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The miners do two things: run your code, and come to a consensus on what transactions happen on the database, in what order.

The consensus work is expensive, and we pay them for it mainly by minting new coins. In effect we're taxing all the coin holders by inflating the currency.

To run a specific transaction, you pay a transaction fee, which also goes to the miners. They could just ignore our transaction, so we pay them a little to run it.

So basically it's the users who pay the running costs of an application. Every time they call a method in a script, they have to include a small payment to the miners.

Generally these payments are pretty small but as computers go, Ethereum is a very expensive one, since every operation or stored byte is replicated on thousands of computers. You're not going to be doing a lot of computation or storing bulk data. But simple business rules are easily affordable.
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So far they've had no qualms with Favebook's other unethical activities, so I don't see why this would be any different.
This is very true. We made the choice to have my wife stay home and raise our children rather than go back to work. We're fortunate to be able to do so, but when doing the math and calculating the after-tax income she's bring home, so much of that income would have gone straight to child-care that it was a no-brainier to have her be the caretaker in these early years of their development. The cost of childcare is a very real challenge for the United States.
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He didn't say that the market cap of btc was tied to the hashrate (which is of course bullshit).

He said that the hashrate relates to how much BTC you can keep safe, which is provably true.

Let's say you control 10% of all hash power. Satoshi's paper helpfully maps out that the likelihood of you being able to pull off a double spend if I wait for 5 confirmations is 0.1%. If you were to mine honestly over 5 blocks, your expected reward is 12.5 BTC from block rewards (plus some more from fees). If you attempt to attack me, the total reward is my transaction value plus 5 blocks' worth of block rewards, so 125 BTC. At 0.1% chance of success, you need to win 12500 BTC from your double spend attack, so if you sent me less than 12375 BTC, I know that after five blocks you have no economic incentive to try to double spend.

For a fixed block count before accepting the transaction (5 blocks in this example), the higher the hash power you control, the higher the probability of success for your attack, and the less money you need to double spend for the attack to be economically rational. Inversely, and precisely the GP's point, the higher the hash power, the more money you can safely transact.
Agreed, but I'll just point out that works both ways. Devs "identify" with their default tool of choice, and too many coulda-been-GREAT tools try to be the Swiss Army Nuclear Ginsu Chainsaw of Code rather than the sweet hammer they started out as. Sometimes this happens to dominant tools in a category (such as Rails within Ruby); other times, it's happened to entire languages (PHP, VB, and many others; I once had to maintain a terminal emulator written in COBOL.)

As Larry Wall and countless others have noted, great programmers are creatively lazy. Mediocre-to-average devs are lazy in less creative ways, like sticking to one language/toolchain for years and not diversifying. Anything that lives, including your career, either grows or it dies. Anything that grows within an impenetrable walled garden will eventually crush itself to death within those walls. It's sad when I see people do that to their careers, and over nearly 40 years in this craft, I've had ringside seats to multiple such bouts.
> there are happy monks who live in seclusion off the generosity of others

Monks choose to live that way. Most people need more than money to survive. They need challenge and creativity, too.

> Some country is going to implement basic income and force us to talk about these ideas that successful people feel we can keep pushing away because it doesn't affect us yet.

Scandinavian countries have had better social programs for years. It's why the wealthy in the US fear discussion of things like basic income. They don't want to pay the tax rates of those countries.
Nope. Supply enters into the price equation too.
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>Everything he listed has gotten worse, not better

Not productivity. It's roughly doubled. http://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-3/what-can-labor-producti...
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>> a block size increase

Which is not forthcoming because of idealogical arguments and entrenched interests.
Whilst what you say is true, if you want any sort of "normal" relationship with friends and family, choosing to not interact with privacy abusing companies is going to effectvely disconnect you.

Most people I know now plan birthdays, weddings, parties etc on Facebook, or in apps. Now that they've long ago reached critical mass, if I choose to withhold consent, I'm now relying on someone remembering that I'm not on FB and to throw me a text or phone call.

The coercion isn't from the companies as such, it's from your peers, near everyone you know. Participate or miss out on normal life. So it's just a Hobson's choice.

So I find there's effective equivalence for nearly everyone.
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So I am one of these statistics. I have an 18 year old that will graduate high school in June. She will take a gap year and live at home working for Americorps Vista help disadvantaged schools with STEM programs. She will then attend the Olin College of Engineering [0]

My oldest is 23 and graduated in May of 2015 from a 4 year liberal arts university. She is working part time in our local library system. She wants to be a librarian which requires a Master's of Library Science (MLS). So she will attend an online program at Florida State for an MLS next fall.

In the library system she works in, library associates are expected to give 2 to 5 years of part time work before they can go full time. The pay is okay, not great. None of her peers live on their own. At 20 to 24 hours a week they just can't pay for a place of their own (renting or buying). Full time work comes with a MLS.

We think the library system is taking advantage of minimal benefits for part timers and are taking advantage of these youths. But the passion of people that want to work in libraries have them working part time and making the sacrifice of living at home.

My daughter pays minimal rent to us, her auto insurance, gas, and medical co-pays. She saves everything else and when she starts graduate school her savings will start to evaporate.

We have a few friends that have children living at home. The reasons are varied. One is because of some mental health challenges. Some for living at home and attending a local college full time to save money on room and board. Some because they work part time and go to school like our child.

Her mom and I are 100% comfortable with this. We have some pseudo empty nester rules in place to help us have more freedom from our children and the same for them. However we still try to eat dinner together most nights. This is the together time that binds us as a family.

Ten years ago I would not have imagined this situation but it is what it is.

For the record we live in a coastal state in the US (Virginia) but in the center of the state (Richmond).

[0] http://olin.edu/

Edit: fixed typo
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No, it's all very well and clearly explained in the official Tor Project documentation, in the section on hidden services. That link was already posted in this thread, yet the original poster still complains about insufficient documentation. His subsequent question about multiple ports was also clearly answered in the same place.

I think the problem here is simply that some people refuse to read documentation, even after they are provided with a direct link to it. Sounds about right from my personal experience with online tech communities.
Anybody else find it ironic that a CEO of one of the least privacy-respecting companies is so obsessed with his own privacy?
IMO, capital income does come from work; it's just that the moment of income is divorced from the moment of work. That could be by a year, a decade, or a century, and it could accrue to the individual who personally did the work, or to someone to whom they traded, gifted, or willed the capital.

I believe that an individual should be allowed to save the results of their work and consume the benefits later. I believe that they should be allowed to gift (or share) these savings with someone of their choosing. I don't believe that these allowances should be voided by death.

From that, I conclude that if my wife and I die with $2MM estate and give $1MM to each of our children, that they are entitled to the income from that capital, but it doesn't change the fact that that income originated from (my wife's and my) work.
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When the German Verfassungsgericht (our equivalent of the US Supreme Court, I guess) struck down the data retention law on phone/Internet metadata, there was a sentence in the verdict that was just priceless - "Wo ein Trog ist, da kommen die Schweine" (Where there is a trough, the pigs will come).[1]

If more services start to avoid storing data altogether (or at least only encrypted in a way that prevents them from accessing the data), there will be less food so to speak for the various creatures that might gravitate towards the trough.

[1] NB that the choice of words is not mine - the irony of a supreme court judge calling law enforcement and intelligence agencies pigs is kind of nice, though. ;-)
Delaying the move to Windows 7 cost them vast amounts of money due to more frequent crashes and reboots, less efficient operations, greater susceptibility to malware, and generally higher support costs etc.

It didn't save them any money because they were almost always paying for Windows 7 even while they were using XP. (Either they paid for Windows 7 and used the downgrade option or paid for it via Software Assurance.)

They didn't save the cost of moving to Windows 7, they just deferred it to a later date when the move was more expensive.

Microsoft tried to help them to move by giving them a free copy of Windows XP in the form of Windows 7 XP Mode. That wasn't available in Windows 8/8.1/10.

So, as far as I can see, sticking with XP was a really dumb move. I'm sure there would be special cases connected with software that couldn't be upgraded and/or expensive peripherals, but still, in the bast majority of cases, they could have done a Windows 7 upgrade leaving just a few instances of XP.
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Yes, other than your second premise in (1), you nailed Bitcoin's trajectory to a 'T'. As someone who entered the developers in (2) back in early 2011, I watched this painful transition to 3 and 4 repeat itself until 2014, at which point I basically left due to the toxic composition of the community (it was the get-rich-quick types and scammers, often overlapping, that truly devastated the community). It makes me incredibly sad that such a promising technology has suffered this fate. Ah well, being money, I suppose that becoming corrupted was its destiny from the beginning.

I do disagree with your assertion in (1), which is that Bitcoin's applicability to real-world problems was questionable. From the beginning, it was clear to me that at least the technology behind Bitcoin could easily become Money 2.0. Unfortunately, I failed to take into account the social/governmental/financial factors.
Does it do voice/video chat well, or at all?
Well, it is widely documented in introductory criminal law courses as a part of the three Rs (removal, retribution, retaliation) or in more accessible material such as

http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=156
The status page is broken. There is not any response from offical twitter too.
E-ink wall with high refresh rate at home. That would be awesome for daytime movies!
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What goes around comes around. I am all for freedom of the press but Gawker are a cancer, I can't think of a single thing they have done for the public good, they are trash.
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what should be fixed? You said there were no warnings...?
Thank you. Came here to post this in the thread. I love my EO, but I can imagine it being even better with this display technology. They should be an early adopter talking to Eink about is.
Which is also why, once available, many people have to buy AMD chips in order to keep Intel in check and everybody's chances of getting ripped off lower. I'll buy AMD because they don't cut out features like ECC. Just recently Intel introduced a non-feature to disallow Xeon chips on most motherboards, while previously you could get a cheap Xeon to surpass the consumer CPU. Market segmentation is what Intel is very good at.
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As a Japanese and a Programmer, I seriously worries about this move.

For one thing, almost all current teachers has no experience of programming.
Other thing is the culture of teaching in Japan.

When you solve the problem by using a knowledge that isn't teached yet, the teacher said.

"You can't do that! You haven't been taught that yet!"

So, I can see the future where they say

"You can't use recursion! You haven't been taught that yet!"

Also, there is a seriously stupid culture in Japanese teaching.

Given a problem, "He went shopping and brought 6 candy bags which contains 3 candies each. How many candies does he have?"

The answer must be "6 * 3 = 18". not "3 * 6 = 18"
The multiplication is not commutative.
Because... I don't know. Some so called teaching expert who is the author of some textbook explicitly stated that.

(Actually, it must be 3 * 6 = 18 in original Japanese because, the word order of Japanese grammar requires to write like "he brought bag which contains 3 candies, 6." indicating this isn't even a math problem at all.)

That's why I worries about it.

As for Japanese isn't fluent in English even though we have mandatory English class, It's totally different reason.

School in Japan's English teaching is in fact bad. But that isn't the reason.
If you're living in Japan, you have absolutely no reason to use English at all in your entire life.
You can't improve language skill without actually using it.
I didn't know the origin before - as in why May 25th - but the Wikipedia article provided the background, and even the original proposal via Web Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20020424065309/http://systemtool...

Edit: To save the unknowing a link click, May 25th was two weeks after Douglas Adams' passing.
The word you may be looking for / thinking of is melcryptovestimentaphilia.
So the black and white e-ink screens are not currently being sold separately?
I did not know about this. It immediately made me think of South Park.
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I don't know about propaganda but, for whatever combination of cause and effect, urban living in a mostly narrow set of locales is more preferred than in the past by a demographic that is well-represented here. However, the pricing complaints are about San Francisco, not Detroit.
Well, then EULAs as they are done today should be forbidden.

I've read Apache2 and GPL2 licenses and I can't say I comprehend them fully. Read the liability clauses in GPL and Apache licenses and compare them to MIT or BSD.
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'...average of over 100 passwords in Europe'

I'm truly fascinated at this number; if I understood it correctly that means you are registered to at least 100 services that you semi-actively use, AND have different passwords for all.

Not even the people I know who generate randomised passwords have more than 20 they use regularly.

Is it an exaggeration or a realistic figure?
Why HBase? why not just shard your keys?
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I'd love to have an e-ink monitor someday. I wouldn't need video-speed refresh (probably?) or even color, but programming without staring into a flashlight all day sounds really nice.

My monitor's brightness is already set at 4%.
Or Disney. Would be nice to revisit the classical Carl Barks and Don Rosa stories from my childhood. Though I'm not sure if Disney still owns the stories or is somehow licensing the characters for independent publishers.
> On an overclocked 2600k now

I'm on an overclocked FX-8320E and this is what it looks like: http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1601020-HA-1512297GA19&ob...

The competition is already there, if your software is designed for the multicore age.
maybe next week FB will announce "a bug in the code"

Or they will explain how it was "a rogue employee" who put the code there undetected, and caused it to spread to millions of devices.
Well, the clause plus the likely refusal to remove it implies that your options shouldn't be considered as particularly valuable.

It means that I/you should consider the offer excluding the options (is the compensation adequate if you value the options at near zero?) and/or negotiate for a package that has less options and more direct salary.
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> You select a piece of land that is unoccupied and unowned, and you build a home on it and start a garden.

In the proto-world, unoccupied land is generally regarded as held in the commons, free for use by hunters, fishers, herders, gatherers, migrations, ceremonies, scattering seeds of herbs and plants you like, and whatever else. There is basically no unclaimed land.

> Would you argue that you have no right to say "bugger off" to that person

You have no inherent right to do so, but it would absolutely be in your interest to do so. And indeed, while it took many thousands of years to settle the question, the settler-agricultural types did finally crush the more nomadic peoples in the last couple centuries and assert an absolute claim to formerly common property, so the question is moot: your property rights were established by thousands of years of violence and genocide by people tired of nomadic peoples asserting their traditional rights.
Actually not so much, I was wondering about similar things some time ago.

https://github.com/ghostFaceKillah/tensorflow-experiments/bl...
Magazines and newspapers are here today... it's called a kindle, or an ipad, or an iphone. This doesn't change that game. It also still has the same limitation of it's black and white brother. While the ink part scales, the electronics behind it don't.

Don't get me wrong, I think color makes this a much better value proposition... but I don't think our world is going to be wrapped in it anytime soon.
I am not an expert on persuasion techniques, but if you take the same "logical leaps" situation you described in your comment and put it into the context of a business negotiation, chances are the other party may not feel confident enough to do business or simply to agree with you in some conditions because they don't get your line of thought.
I think you are projecting.

The original discussion was about alternatives to three strikes (which explicitly both of us oppose). Notice the lack of value judgement of rehabilitation vs. punishment.

Secondly we were discussing the concept of proportionality. I expressed the rationality of society's need for proportional punishment. Notice how I did not present my personal views regarding rehabilitation vs. punishment.

So far we have only established that I believe that the punishment for a crime should have an upper bound which is proportional to the offense.

Now, whether the purpose of the prison system should be punitive or rehabilitative is another discussion.
I don't know about other people, but I have well over 1,500 accounts on various sites, probably about 300ish that I use on a regular (read: at least weekly) basis.

However, I use a password manager that logs in for me, as well as generating passwords. I actually don't know what 99% of my passwords are, and almost never type them.

This Trust API sounds interesting. I'm curious to see where it goes.
Part of the problem is that the state which has the strongest Open Government laws in the country is a laughingstock as a result of them.

https://reddit.com/r/floridaman
In my opinion, it is unlikely to be a new force, but WELL worth pursuing to confirm the results and explore further because of that small chance that it revolutionizes physics in important ways.
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Yes, how is this still 800$. http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/show-digitalpaper/resource.solu...

I wish someone would try to compete.
Ludicrous. This is the same kind of simplistic ideological fantasy as to think we're always on the RHS of the Laffer curve.
> Thinking of going to dual UHD (4K) displays from my dual 1080p next year, which will mean a video card update...

Do you do any gaming? If so you'll definitely need to pony up for a high-end card at 4k.

I'm in the 1440p (x2) camp for now (got QNIX monitors off ebay for ~<300 a pop) and will hold out until 4k displays reach that price. Though I'd trade 4k for 1440p @ 120Hz.

Gonna hold out on GPU upgrades until the next generation of cards (after Polaris) comes out and drives prices down some more
Indeed: "Celebrating towel day at #RIPE72 !!"

https://twitter.com/nnimpuno/status/735400708967665664
It looks like ZFS which came from BSD systems will be/is the next big thing in Linux, not Ubuntu on Windows which gets more hype...
Repeating the experiment wouldn't disprove the assertion. What you would be testing is "(a) Facebook is really listening to our conversations and (b) consistently responds to it in this way". A negative second test could never disprove (a), however a positive test would confirm both (a) and (b).
"Using ZFS as a replacement of Git for is probably not a good idea..."

Of course not.
Since this story and thread seem to be about failure..

Here's a film made in China I did like, called Ocean Heaven, starring Jet Li

It's a drama and touching story about a single father and his disabled son.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWAknxhWNZI
> Among the pieces of evidence that Google suggests the Trust API could use are some obvious biometric indicators, such as your face shape and voice pattern, as well as some less obvious ones: how you move, how you type and how you swipe on the screen.
> With the service continually running in the background of the phone, it can keep track of whether those indicators match how it knows you use your phone.

This is different from a password in my eyes. A password only proves that I know a secret. It can prove that I am the same person who signed up for a service or at least that I was trusted with the password by the person who signed up.

This Trust API on the other hand proves that I am a specific individual.

A password is like a pseudonym. The Trust API requires me to reveal my full identity.

I think this is big step back in privacy.