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Fiat has a feudal age connotation to it. The USD is not fiat as you are able to do FX trading easily and more importantly, it's backed by the goods and services available in the United States or denominated in USD (eg. oil).

So it's value is very much perception based. Being the world's premier currency it's pretty damn safe, but if there was a widespread loss of confidence in the U.S. for whatever reason, the wealth of the U.S. relative to other countries could crater as a result.

This is why a couple years ago when the Republicans were messing with not extending the debt ceiling was playing with fire. In my opinion it was the dumbest thing I've ever seen in modern politics, and think of the competition for that statement. I imagine that the root cause of that foolishness is that some of the Republican politicians think of a country's debt like it's a household debt, when they are nothing alike.
>Say people paid a company called Microhard $30 million in Ether during their ICO for Microhard coins. Can Ether be readily be exchanged for $30 million USD?

The trade volume of Ethereum was about $400,000,000 in the last 24 hours[1], so likely yes. Bitcoin and Ethereum are the two most popular cryptocurrencies.

>Assuming it can, and Microsoft acquires Microhard, and has no interest in crypto doesnt this leave a coin on the market with a name of a business that doesn’t even exist?

Yeah. That coin's value will probably drop fast given that its value was probably based on the anticipated value of it once its supporting product existed.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/
academia.edu? you mean this website that is entirely behind a login wall?
That's funny, because I was just thinking how Academia.edu has become a joke site, while everyone in my field uses Google Scholar daily. It's almost impossible to find references, put together a bib list, or navigate through related work without Google Scholar.
I don't know about nothing.. I think paper and ink were used.
Ask HN: How do I encourage my roommate to clean up after themselves?
I've tried asking them repeatedly, and they just don't clean up after themselves and their cat. I'm open to ideas, it beginning to get to me.
Unless Bitcoin has a fundamental evolution, it cannot be a replacement for fiat currency.

I'm super excited about the crypto currency space but I firmly believe we're in the "Diamond Rio" phase of a new technology and not yet to the "iPhone" and "Android" phases.
Knowing about is not creating. Speaking of hubris, the ultimate hubris would be to presume to know art just because I have read up on it.

Art has everything to do with democracy. An artist imagines and renders a world created solely between their ears. Such worlds show us what could be. Take, for example, any "artist rendering" of space - as a child, seeing those beautiful impressed upon me a sense of wonder far more than any theory of Newtonian motion studied in high school did. Presenting and discussing such new worlds IS democracy. And in case you think I'm referring solely to sexy sci-fi drawings, an written essay lambasting secularism in favor of religious dogma is also art.

Engineers are the implementers of the world, the workhorses. I say this as an engineer. We need artists and imagineers whose job is to let their mind roam free. A country which loves engineers is a country which is always catching up.
They can renounce their citizenship to the United States and then use any one of a number of different countries to do their banking. Citizens of other countries aren't subjected to the same laws and banks aren't pressured to report on them due to US influence.

An example would be Lebanon. Everyone except US citizens gets pretty good banking privacy protections. Due to US pressure, Lebanon carved out an exception to those protections, just for US citizens. There aren't exceptions for any other countries, as far as I know.

As they are high net worth families, getting citizenship in a new country won't be difficult.
Wow! Awesome job, especially for 2005. Do you have the code anywhere? Do you mind if I add you to the "predecessors" section of my readme? https://github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js#predecessors
I think you are spot on. Cryptocurrencies that fully obfuscate amounts sent, sources, and destinations, are perfectly ideal to hide assets. I think most people, even the tech crowd on HN, are unaware of their advanced capabilities.
Agreed. The whole point of mining is that it's a less obtrusive and less intrusive alternative to running ads. If you're going to show people a scary "opt-in" button from a separate page (which may be blocked anyway), it's easier to just ditch the idea and run ads instead.

What if they say no? Do you just block them from reading your site? Users will disappear as no one wants yet another account they have to click through just to check a site out.
Yep, every time I hear people get excited about live migration of containers I have to give them a sideways look. If you are running only one instance, than availability must not have mattered that much to you.
Oh it works both ways. It's the opposite of the Apache 2 grant for example (which is extremely liberal, and I like it) but that's also exactly what you'd expect from many large companies.

There's a reason that BSD/MIT is preferred by companies vs Apache 2 (which has been adopted, yes, but much less). It's because - just like here - it preserves all their patent rights.

So yes, you now have less protection but FB has just the same if not more.

Don't get me wrong: the patents grant wasn't a great solution but it solved specific problems and concerns on both sides that BSD by itself doesn't even try to address and alternatives (like Apache 2) only address half of.
Do you have a better example? Because there's no guarantee that The Big Lebowski or Gladiator or The Wolf of Wall Street should be better than Wind River.
I don't understand how you can consider your product to be worth north of $400M, but can't raise half a percent of that. Where is the disconnect here? Sure, that intro would be nice, but if you have that kind of product, you should be able to communicate it to any VC and sell it as such.
I don't exactly disagree; I think there are some ICOs that are promising. (And I'm happy that many are being built on top of a pre-existing blockchain like Ethereum's rather than pretending they're secure without a large group of miners securing their blockchain.)

Maybe I should drop the word "technical": There are many projects out there with no real innovation whatsoever that were created only to facilitate pump-and-dumps rather than to enable some kind of innovation.
I quit about eight years ago now, I take care of my occasional urge by puffing on a Soex brand herbal beedie. A beedie is normally tobacco wrapped in a bay leaf, so technically it isn't a beedie.

You're still sucking down smoke, but at least there's no nicotine dragging you back, and unlike other herbal cigarettes they don't taste like ass. They have a campfire smell to them, so non-smokers don't mind them as much.
Sometimes I put some ascii art in a block of comments, to visually describe something. I create a chunk of spaces, and use overwrite to draw on them.
Not sure what you're trying to say as your phrasing is jumbled but the BSD licence offers zero protection from their patents now. They can sue you whenever they like now.

This is, of course, true of any other OSS and patent holding company.
Implicit grants have very little case law and what law there is doesn't look too useful for people in this case (the patent(s) would have to be extremely specifically applicable to the code, which most patents are designed not to be).

So I trust implicit grants much less than explicit.
Has this ever happened? There are plenty of companies that are not software companies releasing open source software.
Mind linking to one? I can't find anything that has data loss in the subject and most of the other threads are not about APFS. The only one I can still see is regarding a kernel panic but it doesn't give any details, just an assumption that the issue is with APFS.
A medium of exchange is usually an asset that can be exchanged for any other asset. It's not that bitcoin can't be a medium of exchange, it just isn't one yet.
Currency pairs have the same counterparty and volatility risk - it is solved with hedges and other derivatives

There is nothing inherent in bitcoin to differentiate it from other currencies that doesn’t allow the same derivative infrastructure to be built out and offered (it already is)
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There's no debt if they refuse to sell you anything.
What's so awful about Firefox for Android's scrolling? I use it as my primary mobile browser, and have never felt like the was a problem with how it handles scrolling.
I'm not sure you can call very many students well-rounded when they haven't done anything significant on their own initiative at age 21. Adolescents used to go and learn trigonometry so they could do surveying, or pick up silversmithing, or whatever, at like age 12 to 16. Now they don't.
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Stop expecting people to change for you, they almost never will. If the contract is on your name, ask them to leave, otherwise, find a new place.
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the replacements for 7-11 are pretty great
Hence my final words, so far...

> Making deterministic change is precisely what you want.

Yes, but that's a problem when you have to interact with the real world which isn't.
If I understood the blog post correctly, the backup software turned out to basically work just fine on APFS. It’s the data recovery software that will take some time to port over.
Can someone explain what's wrong with the scrolling? I use Firefox on Android regularly, and haven't noticed any problems with it.
Those two positions are obviously congruent.

In the scenario where you believe bitcoin will be worth $100,000 and you have $7,000 or 2BTC, you decide to buy a computer for $3,500. If the remainder of your value is in dollars, you will have $3,500 in value. If the remainder of your value is in bitcoin, you will have $100,000.

The depreciating asset you've invested in here is the macbook, not bitcoins.

I have a 1.4 bitcoin T-shirt. I don't regret it one bit.
> Oscilloscopes went full digital in 90's not because they were worse than analog counterparts.

The point, which you might have noticed when using digital and analogue oscilloscopes, is that delays come naturally in digital equipment. You _could_ probably get rid of it in all or most applications if you really made a point of doing so (and that would be very nice), but that is often not done.
Software companies are all about lock-in, controlling the platform, making sure they have control of as much user and dev attention as possible. At Facebook's world-eater size, the better question is "Why should we not seek to dominate this element of the development platform?"

I can't pretend to know the exact rationale behind Facebook's decision to open-source React, but there are several things to gain from controlling a major piece of the web infrastructure: influence/clout with browser vendors (decisions that may negatively impact React's performance now threaten a huge percentage of the web, not just Facebook.com), the ability to introduce more and more Facebook-controlled technology with something like React as a shoehorn ("You liked React, try Flow..."), PR benefit/good vibes, and so forth.

Platform control is the real showdown among big software companies. It makes your company downright inextricable. Just ask Microsoft.
According to this definition, is there any possible form of widely-used money that isn’t fiat money?
I hope someone has talked Mark out of it.
The police HAS direct access. The group chats in particular are monitored. One recent story is that a man criticized police for, doing random alcohol tests on car drivers. Got arrested along with the group chat admin
Let's not be too sure about that. For Target, a lot of people forgot to put the name under the logo. Does McDonald's have a name with the logo? If so, where is the name?

Also, what about capitalization? is Mcdonald's all lowercase, small-caps, or first letter uppercase? is the "D" upper case? Many people may write "MacDonald's" (notice the extra a) which is a common mistake given that the burgers are named "Big Mac" not "Big Mc".

For Domino's a lot of people forgot the apostrophe. You also forgot that for McDonald's.

What about the background color? is it white? red? blue? will people remember where the "registered" trademark is?

These are all mistakes that push a drawing out of the "perfect" criteria.
Bitcoin has Lightning with non-Turing complete smart contracts which offer better security

Ethereum has plasma and raiden with touring complete smart contracts

Pick one and build on it - there is no need to rip out the underlying blockchain to achieve what you’re outlining - it exists today
Actually there are quite a few legal applications that are well-served by irreversible internet cash.

Things like porn, sex toys, gambling in many jurisdictions, selling expensive items like gold bars or cash online, selling cross-border to sketchy areas like Nigeria or Romania, etc.

Traditional reversible payment methods are very expensive or unavailable for these applications because the chargeback rates are off the charts.
not many currency pairs swing in value by 50% any given week
Bitcoin does not need to, will probably not, and was never intended to completely replace fiat currency. As a cryptocurrency aficionado I think it can achieve great success and high adoption while coexisting with fiat currency.

I don't need to pay my cup of coffee in bitcoins, but Bitcoin is very useful for plenty of other use cases.
If this is your main reasoning argument for Litecoin, then I have bad news for you, as you're completely wrong. Litecoin's PoW algorithm uses Scrypt and is second only to Bitcoin's SHA256 as far as ASIC-based mining goes. This has been the case for 3 years now and at this point Scrypt ASICs are hashing between 100-200X more efficient both on a $/H and W/H basis vs GPUs.

(Anyone with a passing familiarity w/ CCs would know this, but still, it feels like statements that are so blatantly counterfactual should probably be noted.)
Those two groups may have overlap, but they’re not identical groups.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310849
I tried to read this on my phone twice and was twice thwarted with full screen ads I could not close. I am grateful for the title that may tell me all I need to know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WCFUGCOLLU
Isn't the point of the patent system supposed to be to encourage people to open up ideas for general use instead of hoarding them?
It’s official: Singapore unicorn Sea is filing for an IPO on NYSE
Of course, they take a hair from your head; and it was exactly the fake hair they had prepared, and then they take a drop of blood from your finger; and its the fake finger you prepared; then they check your iris and its the eye transplantation from the victim just like you prepared.
Disclaimer - this is using equities markets as the example.

Spoofing is bad for a lot of reasons. It's bad for retail investors who buy(sell) into a position when it's been spoofed high(low) believing the order book is real. It's bad for market makers who must widen their spread and/or add less liquidity since information in the order book isn't real. It's bad when a spoofed price wrongly activates a bunch of stop orders. It's bad when somebody exits a position wrongly believing that a different party has an informational advantage over them. It's just blatant market manipulation that benefits only the spoofers.

If a company released false earnings reports or somebody released fake information about a company to change the price, people would be up in arms, you would never hear anybody making your argument. I don't see how manipulating an order book is that different. The book is a fundamental part of how companies are valued since it's how people speculate on future value, act on informational advantages, hedge, and it's how that information itself is disseminated).

Maybe the bitcoin markets are different enough from equities that the effects of spoofing aren't that bad (already super volatile, no outside information other than price speculation, no latency arbitrage). But I would need to see some really strong arguments to that effect to convince me of that.
Also Mexico City is built on a swamp/marsh[1], like a suprisingly large proportion of capital cities (London, Berlin, Paris, etc. )

[1] IIRC the difference between a swamp and a marsh is one of ph.
Show HN: Setting up an internet search engine with 8B web pages indexed
Ugh! What a horrible UI revision. Mobile has completely destroyed web design for anything larger than an iPhone. Stupid round pictures? Really? (And thousands of clean square ones now vignetted and made to look stupid against a round background?) Items in the Areas of Interest list chopped off with a ... and so made illegible? More empty white space pushing actual data off the bottom of the screen? The Metrics section used to be extremely interesting, with comparative data from many fields; that looks to be completely gone -- how could something that useful be eliminated? [Wait, the "learn more" page says the subcategories are still there in the left column, but I don't see any left column.] Come on, Google. Don't any of your people use actual computers any more?
Only over the React patents. They could, however, sue you over your VR system or something but leave you little recourse due to not wanting to lose your React/other FB patent grants.
Ok I'll probably give it a try again after the 3.0 release. I really want an OSS alternative to unity!
The account to which your money is fraudulently transferred might not even belong to the criminals. They probably have access to multiple compromised accounts and can shuffle money between them to throw off investigators.
The Mac version has some file system specific code https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Dar...:

”E, --extended-attributes copy extended attributes, resource forks”
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Email me (me at myusername dot com) and I'll see if I can help.
In my experience the quality of the BibTeX offered by Google Scholar is really low, too much missing or incorrect information. Crossref is much better: https://www.crossref.org/
I've done this all personally many times and it is the cheapest way to exchange a couple thousand dollars worth of fiat cross-border (I usually made a profit, even).

You have to hold bitcoin on the destination exchange and then buy and sell in the US and on the foreign exchange simultaneously. If you're worried about the price risk for the bitcoin you're holding, you can open a corresponding short position to hedge.
I guess my question was more specifically can these be used together for even better accuracy? e.g. if standard RTK on L1 is 1-3cm accurate, and L1/L5 is 30cm accurate, will using two of these new L1/L5 chips in an RTK configuration increase accuracy even more (since they are using different methods of error correction) or are there inherent limits to resolution? Appreciate any insight you might have, thanks.
Let me know if there is anything I can do to help! I recall it was hard/impossible to get non-rounded corners on MacOS.
This assumes that Facebook the corporation doesn't build/buy/otherwise control the thing that replaces Facebook the web application in 20 years.
The point is not that you can set rules, it's that you can prevent other people from changing the rules without your consent, even if they are the majority.

You still have freedom to pick the rules to a small degree though - you choose which blockchain to use. Don't like bitcoin? Try bitcoin cash/ethereum/ethereum classic/litecoin/dogecoin/Monero/siacoin/decred/etc etc.

A common misconception is that miners can pick the rules, but they can't. They can only choose to enforce additional rules (which is powerful), they can't ever violate the original rules.
You think that Torvalds or K&R are famous because of their creation and not for the long-term maintenance of their projects? That's pretty shallow thinking in my opinion. Yes they created things that we use and love, but we use and love them because those creators took years of their lives and dedicated them to the maintenance (both technical and political) of their projects.

I for one admire them for their dedication and vision far more than for their creations and wish more programmers would try to be like them.
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I remember reading somewhere that Bitcoin isn't really anonymous. I think it was fundamental to how it works to have all transactions public and on the network.

Also, it seems like a bad idea to stash much of your wealth in a system is so vulnerable to theft. All it takes is for someone to have a momentary lapse in security or put a decimal in the wrong place or some other human error and then all that wealth is gone forever.
To be fair this was a clusterfuck. Taxi here are almost universally hated: they are rude, rare, dishonest, expensive and disorganized. Also, their scarcity in Paris was purposefully organized.

Most people also see that Uber violates important labor laws so most people did not take sided there.

The reason why taxi drivers could get away with so many violence is because the owners of the main taxi companies are VERY well connected to the political world.
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When people take a look at my "computer" skills, they ask me why I didn't become a IT/programmer instead and make lots of money. I always respond "IT people don't need IT people. Everyone else needs IT people."

My skills are a product of the needs of my environment.
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For most use cases someone doesn't need to run pathfinding operations every frame and someone isn't making an RTS, so from the perspective of the engine developer the best thing they can do is just a good enough solution that works well enough for most people. In the case where the pathfinder really does become a bottleneck the developer has the option to develop his own more efficient solution.
THERE IS NO AFRICAN COUNTRY CALLED NAMBIA, PRESIDENT TRUMP
Making cake for the rich isn't an example of the broken window fallacy either, and I'm not sure what that has to do with anything.

Cash for clunkers is an example of the fallacy, operating a vehicle (be it a car or jet) for work/pleasure is not.
When you use the loaded term "pirate your tech", you mean "infringe your patents", right? The thing that the clause is trying to neutralize?

This is why Facebook's move to neutralize patents failed - everyone's suddenly in love with their own patents, even if they agree that the system is broken.

It was a good idea to scrap the clause to prevent the community from fracturing, but there's no triumph here - they failed to convince people that patents were a scourge to be eliminated.
The claim isn't that analogue oscilloscopes are generally superior. The claim is that they have responsive user interfaces, which digital equipment often does not, or at least didn't use to.

It's not even that it is, or was, impossible to make digital equipment with responsive interfaces. It's rather that the easiest way to do it often involves a delay.
yet I can buy a hedge today with a consumer market account in two clicks for a dozen currencies

There are plenty of countries with volatile or straight out hyperflating currencies that still manage to trade with the world

Wall St and finance market is 8% of GDP - this is what they do
Pushback being a massive hack, hardfork, or massive devaluation? It is much easier to hide assets in plain sight imo.
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You mean, "The Princess Bride".
Can you spend most of your time in USA if you are not a citizen? Who wants to live in lebanon?
Any opportunities for a New York based engineer? Been watching your job posts on here for a few years now, always wanted to apply but seems to be entirely in SG