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probably gas price

No, that would be implementation defined.

losing the gold standard 1971?

What if a piece of software isn't packaged, like for example the ARM GCC toolchain. In a Dockerfile I just need to curl and unpack it. How do I solve that with guix?

Only if your system/browser is set to dark mode

Found an error immediately "Any lowercase character" doesn't match all Swedish lowercase characters.

It would be semver compatible if they used 0.DATE.0 or 0.0.DATE instead. from semver spec: 4) Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time…

Does the data support the "general rule" then? I think 65 year olds today are much more able than 65 year olds 50 years ago.

Please read the article. His produces 200x intermediary values. Clickbait title, since it wasn't a leak.

You can have different standards for different use cases. So you mean that iMessage and rcs are so different that Android can't use iMessage or apple couldn't use rcs? We don't nee…

The reason gsm, 3g, 4g, sms and so on succeeded was because everyone could implement them. I guess you had to pay license or patent fees, but they are not walled gardens. Phones fr…

The roundtrip time is never consistent. Light travels with different speed in fiber depending on the temperature. This is why you calibrate every second.

The SEK used to be locked. That lead to another kind of crisis in the nineties. You are right that we should've adopted the euro though.

Tax, if your country has capital gain tax you need to declare every single trade to real USD. When you are trading between crypto pairs you are not realizing any gain, thus you don…

I'm also a proponent of nuclear, but modern nuclear power plants seem to take 15-20 years to construct and typically go 10s of billions of EUR over budget. So one does not simply "…

Also most of the wind power is in northern Sweden.

This is only half the story. What is actually happening is that Sweden is importing expensive electricity from the baltics and exporting it to Germany. So even though the electrici…

It mentions ACID compliant databases for one.

You avoid use after free for example

For those use cases you typically have specialised hardware or an FPGA.

I would never own a car. But I suppose I don't want to drive a car that is older than 3 years and I don't enjoy selling used cars. I prefer the freedom I get to just hand the car b…

You can also argue that it is impossible to update dynamic libraries because they are used by multiple applications and you can't afford that any application breaks. So instead of …

It might be slow, but it is deterministic which is more important in systems programs.

Yes, don't use the std lib (or more specifically the alloc crate) and don't use types like floats and u128.

If bitcoin would be fully powered by renewables, do you still think its energy consumption would be a problem?