GHC uses self hosted gitlab for its source hosting and review. The gitlab-runners are largely provided by the mentioned support in the announcement, including anonymous and in-kind contributions. The ZW3RK stake pool provides 7 linux, 2 windows, and 3 mac builders.
I only see two directly related supporters? IOG and the stake pool?
Technically it’s running a proof-of-stake stake pool and using the operational rewards to fund CI hardware for GHC. It currently provides 7 Linux, 2 windows and 3 m1 macs as well as covers the maintenance for them.
Thus by staking ada (cardano) with the stake pool, one can “earn” a competitive rate (~4%) of stake return as well as support GHCs CI indirectly as the excess operational rewards from running the pool are put towards running CI machines for GHC.
To compare this to some non-blockchain scenario:
Depositing money at a bank will yield some interest, but also provide the bank with some operational return (they usually don’t provide you a savings account due to altruistic reasons); and the operational rewards the bank would use to run CI machines for GHC.
I hope this makes sense, and explains the concept of how this works in principle.
I got excited for a moment and thought that the compilation was being used instead of hashing as a proof of work. That would require compilation to be trivially verifiable though, so sadly it is not the case.
Bike sharing company in Singapore. Initially collected a S$49 to use its service. With the deposit paid you were entitled to rent their bikes at S$0.5/15min.
Bike were almost everywhere. Initially they had lots of free ride promotions.
A few days ago, they claimed that they ceased operations due to newly imposed government restrictions. (To prevent bikes from lying/standing around just about everywhere and have them be rented/returned at designated parking areas)
A while ago I think they dropped the deposit requirement, as other competitors did not have the deposit requirement. You could ask for your deposit to be returned. This would take up to 30days, but apparently took much longer, according to some comments on Facebook.
They also offered a VIP subscription for 3years or so for S$49, which would entitle you to a certain amount of free rides per month, I think.
All in all, I don’t know how I feel about my deposit. I’m pretty sure it’s gone. On the other hand I’ve used the bikes a few times with all the “free”/promotional rides, without giving them any additional money. After all I got some value for the S$49. Did I ride for 25hs in total? I doubt it.
I guess the ICO stuff is just trying to draw a parallel defrauding scheme?
Bike sharing company in Singapore. Initially collected a S$49 to use its service.
In Zurich they initially charged a deposit of CHF 150 (later halved). That comes to S$206 and is probably three times the amount of what those atrocities are worth.
I haven't tried oBike as I am already customer of two other bike rental schemes in my town (Munich) but from what I see when looking at those and from reports they are really bad in quality and comfort.
As an example here a (German) video comparing oBike and a "normal" bike rolling down a small hill: https://youtu.be/9bTnwJc5gzc
There are probably better ways to spend those bucks.
German c't magazine did a review of various rental bikes in Germany and found OBike to be the worst by far. They also got their hands on an offer for their bikes. Apparently these bikes cost 69€ (S$112) if you buy 1000 of them.
I'm not convinced that such "old days" ever existed. I'm open to the idea, but the more I learn of history, the more it seems like the deals were the exception, not the rule. The system was designed from the beginning to make things difficult.
I like to consider all the compromises in the antebellum United States. They show up in the history books as great legislative successes, but in the end, a half century of dispute came down to a war.
"That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thoreau)
Gridlock in the US government is a feature, not a bug, if for no other reason than it forces polarized, mutually opposed interests to compromise their principles and self-interest to get anything done.
As someone who feels that most times new government initiatives have a net negative impact, a gridlocked system sounds like a decent outcome, all things considered.
In order to get a better picture what what's going on, I'll need to cross reference the churn to security issues, but this isn't something my tool will support until later in the year.
Only thing I can add to all the other reasons already mentioned is the most obvious one that gitlab has received a lot of press and exposure during the last 2 years and this in turn has made the number of eyes on the code grow.
As with any software project; there will be bugs.
As with any open source project; there will be eyes on the code.
Same here. Even though my current location frees me of the need of a car (public transport is ubiquitous in this city state) BMW has been the make that provided the cars I liked driving short and long distances most. While I'd certainly look at BMWs offering of cars if I ever need one again, right now I'm quite sure I'd opt for a Tesla, as I don't see BMW having a proper contender.
Ludicrously so. I was talking to an Uber driver there who said the high cost of car ownership (namely the COE - Certificate of Entitlement) makes owning a car simply for the sake of Uber driving to be generally uneconomical. Especially as the COE cost is due to rise substantially.
