I laughed a little at calling Firedancer contributors "a team at a HFT firm".
Not that you are technically wrong, not at all, that's where Jump came from. It's just that this is all completely blockchain-driven optimization, but the b-word is so dirty now that we've gotta go back to using TradFi for the rep.
It's hard to separate from the sea of grifters, con men, cranks, and scammers that infest the domain. Just using the word is a yellow flag that you might be some kind of whacko, even if all you really want to talk about is the math.
People have to forever be on guard that you might at any point pivot to all taxation is theft or how you have formed your own micro nation that consists entirely of yourself and thus have diplomatic immunity from all prosecution. Because it happens. Or maybe you have a once in a lifetime deal to buy this receipt like object for some hideous art that is guaranteed to appreciate in value millions of percent. It's just the crowd that has aggregated around crypto currencies includes a lot of untrustworthy people.
Why do people need to be on guard for those beliefs? People should be critical thinkers and not thought police.
Granted, there are all kinds of whackos in crypto, but we should only be concerned about the immoral ones trying to scam us out of our money: SBF, Do-Kwon, and the like.
people are legitimately buying farming land in the US and currently suing farmers for "anti-trust" for refusing to sell them their land so that they can quite literally create a crypto based sovereign micro-nation of wealthy tech VC's. [1] and I think that is a selfish, vile and delusional thing to do. It has nothing to do with "thought police" its as simple as looking at the impact of their actions and beliefs and making the decision to reject that way of thinking and way of life.
Some great resources here. One thing I want to point out: Rustlings follows the path of The Book and provides references for each section where appropriate. So I would not advise treating them as separate learning paths. They work best when used to reinforce each other.
You want to use Bitcoin to make international payments without headaches... so you open an account on a custodial service? I don't understand what you expected to happen.
All you had to do is download a wallet and transfer your Bitcoin directly.
That is correct. I don't want to hold BTC at all. I want to purchase and send. Period. As a business, I just don't want the headache, which my accountant says I will not have if I merely use it as a transfer medium.
That doesn't seem correct. It's pretty simple to buy BTC on Coinbase and then transfer it to another wallet. Then you can do anything you want with it.
That's news to me. Looks like the US is speaking for the world again. You have bigger problems with your food than whether or not it is plant-based, I promise you that.
In the UK and the rest of Europe, plant-based meat alternatives have been growing in popularity, quality, and variety over the last decade. It's never been easier for someone to go vegan without "giving up" their favourite foods.
Lot of nonsense in the comments, absolutely nothing wrong with the taste of Beyond. Problem is that it is outrageously expensive and the market has become saturated with plenty of more cost-effective alternatives, many of which taste even better. There was a time when Beyond was the only really "good" option, that is simply not the case anymore.
When I see those 2-packs of Beyond Burgers on the shelves in the supermarket, they are marked down 40%, and they are still more expensive than a 4 pack from other brands. Makes zero sense to buy them.
I agree. I'd also add the fact that much of the world is experiencing a cost of living crisis, and luxury products are often the first to be cut in difficult times.
That's not the only difference, it's not even the most significant difference. The difference is you don't own anything on Steam. Just like you don't own anything digital you buy on Amazon. If they want to revoke your ability to access content you paid for, they can and do.
In principle (not always in practice), crypto protects you from that.
True. But blockchain tech changes absolutely nothing about that in the realm of games and media, having a flag in a decentralized database does not protect me from a (game) server owner banning me, a drm system choosing to ignore said flag, or shutting down the whole game and refusing distribution. In these situation only piracy would help, and we don't need snakeoil for that.
In the end there will be a centralized entity with the power to deny my access.
Neither do cryptocurrencies change anything about this in the realms of finance as long as their complete existence builds on top of banks and exchanges, which it very much does.
Cryptocurrencies are not an alternative, they are an addon at best.
It's not a magic wand. It facilitates new decentralized systems, it doesn't somehow fix the old ones.
You're assuming a world where digital content is administrated and supported by a centralized organization. If they stop respecting the license, it becomes worthless, no one can argue otherwise and no one is trying to.
A world where digital content is administrated by anyone (including by the user themselves) and interops with other services (games, social apps, or otherwise) does not see the assets suffer or lose value when one such service shuts its doors. They can just be taken elsewhere. One game goes down, a fork goes up, etc.
Blockchain does absolutely nothing to fix what's broken with today's systems, it provides the infrastructure for the alternative.
> The difference is you don't own anything on Steam.
Doesn't matter, because people still trade CSGO skins that they technically don't own for thousands with each other. As long as one account has something limited that can be transferred to another account, they own it. Even if the ownership is shaky as hell and dependent on corporate overlords.
You sound like you'd enjoy TypeScript with NodeJS. Low learning curve. Highly productive. Massively versatile ecosystem. You can be functional or OO. And of course, the type system, which will feel similar to C#. It's very fast and obviously JS being the language of the web is a natural benefit too.
For starting with TypeScript today, I’d almost certainly recommend trying Deno before Node. It’s much closer to standard web APIs, the tooling story is “you don’t need any until you know you do”. And it doesn’t have a zillion footguns like CJS/ESM interop, or different stream APIs, or complex package.json configs.
This is the way. Being able to make a website, PWA, cross-platform desktop app with Tauri, mobile app with RN / Quasar / Svelte Native / Cordova, or a standalone cross-platform executable with Deno is invaluable. Edge functions / cloudflare workers / Deno deploy, or even embedded js runtimes are all first class. As a typescript dev I feel like I can do almost anything, and UI is cake with Svelte and the other great web ui frameworks around JS. Not to mention the incredible ecosystem and the top-tier DX with PNPM and Vite. I feel spoiled when the possibilities are limitless and the tooling / ecosystem has it all!
Just the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon at work! Or perhaps a synchronicity, if you are inclined to believe in such things.
A similar thing happened to me the last time the Strid popped up on Reddit and HN. It was only a day after I had just returned from a popular walking route which passes alongside it and the Abbey.
There's a lot of nihilism in the world, and this is the way beyond it, whatever flavour your salvation happens to come in.