Purelymail is really good. I've been using it for over 4 years now and haven't had any issues around deliverability or availability. It might not be fancy but it has almost any feature you'd want.
Great article, in which I find myself partially. I have tried for many years to be quite perfectionistic but mostly because of the feeling of not being good enough. It's a pretty destructive behavior as you're always anxious and imagining the worst. At some point at university, I was able to slowly discard this behavior, although this development is certainly not over yet. What helped me most were good friends and a part-time job in a consulting firm, which I absolutely hated btw. But overall I learned to focus more on the important things and generally to care less. I'm generally happier with my work and don't let setbacks get to me as quickly. Rather, I take them as a challenge to become even better. (Starting my first job as an engineer after university soon btw! :))
That's awesome! I'm glad it still works. I stumbled upon this work around 5 years ago when I was in college and Adobe quietly switched my subscription from the student version to the full CC suite. I contacted support because I genuinely couldn't afford to pay $60 a month and support was no help whatsoever.
I don't really get your point here as you don't have to buy ASICs every X years with PoW consensus. A friend of mine mines with his 3070 in a mining pool and makes a small plus with it. Hell, you can even mine with a 7 year old PC. Will you ever find a block? Probably not, but you're still securing the network and may get lucky. I don't see how this incentivizes centralization any more than PoS. With PoS, you have to be part of the network by spending money on a token while with PoW, you just need an existing PC with some compute power.
In a PoW coin, if the cost of electricity < price of coin, more people will start mining, and vice versa. So let’s assume that over time, the price of a coin = cost of electricity to mine it + amortized/opportunity cost of the hardware (and assume that cows are spheres - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow).
But electricity costs can be very different in different parts of the world. This leads to miners in areas with high electricity costs shutting down, and mining operations opening up in low electrical cost areas. This can lead to a majority of the network falling under one political jurisdiction. PoS avoids this problem entirely.
Is the efficiency really that depend on the architecture (x86 vs arm64)? I always thought Apples lead comes from things like the little big approach and the lower transistor size. Can someone elaborate?
A part comes from the dedicated units such as the hardware media and neural blocks. So you can export video in Apple’s ProRes in something like Final Cut at way better perf/W compared to doing some other codec blocks on a GPU in Premiere Pro.
You also save a lot of time and power not having to move data between memory pools by having fast access to the unified memory.
It seems that there’s no one thing that achieves the efficiency numbers we’re seeing. It’s excellent execution across the entire design.
But what would be the solution? I've already played around with DIDs and Verifiable Credentials in the SSI-context and I like it from a tech perspective. I am also not sure if the spec should be held accountable to potential privacy misuses – the user should be. Additionally, you don't have to use the big tech solutions. The tech is inherently open, just look at the many DID methods.
But what I am concerned of are consortium (identity) networks like Sovrin which are run by a hand full of companies. At least in Germany, the government is starting to like what they are doing which is horrible imo. The identity layer of a state should not be governed by a consortium of private companies, no matter what fancy governance model they have.
Please read up on UASF and Bitcoin. People can buy tons of mining factories, but if a very large amount of nodes start rejecting blocks and therefore the rewards, miners start to rethink their stance very fast. There is no discussion here, history proves it.
and UASF are a thing in PoS as well, if some entity/entities acquire a majority of the staked coins users can simply fork the malicious actors out. It's functionally equivalent except that it's an order of magnitude more expensive to acquire the required coins as opposed to getting the equivalent in hashpower.
So people living in countries without a stable currency due to hyperinflation don't count as a real use case? It's sometimes the only way they can secure their capital. I think that we need to think outside of our elitist western bubble more often. Not all people live in a stable democracy with (semi-)stable currencies.
And even if they do use BTC (they don't really, at least in Africa, i don't know about Venezuela), they do not trade using BTC but a second layer anyway.
Is it the shitcoin or is it the fact that the economy itself is gone and thus your currency isn't worth anything because nobody is selling things to you?
Yet they just passed BTC's daily transaction volume (regularly) . Like it or not, BCH is about to eat BTC's lunch and good for them. They've earned it.
BTC isn't a stable currency in case you haven't noticed. Do you actually have evidence of BTC being used as currency in any of these dysfunctional countries you talk about or is it just a supposition that you're making?
In Venezuela, BTC is heavily restricted towards friends of the regime, for whom it serves similar experience as having hoards of "hard foreign currency" did in USSR...
They say nobody uses it but a "tiny minority". So basically what we already knew, BTC adoption as a currency is anecdotal even in those dysfunctional places where according to its proponents it's particularly suited for.
What we need is a global organization that ensures that every nation will be self sufficient in regards to nutrition and only imports non essential foods for varieties sake.
That's how you solve hyperinflation. The problem isn't that the currency is bad. The problem is that the government is utter garbage and since when did Bitcoin market itself as a political tool to subvert authoritarian leadership? No, it's just another "currency" like the dollar.
It has the same BTC address as the usual sci-hub pages (12PCbUDS4ho7vgSccmixKTHmq9qL2mdSns) so I'd say yes. And please don't give them any ideas. The domain issue is hard enough it seems. Thank god there's hundreds of TLDs now :p
