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And, linked to that -- block creation rate. If a lot of miners exit a coin at once, it's possible for the hash rate and difficulty to diverge significantly, possibly even to the point that it may take days or weeks for a block to be mined. At that point, the coin is effectively dead.
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I don't know how common this phenomenon is in India, but anecdotally, most of the Tamil people I know who graduated from college can barely read and write Tamil. They have no problems speaking it, but they'd struggle to write an essay in Tamil, let alone a thesis. No such problems in English, obviously.

You often hear the concern that regional languages could disappear because most parents would prefer that their kid studied in an English medium school.
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it is not even that important to define territory. venice for example cared about the naval routes rather than territory.
Sun had it figured out and was even sponsoring SavaJe OS, but then Google ripped off their work and gave it away for free.
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What if I were to tell you, that if bitcoin were to truly succeed, you won't NEED a gateway or exchange. You will just transact in bitcoin.
> Also would you want to go in person to signup for paypal, venmo, etrade, betterment etc?

Honestly, maybe that wouldn't be such a bad idea. A well-designed system would probably wind up contracting the post office for ID verification for online services (since in my country at least, they do a pile of random related stuff).
IPFS will be powered by Filecoin in future. Filecoin will incentivize miners/users with redundant storage to be a part of the network thereby increasing the size of the network itself.
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Biometrics alone aren't sufficient, but they're a reliable way to prevent identity theft if you have a secure record linking the identity to the biometrics - there will be people with similar faces and may be fingerprint matches, but fraudsters aren't going to easily find a thief that happens to look similar to you, match your fingerprints, and forge a document just to get a small loan or some electronics on your credit. The point is that biometrics can't be treated as "something you know", and the system should be designed in a way that these biometrics getting compromised isn't a big problem; I mean, my EU ID card has a chip with my fingerprints on it, but getting a copy of my fingerprints won't really risk "my identity", all they're good for is to prevent someone else using my documents if they steal it even if their face looks similar.

Getting such a secure record, though, generally requires a decent level of gov't infrastructure throughout all areas, and can't be built up quickly. Size alone isn't an issue - if it works for half a billion people in EU, then it'd work for a billion people elsewhere, but the infrastructure needs to be there.

I.e., you need a population where all or nearly all births have been properly tracked and reliably registered for a long time, so you can't build it faster than decades if it wasn't the case; you need a general low corruption environment where mass issuing of fake IDs by corrupt officials won't happen (a limited number of fakes by organized crime might be inevitable, but they won't disrupt the system); you need an effective policing system where everyone, including the most poor, would report stolen wallets and documents to be revoked; you need effective infrastructure where it's trivial for everyone giving credit or goods "on lease" to verify online the validity of some documents.

I'm not sure how it's in India, and I assume that some of these might be a problem, but for USA (as the original article) all these things are in place and such an ID would work if it was implemented.
Where do I start with this?

I have no issue with climate change being real. Anyone with a modicum of sense can make those observations? However, your second point requires you to believe in the "dogma" of only anthropogenic causes for this climate change. At this point in time, we have no clue (and I mean no clue, irrespective of what any "real" climate scientist might pontificate) about the extent of actual causes of this climate change.

There may be (and I'm willing to give a small level anthropogenic causal effect) some changes that mankind can do to mitigate possible effects of climate change. They are limited and more in the line of defensive than anything else.

And before you ask, No I am not a climate scientist. But my experience with them is that when presented with specific questions related to the energy requirements of their predictions, they refuse to not only answer the raised questions, they will not dispute the energy calculations provided as a basis to the questions.

I have done a series of calculations, in which you can do the same, based on simple mandatory energy requirements that make the predictions of their models simply laughable.

My basic view today is that if a "real" climate scientist says anything, I will take that it that you had better check the silver draw to make sure the cutlery is still there. At this point in time, I consider it to be more pseudo-scientific than phrenology and I don't give that any regard at all.

And that is a pity, because we need some verifiable climate model will give level of predictability. We have none at this time.
A failure thanks to Google stealing Sun's work.

And in any case, market failure is not an excuse to steal someone's else work, by not licensing it like every other company was doing at the time, and still are.

Google is the only notable exception.
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SSN is a fine ID, but it cannot be used as authorization. I think that a government issued photo ID, such as a passport, is probably the current best bet if you require the other part to save a photocopy of it. Perhaps in this digital age you could have a system where you need to sign in with 2 factor authentication to verify any claims to authorize you.

Biometric is a very poor ID. With current technology we can fake fingerprints and iris, the two most commonly used biometrics. They also have the issue that you cannot change them, so if you do get compromised and flag it, then you cannot use that option yourself.
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I agree with you on all your points. However, you last two sentences are not necessary. To be honest, the first time i read your comment i though the same thing. Only on a re-read did i see your last little bit of the message addresses that argument.
The way I see it, you're getting paid not for what you do at work. You're getting paid for your presence.
Each point release just about doubles the force of the earth quake. Makes me wonder how my mom handled the Good Friday one in Anchorage, which was at 9.2.
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So this is basically pied piper?
If you feel I bother with your ad hominem attacks being called Oracle support team lead and Oracle legal fund contributor, you are wasting your time.

Actually now that you mention it, maybe I should add "Sun support team lead and Sun legal fund contributor" to my profile.

Google should be penalized just like Microsoft was, but sadly it is the love child of Silicon Valley wannabe Google employees, so they get a free pass while Microsoft was bashed to death.
Protocol Labs is a Y-Combinator company with investors such as Naval and USV. They have already built out IPFS -- a popular decentralized file sharing protocol. If there is any team you want to bet on making decentralized storage possible, Protocol Labs is on the top of that list.
> The benefits of a blockchain over traditional financial systems is borderlessness and censorship resistance.

That's a subjective viewpoint. I might just want to earn my salary in Bitcoin and spend it, like a currency.
The early adopters also took an extraordinary RISK in buying the coins, or spending the money mining them.

Bitcoin being mainstream and safe is a very new thing. I remember just a couple years, everyone was freaking out because they were worried that China was going to ban bitcoin.

And years before that, the worry was that the US, or whoever, would try to force AML regulations onto it.

And a couple years before THAT the worry was that the US would do all of that AND arrest everyone involved in the system, and send them to jail for facilitating money laundering.

Being involved in bitcoin was a risk for early adopters, and that risk was rewarded.
If you can do this that's great - often that is not possible for various reasons, usually "You wrote code for an employer, the employer doesn't want you to show that code to someone else".
Interesting, because yeah, I think people who fall out of the workforce should often be considered a social or psychological problem rather than an economic problem.

You are 'unemployed' if you have looked for work in the last month. I'm only exaggerating a little when I say I haven't gone more than a month without looking for work... ever, past the age of fourteen or so. Even when I was happy with my current gig.

You are a 'discouraged worker' if you've looked for work in the last year. Year. A lot changes in a year. I personally do my best to interview at all of the top-tier silicon valley companies every year, because there's a lot of randomness in interviews, and I'm not completely unqualified, and getting a fte job at, say, netflix would net me a lot more than what I get as a contractor now, so I roll the dice. I can't imagine spending a year without looking for work.

I mean, I'm not saying these people shouldn't be helped; it's just that if you want to work, but you think there are no jobs for you, the rational thing to do is to re-evaluate that belief periodically. My own perception is that demand for my own labor varies sharply, opportunities come and go in a very short period of time. If you find logging into dice and sending some emails once a month too difficult, you have some other problem; I'm no shrink, but it sounds like depression to me.... Which is actually reasonably treatable these days; really, getting you treatment for depression so you can get a job is probably an incredibly good return on my social-services tax dollar.
It's marketing. "Tesla, made by rocket scientists" is the message they want to implant. Musk does a lot of that kind of thing, like the mock 3D gesture controlled CAD rig [1], or the Jetsons manned rocket [2].

It's smart and good salesmanship: Figure out the coolest announcement you could make, then work backwards from there and make it happen.

[1]: https://venturebeat.com/2013/09/06/this-is-how-elon-musk-des...
[2]: https://www.engadget.com/2015/09/11/spacex-crew-dragon-first...
So in order to see if my sensitive data was stolen from an Equifax database, I have to enter my sensitive information into an Equifax database.
> some inefficiency that can be fixed

Such as tuition and administrative budgets and endowments ballooning while teacher salaries stay flat?
Why do they want to buy HTC? Are there some significant patents they are holding?
I'm surprised that for...in is still relevant for modern versions of JS but it's really nice.
Yeah there are many reports like this, but I think Alexandra behaves quite ok in the given circumstances. Actually these reports of her "inadequate" behavior (mostly by people who intentionally blackmail her and behave no better themselves) is what she protests against as she suspects that it is an organized attempt to harm her reputation and project, and it is very likely that it really is. Her communication style is often harsh, and some of her views are quite unusual, but this is not a crime and definitely not enough to label someone insane or treat like she is treated.
> Your comment is basically "I don't like the conclusions so I won't accept them". That's not terribly scientific.

The whole "gender is a social construct" movement is based on rejecting actual scientific evidence, so don't be surprised...
How much do those things cost? I'd love to see every fireworks show end with blowing one up, watching the world change color for a few seconds is very surreal.
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I also find it ethically troubling. The commercial application is probably advertising.
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We kind of have in small ways. Look at high frequency trading algorithms, you have companies spending millions of dollars to shave off a millisecond of network latency in order to maximize HFT algos. Then we see things like the Flash Crash of 2010...
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> "Do you think humans aren't animals...?"

One has to be quite careful with type of comment. Of course humans are animals, but we are animals of a particular species and what one animal species eats or easily tolerates, can be deadly to another animal species.

Some simple examples to illustrate the point. Chocolate and grapes are dangerous, even deadly for dogs yet of course are not only tolerated, but even actively enjoyed by the vast majority of humans with no ill effects.

https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control/people-...
Of course I can see the conflict. The problem is that universities have no problem with such conflict. From their perspective they are charging more each year per average student while spending less each year per average teacher.

Some of these schools are teaching things on the cutting edge, but how much of that applies to undergraduate degrees? Most of what you get taught there has been the same for decades if not centuries.

Universities have had rising costs, but much of that is due to things tangential to actually teaching their students. My own college for instance would completely rip out all of the flowers every few months and replace them so that the campus looked nice to prospective students .
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I like Vagrant as a concept but on Azure at least, it's pretty bad at clearing up after "vagrant destroy", and people I know report similar with VirtualBox. To the point at which you might as well just bake an image and clone it, which is very easy.
But would they actually stick with it this time?

Google need to decide what the heck their smartphone hardware strategy actually is.
No, I don't think so. If people have been speaking Language A for 2 millennia, it's 2 millennia old. If they've been speaking Language B for 15 centuries, it's 15 centuries old. Just because A and B are both spoken today doesn't make them equally old. That's as absurd as saying you and I are both alive today so we must be the same age.

It's interesting that you mention Spain. Are you familiar with the Basque language? It has almost no influence from the Romance languages spoken in all areas surrounding Basque country like French and Spanish. It's the last descendant of the pre-Indo-European languages spoken in Western Europe. Would you claim that Basque and Spanish are equally old?

Influence doesn't imply that the influenced language is younger. A language being entirely derived from another, like Hindi from Sanskrit and the Romance languages from Latin, does imply that they're younger than Sanskrit and Latin.
The capacity for large volume ("real life scale") of transactions with reasonable verification latency is something that I have always seen as the real blocker with Bitcoin. I continue to be slightly surprised that the issue isn't covered more actively.
Looking at this document:
https://www.endeavourenergy.com.au/wps/wcm/connect/62ccd4804...

Page 49 lists some prices in a table. It looks like they range from $40,000 to $50,000 (AUD) for a pole-mounted transformer
You think they would willingly miss out on an entire day of revenue?
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As someone that has spent quite some years writing Windows software, actually since the .NET introduction and the maintenance status of MFC, the majority of Windows desktop apps are written in a mix of .NET and C++.
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trying to read and write 2.5gb of Javascript files

The technical term for this is "doing it wrong"
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I have really good headphones but I just use the dongle. So I've never had an issue. Never lost the dongle cos I tied it to the end of the headphones with a small bit of velcro.
On Windows, Rust still has the problem that it needs to be as easy as C++ for working with COM, specially now with UWP.
My solution to this is to not use my phone for this stuff.

I only log into the site from a desktop browser. No point reading messages when I'm AFK anyway.
For some reason people seem to call languages "old" when they really mean "archaic" or "unchanged".

It makes more sense to say that Portuguese is older than Latin in the sense that it has been developing for centuries longer.

>Spanish has a noticeable amount of influence from Arabic, since Arabic speakers conquered the south of Spain and ruled there for a while. I don't see how this is evidence that Arabic is an older language than Spanish is, though.

I don't see how this is relevant, the post talked about some modern Indian languages being "derived" from Sanskrit, which definitely implies a difference in age.

>>Another way would be linguistic analysis that demonstrates that one language is derived from another
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A scrapper is UK colloquial for an old car in bad nick.

Oh and "nick" is UK colloquial for condition. Also can mean jail. And also can mean to steal.
> They have already built out IPFS -- a popular decentralized file sharing protocol.

How popular? Who uses it?
For sure. I find ratings useful when looking for something middling, fun, and fairly entertaining. If I am looking for my new favorite, ratings are near useless. The average of my top 10 movies is likely lower then, say, the average marvel movie.

But that doesn't mean it's useless to look at ratings. It's just for deciding between "I guess why not" and "naw, I'd rather play a good game or something".
I wouldn't trust that one bit. Have you ever played telephone? 7000 years is a lot of generations, it's likely completely inaccurate.
Exactly.

People use terms like "get your hands dirty" to describe programming. Programmers are usually not encourage to wear button-down shirts, suits, etc.
Segwit was just activated on Bitcoin around two weeks ago. Among other things, segwit includes a fix for txn malleability needed to facilitate a lightning network implementation on bitcoin. The lightning network alpha release has been implemented on Litecoin, and has been on the Bitcoin testnet since the beginning of the year. My guess is it will go live before the end of the year, and adoption will ramp up next year.
> the law was written in cooperation with the people that became wealthy through means that used to be legal and protected themselves...

Hey, if nothing else, you are super-confident. Also, way to not generalize or be presumptuous in any capacity. Fucking super buttoned up analysis. It all checks out.
Earthquake lights like other posters have said, but I wonder if the exceptional geomagnetic activity caused by the recent X-level CME event has any sort of impact on this too? (Thinking auroral activity, but at far too low of a latitude of course).
Also surprisingly with academic experience.
Of course use of tools in academia is vastly different from one outside.
Academia has less of a time pressure and less of a budget often (at least in Europe).

Cannot speak for non-STEM though.
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And if one is bisex? Or in a moment of life have a particolar sexual orientati on?
Not 100% sure but maybe the Vive/VR tech?
The CEO is daughter of senator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Manchin

'Manchin was the only Democrat to vote in confirmation of controversial Trump cabinet appointees Jeff Sessions[87] and Steven Mnuchin,[88] one of two Democrats who voted to confirm Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator, and one of three who voted to confirm Rex Tillerson.'

and politically well connected. Would be surprised if anything would happen, at all. Just like the last pricing scandal, which was barely a year ago:

http://fortune.com/2016/09/27/mylan-epipen-heather-bresch/
>Some of these schools are teaching things on the cutting edge, but how much of that applies to undergraduate degrees? Most of what you get taught there has been the same for decades if not centuries.

eh, I think there's a lot to be said for rubbing shoulders with industry notables when you are learning the basics. It can be inspiring.

But then, there's also a lot to be said for teachers who are good teachers; that can be inspiring too, in a different way.

>Universities have had rising costs, but much of that is due to things tangential to actually teaching their students. My own college for instance would completely rip out all of the flowers every few months and replace them so that the campus looked nice to prospective students .

I went to a high school that... looked like a prison. I mean, how it looked was certainly not the first thing I'd change, but it's certainly something I would change. Look at any of the silicon valley tech companies... all of them spend a lot of effort making their campus nice, and personally, I think education is a lot more important to society than advertising.
I'd always thought of data scientists producing mostly analysis and reports, and sometimes products, and machine learning engineers producing mostly products that do predictions.

But in practice, they're probably not too different from each other. They both need to get data, clean data, analyse data, produce a model that predicts.

In addition, sharing datasets is probably something they have to do: https://blog.helmspoint.com/posts/2017/09/05/sharing-machine...
Yes, this is exactly our use case. Every now and then a need for new attributes or metrics appear that are to be calculated or otherwise logically determined for the "sessions" generated. Sometimes a new device model / software version starts providing new attributes with the transmitted event and we can just add metrics and aggregations based on those attributes into the session generator if those attributes are present on an event.
I don't believe we are in disagreement. I would be surprised if there more than a small population of people who were against others getting education. Thelack of faith is coming from colleges, on average, providing a more and more mediocre education that could be replaced by the internet and some decication, while also increasing their costs drastically.

When charted by price increase tuition outstrips housing and healthcare which ,I at least would, have considered to have skyrocketed in the past few decades[1]

This is all for static information. Math doesn't change, basic comp sci algorithms don't change, classical mechanics don't change, and basic chemistry doesn't change.

These arguments might not hold for graduate degrees or higher but most Americans are experiencing the undergraduate programs

[1http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/4d77553fcadcbb551d2...
Didn't he pay $5 million for it?
That's a really bad joke.
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