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> Blockchain and Bitcoin is different than physical resources because it's so easily produced.

The whole point of PoW is that it
is not easy to produce Bitcoin --
physical goods have scarcity
enforced by nature; Bitcoin has
scarcity enforced by mathematics.

This is not true. The math in Satoshi's mining algorithm produced most of the coins for extremely low value input.

Most people are simply unaware how the supply was gathered very early on, effectively in the style of a pump and dump scheme.

To be more specific, half the supply was minted at low computational effort from 2009-2013. Mining was made easy so Satoshi could maximize ownership of the supply, hoping speculators would purchase the units for a sum surpassing the value it took to produce the coins.

Bitcoin advocates try to dismiss how easy it is to produce blockchain tokens. Satoshi could just as easily have made the algorithm produce bitcoins in limited quantities early on especially with each coin being divisible to 100000000 units each. Instead Satoshi choose a very easy way to generate the coins before other users took notice of his network.

Along with how easy it is to manipulate prices on exchanges. Exchanges will make huge profits during freefalls because they have no oversight on their order books. There's a reason the exchanges often set up shell companies and use off shore banks in jurisdictions often associated with gambling and credit card fraud.

The market is hardly user driven, it's now at the whim of which exchange can fake their order books while surviving public relations to avoid their solvency getting called out for. Take note how often exchanges have delays with customer withdraws.
Two reasons the story makes sense

1) Russian prices are much higher than production costs because the Russian government gets half its income from petroleum sales.

2) European countries are willing to pay a premium for US gas because they hate how Russia uses European dependency on Russian gas as a political weapon.

By the way, you wouldn't happen to be a big Putin fan, would you?
In terms of pricing, we're not doing any country-level price discrimination: same rate, wherever you are sending to.

Send us an email (team@faxrocket.com) with what you'd like to see from an API? Haven't yet looked at building one, but happy to either see what we can do or point you at the right place if there's a better option.
I'm sure smoking anything is harmful to some extent, but tobacco is particular harmful. For instance, it causes mouth cancer just by chewing on it.
I don't necessarily disagree. However, there is a cost to blindly sending emails forever. To that end, I'm ok offloading the effort of keeping the subscription going to me.

Would I rather there was a reliable way to do this that did not result in spam detectors getting triggered? Well, yeah. If you have thoughts on how to make that happen, they are welcome.
Bitcoin supply is finite. When you say "literally printed money"; you couldn't have come up with a poorer choice of words when discussing a digital currency with limited supply.

If you look at any crypto exchange, you will see BTC-fiat currency pairs for USD, EUR, CNY, JPY, etc. Not sure what more of an "attachment to fiat" you could ask for.
What happens when everyone is in an index fund though? The efficient market hypothesis goes right out the window in that case. I can imagine a crash happening because of that maybe. It feels the same with the last thing that caused the crash. Everything thought house flipping was "easy money" so everyone did it. The second everyone does it, it's not valuable anymore.
I just don't get the theory being passed around here that if they don't nail the process absolutely right on the first try (okay, third) that it can't improve.

What's wrong with improving the process as you go, as Toyota almost certainly did?
Facebook is too big.
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Do you read this article as "no end in sight" or "eminent doom"? It certainly seems like there are record levels of complacency in some respects and at ~9 years this bull market is long in the tooth.
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This bull market, like all those before it will end. However, timing the market is impossible and a fools errand. Unless you’re close to retiring you’re better off riding it out. Here’s to hoping the market let’s us down easy this time...
Oh. I guess I interpreted the passage I quoted as referring to a complete keypress-to-display latency, which wasn't tabulated in the article (vs. keypress-to-USB). And the Apple keyboard isn't that much of an outlier with the next-fastest keyboard coming in at 20ms. So I'm a bit let down but I'll accept it.
Ask HN: How to pass an HR interview with relocation
I'm from Belarus (Eastern Europe, non EU) willing to relocate in Amsterdam(Netherlands, EU) I'm looking for a job as a front-end developer and faced with the most stupid problem I could ever imagine.
3 times in a row i can't pass standard HR interview. Responses are the same, like I'm not the best fit for them or they've got better candidatures for this position. And that without any technical interview! Insane! I'm sure in my skills I've got more than 5+ years of experience

So I've got a feeling I'm doing something wrong

Why do you want to relocate? answer is simple - for better life, but I do know that it's not an answer HR want to hear so my answer here - want something new, new challenges\experience, work in international team.

Your last experience? My last project was absolutely annoying with old fashioned technologies. 6 months on support - refactoring\unit tests, absolutely nothing new, so I'm telling about my previous project. (architecture and build process I did with using new technologies) at least it sounds better

Now my top of questions I don't know what to answer:

Why do you want to work in our company? seriously, you've got an open position with visa support and paid relocation.I don't know what to answer on this question but hopefully it's the rare question nowadays.

What is the most valuable criteria for you to choose project to work on? Hell, no idea. In Belarus almost 95% of IT companies are outsource\outstaff oriented so we don't have such questions. But looks like that those questions are in the trend, got them on any interview

Have you ever worked in product-owner companies? No. But really want to. In outstaff you can even sit in product-owner company(your customers), but you are still not their employee

What's going on? Maybe you know good answers for current questions? Or you know how to competently present myself in my situation? Asking for useful tips. I really need help with that
Just fyi, it's literally 2 clicks to sign up to medium if you have a gmail account you're willing to share with them.
You’re trying too hard. There is no reason to believe that China is publishing papers faster than the rest of the world put together, unless you have data to that effect.

China is big, but not bigger than everyone else put together. Less than one person in six is Chinese.

And your presumption happens to be accurate, but 1 in 3 editions of the conference happen in Asia including China and China is still out-published by the USA by 4 to 1 or so even when the event is held in China. Chinese outnumber Americans five to one. Americans outpublish Chinese people many times over. As an aside, Swiss people outpublish Americans 8 to 1.

So, while skepticism is noble, when a country of 1/6 the people in the world has a retraction rate higher than everyone else put together, you need extraordinary data to decide that they are not in a mess. And “I don’t have data” is no such argument.
That's not a fair comparison, because we can distinguish very high frame rates (eg. 1000fps vs 3000fps) by watching how the perceived image changes in reaction to eye movement. Consider an LED strobing at 100Hz. This is above the flicker fusion threshold, so with motionless eyes it will appear steady, but if you flick your eyes from side to side you will see multiple images (phantom array effect). This is limited to some extent by saccadic masking, but never perfectly, and saccadic masking strength varies from person to person.

Similarly, limited frame rate makes it impossible to keep the image at exactly the same place on the retina during smooth pursuit eye tracking, causing perceived blur that wouldn't be seen with a real life moving object.

Seeing a difference with 1000fps video doesn't mean we have 1ms temporal resolution perception, it just means some test signals allow conversion of temporal information to spatial information by eye movement. It doesn't generalize to arbitrary visual events. To investigate keyboard latency sensitivity properly there's no substitute for ABX testing of actual keyboards.
Yes but that was back in the day of locked down desktop machines. Teens have smartphones now, they don't have to care about that.
>Marijuana has been used for millennia as medicine why all the hate?

What "hate?" I read the whole thread and I cannot fathom anything even close to anything that could be considered "hate?"

What I read was an extremely mild annoyance at how potheads have developed something extremely similar to a religious cult where their favorite (and my favorite) recreational drug must always be praised and its minuscule benefits must always be exaggerated and paired with a ridiculous and frankly comical pretense at "oppression" because it's not technically legal (although it is de facto legal for virtually everyone reading this website and most like it.)
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This is not a fair comparison:

1.) The real cost for an Uber ride is opaque, at best.

2.) Unlike Uber, public transportation becomes exponentially better with infrastructure upgrades. These upgrades would cease (in both mind and in implementation) to exist with the proliferation of Uber and other "car sharing" rides.

3.) Road travel is more subsidized than rail, anecdotally. I hate to say I don't have hard data for this, but I'm pretty sure it's right (sure, there's a gas tax, however cars are subsidized both implicitly, with parking lots and real estate, and explicitly, with wars and other foreign policy to manipulate the price of gas).
Oddly enough, one of the drivers for building this was actually having to fax a signed doc for a background check (needed for an office lease) in early 2016. There are still a number of industries (for example, healthcare and insurance) where sometimes a fax is the fastest way to get the job done. Folks sometime just want to go with what works.
Marijuana has been good enough to prove itself without studies. So the more studies you have, the better. I believe.
Brief: SoftBank raising another gigantic fund, even before closing the $100b one
It's a calming nootropic that goes really well with caffeine. (It's why green tea is so great.)
It's not though. That's counting taxes, it is leaving over an additional $1000 a month to pay those other expenses (you pick) and it even includes car insurance when there are more economical ways to transport (but if you just have to have a car...).

Don't get me wrong, you wouldn't want to live like this for 30 years (though if you had good credit and then got your own house, you could easily reduce those costs, too), and it takes sacrifice, but the entire reason I mentioned 30k is because 30k isn't that hard to make, and despite that, you still have an easy road to it and (some) disposable income.

If you want more, you have to work harder, not shocking, but what you can do on 30k if you try is astounding. It's certainly not the impoverished, destitute slavery some people are acting like it is.
Prices happen at the margin though. You only need a small percentage of traders to be active investors to create an efficient market.
https://amp.businessinsider.com/passive-investing-makes-mark...
Consul is like ZK but specifically tailored to maintaining the state of infrastructure and application services. It removes a lot of the work required to do this on top of ZK.
Like when Facebook made their "Poke" app to compete with Snapchat and it failed miserably?

Facebook is like a telephone directory to teens. You're in it, but you don't care for it. For want of a better term, it just isn't cool. Of course it isn't, your parents are on there.
Before the Mongol invasions? That would surprise me, if so. Would be interested to see his evidence, if anything from the book is online.
I do pretty much that using GNU Stow. Of course I then build packages and libraries on my own, in my $HOME, because I don't have root access on that machine.

I install any PACKAGE of version VERSION in:

~/stow/pkgs/PACKAGE/VERSION/

So taking nim for example, I'd have:

~/stow/pkgs/nim/0.17.1/

Under that, I'd have the whole FHS system for just nim 0.17.1:

~/stow/pkgs/nim/0.17.1/bin/
~/stow/pkgs/nim/0.17.1/lib/
~/stow/pkgs/nim/0.17.1/share/

I set ~/stowed/ as my STOW_TARGET. So on running stow, symlinks to all:

~/stow/pkgs/PACKAGE/VERSION/{bin,lib,share,..}/..

get created in:

~/stowed/{bin,lib,share,..}/..

I then have aliases set up to do something like "unstow PKG/OLD_VER" and "restow PKG/NEW_VER" when I want to change the package version.

I skip the "restow" step if I just want to "soft uninstall" a package i.e. remove it from PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH, MAN_PATH, .. by removing it only from the STOW_TARGET ~/stowed.

"Hard uninstall" would be simply:

\rm -rf ~/stow/pkgs/PACKAGE/VERSION_I_DONT_WANT/

Or even:

\rm -rf ~/stow/pkgs/PACKAGE_I_DONT_WANT/
Sorry, I'm still a relative beginner with regards to BSD; is this something I can fix during/post installation?
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I used to routinely achieve 10-to-1 code refactors, without losing any functionality, and have probably done a few 20-to-1's. 50-to-1 is not really unbelievable. It's amazing the kind of pointless verbosity and over-complication some programmers are capable of.

Besides refactoring, there's also garbage cleanup. We've all seen instances of huge, 1000 line functions that do nothing because the result of their calculation was thrown away, or because it's never called in the first place.
I worked for a company where we were all regular W2 exempt employees, but paid hourly. We got paid for every hour worked.

Curiously, we all worked a lot, made a ton of money for years and years, and bled the company dry. They eventually brought in some accountants that told them they had to put the brakes on this, and we were converted to salary. The company still ended up shutting down a couple years later, but it was a wild and lucrative ride.
Did they? I remember people balking at the price of Whatsapp but not the actual of buying it, it was widely seen as a huge benefit to Facebook.
May I ask if there are any limitations for the untimed, free trial as provided on your site? If none, what is stopping from any of your users from using the trial indefinitely?

But at $20 for a unlimited lifetime license, it seems affordable enough for me to want to try using it with my SO.
why did you choose to mention feminists?
I think HCL strikes a balance between being too generic (YAML, JSON) and too flexible (Chef, Puppet code) and seems to be better suited for infrastructure automation.
Agreed - surprisingly it's more frustrating as a consumer to get variable quality vs always high quality or always crap.

If I always get crap I can plan around it - sometimes I do need just crap as a stop gap.

If it's unreliable and can't predict based on price and descriptions, I just won't bother.
I think we would actually use `mapM_` rather than `traverse`.
> As the KRACK paper points out, there is no formal description of the 802.11i handshake state machine.

This, to me, is one of the biggest problems facing our industry. In first year undergraduate in engineering we learn how to design a state machine. We learn to design one before we learned OOP and circuits and assembly. Yet, how many APIs or Protocols have you come across or has your organization developed where there isn't a state machine described somewhere. It may seem difficult and tedious, but this is how you engineer something rather than merely 'develop' it. We programmers sometimes spend far too much time juggling stuff in our heads and communicating with coworkers in a wonderful game of workplace telephone. If the state machine has become too complex, then we have lost all hope to fully manage it and must accept the risks. Some things just shouldn't be risked!
Yes. Deal with government and/or the medical industry and you'll be sending upwards of 100/month in a small business.
For those of us unfamiliar with GCP, do you mean that the default-route of your VM was unable to route its traffic?
Or is there a routing config running on customer VMs that GCP live-manages?
There's an interesting argument that index investing helps take the dumber investors away from active investing, making the animal spirits smarter on average.
I’m not sure you understand what a red herring is. If you do, then why do you contradict yourself in the first paragraph?

This post is so misinformed, that I’ll just tackle one: doctors are not incentivized by quality.

“Quality” as defined by the ACA is poorly defined, and half of primary care physicians say the proliferation of quality measures to assess their performance has had a negative effect on quality of care.

http://files.kff.org/attachment/report-primary-care-provider...

The ACA is a horrible piece of legislation, which, while it may have been the best of intentions, certainly has not turned out that way.
Yep was just thinking the same thing when reading the article
I can also understand a 'just because' answer. I was just curious if there's a greater goal. I'm not a gamer but I do kind of pay attention to some aspects.
Not all repetitive motions are equal. It's far more complex than that. The relative angles your joints are held at during the motion, rotations, etc, are far more important than just some simple metric around number of repetitions or distance travelled. Saying less motion is better is like saying lifting less weight is better. You'll sooner fuck up your back lifting 40 pounds incorrectly than 80 pounds correctly.
Just an example from the "other side" to illustrate my point that we should engage with the most generous understanding of our opponents' positions, if we are really interested in persuasion.
http://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historica...

From about 1965 to 1982, the market had basically 0% return. There were no big crashes (except for 1973), but the market simply "petered out" for about 20 years. On an inflation-adjusted basis, someone who started investing in 1965 wouldn't have broken even until 1995.
It is rigged in that it's propped up by a systemic weakness directly created by public policy. "Rigged" is a semi-accurate description but still controversial because for many it implies a Dr. Evil scenario (hence the voted indignation) but the sooner people wake up to what's happening the softer the landing can be.

I would really like to invest in stocks, but I'm afraid of current valuations and cannot possibly time such an odd and manipulated market. I'm afraid of many bonds as well. Where to invest? Real estate? Maybe just carefully select stock-by-stock case-by-case? I know index funds are weird right now. Ugh.
Recovering from a stall is something you learn very very early into flying
So there was the animation that Caltech put out today or yesterday of the neutron star collision that was just detected, and it visualized gravitational waves moving outward from the stars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7LcmWiclOs

It just reinforces the (incorrect?) intuition that spacetime is "something" rather than nothingness between things. Why can't motion be relative to spacetime rather than other objects?
You may be right, but I think we aren't there yet. We've got too many active trading firms delivering little value. As more money moves into index funds and ETFs, only the best active traders will survive.

As well, I've also been lead to believe that many hedge funds aren't simply trying to make the most money, but are trying to ensure a safety net. They are promising they won't lose more than X% no matter how crazy things get. There's value in that.
Personally I find both disgusting, ending prohibition was pure idiocy
Can you explain how to do this? I've never seen this functionality before.
A list of advances that came from the eastern and southern parts of the sphere of Greco-Roman influence c. 500 to 1000 would be pretty impressive I think. Off the top of my head, there'd be: algebra, chess, windmills, distilled alcohol, mounted plate armored warfare (earliest proto-knights are from Sassanian Persia) and Greek fire. I think the astrolabe too?

A fun list and it would be interesting to see what else it might include. Technological innovation might be an interesting counterpoint to arguments based on population or GDP. I might write a blog post about it...
True - I tried to find an example where it was centered horizontally - but couldn't quickly. Ideally I would like this (ignore the terrible paint job and alpha channel messing things up):

https://imgur.com/B6enQhw

Where you see both volume, distribution, percent, as well as the trendline (white) where you can see how the distribution changes - how the total count changes, and easily understand any data point at any given spot.
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> TBH has been in the top 10 free apps for a few weeks now. FB has a good track record of buying small teams with good engagement numbers and letting them run themselves (Whatsapp/Instagram).

I can't comment on Whatsapp but I don't think this is an accurate description of Instagram. It took them a while, sure, but today they are most definitely asserting their control as overlords of Instagram even if they 'run themselves'.
He said "these drugs", obviously referring to LSD, weed and other psychotropic drugs that are relatively harmless physiologically, i.e. the drugs your post is about.

Of course, this is only one vector of incoherence in your rambling bundle.
I think other countries like Germany also have structural problems - a low birth rate will lead to a collapse of the pension system. They also need more people to keep it going in the long term.
The US mint prints money, not banks. China’s central bank prints money, yes. The US has debt, also true. Why do any of these things which have been happening for the past 30+ years (with the exception of china’s Central bank printing money) indicate that the “system is rigged”?
> 99,99% of world wealth is held by less than 1000 people.

Citation needed.
FYI this is a dangerous line of reasoning - it can be used to support whatever outcome one desires.

If we can provide good research and complete facts, we should go out of our way to do it, rather than do some hand waving and accept all research that appears to support our claims.

I see where you're coming from, but just some food for thought.

Quick edit: It seems like I’ve been misunderstood - I was referring to the line of reasons being dangerous, not pot. Not sure how that happened since it’s the first line in my post.
Note that this is a historical accident that hasn’t happened since and that accidents in aviation are extremely uncommon. You’re significantly more likely to get T-boned by a driver on their phone browsing Facebook than you are to encounter a minor incident in the air.

You should read Cockpit Confidential; it’s a great book written specifically to address your concerns
anyone read this? it argues the fent was pushed because of lower marijuana sales (by drug lords) (due to legalizing mj)

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a46918/heroin-mexico-el...

"Okay, I'm going to say it: The heroin epidemic was caused by the legalization of marijuana."
> Stocks very rarely come back from 70-80% declines, unless the stock is Amazon or similar.

FWIW Bitcoin has already come back from a >85% decline at least twice, if you use intra-day data.