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> It always cracks me up when people tout the completely deregulated nature of cryptocurrencies as a good thing.

Well, I'll acknowledge that there are real downsides, but I think it might be feasible to (over time) build opt-in layers on top of the existing layers which serve some of the same purposes as some regulations and handle some of those issues.

States are good and important and all, but if we can build something that makes some of the roles of the state unnecessary/redundant, that would be cool I think.

I don't know, maybe this is largely an aesthetic preference?
No that wouldn't work. Consider the equation x^5 + 1 = 0. Clearly that isn't solvable by x=0.
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"All sorts" in a colloquial sense of "very many". Not literally all sorts.
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Essentially this is what NAS from Synology or Qnap should have offered in the first place.

Monetizing it by reselling the Cloud Storage space? ( Using B2 from Black Blaze ) But i really think it is a feature rather then a product.
I don't get why they make this so complicated. It is not like this costs any more than the existing system. You are just paying for it in a different way. Rather than paying the insurance system directly you are paying the tax man. Whether you pay the insurance company 100 bucks or the tax man, shouldn't make a difference.
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Yeah, but when hospitals get hacked and if they are just following security protocols set out by the government, the only people to really blame are the hackers. Also what does the fact that you got to see patient data have to do with anything? Didn’t you sign forms saying you wouldn’t disclose patient information? (HIPA) Also, as if you had the authorization to conduct any sort of research or studies on them.

What’s so hard to understand about following laws? And why are you implying that the reason people are concerned is due to the safety of their data? It doesn’t matter if Google has their data, or a shitty hackable hospital has it, it shouldn’t be used in any clinical studies without approval.
Anyone having your medical records is bad, especially Google ymmv.

I'm sure you can imagine ways how they can abuse it from making shadow profiles, target people with med ads, not to mention they are having leverage on the competition not having access to the same data.
> people like you

People with common sense? Governments (the institutions that get to use guns and jails and make laws) will not let their control of currency slide out from under them. Blockchains are cool and fun and applicable, but I can't see crypto-currency-as-money becoming mainstream. Even if it does the governments of the world will not adopt Bitcoin, they would make their own.

Much more likely it will be outlawed or go the way of the beanie baby. Optimistically it could remain as a financial instrument on some sort, but IMO the only reason people value btc at all is because they think it will "go mainstream". When this doesn't happen either by legislation or force the value will disappear, and with that its utility will as well.
> Just a vile gangster who I just wanted to be killed in every episode.

Yes! Seeing the family struggles of a vile gangster is what made the show amazing.
That really depends on the amount.
Calories in/out is true. As in it is an accurate statement.

The problem is that common examinations of diet focus on this math rather than what motivates humans to eat. It is like saying 'the problem with traffic is too many cars.' It is an axiom that does nothing to examine the causes. Admonishing everyone to 'drive less' will do very little unless several other systems are changed.
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I think it's a bad idea for most languages. Even with C, C++, Go, Rust, or Swift, it's pretty trivial to exploit anything running within the same process. Any user-submitted code needs to be isolated from any code you need to be able to trust.
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For what it's worth, the Jira for KIP-101 was created in January 2014. That has been a known potential Kafka data loss scenario for quite a while, just took some time (and evidently the findings of these new stress tests) to be prioritized as a serious problem that needed to be fixed.
I also have that theory, and it's not a stretch since the act of business is to commoditize everything. I especially saw it in the IT consulting business.
Since it can be disabled at the command line on JVM startup, I don't think the breakage will be that painful.
Interestingly, Unicode has subscript versions of most of the Latin alphabet: ₐbcdₑfgₕᵢⱼₖlₘₙₒₚqᵣₛₜᵤᵥwₓyz. I wonder why they don't complete the set.
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I'd say that cryptocurrencies are going mainstream... Bit by bit. /s
The parent comment said "build up as much industrial and military capacity as possible to withstand those unpredictable effects".

And then you said: "if we were serious about trying to withstand them we'd be putting more efforts into flood defences, desalination plants, disaster-relief"

These are the same.
I'm with you, but it's not necessarily new. HN has always been a blend of STEM and money/hustle.
Misleading article:

1. Dismiss stress, by badly redefining what stress is.

2. People "snapping": Just mention it, but do not explain why is a bad metaphor. Maybe he/she deleted the paragraph, maybe he/she do not care for a coherent article?

3. Dismiss healthy food

4. Do not understand DNA

5. more badly explained things

6. “war on drugs” - finally something, but this is PROPAGANDA not a bad metaphor. It is intentional.

7. "War on terror" - I this case, when "war on terror" is "war on ISIS" is not a bad metaphor, they've uniforms and a territory.
I just wish every job board in the world would require email validation ("click the link we sent you") for creating accounts. Some people in india have been using my email address to sign up for job sites on the rate of about one a week, and I'm getting so sick of it. I had to disable email alert sounds on my phone solely because of indian job boards that send out their "new job matches" garbage at 3am my ime.
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I believe that renewable is the solution, more so now that the price has become viable. My country for example went from being oil dependant to produce energy to be almos 100% renewable in less than 5 years by building hundreds of eolic turbines.

But we have a small population and our economy is stable, there are other places where we can not expect to do this.
Cryptolocker is "just" a C++ computer program too, it is technically interesting and variants are getting increasingly sophisticated. That doesn't mean I can't see that economically it's a negative sum game wasting massive amounts of value in order to enrich a few.
Technically, I don't think you can call it a Ponzi scheme unless you're paying existing ICO owners with new, incoming ICO buyers' money. Coins sort of prevent that?

I think it's technically just fraud: they take your money, convert it into worthless acorns, then when nothing happens, the acorns can't be traded for any value.
While it may be true that it is hard to explain to the average Joe what the value of cryptocurrency is versus their native fiat currency - it is less true for your "average Juan."
My answer to the Fermi Paradox is that it seems to be human conceit that alien life intelligent enough for space travel would want to contact us. If our species really is typical, there is no reason for them to contact us above the many other species. We don't go out of our way to make contact with every band of chimps in the wild, so why would species much more advanced than us be interested in contacting us?
Also curious about this. Tesla has the ability to to hoard millions of hours of driving experience per year. Data seems to trump all in ML applications so far and Tesla definitely has the most available to harvest.

At the same time, Tesla is primarily video based and it is likely quite difficult to call home with gigabytes of video every night.
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The accuracy is a trade-off between latency and precision. The touch event arrives as soon as you touch the screen, but the actual force of your touch still needs a few milliseconds to actually put the device into motion. Waiting a little bit while collecting measurements gives you quite an accurate indication of the force used, but the increased latency makes it harder to play.

Sliders and knobs will be added in a future version. I wanted to put an MVP on the app store first before adding additional features.
I was thinking more of something like an entrepreneur bankrolling a BTC to Mpesa gateway.

The main point, though, was that crypto currency isn't a 1:1 replacement for credit cards.
I am actually super intrigued to see how the launch of the Model 3 affects this practice from a legal standpoint. Currently, Tesla's high priced cars are fairly niche, and a lot of their practices fall under people's radar. Issues like right to repair, the active tracking of every car, etc. are pretty concerning from an ownership standpoint.

With buyers who may be less apt to replace their car every couple years, and a larger volume of buyers in general, I am kind of expecting more of Tesla's practices to get tested in court.

From a privacy standpoint, Tesla's 'learning data' is arguably a big deal, and from my understanding, something you currently can't shut off, even if you possess the title of ownership to the vehicle.
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I edited the site's content changing the name and description to a more appropriate one, whilst still staying entirely professional, but it failed to save the adjusted content. -1 for user-friendliness
We actually thought it was a problem with TI's parts, which is why we sent it to TI (we had a dedicated TI rep that came by every 2-3 weeks). When it came back that the package was empty it was actually a little embarrassing for us, since everyone immediately knew they were fakes. A bunch of calls went out and eventually one of the manufacturing managers tracked down the purchasing guy in the factory that said something like, "Oh this was a small run and I didn't want to buy a whole reel so I just ran down to the corner electronics market and picked up a 100."
3D touch is not supported on all devices unfortunately.
One amusing thing about this epic tale is Serious Industrial OCaml User disregarded direct, relatively easy to implement, very sound advice from Xavier Leroy about how to debug their system! I would like to think that, were I in a similar situation being advised by an expert of that calibre, I would at least humor his suggestions.

Why seek the expert if not for his advice? It brings to mind people disregarding doctors who give them inconvenient medical advice.
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They probably work but probably not within the same maximum/minimum ratings as the original chip. Your design might need a max frequency, or a minimum operating voltage, or a certain current-driving capability etc. that the fake chip cannot provide, causing the final product to fail when the design prototype worked fine. There are many variants of the 555 with wildly varying characteristics, not all are interchangeable.
NB: the US already spends more on socialized medicine than any other country except Norway:

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

The US spends more on socialized medicine than countries like Japan and Great Britain spend in total.

It is a very bad situation here in the US.
And then Ethereum is going to go POS and there won't be mining anymore. They'll move on to other GPU-mineable coins and the ecosystem will continue to grow :).

BTW: Asus is making mining specific graphic cards to try and relieve the pressure on gaming cards - 10k minimum order.
This is very standard for the Economist. It used to be a good magazine, and occasionally still delivers a superb long form article (usually about the financial/corporate world), but its editorials are just a lazy mishmash of bullet points.
Can there be data seasonality in games?
In the US... Not so much.
So Newton's Laws of Motion are just "an outdated theory" because they were published in 1686?

And, I am sorry, but the paper you quote is just pseudo-intellectual drivel. If I could decipher anything from it, it boiled down to "because there is no such thing as perfect free market, therefore Austrian School is flawed".

Or something like that.
The anonymity is overrated anyway. At some point you want to turn your currency into tangible benefit like food or a car or drugs or whatever. At that point it isn't hard to connect the anonymous wallet with the guy who bought the new Ferrari out of thin air.