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I believe that crypto currencies will not affect most people’s lives (<10%), and therefore it will never go “mainstream”. The applications for BTC are quite limited, and are mostly edge cases such as evading detection, and easy international transfers. The value of a BTC is currently based on the price of mining one BTC, plus mass speculation. If you consider the immense inefficiency and resources required to mine a BTC, you realize that in most cases using your state’s currency is a better option. The trust and safety provided by BTC is subject to the law of diminishing returns, meaning that most will be content with the money system currently being used today.
> What are the economics or pharmacology that make fent apparently widely used in US medicine?

Let me say that I am not qualified to answer that directly, but I can point to some things that I am led to believe.

> French EMT-equivalents use it for severe out-of-hospital cases while opioid derivates are used for diagnosed, chronic needs.

First of all, I don't think EMTs are regularly administering fentanyl at the scene. I could be wrong about that.

Ketamine can keep producing (a very wide range of) primary and side effects for a good 24 hours after it's administered, whereas with Fentanyl you get a lot more control since it comes on and wears off rather quickly. I know people who have used Ketamine recreationally, and the types of intense hallucinations they report seem like they would be pretty incompatible with restraints or some forms of surgery.

Other than that, I think the U.S. seems to have deployed it more quickly because the patients and their insurers are not as cost sensitive as in single payer systems. Common forms of Ketamine are not new to anyone, whereas the most common fentanyl products are from the '90s or later. People say Americans pay a lot for health care, and this is true, but they also get most of the cool new toys, drugs, and procedures first; and so take the first-mover advantages with the first-mover disadvantages.

That said, I don't think the (local) medical uses of fentanyl are particularly important to the abuse problem. I live in Canada, and I don't think we use fentanyl medically as much, but there's a lot of it on the street. It seems to be mostly coming from independent producers rather than theft or fraud against the pharmaceutical companies that package it for use in the U.S. and Canada.
Money has been getting increasingly less tangible over the past few thousand years.

Initially, the value of money was in the materials that made it up; e.g gold, silver coins.

Then people started paying with paper backed by gold; so although the paper itself had no value, it could be used to redeem gold.

... People got used to paper.

Then people started paying with paper fiat currencies not backed by anything.

Then people started paying with electronic numbers on computer screens in their bank accounts backed by the fiat paper money.

... People got used to digital numbers in their bank accounts.

Now we have cryptocurrencies which are backed by the electronic numbers in our bank accounts.

It does seem like a logical progression.
Thank you! I couldn't live without the alias I use for ls, which specifies BLOCKSIZE with the tick. Now I am going to add TIME_STYLE, which I didn't know about but I love already.

The rendering of time in any format other than ISO-8601 is a pet peeve of mine. It always baffles me why people do it.
This looks really really well done! Ideal for trying out components and sharing demos.

Your medium post mentions

> These are the two key technologies that really enabled us to pack all of the functionality inside of your web browser with virtually no server-side involvement.

Can you elaborate a bit about how this is achieved?

Thanks and congrats for the launch!
What happens to Bitcoin if everyone decides to cash in?
Haha. Is there a joke on HN about this? I swear every thread discussing Snopes has someone say the exact phrase "oh, it's a divorce-related issue". It gets me every time.
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Patreon's office caught fire yesterday! But everyone and everything is completely fine.

https://twitter.com/jackconte/status/892888675570208769
Buying drugs.
It's debt, they're not storing money for you unless you get a safe deposit box and leave it in that.

Deposits are loans you make to the bank. The interest rate is crap because you want the ability to call in that debt whenever you feel like. But like loaning anyone else money, they might not have it on them when you come to collect.
"When was the last time you made an international payment?"

I love that you asked this question! The very reason it doesn't happen often is because of friction inherent to legacy payment systems. Cryptocurrencies remove this friction in cross-border trade, hence are making such transactions more commonplace.

It's like you saying in 1890 "Why buy cars? People don't travel that much." But the invention of cars is precisely what increased the desire to travel.

"You have the right to a bank account in the EU"

What about the rest of the world? 6.6B humans?

"Currently Bitcoin is more expensive"

Not for transactions above approximately $100.
It means exactly the same as bitcoins. You have an entry on some computers somewhere.

The difference is that the entry on a regulated bank's computer can be used to settle a tax bill, or a loan. The entry in a blockchain can do neither.

So at some point you have get the right sort of money to settle debts imposed on you by wider society.

Blockchain 'currencies' are just intangible bottles of wine, artworks, or tulip bulbs and will go through the same bubble and bust as all those things have previously.
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Pretty good summary:

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/initial-coin-offering-ic...
> It also includes one of the best nonsensical infographics to ever exist on the web

While technically flowcharts could be defined infographics in the broad/original sense, I still don't see why this is so nonsensical. It is obviously targeted to someone who knows the subject and terminology involved, but apart from that it looks OK to me.

/nitpick
You mean Oxycontin - oxytocin is the 'love hormone' released by your brain.
This feature has been in Safari and Firefox for ages, and is still there. It’s awesome.
Apologies for not being clear there. XFN means cross functional teams (design, research, product marketing, analytics, sales etc.) in my comment above.
Styling will keep a company alive long before a focus on accessibility would kill it. Semantic markup is borderline pointless, except to rationalize design elements and keep them consistent.

I think you're thinking like an engineer rather than a customer. The customer is more important than the engineering, as long as the engineering supports what the customer is trying to do. Very few customers rely on semantic markup, thus it is not very important.
Some people will assume you are the one to call when their computer is broken. Some others will assume you are the reason why their computer is broken.
As someone also on the industry side of things, what would be your recommended solution to the problem?
On the one hand we don't want the legal mess that licensing entails, on the other hand I'm absolutely in favor of reimbursing the academics in some way. But how?

Some new, standardized, industry accepted commercial license (who will invest the required legal effort to come up with such a license that's accepted by both sides?)? A concept based on voluntary donations (good luck getting that by the finance department)?
It's common understanding. It's also completely wrong.

Banks are money factories, not warehouses. When you go for a loan the Bank creates the money for you on the spot. DR Loan Assets, CR Deposits.

We pay for things by swapping somebody else's liabilities with each other.
Could I ask you to begin with stating why you think it is "wasted"? That seems like a very odd viewpoint to take. If nothing else, entertainment has value in itself.
>I wonder if a lot of that has to do with how it's being "marketed" --- it might just be me, but whenever I see "modern" being used to describe something, it evokes the negative connotations of being trendy, fashionable, boring, vapid, fleeting, style-over-substance that's all too common with software today

For me, when I see people waxing poetically about the unix way and the old, crufty, POSIX userland, it's all about cargo cult, "that's how things have always been", minimum viable progress while keeping compatibility, and heritage-over-substance.
Money has never been tangible. It always has been a token for a debt owed by somebody.

There is no difference between a paper bill, a coin and a cheque other than the account it references.
I meant "mining becomes more efficient" in the sense that using it as a heater is an efficiency gain over not using it as a heater. I didn't mean to imply that legacy non-heater miners also become more efficient.

Intuitively, you're right. However, I read an article (can't find it now, still looking) that presented a convincing case that if there is $X up for grabs for doing a certain amount of work (mining), then the amount of work that is done increases until $X is being spent on the work. So if you're getting heating out of it as well, X increases, but that just means more mining is done until it's no longer marginally profitable.

But intuitively you're right. So I don't quite know where the mistake lies.
In cancer the current state of the art seems to be "we can target proteins using molecules but we can't predict its outcome". I don't see how just monitoring people around the world with cancer is sufficient to increase basic understanding of cancer biology.
Wow, and it doesn't even require color. There's a grayscale illusion which behaves similarly -- maybe even a bit stronger! -- at:

http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/mesh-driftillusion01...
'International' exists outside of EU. Actually most of the problems mentioned above belong to the vast majority of people outside the developed west.
Code is speech in the US:

This court can find no meaningful difference between computer language, particularly high-level languages as defined above, and German or French... Like music and mathematical equations, computer language is just that, language, and it communicates information either to a computer or to those who can read it.

- Judge Patel, April 15, 1996

Source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...
> things that can't be typed w/o moving your fingers from the home row are really easy to type.

That's why some people (like me) switched to Dvorak.

Your sentence on Qwerty was 43 top, 21 middle and 12 bottom row keypresses.

On Dvorak, it's 24 top, 45 middle and just 7 bottom row characters, twice as good!

"ithout" is also entirely home-row, so you wouldn't need to bother with "w/o". The word demonstrates Dvorak's other feature nicely, hand alternation and outward-to-inwards flow:

without
,gkjsfk (Qwerty equivalent)
RLRRLLR

The letter pairs typed with the same hand go smaller-to-big finger, since "th" (Qwerty "kj") is much easier to type than "ht" ("jk") -- and "th" occurs about 7x as often in English as "ht".
This is exactly what I have wanted for many years. This helps make Linux understandable and accessible to new computer users. Fantastic work, and thank you!
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Highly recommend, Ideas: A History by Peter Watson.

Has a little less about historical events and more on the ideas that shaped humanity. The part on early human development is also fascinating.

https://www.amazon.com/d/Books/Ideas-History-Peter-Watson/07...
I would think that when operating any type of illegal online enterprise, you should always operate under the assumption that everyone you're talking to is a government agent. So you should never reveal anything about yourself. The government is obviously making many undercover purchases.

Traffic analysis is a risk, but questionable. If it was used in this case, I want to follow this case closely to see more details. Because I haven't heard of a case of the government using traffic analysis to identify users except extremely basic stuff such as "we saw him walk into his house, then saw some Tor traffic, then saw a post appear on the forums".
I've slightly lost confidence in Keybase recently, since logging on after a while and discovering that they're _heavily_ promoting their app.

It's a bit disturbing to see them act like so many other sites that are pushing something you just don't need. Also, after asking them on Twitter about this, I didn't get a reply - for an organisation who's all about identity, this isn't a great sign.
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Which primarily shows that you don't understand the banking system?

Banks generally don't invest (with the exception of investment banks, but that does not have anything to do with the money in your account). They don't hold your money at all, rather they are in debt to you the moment you put money into your account. Also, there are way more functions and processes at a bank than "putting money into your account" and "withdrawing from your account".
I've always wondered why things wasn't set up like this from the beginning, much less pain for humans!
Data durability - the probably that your data is not lost.

FWIW Amazon make a similar claim of 11 9s for data durability on S3: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/
Or just use ls -l --block-size=\'1 (make sure your locale is set properly). This way not only your interactive output is fixed, but also any place where it's redirected to text.
How does this compare to nixos/guix?
Cats play like that with blank sheets of paper on soft surfaces, too, due to the crinkling noises, so the evidence is insufficient.
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Organizing a party and having one on hand gave me a lot more security in my abilities as a host.
Is there some standard mechanism in silicon valley for avoiding divorce-related ownership problems? I imagine that VCs wouldn't be happy if a founder's ex-spouse (who had no direct participation in the startup) ended up with a significant stake in a company, for example.

EDIT: To clarify, I'm not saying this is the scenario here (AFAIK there are no VCs involved either); as matthewmacleod put it, "this made me think about divorce generally" -- or more precisely, this is something I've wondered about for a while and this seemed like an opportune time to satisfy my curiosity.
I'd like to ask more about Proof of Stake's flaws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-stake#Criticism

These problems seem fairly significant and unresolved. Thoughts?

Statistical simulations have shown that simultaneous forging on several chains is possible, even profitable. But Proof of Stake advocates believe most described attack scenarios are impossible or so unpredictable that they are only theoretical.

Any system that will eventually attain a $1T market cap probably can't have theoretical issues like this.
Is there Source Control integration?
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Both, really. Go's so small you can be quite proficient with in months. While it's not as productive as, say, Python (wrt how quickly you can get your code up and running) it's much quicker than other languages (and nicer to use in the long run).
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Thanks for the kind words! And absolutely, take a peek at this GH thread about it: https://github.com/unpkg/unpkg-website/issues/35#issuecommen...
This looks really cool, just one quick question - I'm not really interested in all that Angular/React stuff, I just want my favourite VS Code in the browser (as a 'thin' client between my browser and my VPS, for example). Is this thing modular to allow for this, or is this meant to be just an Angular/React tool? Thanks!
It's illuminative that you didn't mention the trustlessness of blockchain.

After all that was the original idea: Anybody can verify transactions without asking a central authority. But this is mostly not happening.

Why?

It's too difficult. To really trust blockchain on your own you have to understand game theory, cryptography and networks. You have to read source code and compile your clients yourself. Almost nobody does that.

So what's the point?

People are mostly in it for gambling or because they don't have a choice, for example illegal transactions. A honest answer whether they trust bitcoin would be a resounding no! And the banks? They see a way to reduce costs. Then the customers will trust the bank telling them to use it (or not).

It's quite a perversion. I predict: Blockchain will succeed not because of its trustless nature but because it helps reducing transaction costs.

Poor Satoshi Nakamoto would roll over in his grave (if he is dead).
Projects/products that get many upvotes here once might deserve to stay in public sight longer than a couple of hours, even if just because they are more likely to be interesting/helpful to people :) e.g. yesterday's submission about a job site for former criminals slipped to the 2nd page just in 24 hours
Ya, I made that comment when the gofundme was first posted. In business disputes I always wonder "how did it go wrong", especially with smart people like the Mikkelsons.
Crypto currencies will never be as energy efficient as a traditional financial network with trusted players because of the need to calculate pointless hashes (or other variants of proof of work) in order to resolve trust and consensus issues.

For BoA (or other financial institutions), simply sending a message through the trusted financial network saying "I pay you $5" is sufficient. Whereas for BitCoin (or other crypt currencies), a difficult hash has to be calculated that takes many orders of magnitude more energy.
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Thanks! And great question — I don't think we're not targeting that sort of use case unfortunately, but we will allow you to do full git in browser pretty soon here. Right now we only support React & Angular but we're opening up custom templates that will let you configure any loaders, compilers, etc :)
> know about spinning up extra servers

Better left to ops

> choosing to go to cloud

Better left to the CTO/Director
Not yet, but that's absolutely on the near-term roadmap!
government does not equal socialism. Socialism is against private ownership of the means of production - an economy that permits private ownership of the means of production is capitalist. The few industries that are nationalised are not held in common by the people and managed democratically - they're owned by the government who try to manage it the way they think the people would want it. That's what's commonly referred to as state capitalism.
Searching HN for comments containing "divorce-related issue" yields just your comment and grandparent.
The value of fiat currency is that the issuing entity assures it's worth, ensures it's security, it's validity and facilitates flow. The benefits of cryptocurrency may look appealing, however, as a store of wealth it's a long way from 'mainstream' and I believe entropy will prevail, in the fiat system entropy is handled, the supply of money is flexible, in a system with entropy, everyone's wealth will tend towards zero over the long term.
Does it not make sense for the colourblind person to adjust the colour definitions for their terminal, so all programs give acceptable output? Just as a myopic person may increase the font size.

I don't think it's colourblindness, but I have trouble reading ANSI blue, which xterm defaults to rgb(0, 0, 238). I've changed it to be a roughly Persian green colour rgb(0, 166, 147).

If I had the most common male colourblindness, I'd probably add some orange to the default reds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors
How is that an improvement over ctrl-shift-pwr? Yes I know it's 3 buttons, but is that worth a ~$300 feature?
> It is not about you enforcing this on your daughter. The religion demands it.

Coming from a Muslim family myself, I can tell that Islam has so many rules most Muslims (if not all, given that some of these rules are contradictory) ignore most of them and only follow the ones they strongly agree with and are part of their culture since probably pre-Islamic times. So no, I would have to say I disagree here, Muslims who control their daughters like that do it because they want it, not because "the religion demands it" though that's the primary excuse they use (I've seen fathers who drink alcohol and eat pork for example or don't pray and yet still go full control freak on their daughters "because Islam demands it".). And yes, this goes for most religions but because Muslims tend to be much more culturally conservative than others, it shows a lot more in their cases.
So where do the $2000 go when I hand the bills over? Surely they keep it somewhere. And when I want to take it out, they give it back to me (obviously not the same bills).

But yeah, I don't really know how banks work and what they do. But for the average jo (me included) is is all extremely simple to use - which is my point, that Bitcoins are not.
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Most of it isn't. In 2015 Wyoming produced 6,538 trillion BTUs of coal[1], of which, it used 487 trillion BTUs (~7%) [2].

[1] https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=WY#tabs-3
[2] https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=WY#tabs-1
This is something I've been tempted to blog about. As you and my sibling poster point out, the illusion is actually essentially composed of the things they claim aren't there. The same goes for the Kanizsa triangle, Fraser's illusion and many others. The simplest description of each image matches what our eyes see, but the creators say "Ah, but I created it this other way, so your eyes are wrong".
"This raises an interesting legal question: Is it a crime to create and sell malware?

The indictment asserts that Hutchins created the malware and an unnamed co-conspirator took the lead in selling it. The indictment charges a slew of different crimes for that: (1) conspiracy to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; (2) three counts of violating 18 U.S.C. 2512, which prohibits selling and advertising wiretapping devices; (3) a count of wiretapping; and (4) a count of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act through accomplice liability — basically, aiding and abetting a hacking crime.

Do the charges hold up? Just based on a first look at the case, my sense is that the government’s theory of the case is fairly aggressive. It will lead to some significant legal challenges. It’s hard to say, at this point, how those challenges will play out. The indictment is pretty bare bones, and we don’t have all the facts or even what the government thinks are the facts. So while we can’t say that this indictment is clearly an overreach, we can say that the government is pushing the envelope in some ways and may or may not have the facts it needs to make its case. As always, we’ll have to stay tuned.

Here’s an overview of the six counts in the indictment, together with my tentative thoughts on them."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
I don't know. Is there a Linux version?
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