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I'm saddened with how many technologists here think of money.
As if our current system of fiat currency is in any way reliable, let alone at the ultimate stage of its evolution as a technology of wealth transfer.

If I look at the US currency as a technology that enables trade and cooperation, I notice:

- falsifiable; see the North Korean super dollar;

- pieces of metal alloy; coins are a souvenir from the past we shouldn't be bringing them into the future.

- porous fibre carry bacteria; See here: http://www.newsmax.com/health/Health-News/paper-money-germs-...

This makes me doubt if I can trust it and unlikely that I'll carry it on me.

On the other hand Bitcoin and other cryptos are currencies from the future that we all can buy and use today.

These are currencies designed to assure trust between unknown parties, so they are most definitely a means of exchange with no significant counter-party risk.

As a store of value, they suffer from the same speculative price fluctuations all too common in the FX markets, as we can see with the GBP over the last year or so. In crypto, this natural movements are amplified because there are no jurisdictions and very low barriers of entry, so when the coin supply doesn't increase to meet the demand prices go up, as they should. And lets not forget that several countries have already moved to recognise crypto-currencies as legal tender, so demand is increasing by reaching wider portions of consumer market.

As for crashes, to the best of my recollection, all major ones were caused by panic selling following news of major hacks (https://storeofvalue.github.io/posts/cryptocurrency-hacks-so...) or rumours of impending legislative crackdown in China and now in the US.

The intrinsic value of crypto-currencies is in the platforms that support them, so not only the market cap but also what the project stands for and what it can deliver in terms of market proposition, for instance:

- Ether is used to pay for resource utilisation on the Ethereum platform which I use to develop smart contracts, but the Foundation is re-inventing the internet so that's how I value the currency.

- Monero, ZCash are in the forefront of cryptographic research and are some of the most accessible and privacy protecting financial instruments available so that's how I value them.

- Bitcoin is all about economic resilience and self-sovereignty, unfortunately the in-fighting is bound to decrease its usefulness.

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So many Bitcoin fans, so many "whatabouts". I would say the burden is on you to show that producing and moving cash requires ludicrous amounts of energy like Bitcoin does. It sounds unlikely.
Not just when they fail deliver. I like 1Password, but I can't stand their '1Password talking in first person about itself'-communication:

https://twitter.com/1password

And then the self-congratulating blog posts, with employees redoing it in the comments:

https://blog.agilebits.com/2017/07/13/why-we-love-1password-...
Is there justification to continue the extrapolation?
> found no decline in sperm counts in men from Asia, Africa and South America ... US/European men will have little or no reproductive capacity ...

Still, this is alarming that we don't know why this happens.
> It’s yet to be determined where the bill’s $3 billion will come from.

This is the current major problem in California from healthcare to public transport: where is the money going to come from?
I didn't feel the author's opinion was wrong, I felt the article was far-left poppycock.

The very subheading "The catastrophic fire that killed at least 80 in London was the inevitable byproduct of an ideology that vilified the poor" is so extravagant, that I felt the best criticism of it was that it was clearly political writing, and not reportage.

The causes of Grenfell, as other commenters note in this article, are complex:

1) dated fire regulations poorly applied

2) some errors in judgement of perceived risk I would posit - just the same as there is lowered perceived risk of ruin in financial bubbles - there has clearly been cognitive errors in the understanding of the risk of this cladding and general understanding of fire risk. For instance, it's the case this cladding has also been widely applied in Australia, and post-Grenfell they are hurrying to take it down. I don't conclude Australia is in the grip of "an ideology that villified the poor" in using this cladding, rather, cognitive errors in the perception of risk have occurred.

3) the council's economic behaviour - they were squeezing costs on refurbishment costs, a cost control exercise was also participated in by the housing body for the building, many of whom are not Tories, and some of which were nominees from the resident's association

Thus, saying it is "the byproduct of an ideology which vilified the poor", and then quoting housing policy of the last 20 years, referencing modern affordability issues (irrelevant to the history of construction and maintenance of Grenfell), throwing in "Cameron", "Thatcher", "New Labour" - all of whom post-date the shoddy and cheap construction of this one-tower-well building - just appears to be the far-left grinding their same-old axes.

Rather than debate the article point by point, which other commenters do, it strikes me that the more interesting observation to make is that the author speaks with an underlying voice. While my comment may appear to be an appeal to ridicule, to me, Stalinists are hopeless to debate, as are most people with fixed ideological positions. McDonnell and Corbyn whom are the only politicians paid respect in this article, whom were very vocal supporters of Chavez and Maduro for tearing down the state, and also have a long history with Stalin.
I'm in almost the exact same situation as you, except I'll add one thing. I worked a string of really heinous jobs where the work environment was extremely toxic. Bosses yelling in your face, watching you work over your shoulder while drinking their morning coffee, other employees being verbally and physically aggressive. I don't particularly like the company I'm at, but I get to work remotely, it's super relaxed, and I can pretty much put the hours in whenever I want. If I leave to go somewhere else, I have no idea what kind of situation I'd be getting myself into.

I get paid a bit below 100k, which in Los Angeles with 5+ years experience is pretty bad, but my end goal is to build my own business.
> since hardware development is so damn hard.

I think I would put it as hardware development is different. And it's the differences that burn folks used to software.

However, even as an experienced "hardware" designer, the BANE of my existence is anything having the word "mechanical" associated with it.

I'm so good, I can design electronics that anticipates the failure modes (For example: Want good soldermark coverage? Never use the default green ink.). I can get 100 fully populated boards in about 7 days for about $5K. If I go to China, I can get about 1000 in 3 weeks for the same price.

Cases? Clips to hold a component? Packaging? If SLA isn't good enough (and it's rare that it is), God help you, you are about to need it.

Dealing with mechanical engineering feels like stepping back into 1953. And not even that good. Back in 1953, lots of people knew how to operate milling machines, lathes, etc. so you could get a small number of parts made for a small amount of money fairly quickly from somebody out of their garage.

Nowadays? Anything that touches mechanicals is chunks of $5K NRE and 6-8 weeks.

I'm an electrical engineer by background but have had to learn TIG welding, CNC machining, injection mold design, and a whole host of other plastic and metal manufacturing techniques simply because I can't afford to be shelling out $10K up front every time I want to prototype something.

I'm really hoping that SLS will evolve now that the patents have all expired. I would pay real money for a machine that lets me torch mechanical engineers and machine shops/injection molders.

(Side note: I have had the pleasure of working with a few very good machine shops and injection molders. They are wonderful, but they tend to be quite expensive. It is almost a tautology: a good shop is at 100% production capacity and a shop not at 100% capacity is, by definition, not a good shop. The fact that such shops are at 100% capacity means that they don't want to waste production time on a client who wants a maximum of 1000 units.)
Nike, P&G and Apple will get by if they can no longer advertise because they're firmly entrenched in people's minds. But if you're starting a competitor, or any new business really, I don't know how you'd find customers without ads. If someone's saying "just use product hunt" or some other website dedicated to new products, they should remember that the vast majority of new businesses are small, local ones - barbershops, florists, massage parlours etc, not tech startups that will eat the world.

It doesn't necessarily need to be targeted web ads, I suppose you could use newspaper ads, or TV or physical letters, or spam email. Any of these work, but I think a new business would probably get the most bang for buck by targeting.
Taking a trend with an unknown cause and extrapolating seems unlikely to yield accurate predictions. The actual news here is that in USA and Europe, male sperm counts have fallen 50-60% between 1973 and 2011. That's alarming enough on its own without sensational headlines like this.
A society without contracts, police, or jails is a failed society where you will not be able to reliably power your computer, and where you will be too busy fending off looters to care about blockchain anymore.

Bitcoin doesn't even try to replace contracts. Hard-line Ethereum Classic fans think they can replace contracts (they won't).
Every public goods problem is mathematical research is a case where the solutions are socially useful but not saleable. The problem (pointed out by the sibling) with primecoin was that it worked too well, such that further solutions were uninteresting and past the point of diminishing returns.

Edit: See my here for a model of how NP complete problems could fill the role of you could predict difficulty in advance. There wouldn't be double dipping because the person wanting the answer wouldn't pay both bounties.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15107653
> Sharia, triple talaq,festivals which involve cutting goats on the road,etc

Why do I get the feeling that you just read an article about "creeping Sharia in America"?

> a lot of terrorist attacks are after all funded by Muslim countries

Citation, please.

> Would a KKK member who openly identified as one, even on the job, be allowed to keep it?

Are you implying that a regular Muslim is equivalent to a KKK member? Have you ever even spoken to a Muslim?
> I wonder

No it seems completely unrelated. To be honest I don't know how you linked these two events in your mind.
" there are in FACT radical christians who kill innocents in the Us?"

Where? That doesn't sound credible, but let me give you the benefit of the doubt.

Don't get 1 nut job...show me what you mean?
Etihad too. I had a chance to try that out last year on their Abu Dhabi-JFK route.

It's a remarkably dumb feature, pure novelty.
If it is indeed due to our increasingly toxic environment, then we should perform studies based on different diets and the types of foods each group consumes. My hypothesis is that our food sources are huge culprits here.
This one has done whole lot more for their money than vast majority of other ICO 'startups' that have nothing but nice site and a water-filled, meaningless whitepaper.
More low-level radiation access? (smartphones/computers/smartwatches)

More refined sugar?

Less physical activity?

I really wonder what it could be, though.
I wonder what will happen when the Google revenue is threatened, we'll probably see something like ad DRM
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Glysophate causes sperm count drop and cancer

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/03/pesticides-res...
Doesn't that mean it worked too well, and we just need to make a Coin with harder and more useful problems?
This is a load of crap.

>if the data on sperm counts is extrapolated to its logical conclusion, men will have little or no reproductive capacity from 2060 onwards.

No, that's not extrapolating to its logical conclusion. That's extrapolating a trend as if it will continue without changing. In reality, even at these lower levels, sperm counts are considered in the normal range.
Didn't see this earlier. Moon is actually pretty fast during runtime, and I haven't used many hacks to get it to be so small. Check out the source.
> culturally incompatible with the country (festivals which involve cutting goats on the road)

Uh... what?

Would sending drones from a country 7,000 miles away to silently drop bombs on your head be more "culturally compatible"?
Perhaps next time I want to visit Canada I'll go

Melbourne -> Seoul -> Mexico City -> Montreal

The previous time it was Melbourne -> LA -> Newark -> Montreal, flying home Vancouver -> LA -> Brisbane -> Melbourne.
The problem is not that permissions are pretty good. The problem is that you have to give many apps way too many permissions to work.

Let's make an example; I use the FitBit tracker and quite like it. I also use its own Android app. A few months ago, they decided that in order to sync you need to enable GPS. Now, there is no reason on Earth why I need to turn on GPS to download data from my watch and upload it to FitBit's server. Still, no permission or GPS disabled = no sync.

Frankly, I do not think this is in my best interest. And I wonder how many of their user-base noticed the change of permissions.
Uninstalling the horeshit is easy, trusting the replacement app is the next problem.

Anyway, there is an easy fix. Both Android and IOS allows you to disable GPS permissions for specific apps. Just disable it and add your home town as favorite. 1. Weather reports aren't that local. 2. You rarely travel frequent enough that this becomes an inconvenience, and if you are traveling that frequent, you are more likely interested in the weather at your next destination rather than current location.
Well that and product Hunt is basically a listing of ads
This is too good. We should really re-think how life should be.
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> Don't get 1 nut job...show me what you mean?

I would argue that all terrorists are nutjobs, so...

Look up the history of attacks on abortion clinics.
I just realized my date+time watch uses less than eight bytes of ram, but that's not really the point, is it.
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Yeah i have read enough scary stories about people dealing with 18650 cells (effectively AA sized lithium batteries used in high powered flashlights etc), that trying to build a powerbank from used laptop batteries with enough capacity to handle domestic appliances is not something i would undertake.
If that worked then advertisers would just switch to cost per acquisition.
Ad discussed above, the solution may be moving from proof-of-work to a proof-of-ownership scheme which doesn't require as much power to run
Everywhere, because oil is an ending resource. Electricity is already way more sustainable and cleaner, and this can only become even better soon.
Judging by my competitor's bids I don't think many advertisers have an 'equation'.
Might help to wash veggies with Natron (baking soda) before eating to remove at least the pesticides on the surface of the food? https://happyherbivore.com/2012/12/how-to-wash-veggies-bakin...
Yes we do. Look up the 969 movement, or Bodu Bala Sena, or the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army.
Obesity.
Except this app notes the wifi hotspots you connect to so they can still track you if you turn off location permissions.

I don't know why Apple haven't removed them from the App Store yet.
Looking at chemicals in food and water supply chains seems like a worthy place to investigate.
Imagine the bad PR you would get when your product kills your customers.
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Completely different level to someone who plows through people and then attacks others with machetes.
For how people die from air pollution, you can start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution#Mortality

For Europe's special problem with diesel cars, try Googling [europe air pollution diesel]. It brings up a bunch of good news articles.

Lithium batteries don't have to approach gasoline energy density to handle local deliveries. Also, these trucks don't use gasoline, they are diesel.

Again, where is your source for "the majority of pollution is coming from large trucks"?
Touch bar + vim user here. I simply tap the area I usually would and it works. It doesn't bother me. If I was still an IntelliJ user, with default shortcuts using fn keys, it would bother me, but I'm not.

What does annoy me is that there's no way to disable it on the fly. For example I often drag-select the paragraph I'm reading and Preview changes the Touch bar every time I do with highlighting options. It's distracting at the exact moment I'm trying to focus on what I'm reading. I've had to shift reading to a tablet.

Other than that I'm pleased with the Touch bar. I think the sound and brightness controls are easier to use than before. I appreciate the TouchID.
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/29/us/30abortion...

It's not representative - only 9 people are mentioned.

edit: I corrected the caps...thank you. I didn't know.
sadly much worse. Without getting into many details, part of the tactics involves writing a pseudo paper and then getting endorsements from high profile people within a specific community. It is legal, but shady as hell IMHO.
The version that scales better is inexpensive pay charging stations.
There is no proof it does. Even before it Google has estimated the fraud traffic compositing of 20% to 30% of all its inventory. I think 4chan bros are too caught up with themselves to think that a bunch of ideologists can cause tens of billions of damage.

http://www.businessinsider.com/thepartnership-msix-and-adloo...
Just like the movie Children of Men

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Men
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I'm an ME, and still had to learn TIG / MIG welding (long before studying ME), machining (both CNC and not), injection mold design (smallworks.com), CAD (wasn't taught back in the day).

Oh, and software engineering, 'cause that's what I ended up doing.
Quite a mix of propaganda & fear on that website. It's a trend I'm noticing more and more lately.
I'm not sure about that calculation to be honest. The merkle root is very simple to calculate and verify that's why it's so useful. The POW difficulty is in finding a hash starting with the right number of zeroes and containing the previous block header hash.

Did i get this wrong?
Haha, I guess it makes total sense that the HN community and mech community have some overlap. I am guilty of spending a lot on keyboards, keysets, and artisans.
I was expecting another rant about how painful it is to navigate the hundreds of framework out there.

Nice to see that people who dropped JavaScript a while get to find that things are actually better today than they were.
>a lot of people (rightfully) faced criminal penalties

Because an arbitrary law envisioned by a paranoid man to silence his political opposition makes it rightful?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richa...

I can see that you are a true believer. Please research the death tolls in Mexico and Columbia to try to convince yourself of our folly.
What alternatives? The key product here is Google search which is what attracts the consumers. The advertisers are dealing with Adwords not because Adwords is the greatest platform in history, but because Adwords is the platform where the consumers are. Ad fraud, no matter how massive, has no effect on the consumer side of Google search.

Google has a strong incentive to fix this because any money going to scammers is theoretically coming out of their own pockets as advertisers lower their CPCs to adjust for lower conversion rates, but it isn't an existential threat to the marketplace. Cut out the scammers and the CPCs adjust back upwards as conversion rates increase.

And again, Google has the tools to find the scammers. It's a game of whack-a-mole for sure, but at the end of the day the higher the level of fraud on the marketplace the easier it is to catch, so the scammers are somewhat limited in how much damage they do.
I find this really interesting. We’re all familiar with exploiting vulnerable software, but this appears to be exploiting a vulnerable business model.

Does this attack work with Facebook as well? I think the difference in client authentication might prevent this attack on Facebook (just ban accounts that click too many ads). But, on the other hand, Google might be able to use IP-addresses to accomplish the same.

Taking it to the next (morally questionable) level would be a virus that infects regular consumer devices, and delivers fake clicks from seemingly honest clients.
Ask HN: Olive Oil startup?
I'm a software developer. I work in Europe, but just found out that I will be inheriting some olive land in my home country.

I was wandering if there is an international market for extra virgin olive oil, with provable "cruelty-free" production process and zero pesticides.

Would you buy a regular subscription to deliveries when you can just buy olive oil from your local market?

I'm thinking of dropping my 9 to 5 job, to build the web platform, but i'm not sure if there is a market for this? How would one proceed ?
>Why do I get the feeling that you just read an article about "creeping Sharia in America"?

No, I live in India and have seen the stuff they can do when they become a majority (and dont forget they did try imposing SHaria in UK a while ago) https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/mar/01/inside-britains-... . I say tried because, as the article mentions, their rulings have no legal standing. It is still however a parallel legal system they choose to adhere to.

>Citation, please.

They do inevitably turn out to be Muslim most of the time, though I admit its anecdotal and I have not collated data

>Are you implying that a regular Muslim is equivalent to a KKK member? Have you ever even spoken to a Muslim?

Muslims are below 5% of the American population... which is why they are not vocal. Talk to a Muslim from Saudi\UAE\Pakistan to know how Muslims actually are. Talk to them about something a bit uncomfortable, like maybe religious freedom, alcohol or womens liberty.. and see how fast they shut down.
Easy. March on Google was planned in support of that guy. So why not an electronic protest to follow? What is the hard part about making the connection. Wait, a trick question, right? You're baffled...
> He voluntarily associates and culturally identifies with a group of people who are culturally incompatible with the country (Sharia, triple talaq,festivals which involve cutting goats on the road,etc) and are a threat to national security (a lot of terrorist attacks are after all funded by Muslim countries).

According to this logic, by being a conservative american protestant, you culturally associate with westboro baptist church.
Also, by being a strong believing hindu, you obviously culturally associate yourself with the massacre of muslims, and vice versa.

This doesn't make sense.