if you don't.

Ultimately the populace could repudiate the whole social contract, which is also just consensus, but that's a far bigger deal than mere money.

Well to be pedantic, in the USA at least the value of the dollar is largely maintained by civilian law enforcement rather than the military. If you incur a tax liability and fail to pay your debt in US dollars then eventually the IRS will seize your assets and auction them off to settle the debt. Due to the Posse Comitatus Act, the Army doesn't get involved.

The true value of (fiat) money is derived from the fact that contracts are denominated in that money and those contracts are enforced by a central authority with guns. No other assumption is needed in financial engineering.

GP was arguing against GGP’s point and I was simply pointing out that the argument was hollow.

What are you referring to with “research more”?

I don’t discredit any crypto based solely on its ability or inability to fulfill debts, public and private.

But I do wonder if the abstract nature of it will forever hinder its ability to do so universally.

I’m also interested why Bitcoin Cash wasn’t more successful after the fork.

>I’m also interested why Bitcoin Cash wasn’t more successful after the fork.

you mean besides it being run by a bunch of crooks and scam artists like CSW?

I wasn’t actually asking, but making a point. Thanks for helping spell it out though!

False. Gold and silver have intrinsic value beyond their use as currency.

True, but only a minuscule fraction of it is used for that purpose. If that were the sole source of its value, it would be worth pennies per once.

https://pse-info.de/en/scale/price - gold doesn't stand out, there are a few similar ones (Rhodium/Palladium/Iridium/Platinum). I haven't checked, but we'd probably find the gold price sits in a boring-looking distribution of the prices of other elements. Probably an exponential or something that could be mistaken for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prices_of_chemical_elements if you prefer wikipedia.

If it wasn't radioactive, poisonous and pyrophoric people would probably all just leap into the Neptunium market.

That is obviously false on it's face.

If it were only worth pennies an ounce, numerous industries wouldn't be paying what they do for it. The fact that many industries value it at several thousand dollars an ounce is self-evident from their continued use of it.

This is interesting to think about: For gold I'd say the demand is coming from both industries and from people who want it as a store of value. If it was only used as an industrial chemical, then surely the price would drop because there would be less demand.

Some bitcoin advocates will talk about how useful it is as a currency, and I wonder how much bitcoin is actually used for purposes other then to hope you can sell it to someone else for more than you paid.

If the price dropped, it would be even more in demand and reach equilibrium. Gold has several unique mechanical properties, being the most corrosion resistant metal and one of the most electrically conductive, as well as being able to be flattened into extremely thin sheets and drawn into extremely fine wire.

Not for most people. They aren't going to smelt it down and use it to build electronics or jewelry.

For most people the value is what they can receive for it in trade. Which holds for all money.

It's always hilarious when people who are unclear on the basics themselves tell other to "research more". I suppose it's the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

I don't see it that way. I see the person saying "stop making tired arguments" or "don't ask questions that have been answered hundreds of times".

But that's irrelevant to the question above. The question asks "isn't [this attack] the same as saying that if everybody agrees that the USD is worthless, then it is worthless?".

The answer is "no, it's not the same". The attack does not require everybody to agree that the bitcoin is worthless.

Obviously if everybody agrees that the bitcoin is worthless, then it is worthless. But that's a separate topic.

Okay, fine. Everyone involved** agrees that mining the next block is valuable.

Lmao. Good job, I was waiting for someone to attempt this.