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We will have to agree to disagree. Inflation is a trade-off - it hurts people holding the coin but it increases distribution.

I generally hold the opinion that you should not create traps for speculators, that's exactly what slow start mining is.

I think there are better ways to prevent unfair early distribution, such as a more responsive difficulty adjustment algorithm (per the work of maaku), or even just a longer inflation taper. Instead of mining half the entire supply in just 4 years pick something a bit slower.

Or do something like let Bitcoin holders as of X date collect a proportionate amount of coins in a premine. Then you get to borrow from some of the distribution that Bitcoin has already achieved.

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And you are right as far as traders only hurting themselves. Nobody aware of the inflation schedule bought above $1k per coin, I'm almost certain of that. But I think what happened is akin to throwing a bunch of black belts into an arena with people who have never been in a fight before. Sure, they might have chosen to be in the arena, but are you free of responsibility when they get hurt? Especially if they did not realize they would be fighting champions?

Perhaps a weak metaphor. But I think disingenuous to call someone a fool simply because you had more information than they did. It doesn't seem right to me to use that to justify predatory behavior.
Wonder if this new app will work any better than the current garbage iOS app which is essentially unusable.

Have to resort to mobile site (which is fine), and continue to get heckled to switch to the app.
As someone who hasn't used Windows in 15 years... I didn't know that. I'm glad I got down voted to find out.

Either way, once you get to it, couldn't the filesystem APIs treat it read-only and prevents someone from making these kind of mistakes in the first place?
Are you hoping I won't type /china/ in the URL? The statement "average gdp of Russians dropping below that of China" is still not true. Though I am not an expert on the subject, nor do I have a interest in Russia.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/china/gdp-per-capita-ppp
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Something happened to Wayne Green's What CD magazine?

(Ah, wait, that was CD Review. Oh, he also founded Byte. Great run: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Green )

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Oh there's a ton of ways to do it, from stripping, downgrade attacks, backdoored constants, precomputed tables for low order groups, shadow ca certs, etc.

I recommend reading the Snowden Documents, which disclosed a number of successful at-scale attacks on the PKI infrastructure.

I find it surprising there's so much ignorance in the Hacker News community about the state of encryption, especially given the newsworthiness of the Snowden Disclosures.

I also find the prevalence of 'shoot the messenger' regarding HN folks getting angry at me for pointing out publicly known issues with the current practice of commercial and consumer encryption.
Wait how do zombies eat time, exactly? If they have cash flow and are viable businesses, what do they need from the VCs that would take up their time?
I found a cool risk arbitrage play here that others may find interesting.

When the deal was announced, it mentioned that SCTY shares were to be converted into TSLA shares at a rate of 0.11 TSLA/SCTY. Yet SCTY shares were priced at close to 0.097 TSLA/SCTY.

This means there was roughly a 12% profit to be made by buying SCTY shares and shorting the equivalent value of TSLA shares, assuming the deal goes through.

I ended up only buying SCTY shares, effectively buying TSLA shares at $182 (when it was at $203). Now TSLA is at $189 so I only made about 4% but had I shorted TSLA at the same time I would have made the full 12%.

All over the course of a just a few months, not bad. It seemed pretty obvious to me that the deal would go through - though hindsight is 20-20.

It's also interesting to consider that now that SCTY has little downside risk and 20% of SCTY shares are held short, if there will be a short squeeze. Seems like SCTY shares are locked at exactly 0.11 * TSLA so I guess I don't see this happening.

Fun, profitable learning experience. :)
We have representatives that do that. The prominent cabinet members have to make it through the Senate.

Rand Paul has already come out publicly against a couple of names floated for Secretary of State and is making noise that 2 or 3 other Senators (enough) are also concerned.

I don't really like Rand Paul, but at the moment I'm pretty glad that he actually has a coherent and strong ideology.
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The relevant part is https://youtu.be/XEVlyP4_11M?t=1487, at 24m47s in.

Do average citizens send pictures of their genitalia to people? Are you saying that the gov is downloading everyone's photos, or are you saying they have the capability.

I want law enforcement to have the capability to access images pertinent to an investigation when they have a warrant; it seems harmful to justice to prevent that by legislation. Oliver appears to be saying because the government can access such information they're necessarily over-powered; surely without such capability then they'd be incapable of following even the most basic of criminal organisations and certainly incapable of tracking information pertinent to defence from foreign powers and, yes, domestic terrorism.

"If the government were looking at pictures of my penis that would upset me."

The question is if you say "would you agree to the government being able to see all the pictures on a device of a suspected criminal, eg in a murder investigation" how many will say "no because they might see an image of the suspects dick and so it would be an invasion of privacy". Now "if you were the main suspect in a murder investigation, should the government be allowed to see the pictures you stored on your device"?

We all now a large proportion of people would want to hide naked images of themselves from casual observers, but TBH if the cost of cracking a terrorist ring is a government operative seeing a picture of me naked then I'll tie a bow on it and send it in gift wrap; I'm shy but it's only a body part.

The argument has been simplified by Oliver beyond what is relevant. There's much more nuance than he's pretending there is IMO.

Now, if the government agencies have agents viewing for private reasons images that are downloaded, or they're accessing data that has been acquired illegally then we have something to work on. Doubtless that happens.

PS: I'll admit I've not followed the Snowden case in depth as it's not particular interesting to me. I'm much closer to the "nothing to hide" people than the "the government know what toilet paper I use the world will end tomorrow" people [nice and objective!] as you may have surmised.
Yup, and it's the DNA how corrupt institutions have always worked, throughout the ages.
well said, that's exactly the issue.
Good call! I just whitelisted LogRocket instead. :)
Not really for humanity directly. We'd survive. But the plants and animals we depend on probably wouldn't have a very good time, and our biodiversity as a planet would significantly decrease.

Not quite extinction level, perhaps another Great Dying, though.
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"Napoleon’s Grande Armée marched not just for the glory of France but for liberty, equality and fraternity."

Ohh, man, I can't withstand "The economist" anymore. The non sense propaganda is growing and growing as they feel their Keynesian power threatened . Napoleon destroyed my native country, Spain and half of Europe because of just one thing, personal glory.

Napoleon was a sociopathic ambitious man who claimed to be against Monarchy but declared himself Emperor and his son and family as Throne's heirs.

There is always good words with any invasion. Liberty, equality and fraternity are destroyed when you have to use blood, extortion and humiliation in order to impose them.

In Spain there were people that followed those values, in peace, the "afrancesados", but most of them revolted against France when the invasion happened.

French people consider Napoleon a hero, like Lincoln or Washington in the USA or Bolivar in Venezuela, I understand it, every country has their heroes but the Economist?.

The Economist have been going to big contortions in their arguments in order to defend the Keynesianism order. For example Hillary earning a quarter million dollars for a single speech from the same people that later benefits from her politics was totally normal because scientific Nobel prices could win 50.000 after having changed the world in something.

Now reading the article I don't know how to start, it colvolves and cortorts again the arguments in order to portray as lunatics anyone against the Soros worldview.

I travel around the world around and I see different cultures, what the Economist interest represent is creating a single world country with a single currency, with a single elite in charge.

But people want to preserve their culture and their interests and it is totally ok and good for the world.

In the past we had competition in policies, we could see West Germany with an economic system and East Germany with another and we could compare.

Now this people want nobody to be able to compare, they want all the world banning cash, all the world with negative interest rates, all the world printing money like crazy, Corporations having more power that States.

And they don't want competition, because if someone else follows other policies, it could prove their system not being so good as they claim it to be.
It's politically infeasible. You might as well ask "why doesn't everyone just get along? what's the downside?"
Everyone with any brains and/or ethics wanted a carbon tax 15 years ago. But straight taxes don't offer nearly the opportunity for graft and corruption. Which, if looking at the investments of the major players tells us anything, is exactly why we didn't get a carbon tax even climate change skeptics would have been cool with.
A binary number was walking with it's head down. Some guy asks: Hey, are you sad? The binary number responds: No, I'm just a bit off...
I use a combination of the 4chan /mu/ archive (https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/mu/, just searching for "title + mega") and soulseek. Never left me wanting. Also if you download the music be sure to go to the artists shows to support them directly!
Google has a monopoly on search, Facebook has a monopoly on social media, Microsoft has a monopoly on OS (this is contentious generally but Linux isn't a realistic choice for most people and Apple only releases their OS on special hardware that is way out of the price range for most people). Very few large tech companies seem to have lots of competition over their core business and honestly if it was that competative in the end you probably wouldn't be seeing as much VC money as you have.
China (well, Beijing) has tons of photo enforced intersections, but the government itself doesn't see "blocking intersection" as wrong so they never ticket for that.

Also, I've never seen a traffic cop actually pull someone over or do enforcement at all (maybe some DUI checkpoints, that's it!). If it wasn't for the cameras, no laws would ever get enforced. They only enforce parking laws a couple of times a year, so many two lane roads have become one lane as citizens take advantage of a lack of parking enforcement and a lack of cheap parking.
I found the article pretty lacking. It failed to even mention what is in my opinion the most important, and the most significant reason for Trump/Brexit/Le Pen: that the elites might be wrong.

Why is diversity good? Why is it better to not offend people rather than preserve free speech? Why would immigration, especially uncontrollable immigration, be beneficial? What if some cultures are better? And even if they're not, why is it bad for Westerners to like their own culture? Why should we respect foreign cultures if they don't respect our own? Why should you lose your job if you make a joke in public that some people deem offensive? Why is racism against whites and sexism against men acceptable?

In the recent years, these questions weren't being asked and the "right" answer was just assumed by the elites. What's more, it was forbidden to even ask questions like these!
I think the warming itself is not really the biggest problem, it's the secondary effects like rising sea levels, increased natural disasters, etc. So for example if it's too late to stop coastal cities from being flooded, twice that much sea level rise is not much worse, because all the important cities and infrastructure are already gone.
There is a huge disparity in demand due to the perceived health benefits (which I think are essentially illusory). They used to ship unwanted dark meat to Russia but now they've gotten a taste for white meat as well.
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I'll have to check when I get home, but I'm fairly certain you're purposefully suppressing the compilers warnings here. That's not a good way to make your argument about the compiler not being able to warn you about problems.
Now I want to be in position to order a GUI, preferably for some sort of notarization or document-drafting app.

I'll explain that I'm actually thinking of a movie for the UI, and I want it to be as exactly like that as possible; I'm sure they get this request really often, and it won't be anything new to them; and I'll explain that I even brought some scenes from the movie to show them exactly what I wanted. And then I'll be grudgingly persuaded to pop in the relevant DVD...

And the scenes will be from a pirate movie, with an old-timey European pirate/bandit/mercenary chief writing with a quill on parchment while wearing a coat with ruffles and lace.

Only quills will work as pointing devices. To save your work, you sprinkle some sand on the tablet and blow it off. The tablet comes with a breathalyzer attachment, which checks for enough rum in the air to prove that you're a legit pirate but not so much rum that you're signing contracts while drunk. Voice input must be in Ebonics, which is pretty much what the Cavaliers spoke in the English Civil War. Voice output is in a thick Devonshire burr (the classic pirate accent) that makes you think that the app's probably half drunk.

Now, if only someone's eccentric enough to do it...
board meetings, requests for intros to people/customers, informal checkins, even just dealing with the company within the VC firm
Point out that surveillance is an issue concerned with the integrity of attorney-client privilege, dissidents and journalists who DO have things to hide even though they are not criminal.
Not that the statistic will be skewed with respect to itself. But that it will be skewed against what really matters. It might be the wrong decision to factor out distance.
There's an argument to be made for picking an existing standard. I probably would have, were I developing something like systemd, because I'm lazy. But, the path they've chosen is more flexible than that, and has some other benefits. syslog is a very old standard, at this point, and has many limitations and issues, particularly in a world where a deployment might involve hundreds of instances of a service.

Lennart wrote a pretty good summary of why journald exists, and I think it holds up to scrutiny pretty well:

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1IC9yOXj7j6cdLLxWEBA...

One could argue about what the right "one log" target is, but I doubt one would come up with syslog. syslog-ng and rsyslog were incremental improvements, and solve some of the issues, but they're 18 and 12 years old, respectively, and both pre-date containers, widespread cloud computing (AWS came in 2006), service-based architectures, etc. When they were new, we still had servers that did one thing.

One can also argue about whether journald is the right implementation, even if we acknowledge that a new standard is needed, we don't have to agree that journald is the right one. But, I wasn't writing the code, and what they came up with is pretty good. I don't have any major complaints about it, except that I have to learn some new stuff.

So, I respect the argument that they should have chosen an existing standard for logging, but I also see the reasons why they chose to build something new. I think if I'd been involved in the decision, I probably would have come down on the side of journald, in the end (but would have needed some convincing).
are u kidding? favor after favor the CEO asks from the network of each VC partner. Can you do this, can you intro me to that guy, and they can't say, "Well... but you're a zombie"
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I think the point of the parent comment is that choosing to eat white meat instead of dark meat for health reasons is nonsensical.
Some European swords do show a degree of differential tempering and differential hardening. I don't know what technique they used though. IIRC correctly if you polish some of the swords the same way you do a JP blade, you get hamon-esque patterns:

http://www.archaeologie-online.de/magazin/fundpunkt/forschun...

Also remember that JP swords are a few hundred years more modern than what we typically think of when we think EU swords. However the Vikings had some knowledge of carbon/crucible steel making as early as 9th-10th century:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulfberht_swords

Masamune was like 14th century with the famous Maramasa and Kotestu being 16th century onward.
I know. In the past whether it was a republican or a democrat administration, they have always taken the counsel of the DOD very seriously. But like many things after this consequential election, the country is in uncharted territory. The US has always had a president with past government leadership or military experience.

U.S.C. Article Two, Section 1 needs changes but that won't happen with constitutional purists currently in power.
i'm not a financial expert, but does that profit margin represent the small chance that the merger wouldn't go through?

can you calculate the exact 'odds' that this arbitrage represents
http://weather-warehouse.com/WeatherHistory/PastWeatherData_...

paste the table to excel and chart first two columns (we are still to beat warm winters of 1981 and 1985). what is insane it the wapo headline.
More bullets for the roulette game.

The oil-rich desert version of science fiction is seeming more realistic.
It passed because uk.gov is passing all kinds of vile crap while everyone is distracted by Brexit.

Most people barely have time and energy for one campaign, never mind ten. So we're going to be seeing a lot more of this.

This is the most toxic and least competent government I've ever seen. And I've seen a few.
> I see this sentiment a lot on HN these days. What's the reasoning behind it?

By concluding it's too late, one does not have to feel bad for not doing anything about it. Humans are simple that way.
This is bad news for Brits. One problem I see is the storage. If the ISP stores this information it makes their users open to hacking of personal data. A bigger problem than the phone hacking scandal. [0]

The title is inaccurate. Australia introduced storage of Internet usage logs (metadata) at ISP providers for two years in 2015. [1],[2]

[0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/17/three-mobile-cybe...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_Australia...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_(Intercepti...
I believe the author is confusing "Default Alive" with "Self Funded". In fact, raising money for a Default Alive company is a lot easier than Default Dead.

Every Self Funded company has to be Default Alive, but the converse is not true.
so that chart is from 2003 - 2009 ... and that is evidence of what exactly?

6 samples of a multi century phenomenon and you are ringing an alarm bell !

the chart smacks more of searching around for a chart that shows a decline to prop up the "ice is in trouble narrative".

ice extent ( recovered from 2008/12 ) , ice age ( recovered again from 2012 ), ice thickness ( recovered ), ice refreeze date ( recovered ), polar bear population ( highest its ever been )

now its ice mass that is the panic chart of the day. but 6 samples, its just not enough
It's a message for the parent commenter. I realize that it is pretty useless to anyone else and for that I apologize.
Even if this happens, it's likely that the assembly work will be automated. Very few manufacturing jobs will result from this.
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I think the question on (2) may be more focused on - will consumers buy as many tesla cars if they all cost $7,500 more? Will tesla drop the price of their cars instead (thus eating into their profit margin)?
If anything, I'd say a report from Fox News about a business doing something questionable is more reliable.
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Recommended too.

For one-offs you can entirely forgo the PCB design if you so desire as well and just use the PCB stock and rats nest it.

One of my creations: http://imgur.com/mcS79lU - fugly but very robust, functional, free of nasty parasitics and from paper to powered up and working is around 20 minutes work.
Truly tragic. My recommendation for...sampling music is to use Soulseek. They have almost everything. Download speed can sometimes be an issue though.
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No one is saying that house arrest was the wrong move for the administrators who sentenced him to make. The problem is with the way you frame Galileo's house arrest (again, in the papal apartments, which by the standards of the day, when witches were being burned in Northern Europe, was mild). You are still working from within a paradigm characterized by the false dichotomy of Science vs. the Church, or enlightened Science vs. the Church as tyrannical, monolithic overlord. To say Galileo was persecuted for his ideas is saying too much; what do we make of those who actually were and are persecuted? Galileo had been announcing his ideas and squabbling with opponents for decades before it came to house arrest, with at least two discernible periods of conflict. The motive was by and large more personal than theological (and certainly not scientific). Even the idea that theological disagreement would land you on the pyre is flatly wrong. A counterexample of that is Aquinas whose ideas were condemned by the bishop of Paris. Aquinas was canonized 50 years after his death and declared a doctor of the Church two centuries later. He remains one of the most important thinkers of the Church, in philosophy and in history.

The strategy of casting oneself as a victim is a tried and tested method of gaining a politically useful yet illusory moral high ground with which to bludgeon your opponent, and the Church has no shortage of enemies.
I already have a personal archive that is probably larger than the library of Alexandria. If this kind of stuff matters to you get a hard drive and start your own today. Once it gets large enough, put it on a NAS with RAID5 and a hot spare.
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Waffles has already been down for weeks. Likely dead too.
Well this is nice to read. I have PTSD, and attempted suicide three weeks ago. I was having a big problem last night and almost rang the same number. I'm glad that I didn't. So next time I'll probably just get into a bag, or jump from a higher place than last time.
Yeah I mean this stuff is all priced by the market. So it isn't any chance or odds based on facts, rather based on what the market priced the chance of the deal falling through.

I felt pretty confident the deal would go through, Elon mentioned that he spoke with many institutional shareholders and they were on board with the deal. Just makes sense that he picks up his own company rather than a competitor.

Edit: That's why it's called a "risk arbitrage" play. Arbitrage is when you simultaneously buy and sell the same security at different prices. Risk arbitrage means there's some risk that the securities won't be the same (generally because the merger falls through).