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I have like 400$ in all the stuff on coinbase (BTC, LTC, ETH) + Factom (Austin startup, head developer is Paul Snow, used for maintaining trail of ownership?), 0x (decentralized exchanges), Augur (decentralized prediction market), and Ripple (private blockchain functioning as a clearing house for banks)

If you need to put your money somewhere, and you've filled up your Roth IRAs, are in index funds, real estate (?), I don't see why not. I think the baseline argument is diversification, the high volatility, and lack of regulation

Now is probably not a great time because the price (of bitcoin) is so high, or maybe it is... No one really knows, it's all pure speculation

I wish I would of put a lot more than 400$ in Nvidia last year personally:
https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:NVDA
Twitter probably wouldn't survive banning Trump. They're already losing users in the US.

Trump switching to a different platform would instantly give the new platform millions of active users. A new competitor like that would make TWTR crash on the market.
+ Re: Gore's house, here is a Snopes article:

https://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp

I understand that it's an unpersuasive to you, but don't underestimate how high-profile hypocrisy like helps skeptics reinforce their priors. If you want to change minds, you need to understand how they work.

+ Re: International Cooperation. Getting 195 companies to agree on meaningful change seems less likely than the consistent progress of tech.

+ Re: Nukes, they're expensive to build in part because of regulations and non-stop scare campaigns.

+ Re: Making radical changes, now. While there is plenty of data to support the general warming thesis, the data on the pace and severity of change is not so impressive. Keep up the good fight, but don't be surprised when your proposals receive opposition.
I've had periods of my life where I'm very active and fit, and periods when I'm not. To be honest, I have more time now than I ever have before (I work from home), but I'm actually less active.

I think it's a fundamental misunderstanding that staying active is associated greatly with free time or will power. In my experience it's more like a habit. For example, most people would not leave the house without brushing their teeth in the morning. It would just be disgusting. Most people will bathe once a day. Most people will wear clean laundry. None of these things take tremendous amounts of willpower because the aversion to not doing them is so strong.

In the active times of my life, that's exactly how I've felt about exercise. It's just feels awful not to do it. Just like you find time to brush your teeth, bathe, do your laundry, etc, etc -- you find time to exercise. You have a routine in your life and deviating from it makes you feel bad. It seems almost morally wrong to deviate from that routine.

Somewhat ironically, having more free time (and more options), I actually have a harder time doing all of these things now. I work from home and my wife goes out first thing in the morning. I'm alone. Do I need to eat breakfast? Do I need to brush my teeth? Do I need to bathe? Do I need to change my clothes? It's a running joke that remote contractors don't do these things, but there is some truth to it. Where I never needed willpower to do these things before, now I do!

Luckily the fix is simple (because even if you aren't motivated to do those things, you still feel awful not doing them). You make a routine and you stick to it. You remove options. Although you might reasonably think that sticking to a routine requires willpower, it's actually the opposite. Allowing yourself an option and still doing it is what requires will power.

So just like you would never leave for work without brushing your teeth and having a shower, now you must never leave without doing your exercise. And just like having a 3 hour bath is awesome (I live in Japan and go to the hot springs to do that every time I can!), it's not reasonable in most people's lives. You've got 20 minutes to take a shower. Well, you've got 20 minutes to exercise too (I recommend doing it just before you take a shower). Sure it limits your options about what you can do, but that's not necessarily bad.

If you can't find 20 minutes in your day -- then you have some big problems that you need to sort out. Sort them out because not having even 20 minutes to call your own will burn you out pretty darn quickly.
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I have mixed feelings about Tor. As a proxy to hide your IP address it makes perfect sense to me.

But what's the end result of hidden services?

I want to be anonymous sometimes but I can't think of a time when I want the host of a service I use to be anonymous.

In most situations their identity is actually important to me. I want to know the source of news, to trust that I'm sending a message to the right person, to trust that I'm not relying on a site run by some kid in her parents basement.

And I know that legitimate sites can get certs for onions these days (like facebook)... But doesn't that defeat the original purpose of running a hidden service if the purpose is to hide the owner?
I would argue that they are. Amazon has low profits because they blow all of them into capital expansion, not because they aren't making them.
The ideal of free speech is not violated by twitter banning someone's account due to abusive behavior. It's violated when you apply military or police force to repress people. That's why it's in the constitution. That's why those constitutional restrictions apply to the government and not to private entities.
Bitcoin is highly divisible so I think your point regarding it being fixed is unjustified.
> Vague questions aren't that useful in building the library in particular because lacking the necessary information, they can have too many unhelpful answers.

If that is truly their goal (and I don't doubt that it's at least a hope) then they should go ahead and remove all the vague questions from their database, or at least flag them so they don't show up in web searches. After all, who's using Google to find unsolved, vague problems?

> No one gets points for comments. At all. The voting on comments is purely for visibility ranking of helpful and constructive aspects to the post they are on... and nothing else. No points.

I see. I didn't realize that. They do get the number but I guess it doesn't "persist" throughout the site. Good to know. Though, then I guess I don't understand what their motivation is to respond with useless comments.

> Instead a comment asking "what version of C++ are you using" up front to make sure that the person asking the question gets the correct answer rather than something that is unhelpful.

That's OK, I guess, but it seems to be counter to the idea of building a library. Rather than have a set of answers that may address the question for various versions of C++, you have a question and zero answers (because the person asking for details disappeared). That's the reality, anyway.

In any case, it wouldn't even have to be a private message. Simply having a "needs more detail" checkbox that hides the question (from Google et al) until the detail is added would be enough to improve the SO experience.
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> Taking away diversity of political thought is an incredibly dangerous thing.

Equity of content isn't a practical goal. Any view can be split infinitely into sub-viewpoints. Diversity, in this context, cannot be enforced without setting limitations on discourse. All platforms (including reality, where proximity is a limitation) of speech suffer from this. Pragmatically, modal groupings form, appealing to human mental models. Humans choose to throw away diversity of political thought to focus on more immediate needs and goals. It's a borderline tautological statement that all human political activity is "dangerous" because humans are "dangerous".
I at least use the '>' for human language quotes anyway. It's better than block quote, and it's pretty common syntax from email list serves.
Of course this entire thread becomes a political circle jerk of people wanting Trump banned from Twitter rather than the seemingly poor internal controls on Twitter.
> they might ultimately provide a net benefit to the future of western democracy if they simply banned Donald Trump from twitter

What's your evidence for this?

If we were talking about a right wing demagogue without real power like Steve Bannon, I might agree. But Donald Trump is actually the president. He is the commander in chief of the most powerful military on earth and he has nuclear weapons at his direct command. He can pardon any criminal in the US and can fire any member of the federal executive branch. The US department of justice reports to him. Twitter can't give him more power because he already has it. Doesn't blocking him from twitter simply mean that it is harder to incriminate or expose his thoughts and activities? IMO his tweets only undermine his power, they do not increase it.
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>Let's not idealize the situation at other deliveries company. Delivering is not a dream job.

It's not your dream job. My last cab driver immigrated 16 years ago and has been driving 5pm-5am shift for the last 7 years. Full time delivery is a dream in comparison. I don't think he could send his kids to college on Uber.

It's healthy compared to desk work, doesn't require any extensive training, and relatively low stress.

Be cautious when predicting the behavior of others.
As an owner of a software development business, I've ejected my fair share of clients who have asked me to do ethically questionable things. But I wonder if a line employee who has to make rent every week and put food on the table can make the call.

I don't know - I've always made the call myself, and informed my employees so I've never had an employee come to me with concerns about working with a particular client or on a particular project?
I’m sure you would find Apple pays plenty in American taxes. 35% is a huge haircut to take on money earned outside the United States. The shareholders would correctly be out for blood.
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But it was modified several times, so that doesn't really contradict the story.
> The first amendment only extends to government laws.

Much to my surprise I found out today that the first amendment does actually sometimes extend past the government to private companies. Here [0] is one case where the supreme court found it did, and here [1] is the reddit thread where this came up, about a lawsuit which (amongst other claims) argues that YouTube has managed to fall afoul of the first amendment.

I make no claim that the first amendment would plausibly expand to twitter in this case, I suspect not. I suspect that it would, at most, make it legal for Trump to violate the TOS and create a new account or something. I am not a lawyer, have not read all the relevant rulings, and am certainly not qualified to give legal advice on this.

[0] https://www.thefire.org/first-amendment-library/decision/ama...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/7abbas/prageru_sues_yo...
What the hell are you talking about? Did you ever do delivery work? It's simply not great.

I'll reckon, any job was better 50 years ago when rent was a fraction of a salary and you could provide for a family on a single income.
The TL;DR:

1) Causes cancer. Of, like, everything. TFA put it more eloquently: "From the tongue to the testes"

2) So, shelved.

3) Less toxic versions under research; color me interested! (you know, everything causes cancer anyway)

4) Social implications!
So they should be required to keep his account up no matter what happens?
What is Trump's abusive Twitter behavior?
Yeah but who would try to use commercial hardware as an attack vector?
I have a hard time believing that millions of users would abandon twitter if they dropped his account.
Please let it be Mastodon
Laughing at the downvotes on this... :)
In my view, on screen UI instead of physical controls is a big factor. If the throttles had been levers it would be instantly discernable if one or both were being moved. This is also why I dislike touch screen controls in cars. I want levers and knobs that give tactile, physical feedback.
It's the "very long drill bit" part that's problematic. They're trying to explore with minimal to no damage to the original structure.
Forget it, Jake, this is HN.
True that "no [legal] obligation or legal requirement" exists but a democratic society requires free discussion to survive and the last time the US public threw out this principle, it brought us the term "McCarthyism" [0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/corporations-are-crac...
That's not at all how it works...

3.5 Tx/s stays steady and the price increases the power it takes will only increase because miners will turn on more machines but due to increased difficulty will mine the same amount of bitcoins.

A clear example of tragedy of the commons. Where the commons is new blocks. And the tragedy is the waste of electricity and labour.
There was some comments about how Trump has the "right" to tweet. Kinda funny that people honestly think that...
I have no problem with itemizing the electricity usage of various things computers do. But is there any particular reason to single out the energy usage of Bitcoin as opposed to say, email, or Google's ad network, or Clash of Clans, or the estimated average electricity usage generated by a single Trump tweet?

By all means, let's scrutinize electricity usage, but I don't know what coherent set of priorities puts Bitcoin at the top of the list for scrutiny.
You're getting downvoted, but Twitter has stated that "newsworthiness" can cause a tweet to be exempted from their rules. https://twitter.com/Policy/status/912438362010783744
I don't think that was ever true (at least in the last decade)
Explicit threats: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/91178931416982323...

Problematic enough that Twitter had to issue a statement on why they didn't take action on it: https://twitter.com/Policy/status/912438046515220480
What would be an example of something they should take his account down for that would otherwise be legal to post?
I sail regularly in the waters where this occurred. They are extremely crowded with large ships, small fishing boats, and more.

The Navy ship was moving at 12 knots which is relatively fast in the local context. Not only does this open them to a violation of the Safe Speed Rule discussed in another comment, it means that any automated course correction would have a decent chance of putting them on a new collision course with a different boat. Perhaps even a small one their radar will not see.

The solution is to slow down. This is well known in nautical practice: if things are not going your way, slow down. If you are not sure what to do, slow down. If you are unable to control your vessel, slow down.
"No matter what happens" is a ridiculous condition, and I think you know that. However, from Twitter's about page:

> Our mission: Give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.

Give everyone. Not give people I agree with, or people I think are good -- everyone. It's an admirable, worthwhile goal. Whether they'll stick to it or not....
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He provides a ton of value for them. Some estimates put his value to twitter in the billions

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-17/what-is-t...
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There, uh, was a clause immediately preceding that statement. The point isn't that it never happens, it's that the total value of bitcoin transactions used for "money" is dwarfed by those used to simply "buy coins".
I don't think you know what "explicit" means.
That’s not what he said. If I say “Twitter should not ban shepardrtc”, I am not saying that Twitter should not ban you no matter what you do.

As for Trump, there is certainly a case for treating his account differently. He is the President of the United States. These aren’t the musings of someone who doesn’t matter. They are the thoughts, intentions, and announcements of the most powerful man in the world. In the same way that Twitter wouldn’t censor horrifying but true news, they shouldn’t censor the President. Anything that the President tweets is news.

Imagine if they banned him and he moved to another site. Would Twitter then ban people for reporting, on Twitter, what the President said?
Not so sure it would give them millions of active users. Tens of thousands maybe, and a lot of bots.

It's funny to see how the Donald trump subreddit (who claim to have 6 million members), after sticking a link to a petition can only gather a couple of thousand votes. What makes you think millions of people will flood to Trumps soapbox?
Yep, but that freeze is limited with more training, and mixed watches when teh newbs have to be rotated in for the real thing so the "hold my beer" guys aren't outnumbered 10 to 1 by the frozen folks.
"The reason a vendor like Percona or a linux distro chooses to favor MySQL or MariaDB is mostly about that vendor's relationship"

Close. Percona is a consulting firm specializing in MySQL (expanding to other things). Percona's race horse is MySQL the actual company and actual maintainers. They view MariaDB as a type of competition against their friends at MySQL. Good luck spotting the differences between Maria vs Mysql. I have gathered that from the many SFMysql meetups I have attended. The Mysql guys would show off their newest feature that beats MariaDB.

Percona is amazing and without the pt-online-schema-change tool, I would probably be a bar tender. If you ever get in a bad database bind they are worth every penny.
Is there precedent for that? As in has there been other leaders whose twitter accounts have been taken down in the past for ordering military/police forces to do things?
Well, if you are thought that you are the best country of the world and everybody looks up to you, then what kind of insight and self-scepticism do you expect?
What I find interesting, is the sudden power Twitter just realised they have.

Imagine this, they are one button away from taking away the US president main mean of communication.

This is akin to a country doing a military parade, showing off their arms.
There is another purpose, because when you access a hidden service, you are not using an (unknown, untrustable) exit node – instead, your data remains entirely encrypted until it reaches the owner of the address.
> there’s a huge amount of increasing extremism on the left, and it’s important to have people calling it what it is.

there’s a huge amount of increasing extremism on both sides, but I doubt Twitter is going to actually unify people as much as polarise.
I agree that they should treat his account differently, but in the other direction. The fact that his words matter so much means they should be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.
Heh? It is also part of their political speech to keep or delete his account. That is an equally important aspect of the free speech right -- the option to allow one's property to be used for a certain type of speech, or not. Not saying I think they should or shouldn't, but you can't evaluate the free speech implications of their deleting his account while only considering his free speech rights. Theirs are equally important.
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I would imagine most people in traditional IT roles would find some jaw droppers if they spent a day at Twitter HQ.
The extreme left has no voice in this country. Nobody with any power is talking about collectivizing farms or nationalizing industries.

Meanwhile the extreme right has immense power. Mainstream politicians talk about prosecuting the press, carrying out mass murder and other war crimes to crush our enemies, and making law based on their ideas of religion.

I agree that we need diversity of political thought, but I see the problem as being in the opposite direction: there are almost no left-of-center voices being heard. Bernie Sanders is just about the only one, and he barely qualifies.

We currently have a center-right party and a batshit-right party. The latter isn't playing devil's advocate in any useful way, they're just attracting the crazy.
I stopped moving live files around in MySQL as a migration strategy decades ago. Why would you want to deal with anything but data?
QF32 had 5 (!) rated pilots in the cockpit and managed to communicate and delegate effectively. That's truly an amazing accomplishment.
"explicit (adj): stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt"

If you're confused or in doubt as to what Trump means in that tweet, I'm really not sure what to tell you. It's a very clear threat.
The case in question: https://www.thefire.org/first-amendment-library/decision/ama...
Censorship of political rivals never does anyone a favor. How would you feel if people had said this same thing about Obama? Isn't it enough that over 90% of the mainstream (old) media coverage of Trump is negative for you? Do you REALLY need to ban him on Twitter?
> The first amendment only extends to government laws.

This isn't true. SCOTUS has decided [0] that denying someone access to social media can be considered an infringement of the 1st amendment. Salient quote from the decision: "Foreclosing access to social media altogether thus prevents users from engaging in the legitimate exercise of First Amendment rights."

[0] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-1194_08l1.pdf
You stated toxicity as completely objective. (And you had better mean "toxic at the doses given", because anything is toxic in large-enough quantity.)

> What I said was "...without what many would consider..."

That's still calling them correct about the vaccines not meeting those standards. There are a lot of claims about vaccine testing that are objectively false. It's not that their standards are higher, it's that they falsely believe vaccines undergo less testing than they actually do.

I don't want this to be a binary debate. I want you to quantify 'many' and provide actual evidence of anything.