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If by "common" user you mean the desktop user, not much. But this is a huge deal for embedded devices like industrial control and communication equipment, as their devs will be abl…

>But it's been that way forever in tech companies: SWE make enormous amounts of money and can control their work + environment a lot. This has certainly not been true since for eve…

For many companies this is counter-intuitive but true. Companies (just like people) are not fully rational economic actors. A lot of the decision-making in companies revolves aroun…

So, you don't care about the movies you watch or the music you hear?

No, you can't. Netflix, Youtube etc. (arguably the largest players in the digital properties game right now) have demonstrably failed to do so.

Please refer back to my original comment about people hearing NFTs and for some reason which I fail to understand jump to "physical property". NFTs do not work for physical propert…

Digital ownership is enforced by laws and nothing else. There is no amount of code that can technically prevent me from copying any data that lands on my system. >Tokens signed by …

>...but ownership of property requires physical and/or legal protections, which they do not. This is not true for digital property. Digital property is just as "made up" as the NFT…

I was short on Tether for years. Had to give up my position because “Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

>I think the core problem is huge and extremely traditional management. Not saying that this is not a problem, but bulky management is a constant for DB, even during the years wher…

Nonesense. The Lira has been massively losing value since 2008 while Bitcoin has been massively gaining value for years, the only Turks that are not eating because of Bitcoin are t…

Are you guys me? Exact same story. Network programming on embedded systems. Beej to the rescue.

>Twitter, Facebook and Google need to be treated like utilities [...] Our generation is reinventing the wheel here, our ancestors had exactly the same problems with the power, wate…

I live in the EU. I don't have instant money transfers (they are within the day but not instant). Across EU countries it still takes days.

It is much much smarter compared to any electronic alternative. It is actually the smartest way to do it if done correctly. Only people who do not understand crypto say stuff like …

Are you refering to this: https://github.com/BoschSensortec/BMP280_driver/blob/master/... ...? Because there is nothing inherently modern about this code, this is how C has been wr…

In Greece it is of course mandatory reading in junior high-school but not in ancient Greek. There are other ancient Greek texts though which are mandatory reading and learning anci…

Looks awesome!

I work with embedded systems and I can tell you for a fact that there are exactly two reasons for not including Python or newer versions of it: 1) Hardware constraints. 2) Software…

Let us not kid ourselves, opting out of Google is suicide for any kind of content. Google is (sadly) critical internet infrastructure by now and lawmakers can not ignore it.

>It's far better to switch to solar/wind/geo/nuclear than natural gas in the long run... Solar and wind require gas plants as balance when the sun is not shining and the wind is no…

Direktbanken (i.e. purely online Banks) are an exception but they come with their own set of asterisks and are not a blanket solution as you can't open an account from all European…

First of all, you are not allowed to have a German account if you are not a resident of Germany. Besides that, this is not the point of the conversation. The original comment compa…

They do not, around 7 Euro will arrive (depending on your bank, but all Greek banks charge a fee). I am a Greek expat in Germany, I do those kinds of transactions very often.

All banks in Greece charge a fee. The fact that plenty of people do SEPA transfers for free means nothing for the other people (e.g. the whole population of Greece) that can not do…