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> But at the industrial level, it's just hype.

Wrong. I believe most people here are focused on high performance implementation (servers, desktops, laptops) and Risc V won't get there for a long time, if at all. High performance needs very high investment, to work closely to the fabs to tweak a design to make the most of new process nodes. Only big players can afford this. So if you have only this in mind, yes Risc V may sound like hype.

But there's a huge domain of embedded designs, with small scale CPU where the cost matters a lot. There are many niche players there, like Cortus, Andes, BA Semin and now SiFive. ARM is also there with Cortex M, but it's expensive and the line-up has holes (big gap between M and A/R series). Yes, ARM is expensive at the low end. ARM is cheap at the high end, when compared to Intel. Not at the low end.
So far all these players have suffered from a limited ecosystem. With dedicated ISAs, each one had to support their toolchain with limited resources, and limited 3rd party support. What Risc V offers to them is the ability to leverage a significant ecosystem. They can focus on the CPU core implementation, with value added customization (extra instructions, accelerators, ...) and support, and leverage all the tooling around Risc V with much little effort. This makes a big difference. And all of them are moving to Risc V, it's their future. As a user, it does make a big difference to me. Instead of a lagging GCC toolchain, I'll soon have access to recent GCC and LLVM based tools for example.

For IoT in general, Risc V offers the possibility to have an open system, which in the end means more competition and lower costs, with no lock-in from some big actors "owning" the ISA you're using. A lot of people are looking at this seriously.

So no, Risc V is not hype. And there's already industrial changes. You just need to look at the deeply embedded world.
It's a ticking bomb. You don't control what Facebook do or won't do and it's enough for lawyers to freak out.

You can't know what would happen if Zuckerberg is replaced (accidents happen) and corporate water-heads take over Facebook.
People give away their vote for a couple beers. This is a no-brainer.

The power of a voting block scales with the square of the size of the block. Individual votes are near meaningless.
Is the control on the yuan really that tight? How are Chinese citizens able to buy such a massive amount of premium Seattle/SF real estate with ease? Isn't ownership of foreign real estate a big leak?
No, it didn't die and it won't die anytime soon. But dollars, Euro's and all other physical currencies are about to die(soon). Why? Because just like the change from gold and silver coins to almost worthless nickel, this type of currency creates a whole new universe of possibilities.

With nickel and paper money, banks can create as much cash as they like, it's virtual value, not real. Crypto currency is just like that, but more secure and not (yet) controlled by the banks. And again you see the allegations that crypto would be a pyramid scheme etc.. Do people notice that our actual economy/financial-system is a very proven pyramid scheme? All money flows to the rich. And especially those people in power now, are getting a little nervous seeing they might lose some control.

Crypto currencies can be a boon for humanity, unless governments are going to criminalize it and only allow banks to use the technology.
> That's like saying a dead worm and a live worm are not so different.

What? No.

> If there is a difference in how they evolve, there is a something to be like it because it has to have some kind of perception and action selection mechanism. What it's like to be a worm is the perception stream evaluated by the value function of the worm.

Assuming that by "evolve" you mean "evolve as a dynamical system", then yes.
OMG ... take it easy, buddy - install uBlock Origin and have a nice day ... :D
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Awesome comment.

I am not a Bitcoin supporter. I own no Bitcoin. I used to trade daily in 2013, but now I'm all cash.

IMHO, people react angrily when they feel threatened. They attempt to belittle what they don't like.

When someone is so deeply involved in US financial system, you know, from home ownership, to stocks, taxes, bank accounts etc, you start to feel anxious about anything that will challenge your investments.

So that's why so many people will say that Bitcoin is for criminals and drug lords and child rapists.

Or at the very least it is all a tulip scam and you really should "invest in something real".

So, whether they are right or wrong, they usually avoid having a technical discussion about it.

There isn't really a fix for this. Society is comprised of the haves and have nots, and people are very opinionated and biased on both sides.
I think it is the perfect storm formed by the combination of:

- IT staff wanting to write "blockchain" on their CV (I have seen CVs driving technological choices so many times, hadoop used to store a 10MB csv file, etc)

- Some senior management reading in Newsweek that blockchain is the new hot thing and asking his CTO to give him blockchain stuff.

When such a storm forms, no objection from anyone in the organisation, no budget constraint or any form of rationality can stop it, a category 5 bullshit hurricane. A hammer looking for anything looking remotely close to a nail, even a finger.
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Mining power was shown to be overrated by the failure of multiple miner driven or supported proposals and the success of the user-activated Segwit soft fork.

The idea of the UASF was that miners would be economically incentivized to follow user nodes signaling and then enforcing new rules - and that is exactly what happen.

It is also not out of the question to alter how blocks are mined in Bitcoin - Ethereum is doing that in an upcoming hard fork[0].

With Bitcoin it would be possible to not only introduce a new PoW with a soft-fork, or introduce multiple proof of work methods so that each has a difficulty target and no one PoW has a geographic, technological or regulatory advantage allowing it to achieve more than 100 / number_of_proofs_of_work% hashrate

[0] Ethereum is transition from proof-of-work to a combined proof-of-work/proof-of-stake with the Casper project https://github.com/ethereum/research/wiki/Casper-Version-1-I...
> There is an easier solution to this than Web Components - using a single framework.

Yes, we all know how easy that is. I mean, really, come on -- that's not realistic in any reality.

EDIT: We all know the "n+1" standards XKCD joke, but the reality is that standards (HTML, CSS, HHTP, DNS, TCP, UDP, IP, etc.) brought us the fucking Internet, flawed as those standards may be. As I said, I'm cautiously optimistic that standardizing "custom DOM" will eventually get us to a standard slightly above raw HTML.
You can't pretend the US doesn't have wait lists of its own.

I'm trying to schedule an MRI and the first appointment was 2 months out (I might have been able to get an earlier appointment somewhere else, but the neurologist said I should just keep this appointment). I've been trying to schedule PT for a couple months, as well. I've called the PT office every single day for over a week waiting for my approval to come back from billing so I can schedule an initial evaluation.

Ironically, there's a program funded by my state offering in-home OT services twice a week. I don't pay anything out of pocket. It did take a month to set up, but everything that would have been covered by insurance would be in an office (but they didn't even have those options available).
> there is zero (actually negative) market uptake of bitcoin as a payment platform ... This is because no work has gone into scaling up transaction throughput

No, or only partly so. The other, more fundamental reason why bitcoin will never be a payment platform, is that it doesn't behave as a currency, but as a commodity. The hard limit on the number of bitcoin is both the guarantee of its value and what makes it an intrinsically deflationary good. Its monstrous current price proves it, and it can only go up (almost) indefinitely or go bust.

With these characteristics, nobody will ever want to use it as a payment method. You don't want to pay with a bitcoin, when you know that in the future that same bitcoin will be worth n times its value today. If you have used bitcoins in the past for transactions- you might have paid 50 bitcoins for a book in 2011- I'm sure you're sorely regretting it now.
> At the very least, Facebook doesn't
> care about solving the problem

This attitude isn't in the least bit helpful. It's been escalated to their legal council and the maintainer has said many many times that he's chasing it.
Most uses of blockchain I see have been put forward by very large companies... but large companies are the least likely to benefit. Blockchain gives you a decentralized source of trust. Large companies (e.g., banks, governments, etc.) specialize in providing a centralized source of trust.

I'd think that small banks/financial institutions would benefit far more than large companies. They can confidently share data with each other and enforce standards among themselves. Big companies, on the other hand, already have that trust through their reputation and detailed, legally enforceable contracts.

Nice example: say you wanna send $5M from the US to another country. Traditionally, you'd call a big US bank, send them the money b/c you trust them, and they'd send it to another large foreign bank b/c the US bank trusts the foreign one. There's a chain of trust based on the stature of the companies, and they charge a nice fee for that peace of mind. Blockchain can allow smaller companies to get into that game, but not entirely sure how it helps the big ones.
I've missed something, but bitcoin is not locked in my mind neither as currency nor as something valuable. Like a tool for speculation—sure.
Take a look at the first implemented Smalltalk (-72). It implemented objects internally as a "receive the message" mechanism -- a kind of quick parser -- and didn't have dedicated selectors. (You can find "The Early History of Smalltalk" via Google to see more.)

This made the first Smalltalk "automatically extensible" in the dimensions of form, meaning, and pragmatics.

When Xerox didn't come through with a replacement for the Alto we (and others at Parc) had to optimize for the next phases, and this led to the compromise of Smalltalk-76 (and the succeeding Smalltalks). Dan Ingalls chose the most common patterns that had proved useful and made a fixed syntax that still allowed some extension via keywords. This also eliminated an ambiguity problem, and the whole thing on the same machine was about 180 times faster.

I like your biological thinking. As a former molecular biologist I was aware of the vast many orders of magnitude differences in scale between biology and computing. (A typical mammalian cell will have billions of molecules, etc. A typical human will have 10 Trillion cells with their own DNA and many more in terms of microbes, etc.) What I chose was the "Cambrian Revolution Recursively": that cells could work together in larger architecture from biology, and that you can make the interiors of things at the same organization of the wholes in computing because of references -- you don't have to copy. So just "everything made from cells, including cells", and messages made from cells, etc.

Some ideas you might find interesting are in an article I wrote in 1984 -- called "Computer Software" -- for a special issue of Scientific American on "Software". This talks about the subject in general, and looks to the possibility of "tissue programming" etc.
> Because this supposed "law and accountability" led to things like the 2008 financial crisis. Didn't seem like there was much accountability then, so why should I trust that money supply?

As someone working in the financial industry, the amount of regulations, internal audits, external audits, reporting requirements, etc. that financial institutions have to comply with is truly staggering.

Sure, they 2008 financial crisis demonstrated that all of this was no silver bullet, but I still consider that system many orders of magnitude more trustworthy than a system that allowed for the shit-show that was MTGOX, and other failed exchanges.
He means that is the host range he saw the most attacks from. Deduction then takes his argument to the understanding that many attackers use Level3 and Softlayer for attacking purposes.
Lets challenge this. What if baby can be born alive without having consciousness? It's not impossible since we can't detect consciousness. Maybe it occurs in some babies born with brain development problems, maybe not. Besides title says "Consciousness Goes Deeper Than We Think". Sounds clicky-baity and it assumes that reader is dumb.
It clearly seems to solve a much bigger problem and hence the increase in price: a store of value in a time where the Feds balance sheet increases with the same velocity as Bitcoins price. On the other hand - it is still being used for payments. Though I am not a friend of the settlement layer idea myself. Time will tell how BCH will fare.
There is a sense of victory because millions of people view Bitcoin as a good place to park their money over fiat currency.

Unfortunately no one runs news stories on the growth of unique addresses in the bitcoin network
I'd argue that convenience is a security feature. The easier something is to do, the fewer mistakes you or your team will make.

Stand by my initial post, declarative systems will become more and more popular and will improve security.
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> If Facebook were going to leverage
> this the way people are scared of,
> wouldn’t there be some example of
> them using it the way people are
> scared of?

Sadly no, it's a real issue, because we can't predict the future. Zuck dies, is replaced by someone with a more billg frame of mind, chaos ensues. That's something we don't have any control over, so it is a valid question. The current global political situation shows the dangers of relying on political norms to protect you, rather than law.
> I suspect that there isn't anything to the experience of being like a worm; that the very question presupposes self-awareness of some sort.

It also presupposes that you are a worm. It's a (logically) absurd and (practically) pointless question. How could anyone/anything possibly know what it's like to be a worm without actually having the experience of being one? Answer: They couldn't/can't.

The question also has no relevance to consciousness. We know what it's like to be conscious humans because we are conscious humans and we do have human experiences.
Looks like everyday looper added 64 bit support in an update last week, fyi.
It's not cheap. I contacted almost all suppliers worldwide, and in EU the price is roughly 2000-3000 EUR for a single sphere. However, one supplier in China called Sintec had in stock for a mere USD 375. It's a grade 50 sphere with a precision of a few thousands of a millimetres:)
Actually, that's not a completely unreasonable interpretation. You are then unable to sue FB over patents, so FB could indeed just use any of your IP.
You can do the same with platforms like Kickstarter. What does ICO bring to the table besides attempting to skirt laws about accreditted investors?
As a person, she's extremely obstinate. For a leader, this trait can be advantageous - after all, who wants a leader who changes their minds all the time - but for the rest of Europe it's a curse. Somehow she is unable to admit she made some serious mistakes, and we're all suffering because of it.
Basically Germany will miss the goal of a 40% reduction by 2020 with only reducing CO2 by 30%.

Beside coal/gas power, mostly from closing nuclear power plants. For example a quarter of CO2 emission in Berlin is coming from two Vattenfall coal power plants. Other effects are larger increase in people and economic growth.

I have been buying renewable energy for 15 years, but not many/not enough people in Germany care.

On a positive note renewable energy is 35% in Germany.
When power drops, i can still trade my potatoes to any other goods. There is nothing i can do with my digital coins.
Sure, for understanding people's reactions to it - but not understanding financial/technical/economical impact etc.
I don't do this anymore, but long ago (I've had a FB account since at least 2005), I used to add friends I met while traveling. We'd have an awesome night in some foreign city, shared a roof, and ate dinner together... so I added them. At this point, I can't remember anything about them, but it'd meet your definition.

But it's not just friends I don't remember. It's that I have all my family on there, my ex's, my kindergarten classmates, my work colleagues. I'm wouldn't say the same think to Aunty Iris as I would to my college friends.
> The sun has risen at least 166 times already, but it is not proof that the sun will rise tomorrow

Not proof, but it very strongly implies it
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Bitfinex & Tether seem to be the two major suspects here (or is that just one? their ownership links are murky, to say the least)

https://twitter.com/bitfinexed single-mindedly covers the dodgy company. If there was some way of filtering their tweets to show just the linked articles and not all the comments/retweeting noise, you could find some good coverage of the issue.
It proves it's a desired one. Which is a very important quality for a currency.
I agree with you; I'm not some crazy kookoo yelling about judgement day on the corner, this is just some 'food for thought' discussion.

For the first part of your argument, the issues I mention do not affect the security of the product (signal) itself, they would just enable spooks to more easily sidestep the whole product.

I also do not have anything against using the phone number as uid, it's 'good enough' for most people, and it greatly simplifies things. It is a very sensible default. What I'm questioning is the hardline stance of not allowing anything else at all - while 90% of people would be fine with signal as is, why not give the remaining 10% of us kookoos a bit more freedom?

As for the Sybil attack, does signal allow users not in your 'buddy list' to send you messages?
"Be American, get arrested."

It is truer and truer every day. I deliberately avoid a pathway or roadway if I can see a police officer there.

These guys are overpaid, hyped-up, and ignorant of whatever law you cite when they wrongfully arrest you.

The chief has their back, and suing them is expensive and risky.

Plus you are in prison until you are allowed to post bail.

To anyone who disagrees: 70% of prisoners are there for non-violent offences.

Just go on youtube and watch videos of the things that cops do.

Trust me, you don't want to be on the receiving end of state-legitimized force. It hurts whether justified or not.
My wedding band is made of tungsten carbide. I thought about is as a bit different (neither my wife nor I are fond of gold) but certainly not exotic.
Initially I perceived Bitcoin to be a payment platform, but I too now believe that it now behaves more like a commodity.

Which is odd, because without any other utility, what's the point in choosing this commodity over others?
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I don't think emergency car repair and emergency healthcare are comparable. You can take the bus or walk. If you mess up you can junk your car or upgrade to a nicer one later in life.

I do think price transparency would help preventative care, but (even if you're thinking in the aggregate) it won't help people in an ambulance on the way to a hospital. Other comparable services, fire and police, are already socialized but have similar, horrible, stories from before they were paid for by the government.
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Maybe the OP refers to corruption as two political/financial practices: QE and fractional reserve banking.
Very good article. The industry-government nexus in Germany is indeed super powerful and underrated: other countries call it corruption, in Germany is called corporatism.

In the last few years we saw it in action, with important repercussion on the global level: for example, the way the Greek crisis was managed it had to do much more with the safety of German banks, that with the welfare of Greece (https://www.esmt.org/pub/where-did-greek-bailout-money-go).
Germany's generous subsidy and build out of solar, while solar was still really expensive, was key in driving the cost down which now the whole world benefits from. Huge credit there.

But bio fuels are an unmitigated disaster. Electric ground transportation is the future.
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From the article: "Desiree Robinson, a 16-year-old girl who was brutally murdered in a Chicago-area garage last December, was sold through Backpage.com. Her mother, Yvonne Ambrose, testified at the hearing that her daughter was advertised on the website and purchased for sex by a 32-year-old man who killed her when she resisted."

In another story, a 13-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped, beaten, drugged, and put up for sale on Backpage, with pictures of her naked and battered. The girl was recovered alive and her kidnapper went to prison, but Backpage repeatedly refused to remove the ad and its pictures unless they were paid to do so. This was also linked directly from the article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/06/backpage-ceo...
Both the Chinese miners as well as the Bitcoin Client developers have near absolute control over Bitcoin. They decide how the code is getting changed. At least for the miners the motivation is clear: monetary profit (bitcoin is not money). And the only way to keep up the profit is through speculation.
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That's a bad metric though. You could miss a lot of infected hosts.
I’ve heard that before,but why would banks/people keep loaning them money? And I’d expect the market to learn to avoid their IPOs and stocks.
The stats don't really matter, because the market is designed to equilibrate the price: it costs 7.5 million to mine 7.5 million's worth (in expectation, net present value and all that), and always will. If you're worried about reducing your variance you can join a pool rather than mining directly.
Had the web been designed that way it probably would have died an early death. Back then we didn't have gigabytes of RAM, fat pipes, and an abundance of cores to run interpreted code that is shipped from hundreds of kilometers away.
> A second example: I use 1Password, but sometimes some apps or sites DO NOT allow me to paste my password. Ugh. So I use a Keyboard Maestro macro to type out my copied password. Now that I think of it, I hope they're not stealing all my passwords! ;-)

This is something I haven't thought of! Thanks a lot for the tip!
Yes, she is a nice little sockpuppet for the car-industry and obviously getting what you want as a industry always damaged the industry itself. No innovation, no risk taking, no fast adaption of new tech..

This sort of behaviour opened up a whole industry for disruption, so in a way corrupt politicians are the grave-diggers of old industrys.
>But dollars, Euro's and all other physical currencies are about to die(soon).

Yeah, your type have been saying that a long time.
Hopefully this isn't the start of a trend where programs are made "VR-first" and the people who don't want freaky goggles on get left behind.
>QE and fractional reserve banking.

Those are features.