skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really has little to do with Bitcoin. A distributed ledger maintained by mutually mistrustful parties is useful for some back-end problems. The Bank for International Settlements, MERS, and Depository Trust Corporation are all candidates for replacement, because they're all just neutral parties that run clearing houses.

What we've learned from Bitcoin is that blockchain technology is robust enough to strongly resist attacks. If it were profitably breakable, it would have been broken by now. That it hasn't been is quite impressive.

As a settlement system, it doesn't require "mining" - just enough mutually mistrustful players that no one can tamper with logged transactions.
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The increase in inequality was ongoing before that, so you haven't linked QE and inequality. Neither has Bernanke, who says the ties are very opaque.

Furthermore, this isn't a massive asset bubble, nor does it fit the description of them. What sectors are in a bubble? If they popped, would they bring the economy down with them?

Your most credible case on this would be the energy industry - "low rates allowed shady shale companies to borrow billions at ultralow rates," right? OK, so now that the price of oil has been cut ~65% (65% of your revenues, gone!), we:

1. Still have positive inflation, even when accounting for energy

2. Still have a functioning energy sector

3. Haven't experienced any kind of major economic dislocations.

I guess what I'm asking is, how is this recovery making things worse in the long run, than a total economic collapse in a nuclear age would have been?
And who gets to define what is a lie and what isn't? Where you see a lie, I see a truth that causes misdirection when vitalists trip over their own logical shortcomings.

Let's get one thing straight: you're the one who wants to extend the current definition of "lie" to include this particular brand of misdirection and then censor that misdirection. You're the one who wants to "hold advertisers to a higher standard" in the name of benefiting society. I'm the one advocating the comparatively hands-off approach of continuing to restrict censorship to literally false statements. Those hard questions you asked about who should get to make arbitrary decisions are the ones you have to answer for your argument to be convincing.
Yeah, and please send me a free flying car while you are at it.

Obviously everybody would like that, but it's not as easy as it seams. As github pages, technically are virtual domains, they share the same ip with many other pages, if you want to support https, you need to serve either each page on a different ip (not free), or they need a to configure multidomain ssls (which everytime they need to add a new domain, that means they have to reset the certificate for the other domains on the same ip), and I think there is a limit on the number of domains that can share the same ip - citation needed - . And all of this for free.

Want SSL on gh pages, setup a proxy infront of gh pages.
From the article:

"Is the world more easily “outraged” than it used to be? I don’t think so, but then again, there’s no real way to tell."

Presumably one could go build google N-gram timeseries plots for various n-grams associated with what the article calls "outrage culture" and then look for big bumps in the curve.

I'm not close enough to the phenomenon to guess the correct buzzwords. Maybe "problematic" or "offensive"?
...and it's well understood and used throughout history.

"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Hermann Goering
I mean, I don't actually feel like direct democracy will work, as you will get uninformed, but popular decisions being made.

Take a look at the SF Housing crisis, I feel like a large part of the "lack of houses, but lots of companies" problem is the result of Proposition 13 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...).
This means that each municipality would much rather host a company that pays tax than have housing (which the city comparatively loses money on), which leads to the current problems. (At least in part)

I fear other propositions like that one, which sound great ("No more taxes!"), but have subtle, but large consequences would get passed by such a system more readily.
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The problem is not technological, it's definitional.

From the definition of "society", any society must make decisions that affect all of its members, otherwise they aren't a society, they're a collection of non-interacting individuals. From the definition of "decision", these decisions must be framed by an individual - we have yet to master mind-meld technologies. From the definition of "power", the people who make the decisions have the power.

Majority voting is a red-herring. The way that existing power structures operate today is to frame the terms of the decision: they define what the alternatives are. Take a look at who sponsors ballot initiatives in California: very often, you'll find that a process that's as close to direct democracy as you'll get in modern society was actually sponsored by a wealthy billionaire or corporation behind the scenes, and he has crafted both the legislation and the public messaging around the legislation to suit his interests. If the voting public is faced with two alternatives and option A enriches elite #1 at the expense of the public while option B enriches elite #2 at the expense of the public, you can't really say that the voters have power.
Or you can use a web server that supports SNI. You'd lose android 2.x and ie@winxp clients though, but those will be lost anyways soon due to outdated cipher suites and certificate hash algorithms
I'd love to see SSL support on custom domains as well, but I know there are a couple of reasons why it hasn't happened already:

1. GitHub Pages likely isn't a core focus for GitHub, however useful it may be

2. GitHub Pages is currently completely interface-less, relying only on an automated build system running each site through Jekyll and deploying it. In order to support custom certificates, they would need to build an interface for certificate uploading/maintenance (and of course putting the certs & keys into the repo, like the current CNAME system, won't work).
Its quite a co-incidence that I scouted for an answer for this today while I was setting up SSL for my gh-pages. As already pointed out by some comments, its not quite as simple as we think it is to have GitHub extend SSL for its pages. Its for the same reason that Tumblr doesn't allow SSL support for custom domain either. IMHO, CloudFlare is probably the simplest workaround to get SSL enabled for your gh-pages. Link on how to https://me.net.nz/blog/github-pages-secure-with-cloudflare/
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One of the big arguments made against Hillary Clinton in 08 (by Obama) was the argument against dynasty.

Of course half the democratic operatives worked for one or the other on the campaign... and aides and fundraisers are a key part of the oligarchic elite.
Your smartphone already tracks everywhere you go. Similarly it's not hard for someone to watch you if you walk/bike and possibly also if you drive (license plate recognition or OnStar type tracking).

How is it materially different to give ownership of that to your local municipality (who already knows where you live and probably how much water/electricity you use)? Municipal government is probably the one you have the most control over.
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No, you also have SNI (Server Name Indication), it totally solve this problem.

The only downside is that IE on Windows XP doesn't support it. But for a free service it's good enough.
Of note guys there's a little ! icon button in the top of the page to report this gist. It's basically encouraging spam and as everyone has pointed out, is likely not technically sound.
> configure multidomain ssls (which everytime they need to add a new domain, that means they have to reset the certificate for the other domains on the same ip),

Sorry should've called it SNI.
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Multidomain certs are not the same thing as SNI.
I think part of the key is to have the direct democracy be digital/online. With needing to motivate people to go to the polls (like in California) advertising and money seems to play a large role.

I think a direct democracy will still need a president and congress to handle many aspects of governance, like military action, state secrets, etc. My hope would be though that a direct digital democracy would take some of the decisions away from congress and put those decisions in the hands of the people. But certain aspects of government, particularly the military and judicial system will always have to be centralized.
That's a little misleading because individual states also levy taxes and fuel, and many states, especially the large ones like California, Pennsylvania, and New York have raised them quite a bit in the last 20 years.

High state taxes combined with federal formulation means the while oil prices are low, gas prices at the pump are still relatively high.
Not all flash is equal. If it's 16MB of fast NOR flash for direct code execution then it's not so bad.
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Well, California has medical marijuana, so I guess the proposition system works sometimes. But I do think the proposition system is corrupted by the need to raise large amounts of money to advertise.
I can't find any interpretation of the word 'currency' that would prevent it from applying to bitcoin. As far as I can tell, it's a "commodity money" kind of currency.
I love this factoid: when was the last time a Republican won the presidency without either a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket?

1928

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/who-wa...
And that makes you're both right now!

Lustig goes through all the processes here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
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My burning man camp, http://thephage.org/, recognized the underlying oligarchy in our own organization and decided to make it open and explicit by identify leaders through proxy voting (https://github.com/ThePhage/phage-proxy) on a few different axes: who each individual thought was best at conflict resolution, who we would each go to for life advice, etc.

The end result was remarkably high-confidence, transparent, and harmonious. I expect proxy voting will have a far more significant role in the future.
I was just thinking that from 1988 to 2008 (20 years), a Bush or Clinton was president the entire time. From 1980 to 2013, a Bush or Clinton was either President, Vice President, or Secretary of State the entire time. If Hillary or Jeb Bush wins in 2016 and serves two terms, then from 1980 to 2024, the only years that a Bush or Clinton will not have been in one of the three executive offices of the United States is 2013-2016. Let that sink in: for 40 out 44 years, members of the same two families will have occupied the top 3 offices in government, and for 28 years, they will have been President.

Man. I thought we got rid of hereditary monarchies in 1776, but that's a helluva lot longer than most kings served.
The only question is whether the expenses will borne by drivers, by general taxpayers of today, or by general taxpayers of tomorrow.

Shifting it to the general taxpayer creates incredibly perverse incentives that are essentially indefensible. It's a level of idiocy that I'd expect from a mouth-breathing moron and/or a Microsoft employee.
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How much of this is simple demographics? As the Baby Boomers started retiring, driving saw a downturn. Now, as the Millenials are starting to hit their thirties and starting families, driving is ticking back up again.
What do you do instead?
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As github pages, technically are virtual domains, they share the same ip with many other pages, if you want to support https, you need to serve either each page on a different ip (not free), or they need a to configure multidomain ssls

If you use SNI, you can serve multiple SSL-protected domains from a single IP. Happily, this is supported by 97.6% of web browsers these days: http://caniuse.com/#feat=sni In fact, most browsers which don't support SNI have been end-of-lifed and are no longer receiving security updates. So unless you still need to support Windows XP or Android 2.x, you can now generally host multiple SSL-protected domains on 1 IP address.
My understanding is that bitcoin has been broken for quite some time as there have been multiple 51% events from mining pools, it's just more profitable (for now) for these parties to keep the status quo
It really depends on the specific super market you visit.

Some of them are really bad. Others are really incredibly and amazingly good.

The fresher the food, and the greater the variety of products, the better. Some chains seem to stock just massive amounts of commodity agribusiness food, but more selective stores will put in the extra work, and provide a rotating selection among many different options, and limit the mass-produced factory food.

Sometimes, within the same chain, it can boil down to the managers and the degree of control they have over stocking the shelves, or the amount of effort they're interested in investing in (or believe in the value of) putting thought into the products they stock. In New York City, there is a HUGE degree of variation WITHIN CHAINS, varying from neighborhood to neighborhood.

So, if none of the stores within your town are great, maybe try the next town over? You might notice a big difference, even if the sign outside is the same.
> And who runs foreign policy? How do state secrets work? Is there still a president and a bureaucracy and cabinet ministers?

All of those seem tied to the Executive branch, whereas direct democracy would replace the Legislative (Congress in the US, Parliament in other countries). The current Executive follows the laws that Congress passes, direct democracy wouldn't change that.
>It's quite common for children to follow in their parents footsteps.

Sure, but there are arguably 300 million people in America who "would like to be president" I imagine. It's every child's dream, isn't it? To grow up to be president one day?

There are millions of people who want to play professional basketball, too. And many more "professional basketball player" positions available as there are POTUS. But even still, after the ~3,000 professional basketball players that the NBA has seen pass through it's doors, only 78 of them have become "second generation" professional basketball players. [0]

The odds of both sons of a former POTUS becoming (or even having a strong chance of becoming, in Jeb's case) president are just out of this world when compared to other disciplines.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_second-generation_Nati...

edit: I changed 10,000 pro basketball players to ~3,000 as per forrestthewoods's info below.
"Windows DNS is broken" was a meme for about five years due to Cisco ASA's blocking EDNS traffic.
Sure, why not. Outsourcing to Romania is kinda like outsourcing to some of the more rural parts of the United States.

Only they speak Romanian in this case and the price difference is far greater.

But still, more or less the same.

Now that I've planted that seed, I'll just go ahead and throw out there that New Mexico has an amazingly cheap cost of living.
> In order to support custom certificates, they would need to build an interface for certificate uploading/maintenance

With Let's Encrypt (mentioned in the issue) it could be 100% automated with free certs.
> Eventually the long-term minority gets frustrated by being eternally overwhelmed and resigns.

Isn't this the point where you fork the OSS project? Then you get to be the one who maintains the long-term architectural vision.
Power is held by the person who makes the decision, not who holds the title.

In practice, it's likely that a class of elite advisors will rise up whose only function is to provide guidance to the newly-appointed "official" representatives. They may not hold official office, but if they make all the decisions in practice, wouldn't you say they have the power?
The role of acid in destroying hostile pathogens is something that has been mentioned in the alternative medicine circles for a long time.

Anxiety, Stress, lack of sleep and/or proper nutrition also plays a role in decreasing production of gastric juices. Naturally this leads to a downward spiral of compounding issues.

On a related note, there has been some interesting research on how acid reflux and gerd are usually more likely to be caused by too little acid.

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I add SSL through a proxy to GitHub pages.
and doesnt work in older browsers - free cloudflare cert is ECDHE
Spontaneous, coordinated action by the public is anything but cheap and easy. We live in a society of individuals, not an ant colony.
Who needs further opportunities and support when they already have $XXmm in the bank? At that point you can do whatever the fuck you want.
Isn't death collateral damage in just about every conflict? People usually just want power.
Hey that's a pretty awesome product! Can definitely see the need for it, especially in developing countries where motorcycles are incredibly prominent, maybe not at that price point though.
But, love the product!
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Do you happen to know the relationship between stomach acid and acidic food/drink such as coffee? Is it helpful, harmful, or irrelevant?
Or maybe they'll just use a bigger bomb next time.
Yes, this is the teleological fallacy: assuming an object had some end or function inherently.
>gas prices at the pump are still relatively high.

Relative to what? Highway user revenue accounted for
approximately 48% of the total public expenditure on highways and roads in 2012. In 1970, that number was 70%. Given that the people using the roads aren't making up the cost at the pump -- not even by half -- I'd say the gas prices are very low relative to the cost of maintainence.

This has negative effects elsewhere: because we're basically subsidizing the use of cars, we're also inducing demand for roads that require federal bailouts to maintain. This, in turn, reduces the demand for more economically viable forms of transportion.
Declaring the associates of some dead spree killers your enemies is not an especially empowering position (but perhaps required in case of nationalist ideology). What I see are some nasty folks overseas who I'd rather wield less influence, and who I'd rather see get much less free PR from the media.
Before someone goes into the typical "they don't get security" tirade we need to bring some reality to the table.

Lets say these devices all do the perfect thing and when first fired up generate their very own device signed public / private key pair. So what? How does this make them more secure if the device cannot provide the public to the end-user so they can match it to the one they got in the SSH or HTTPS connection before they establish that connection? The problem here is a chicken or the egg one, plain and simple. If they accept the security warnings and connect to the device, a man in the middle can simply tamper with the encrypted traffic so that when they view the device cert, it's the one they see in the connection. This I'm afraid is the elephant in the room when it comes to device connectivity over protocols utilizing public / private key cryptography.

Of course this problem can be solved, but I would propose that it wouldn't be cheap in many cases and doesn't really solve the problem. For devices with no display output the manufacturer could fire the device up on the product line and then obtain the public after it is generated. They could then print it out or save it to a USB drive and put it in the box with the device. Ultimately; however, the end user getting the device will have no idea what that paper or USB drive is and it will be promptly ignored anyway and browser or SSH security warnings will be accepted just as they are today.

The assumption for all of these products should be that they are untrustworthy until made trustworthy, even if they are generating their own unique key material. With that in mind they should be configured on isolated, trusted networks until which point they are secured. The only way to make them secure is if they can generate unique key material or accept organizational key material and then the connections are validated before establishing encrypted communication with the devices. Ideally this means having an organizational PKI program that can issue certificates to devices which are then validated against an organizational root CA or exporting the device generated public and importing it into hosts which will be used to connect with the device.

This I belive is the conversation we need to be having here.
> I’m sure you’re careful to buy the kind that’s 100%
> juice and not made from concentrate. After all,
> that’s the healthier kind, right?

If you're going to drink sugar water, it's unlikely to make much difference if it came straight from an orange or from concentrate. It seems a bit like worrying about whether your cigarette papers were naturally bleached or not.

> flavor packs are made from orange by-products — even though
> these ‘by-products’ are so chemically manipulated that they
> hardly qualify as ‘by-products’ any more.

I would love to know what that actually means, other than being scare-quote-tastic. How does something stop qualifying as a by-product?

> Yet those in the industry will tell you that the flavor
> packs, whether made for reconstituted or pasteurized orange
> juice, resemble nothing found in nature

The pork sausages I buy come exlusively from pigs, herbs, and onions, and yet they also "resemeble nothing found in nature", unless Big Feline has invented meat grinders while we weren't watching.
Your understanding is incorrect.
If someone says "pah, that's just a crutch" in a dick measuring contest, it's safe to say that he has won.
There's a clear ethical difference between a frothy startup and deliberately provoking negative public behavior.
In the current representative system of democracy in the US, the plutocrats benefit by having an uninformed population and a democratic process that can be influenced by money (advertising). Your fears, in my opinion, actually stem from our current representative system.
We by that I mean in the west, only see a small fraction of this particular terrorism. People in-situ see much more and are escaping and risking their lives to escape because it's so devastating.

Doing nothing would mean leaving the whole country to go down the drain with multiple generations scarred by war, atrocities, tribalism, lawlessness, etc. That's why advanced countries typically go in and try to tamp things out, sometimes the results are less than desirable, but doing nothing surely seals their fate --as it does to many countries in Africa (where international African forces nominally are in charge, but typically do little, are ineffective, corrupt)
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The only successful model I'm aware of, for dealing with that when it comes to huge scale corporations, is the Berkshire Hathaway model. Delegation to great operators across major, highly independent units. Even then, inside of the large units you inevitably get a replication of the problem with increasing scale.

It's clearly one of the reasons Google did what they did. At 60,000 employees they were beginning to drown in the bureaucracy of it all.