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I never actually understood the whole "bitcoin mixer" scheme. Shouldn't all all the transactions still be traceable in the end?

Alex Rivera's 2008 movie Sleep Dealer is not without flaws, but it left quite an impression on me. I watched it it after seeing it recommended here in a comments thread on an article about military drone operators, I should probably watch it again with fresh eyes.

EDIT: Jeez, it looks like that's an 11 years old thread. Time does indeed fly.

EDIT 2: The source for the claim is paywalled, but this is how the Cultural impact chapter of the movie's Wikipedia page closes:

> In 2025, Rivera noted that a tech CEO claimed the film had been an inspiration for his company to employ a remote labour force in the Global South in order to operate robots in the Global North, and that the film has been used in pitch decks for various start-ups.

... once again bringing to mind the "At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus" meme.

> as long as I am confident it is correct

Are you? Does it cost you extra (time or money) to be?

Do you mind me asking, what kind of problems did you run into with Neo4j? Did you encounter performance issues after the DB grew to a certain size, or did you realize that the data wasn't suited to a graph DB and weird query patterns started causing trouble, or was it something else entirely?

I'm considering using a Neo4j self hosted instance for a project, but having only played around with it in low-stakes + small-data toy projects, I'm not really familiar with the footguns and failure modes...

All that aside, plugging holes in a sinking database for six months because you can't come to a descision does not sound like a fun time :D

I've wanted this for i3, but I guess I wasn't sufficiently motivated :) Given that sway's homepage describes it as a drop-in replacement for i3, I'll try it out tomorrow.

> CAN uses bit arbitration and the lowest address wins.

And in doing so it prioritizes important messages and enables deterministic timing.

> As an optimization, it is helpful to use a local variable for the reference to the first pointer. Doing so improves the perfomance substantially: C# is not happy when we repeatedly modify a reference. Thus, at the start of the function, you may set byte* mystart = start, use mystart throughout, and then, just before a return, you set start = mystart.

Did not expect this.

> while Denisovans left at the same time into Asia ending up concentrated in Serbia.

You probably meant to write Siberia.

Hashing is not compression, it should not be reversible/inflatable.

> they go with the aesthetic de jure

You probably meant to write "du jour" :)

Furthermore, from the same article:

> Lem, however, considered one science fiction author as exempt from his scathing criticisms – his denouncer, Philip K. Dick. The title of an essay Lem published about Dick is evidence enough of this high regard: A Visionary Among the Charlatans. The essay itself waxes lyrical on Dick’s many excellent qualities as a writer, and expounds upon the dire state of US sci-fi. Lem considered Dick to be the only writer exempt from his cynical view of American SF.