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There is a subtle cargo cult fallacy that occurs in many crypto construction competitions: that resource light (time, RAM & operations) in hw/sw is "good." Certainly, minimum performance is necessary but being too cheap means brute-forcing is also cheaper. I wish resource-adaptive algorithms that require a minimum of RAM and ops in both hw and sw optimized implementations a-la scrypt were the rule, not the exception.

State actors can easily afford ASIC AES and SHA2 brute-force farms, and that's a concern, especially with monocultural recommendations to "always use AES/SHA2." Now that Keccak's been chosen as the basis for SHA3 in-lieu of more hw expensive alternatives like ECHO, the cost of cracking has been reduced for future scenarios. Do we really want to slash the security margin for a modest bump in runtime performance?
> closing a road once doesn't just make all the pollution not happen

Yes, I know, it was an illustration of how much pollution is caused by traffic in London and how much could be gained by reducing those traffic levels overall. I am baffled that this is causing confusion to people.
Trying to learn something about blockchain: the technology and its applications right now, means wading through masses of hype and parties anxious to 'get into it' before it's 'too late'.

In healthcare IT the blockchain is hot right now. Government bureaus are pushing for adoption, care institute executives heard somewhere that this blockchain thing is the bee's knees and well suited for healthcare stuff like insurance mutations, and IT vendors are worried someone else will beat them to it.

Is it a useful technology? Probably. But right now for many the blockchain is the goal, not the solution to any specific problem.
I don't understand how the issue you're describing is specific to bitcoin.

Consider that wealth in the real world also accumulates in a non gaussian distribution.
> I think that when you have a type system that catches all bugs the type system itself is probably Turing complete. Writing the types in such a system may very well be programming.

It is programming (though the best way to do it is in a system that's distinctively not Turing-complete - look at what Idris does), but it's all verified at compile time.

> The more advanced systems are already too hard to use too be helpful for common business people which means they don't help much in reducing bugs from misunderstanding the specs

Not my experience. The type systems make it much easier to express your actual business logic in straight-through code that looks like what it's meant to do, shunting off the awkward cross-cutting concerns to be resolved ambiently in a way that's safe, but doesn't get in the way right now.
> I don't want to make any predictions, but when the crash comes it will be over before you knew it.

I don't want to critique any sentences, but this one is heavy on rhetoric and low on information.
> What would you consider a modern feature?

For starters: one that was thought up (or at least added to the language, if we're being that context-sensitive) more recently than 30 years ago.

> No language can be considered modern by this definition, rendering it fairly useless as a definition.

I agree that it's a fairly useless descriptor.
> It'd be really nice to see the code released!

I'm surprised the conference accepted the paper without the source code being made public.
You also have a significant advantage over other banks in that your customers can easily and securely communicate with you over text (I once tried to send a secure message to my "other bank" and gave up after ten minutes on their site.)

This is great for me as a customer, but I suspect it creates for you a greater per customer text volume to comb through than most other banks.

Anyway, looks like this might become a sale - hope it goes well for both sides.

(A very satisfied Monzo customer)
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From the PRC's perspective, the yuan is a just a tool to stimulate productive activity in their population towards the goals expressed in state budgets. If they can muster the political will, they can simply levy highly progressive taxes to reduce inflation and keep on spending. There is nothing stopping them, ideologically.
on a second read of the original message, maybe that's exactly what he's talking about.

More medical procedures because of less preventive care, or more procedures "to cover their ass". I heard doctors tend to be on the super cautious side to reduce liabilities, and require more testing, procedures, and what not.
If you follow Bitcoin politics you'd know that there is a large population of Bitcoin users who like this decision[0][3][4].

There is an upcoming contentious hard fork in Bitcoin called Segwit2x. It activates in November and is supported by some miners and a number of Bitcoin companies. Those who oppose that hard fork believe cutting China out of the network will cause the proposal to fail.

Segwit2x was a compromise between Bitcoin providers and the very miners that China look like shutting down now - primarily Bitmain, who many believe are also behind, or in control of, the previous bcash bitcoin fork. The compromise was activating Segwit in exchange for miners getting their wish of a 2MB block size increase. Segwit has since been force-activated with a user-activated soft fork - so many feel the compromise is now not necessary and presents many risks.

[0] https://twitter.com/stefanobernardi/status/91023339225132646...

[1] https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/01/26/segwit-benefits/

[2] https://github.com/OPUASF/UASF
I'm telling you right now... Let there be no illusion that Hawaii would or could ever declare independence from the mainland. Hawaiians wanting independence are a tiny minority, and even they realize that the residents of Hawaii have basically a three-way choice: The United States, Russia, or China. Hawaii is far too liberal and American and really everyone underestimates how much American military force is there on those islands. It ain't going anywhere without a fight that almost no one else can win.
In general, dnscrypt can help defend against DNS privacy loss for situations like these.
saving energy and time among other benefits

Wouldn't (bitcoin) miners be a good fit for async circuits? Simple logic, low power, high performance.
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Well... We made it to the moon once - and then decided that it's not neccessary to do it again... /s
While it is a curious question about why my consciousness exists instead of not existing (maybe not in the same way as my brain exists), I find it is worth pursuing as much as a question "Why anything exists at all?"

Other questions about human consciousness can be formulated in terms of observables.
> Even if a dependency is injected, if it has state, and all parts of the program could potentially access it, I would consider it global mutable state.

Not all parts of the program could potentially access it - it's injected where it's needed but only where it's needed, if other parts of the program wanted access to it you would have to change them so that it was injected there as well.
The real trick, or at least the real trick the last time they pulled this stunt, is that most of the passengers are airline employees.
It's a poor design where a site is allowed to throw up a dialog like that (also goes for the "this site wants to know your location! yes/no").

It should work like the popup blocker, just show a red cross somewhere, that some action was blocked, and if the user wants to, he can go and unblock it. The onus should be on the site owner to tell his user "if you want this additional functionality, please go and enable <this or that>".
There was a post about energy use recently. C, C++, Rust and Swift were often sharing the top 4 slots for various efficiency metrics. I would guess that energy efficiency is also a good metric for execution speed as well. Concurrency support is planned for swift, maybe efficiency, friendly syntax and concurrency support will be a winning combo?
Like defining "athletic" or "smart" or even "stress" or "eating" - all go deeper than we think.
> The developers of the apps clearly don’t think of them as essential.

Or, like the vast, vast majority of games, the developer was contracted for the initial development and the publisher who owns the right to the IP and specific software has no financial incentives to pay for additional work to update it and thus won't, regardless of the developer's wishes or whims let alone the users's
You'll never really know your success rate though. You could have had machines compromised for years with small amounts of traffic.
I would like to see a version for REST and SPAs as well
I was much lonelier in my marriage than I have been since my divorce. This has been very eye opening.

Being alone and being lonely are not the same thing and not necessarily even related. Loneliness is an unmet emotional hunger that is not automatically met by being around other people.

Being lonely while not alone is a kind of hell that simply being alone does not begin to match. While married, I really thought I could never tolerate being single. But it turns out my marriage was emotionally vampiric and actively draining me of any ability to experience contentment.

My post divorce experience has not gone remotely like I expected. It has been wonderfully better than the dystopian nightmare I had envisioned for so very long.

Which is not a rebuttal of your remarks. Just some late night thoughts on the topic that hopefully add something to the conversation.
You can ask a friend to setup a vpn at home with his traditional ISP
Outrageous. 4.8.2 is security release with nine high security issues. But still CVE-2017-8295 not fixed. Over 40 milions websites affected.
Little Snitch is a fun program to run to see what software is connecting to where. So many connections to Google Analytics...
Yup, would be great!
"Does the price prove that bitcoin has not failed?"

Does the price of a painting determine it is a good painting? Afaik not.
I still don't believe in quantum computers. Make something useful and i'll change my mind. Until then, gtfo.
> If VCs can do simple arithmetic, they can verify that claim for themselves.

How? You haven't given them anything to -verify-! All you've done is say "It'll be worth $1T because lots of people will give me lots of money. Trust me."

> it is obvious that the problem is pressing to nearly every Internet user in the world

I should imagine the VCs hear that every week too.

> $1 T Quickly

Apple is the world's most valuable company (worth ~$830bn). No-one seeing your claim that your company will be worth more than Apple "quickly" will take it seriously. There just isn't any path for that to happen in reality. Sorry.
In the UK, Air Rifles are limited to 12ft/lbs of energy without a firearms licence, and are regularly used to shoot rabbits, pigeons etc.
I finally understand why overclocking leads to an unstable system!

Thank you.
Same with apps on iOS. Smart apps ask the user before they request permission from the OS.
These are all copy-on-write boxed types with value semantics: the value you pass around is a pointer (with some additional data) and Swift has mechanisms/API which let the implementor copy the backing buffer on mutation if necessary: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/2429905-iskn...
Just wondering if it will or will not work with a mouse and a monitor. The application is still very relavent without VR.
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I think that when bitcoin takes a hit it propagates to all other cryptocurrencies, since BTCs are often seen as an archetype of all cryptomoney.
But if you are using ideas from their software, you are infringing patents too.
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One of the early obituaries on that list mentions that the finite supply of bitcoins, combined with lost crypto keys and hoarding will eventually lead to a situation where there aren't enough coins for it to be a viable currency.

Clearly, in that situation you can subdivide coins as far as required, so it isn't a risk to bitcoin as such. However, I have often wondered if there is any estimate of the "effective supply", that is to say ("minted coins" - "coins where the private key is lost")?
Compare this with the global economy. The number of Bitcoin users is still increasing, so the wealth is distributing.

If you compare that with the global economy, the wealth is accumulating at a single point.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Share_of_weal...

I do however agree that's a problem.

I also think that gold and precious metals are doing good, despite being (currently, essentially) limited.
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What? They haven't... https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/blob/master/PATENTS
In what sense this lists, and bitcoin are different from these? https://trader2trader.co/2012/11/28/list-of-590-dead-currenc...
This is also a slippery slope for US cities and states:
- We invest money we don't have in an infrastructure we don't need hoping it will bring tax payers and investment so we can pay it in the future.
This is mostly caused because of the 5 years out vision: I need to build stuff to get re-elected.
> We had planned that the interior of objects should be an "address space of objects" because this is a better and more recursive way to do modularization

Something that nags me in the back of my mind is that messages are not just any object, they always have the selector attached. Why not let objects handle any other object as a message? Is this what you mean by the above?

Thinking about the biological analogy (maybe taking it too far...): the system of cells is distinct from the system of proteins inside the cells and going up the layers we have the systems of creatures. So the way proteins interact is different from how cells interact, etc. but each system derives its distinct behaviors from the lower ones. Also, the messages are typically not the entities themselves but other lower level stuff (cells communicate using signals that are not cells). So in a large scale OO system we might see layers of objects emerge. Or maybe we need a new model here, not sure.
I think what the example is supposed to demonstrate is that champagne is a type of wine.
So annoying to see triumphant declarations of victory of bitcoin, based solely on the price increasing.

Speaking as a bitcoin owner and proponent, there is zero (actually negative) market uptake of bitcoin as a payment platform (which I happen to believe is bitcoin's primary use case). This is because no work has gone into scaling up transaction throughput, which has predictably suffered as a result of increased mainstream interest (even with practically no merchant adoption).

The narrative has shifted recently that bitcoin is now a 'settlement layer', only that makes the situation even worse, because there is no 'payment layer' on top of it, only pie-in-the-sky designs.

So yeah, I don't share in the exhilaration over $4000+ bitcoins.
We forget Feds fund American roads and local congressional districts like it that way. Our people grid is a road grid accessing an energy grid. Every single story suburban home is a waste of space and HVAC. Rationalizing costs will penalize cheaply built homes along roads built with federal funding. Our TFR's have peaked and Sante Fe Institute folks do not predict happy sprawl. Look at DC or Boston Building town homes and condos more densely on shared public transport with Uber fill in. Quite successful medium enterprises spread out by Eisenhower cannot find employees. Various locales like Columbus, OH and Pittsburgh are slated for gathering that slack into ecosystem. The economic concerns of remote Americans playing fake prairie homesteader are not especially relevant to long term planning. Plan for yourself last to see the big plans in motion. There are business opportunities skating to where large pluralities of pucks are going. Levis made jeans for rushing gold rushers and lived to tell the tale.
All right, I will be a bit specific for your benefit:

- There is a lot of wash trading going on with several exchanges, some of which has had serious accounting issues since 2016. When they fail, the fallout will be far more spectacular than that of the late MtGOX because many traders are heavily leveraged.

- Upcoming Segwit2x hard fork potentially splitting the network.

- Uncertainty with China where the majority of hash power resides. The current crackdown on exchanges is pretty well reported. What I am concerned about is what will happen to the network when electricity price goes up in winter as hydro generation winds down, making mining more expensive. Historically miners were able to get favourable deals with remote thermal plants to cover the shortfall, which may be more difficult due to negative press and an ongoing effort to curb smog.

The view I share with a few perssimistic pundits is that there will be one final rally to $5000 before November for people to cash out before the freefall. What we don't agree on is the timeframe and where the price will hit the bottom. Hence my reluctance to make predictions.
Hashrate has not remained constant:

- 7 day avg of last 3 mo: https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate?timespan=180days&da...

- 7 day avg of last 2 mo: https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate?timespan=30days&day...

Going from 6 to 7.5 EH/s it's not more or less the same (it's a 25% increase)
But in either case the browser has to be running I’m assuming? Seems kinda flawed.
The market cap of gold is around 122 times today's market cap of BTC.

If BTC were to reach that market cap, one BTC would be worth $363,636 yet one Satoshi would still be worth less than 4/10 of a cent.

It is not an imminent problem.
Once it cost an entire Pizza to get 10000btc, I knew we were in a bubble
I think "server-side projects" is maybe too broad a term. Yes, there are plenty of server-side software where concurrency pervades the codebase. But if you're making a web app, for example, it's common for all of the code you actually write (the "business logic") to be single-threaded.

Things like the core request loop and the DB connection pool will need to handle concurrency, but a few people will have figured out how to get that stuff working and you can just use their libraries.
> Well, "feudalism" is an exaggeration since you can belong to as many as you want, and sharing some things (such as republishing links) is not hard.

I'll grant you the first part, but sharing is actually a lot harder than it used to be, these days. Try sharing a Facebook post or comment with someone who doesn't have a Facebook account...

> In devtools, each programming language tends to be its own domain. (Which is why we call them "foreign" functions.)

True, but we also develop FFI as a way to call those foreign functions, and meta-frameworks to enable cross-language interop (WinRT being the most recent prominent example of such). Worst case, you can use standard formats and protocols to at least exchange data. Whereas "walled gardens" tend to be deliberately hard to interop with, or even to extract your existing data from.
You are really overestimating the substance of the native Hawaiian independence movement. The vast vast majority of people living in Hawaii are not even native Hawaiian to begin with. And even most local Hawaiians don't want independence from the United States. It is really a tiny minority offshoot with some specific political grievances. Independence isn't even seriously floated by the majority of these independence folks. The whole idea is just a political and marketing tool except to a very small group of people.
So mining bitcoin is 30% cheaper!
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I think the comment is saying that in other currencies, if your currency's total value increases, usually more money is printed to keep the value reasonable. Even with other cryptocurrencies, Ripple for instance has a large unallocated holding of coins that they're meant to siphon out into the market to keep the value per coin under control. Whereas with bitcoin you can hold onto the same amount of money and if more and more people buy in, it becomes more and more valuable.

I'd add that I almost feel like there could be a bit of a paradox there in regards to Bitcoin's actual usefulness for real purchases.

Let’s say Bitcoin takes off and various merchants start accepting it.

Since Bitcoin is useful now, more people buy in. But since more people are always buying in and the total pool is limited, the value continues to go up. The more merchants support Bitcoin, the more people adopt Bitcoin, and the more valuable it becomes.

The more the value continues to increase, the better it seems as an investment, and the more people lean towards holding instead of spending. The more useful it becomes, the better it is to not spend it.
Thanks! That is quite surprising, and very encouraging.

It seems that solar is a very good overall fit for even most of the world, and once the tech is good enough to be used in huge numbers the differences can probably be compensated with other, local power sources (like hydro in Scandinavia, which is huge there).
The quote totes an advantage whilst waiting for input. I take that to mean having really good idle performance.
Miner ASICs don't make money when idle.
> One of the most confusing things I find with web development (which I'm mostly new to, coming from a backend background) is that everyone seems entirely happy with JS (or more accurately the DOM?) and CSS being giant mutable state buckets.

Why is it surprising that people are working within the constraints of what is practical right now? What are you going to use instead that is so much better? If you want to do web development, you have to use CSS and JavaScript in some form. Just with backend work, there are good and bad ways of doing frontend coding.
Do I understand correctly that the wishful thinking value of 75% photovoltaic conversion efficiency is plotted in the diagram?
A good model would not allow wallet attack...
No. How did you manage to get that interpretation?
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Brute force is irrelevant in hashing. The faster the better.

PS: this is because the complexities for attacks are too high. For SHA-3-256 you need 2^128 operations to approach finding a collision. Whatever your speed you will never reach this amount of computation (or storage).
Thanks for the heads-up. Would avoiding kimchi products that have vinegar listed as an ingredient be a good strategy? Or is some amount of vinegar also used in authentic kimchi?
Fair enough, those are all good points. Do you have knowledge of wash trading and accounting issues at at any of the major USD exchanges? I know bitfinex was hacked last year (and paid everyone back?), and there have recently been some strange rumors around bitfinex and Tether, but that is all I have heard.

And do you believe this crash/correction will be lethal? Or will Bitcoin "die" and rise again?
> I cannot possess something that I did not manufacture myself if I did not procure it from someone who did.

You can, e.g. by taking possession inadvertently. But setting that aside, I suppose I could clarify it to possession/use/procurement - but excluding distribution. So, buying something like that shouldn't be illegal, but selling it might be (and the buyer could be subpoenaed to testify etc).

In any case, the distinction is clearly important from legal perspective - it's why our drug laws (and gun laws etc) all talk about possession and transfer separately.
I wonder what consciousness would be like if our brains had the size of our solar system. Would we be conscious if our neurons took on the order of minutes to communicate with each other?