I thought it was very funny that a military parade has sponsors. But there is no hypocrisy here, from Coinbase's point of view. They would argue that "A military parade isn't political, it's just patriotic!"
Point is, companies (and individuals) that claim to have 'no politics' also don't understand what politics is.
From listening to Feldman's podcast, this doesn't really come as a surprise to me. The rigor that Rust demands seems not to jibe with his 'worse is better' approach. That coupled with the fact they already switched the stdlib from Rust to Zig. The real question I have is why he chose Rust in the first place.
Zig was not ready or nearly as popular back in 2019 when the compiler was started.
Not to mention, Richard has a background mostly doing higher level programming. So jumping all the way to something like C or Zig would have been a very big step.
Sometimes you need a stepping stone to learn and figure out what you really want.
> The real question I have is why he chose Rust in the first place.
If you read the linked post carefully you will know.
> Compile times aside, the strengths and weaknesses of Rust and Zig today are much different than they were when I wrote the first line of code in Roc's Rust compiler in 2019. Back then, Rust was relatively mature and Zig was far from where it is today.
It's obviously going to be much much more difficult to steal $450K from an actual bank account and get clean away - you're going to need a lot more proof of identity than a google login. From that POV, owning a lot of cryptocurrency is painting a target on your back.
Could just be people talking about crypto on social media directly saying that they own some. Would not be too hard to find accounts where you can clearly identify the person behind the twitter handle, facebook profile, instragram account or whatever talking about that online. We're only hearing about people who happened to lose a huge amount of money but lots of people probably fell for this scam and lost money on the scale of $100 or $1000.
I found this video, titled 'To Catch a Scammer: How a real-life criminal steals your bitcoin' pretty informative. An employee is able to go into detail on how scammers find their marks:
https://youtu.be/pskUt4ZjM4M
The video linked in the article by Junseth also goes over some of this.
You're being downvoted but as a lefty European tech worker this rings true. I come to HN for interesting technical content (obviously) but I find the politics of the site by turns confusing and hard to stomach.
It is certainly the case that many well-meaning, Dem-voting Americans don't seem to know what leftist politics is (having never been exposed to it), and don't seem to realize that they are right-wing. It's an interesting phenomenon, but quite alarming when the consequences for the rest of the world are Not Good.
Kind've interesting that the author is now a big Zig advocate. Presumably he likes Zig for the same reason he likes Go and dislikes Rust - because Worse is Better.
I love Rust and you couldn't pay me to write Go (haven't tried Zig). It's The Right Thing.
Lots of people seem surprised that the new government apparently have no desire to improve the dire state of the UK. But that was never on the cards and the idea that they might have done so is pure projection. The current leadership of the Labour party are from the right-wing Labour First faction who have always been very clear that their aims are not to improve the country but to keep the left out of power. They will govern in the same business-as-usual nothing-can-ever-get-better vein as the Tories and their Blairite predecessors.
However I don't blame the public for not knowing this fact. There was (and to some extent still is) a media lockdown on reporting who is behind the Starmer project. (Because if it had been reported on it might not have succeeded).
To me, just is make without features I don't need. There is not a lot of benefit for me, but there is a lot of benefit for other people who need to learn the repo and have no knowledge of either make or just.
Another benefit is that justfile just cannot get too complex and tangled. Simplicity at its finest.
Do you have any insight into crypto ecosystem or just troll here?
First of all, zcash is focused on private payments and Tor helps its users to stay anonymous while using third party wallets, etc. It's their dependency and relevant privacy project so they decide to support it. But this is nothing new, crypto ecosystem has been contributing to Tor for a decade, starting in Silk Road era. Many privacy related project have anon contributors only funded in crypto. It's literally FOSS native payment method.
These days, public goods funding of free and open software is one of the most active areas in crypto scene. They activate individual donors and organizations/DAOs to donate towards impactful non-profit projects. Quadratic funding platforms like Gitcoin are used to funnel millions of dollars to FOSS.
As much as I dislike cryptocurrency, you're being unfair here. Some people of that crowd have privacy as central principle, Tor is then more than clearly related.
Most cryptobros are very pro open source and pro privacy, it's the whole reason they're trying to amass resources in crypto, to make it stronger and also to direct others to build up more resilient systems.
I rent an ex-coucil house in SE London. It takes around 45 minutes to get into the centre. The local drug-dealers hang out next to the house, there is graffiti on the walls, and it is next to one of the busiest roads in London. There have been multiple murders on the estate since I moved in. It is in the 96 percentile for air pollution. It is apparently worth six hundred and fifty thousand pounds.
Assuming a £100K bung from mum and dad for the deposit, a 25 year repayment mortgage at 5%, and further assuming you spent 50% of your income on the mortgage, you would require an income of £122K to afford it. That would put you firmly in the top 1% of earners in the UK.
Despite your high income, and paying £45K/year tax, you would live in one of the most deprived parts of the country and your local hospitals and schools would be in special measures.
It was a tragically accurate description then. Also worth noting it is one of the cheapest places in zone 2, and only has trains or overground. It does feel (and is) genuinely unsafe, particularly if you don't get home from work until it's started getting dark. It may be slightly cheaper to buy in zone 4,5 or 6 but most of the saving in house prices is going to go straight out the door on more expensive travel cards.
The poster above mentioned 500k in Orpington, well that's zone 6 so a travel card is an extra 140 per month per person so if there is two of you you're spending alot of what you've saved in the house price on that and you also both have to spend a extra 30mins in travel time each way, so an hour of extra lost time a day. Is it worth all of that to save 100K on the purchase price?
Orpington has fast trains so you can be at London Bridge in under 20 minutes and Charing Cross in slightly over that (+ walking time to the station). As long as you pick the right trains, it’s similar in commuting time - just a bit less flexible
I don’t live in Orpington, but I do live in zone 6. My door to door commute is also 45 minutes
Point is, companies (and individuals) that claim to have 'no politics' also don't understand what politics is.